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Trll4: SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1839.

BRUSSELS, AND DUTCH PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, Arm 9. —lt is said that M. Nothomb,
while he is at London, is at the same time to attend to the
signature of the treaty with the powers represented in the
Conference and Holland, and to negociAte a convention
relative to the post offices ; the basis of which were agreed
upon some time ago, and which it was announced was to
be carried into effect as soon as the iron railroad to Ostend
should be opened. It was proposed that there should be
a daily mail between Dover and Ostend. The transit of
letters from Germany and Holland gave rise to £0:110 diffi-
culties, which it is s&d are on the point of being removed.
—Journal du Commerce d'AntYrs, April 10.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 7.—M. Nothomb, Minister of Public
Works, set out this marnir,g for London, with the instruc-
tions to terminate the final arrangements relative to the
the treaty of peace.—fourrier Beige.
The price of corn having risen last week in the market of
Brussels has caused an advance in the price of bread.
BRUSSELS, APRIL B,—The Moniteur Beige quotes from
the Independent its article on the mission of Mr. Northomb
to London.

It is reported that either M. Liedts or M. Lebeau is to
be Minister of Justice, M. ROgicr of Public Works, M. Nizi
thorn! of Foreign AffAirs.
A letter from Vienna, of 28th March says, " It it re-
ported that the Belgian Government has just contracted .1
new loan, with the following banking-houses at Vienna :
Itothsehilzl, Sina, Arnstein, Eskelles, and Gerjinniticr.
The particulars of this transaction are net yet known.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 9. —M. Strcus, Comproller General
of the iroi, railroad, is gone to London, with M. Nothomh,
to study in England everything relative to the conveyance
of coeds.
The Liege Journals have brought intelligence of a
dreadful accident that has occurred in the coal mine of
florloz, at Tillears, belonging to M. Braconnier. We
shall Lot receive the details till tomorrow. The Journals
say that the .number of lives lost is not ascertained. Se-
veral dead bodies have been extracted. One Lurnal says
the:t the explosion of fire damp took place when above 80
men were at work.

The number of passengers on the iron railroad, and the
sums recuived in February and March wire—

Passengers. Receipts.
FAruary,
7.11,:rch,
['Acts's, Aram B.—We henr that the marriage of his
Royal Highness the Prince of OraUge, is to be celebrated
at Stutgatd, in the course of next June. It is said that
his Majesty has been pleased to appoint to the post of Vice-
Governor of the Coast of Guinea, over the territory of
Hanita and its dependencies, M. A. Van der Eb, resident
on the coset.

111aesTatcur, APRIL 6.—The Officers of the Garrison
have had to-day the honour bf paving their rcsreets to their
Commander-in-Chief, Licut-General Baron Van der Ca-
pellen. They remembered with much feeling, their late
brave commander, General Debbits, who during nearly
nine critical years displayed, as governor of this unfortunate
fortress, all the qualities that characterise a true soldier,
whose sole object is the defence ef-his king and country.
They, however, feel that they have reason to congratulate
themselves under their loss by the choice which his Majesty
has made of the excellent B;ronVande-Capellen to be their
new Commander-in-Chief, to whom they promise all fidelity
and affection, and will fulfil the expectations which he ex-
pressed in the following words—" Gentlemen, lam highly
honoured by the task which his Majesty the King has been
pleased to assign to me, to succeed the late excellent Gen.
Debbits in the command of this fortress ;this task would
be very difficult to me did I not rely on the co-operation,
gentlemen, of all of you. I trust and hope, that in case of
need, every one will do his utmost to defend the land of
his forefathers—l depend on your friendship as you may at
all times depend on mine."
The liandlesblad has a letter from Brussels of the Bth
of April, which says that it is affirmed that Belgium is to
be shortly obliged to raze its fortresses—that this affair is
kept secret for fear of the effect it may produce on the
neutral party.

' DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 9.
Money. Bills.
ActiiAl Debt, 234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Atom t Syndic, 43, per cent 941 91%
Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent. 7:4N, 78%
Commercial Company, 4,4 per cent ns% 179%
Ditto (1832 and 1E03) 5 per cent. —
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent.
Loan 1:.';37, 5 rer cent.
Exchange on London, One month ll 9734
• • Two months
BELGIAN k UNDS—.BatIesELS, APRIL 9.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. • 1 0
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. ..... ... 7014
Loan of City, 1830, 4 per Cent 95
Society of Commerce, 4 !,', per Cent. 122
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 6434 .
National Society . NV
—Brussels Papers, April 0. •

PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS-NEW

POLICE BILL.

Yesterday a meeting of the rate-payers and inhabitants
of the parish of St. Pancras was held at the Vestry-rooms,
Gordon-street, Gordon-square, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the Bills now before Parliament, for the
(so called) Improvement of the Police, end adopting a peti-
tion to Parliament to stop the further progress of those Bills.
At one o'clock Mr. Churchwarden CHALK was called to the
Chair. He said that the Vestry had considered it their duty
to call them together for the purpose of laying before them
two Bills introduced by Government into Parliament, for the
further improvement of the new police. By the provision of
one of those Bills the last vestige of the people's rights in
the election of Magistrates,"would be totally destroyed, and
.337 the other which authorised the extension of the system,
ten miles around the metropolis, the last link in the plan
of centralization would he perfected.—(l4cer ) Ile would
not enter into the details of those measures upoil that oc-
casion ; but he could assure the meeting from chat he had
read of them that more infamous measures had never been
Attempted to be introduced even in the most rampant days
of Toryism.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Ives, proposed a resolution to the eff:ct that the
meeting, considering trial by Jury the basis of the liberties
of Englishmen, viewed with abhorrence every attempt to
encroach upon its principles and practice.—(Cheers.).

. .
Mr. flonseroon seconded the resolution; which was then
put and carried unanimously.
Major REVELL, in rising to propose the next resolution
said, that if such encroachments on the liberties of the
people as were contained in the Bills about to be passed
into a law, were disregarded by the community, they might
soon expect to be visited by still more serious inroads. The
resolution which he had the honour to propose, was to the
effect, that considering as the meeting did, the Magistracy
according to their Saxon institutions, should ba elected by
the people and for the people, they were determined to
resist the wishes of any Government to centralize in the
hands of a few paid agents the power hitherto entrusted
to a responsible Magistrate. One of the great ob-
jections to the Bill was, that it deprived the City of
London of the ancient privileges which they had enjoyed
for many hundred years, and handed them over to the
mercy of a set of spies and informers.--(Hear.) , This
was a very decided objection to the Bill, and made them
look with suspicion upon the party from whom such a mea-
sure emanated.—( Hear.) But it was not the Whigs alone
that they were to blame for this measure, for at the, very
time that Sir Robert Peel was disclaiming against its pro-
visions at a dinner in the City, he was a member of the
Committee that was appointed to carry it into c
Mr. CHARNOCK, in seconding the resolution, said that
the motion of his respected friend was mainly directed to
that part of the obnoxious Bill which affected the City of
London. He could not d;sguise from the meeting the
utter disgust and contempt he entertained for the promo-
ters of that measure, on reading the monstrous provisions
of the Bill which they had introduced. • He was asto-
nished that such a measure could possibly Lave emanated
from a set a men entertaining the political sentiments
which her Majesty's present Ministers professed. It might be
said that the people of St. Pancras had nothing to do with the
City of London but he would say that they had everything
to do with it. It was part and parcel of themselves. It
had struggled in the same cause—advocated the same prin-
ciples; and riow, when its liberties were assailed, should
they not defend it as they would themselves.—(Loud
cheers ) Their interests were bound up together, as the
bundle of sticks ; and it was the duty of the borough of
Marylebone to co-operate in resisting this bold and tyran-
nical invasion of their rights—not by violence or outrage,
but by a steady, calm, and dispassionate exposition of their
rougs.—( Cheers. )
The resolution was then put and carried.
Mr. Wool) then proposed a resolution to the following
effect :—That the fleeting considered the attack made upon
the City of London, and other places contained in the Po-
lice Bill, recently introduced by Mr. Fox Maule, to be
unconstitutional in the extreme ; and, therefore, most hear-
tily concurred with the citizens of London in their deter-
mined resistance to it.

