The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We; We great pleasure in publishing a letter
from the editor of the Dublin Morning Register
on the taxation of Ireland. It contains is reasonable
and temperate representation of the feelings which
may be supposed naturally to arise amongst Irish-
men entertaining the same views with the writer on
the amount and injustice of the burdens to Which
their country is subjected. But will a sepatation
from England reduce those burdens ? Will Ireland
be able to support those establishments necessary
to the independence and tranquillity of an infant
state, if left to her own resources ? Will the open-
ing of the corn and cattle-market of England, the
monopoly of which Ireland now enjoys, .be no loss
to her ? Will her domestic concord not be troubled
tenfold by a removal of the compressing power and
firm authority of Great Britain ? We at leads can
have no factious or unkindly feelings towards our
sister in the west. It becomes us not to say: with
what efficiency we have fought her battles, but we
may, without indecorum, assert, that we have steadily
and zealously maintained the Irish cause, in that
form under which alone it has assumed, since the
Union, a distinct and independent character. God
grant that we may never have to witness the exists
once of a national cause or interest iq Irelends such
as may not find a ready sympathy in every Eoglish
bosom !—Tinics.
Certain philanthropists of—or, we suspect, be-
longing to—the school of big brewers and licensing
magistrates, have fallen foul of the comfortable.. Beer
Bill of last session, because people have now and
then, since the Act was passed, been seen" surnmot
fresh " with beer. No doubt the old gin-shops and
licensed ale-houses are exceedingly chagrined at this
portentous growth of immorality. The keepers of
them don't relish the public indecency of drunken-
ness produced any how but seeundum (Wein. These
priests of the established worship have no tolerance
for conventieles; they hold sectarian orgies in ab-
horrence. Now if, as is assumed (not proved) by
the cavillers, a greater number of people de indulge
themselves inordinately with the English beverage
of beer than formerly, it is plain to us, at least, that
the consumption of beer has been increased at the
their dimi—
nution.y
specific article of consumption,—at the same time
to improve its quality by abolishing. a monopoly
in its sale, and by taking off restraints from its
manufacture,—every such measure has an ob-
vious tendency to produce a more extensive
demand for the article so released and ame-
liorated. Now the motives for raising beer into an
active and successful competition with spirits, are,
its being a far more salubrious, or rather a far leas
destructive liquor, and because to commit excess in
beer costs considerably more money, time, and
trouble, than a similar performance with British gin,
or whisky. Then, es compared with the former
stuff that used to be served out to the working
classes under the name of " porter," does any body
need at present to be apprised what advantages must
be obtained for that class of customers, by substi-
tuting malt and hops for the ingredients which, if
not issued from the breweries, were ut 'emit sold in
their dependent alehouses by way of porter, and
made.up of at once the cheapest and most pernicious
descriptions of spurious stimulents and narcotics ?
If men get drunk now on genuine beer, it is better
than getting delirious on poison. As for the greater
numbers intoxicated since the passing of the Beer
Act, as alleged in particular quarters, we are ,slow
of belief, without less suspicious evidence; but if
it be to, the excess will gradually diminish with
the novelty; and after a period of two or three years
—than which a shorter term cannot well be con-
templated as a test of this new system,—we are of
opinion that no man (no honest man, we mean) will
venture to call for a return to that which has been
superseded by the Act of 190.--sTinies.
When, in anticipation of the speech of the King
of the Netherlands, wo stated two days ago " that
his Majesty would have'Titiele to disclose on the
unfortunate situation of 'his' &Minions," and added,
an expression of our IMO " that he would .say
nothing which would throw: obstacles in the way of
a speedy settlement of Pelgic affairs, or embarrass
the position of his eon, already surrounded with ne
ordinary difficulties," we certainly' did not expect
an address like that which will be found In onotber
part of our Paper. His Majesty, no doubt with
the best intentions, and . actuated by the Most
honourable feelings, has said a great deal too much
or too little on the present posture and future pros'
pects of hie dominions; in other words,' he hi in-1
troduced topics of the most exciting character,
without those explanations which. might tend to
allay the excitement.. Instead of considering the
separation us completed by the force of cireum•
stances which he could not controul, he uses ex-
preeeions which indicate a belief that his authority
will be again restored in Belgium, and. speaks of
the temporary necessity of opening the present
Session at. the Hague, us if lie expected to be able
to open the next at Bruesele. In employing this
language, he must have forgotten that he was ad-
dressing au assembly in which be:eanid ;torus
a Belgic face, and in which the Deputies, who pre.
pared to echo his speech .were only the representa-
tives of Dutch provinces. It probably, therefore,
would have been more discreet to have limited his
obeervutions to the interests of Hollaed, or to have
explained more frankly the object of his son's come
minim' respecting Belgium. It was to be expected
that his Majesty should feel acutely time ingratitude
of the southern provinces, in proportions as he was
conscious of having always consulted their welfare;
but in present circumstances it was probably not
prudent to characterise their insurrection by uny
harsh expressions. The armed inhabitents of Brus.
silt who invited his troops within their walls to pros
tea them against the rabble eager for pillage and
conflagration, and then subjected them to muscle..
•rous sittacks,"' could not be spoken of with any de-
gree of favour, as they added treachery to rebellion ;
but when rebellion, however unjustifiable in its
origin, becomes the resistance of a whole people, it
changes its character, and ()tight to change its name.
Both 011 alit; Ite,coUnt, therefore, and on account of
the pacific mission of his son at Antwerp, his Ma.
jesty might have feund it more consonant to his own
professions, and more conducive to the interests of
his family, to bare made a mare sparing use of the
words: rebels" and " rebellion," $4l 'tipplied to the
people of ilia Majesty calls or the co-
operation of the Staters-Gesserel "'to chtek itttsZ pit-
lash the efforts of evil4sposed peewit" to trouble the
provinces which still remain faithful," NoW, the
provinces here alluded to must be either Belgic or
Dutch. If the former, they have been committed
to the superintendence of the Prince of Orange :
if the latter, it might have been as well to have
refrained from announcing the fact, that they
contained any subjects disposed to disturb public
order or to endanger national security. But the
most 'singular indiscretion of the Ministers who at
presesst advise the King of the Netherlands, is the
allusien which they put into his Majesty'e mouth,
mepeetiug the deliberations and the duties of his
Allies, I look forward," says his Majesty," with
calmness to the issue of those eialeaveurs and of the
detineretions of my Miles, whs.) have gunraeteed
this kingdoni, and hatie made the present state (fib
southern provinces the subject of their serious nedi-
lotions." in tt subsequent -paragraph his Msjesty
recurs to the subect, erol speaks of " the: support
of his Mice, who will coastantly maintain the pos
Wield *potent of Europe." If these detlatations
*O4 ifAinitatianS were intended for 04 t)thig site
o*i to produce a salutary effect on the nessea of
tins litelgin 4uturgentit; they would be most reettueing
am; othiot)tei Co; the peace of bro., We inuettt4i
azty t
yogter a copy of he itsipiealfra- n , "Ls I' "II
494staished the kitigdoin of iii, tecstherhsistls, It
cannot be questioned.diat these, treaties safer con.
ditionel guarantee of the integrity of the kingdom of
the Netherlands, and would at .any time furnish-_ -0
pretext for ixiterferenee wizen it wits 04,04414,0, if
such a pretest were wanted : but a part of the
'Nigh** alitttieti to have been niready set

