The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-21 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS. FEB. 17. —The greatest reproach that can be
addressed to the Government, is that of betraying the
country and sacrificing the national honour. But this ap-
pears to us to be absurd : if the Ministers have committed
faults, no body is more interested than they in repairing
them; and if they yield to the intimidation of the Con-
ference, it is because they see the impossibility of resisting,
for they are batter able to know what is passing than the
declaimers of the press and the tribunal, and what they do;
what they propose, is evidently to serve the whole by re-
nouncing a part. There is not the slightest idea of trea-
son, nor can there be any. The fact is this, the question
now is "To be, or not to be." All recriminations are su
pe►fluous, useless, injurious, the country suffers; it desires
a solution ; but it desires the best possible, the safest, and
it will not stake its last resources, its last hope, with the
certainty of losing all.

The King and—Queen arrived to-day at the Palace in
Brussels from Laeken.

Vie hear from Diest, 15th February, that the Dutch
army had not made any movement for the last week, but
continued to work at the entrenchments, which it began
when it tot:1 up a position about Grave and Nimeguen.
Baron de Behr, bringing despatches for the Government,
and General Juan Van Haien, arrived on the 15th at Ant-
werp, from London, on board the Soho steamer, and im-
mediately set out for Brussels.—Courtier Beige.
BRUSSELS, FEB. Grouwels, a Cabinet Mes-
senger, set out for London the evening before 3 esterday,
after a Council of Ministers, in which the report was dis-
cussed, that is to be read to-morrow in the Chamber of
Reprusentwires by the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
_ _

The messenger is expected to be hick on Tuesday
morning. Immediately after the decision of the Cham-
bers—a decision, the pacific nature of which cannot be
doubted, numerous furloughs will be granted to the work-
men and country people who have been called under arms.
It is even said that the whole of the reserve will be sent
to their homes. Thus the wish would be complied with
which' have been so urgently expressed by the manufac-
turing and agriculturalpopulwion, alarmed at the approach
of the season when their labours should be resumed,
while they are deprived of their most useful hands.
It is atlirmed that the definitive resolutions of the Go-
vernment, which will be laid before the Chamber to-mor-
row, consists in a project of law, resembling, in substance,
that which was voted in 1831, authorising the King to sign
the defini ive Treaty of Separation.— Courrier Beige.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 19.—The official part of the Moniteur
Beige of this date contains the following :
" Leopold, King of the Belgians.
" To ali present and to come, greeting.
" 'We have decreed, and decree :

" Art. 1. The resignation tendered by our Minister of
State, the Court de !erode (Felix), of the functions of
Member of our Council of Ministers, -and charged, ad in-
terim, with the regulation of the Department of Finance,
is accepted.
" Art. 2. Our Minister of War shall hare, ad interim,
the regulation of the Department of Finance.
" Art. 3. Our Minister of the Interior and Foreign
Affairs is charged with the execution of the present decree.
" Given at Brussels, Feb. IS, 1839.

LEOPOLD.

