The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-24 00:00:00

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1831.

Owing to a tedious discussion on some resolutions
moved by Mr. R. GORDON, which Mr. J. E
DENISON very properly requested the Hon. Mem-
ber to postpone, and founded on the reports and
evidence of the last Dublin Election Committee,
the House of Commons, notwithstanding it sat till
three o'clock in the merning, broke up w=ithout
making the slightest progress in the Reform 8111.
The great paramount question was compelled to give
way to an unimportant and uninteresting debate on
one of those very nuisances, which it is its chief aim
to abolish. We frankly tell Ministers thiS will never
do. If they desire to be thought sincere by the country
—we ourselves entertain no doubt of their sincerity—
in. their endeavours to obtain Reform, they must act
with far more energy and decision than they have
lately done. They must put their shoulders to the
wheel, and braCe themselves for the mighty task they
hive. been called on to accomplish. There must be
no shilly-shallying—no vacillation—no lukewarm-
ness. They must bear constantly in mind that the
present Parliament was summoned but for one ob-
ject—the passing of the Reform Bill. That in
comparison with this question, ail others sink into
insignificance; and that whatever is suffered to hr
terfere, even in the slightest degree, with its pro-
gress, is doing an injury to the cause, as well as in-
flicting a stigma bn those who support it. Men's
minds just now are strangely agitated on the
question. Distrust is beginning to take the place
of confidence, even in the minds of some of the
staunchest Reformers. They cannot but see that
the measure progresses at a snail's pace : that every
little insignificant matter is allowed to impede its
advance; and that one of its leading principles has
been broken in upon by the projected divisions of
countiel. Even the number of hours allowed for

its discussion during the week, though nominally,
are not in reality, extended ; for what is gained on
Saturday is lost on Monday, when other matters than
those connected with Reform, occupy the attention of
the House. We are sorry that Lord ALTHORP has not
adhered to his original intention, announced in the
early part of the session, of bringing on the Bill
.punctually every evening at five o'clock. Had he
persisted in this determination, it would now have
past into the Lords; as it is, it is scarcely out of its
'.teens in the Conimons. Night after night, for a fort-
night. or three weeks past, has the time of the House
been wasted in listening to the twaddle of Hon. Mem-
hers on matters of no earthly importance ; while the
Reform Bill—to pass which, and nothing else, the pre-
sent Parliament was expressly returned—has been de-
layed till nine, ten, eleven, mad sometimes even twelve
o'clock. If Ministers expect by this exceeding show of
courtesy and conciliation to please the Opposition,
they ‘A ill find themselves most egregiously deceived.
Nothing will conciliate the Tories but the resigns.

tion of Government, and the abandonment of the
Bill, and even this will not conciliate them, it will
only provoke their contempt. For their own sakes
then, as Men, as statesmen, as Englishmen, as well
as for the sake of the country which has made
such noble efforts to procure them a triumphant
majority, we conjure Ministers to lay aside all
further lethargy ; to put on a bold front ; and
carry the Bill promptly, unhesitatingly, and uninter-
ruptedly through Committee. The country, we can
assure them, is becoming most keenly sensitive on the
subject. Already the great Northern Unions are
stirring. Numerous public meetings, too, are an-
nounced in the West of England ; arid the Live' y Of
London is on the eve of expressing its opinion on
the subject of that fatal clause, the division of
counties into diAricts, when we doubt not the ap-

parent supineness of Ministers will also be taken
into consideration.

The French Papers contain little or no news of
importance. The Messager des Chambres contains
an article on the subject of the French occupation of
Belgium, wholly of a pacific, conciliatory character,
stating that no self-love can make the French nation
desire a prolongation of their stay in Belgium be-
yond the necessary time, and that, if they should
remain there, their " reasons will be such, that
their propriety will be evident to all the world."

The following are erracts from Dutch and
German Papers, received this day :

THE HAGUE, AUG. 21.
" TO THE KING.

" Head_quarte►s Eindhoven, Aug. 20.

" I have the honour to inform your Majesty that yes-
terday, the 19th, I fixed my head quarters here. Your
Majesty's troops have to-day all returned into North Bra-
bant, and to-morrow, the 21st, they will again go into
their cantonments in the following manner :
" The Ist division to have its head-quarters at Breda,
and occupy the villages and plains in the. environs.
" The 2d division, head-quarters at Aerschot.
4‘ The 3d division, head-quarters at Eindhoven.
" The Ist brigade of cavalry is at Oesterhou., the 2d
at EindtioycT and the environs.
" The division of infaß4y, under Lieutenant-General
Count Heyligers, to be at St:Oedenrode and thy environs.
" I think to fix my own head-quarters at Tilburg.
" I flatter myself that your Majesty will be pleased to
hear that I yesterday received a report from Lieutenant-
General Yan Geen, from Turnhout, stating that he there
met an Aide-de-camp of Marshal Gerard, accompanied by
a 11elgin Officer, to whom the jlarsbal had given instruc-
tions to take care that, in case there shouldbe
any Belgian
troops in the neighbonrhood, they should be removed to a
proper distance front your Majesty's troops, andto pre-
vent all possible collipion between our troops and theirs.
" I consider this as a new proof of the ;Ltrshare amic-
able intentions with, respect to us.
" The..Commander-in-Chief,
" WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE."

"ORDER. OF THE DAY. ---
ft Head-quarters, Eindhoven, Aug. 20,.1831.
" Cen the return of the Netherlands army to the posi-
tions Which it occupied on the Ist of August, I must again
express my gratitude for the readiness and accuracy with
which all my dispositions and'orders have been executed.
I must repeat my thanks for the• steadfast zeal with
which Lardships and privations have been borne in
this short but fatiguing cawpagn.
The King,'all•the Netherlands, and even foreign court-
tries, do justice to the noble zeal and virtuous feelings which
have shed new lustre on the ancient Dutch name:

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