aside by his Majesty's own consent. The whole
of the eight articles of the treaty or protocol
of Lehdon hive heett formally broken by the
act of separation between the southern and the
northern provinces, to which his Majesty has al-
ready given his consent. The effect and principle
of these treaties, however, form a subject by fur
too important and extensive to be satisfactorily dis-
cussed in an incidental notice to his Majesty's

speech, 'The provisions of some ,of them have al-
ready .been cancelled by the accomplishment of their
object ; and those of others, plainly referred to a
state of things in which the Allies considered them-
selves under the necessity of maintaining an army of
occupation in France to preserve the peace of
Europe. At present the peace of Europe would
be more seriously endanged by any foreign inteifer-
ence to repress the Belgic insurrection than by any
other event whatever. France having declared

against such an intervention, the guarantee to
which the King of the Netherlands appeals, could
only be
.enforced by a league formed against the
French Government ; and such an issue to the
Belgic rebellion cannot yet be in the contemplation
of any of the allies of Holland. There is, happily,
the less prospect of such a result, as the Prince of
Orange has declared himself in ,favour of the Na-
tional Congress, and placed himself at the head of
movement which he found it impossible to resist.
Wh'ether his Royal Highness has thus acted in con-
formity with the instructions of his father, or against
his advice, is now a matter of little consequence. His
proclamation has only decided a question which the
uncontrollable progress of events would soon have
resolved, for Antwerp, the last strong hold of Dutch
power in Belgium, is likely soon to fall into the
hands of the Provisional Oovernment. The for-
tress was declared on Sunday in a state of siege, as
the following notice will show:—
The Burgomaster and Echevins of the city of Antwerp,
in virtue of a letter from the Governor of the Province,
hasten to communicate to their fellow-citizens a despatch
addressed to them by his Excellency Lieut.-General Baron
Chasse, eanunander of the fourth military district, and
which follows. They invite the inhabitants of this city to
act in accordance with it.

" Given at the Ilotel de la Regence, Oct. 17.
The Burgomaster G. DE CATERS.
(By order) " WELLENS, Secretary.
" Head.quarters at Antwerp, Oct. 17.
" The agitation which prevails in this city, and the
alarming reports %Oda are industriously circulated to
excite the public mind, oblige me. to inform you, that in
order to calm them I am forced to declare this fortress in
a state of siege,—an extremity to .which I came with re•
Bret. Ac, however, circumstances imperatively demand
4,1 pray you, Sirs, to enjoin the inhabitants to provide
themselveo with provisions for one month. A forthcoming.
despatch on this subject will announce to you the formal
declaration of putting the fortress in a state of. siege. It is
only a regard for the quiet and tranquillity of the inhabi-
tants which could induce me. for some days to defer the
execution of this severe methure. . _