Mr. DOUGLAS seconded the resolution, which was car-
riedursanimously,

Mr. StmrsoN aloved the adoption of a petition founded
on the resolutions, and that Sir B. Hall, But., be re-
quested to present it to the House of Commies, and Lord
Stanhope to the Lords.

A person named `Vann, after denouncing the policy of
introducing the measure under the consideration of the •
meeting, which he did in no very measured terms, propoied
the follotsing amendment, as an addition to the petition :
" That the attack now being made on the liberty of the
subject, fully proves the necessity of every man being re-
presented, and therefore Universal Suffrage can alone pre-
vent further injury by exclusive legislation."
This amendment was accorded by Mr. YOUNG.
Mr. VIGORs, M.P., would wish to say a few words in
reference to some expressions which had been used by the
gentleman who had proposed the amendment. He hid
asserted that the police measure which had been intro-
duced by a member of the Government, was to be car-
ried through the instrumentality of the base Irish Mem-
hers of the House of Commons. Now, he (Mr. Vigors)
was a Member of that House, and he would frankly
avow that he, in his place in Parliament, would give
every opposition in his power to the 13i11.—(11ear, hear.)
He was aware, and he wished it to be. known, that the
greater portion of the Irish Members were opposed to
the Bill, as they were to every act of injustice and op-
pression which had and might be introduced into the House
of Commons. He was an advocate for Universal Suffrage
—an Extension of the Suffrage to the utmost possible limits.
—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member concluded by hoping
that the petition would be unanimously adopted ; but he
svculd not give any opposition to the amendment which
had been proposed.
A person named ALDIS, a working man, said that
' O'Connell, although he bad risen to eminence on the
shoulders of the working classes, was the bitterest and
most determined enemy they had.—(Cheers, and " No.")
A great deal of clamour and confusion ensued, after
which the Chairman put the question and amendment,
when the latter was carried by a very large majority.
It was then resolved, " That the Petition to the Com-
mons should be entrusted for presentation to Sir Benjamin
flail, and that to the Lords, to Lord Stanhope."
I Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meet-

I •
qrpzratcd.
Tre p..tition recjred a large number of a;gnatures
during the day.
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LITERATURE.

FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
No. XL V.
Black, L,ndon, 1839.
Following in the wake of " Blackwood," the
" Foreign Quarterly Review," in the course of an
article entitled " German Literature and Composi-
tion," takes the opportunity of laving the lash on
old Goethe, with all the skill and energy of the ex-
pertest drummer. After speaking of the " dull,
unsympathizing obscenities that disgrace some of
his works," and his " utter inability, incapacity, to
comprehend one single trait of delicacy, decency,
and morality that is obvious to every eye but his
own," the Reviewer goes on to speak of his ac-
knowledged master-piece, " Faustus." " In what,"
he asks, " does the marvel of this consist ? In
what is Goethe's claim borne out to the title of the
German Shakspeare ? We utterly deny the epi-
thet's correctness in the usual sense, unless the true
German is to be understood as a modification.
Shakspeare ruled the heart, and swayed the sym-
pathies of mankind. His thoughts lay open the
intellec'ual world of man ; his aspirations ennoble the
rnind. The most that Goethe does is to surprise ;
where he talks of feeling, it is to drone or to sneer; his
powers are fantastical, his imagination half cold. The
scenes of nature, actual or im'ag,inative, the pulse of
the heart, the yearnings of emotion, all are merely
elaborately beautiful ; all are perverted from sim-
plicity to artificial life." This criticism is much
too severe ; for no one can deny that " Faustus"
contains passages of exquisite natural sensibility—
such, for instance, as the Easter-eve reflections of
its hero, and the portraiture of the tenderness and
struggles of poor Margaret ; and also displays not
fantastical powers," but those of a high and rare
order of imegination,as in the memorable witch scene
on the Brocken mountain, which Shelley has go
spiritedly translated. Of Goethe's " Obscenities"
we cannot undertake to speak, as we have hut a
limited acquaintance with his writings ; still we
cannot help fancying that the Reviewer is here
" moral overmuch," for surely that-author could not
have been so remarkably gross: and disgusting
in his writings, who was on terms of intimate
acquaintance with most of thea/eriseat and worthiest
spirits of Europe ; who was the idol of his country-
men and countrywomen ; and the chosen friend and
correspondent of Scott, as exemplary a man in all
the relations of private life as ever existed, and who
would not consevently have been over-solicitous
for the friendship of a mere pander to vice and sen-
suality ! The article entitled " Russian Actual
Policy" is very elaborate, and enters with singular
minuteness into all the details of the present system
of Russian policy. The Reviewer draws the cha-
racter of Nicholas with skill, but, on the whole, in
too flattering a spirit ; for who, with any justice, can
talk of the " amenity and kindness" of a Prince,
who has treated Poland with the barbarous brutality
that the Russian Emperor has displayed towards
her? The best thing C can say of Nicholas—bearing
in mind Mr. Bremner s account of him in his re-
cently published volumes of travels—is, that he is
a sort of dandy Napoleon, who evinces all the 'en-
thusiasm in his reviews and mimic fights, that the
French hero evinced in actual warfare. Alluding
to the Russian Navy, the Reviewer justly says
" We have no fear of invasions, even though
within the last twelve months a Russian agent has
taken plans of the various English harbours, and
in especial of the soundings, &c., at the entrance of
the Thames. If meant for actual hostilitied'at any
time, the attempt would be ridiculous, and our large
steam force secures us against surprise, abroad as
well as at home, since our vessels could be towed
to form a junction much faster than any regular fleet
could sail against them. The Russian ships, too, are
built of bad timber, and make much bilge-water ;
the crews are brave, but not active ; and if toler-
ably efficient at the gun, yet very indifferent at
boarding." In the " Progress of Chemistry," a
curious and entertaining account is given of many
of the recent discoveries in this important science.
We are glad to see that in this article, justice is
done to the memory of the unfortunate chemist La-
voisier, who, it may be remembered, was one of '
the last and most illustrious victims of the French
Revolution, and perished in the height of the
Reign of Terror, just a few months previous to the
fall of Robespierre. " English Usurpation of
Oudc" denounces the conduct of the English Go-
vernment towards this territory. It is penned in a
spirited, energetic style. "On the Law of Storms"
is a review of Colonel Reid's work on this subject,
and concludes with some remarks on the " scan-
dalous conduct of the wreckers" on our own shores.
The remaining articles are of the average order in
point of excellence.

