The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-08 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1831.

The rejection of the Belgic throne by Prince
LEOPOLD will create no surprise, and perhaps
no regret, when all circumstances are considered.
For our parts we had a misgiving from the
first, that the matter could not be easily or per-

manently concluded to the satisfaction of all parties
immediately or remotely concerned. The Con-

ference of London, though professing to be very
unanimous in its deliberations, is )et, we shrewdly

suspect, composed of very discordant materials.
For what sympathy can exist between the re-
presentatives of Russia and France—the one
Ambassador of the most despotic Ruler in

Christendom—perhaps the world—and the
other representing the opinions of the King
of a free people—a King elected by, and
deriving his authority from the voice of a
people who had risen in arms as the Poles
have now done against the divine right and
abused authority of a French NICHOLAS ? Be-
tween such representatives there could be no
cordial sympathy of deliberation, far less of action,
in the question at issue between Belgium and
Holland. And the same reason will apply with

equal force to Austria, afrciid of insurrection in
her Italian usurpations, and to Prussia trembling
not more for the provinces on the Rhine,
than the contagious example of Poland on her
North-eastern frontiers. As for England, much
as she wishes for peace and the extension
of freedom among her neighbours, yet her
foreign policy can never develope its force
sufficiently till a Reformed Parliament give
' renewed energy to her councils, by the
moral conviction that the expression of her will
is backed by the concurring approbation of a
free, independent, and popular Parliament.
Then, and not till then, can the represen-
tatives of England's Majesty strike terror
into the Councils of foreign despots, less by
the bold consciousness of their strength than
the acknowledged purity of their motives ! The

Conference may issue fresh protocols to Bel-
gium, but they will never convince the people
of that country of the sincerity of their conduct,
nor the extreme delicacy of their interference.
One thing is, however, very clear, that, unless
both parties come to a speedy understanding,
Belgium will be thrown into the arms of
France—and then what becomes of the ques-
tion which some suppose to be so remote,
but which all dread to be at hand—war between
France and Austria, and perhaps Russia—and
if so—Poland is free.

We have just received by express the Paris
Papers of Monday, from which the following
are extracts :
(From the Journal des Debate )
LISBON, MAY 25.—The following is the demand of
the French Consul on the Government of Don Miguel
The Government of the King of France taking
into serious consideration the number of wrongs caused
by the Portuguese Government, has ordered me to demand
immediate reparation.
" I. To set at liberty M. Bonhomme, and to annul the
sentence against him.
"2. The dismissal of the Judges who pronounced the

sentence.
" 3. An indemnity of twenty thousand francs for M.
13onliomrne.
" 4. The release on sunsis claimed in my note of the
26tb, in favour of Claude Souvinet, condemned by an