The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-12 00:00:00

the reach of maritime Powers. It is a country'
mountainous and, poor, and little likely to attract
the cupidity of Other' States; but, what is more
conclusive, it has been repeatedly overrun, during
the hist 'war, by hostile armies and it is not yet
twenty years ~iece it was under the iron sway of
litionaparte. Belgium, on the other hand, is it
country worth contending; for. It is rich and po-
pulous. It 'IS exposed by its situation, and notwith-
standing all its strong fortresses, to, the inroads of
the maritime as well Military Powers of Eu-
rope ; it would lie the first to suffer. from a ge-
neral war, and would in the long run become
the prize of the strongest party. Such has been its
fate,hitherto, and, if we judge from experienee
certainly ;he best rule—there are no grounds for
supposing it would at the present day be more able,
to preseree its independence. Its history, in fact, is
one continued series of changes. It has. been sue.
cessively under the dominion: of Spain, France, and
Austrio, and any liberty and independence it ever
enjoyed it owed more to the unconquerable resistance
made to the tyranoy of Spain by the Dutch, under
William 1., Pri lice of Orange, t han to its own exertions,
or the assist tole° of any other European Power. It has
had just cause of complaint agaiost the present Govern-
ment, and now has the fairest prospect of redress if
the people only know how to improve their ad-
yuntages. By pursuing a firm and prudent Course,
they may work out their liberty without dissociating
themselves from a State which is not strong enough
to tyrannize over them, but whicirmight be of great
avail in securing their independence. By adopting
the course which their present rulers recommend,
they might endanger the peace of Europe, and be-
come in the long rim the prey of the strongest
Power.—Morning Herald.

The Quarter's Revenue!—aye--the Quarter's
Revenue; and what a bungling affair the Courier
has made of it I It announced on Saturday last
that there would be a deficiency of half a million on
the qmirter, and we, trusting to its efficiti/ inferma-
tion, confided in the statement to a certain extent,
and announced, with some deductions, but no un-
favourable conclusions towards the Government, a
somewhat similar defalcation. Now the fact turns
out to he, that the deficiency on the quarter only
• amounts to 188,(100/, or less than one-half of the
enigma said to be deficient by the Courier.. We
shall not indulge in the reflections which this 41601
but false statement of the Courier naturally gives
rise to, because, having been led into the 'error by
that ryfleinl print, and not having the tables' before
us, we might be inclined to say something more
harsh than strict justice. would demand; but the
' same objection does not lie against the statement of
an Evening Cotemporary (The Sun), who bad
no opportunity of committing a similar mistake, and
who may, in consequence, be considered as an im-
partial witness. The following is the expose of our
cotemporary
" The, deficiency in the Quarter's Revenue is only
188,801., and yet that exclusive hack, the Courier, stated
on Saturday, that it amounted in r"und numbers to
510,87'7/. ! Now here is a precious sample of the Goa-
rier's official information—and that exclusive too! ,It was
not enough to quadruple the probable th.ficiency, but to
Anw its talent at figuring, it actuely Strikes out the in-
crease in those Wafter' where there was nu improvement !
This is supporting the Government- with a vengeance,
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not like to
see repeated, even though the Courier boasts an " exclu-
sive" character. , For ourselves we should not have noticed
this
,choice specimen of rally:intelligence in our cotempo-
rary, but that it reminds us of similar attempts of an ex-
rlit.ive tura. It was, but on Friday. last that it had a
&Conti Edition,' announcing the march of 40,000 Priut-'
sims into Belgium, and on SatOrday it had another, har-
rying the King Of Holland away front his dominions before.
his Alapityltad any thbughts of even quitting his capital!
Hut these sret>iily trifles in the Courier's chapter of tied-
dents, and we should not now have noticed them had not
the 'official Journal lately increased' its already exclUsive
claims to public attention, by its alacrity in crying '' hot
rolls from Brussels-.. Second Edition.-.muffins all hot !"
Nuw leaving" the hot rolls from Brussels," and
" the muffins all hot," (the season ie approaching
for both) out of the question, there arc only two
pOssible solutions of the palpable mite.statement of
the Courier--the first, t hat it was owing to the
Treusury, which would necessarily suppose an igtio.
runce on its put incompatible with the capecity of
any of the gentlemen filling its pflice,—the second,
that it took upon itself to announce that as feet of
which it had no distinct knowledge! We leave it,
to the Courier to say A'hielt was most to blame—
itself:or the Treasury vents. Before concluding,
however, we ought to stare, fur the inforMation of
our readers, that although the statement allusled to
is incorrect as regards the quarter, it comes pretty
near the truth, as respects a. comparison .between
1828 and 1830—only one year's difference-rihere
being a deficiency in the• October quarter of 1829
of nearly 150,0001., 'which, with the decrease of
188,000/.'during the quarter just ended, will amount
to the very alarming sum of 838,000/.. er about a
million and a quarter on the 'year. We make no
question, however, that the present quarter will be
much more productive than any corresponding `one
during the lust four years; end with this comfor.
table assurance to our readers we dismiss the subS
jest of the Courier's official ineveuravigs.—Mornink
Adverther.