The Earl and Countess of Mansfield and the
Ladies Murray are eipetted at Langham.place, on Satur-
day next, from Caen Wood, Hampstead, for the season.
A marriage is on the iapiebetWeen"Ladt .Emily, Murray,
-
youngest daughter of the Noble Earl. atria 'Captain Sec
rnour, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, Groom of the Robes
to her Majesty. The ceremony i. expected to take place
in town at the close of the present month.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MITSIC.—The pupils
had a private Concert at the lestitutionouTuesday morning.
The mortal remains of the late gallant Lieutenant- 3
General Sir Herbert Taylor, G. C. 13., after being em-
balmed at Rome, will, we hear, be conveyed to England •
for interment in the Hospital of St. Katharine's, in tl.e
Regent's Park. Sir Herbert was attended in his last mo-
ments by liis intimate and personal friend, the Rev. John
Ryle Wood, chaplain to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, ;
who proceeded from Malta to Rome to visit the gallant
General On learning his dangerous illness.
Madlle. Fanny Eisler is suffering from a violent
sprain of the ankle, which will prevent her from appearing
as soon as was expected, at her M:ije.cty's Theatre, in the
new ballet now performing at the Academie Royale, called
La Gypsey.
The Zoological collection of the Garden of
Plants in Paris, has just been enriched by the present of
an immense tortoise from a gentleman at Havre. It is a
native of the island of Ascension, and weighs 5001 be. It
is five feet in length, and three and a half broad. It ar-
rived at the gardens on Friday evening, and on the follows
ing day laid four eggs.
Government have it in contemplation to reduce
the number of cavalry regiments in the'south-west district,
from two to one corps, fixing head quarters at Cork, and
detaching to Cahir and Limerick stations. A strong ob-
jection, however, is made to the policy of this arrangement.
—Limerick Chronicle.
THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.—The
line of this splendid railway form a very conspicuous figure
as it enters the metropolis, in its course through the pa-
rishes of Bethnal green and Spitalfields to Shoreditch. For
about a mile and a half a passage is being made through
this populous district, in effecting ;which many old and
crazy hou.es arc being pulled down. In a few weeks an en-
trance will be made to the intended terminus at Shoreditch.
THE NEWCASTLE MURDER.—The fund sub-
scribed fur the maintenance of the children of Millie, the
Rank,
assistant clerk in the Newcastle Savings' amounts
to
1 000/ , of which sum the bank has contributed 60/.,
being, one. year's salary of the murdered man.
'DIE PRIVILEGES OF THE CITIZENS OF
Loxr,ox. The Police Commiitee of the Corporation of
London recommenced their sittings at the Exchequer
Coffee House, Palace Yard, on Monday. The assurances
of aid against the New Metropolitan Police Bill are daily
increasing, and the general expectation is that the Bill will
he immediately withdrawn. Already have several Mem-
bers of the Government expressed their regret that it was
introduced. Letters from Windsor, Weymouth, Maid-
stone, and many other places, enclosing copies of resolu-
tions in favour of the preservation privileges of the city
of London, have been received.
The Countess of Lincoln was safely delivered
of
a daughter on Sunday evening, at the new residence of the
Noble Earl in Park-lane. Her Ladyship and infant are
going on well. The Duchess of Hamilton, who had been
sojourning at the Hyde Park Hotel, to be near the Coun-
tess at the period of her ace.
on, Portman
M ourh.ement
an- square.
_removed,are yesterday,
to the Noble Duke's mansion,
Baron cyersdorff, late Russian Ambassador
at the Court of Stutgardt, has been appointed Russian Am-
bassador at Berlin. His Excellency is to be succeeded by
Baron Brownow, one of the attaches of the F • orei -gn-office,
at St. Petersburg.
LIGIIT may not generally be
ch.
known that by 6 and 7 Will. IV., 37, bakers can sell
bread only by
weight. They are compelled, under a pe-
nalty of Si. not only to have. correct weights and scales in
their shops, but also in their carts where bread i 3 carried
cut, and to weigh when required, every loaf previous to its
being purehnied. This is now the only protection the
public, have against their being cheated, and they are
therefore recommended to see that each loaf is cf the full
weight before it is purchased.
At a vestry meeting held last Thursday, at Croy -
don, a resolution was unanimously agreed to, requesting
the Town Commissioners to oppose, by all the legal means
iu their power, the Police Bill before Parliament, and to
use their endeavours to prevent its proposed introduction
into that district.
TAXATION IN NEW SOUTH \VA LES AND THE
CAPE or GOOD Hors. _The populaeion of New South
Wales is about 77,000. The population of the Cape is
about 156,000. In New South Wales the' revenue ex-
ceeds 380,000/. ; the revenue of the Cape is about 167,000/.
In New South Wales the taxes amount to about 5/. a head.
At the Cape they scarcely exceed 1/. a head. Great
Britain spends annually on the defence of the colony against
external enemies a sum much larger, we believe about twice
as large, as the whole of our revenue. And the people of
Great Britain spend annually en chapels and schools for
the colonial poor, thrice as much as the Colonial Govern-
ment sets apart for the church and school establish-
ments for the whole colony 1 Is this the conduct of a
" stepmother 1 Commercial Advertiser.

