The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-21 00:00:00

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1831.

This forenoon, at eleven o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign Office, which
was attended 1;y Earl GREY, Lord DURHAM,
Lord MELBOURNE, Viscount GODERICH, and
other Cabinet Ministers. The Council remained
in deliberation for a considerable time.

The Reform Bill wai again discussed in Com-
mittee last night in the House of Commons,
when those intolerable borough nuisances, Great
Bedwin, Beeralston, Bishop's Castle, Bletch-
ingley, Boroughbridge, Bossiney, Bracklev,
Bramber, Callington, Camelford, Castle Rising,
and Cork Castle, were severally strangled—not
without a groan, but—without a division. This
looks something like business ; still there is
abundant room for improvement, of which Mi-
nisters must take every opportunity of availing
themselves. Why do they not resolve to sit on
Saturday ? In a question of paramount impor-
tance like Reform every minor consideration
should give way ; and idleness and etiquette
be not for a moment dreamed of. If the Oppo-
sition thought that by sitting on Saturday they
could thwart or cripple the Bill, they would not
hesitate to do so for an instant ; shall those
then who support, be more lukewarm than
those who oppose, Reform ? We are convinced
that ere a few days have elapsed, Lord A LTIIO RP
will be compelled to have recourse to the Hon.
Member for Westminster's suggestion, other-
wise there will be no end to discussion. The
only thing in favour of a quick progress of the
Bill through Committee is the near approach of
the shooting season. This is an absolute God-
send, and will no doubt be the means of modera-
ting the enthusiasm of many of those country
gentlemen who now pique themselves on their
power to procrastinate the passing of the Bill
through Committee. We intreat them then as
they value their preserves and hold poachers in
abhorrence, to drop their hostility to Reform, or,
if they must oppose, to do so with rapidity, and
then hurry down to reap the reward of their pa-
triotism, in the enjoyment of those most intellec-
tual of pastimes, field sports. They are more fitted
fbr them than for politics, and their own speeches
in Parliament will furnish them with abundant
wadding. To Colonel SIBTHORPE we parti-
cularly recommend this application of his Par-
liamentary harangues.

The Courier of Brussels says that an Eng-
lishman, who arrived in that city on the 18th
from the Hague, affirms that King WILLIAM,
yielding to the representations of M. DE WES-
SENBERG, has acceded to the If 3 articles of the
preliminaries of peace. With regard to his MA-
JESTY'S acceptance of the articles, we have
merely to say that, for his :own satisfaction, the
sooner he accepts them the better :

BRUSSELS, JULY N.—Yesterday there were only 99
Members of the Congress present. As this number is
not sufficient to deliberate, it adjourned till to-day, at
noon. At ten o'clock the sections are to examine a pro-
posed decree for a provisional Budget, presented by the
Minister of Finance. A programme for the ceremonial of
Thursday was read.
Chance often brings about strange analogies. It was
on Thursday, July 21, 1803, that the First Consul made
his entry into Brussels, with Josephine, by the Lacken
gate, which received the name of the Napoleon gate.
General Ticken de. Terhove has just written to the Mi-
nister of War, for an increase of force to the army of the
Scheldte, as the enemy's troops are twice as numerous as his,
and he would be unable to repel an attack if it should
take place; we are told that the Minister of War has an-
swered, that lie would send troops as soon as he had any
that he could dispose of.
Messrs. d'Aerschot, 11. Vilain XIV., J. V. de Van der
Weyer, Co,ipin, Vanderlinden, and Ilouffe, are appointed
to arrange the ceremonial of the reception and inauguration
of the King, and to regulate provisionally his Majesty's
household.

General Have de Steenhuyze will he first Aide-de-Camp
to the King, and we are informed that it will be his
business to present all requests and applications made to
the King 'by the officers of the army.

SITTING OF THE CONGRESS.-JuLY IS..

BRUSSELS, JULY 19.
At the instance of the Minister of Justice, a Committee
was appointed to examine a plan for preventing the in-
troduction of the cholera morbus.

Another Committee was appointed to examine a project
of law, presented by M. Raikin, on the Jury and the free-
dom of the Preto.

Another Committee was appointed to examine °
a
props_
sal of M. Vander Hove, to engrave a medal in -commemo-
rationrp-
of the Regency of M. S. w. Chokier.
A discussion arose, on the proposal for three months
ere lit made by the Government. The Central Section
proposed a project . of s decree, the dcwe of
which
was adjourned ti!! the evening sitting. Objections were
usade b some members to various articles of the expendi-
ture of the several departments. On the proposal of M.
Ch. Brouckere, a Gunmittee was appointed to negociate
the accounts of the different departments.
The plan proposed by the Committee for preventing the
introduction of the cholera was adopted. The pro-
gramme of the inauguration is published. The King will
leave the Palace of Lacken at eleven o'clock, escorted by the
cavalry of the civic guard ; at the gate of the city he will
be received by the civil and military authorities, detach-
ments of troops, the Deputies of the Regent, a deputation
of the Congress, Ike.
On arriving at the platform the King will alight, and
be received by a deputation of the Congress.
The President of the Congress will declare the sitting
to be opened, and will call on the Regent to speak. The
Constitution will b.. read.
The King will take the oath, which shall be announced
by 101 guns, music, and the ringing of all the bells.
The King will take his seat on the throne.
There will then be a procession to the Palace, to whicl.
his Majesty will be accompanied by the troops, the
citizens wounded in September, the civic authorities, the
i\lembcrs of the several tribunals, and the National Con-
gress.
After the entrance of the King and the constituted an.