" By the King,
" The Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs.
- " DE TIIEUX."
A dreadful accident occurred-at Bering_ en on the 16th.
The hurricane, which had raged for two days, overthrew
at half-past eight in the morning of the 16th the steeple of
the church of Beringen, a little village about three miles
from the camp at Beverloo. The soldiers quartered there
were on the parade, and it was Said-that several of them
had, been killed. There is a school for young children,
which was crushed by the steeple in its fall. The most of
the children were on the parade to hear the band of the re-
giment; twelve of them, however, were buried under the
ruins. The soldiers, consisting of three companies of the
2d Regiment made the greatest exertions at the peril of
their lives to save the victims. More than 70 persons owe
their lives. to them.
M. Dumortier has published a very long letter, in which
we (the Courrier Beige) merely regret that he has not pre-
served the calm and decisive tone which we find in the
whole of his celebrated pamphlet, which did not a little
contribute to cause it to ba read and
.appreciated by the
most eminent men in Europe. •
Yesterday evening, between seven and eight, several
hundred persons, among whom we observed many strangers,
assembled in the Place de Maryrs. After singing songs, and
uttering some cries indicated by their well known leaders, the
assemblage divided into two groups, one of which went
and surrounded the tree of liberty in the Place de la
Monnaie, where various cries were uttered, some crying
Yive le Roi, others Down with the King, rather than the
dismemberment. Five of the latter were arrested, hand-
cuffed, and carried off after a slight resistance, which was
instantly put down by the gend'armes. An attempt was
made to put up some proclamations to the arwy, but with-
out success; the police did their duty. We have no in-
formation respecting the second group, which, perhaps,
was employed in pasting up the numerous placards which
are put up during the night, but which the well-
disposed people pull down in the morning. Threats
were uttered in places of public resort against several Deputies
and against our Journal. We are prepared for the chances
of an attack ; let the Deputies defend the liberty of the
Tribune, as we shall defend the liberty of the Press; and
the Anarchists will not have the advantage of putting the
country in a flame without resistance.—Courtier Beige.
Numerous and very minute ineasures have been taken
for some time past, all to maintain public tranquillity. The
garrison of Brussels is reinforced and partly changed. In
the night before the last sitting of the Chamber the horses
pieces o
off
of the Regiment of Guides were rough-shod In the
ofiCfe field artilleryrtar Court-yard,
ialried,r oy, ofct
al
nind the s Pti
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an l
ga eeoe
of horse
roesue
nPdrei
rn sce;
artillery,
ionf Orangealal 3 2
a park
battery
cannon. The garrison of the Capital is twice is strong
as that of Wrath). it is likewise twice as numerous as
the corps stationed in the province of Luxemburg; there
is no frontier town better guarded against a foreign enemy
than Brussels is guarded against the exciters of troubles.
—Observateur. . .

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-----(From the Cannier Belga.)
BRUSSELS, FEB. 19.—Charnber of Representatives,
Half-past ee o'clock. The Sitting is extremely
stormy
indecorous ; the Minister has been insulted by
M.
tD u: and
ino r
nt T i i
la,r :d
M. Pirsen continues his apostrophes which
pu
of his celebrated blow with his fist aimed
me
A considerable re-action
samyist;cl's since it is known that
at the President, M. de Gerl,che. The tumult is in-
'creasing; it is like a sitting of the Convention."
France abandons us, they begin to believe that M. de
Ansemberg has not been frank in his avowmcnts, which
have caused many persons to compromise themselves. '
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The petition irom Cardsle for enquiry at the bar
of the House into the effect of the corn:awe,
rituleyal :y:t.a onv fdaai. and
presented
signedproperty
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land,byl'3 ii as
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horse behind a cart anrbdryaliasn'shiefr:
attibseearrail diseased
knackers.e al Nli L L 0 F MIS.
-r be Hon. Secretary nd Officers of the ~ Ani-
mals' Friend Society" last week caused Samuel Harper to be corn.
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ptcbacroyteoni.:B„st
Mr.coats, by
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Jeremy, for cruelty to a horse; also
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having
cart and lashed it on while going to
JAS. WOOD, OF GLOU-
cusa.—ln the elaborate mjudgment, delivered yesterday by Sir
Herbert Jetiner, the Judge of the Prerogati..e Court, in the long-
pending cause relating to tho t„„,
TGarnoeunce4srt LP, age" Courtof the
IpatreonsolrUnjcaesd,
vw:laiditiit'yYobfaeTv'keerriol;ne of the papers propounded as testa-
hich is, in effect, that the deceased had died intestate.
maTNgVhca:ei:d':casor'tnYttisPh'eee;'uence of this decision is to give the whole personal pro-
perty, amounting to nearly a niit.,.o_
n, to two second cousins, as the
f kin to 111 r. Nyood ; and the real prorrty estimated to be of
h9Z-t o , oi to the liC' T-. . ' •. •• •
thee.i.Y.4,l"4aendorifVegvp. '4.016: icisloLtilio7:ppYlel44l‘nv94sagitaerutYiinifimthee..
diately alter the conclusion of the
judgment,

RECRUITING FOR Tuz ARMY.—No less than
13,000 men were enlisted during the year 1838. Of those upwards
of 4 000 were furnisi ed by London and its environs. Recruiting
is still going on very btlakly,,