The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-30 00:00:00

BRUSSELS, DEC. 23.

The Lyn.r of to-day proposes the following ques-
tions, to which, probably, it will be difficult to re-
ply :—Why has General Belliard gone to Paris in
consequence of a telegraphic order ? Why has
Prince Lieven, one of those who signed the treaty
of the Conference been recalled from London?
Why does not M. Mortemart return to St. Peters-
burgh ? Wherefore is Russia organizing the
100,000 men of her military colonies ? Why has
she increased the duty on English merchandise 12}
per cent. ? Why is she negotiating with Persia ?
Wherefore is the postscript of the Independent,whi eh
announced as certain the ratification of Austria, not
confirmed or contradicted by the illoniteur? Why
did the King of England, in his last speech to Parlia-
ment, make no mention of his own ratification ?
Why does he appear to take the part of Spain and
Portugal against Don Pedro ? Wherefore all this
activity in the dock-yards of Great Britain, where
they have just launched three vessels of 120 guns ?
Why have half of the soldiers dismissed by Austria
been recalled, and the other half been ordered to
hold themselves iii readiness ? Why have they in
Piedmont (when Austria daily gains greater ascen-
dancy) lately raised two regiments of artillery, a
battalion of chasseurs, and a regiment of cavalry ?
Why, if a general disarming is intended, does
Prussia purchase horses, instead of lessening her
number ? Why have this power, and all others,
been negotiating loans ? Why have they allowed
the news received from Frankfort to remain uncon-
tradicted, viz, the refusal of the Czar to ratify the
twenty-seven articles ? Why has the French army
of the north, at one time broken up, resumed, at a
great expense, its original posture on our frontier ?
Why does Government keep us in such complete
ignorance of events which are in preparation, or
already accomplished ? Why the increased interest
which the Tories of both houses seem at present to
take in the cause of the King of Holland ? Where-
fore this coolness towards our revolution, on the
part of the Whigs even, and the insiauatious thrown
out by the Courier, that the wisest plan would he to
allow us to arrange our own differences ? Why
have the greater part of the French Generals left
us ? 'Why is there no further mention of coercive
measures against Holland ? Why are we in such
a violent hurry to contract a burdensome loan ?

BRUSSELS, DEC. 27.

(From the Morning Herald Private Correspondent.)

As 1 anticipated, Luxemburg is in a state of civil
war. The Orangists have made a desperate move-
ment, and unfortunately with success. The Orange
flag is now flying on the greater part of German
Luxemburg. Troops have been ordered into the
province from all quarters, arid probably will be en-
abled in a few days to quell the insurrection. But
will the revolt remain solely where it is ? I much
doubt it. The Dutch are straining every nerve to
create discord, and find too ready partisans. Lem-
burg will probably be the next province to show
demonstrations hostile to the Belgian Government,
and where the contagion will end it is difficult to
solve, and dreadful to contemplate. The Holy Al-
liance will have more blood to answer for, and the
frigid conduct of Lord Palmerston must bring ever-
lasting disgrace on England. Leopold, as you may
naturally suppose, is greatly alarmed ; he can place
no dependence on his troops, and his army has many
traitors in it. In this dilemma he has applied to Sir
Robert Adair and the Charge d'Affaires from
France. Both these despatched yesterday to their
respective Courts couriers. Sir Robert also sent a
messenger with a strong remonstrance to the
Governor of the fortress of Luxemburg. I shall
probably hear more to-night of this unfortunate affair,
and forward the particulars to you in the morning.
I have no doubt but that some deep intrigue is
now carrying on between this country and France.
General Belliard, whom I mentioned in my last had
suddenly gone to Paris, as suddenly made his ap-
pearance in Brussels on Sunday morning last, about
ten o'clock. Immediately on his arrival he went to
the Foreign Office, and remained there three hours;
he then drove to the Palace, and then again to the
Foreign Office. In fact, his horses were not taken
out of the carriage from ten o'clock in the morning
to half-past five in the afternoon. At seven, the
General left suddenly for Paris.
What does all this mean ? Could not a courier
with despatches to the Charge d'Affaires have an-
swered every purpose ? No; the Charge d'Affaires
is a plodding, hard-working man, and Geneial Bel-
liard is the prince of intriguers. If you ask any
one connected with the Court as to the probable
cause of the sudden apparition of the French Am-
bassador, you receive for answer, " Oh ! nothing—
merely the fortresses." This may gull the Belgians;
but they well know that the refusal of Russia, and
its effect both on France and Belgium, caused the
General to come to Brussels personally, to arrange
future operations.
I have seer► letters from St. Petersburgh and Ber-
lin; they positively state that Nicholas refuses to
sign the treaty of London. I know not whether
the juste milieu still advance that the Emperor of
Russia acts with perfect unanimity with the rest of
the Conference, and that the report of his refusal is
a mere stock-jobbing manoeuvre. The letters from
Berlin state the fact positively, and are not written
by private individuals likely to be swayed by every
report, but a member of the Court of Berlin, and
one well informed.

