The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-16 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, JUNE 12.—The two Chambers of
the States-General were yesterday assembled in a
Secret Committee. It is affirmed, that his Excel-
lency the Minister for Foreign Affairs made further
communications respecting our foreign relations.
On the 10th inst. the militia of Amsterdam, Gro-
ningen, Friesland, and Gelderland, in garrison at
Nymegen, as well as a battery of field artillery, re-
ceived orders to march immediately. It is said that
part of the garrison of Grave and the Bosch Las re-
ceived similar orders.
The object of this movement is reported to be to
form a corps of observation in North Brabant, at St.
Oedenrode Vighil, and the environs, in order to
cover the province on that side.
Besides this, various measures of precaution have
been taken in our army against an unexpected attack
of the Belgians, and our troops are constantly on
the alert to give a good reception to such as Inay
venture to violate our territory. The troops in the
camp on the heath near Gelze and Regon, consist
of two brigades, each of six battalions. General Van
Geen is Commander-in-Chief.
Accounts from the frontiers say that the Bel-
gians are also forming a camp at Ravel, the head-
quarters to be at Turnhout. Our squadron before
Lillo was reinforced on the 7th by three gun-boats;
the Curacao steamboat also arrived there. At pre-
sent there are before the fort a frigate, a corvette,
and tive gun-boats.
Belgian Papers say that M. Goricke, Councillor
of State,
his Majesty's Commissioner at Maestricht,
had dismissed from their employments all Receivers,
Notaries, and.Burgo masters, in the 52 villages of
the former territory of theGenferality who exer-
cised their functions in
name o
the
taxes
Belgian Go-
vernment, and had ordered the inhalt
villages to pay within a certain time jiaetirtsof those
the last six months of 1830, and for thefirst fors?x

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1831.

The accounts from Poland in the French I
Journals continue to be satisfactory. A private
correspondent in the Constitutionnel says that
General SKRZYNECKI had triumphantly suc-
ceeded in his attempt to throw a disciplined
corps into Lithuania. He was retreating to
resume his position on the Vistula, when DIE..
urrscH, having effected his junction with 'the
Guards; and escaped the vigilance of General
UMINSKI, attacked the advanced guard of.the
Polish army, under the command of General
LUBIENSKI. The latter, at the approach of
an enemy so superior in number, re-passed, in
all haste, the bridge of Ostrolenka, which he
vainly attempted to destroy. SKRZYNECKI,
who was at two leagues distance, hastened to
his relief; and the Russians, who at his arrival
were masters of the bridge, were driven back into
Ostrolenka, after a contest of six hours, during
which they sustained enormous losses. Through-
out this memorable campaign the triumph of skill, I
bravery, and science has been decidedly on the
side of the Poles. The movements of Marshal
DIEBITSCII have been a succession of blunders
up to the present moment. He set out with the
two glaring errors of under-rating his enemy
and over-rating himself: he miscalculated also
every plan of operation, and is now paying
the penalty of his temerity and presumption.
With, regard to the Belgian question, it
seems daily to become more complicated and
embarrassing. All parties interested seem to be
equally dissatisfied, and as far removed from
their point as ever. France intrigues, England
remonstrates, Prussia threatens, Holland storms,
yet Belgium is just where she was at the first
out-break of her revolution. Meantime, com-
merce languishes, money is scarce, and trade
almost wholly at a stand-still. •

The latest accounts from Brussels give no
cheering news of the state of affairs in Belgium.
The National Congress seems fairly at its wits
end, and, according to a Morning Cotemporary,
no alternative appears to present itself to the ima-
gination of the people under pressing circum-
stances, but to throw themselves into the arms,
not of the French Government but the French
people, by hoisting the revolutionary banner.
Already three-coloured flags have been prepared
in Brussels, and it only requires the ultimatum
of the Holy Alliance to unfurl them. So great
is the people's irritation against the Conference
of London, that upwards of s,ooorrespectable in-
habitants have announced that sooner than accept
Prince LEOPOLD at its dictation, they would
prefer the Prince of ORANGE.
BRUSSELS' JUNE 13.-A courier with dispatches from
M. de Gerlache, some for the Regent others for M. Lebeau,
arrived yesterday. Their contents have not transpired.
We know that endeavours are made to represent them as
being satisfactory and calculated to excite hope of a dif-
ferent result from that which the departure of Lord Pon-
sonby and General Belliard seems to announce. A cou-
rier was immediately dispatched to London. The evening
before some new ministerial arrangements were talked of,
the conclusion of which may be thus deferred :
The Generals of division, who are in actual service in
our army, have been summoned to attend to-day a Council
of War, which is to be tried at Brussels, to deliberate on
the measures to be taken in case•of taking the field.
As soon as General Chasse was informed of the rupture
of the Schelde Dyke, near Fort Lillo, he ordered the Go-
vernor of that fort conjointly with an engineer and the

prsons interested in the Folder of Lilin and the enverons,
to take all necessary measures to repair the dyke in and pre-
vent farther disasters.
Messrs. Gregoire and De Bast have appealed to the
C ,urt of Caseation.

