The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.
ARMY OF TIIE AIEUSE.
" Headquarters, Hocht, Jan. 20.
" Though all our advanced posts strictly obey the order
to suspend all hostilities, the fortress has been firing ever
since this morning in all directions, without any return
on our side. I have just given orders to the Tournasians
stationed at Caberg to retire to Munsterbilsten. This
measure, which my duty prescribed at this moment,
be considered by the besieged as a retreat, and increase
their insolence. No matter; I have ordered it, in ori!er
not to give the King of Holland any pretext nut to fulfil
the conditions which have been imposed upon him by the
Powers. (Signed) " DAINE.
" The Commander-in-Chief."

" Head-quarters, Hocht, Jan. 20.
" TO THE COMMISSARY-GENERAL.
should have immediately iollowed the in-
structions which were delivered to me yesterday, by
Lieut.-Colonel Stevens of your Staff, by withdrawing to
a greater distance my line of circumvallation, had I not
feared that the enemy would endeavour to take possession
of the train of heavy artillery coming from the fortress of
Venloo, which had just been sent to me from Maeseyek,
and which was at that moment stuck fast in the bad
roads. As soon as lam informed that it has arrived at
Tongres, I shall commence my retrograde movement, and
give orders to send the rest of the materiel which.is at
Maeseyek by way of Stockheem, to Gench and Hasselt.
" My army, which was so well inclined to fight, is
confounded at being obliged to give up, out of condescen-
sion to the policy of Europe, the ground which it would
have contended for to the last drop
.of its blood. The
volunteers, the militia, the troops of the litle of all arms,
emulated each other in zeal : deputations of free corps
have come respectfully to beg me to allow them to guard
alone our present positions, to defend our unhappy coun-
trymen, and to swe them from the humiliations which
will, perhaps, be heaped upon them by the Dutch. My
duty has obliged !tie to the first refusal which these brave
men have hitherto experienced from me.
" Having had a thousand proofs of the affection which
is borne to me by every soldier of my army, I believe that
I may affirm that they would sacrifice to me as well as to
their country the blood and the laurels which they were
willing to offer on the altar of the country; that soldiers,
above all things the army of the Meuse, will give a very
sublime example of submission to military law.
(Signed) DAINE."
Thanks to the Congress at London, the increase of the
budget proposed to the Congress at Brussels will not take
place• War between Belgium and Holland is henceforth
prohibited on every supposition; consequently- we shall
no longer have to maintain so expensive an army. Peace
is ordered : it is the same as if it were concluded ; the
more so, because as M. C. H. Rogier has Judiciously
observed, the protocol of the 9th of January emanates
from the five most important legitimate Powers in Europe.
Prudent persons affirm that the National Congress
moved by the most honourable feeling of its dignity, is
going to discuss, in a general commit'ee, tke propriety of
withdrawing its declaration of the 18th of November,
1830, which seemed at that time to satisfy the passions
which then agitated the multitude.
It is affirmed that despatches, received yesterday from
Paris by the French legation, repeat the assurance that
the French Cabinet will never acknowledge the Duke of
Leuchtenberg as King of Belgium, and that it will not, in
any case, permit a member of his family to reign over this
country.

M. Renoz, of Liege, Aide-de-camp to the Commissary-
General of War, arrived on Tuesday morning at Ghent,
with despatches for General Duvivier, in order to put an
end to hostilities on the frsintiers of Flanders. The next
day the General set out for the advanced posts.
ANTWERP, JAN. 22.—General Baron Vandermissen
went yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, to the society
called " Philotaxe," where most of the merchants of Ant-
werp used to meet. He there announced that he bad just
that moment received a despatch from General Chasse,
Governor of the citadel, by which the latter informs him,
that by order of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands,
received by the royal steam-boat, the arrival of which
we announced yesterday, the Scheldt was free, as well
for the entrance as the departure of all ships, without
distinction.