The King is gone to Antwerp for the purpose of
presenting the troops in the garrison with their co-
lours. If lam to judge from outward demonstra-
tions, he is daily increasing in popularity.
It is said that all the French officers now in the
Belgian service are about leaving us for France.

The inhabitants of Folkstone once wrote to
the Member for the ,:ounty, to know what colour he wished
the church to he uhtitewcohed.

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(From the Times.)

The annexed extract of a private letter from New-
castle was received yesterday by a mercantile house
in the city :
" NEWCASTLE, DEC. 27.

" The progress of the cholera is awful ; it appears
to be spreading in every direction. The disease ha%
appeared in various parts of the High Town; but,
with the exception of one female, has, I believe,
been confined to the poorer classes of society. It is
also appearing in the neighbouring villages.
_ .

" T. „ .
he most terrific attack that I believe has oc-
curred in Europe is at Gateshead. Not a single
case occurred there, or anywhere on the south bank
of the Tyne, till the 24th, when there were two
suspicious cases at Gateshead. From one o'clock
on Sunday (Christmas-day) to ten o'clock this day
(4.5 hours), 119 persons have been seized, and 52
have died. This is a greater number than the
official report, which you will see in the paper, but
it is nevertheless correct. The difference arises
from two surgeons not having made their return in
time. The persons attacked are all of the poor and
needy grade, and possibly many may have been pe-
culiarly predisposed by the excesses of Christmas
eve, as a gentleman who lives in Gateshead says he
never saw so many drunken people as on Sunday
last ; but many very sober respectable persons
(although in the lower order) have suffered; and
there is no reason to suppose that during the preva-
lence of so dreadful a scourge any class will be exempt."

(From the Times Correspondent.)

NEWCASTLE, DEC. 27.—Although the town of
Gateshead is separated from Newcastle merely by
the river, across which there is a bridge and con-
stant communication, the cholera did not appear in
Gateshead before Saturday last, unless we admit
the case that occurred there about a fortnight since
to be unequivocal. On Saturday, Elizabeth Thomp-
son, who lived in Pipewell-gate, was seized with
cholera while engaged in her usual avocation of sell-
ing fink upon the bridge. This was the forerunner
of a severe visitation, strongly resembling in its ra-
pidity and power the destructive inroads of the pes-
tilence in India. Not more than one death had
been recorded in Gateshead previous to six o'clock
on Sunday evening; but on Monday morning, at
ten o'clock, 39 cases of attack were announced, and
nine deaths. To-day, 59 cases are reported from
different parts of the parish, and 32 deaths,
making, it may be said, in the short space of two
days, the alarming total of 99 cases, 42 deaths, and
eight recoveries, out of a population of about 12,000.
The sweeping and (in England) unprecedented vio-
lence of the inroad has taken the parish authorities
by surprise. Proper medical aid could not be fur-
nished to one-tenth of the diseased. Even after
death it has been found that the number of the
bodies precluded the possibility of carrying suitable
measures into effect in every instance. Coffins
could not be procured fast enough to permit of in-
terment being performed within a short period after
the hour of death. The chapel yard—a new burial
ground set apart for cholera cases—presented a
pitiable sight. Seventeen persons who had died of
the distemper, were buried during this day. A long
trench, capable of holding twelve coffins two abreast,
had been dug, and while the clergyman was reading
the service this evening over the first two oc-
cupants, four other corpses arrived. Six coffins
were deposited in the trench before six
minutes had expired. One coffin had rather a
remarkable appearance, it was much deeper than
the others, and upon inquiry among the friends of
the deceased respecting:the cause, they stated that the
patient had been doubled up by the cramps, and they
had been unable to make him straight. The burial
service was finished by the dim glare of a lamp, and
the whole scene was certainly calculated to leave a
lasting impression on the mind of an observer. The
cholera has prevailed in families here, as well as in
Sunderland. The misfortune has rendered the me-
mory of one family very remarkable. James Kidd,
a gardener, who had just recovered from a rheumatic
fever, was attacked yesterday with violent symptoms
of cholera, and he died about six o'clock p.m. Be-
fore Kidd had expired, one of his children, aged five
years, was seized, and it died also in the evening.
Kidd's wife was then attacked, arid her mother, and
both expired to-day ;so that four of this family are
interred, or about to be interred, within twenty-four
hours. Moreover, while I was in the hospital at
Oak well-gate to-day, another child of Kidd's, a girl
aged 13 or 14, was carried in, suffering from severe
symptoms.