(Signed) " Baron CHASSr,.
" The Secretary to the Regency of Antwerp,
Times.) " WELLENS."
The news received yesterday from Belgium en
Holland is of great importance. - The Prince a
Orange ha issued a proclamation, in which he says,
" 1 have studied with cure your situation, and I am
acquainted with it, and in the province in which I
exercise. power I shall not oppose your rights as ci-
tizens." He adds, " I shall put myself at the head
of the provinces I govern, place you in a state new
anti stable, of which the nation will form the force.
This is the language of, one who will sacrifice his
blood for the. independence of your country." Sts7
vend Members of the Provisional Government have
it is said, come to an understanding with the Prince,
and we may thus soon expect to see Belgium in the
peaceable enjoyment of an independent Government,
affording to every citizen security of person and pro-
petty. The King opened the States-General at the
Hague on the 18th instant, with a speech, which
reminds us of the well-known observation, " Nut
n'a raison roe flout et nos arras." His Dutch Ma-
jesty is as infallible after losing Belgium as ever.—
The Belgium!, according to his Majesty, are all in
the wrong, end he Mime is in the right. He speaks
of the " Violent 'proceedings of the leaders of a blind
and excited multitude," who " brought about an
insurrection attended, with violence." The Bel-
gians are the most . ungrateful people under the sun,
in refusing to be made happy in his way 1 ". The
efforts of the military force, however, of the State
were,". he says, " unable to quell this insurrection."
" Already before its arrival at Brussels the military finite
which, rune. to bring protection was hostilely attacked,
anti though rpreceded by a solemn announcement of mild-
ness and peace, it met in the city with the most murderous
sesistanee. The armed rebellion against the lawful Go:-
vermnent has since spread more 'and more in the southern
provinces, with such fearful rapidity, that, for the security
and defence of the faithful northern provinces and of their
commerce, 1 have. been obliged to take the necessary mea-
sures with respect to tine military and naval force ; have
made part of the militia moveable, prepared to call out
the Landsturin (local militia), and issued an invitation to
volunteers to arm. The ardour with which it has been
answered, and the new proofs of attachment to my house
which I have received on this occasion, have alleviated
the grief that fills my heart at the thought that a band of
rebels should have been able to seduce so important and
flourishing a population from the Government under which
they had attained a degree of prosperity and riches that
they never before enjoyed, semi had found the most ample
protection fur their political, civil, and religious rights?
The prociemation of the Prince of Orange does
not harmonize well:with this speech. The King,
on the 18th, says, " he has given to his beloved sou
pro lempore' the Government of those parts of the
Southern Provinces that remain faithful, in order, if
possible, to bring back the revolted Provinces by
persuasion ;" and that " he Wks forward with
ealmnesslo the issue of these endeavours, and, of
the deliberations of his Allies, who have guaranteed
this kingdom; and have made the present state of
its Southern Provinces the subject of their serious
meditations." He on the IGth, two days before,
had acknowledged the Belgians " as an independent
Nation." It IS clear, from this, that there will still
be some difficnity with the King; and now
that Ono Prince, has declared the :Belgians in-
dependent, the way in which these " Fo-
reign. Powers," that he says." continue to give
him assurances of their sincere interest and friendly
sentiments," can best show their friendship is,
impress on him the value of tine maxim, that " half
a loaf is, better than no bread, and to reconcile him-
self to the Prince's acceptance of Belgium on terms,
rather than lose' it- altogether. There is one im-
portant piece of intelligence in the speech which
his Majesty has been the first to communicate. He
4, Your High mightineseee,—The rapid course of tine
events which have shaken tine kingdom within a few
weal), may affect others of our inetitution, ; the issue of
these events is not to be foreseen ; and tine wholly nue*,
pectanews received from Antwerp today is a New proof
of the daily progress-of the nantual separation between the
tarp paw of the kingdom."
Thieintelligenco has been by some supposed to
mein no lees than the fall of Antwerp; but we are
inclined to believe the following letter from
flotter-
dam, in the Courier of last nights:.contains the ac-
count of what has really taken place there
Borraitneat, OCT. 10......A.000Untit have been received
from Antwerp, dated last evening, which, mention things
there M bit in a state of considerable excitement. crowds
Are parading tire streets with the Belgian cockade, but
there is little apprehension of any excesses being committed.
General Van Gain has orders to epperate the Dutch from
th# 1-4..lgian troops, The Printer Will, it is said, weepy
the eitidel; Lltp latter do duty in the town, with the Garde
Lit baine."
If Antwerp have really fallen, the- struggle may
be said tote at an end: The 'anticipation of such
an event, bowever, has probably had its infleenee in
determining the Prince of Orenge, to issue, his pro,
&Illation, Ilia Ontch_Majesty will probably be
brought to reason by his Patch subjects. It cannot
ba the interest of their High Nightinesses to fight
the Belgian* merely to please their obstinate King,
for it is not easy to wigwam] how they can be,
benerstted by, the struggle, We observe that
his Majesty. striven to speak a grateful lan-
guage -to 'Dutchmen) for lie assures OM that the
;arrangements respecting the redemption 0041)0110

debt will be fulfilled. He complains of the murde-
rota manner in which the armed pacificatory he sent
to Brussels were met. May all such friendly at-
tempts meet with a similar reception !—/Iferning
Chronick.

We rejoice to see the unanimity of the Press
throughout the kingdom on the subject of Parlia-
mentary Reform. The folloMng passage from the
Liverpool Albion of Tuesday last may be taken as a
specimen of the general feeling
Taxation and representation must go together ; and
that representation must be direct, not virtual. All
householders who are now called upon. by the provisions
of Sir Robert Peel's celebrated Jury Rill, to discharge the
arduous and the responsible duties of Jurymen, must be
empowered to diseharge the high and the honourable du-
ties of electors. The mere rabble must not, ni they have
now the power in too many instances of doing, enjoy a
monopoly of the right of returning Members to Parlia-
ment--a right which ought to be generally, but not uni-
versally diffused, and which ought to be placed in the keep-
ing of a class of men who would not prostitute it for their in-
dividual emolument or their personal aggrandisement. The
House of 'Commons must be made in practice what it is
merely in theory—the representative of the people, the
active and productive classes, as contradistinguished from,
the Nubility, the indolent and privileged classes. The un-
constitutional connexion which now subsists between the
House of Lords and the House of Commons must he
severed. The Members of the Upper must be satisfied to
use the power which the theory of the Constitution sup-
posee them to possess, without attempting to engross into
their own hands the power of the Lower House also. In
short, the House of Commons must be made the real, the
efficient represefitative of the people, or the nation will
continue the Jprey of the Aristocracy, and the people he
crushed to the earth by the burden of an overwhelming
load of aution."--11fornin Chronicle.

Having urged all the arguments that we could
fairly avail ourselves of in favour of sparing the lives
of the Ex-Ministers of France, whose criminal con-
duct we have neither attempted to excuse nor pal-
liate, we will now take leave to say a few words re•

lative to the conduct of some of the Lomit)
Journals, which accuse the French people, of feel-
inga of ferocious revenge in demanding that the law
shall not be mitigated to meet the ease of those
State delinquents. Our readers will recollect that
for some time past, but especially during the last
Session of Parliament, we endeavoured to press
upon Government and the Legislature the necessity
of revising our criminal code, and, by confining the
punishment of death to crimes of the most malignant
and atrocions character, to make the penalties of the