GERMAN PAPERS.

Sr. Pvrcaul:cam!, Starr. 22.—i—On the sth instant a
ship of the line of 84 gnus was launched at NietoWilt •
The accounts relative to the aolera morP u a in th..
south of ftuisia are' more favourable: it has wile* ceas.tl
at AtitrSehrla,

His Majesty has authorised the formation of a company
for' establishing a communication by steam-boats between
St. Petersburg!' and Lubeck.
Sxrr. 24.—Accounts from Orenburg of let September
soy, tb:tt on the 2bth August there had arrived there a
o►ravan front Khiva and Bucharia, conaisting'of 2,897
ca►nels, and bringing merchandise to the value,of . two
millions of rablei.

Up to the 22d September there, had arrivrd at • Cron.
Emit 1,112 ships: 1,086 had ssiled.

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Mous, ()cr. 7..—We learn that the three new Ministers
have accepted their appointments. This must have given
great satisfaction, and caused a rise :in the funds on the
Exchange at Ainstertla,m, which have lately been much
depressed. It is not di.ubted that theKing'spm_
elarnation, calling the inhabitants of the Northern
ProVinces to arms, will have a similar or still
greater effect. Here at least it has excited great zeal, end
since the publication of the Proclamation 160 ,voluntaters
have offered to march with the militia, and many others
have offered to serve hint in the town tit their own ex-
pence. Iry the course of the week all the moveable militia
will go to the fortresses. Some of the officers are already
on actual service, anti- went yesterday,. to Utrecht with
seine hundrids of militia. .

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The naval division before AntWerp, Consisting of tlo•
Eurydice of 86, and the Porcupine Of 28 guns, is rtil,
forced by the Camel, of 28 guns,
Ills Majesty lota issued a Proclamation to the following
effect :

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" Desiiing, as far as Iles in our power, to prov 44 that
the difficulties of the present state of things may not
increasrd Jiy a high priee of provisions, and coCsi.,
daring that a reduction of the impost. duties on 'corn ap-
pears to he calculated to cootribtits: to .this object ; the,
thiqes on wheat, rye, opts, barley, and molt', fixed by the
law'of 10th January, 1f.125, arc redUced by the rates fixed
by the law of 20th August,' t 524"
who, us has silica transpired, are some of the
Am ST Xlt tiau, ti..--Soule roteig II 'officers lately ar.
rived here,
exiled constitutional Spaniards. We lean they came by
sea from Lisbon, where they had been .
way of I3russeis tolong, kept in prison,
by Don Miguel, and intended to gu by
MARCO. In the state of affairs they have beta dissuaded
from this journey, and provision hats been made for their
lodging and support,

AIIfsTERDAS. OCT B.
Actual Debt, 24 per cent ... . .... .......... . . to el},
tieferred Debt .. . ... . ....... .......... ............ to I
f.te A mort Syndic, 4 per cent .................... til to 71,4
Ditto, ditto, 334 per-cent ................... 6-1)t to 5t3,4

THE OTTOMAN. El4P1111?4--Copt. TRANTI
who has lately returned from Orvece, has announced Air
publication a uarrativeof his journey, through tlut country,
with rentiqks on the actual state of the tutvolattl militarypower of the ottoman 294'4 1, This- litter portion of
the Captsin's volume cannot but be of great interest (in a
national point of view) to the English reader, particularly
at- the present junuturt.