A well-known Alderman, amusing himself on
Christmas night, playing with others at question and an-
swer, was asked by one of the company—

" When Adam delved, and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman ?"
To which his Worship answered, the Lord of the Manor,
to be sure.

COMETS.—The approaching year, 1832, will
introduce to us one of those extraordinary phenomena,
which, at so recent a period as the middle of the fifteenth
century, had struck civilised Europe with dismay. It
appears that another comet, and the only one whose ele-
ments have been accurately ascertained amongst the 500
which are supposed to belong to our system, will pay to us
in 1835 his periodical visit, after an absence then of '76
years. And what shall render this comet of 1835 still
more remarkable is, that it happens to be that very one
which blazed with a tail of such immense extent in the
year 1456 as it will also in 1835, occupying an arch of
90 degrees in the Heavens, or half the celestial hemis-
phere ; and whose singular appearance at that period, to-
gether with the invasion of Europe by the Saracens, and
the complete destruction of the Constantinopolitan Greek
Empire in Asia, so terrified Christian Princes as to have
caused Pope CALIXUS to issue a form of prayer wherever
both the Turk and the comet had been propitiated.
FATAL ACCIDENT BY THE FALL OF MR.
CANNING'S STATUE.—On Wednesday afternoon a dread-
ful accident occurred at the establishment of Mr. WEST•
MACOTT, the eminent artist and sculptor, in Brewer-street,
Pimlico, by which we are grieved to state Mr. VINCENT
GAIGAN, Mr. WESTMACOTT'S principal assistant, lost his
life. It will be recollected that Mr. W. was employed to
execute the statue of the late Mr. CANNING, which is to
be placed on a pedestal in Palace-yard, Westminster. The
figure, which is of most colossal dimensions, being nearly
twelve feet high, and weighing nearly four tons, is now in
a state of great forwardness. On Wednesday Mr. Gat-
CAN, together with four of his tnen, were at work upon
the cast, which was raised from its base by means of
pullies and a windlass. Mr. G. was in the act of solder.
ing some part of the statue, when the tackle by which it
was secured gave way suddenly, and melancholy to relate,
the immense figure fell upon the unfortunate man, and,
although only two minutes elapsed before the statue was
removed, he was found to be quite dead. Mr. GAIGAN
was a man of talent, and had the management of the busi-
ness for the last 28 years. lie has left a widow and six
children to deplore his untimely death.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—FALL OF A GRA-
rtanY.—On Wednesday afternoon, about half-past four
o'clock, the extensive and lofty premises formerly occu.
pied by Sir Wat. CURTIS and Mr. CLARK, as biscuit-
bakers, 224, High-street, Wapping, the back of which
faces the river, fell down with a most tremendous crash,
to the great terror and alarm of the inhabitants of the
adjoining neighourheod. It appears that Messrs. IRVING
and Baowts, coal-merchants, of Ratcliff Cross, lately
took a lease of the premises, and let the upper part of
them to Mr. GEORGE JACKSON, a corn-factor, for the
purpose of a granary. Various alterations had been
made in the building for the accommodation of both
parties, by Mr. GAGAN, a builder; and Mr. Jontisots
loaded the floors to such an extent with corn, that the
builder was obliged to caution him as to the consequences
which might follow his doing so. He, however, did not
think that he was doing wrong, and continued to load the
floors with the grain. The consequence was, the girders
of the lower floor gave way twice successively, and the
building fell with a tremendous crash. Fortunately a
number of men who had been engaged in shoring up the
girder on its first snapping, and in lowering the corn,
had warning of the second alarm, and narrowly escaped
safe. The shop front of Mr. G. Fox, hair-dresser, 168,
opposite, was forced in by the wall of the granary falling
upon it. Mr. Fox was shaving the Captain of a ship at
tke time, and was knocked down ; the Captain in alarm
rushed into the street with the lather on his face, and was
seriously bruised by some bricks falling on him.—The
damage is estimated at upwards of 3,0001.