law more consistent with the ,distiiictions of mo-
rality and the dictates of enlightened opinion than
they appear upon the face of a Statute book,
which, by its sweeping and indiscriminate severity,
violates the first elements of dispassionate justice.
In pleading for the rights of abused humanity, and in
endeavouring to remove the stain of cruelty from
the criminal code of a civilized people, scarcely
one of these Journals afford the least assist-
ance, but, on the contrary, several of them eu-
logized the sanguinary law introduced by Sir Robert
Peel last Session, which, under the pretence of
amending the criminal law applicable to forgery, went
to perpetuate the exterminating severity which des
creed that the forgery of a one-pound promissory
note, or any negotiable security for money, should
perish on the same scaffold with him who had
steeped his soul in the guilt of deliberate murder.
If the fate of the lEx-Ministers of France now de-
pended upon the decision of Sir Robert Peel, would
he not cast his suffrage into the scale of mercy ?
We are quite certain he would; and yet what act of
forgery ever produced to society such dreadful con-
sequences us the wicked and fatal ordinances of
which those Ministers were the authors P The blood
of thousands was shed in consequence of them, and
the property of all Paris lay at the mercy of an en-
raged and victorious populace, whose moderation
alone—amid the subversion; of all order—amid the
mitts of all. authority—spared what the violence of
the Ministers provoked them to conquer. Now, if
Sir Robert Peel be averse to the sangeinary exhibition
which Paris would ufford,if Ministers who leave caused
the shedding of so mud* blood should be brought to
the block, will he not, in the ensuing Session,
retrace his steps of sanguinary legislation relative
to forgery, and give an example of the humanity
and moderation in hiinself, which he wishes the
French to practice ? After three long discussions
lh the House of Commons last Session, the House
came to the resolution that death ought not to be
inflicted for offences of forgery, with a solitary ex-
ception; and the Home Secretary, although he de.
claredthat he would bow to the decision of the
House, but ill coneealed the chagrin which that ha.
mane resolution caused him. Nor had he left the
'discussion of this question to the free and unin-
fluenced exercise of the faculties of the Legislative
body ;—he made his Bill a Government measure,
and lost it, though thee backed with all the influence
of the Crown. But the triumph which reason anti
sound justice obtained in one [louse, where the
power of the Minister is great, was neutralised in
the other, where the power of the Minister is still
greater. The Lord Chancellor spoke the sentiments
of the Cabinet, of which he is a member, and re-
gained for the HoMe Secretary, except as far as
public opinion was concerned, all the ground which
this favourite offspring of his sanguinary legislation
had lost. Does Sir Robert. Peel now. see the ha-
policy of making the mind of the populace too fami-
liar with the judicial shedding of human blood—and,
seeing this, will he deliver the nation 'from the re-
proach of those cruel laws which the French people
can se justly retort upon bins ? We wait the event.
..-Morning Herald.
We received, last night, the Belgian and Dutch
Papers of Tuesday. Their contents are of great
importance. Much us previous accounts .of the can.
eiliatory policy of the 'Prince of Orange upon the
one hand, he favourable disposition of the Belgian
people, and the undisguised neutrality of the Pro-
visioiml Government en the other, had prepared us
for en approximation of the views of the negotiats
lug parties in the Netherlands, we could not expect
that the ;apse of a few days, would have hastened
them to a conclusion so rapidly as it has done. The
question of Belgian independence may be now !T-
-raded us quite laid to rest. The Prince of Orange
after trifling at Antwerp just long enough to'dis-
cover that the capacity in which he appeared, and
the pretensions which he assumed, as his father's
Lieutenant, were the only obstacles to the success
of a compromise which his personal popularity was
rendering every day more plausible, has had the
courage.to put himself at the head of the Belgian
Revolution, and the Wet to take into his own hands
the direction of those events which he found it im-
possible to controul. He has issued a proclamation in
which he frateinises fully with the Belgian people,
approves of their, meeting in a National Congress,
and pledges himself to give every protection and
support to the elections. Such a step leaves no-
dial further to be wished for by all moderate and
sensible Belgians, and they may now
make their
own terms with the Prince. The proclamation hiss
spread unfeigned satisfaction throughout the Nether-
lands; but not so at the Hap!. The Dutch Papers
inform us that, .upon the 18th instant, the.' King
opened the ordinary. Session of
the Mates-Generalwith a speech, in which, after again e .1
epioring the
blindness of the Belgian "rebels" repudiating his
parental sesisoeisys-siletailing the anxious pains which
he lied taken to recd them to their obedience--de-
Oaring his determination to close his heart against
all sympathy with them for the future—his now
undivided affection for the Northern Provinces, and
his-firm reliance for a settlement of all differences
upon the purity of his conscience, the goodness of
strength of his High Allies, the
parties to the treaties which originally
.his cause, aod the
settled his
kingdoms-he concludes by expressing his surprise
at the unlookedefor end Unexpected step which the
Prince of Orange had taken at Antwerp, a step
which he characterizes as " a new
daily progress of the separation of the two king-
doms. This address, it is said, was loudly
cheered by. the Assembly, as, proof of the
indeed, is any
thing in Holland which speaks- of a separation
from Belgium, for the antipathy which exist* be-
tween the nations is perfectly Mutual, Apart from

conventional jealousies, however, the speech is made
an important subject for comment in many respects,
hut 'principally in two.--Ist. That the Piince of
Orang'e's udhesidn to the Belgian revolution is.a
speculation of his own, unsanctioned by his
father; and 2dly, that in the face of the full
powers, which this latter delegated to the
Prince to settle all differences, be now looks not to
the arbitration of his son for a decision, but the in-
terference of the European powers, and eventually
to the chances of war; or, us is the facon de parler
—the goodness of his cause. In other respects these
papers are not without interest. The Provisional
Government of Brussels had published new " Acts"
for abolishing the lottery, fixing the time and quail-
! fications of the electors at the approaching elections,
making the right to vote one-half in amount In the
country as compared with the towns, declaring
Luxembourg part of Belgium—giving Anvers a
share in the election, and negotiating for an ex-
change of prisoners with the Dutch Generals. The
citadel of Ghent had surrendered—the presence of
Prince Frederick at Antwerp was looked upon with
distrust—the populace had mastered the burgher
guard at Ghent, and Antwerp was in a state of com-
motion. Congress was to meet on the 3(1 of No-
vember. The Belgian Journals were openly advo-
cating a Constitutional Monarchy; but the Cormier
des Pays has had published the Prince of Orange's
extraordinary proclamation without a single com-
ment, as if it had been an ordinary advertisement.
Morning Herald.

