The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-03 00:00:00

HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.

The Journal du Grand Duche du Luxembourg con-
tains the following article :
" Since the commencement of this month, political
circumstances have been of a nature to lead us to fore-
see the early re-establishment of the rights of the Sove-
reign and of order in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
" An event so ardently desired, so conformable to the
wishes and interests of the city, so important by its cer-
tain influence in ameliorating its position, moral as well
as industrious, in giving birth to just hopes, has induced
the Regency to lay them at the foot of the throne of
his Majesty the Grand Duke.
" This address, dated the 9th of the present month,
signed by all the members of the Council, had for its
object to pray that his Majesty would realise those ideas
of stability and future well-being by which his procla-
mation of the 19th of February was dictated.

" Among the various objects which the Council of
Regency recommended to the high solicitude of his
Majesty, and which attach more especially to the well-
being of the city, are, Ist. the electoral right for
the formation of the municipal administration. 2d.
The revision of the provisional rules of the Athenaeum
for facilitating the advancement of youth in their sci-
entifis studies. 3d. The appointment of establishments
where they may pursue the higher studies. 4th. An ar-
rangement on the subject of the town dues. sth. The
arrangement of the local taxes on a basis agreeable to the
habits and the means of the population. 6th. Pi eserva-
tion of the Courts of Second Instance.

" The Council of Regency, after this detail, has
prayed his M,ljesty to receive the expression of our
real interests through the organ of some one entitled to
his Majesty's confidence as well as ours.

" His Majesty the King Grand Duke, by a rescript
addressed to his Excellency the Lieutenant-General,
President of the Commission of Government, has replied
with the most paternal benevolence, and with the usual
dignity of his august character. This rescript was com-
municated on the 25th to the Council, who resolved to
make it known to the inhabitants as a testimony of the
undoubted kindly intentions by which our Sovereign is
guided in reorganizing all the elements of prosperity
which the city flatters itself to see revived after so many
years of isolation."

TRANSLATION OF THE RESCRIPT.
" The Council of Regency, contemplating the proba-
bility of the restoration of order in the Grand Duchy,
has expressed to us the sentiments by which it believes
all the inhabitants of the city to be animated towards us.
" We have seen with satisfaction in their address the
assurances which it contains of their confidence and
their attachment, and we cannot respond to it in a more
certain manner than by carefully watching over the ir.•
terests of this city, and applying all our cares to realise
them.

" Our sentiments in this respect are entirely the same
as those which we manifested in our proclamation of the
19th of February, 1831, and it will be a pleasure to us
to give the city evidence of this as soon as the moment
shall arrive when we can do so with success.

" We hope, also, that our good Luxemburgois wil
await with a constant fidelity the ulterior result of cir.
cum3tances, and we consequently desire that you 1411
communicate what precedes to the Council of Regency.
" WILLIAM."
" Hague, March 19, 1839."

THE BLESSED EFFECTS OF THE CORN-LAWS
ON THE FARM LABOURERS.--We know it for a fact that a
great quantity of barleyrneal is LOW being sold in Somer-
setshire and part of this county for bread for the agricul-
tural labourers, who are eating barley bread, in order that
the Duke of Buckingham may have one or two additional
footmen, or an extra phaeton. And yet these men have
the audacity to talk about the farm labourers having an
interest in dear bread ; and they affect to fear that cheap
corn would reduce them to tho coarse food of the Poles
Glorious Hypocrites I—Cheltenham Free Press.