The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF 11W PUBLIC;'4IOUttNALS.

It is gratifying to think, that if „tlie Preseet'*ntsts
!by of the Netherlands is depler4le in ito.dt, htlii.
night be eventually dangerous to the,..tratee' tt,,,,0,
ra
rather States, some definitive erngemeof of Ar,
s'
s.
to adopted. The Provisional Government deser ec
wake for its promptitude in bringing affairs to this
A
recision. Having announced that it cold I not enter
into any negotiation without authority from the na-
iion, and having rebored every thing to a eationel
Congress, its chief merit consisted in convoking that
Congress ins soon as possible. It had published an
tlectoral law, and its most urgent duty was to put
that law into execution. In the Courrier des Pap
Has of Saturday we find accordingly a decree of the
Provisional Government for fixing the number of
leputies allotted to each province, for determining
,he meeting of the electoral colleges to the 27th inst.,
,rand convoking the National Congress for the 3d of
November. Thus the representatives of Belgium
will he chosen the slay after the meeting of our Pare
tiament, and the National Congress will meet before
our Legislature has commenced the business of the
session. In the mean time we think that eve see in
the Belgic journals, and in private letters from' dui
Netberlands, many 'symptoms of returning good
sense, and of an increasing love of order. . .Ever
since the resistance of the people of Brussels to the
King's troops, and the establishment of e Provi-
sional Government in the persons of De Potter and
Co., the Belgic nobility, the members of the States-
General, and other persons of rank, have ceased to
take any part in public affairs. They may have
joined in the desire of an administration distinct
from that of Holland, but that is almost the only,
point in winch they concur with the present pos.,
sessors of supreme power, 'They have therefore kept
aloof from the ruling Junta, and have shown a strong,
disposition to make an arrangement,with the Prince
of Orange, by which they might at once secure the
independence of the 'uks and their own personal
weight in time new state. Several of them have
remained at Antwerp with the Prince, and others
have declined taking any side in acontest so uncertain.
As soon us the National Congress shall meet, the
nature of the future Government of Belgium will he
settled. Its the mean time all military operations on
the part of the Prince of Orange should, cease, and
the means of conciliation be pursued with zeal and
perseverance. The Congress about to be asatenbled
may he reckoned a fair representation of the na-
tional will, and would be inclined to consult the
permanent interests of the country, were they not
misled by the prejudices created by recent events.
The object of his Royal Highness should therefore•
be to destroy those prejudices, and -to regain, by
popular manners and tranquillizing essurances,
the ground which his family had lost. The
stay of the Prince at Antwerp has been already
signalized by several acts of a popular churnctee..
He bus visited the prisoners taken in the attack oil
Brussels, and ordered some of them to ho set ht
liberty. He seems to have acquired the coofitlenea
of some of the Belgic leaders by Ina kireltie**, and.
Iris council have already pronounced Us favour of
trial by jury—an abject so vehemently demanded for
the last two years by the Belgic ;willows. In the
midst of this turmoil, the journals, feeling that they
have not only a constitution to Make, but a crown
to give away, or a President to recommend, haeo
taken opposite sides on the questions at issue:, The
Journal de Gond, and the Courrier de la Mcrae .
are decidedly in favour of the Prince of Orange,
although the latter is a liberal print, treed late, from
the beginning, advocated the cause of the reps.
paration. But, what is of still greater consequence,
many articles of the Government paper (the
Cowrie). des Pays lies) lead us .to believe that
be opinion on the subject of Government has
lately changed, amid that a Repuldivau klouarelky,
with the Prince of Orange at its head, would satisfy ,
all its wishes. Too cautious to express any dee
cided opinion of its own before the eonvoesoitui of
the Congress, it shows its leaning by giving n pro-
minent expression to the opinions of others. A game
phlet has been published at Brussels, masa, the
title of" A Memoir addressed to. Genemi r„,,
Valera, us Me Stale of .11e14;hor Wbieli lbe,Cosnir
republishes with approbation. In 014 memoir iii,,,,,
claims of the Parley of Orange or of his slows° the .