Two documents will be found in another part of
this day's Paper, which will be perused with interest
by every one who is desirous of seeing an end put
to the troubles of the Netherlands, or of preventing
them from spreading to other countries, where sales
tary reforms may indeed be wanted, but radical
changes are only deemed necessary by the factious,
the violent, and the interested—we allude of course
to the speech of the King of the Netherlands on
opening the session of the States-General, and to
the proclamation of the Prince of Orange, declaring
the independe»ce of Belgium, and his willingness
to take it under his protection. The first is in
every respect but two, such a document as might
have been expected from a Prince who is said to
possess many excellent qualities—who has lost
one-half of his dominions, and who is anxious to
secure the other for his eldest son. It paints
the distress of the Royal mind at the unexpected
course which events had taken—details the steps
which had been taken to produce a different result
—insists upon the fact that Belgium bad been more
prosperous since her annexation to Holland than
at any former period of her history; and concludes
by expressing his satisfaction at the attachment
diem' to his house by its ancient subjects, the
Dutch. To all this, as we have observed, there
could have been no bjection; and the speech, had it
contained nothing else, would scarcely have been
worth a sentence of comment but we find, in the
course of it, that the King not only styles his late
subjects " rebels," but that he ventures, in the last
clause of his speech, to assure the States-General
of his having the support of " his Allies," who, he
says, "will maintain the political system of Europe I"
The former epithet was assuredly ill chosen, espe-
cially ut a lime when his son is employing every
means in his power to conciliate these " rebel"
subjects ; and, with regard to the latter, we are.
really at a loss to conceive in what mode it ought
to be construed. Does his Majesty mean by " his
Allies.," all the 'loners of Europe which were
parties to the treaties respecting the Netherlands,
or does he mean only those with whom he is con-
nected by personal ties ? He cannot, at all events,
include France ; for however desirous tile present
Government may be to ovoid giving offence to its
neighbour, the idea of giving effective support to
the King of the Netherlandi, in bringing his refrac-
tory subjects to obedience, is wholly out of the ques-
tion; but if he means by " his Allies" the parties
which agreed to the erection of Belgium and Hol-
land into an independent kingdom, he must include
England; and hence, if the Belgians and the Prince
of Orange should not make up matters, what secu-
rity is there that the peace of Europe may not be
broken in a fortnight ? The determination not to
interfere in the affitirs of the Continent was justly
considered as a sure basis for the maintenance of
general tranquillity ; and that this determination
would be rigidly adhered to 'by the Govern-
ment of this country, was as firmly believed as
it was fondly hoped : but can the belief exist
after the above declaratidn of 'the King of
the Netherlands, or, in the event of its proving
to be true that his Allies have promised him support,
can the. hope be entertained that the peace of Europe
would be maintained ? We say no. Neither Louis
Philip or his Ministers desire war with other coun-
tries ; but they are little more than the organs of the
will of the people, and if the Government refused
to murell to the aid of the Belgians, whenever they
were assailed by a foreign power, the people would
not only march themselves, but in all probability pro-
ceed to the total overthrow of the present Govern-
merit, and the erection of another in its stead, infi-
nitely more dangerous to the peace of Europe, and
more desirous of spreading the principles of republi-
canism in• other States. Every one who knows
any thing of the. public mind in France knows
that such would result of interference on the part
either of the Government of this or of any other
country ; and we, therefore, hope and trust that
no such interference will take place—that the
people of Belgium will be alloWed to settle
their Weirs just • as the people of France were
allowed to .settle theirs -and that if Prussia or
Austria, or Russia, send' armies to aid the King of
the Netherlands, England will, at all events, refrain
from mixing herself up with a contest•from which
swhoeu would inn nor profit, and which
consequences of the
arlelapprobab neither
ility glory
lad t
most deplorable nature. It is still more desirable
that this course should be pursued, because, as will
be seen from the second document to which we
have referred, there is still u partial hope remaining
that the Sovereignty of Belgium may ultimately he
given to a member of. the House of Orange. We
had anticipated this result from various circumstances
which came to our knowledge for some time ago,
and we are now the more fortified in this hope from
the judicious Proclamation of the Prince of Orange,
which has, no doubt, cost him a great sacrifice of
of personal feeling, but which is well adapted to re-
gain the affections of the Belgians. We shall wait
with anxiety its effects on the Provisional Govern-
ment and the people of Belgium.—Morn. Add.
We publish this day two documents of great im-
portance in reference to the present condition and
future prospects of Belgium, and very important
also when viewed in connection with the question
of the necessity or fitness of interference in the af-
fairs of the Netherlands on the part of other Euro-
pean States. These documents are, a Proclamation
addressed by the Prince of Orange to the Belgic,
nation of the date tot the Ifith instant, and the
Speech of the King of the Netherhinds'on opening
the Session of the States-General on Monday last,
two days after the Proclamation of the Prince his
son. The Prince of Orange informs the Belgian
people, that since he addressed them iu his Pro-
clammier) of the nth of. the present month, he bus
studied with care their position ; that he compre-
hends it, and that he recognizes them as an inde-
pendent nation. Ile calls, upon the citizens in the
provinces in which he still exercises th au ori y, to
choose freely, and in the some mode as their
.corn-
patriots in other provinces, Deputies I • time
Na-
tional Congress, which is preparing. And finally,
i
lie declares that in the provinces which he overrs
he places himself at the head of the governs
he the
cud of which lie predicts will I
the establishMent
'of item and stable condition of thin ' things, of which na-
tionality will be the force, and-'
proclaims
his mar
uses to shed his blood for the independence
soil of Belgium. It seems neeessei to r .of
thebe.
fore we advert to the; import or Ye
et"
%sequences of
these declarations, that the Ptine
Proclamation from any reference' eta .IttainB kir his
to tee eeiegaten nai•
lure of his autnority,
, or to the limits within
w itch
I the Sovereign or the Methl er elide can be bound -and