A respectable person of this city lately had a conver-
sation with General Baron Chasse, and showed him an
article in the Courier, of London, of the 18th instant,
under the head of " Brussels, the 15th instant," which
states that " General Chasse had officially declared,
that the first cannon fired upon the town of Maestricht
would be a signal for him to reduce Antweep to ashes,
and that he would keep his word." On which General
Chasse declared to the person in question, in the most
solemn and energetic terms, that the article was a most
scandalous falsehood, and an infamous calumny ; tl‘at nei-
ther his Government nor himself could ever have enter-
tained s© cruel an idea, and still less officially declare a de-
termination to sacrifice, on account of movements or at-
tacks directed against points or places remote from the
lines of defence confided to him, a city already so unfor-
tunate in consequence of an attack made upon him, con-
trary to sacred conventions,—an event which he will never

cease to regret, but which he could not prevent without
failing in his duties and his honour as a soldier, consider-
ing the situation of the citadel, and the proximity of' the
arsenal. The General added, that the inhabitants of Ant-
werp need not entertain any fear that he would recom-
mence such hostilities if no attack or aggression took place
on the part of the Belgiins, and if the existing conven-
tions were strictly observed ; but that, in the contrary ease,
he should be obliged, with regret, to do what his honour,
as a soldier and as a faithful subject of his King, prescribed.
He expre-sly edded, that he considered such an event as
imposs ble, so long as a brave and experienced officer like
him whom we now possess, should be at the head of the
province and the garrison.

- BRUSSELS, JA-N. 22.—The Congress, in its sitting to-
day, continued the discussion on that part of the Consti-
tution which relates to the judicial power.-LeVrai Pa.
triote, Jan, 24.

FRENCH PAPERS,
(rrom the Messtiger des arnitbres, dated Tuesday.)
PARIS, JAN. 24.—1 t is thought that the municipal law
will be discussed in the course of next week. .France ex-
pects it with the greatest impatience, and the Mayors and
the Members of the Municipal Councils, who were to go
out on the Ist of January last, have been continued, and
the Minister of the Interior has founded ais measure on
the approaching adoption of a new municipal law; to
complete the system, it is to be wished that the Ministry
may soon lay before the Chathbers the departmental law.
Mina, Min left Biyonne two days ago to go to Bor-
deaux, will, it said, soon return to the frontier. It

seems that this Genera] is very active, but if we may be-
lieve certain reports, his present projects have in them
nothing hostile to Spain, and the Government of Ferdi-
i n Ind has no reason to be alarmed at them.-Memorial
des Pyrenees.
According to a private letter from Corfu, of the 20th of
December, the Isle of Negropont has at length been eva-
cuated by the Turks, and the Greeks have been able to
take possession of it. Omer Pacha, the Ottoman com-
missioner, charged by him to deliver up the island to the
Greek defenders, have left the town, and are gone to
Athens, on board a Russian man-of-war. Several Greek
families, who have hitherto lodged in the suburbs of Ne-
gropont, have already taken possession of the palaces within
the walls which they were forbidden to inhabit under the
dominion of the Paellas. Greece will derive great advan-
tages from this fertile country, which adds to its territory
the lirgest island next to Candia. The rich pastures which
surround the capital, and to which an easy irrigation will
give in-xhanstible fertility, have riven the Greek Govern-
ment the idea of establishing at Negropont the depot for
the horses of the cavalry and artillery necessary for the
defence of its territory.
PARIS, 11 r.m -We this moment learn that a cer-
tain number of individuals have been arre--ted as authors
or ascomplices of the scandalous scene which took place
yesterday at the Sorbonne. Among them are mentioned
Messrs. Sambue, Blanqui, and Plogue. M. Sambue is a
young man of 27 years of acre, who has only kept one
term in the faculty of law, and he therefore does not belong
to the two schools of which he pretended to be the organ.
Proceedings are instituted against the young men whose
turbulent conduct has so long disturbed the tranquillity ol
the capital. There is reason to hope that this inquiry will
lead to the discovery and punishment of the real authors.
FRENCH FUNDS..-PARIS, JAN. 24.-Five per Cents.
93f. 45c. 35z. 30e. 35c. 40c. 45c. 40c. 35c. 40c. 93f.
45c. 50c. ; Four per Cents. 79f. ; Three per Cents. 61f.
50c. 45c. 35c. 30c. 40c. 45c. 40c. 35e. 40e. 61f. 45c. ;
Bank Shares, 1,505 f. 1,500 f. ; Rente de Naples, 63f.
20c. 25c. 20c. 15c. ; Rente d'Espagne, 14111 ; Royal
Spanish Loan, 61 61i 61 ; Bente Perpetuelle d'E-pagne,
46i s 4 s 4. Exchange on London, one month,- paper,
25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 25f. ;
money, 25f.-Coors Authentique.