The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Morning Herald.)
We have just received the Gazette de France
and Messager des Chambres of yesterday, and the
whole of the Papers of Tuesday; together %%ith
letter from our correspondent

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The complication of the Belgic question has re-
newed the apprehension of war, which, on the as-
surance of the President of the Council, had begun
to subside. 'We still remain, nevertheless, of M.
Lafitte's opinion—that the continuance of peace is
much more probable than the recurrence of war.
The Gazette d' Augsburg, on the 13th inst.,
states, on the authority of letters from St. Peters•
burgh, that the Emperor received the Polish
Deputies very drily, referred them to his Manifesto,
and said "he would allow Poland until the Ist of
March to reflect on its contents."

Letters from Madrid, of the 6th instant, men-
tion that a rupture between France and Spain is
almost unavoidable; but what is most singular that
rupture will be brought about by the Ailostolical
party, whose warlike dispositions the King can
with difficulty repress. The preparations made by
Spain required an explanation, but it would appear
that the answer obtained is of an unsatisfactory na-
ture. The party that now directs Ferdinand is
leading him to hit ruin.

The Chamber of Deputies has been occupied
this day in discussing the law respecting the Sick-
ing Fund.

BOURSE, HALF-PAST FM:R.—The only reports
here circulated are the commencement of hostilities
between the French and Spaniards; the sail.ng of
an expedition of 6,000 men from Terceira for Lis-
bon; and the departure of the British Consul from
that city.

The Funds have undergone a slight but not a
decided improvement.
The Gatetta Polska of the sth inst. states that
the Grand Duke Constantine wished to dissolve the
corps of the army under the command of General
Rosen, which, however, refused to submit. An en-
gagement, in consequence, took place between them
and General Pahlen, in which the Lithuanian army
lost 4,000 men and the Russian troops 8,000.
The Lithuanian army subsequently hoisted the
white cockade (the national colour of Poland).

INUENCH FONDS.--PARIS, JAN. 18.-Five per Cents.
9Sf. 40c. 30e. 2.5 e. 20c. 30c. 40e. 35c. 40c. 30c. 25e.
20e. 30c. 35c. 40e. 50c. ; Three per Cents, 61f. 25c.
35c. 30c. 23c. 40c. 50c. ; Bank Stock, 1,510 f. 1,515 f.
1,5101. ; Rente de Naples, 63f. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 14/
15 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 604 i; Rentes Perpctuelle
d'Espagne, 45i 46 46i 46 4641 ; Ilaytian Loan, 335 f.
Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 15c. ; three
months, paper, 2M. sc.

BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON of Sunday,
January the 23d, will contain the best account of the
fight between Nan NEAL and YouNG DUTCH SAM;
with accurate portraits of both men.—Price of Belt's
Life in London only Sevenpence.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—The Scotsman of
Saturday states, that a most destructive fire occurred this
amsrning at the Low Calton, by a woman, residing in the
front land, inconsiderately pushing a candle under the bed,
which ignitated some loose straw. The flames spread
with great rapidity, and, notwithstanding every exertion
was made to repress them, the two lands were entirely
destroyed. By this calamity twelve families have lost
their all and been rendered houseless. A gentleman,
named BRAIDwOOD, was seriously injured by a floor giving
way while he was engaged in endeavouring to subdue the
flames.

On Sunday morning, about five o'clock, the
inhabitants in Round Tower-street, Dover, were alarmed by
the report of what they considered to he the discharge of
a 24-pounder, and on rising from their beds a canister
was discovered, which, no doubt, had been filled with gun-
powder, and exploded, blowing away one of the window-
shutters, and breaking a number of panes in the house of
Mr. RICHAAL EVANS. Upon hearing the explosion the
watchman on the beat was upon the alert, and observing
a man, genteelly dressed, hurrying from the direction of
the noise, he gave chase, and upon coming up caught hold
of his cloak, which was left in the watchman's hands, and
the person succeeded in making his escape. This is the
third or fourth outrage of this sort that has been committed
in the same part of the town, without the offender being
disesvered.—Kentish Gazelle.

On Thursday evening a youth of eighteen
years of age, son of a grocer, a respectable inhabitant of
Deptford, eloped with the wile of a gentleman, who,
short time since, held a situation in the establishment of a
a
ship-builder. The lady who possesses an income of eighty
pounds per annum, is about forty-four years of age. The
husband, about eighteen months ago, was obliged to give
up his situation, in consequence of having been afflicted
with a complaint in his head, which deprived him of
sight. His family consists of six children. The husband,
through the medium of his friends, subsequently ascer-
tained that the parties left the town in a hackney-coach,
and were seen walking together in the Old Kent-roa,:. on
the following morning ; but no further trace can be ob-
tained of them. The friends of the youth have resided
in the town many years, and he is an only aon.--Kentisk
Chronicle,

itioicS OF STOCKS THIS
Bank stock
3 per Cent. hed. Blli3A
3 per Cent C0n5....,....R1 1,4 80%
3',4 per b 90%
Data Red. • 9117i%
NeW i per cent. NI 90
Mr Cent. Ann. 1726
per Cent.•lB26 •• 99% y,
Bank • ong Inn. to exP'.re
Jan. 5, leq) 1714
Pck, 10, 1559 I7N
•Jah. 5, 16601. ....... ....16 15-16
Jan. 5, 1860
Aprils, 1880
Jan. 5,

DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
New 5 rei• rent.
India tuck
itto Bonds ' 12ptrt.
South Sea Stock 90%
Old Annuities ..... .
New Ditto
3 ter Cent. Ann. 1751
Ex. Bills, £1,041 3.2 2 pm.
Ditto .... ." .....501' 33 28 pm,
Ditto Amal I 33 0 pm.
Ditto Commercial pm.
Ditto Adze?. Lei pm.
Sank fisr Account
India for Account
Cons. for Feb. t.,5 Bl 16 scv?i

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT OKI 0%.:1:0'clIC.
A tlArian Bonds -INeapolitathw .. ...
Brazilian Bonds 544 ,PettlVian Bonds ....- -
-- .... - Buenos Ayres Bonds • 2.* I Portuguese Bonds •• - 2-
than Bonds -s - !Prussian, Old Colombian Benda - ,Ditto, New 94 5 •.-• -
Ditto, 111'94 - 'Russitt • 91%
Oanisn ' 59% !4 Spanish, 'WI 16%N
Greek 80nd5...-. .......... ....., ;•,... -- 1823. 121 i
Ditto, 1825 ,..,...... - French Reines, sp. c. SOL 50c•
Guatimala. - '--- Exchange ..... 25f. 31..
Mexican Bonds
---- 3 per cent. yit.... es c.
Ditto, IMS
-.----- Exchanapt,..... •-sf. 3°e•••
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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENTNO, JANUARY 20, 1831.

ARREST OF MR. O'CONNELL.

Mr. O'CONNELL, as will be seen in another
part of our Paper, has at length been arrested.

This energetic proceeding on the pan of Lord
ANGLESEA'S Governn►ent, though it will neces-
sarily occasion vonsiderable stir in Ireland, will
at lead have this good effect, that it will bind

down Mr. O'CONNELL to silence, and prevent
him from keeping the public mind in a state of
constant agitation by his showy) inflammatory,
but superficial harangues. If this Gentleman
really wished well to Ireland he would have
allowed the present Government) who have
come into office avowedly pledged to ame-
liorate the condition of that country, time
to mature their plans before he commenced
his wholesale attacks upon them. By
his present plan of proceeding he is condemning
them unheard. He allows them no breathing-
time—concedes nothing to the difficulty of their

osition—nothing to their promise to introduce
economy and retrenchment into every depart-
ment of ►the Government—nothing to their
solertm pledge, a hundred and a hundred times
repeated, both publicly and in private, to reform
the present corrupt state of the Representation,
and thereby, as an immediate and inevitable
result, lighten Ireland of the majority of those
burdens which now bow her to the ground—
Mr. O'CoNNELL makes none of these
allowances, but prejudges Government, col.
lectively and individually, with a precipita-
tion which would be ludicrous were it not the
forerunner of such fearful consequences.—
He attacks the Whigs, we perceive. Has he
not been fighting alongside this party, God knows
how long, first in their battles for Emancipation,
secondly, in those for Reform and Retrench-
ment ? Has not the majority of their lead-
ing public tenets been his also, as regards
both their domestic and foreign policy ? What
then occasions his present distrust—nay, his
avowed uncompromising disgust for them ?
Have they deserted their colours ? Have they
promised for Ireland that which they intend not
to perform ? No ; but Mr. O'CoNNELL's popu-
larity is endangered, by the probability of the
Whigs taking from him all cause for agitation—
all cause for discontent, as respects Ireland—and
he offers up his consistency on the altar of his
ambition. He well knows that Reform once
carried—and these are the sole terms on which
the present Government retains office—lreland
would be at once relieved, and the trade of
agitation be taken altogether out of his hands.
The great mob Orator, to whom the public voice
has been meat and drink for the last thirty
years, cannot submit to this—cannot exist on
humbler or less-seasoned aliment. Hence the
secret of his present proceedings. He scouts
the idea of separation from England, too, as a
notion fitted only for fools Whence, then, his
studied allusions to England and every thing
English, as totally foreign to Ireland ? What is the
meaning—for we suppose he has some meaning—
of his eternal phrase, " foreigners, Saxons,
strangers," as applied to Englishmen ? Why
endeavour to implant in the bosoms of the Irish
nation the insidious principle that they are, and
must be, foreigners in interest—foreigners in
habits—foreigners to every thing English ? If
the people are foreigners so must the KING be,
and yet Mr, 0 CoNNELL abuses the one,
‘'hile he is loud in his praises of the other !
Probably he is equally sincere to both parties.

Of one fact he yet remains to be reminded.
The ground on which he is treading is (Nog.
rous : it is wholly undermined ; and he is stand-
ing right above the mine. Fire the train, and
he will be the very first. to be blown up. The
English KlNG—the English Government—
the English nation are all equally bent on main-
taining the Legislative Union between the two
countries, at the same time that they are all
equally bent on seeing justice—a rightful, libe-
ral, constitutional meed of justice—awarded to
Ireland.

It will be seen by Brussels Papers that the
Representatives of the Five Great Powers at
London have decided that the navigation
of the Scheldt shall be free from and after the
20th of January (this day)—and that the Bel-
gians shall refrain from hostilities. If the King
of HOLLAND 15 refractory with respect to
the Scheldt, the Great Powers will consider
such conduct as a declaration 91. war against
then:, and will act accordingly ! This will bring
his Dutch Mightiness to his senses. The same
• conduct will be observed to the Belgians, who

seem to take umbrage at the great Towers, and
refuge tb accede.
this we think very unwise on their part, but
a little reflection will bring the Belgians to their
senses. What do they mean by arming
and calling for the sympathy of
nations, when all the nations of Europe are
already against them in this particular ? Thi
thing is ridiculous! But they set their
error, and hasten to correct it. At present
they are doi'ng• their own sacred cause injustice