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-I`TItE IRISH PENSION LIST.

The first entry in the Irish Civil Li,t, on the
22d of November, 1830, is " representatives of
Charles Hooper and P. Martin, 1771. 11 s. Bd."
dated Dec. 15, 1726, given by Lord Carteret.
This has, however, been since cancelled by pur-
chase, according to the provisions of the original
grant.

Among the subsequent pensioners we find the
representative of Jeremiah Dyson, since June
1770, 8931. 13s. Robert, Diana, and Eliza-
beth Adair, June 1772, 4451. 19s. 4d. Eliza.
beth Sneyd, 1776, 445/. 19s. 4d. And shortly
after (Feb. 19, 1781) we find Catherine Hannah
Sneyd, 266/. 18s. 4d. Lord Aylmer, and
Henry Frederick W. Aylmer, have had, since
1783, 3561.85. Bd. ; making a total, in the forty-
eight years since elapsed, of 17,068/. 16s. in
1787, we find four Ash worths, put on the list
the same day, by the Duke of Rutland, at
the following rates :-Robert Ashworth, for
1,0721. 14s. Bd.; Henrietta Ashworth,
266/.185.4d. ; Frederick Ashworth,266l.lBs.4d•
and Charles Ashworth, 1771. 11s. Bd., a total
annual receipt of 1,8641. 35., and a net receipt
since of the public money to the amount of
88,886/. 155., no inconsiderable sum for one fa-
mily to receive for services which were probably
known to the then Duke of Rutland, although
we have no record of them. Perhaps some of our
Irish contemporaries would throw some light on
the subject, or tell us who these " Ashworths" are,
In June, 1792, in the viceroyalty of the Earl
of Westmorland, we have the names of two
Newenhams (qu. are they of the respectable
Cork family of that name ?) for 265/. 12s. Bd.
annually ; amd the same year Sir George Ste-
phen May, Bart., for 881. Is. ! ! After him
come five Jobbs-namely, Elizabeth, Ross, Eli.
beth (twice one day !), Mary, and Margaret,
with between them 231/. 2s. 4(1. March, 1794,
we find Sir John Blaquiere placed on the list
with 1,072/. 14s. ld.-making a total since re-
ceived of 37,8911.25. Bd.! He is followed by
Robert O'Callaghan Newenham (second time !)
1771. lls. Bd. Two other names, Madame de
Jarnac and Augusta Goddrell, appear the same
day for the same sum-qu. are they of the same
family ?
We have then two entries to the representative
of Lord Mountjoy on the Bth October, 1794,
both making 3601. 14s. 11d.
We make the following selection of names
subsequent to this period (1794), placed on the
list, with the sums given to the pensioners :-
Sir Richard Borough, Bart., 177/. 11s. Bd. ;
then a list of Hamiltons (there is a very rich
family of that name in the county of Dublin
formerly connected with its representation, and
still, though unsuccessfully, contesting it).
Henry (twice), Charlotte Jane (twice also),
Sackville Robert, Arabella Elizabeth, Mary,
and Isabella, with between them 976/. 7s. 8(1. ;
Earl of Cavan (who signs Anti-Reform decla-
rations in Hampshire, no doubt in his capacity
of a landed proprietor, without reference to his
Irish pensions !), 261/. 18s. 4d.; Lord Strang-
ford, 881. ls.; Dame Mary Roche, 177/.lls. Bd.;
Arthur Loftus (qu. of the Ely family ?),
43/. 18s. 4(1. ; Frances Viscountess Allen, July,
1799, has 2681. 18s. 4d.; and same day Wm.
Bellew, 132/, 16s. 4d. ; in the course of a short
time we find these names repeated in the follow-
ing order :-Oct. 1800, Frances Viscountess
Allen, 88/. ls.; Nov. 1801, Dame Mary
Roche, 266/. 18s. 4d. ; same date, Wm. Bellew,
132/. 16s. 4d. ; June, 1800, John Knox gets
535/. 10s.; and December, 1802, an additional
annual income of 1771. lls. Bd.