Crown of Belgium are supported with grunt seal of s'
advocacy, anti considerable force of argument. Viet
Helen's reply, which would huvo no interest in le
self, becomes important, from being quoted with
approbation by the Government Paper-4M that
reply leaves a door wide open for the. retort* of tins
Prince of Orange, on conditions which seem fee s
from unreasonable. One passage of the memoir is
extremely important, as it refutes the churge,which .
has been so often mode against the Belgians, of de--
siring to surrender their country to Frunce, mei
confirms the contradiction which we have repeatedly
given to such an allegation;-
" It cannot be supposed (says the writer) that du le
will be found a single Velgian capable of selling his eimn.
try to France, and of giving utterance to the proposition
of uniting it again to that kingdom.' In that ease fir•;..;,„1,,
the cisluitsl of Belgium, wealth
tlatigvhar:aioweille.:lctZatinm::c
,liil,yiiiihetiiii,s,
‘ivaiiisiseciilrisilut:wbnotonf
laityterizStoennaitial
come the patriaituiy of Frenchmen; all the wealth of time
coasts of the Scheldt would flow towards the Seine, end
would go to autorient the troasurn of the Louvre • ' in a
word, you would be mare dependent thee you were lately ,
suonicleornttriameryrotdo athreti4isotthiriastnirl pVrOsinpel‘rirtynonlel;liiiri'3itliT:oiLiitiill,4.. '
I doubt not, be unanimously rejected."
Neither the nobility of the Belgic provinees,'whe
are numerous, nor the ecclesiastics, who are powers
ful, cuts desire a French connexion, which must de-
stroy the importance of the former, and endenger
the security of the hitter, A republic, wlictltOr
central or federal, supported on its two radicalll4l*
of universal suffrage and annual elections, would be
equally ohnostious to those classes, as it would level
tall distinctions of property, rank, and. professine.
The Belgic church has stilt great tietharey, and tho
Belgic people are inspired with groat .veneration for
their clergy, After the wens!! eavolatiOn of July
last, we heat 4 of en ieligintes ceremony to express
the gooloole of !ha notion for its. deliverance from
tyranny; but the Dutch troops were no sooner ex-
pelled hunt Oruuseic, than 'Pe Dorms (W441141r Sin»
cere or nor, It is not for us to lode) were &mimed : .
with great pomp in the cathegral of St. 0ii102,0.
Neither a French nor n republican Government could
give the Belgic elflireh so great hopes of tr.titillilniag
Its power to the Government of a staraesde Pmts.
It may, ' therefore, be inferred tnat the privileged
orders will be strongly inelittOti to the Sweeseicer of
the Prince of Orange, whesevee muy be the ineliria-
-6" of Do Potter MO co. toiasoals it republic. We
must not omit 44 state, that a report had readied
Meer yeaterclay by the Ostend pack,r,
,that tlm
soldiers in the unison of Antwerp had. revolted.
No hint of this la given in the Flanders paptecees ,
'Ames.

The CoMMunicatioos (rem Ireland Iplin onto
more to towline u 60000111 eharneter. Northat posi-
tive tumults have taken place, or that inserree-
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tai be pref,utin~r
mutter niantio:ydeemtueentiitlilli
gholutries
et
tielloPiPtste:ll:lo‘(!lediatinvt n ihreau h no such
,op,ffh7vl;ilueircpl evils
hettot:ro
ore
too
t o(niorotreltilirteersaeto,e,fit:
scribed to be, in manifest operation throughout the
land, and their progress must be ‘vatchetl. with thu
utmost cure, that basely measures moy be like* to
avert their otherwise *lnevitable ttonsequetices. A
wonderful stride was made by the Catholic 'Relief
1141 towards effecting a. permanent improvement in
the social condition of Ireland, Difference of reli-
gious opittiOn between Mao and man then ceased ro
be a living fountain of cola:City to all who enter-
tained it, and the several divisions of the nation
may be said (for the first time) to have started NE,
with p common prize before them. By this we mean that no unnatural and fur
inctirobrintiT,
bite the putsit,lagent of man's religious foitli, was
upon the frame of the COirimiiiiity. }taxi
lows, Otieellog Men in their ordinary tel iniyht
incises!ftto, eeti remain, I
mist firotittte ticsix•