MEETING OF POSTMASTE.RS,

RAIL. ROADS.

Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the Pcstrn astet..s
was held at the Freemason's Tavern, to considi
propriety of petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the
Po:t Horse Duties.—Mr. Gray in the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN sail the meeting had. been eon :reflect
in consequence of the present state of the _Posting trade
which was almost ruined by the mode of travelli tag in
this country baring undergone the great ch, inge it hart
done within the last few years. He allud ed to the
number of rail-roads and steam boats tha tha d reeeetir
been established, and which had almost suspended thy
old mode of travelling ; the one (rail_, otvis) we s
taxed but slightly„ and the other (steam b eats) ne t
at all, and yet the Post-horse D,ty
still continued. While such:a state of things .'txisto
the Postmasters bad no chance of successful c omp e-
tit:on with such formidable rivals; and it was their •dr Lty
therefore, to unite in their endeavours to obtain a to tal
repeal, net only of the post-horse duties, but of : .the
duty on carriages let to hire.—(Hear.) They w ere a
large and respectable body of men, who had a great
stake in the country, and were engaged in a trade that
was highly us4ul to the community. The prop); imors
of Railroads were mare speculators,. who had, in order
to enrich themselves, introduced into the country A new
description of travelling, to the verygreat detriment, _lf rr
total ruin of the Postmasters. When Mr. Gillot; bro og at
forward his motion in the House of Commons for mr - re-
duction of two-thirds of the post-horse &dim, and.. -the
levying a tax upon railroads and steam-boater :the
Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted the prine4 le
Mr. Gillon wished to establish,eand promised to legl s-
late upon the subject in the • course of the presba rt
Session ; but nothing had as yet been done, and in tl re
present posture oftheir affairs every day was an objet z to
them. After some further observations, he rea a a
report of the Deputation recently appointed, and Itha
result of their interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
CeAnKr., of Windsor, said no time was to be' low:,
for the trade was on the verge of ruin. Roads that we re
once the pride of England, and hostelries such as c ou ld
not be found anywhere on the Continent, were, fro m
the love of change that novr existed, about to be sane Pt
away. They did not complain, however, so much of
a new mode of travelling being introduced ng of :the
gross injustice of taxing the old mule heavily veh ile
the new was left altogether untaxed.
-Mr. DIXON, of Henley-upon-Thames, said that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer having admitted the :eios-
ewe of their claim for a' repeal eof _ the liost-' fccorse
dutie., he trusted that a material alteration, if trot a
total repeal of the post-horse duties and the duties
on carriages travelling for hire, would immediatel y take
place.

Several other gentlemen afterwards address(' el the
meeting, when petitions to both Houses of Parlia-
ment, prtOng for a total and immediate repeal kof the
above duties, were then agreed to and flume?, Judy
signed.

Tii*nks were then voted to the Ciiairman, who b
acknowledged the compliment, after which ti:e ate sting
adjourned.

HUGH SHERIFF OF YORKSHERE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN..

Slll,—Several unjustifiable attacks having ar ptlired
in the rerk Chronicle, respecting the High Sh eriff,
sent the following letter to its Dlter, who not only
refused to insert it in his Parr, but (with his us al un-
fairness), commented on its contents. Under th ese cir-
cumstances, I trust you will publish it in THE Sim, and
Sir, your obedient servant,

• .
R. HENRY ANDERSON.
Petcrgate, April 4, 1839.