The night before Lord Ponsonhy's departure stones
wi re thrown against his windows, and some panes broken.
A letter from Luxemburg says—" The troops of the
German Confederation, which are arriving at Luxemburg
to take the place of part of the 30th Prussian regiment,
passed through Coblentz on the 6th instant. Accounts
from that city say that there are continual movements of
troops in the States of the Confederation, and that the
occupation of the Grand Duchy is considered to be at
hand. These reports seem to be entitled to little credit,
as the occupation is subordinate to the arrangements which
will be made at London." •

ANTVEI2.I., JUNE 13.—M. Ch. Rogier, our new Go-
vernor, arrived this morning. .

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Since yesterday there has been some exchange of mus-
ket-shot -between our outposts at St. Laurent and Kiel
and the Dutch sentinels. The latter began about ten
o'clock in the morning. One of our soldiers has been
killed in the garden of the Harmony.
Since yesterday morning the Dutch have been con-
tinually firing on our advanced posts at St. Laurent and
Kiel ; our men have returned the fire without interrup-
tion. We do not exactly know what has been the cause
of this engagement. Some say that our people have been
erecting a new battery opposite the citadel, and that the
Dutch fired to prevent them from continuing : others
affirm that two sentinels of the two parties threatened
each other at a distance, and that the Dutch sentinel
fired at the other. Several persons, citizens as well as
soldiers, have been killed or wounded. The Dutch have
fired with muskets from the ramparts. We have just
been assured that the gunners have received orders to be
at their guns.
Several mortars have arrived during the night at St.
Laurent.—L' Escout.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 14.—A deputation from the Chamber
of Commerce of Antwerp has waited on the Regent to
inform him of the fears excited by the events of the pre-
ceding day.
A French Cabinet messenger passed through here yes-
terday, on his way from Paris to the Hague, with dis-
patches.
Preparations are making to send to Antwerp the pieces
of cannon stationed at the Palace, formerly belonging to
the Prince of Orange.
The Antwerp Journals received to-day are silent with
respect to the menaces which a Brussels Journal says have
been uttered by General Chasse, nor do they mention his
letter to M. White, and General Belliard.
NATIONAL CONGRESS.—.SITTING OF JUNE 13.

On the opening of the Sitting, at half-past two, there
were ninety-seven Members present. The proces
verbal of the Sitting of June 4 tieing read by M. Liedts
one of the Secretaties, some charges were made in it by
M. Liedts, at the suggestion of M. Claes and other Mem-
bers. M. Claes desired to be mentioned among those who
voted against the election of Prince Leopold. Letters
from several Members asked leave of absence, but, con-
sidering the critical state of affairs, it was not granted, except
to three Members on account of illness, and M. Gratz,
whose prteence is indispensable at Liege.

The Vice-President communicated a decree of the
Regent appointing M. Duvivier to be Minister of Finance
ad interim.

Three proposlls were addressed to the Chamber ; the
first, to save time, that a special committee be appointed to
examine the budget of the Minister of War. This was
agreed to, and a Committee of eight Members appointed.
The second was to change that article of the regulations
which requires the presence of one hundred and one Mem.
hers to be necesary, and to fix the number of seventy
as sufficient to enable the Chamber to deliberate.
The third proposal was to take off the export duty on
coals. The two latter were referred to two sections. The
Minister of War having desired to make his report in a
General Committee, the Assembly assented, and formed
itself in a Secret Committee.

BItT:gSEI 4, JUNE 14.--It seems that in the Secret
Committee the note of M. Michiels to the German Diet
was noticed, and that the explanations of the Minister of
War, relative to the army, were discusced.
VIENNA, JUNE 4.—According to accounts from the
frontiers of Gallicia, the bead-quarters'of General Rudiger,
who had crossed the Bug with his corps, were on the 24th
May at Horiczow-Ruski, about four leagues east of
Zatnose. The garrison of that fortress is said to have con-
sisted of 4 500 men before it was reinforced by the troops
brought by General Chrzanowski, after the action at Lu-
bartow, consisting of a brigade of infantry, under Gene-
ral Romarino, one of cavalry, under General Skarzinski,
and some irregular troops. The subsistence of these troops
is attended with great difficulties, as they must live by
requisitions in a country which has been drained in all
directions by the troops of both parties, and is therefore
quite exhausted.
It is said there are 500 sick in the fortress, and that
some cholera patients have been lodged in,an hospital, two
or three wersts from the fortress on the road to Lubava.
Letters from Odessa of the 23.1 of May confirm the
entire suppression of the insurrection in Podolia.
Near Da,cheff the insurgents are said to have had 1,200
killed, besides wounded. The remainder are dispersed
in the Woods. The peasants have everywhere refused to
take part in the insurection,
Accounts from Cracow of the 31st of May, four r.
say,—" We have no farther accounts of the operations of
the two armies announced in the letters from Warsaw, and
which we look for with impa'ience."
The accounts respecting the cholera are more and mere
satisfactory. At Kiele it has greatly abated—has wholly
disappeared in, the places between that town and Cracow,
and the sanitary state of the whole territory of the republic
is excellent.
VIENNA, JUNE 4.—Four per Cent. Metalliques, 71i ;
Bank Shares, 1,052.