his rights or pretensions finally surrendered by the aot
of his representative. From any thing that appears
on the face of the Proclamation itself, it is a per-
sonal, hidepetelent, and unauthorised proceeding on
the part of the Prince, which must be italebtd for
its practical effect, nut to its inherent value, but ,
solely to the force of circumstances. And this °pillion
of its chaructel is in some degree warranted by
the boundless extent of the concessions it appears
to convey. Not only does this Proclamation re-
nounce the claim and the hope of foreign inter-
ference in the affairs of Belgium, whatever aspect
they may assume, but it pledges the Prince, in ex-
press terms, to shed his blood in resisting such-in-
terference, should it even be afforded in the last ex-
tremity, and afford the only remaining chance, not
merely of restoring the interests of the House of
Nassau, but of preserving the country from anarchy
and ruin. This at least appears to us to be the plain
and obvious construction of this language; and
having thus acknowledged and bound himself to
support the national independence of Belgium at
the hazard of his life, should it be necessary, he
proceeds to sanction, in terms equally express, the
constitution of the Congress now about to assemble;
promises in effect to regard its decisions, be they
what they may, as the authoritative exposition of
the national will, and binds himself to unresisting
acquiescence in its decrees. When, however, we
direct our attention to the speech f the King of
the Netherlands, pronounced to the States-General
in Holland, we find a language which it is difficult,
if not impossible, to reconcile with the supposition
that these boundless concessions and unsparing
pledges of the:Prince are either consistent with the
instructions or in harmony with the policy of his
Father and Sovereign. The Address of the latter,
in addition to the natural expression of sorrow at
the course which events have taken.in Belgium, and
the suggestion. of various measures for the mainte-
nance of public order and public credit in Holland,
contains more than one passage which distinctly im-
plies the probability of interference on the part of
the other European Powers in the internal concerns
of the Netherlands, and intimates, in a manner which
excludes the possibility of misconception, that upon
the efficacy of this intervention his Majesty con-
tinues mainly to rely for the re-establishment of his
authority. " I wait with calmness the issue of the
important deliberations to which the events which
are taking place in the Southern provinces give rise
at this moment on the part of my Allies, who gua-
rantee the existence of this kingdom." And again
after adverting to the intelligence then just re-
ceived from Antwerp, that of the Prince's Procla-
mation, and calling it " very unexpected news,"
his Majesty proceeds—" I stay always reckon upon
your concurrence, upon that of the faithful pro-
vince of the North, at well a: upon the support of
my Allies, w/o will maintain Me political
system of
Europe." It seems evident that the last passage of
the King's Speech was added on the spur of the
moment, immediately on the receipt of the unex-'I,
pected intelligence of the measure adopted by the
Prince; and the peculiar circumstances in which the
Government of the Hague was placed by the corn-
munication of so important an event at so critical
a moment as that of the meeting of the States-
General, may justify, or at least explain, the
studied ambiguity with which it is treated. The
King of the Netherlands will, however, be bound
by the act of hie son, whom he has solemnly in.
vested with the character of his representative, and
to whom he ha Communicated great, and if not un-
limited least undefined powers, unless he hastens
to disavow and condemn that, act in terms much
more expressed and decided than those which he
has yet employed. The appearance of double deal-
ing may injure the character of the house of Nassau,
but cannot contribtite to the restoration of its au-
thority over its revolted subjects. And it eunnot
be denied that this appearance will be presented, if,
while the Prince of Orange, on the one hand, is
promising to shed his blood for the independence of
Belgium, the King of the Netherlands is expressing,
on the other, his reliance upon his Allies, who
guarantee the existence of his, kingdom—his Allies,
who will maintain the politiCal system of Europe,
and if at the same time the latter censures or dies
avows the conduct of the former only by implication.
We loOk with anxiety for the next advices from the
Hogue. They may probably dispel the obscurity in
which affaireareat present involved.--111orning Part.

The general introduction of rail-roads for the
purposes of mercantile conveyance, is likely to be pro-
ductive of some 4, untoward events." Capital to an
amount exceeding 14 millions, which has been embarked
in canal schemes, will be nt-terially endangered; and the
injury which the coasting trade mud sustain will be .a
serious blow for our "mainly for seamen, "—Morn. Ihrald.

The subscription for the erection of the inn-
pension-bridge over St. Vincenl'e.rocks, at Bristol, and
which was expected to be one of the greatest curiosities in
Great Britain, is likely to be a failure. The expenses of
the bridge and apprOaches are estimated at 45,000/. The
sum subscribed, after very great exertions on the part of
the Committee, does not exceed 50,500/. —Morn. Herald.
_ _

On Tuesday a Rusiian Prince, about 20
years of, age, vieit..sl the New Prison, Clerkenwell, under
en order from Sir CIIARI.Rs Ft.owita, Hart. The Prince,
in conversation, stated that he had paid particular atten-
tion to the discipline of the. prisons &hived as well as here,
and he was much pleased with the good order and bum-
nity observed in the management of the above gaol. NeW.
gate, he said, was very had as far as regarded freeing the
prisaners to sleep on the floor. Criminals were treated
better than in Russia. On coming to the debtors' ward,
he expressed himself shocked that fifteen or sixteen men
ihotildhe so puniehed for owing less than 40e: each, and
he generously declared they should not be detained an-
other hour. Ile instantly wrote a cheque for the amount
of all their debte, and they were discharged.
Between seven and eight o'clock on Sunday
evening last, seven ruffians attacked the snail cart between
Templemere and lloseree, and endeavoured- to posse's
themselves of the mail, which was most bravely and effec-
tually resisted by the driver, a young man of the name of
Taictv, whom they beat and cut in a severe manner; his
COAL was stained in several place's from the blood which
flowed from the wounds they inflicted on his head. We
are happy to state that the ruffians will be brought to
punishment,— Cog Constitution.