The next name is John Baron de Blaquiere,
893/. 135., in addition to his former entry,
March, 1794, as Sir John Blaquiere, of 1,0721.
14s. 8(1., making a sum total received from both
up to last payment of 63,706/. 19s. Bd. !
We find afterwards Sir Robert Shore Milnes,
Bart., and Dame Charlotte Mikes, 545/.195. 4d.;
Mary Dowager Viscountess St rangford, 260/. 18s.
4d., no small jointure from the public ; Penelope
Baroness Clarina, 1771. I Is. 8(1. ; Earl of Tyr-
connell (who is also on the English pension-
list to the amount of 600/. Bs. 9d., and both in
the same year, 1813), 445/. 19s. 4d.; Lady
Emily Stratton, of the Aldborough family, who
are all Anti-Reformers, and of the high Orange
party in Ireland, 177/. lls. Bd. ; Wm. Bellew,
a third time ! (lucky Wm. Bellew !) in June,
1813, for 1321. 16s. 4d. ; Sir George Mont-
gomery, Bart., Dec. 1813, by Lord Whitworth,
356/. Bs. Bd.; a note in the margin adds,
" since dead ;" Sept. 1814, Wm. and Lady
Anne Gregory, 4451. 19s. 4d. ; same year, Lady
Elizabeth Mary Baker, 445/. 195.4 d. ; in 1815,
we find Sir C. W. Flint and Dame Anna
Maria Flint, 266/. 18s. 4d. ; Dame Margaret
Foulis, 132/. 16s. 4d. ; October, 1816, we find
Martha Udney (?), 445/. 19s. 4d.
Of Earl Talbot's pensioners, we have Sir
Stewart Bruce, Bart. (the first on the list),
177/. 1 ls.Bd. ; Sir George Rich, 132/. 185.4 d.;
Barbara, Countess of Roscommon, 881. Is.; the
Hon. Caroline Crofton, 141/. 15s. Bd.; Vis-
count Molesworth, 177/. Ils. Bd. ; Lady Maria
Dillon, 43/. 18s. 4d.; Viscount Moles.worth
again 1771. 11s. Bd. July and November, 1820,
William Baron Brandon appears, having each
time 266/. 18s. 4d.-the Noble Lord who is in
the Church holds a very valuable living in Castle
Island, County Kerry. Viscount Montmorres
(a great Brunswicker) takes the petty amount of
431. 18s. 4d.-not a porter's yearly salary !
September 1821, we find Viscount Allen (the
Viscountess having already had two entries since
1792/0 ; 266/. 18s. 4d. ; Marchioness of Head-
fort, 88/. ls. ; the Honourable Harriette Sewell
(?), 881. Is.
Lord Wellesley has left a tolerably long list
during the period of his Viceroyalty, the first in
it being Lord Kinsale, 356/. Bs. Bd. ; we after-
wards find Sir Charles Vernon, 2661. 18s. 4d.,
followed by Anne Baroness Trimlestown (since
dead), 261. 2s. Bd. ; Viscount Mountmorres
(again), 177/. 1 ls. Bd. ; Sir T. Edlyne Tornlins,
and Dame Elizabeth Tomlins, 477/. 1 ls. Bd.;
Lieut.-Col. Meyrick Shawe, 499/. 145.; Sir
Richard Hunter, 177/. lls. Bd. ; Lady Mont-
gomery, 146/. ss. ; Viscount M ountmorres (third
time), 88/. ls. April, 1826, we find one of
the tew rewards at which the public would not
grumble-it is Harriette Maturin, the widow of
the author of Bertram, &c., and the unpromoted
Curate of St. Peter's Dublin, 43/. 18s. 4d. ;
Viscount Kingsland has 192/. ss. Bd. ; Sir It.
Hunter (again), 111/. Os. 4d.; Lady Mont-
gomery (again), and Marian Emily Mont-
gomery, 63/.125.; the children of the late Lord
Gifford, 204/. Os. 6(1. ; the Hon. Geo. Augustus
Frederick Sydney Smythe (what a length of
name), 1041.45.
The Marquis of Anglesea, in his first admi-
nistration, has left five pensioners, among whom
is Sir Joseph de Courcy Laflan, 192/. ss. Bd.
In January, 1829, we find the Marchioness of
Westmeath, 3861. ss. 4d., in the interval be-

tween Lord Anglesea's departure and the
of the Duke of Northumberland.

The latter Nobleman has left eighteen 001
list, among which are Dame*Painela ! Adelaiie
Felicita Henrietta ! Campbell ! !,47/.l2sfi
Lady Arabella M'Leod, the same sum
Cecilia Latouche, 951. 10s. ; and the Esli
Roscommon, 1921. ss. Bd.
The total on the Irish Civil List amounig
51,1551. lls. 6d. annually.