The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-11 00:00:00

SPI RIT OF TIM: PUBLIC JOURNALS.!

The Revenue accounts for the lot quarter have
been made op, end present a defieiency,ats compered
with the previous October quarter, of 1f38,8341, the
October quarter of 1829, with W ,hiek that jeer
elapsed thus stands in unfaVettrable comparison,
having also proved a defective qu aster. As„we are
not among those who fancy that an intelligent people
ought to be unfairly dealt with by attempting to
mystify :them in respect of their own concerns, we
shall not attempt to explain awaythe decreased pros
duce of the excise duties down. to the, lOsh
October, by stating a remission of the ',beer
tot which only CoMmences on the 12th. It seems
evident that if the eansemption of beer during the
last quarter bad been • elital to that of the el.
responding quarter of 1829,, the revenue created
by that consumption would have been equal :also, '
Had the quantity of beer " brewed and stored" free
of duty (that is, beer duty) during the last quarter,
exceeded the average amount of beer brewed while
subject to the duty, the consequences would have
appeared in the malt tex,and gouts to swell the gee
neral average of the excise reventow We must he
satisfied, therefore, to acknowledge that there' luta
been a reduced enjoyment of this class of the nul
tional comforts during the three months just expired.
if it be asked how this evil may bey checked or tee
!nettled, we answer there is no cure but in a systeM
of reduced expenditure. He who cannot augment
Ws means must set about contracting his expenses,
and making an income out of persimony itself. But
we do not agree with those country gentlemen
who got up a Lincolnshire meeting for the re-;
peel of the malt tax, by way of mitigating the
pressure on the community. When the reel
venue is already falling, the wisdom of re-
' pealing a productive tax will bear at least:
some little time for consideration. But, undoubt-
, city,' if the malt-tax be taken off,. and the landlords,
who oppress all the rest of the nation by the corn-
lima, be themselves released 'from any share of the
impost on that manufactured corn which goes under
the name of 'malt, a gross injustice will be. cense'
mitted by Parliament if it do not contrive to open,
the existing monopoly in the corn trade, and give
some chance to the private brewer of maintaining,
through the import of foreign 1)41'11', a competition
with the landed interest of Eng) ind, In the article
of stamps, there has been, during the last quarter,
a falling off of 46,0004; nell under, the head
• of miscellaneous, a decline of about 75,000/, In
the Post-office there has been ri trifling improve—
ment; and in the article of " Taxes," an increase of.
29,0001, Them •
We last night received the rtaiiders,Papers of
Saturday. Though they coetain no accounts of
new or striking events, they are extremely impor-,
tent as descriptive of the feelings, hopes, anti:
strength of the parties which unfortunately divide'
the once prosperous, but now distracted kingdom of
the Netherlands. The factious truest who have put'
themselves at the betel of the movemeet at Brute'
eels, under the name of a Provisional Government,
seem to advance in their career with greater bold
nese and audacity. Though not as yet joined by n
jingle Belgian of high rank or pohiuicul consequence,
they net es if the whole of Relgium,'high and low,
'Orb and poor, noble and plebeian, had sworn them
lallegiunee. They hive removed' their bead-quarters
from the Townehall to the Palace of the Steres-Ge-'
neral, and unflawed that though they hitherto
opened the petitions of individuals, they will have
tio leisure from weighty matters of. state to answer
farther private applicetions for a, month to come.-- •
The business of the courts of justice had been sus-,
Petaled during the late troubles. Dt.Potter, who
so recently appeared before them to. receive his sett-,
tents of banishmem (a 'sentence,. we allow, excess:
sively severe), has now the appointtnent of Judges
and the troodeli;ng of tribunals at his disposal.—
lie of cosine has dismiesed every law-officer sir
judge who countenanced his prosecution, and has:
nut forgotten his friends in the exercise of his high:
patronage, It 'cannervfailv however, to strike the
'peopleof Belgium ma little remarkable, that in the-
nomination of Presidents and Judges; t'ite,old
pants of the bench are generally retained. Thus, the
Ayfe Presidents of the Supreme Court of Brussels,'
"ekth two names as odd its it they were Dutchmen,
((tamely, M. Onclitelgor and M.. Van .1-loogaten,)
have been maintaininftlif their places. Is this to be
ascribed to the moderation of the revolutionary
junta, or to the unquestionable choice of the late;
Government ? To acknowledge the latter alrerna-:
tire, would make out. M. Vim Welters, the lure.l
Minister of Justice, to be less of a monster than De
Potter has endeavoured hitherto to represent him.!