Conic, OCT. 14.—1 t would be quite idle to
seek to deny, that at the late dinner given to Mr. O'Cou-
NELL, in this city] a sentiment strongly favourable to the
repeal of the Union was expressed; for that such a anti-
meta was expressed is quite beyond question. There was,
it is true, some dissent to the proposition, but the:opposi-
tion only served to extract more repeated opinions unfa-
vourable to the measure, and to render more decided the
tone And sentiments of the assembly. The dinner in this
city is by no means unimportant : popular excitement,
like every thing else, must have a beginning, and it would
not be wise or prudent to look with disdsiu upon the opi-
nions recently expressed here of nearly 150 gentlemen.—
. The period has now arrived when every man in this
country must make up his mind and decide whether or
not it be prudent to seek fur a repeal of the Union.—
The law of SoLox mutt now be introduced amongst as—
every man of intellect or action must either. loin to
' oppose or support our connection with England. So
far, no one can deny but that Mr. O'ColontLes no-
velty has wale some pregress. The danger consists
in the difficulty of deciding quickly and rightly. The
question is one of great difficulty. To form a judgmer!t
upon it, much knowledge is required—much more, in-
deed, than usually falls to the share of the agitating por-
tion of our-fellow-countrymen. This question is far dif-
ferent indeed from that great one which for so many years
occupied our attention. It required but little skill to sits-
cover that emancipation was iudispeneable—there existed
no necessity then for acareful and minute comparison of a
variety of nice and difficult questions, in order to form a
conclulion. Not so now • the wise will ponder, but the
giddy and the unwise will,' it is to be apprehended, rush
rashly forward. They will he too tend of seeking
popularity at the expense of truth. and will prefers rapid
to a sound decision. That man will best prove his real
attachment to his country who shall retire to his study
before he comes fotward in public; who shall understand
the question before he shall have pronounced.his opinion;
and who will refuse to disturb the present order of things
until he shall have fully underetood the effects to be pro-
duced by a change in it. The true lovers of Leland must
not leave the fate of their country in the hands of the noisy
and uninformed. At the present moment, beyond all
'athers " Ireland expects that every man will do biaduty."
...rrOul a COrloiloollOt Of Evcidny Post.

APPREHENSION` OF A 014tia OF HMI
AYMEN.

