The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-23 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

NATIONAL CONGRESS, SITTING OF FEB. 18.
Among the petitions announced was one desiring that
the Congress might proclaim the doctrine of tolerance.
M. de Robaulx—lf this petition comes from the St.
Simoneans I desire it may be read, for it is by a formal
prohibition of the police that they have liitlarto bee❑
hindered from holding their discourses.
M. Vilain XlV.—The petition has nothing to do with
the St. Simoneans, it demands that the State shall not
concern itself with ecclesiastical functions ; that all cer-
respondence with Rome shall he declared an act of felony,
and that the bells be prohibited. _ .

M. Deleciew—M..Destrouvelles told us yesterday that
the central section had resolved to adjourn the proposal of.
M. Lebeau ; it had no right to do this, it is for the Con-
gress to decide.
M. C. Rodenbach—Cannot a day he fixed for the dis-
cussion ?

The President—We must be first acquainted with the
report.

M. C. Rodenbach—As the solemn audience of our De-
puties at Paris is constantly put off, it is highly necessary
to fix a day for this discussion, Monday, for instance.
The President—lf to-morrow is fixed for the report of
the Central Section, the Congress can determine the day
on which the discussion shall take place.
Some articles of the electoral law, which was the order
of the day, having been discussed,

Messrs. Vilain XIV. and Abbe Andries made a motion
to the effect that the Director-General of Police shall be
summoned to the Congress, to give an explanation of th.
obstacles said to have beem raised by the polief; so the
teaching the exercise of a form of worship,
M. Vilain X[V. said it was a Crest infraction of the
Constitution, and, though it is not yet in force, the Tip-
ciple ought to be rtgipacted, after the decree of Oct, 1,8„
Lebeau had heard it alleged that the doptrines
luestion could not be called a religion. but, however, it
was an opinion which the professors of it have a right to
develops freely.
M. A, Gendebien—The Provisional Government h.eiag
informed by public report of what had passed, hiis caused
Piaissnt to be called upon for a repott on this affair.
M. Robaulx—l can give some Information. The St.
Simoneans had first applied f.)r the Vauxhall, but it was
refused ; they then applied for the Iliitei de la Paix, whers
they paid service-money down, which was returned to
them. Thirdly, they had agreed for tlae Salle de Sr.
Gervois, where they were to preach yesterday evening. I
went to hear them, but the door was shut, and it was. re-
prted that Itl„ Barbier, Commissary of p04e..„ had for-
bidden it to be opened, lf, while the CoAgress as sitting,
all the securities are taken frorn us which it has esta-
blished, what will, hapen when this assembly is dissolved ?
kivrAlti respect al( opinions.
111, Van de Weyer—The Congress will be informtA
both by the report which the Provisional Gove:2,,,nietit has
called for, and the explanation of N.
After some further convers;t;cut it was resolved that the
Minister of Police slould be desired to appear before the
Congress '‘,a-morrow, at the commencement of the zit;l4g.
Baussves, FEB. 19._.-The soldiers wbp ;whinged to
the corps of Gregoire, having been. set at hbeety, arrived
here yesterday from lirntres. They are in a state of great
destitution, Petitions in favour of a Republic circulate at
Ghent.

VIENNA, F. twis received this evening,

BERLIN, his. 11.—On the 4th instant a it-ginaeut
chiefly consisting of-Poles, passed through this city., on its
march to the Duchy of Saxony, where it will he in gar-
rison. The city gave it a breakfast. The Princes of the
Royal Family went on horseback to the gates of the city to
meet it. The neat day the King reviewed it at Potsdam.
The spirit of these troops is excellent. Many of the officers
who were at Moscow cli furlough, have joined their corps.
MyNlctf, FEB. 2.—His Maje,ry has replied to tile ad-
dress of the inhabitants of Bamberg, that they are
tnis-
taken in supposing he had refused to allow M. Redhart
to act in the Chamber of Deputies ; that they are equally
mistaken in supposing, that by the Censorship of the
Journals according to the Constitution. he had I,stricted
the free expression of opinion. even on points of into nal
policy.
To the petition from Wuiziturgh he answers, that on
refusing to allow M. Behr to t,.ke his scat. he has used a
right expressly reserved to him, in the Consti,ution to
which they have all sworn ; that he has scrupulously re-
-pected all their rights, and expects they will respect his.