The Provisional Government has not only under.
taken to new madel the ('ourta of Justice, but has'
made itself busy about the arrangement of military
matters, and the establishtnent of a stew comititue
'l'itey haveadisrniesed .M. Van from
his post as Commander-iss,Chief of tile „forces .of
Brabant, with such flattering ,expressions of,Tegard
as may sooth his wounded feelings, and .such an
.amount of pension as May relieve his pressing wants.
The promotiert of this foreign adventurer to so high
a 'lnk as " General Commander-in.-Chief of the
active forces of the 'new revolution," shows, more
than any thing else, the total uteetice of native
talent or of high rank during the contest of the its-
*urgent* with. the King's_ troops, and the entire
abandonment of the populace, who gained the vie-
Army by the person, who will shortly press forward
tf reap its fruits. Van Haien saddled oe the
11e/Rie notion for a half-pay allowance of 10,0110
francs a-year, which will be pent him us Icing as
the Belgic nation is ruled by the result De Pn!tei
junta, rind probably not much longer. XVII), does
he riot go and light sgaiost Ferdinand, imam' of
directing the ineergente of Brussels against their
excellent Sovereign ? The Provisional Govern-
Merit has appointed a Commission to manufee.
tura a constitution. It is composed to, pereons
totally unknown ni Belgium or tummy where
She, with the exception of two members of the
Statesethmeral, who will most, likely decline the
task. From what is ssjd of its: anticipeted provieions
in the aurrier deo Pays liar whittte editors cum-
pose ,the new (3overnment), we can have no doubt
of it* repubillan character.. But the most interest-
ing part of tithe proceedings of the governing junto
are itefransactions with the old Government at re-
-I►reei6ied by -die Prince of orange. nit 'Royal
Ilitehness, havinterrived at Antwerp, and issued a
Plifttific proclionaltrin :of the .sth instant, In Which he
annbunesuLtlait " his Majesty had granted, provi-
sionally, to the southern ' provinces 'a distinct Ad-
ministration, composed entirely of Belgians, of
which he (the Prince of Orange) was the chief,"
would appear to have sent forward' or -confidential
agent to Brussels, to sound :the eentimente of its
Provisional rulers on the :possibility of a recon-.
ciliation,- and the means of •an Ittijuatntent. 'Dint
*agent could not,, of course, treat with. De Pot ter;
who'.: had been exiled under the' Govermnent of
the King, and could not be 'supposed very favourably.
inclined to compromiie with his son, but be found
the two other members of the GoVeramenr equally
refractory with their Colleagues. These tWorneMbers
in order to remove any suspicion of their being 16*
lectid for this mark of. confidence from_ any dispositfoU
to betray their trust to thepeople,have published the
uitiset of the Royal message, and the attawee which
it received. Their reply leaves little, hope of. an
4"4o"nodution. They tell his Royal Highness dun
they could not go to Antwerp eo without a special au-
therity from the people," as if they really had tiny
authority froM'the people to make.ttieniselves a Go-
vernment ; and theY desire him to withdrew hitt
troops beyond the Moerdyk, so as tO durrerider to
insorgentti all threw 'districts; in beigitna where
this !total nif dimity. is acknowledged. f hey more.
over MOWS that Any thing done by-the King is
now votai, soul that the only chaster: which hie
:Royal Highness has of ginning any footing in Deb.
gium, is to renounce the othiciyity or his rather. In
the.,Coueriee des Pays !tat, •where tho risme-party
speck,—but speak with less reserve thins in On uirt.
sined by their
liatory attempt oldie Prince cif Wog" is ridiculed,