We trust we may congratulate our fellow.towt
a
men and neighbours on some
corned:f.te,cri,::oaiski rni:,:nrs, several progress towards check.
abTogatri iitisrtiatiw,out ofthue.
ing the career of plunder and violence which hie
to-warrantivve eyr
betweenl:o3fi ietthili'
react
cherieomiabr
been pushed of late to so alarm 44 an extent of
some of the roads leading out of Liverpool; dot
men being now in custody, charged with beingeoli
three brothers, a
don men:
ttsiuvfiAtigesioseifszt
Assizes,
Ireland.itl en
Theircoe 1 hisimiriedsidr)
nhicde:rveril
noeysun:rali lately
committal
jy.
ot,oo,e:oni, os:44nTriff.ei:oi
sit:tivety4ei
11
went to the shOp of Me. Macpherson, pawnbrokerov
f Tithebarn-street, and offered to pledge a silo'
pencil-case for a shilling. Mrs. Macpherson obr
served the name of " J. L. Arrowsmith" open it,
and, finding it to correspond with the description
given of a-pencil-ease taken from Mr. Arioannith,
of Soho-square (who was robbed on the Derby roll]
when returning to Liverpool on Saturday POI
week, after. hearing that his relative Air. Burns batl
been_ shot), she lent him the stint be wanted, but
directed her apprentice to fonds, end observe when
he went to, sending her servant at the same time It
the Police Office. In: a; few minutes afterwards
Helsel', the constable, by the boy's direction, ap,
o
rehended Thomas Mislvey,.et the corner of Highf,
field-street. He resisted very stoutly, and !lbed
was obliged to take Win into 111 r. Macpherson's 9i
send fur assistance, which being procured, he vat
conveyed to the Public-ollice and searched by
MrMiller, who found en his person e pat"
which, he said, he had bought of a woos
whom he did nut know, several months since
in the purse was some silver money and severs
Pawn tickets, and In • his waistcoat pockt,
was a penknife. The inquiries which naturally tool
Michael
led to the apprehension of hie two brothers
Michael and John •and on Friday were ell
John
three examined before Mr. Alderman Porter. II
then appeared, that the purse found on Thom
Mulvey belonged to Mr. Molyneux, who
he was I
r Itobbeol
on the Derby road on the night of th
August, of a gold watch and the said Pare, ivid,
some sovereigns and silver money ; the watch wat
found to have been pledged, then
.31r. ICevon int
t morning, al,
Mr. Kevan's, in Union-street, alul
his daughter both identified Michael Mulvey al thi
person by whom it was so pledged. Mr. Arrow
Thome
smith identified the pencil-case pledged by
Mulvey at Mr. Macpherson's, as liaving been Out
from him on Saturday night week, when lle Will
reed, of whoni I,
robbed by three men in Derby -
believes Michael Mulvey to be one, but cammt.
speak as to either of the others. The peal
found on Thomas Mulvey has been identified
)
William Redinisn, a plumber and Oozier living It
Redcross-street, as having been taken from hita
the night of the 29th July last, When he woe robbed
at Kensington, by three men whom he should.neot
be able to recognise, and who alio took , frio ides
ut the same time, a silver watch and other tiro
The watch is found to have been pledgedlst roe di,
Rowley and Burgess's, in Athertofrstreet, ,
morning of' the 30th of July last, and Mr. norr:
identified Michael Mulvey as the person who I:leitit-
it. He gave his name at the time as J,'
er,
Perry," and on Mr. Burgess remarking that
rove.
was a different name (S.itnuel Penis wc 'fall'oit,
on the cap of the watch, he said it 40 1'i11,,,,
watch, and he desired, therefore, the,. pallicw°,io
might be taken of it. A hat found sos"-m,
—h., 4
of Michael Mulvey has been identine by in
Charles Wren.shall, at) that which lie 11)",00„
struggle with three men by whom Ile WO 01!
~,,,,,
near Whitefield-lanc, last Tuesday nig.fit. ;01
more cases remained to be inquired etta, '„re
examination of the prisoners was resumed at ;kei
o'c'ock on Saturdisy. One of the 1)00 .1
u oil
found on Thomas Mulvey is for e br‘.'w 0 0
umbrella, nearly new, which was pledgee
.100
iv
30th of September, the owner of which I,
oa •
yet been found.—Liverpeal AiM.
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Two NEW AxsuALs.---bar Y In, 1 api '4
her, Le Keepsake Francais' e eelleetion of erg n l' :,,
' ' •of tile ,preeent. 1
by the most celebrated French Illtaall , ,
ay1ag6,461
embellished with eighteen splendid line-gollr, ~, .1, P'i"
rate British artists, from clance French and ra.c.alinta"
0,,„,
inga.—At the scut) time will Wear The 7' tekel il
prising the same eighteen engravings, acc°ll.t,,,i aed se
series of specimens of British Literature, 0111""-
leave]. Edited by Mrs. ALaatc Walls. the Melo
The Hon. W. PoNsoNBY, nue oi t 0,
~,;„oeso,
hers for Poole, has undertaken Weed, a. ".- - oio"
it public library fur the use of that town, ogs,,!r Ppoes.
presented for the purpose by his colleaguet ?IP:. 10001
An agent from Belgium has feel' inusgosto
for the purpose of inviting the Prince of Colll.lg.d wittiot
the new crown of that couutrY, but tie Tilitut the,iliel
seeing the Prince, on receiving an assursc''' kohlA
wht,"
tation would not be accepted. The 1414 Y , gred.
emanated is said to be very limited.-- 0)"?.', e pee'
The arringeUtents consequent on d,ibl'oppeti,,
railway from Boathanyten to Lowlon. ".,, „„,t I"'
breaches to other parts of the kingdom, A" 1 b:,„ aio
wartlness. Considerable progress bas alrodY "ttos
in the survey, in Order thltt the pecet
the e 1
—Hampshire Chronicle, ' - c.. Mill''
A hand-hill is in circulation iii ob ow
bone, from which it appears that ieigraticnind nibs
Pr°l)o4,e, at the ensuing meeting for 3 "141 tot Pl'
seised Taxes, that a petition be presented tot° b, Os'
praying his 11faixsxv to appoint 111 r. 1101rtitioiis 'a'
cellor of the Exchequer. We hope, OA Pe to col
become general. If the sources of co' (u sioilte
by an economical Chancellor of the Eselieettert•
must depend for support on the people 0011.1..0 'Orr
DRIADPUL ACCIDENTe.-.glieS.7 et tler
ing an inquisition was held at the KiolllaArPcls,:reneff
field, Middlesex, 'hot' ___.ota Air. StilLl,l)4ap tile ell
view of the body of Tsiogas Ftowxes, ail' s 6
,
the son of Mr. nemesis a Magistrate of the " oe ,
tnet his death in a most. melancholy masocr'd y., 610
ceased went out on Friday morning boo fl :01001!ii
ing, and on his way beck in the afterOeT 'the OM'
as a gentleman's garden the road; w"enpigheusric
who knew him to be aresident in II)* 1" de
the gross 001
asked him if he would like to insPeet i, ester fi
deceased availed himself of the offer, and 7.100 WY:,
garden said, in a jocose manner, " I iwili'is orliotip:
here for fear of accidents," Atid pier" ''. t . /if. %it'
carelessly across a laurel bush close to die Sens, pel
Ivo
a considerable time in inspecting the g4o,thicii lbei, rio'
expressing some praise of the manner ju 4 ,30.'
~,A1
laid out, he made the gardener a present, i'''„ ow tai
I'll go ,horns to dinner." Ile took his go "who 0 ,
motif .oto #
and was drawing it out from the isurel,4ol. . odii
caught the trigger, and the whole loteeita y'
moment lodged in his aide. The Jo/ .i.:.......;,..'"e
--- .
of "Accidental Death."
4

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61)'1
... 1,4 0
On the 16th inst. at Denton Ilan, di° - ~
Earle Welhy, Eq., ;Nix., of a mut. 1,...0eth
Oa the 17th inst. in Charles.strect, 141 • if,
the lady of E. Walpole, Esq. of 4 1141103!r' fj. C, P.'
Oa the 17th inst. at' Richmond, the WO' ° ,
roe, of the Itiadrm Civil Service, of a son.
. „ .-- Iv a
i
e ,
Oa the 17th inst. at Wimbourue, I),r'''t' to
Edward,' Ea+, of a eon.
•On the 16th inst.-at Donley, Gl°aceteil Il•
' 51ARRIED. o're, opt.
3. 3. Tacker, R.N., second too of the 11,,tile i'll°l,l
Esq., of Trematon-eastle, Cornw4ll, to Saw7oeia,".
cond daughter of Vice-Admiral Same' Yonal!' zo
Gloucestershire. l7 '''l Vl7 tV
On the 18th inst. the Rev.
iEr.,,sucilii lii4rvidr,rtia, 11,1
Exeter College, Oxford, .tiecono ~... 0 mArit c
Esq. of Great Fufford,' Deronsliie, to .., of I
daughter of Andrew 13crkeley Dronunoo,ll .1:Al.
land, lianipthirN

, . Is
M.P. I itlatr' P'e
0 • the II f:,`
On '. t otst. at Plaisance, Jerselt 7 Ito- , wifr
,grohne for the recovery of litalth, 1010 Y ll°
On°4l3Hectors rAti. of Ihuti-plac. • how°.
the 16th inst. 'at gait_ 1 11, io b101110i;
. ,
ti:lietohinatnetvll..ieKDl:l7.ntthcs
ii,riVote.t.;:titllt i,'lriur otilitailitti: -I ilen. 1'144146,,,0r,,
ii divroe• .
On the 19th hot. Mr. W. --`"neYw' 1 .
and Oxford.)treer.

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