The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From tie Journal des Debals of Wednesday.)
When, after the victories of Grochow and Iganie, the
Polish army returned to its cantonment, inflicted with the
plague which for two years has ravaged the provinces of
Russia, there was from one end of Europe to the other a
cry of pity for the lot of unhappy but admirable Poland.
All hope was extinct for a moment in our hearts, for we
had never set down the cholera in the list of the military
resources of Russia.
There was a happy opportunity fur the neighbouring
Powers to interfere. Austria and Prussia ought to have
raised their voices against the spread of the contagion,
though they have been dumb against the infraction of the
most sacred treaties. They are now receiving the reward
of their remissness. In the three circles of Gallicia 8,000
victims have perished within a few weeks, and at Vienna
and Berlin they do not consider themselves safe. Some-
thing must be done, and peace between the Poles and Rus-
sians must be obtained at all events.
Austria at least has not supplied the Russian army with
provisions, ammunition, and boats; but the same cannot
be said of Prussia, for without the aid of her factors,
without supplies from her provinces, would it have been
possible for Marshal Diebitsch to have occupied the pala-
tinate of Plock and planned the crossing of the Vistula at
a time when all his communications with the empire were
intercepted by the expeditions under Gielgud and (Ira-
powaki ? Who will bear in mind that the King of
Prussia is father-in-law to the Emperor Nicholas, when
the march of misfortune shall extend towards Berlin, as it
continues now upon Vienna ? These are family ties too
intimate for the people.
The contagion must be checked at any tcrifice, and,
for effecting that object, war must cease upon the Vistula.
If those Powers who were bound, from their geographical
positions, to have insured this event, have failed in doing
so, there are others who will shortly have to combat the
same risks, and maintain the same responsibility. We
feel no doubt that they are sufficiently aware of its extent.
France has condemned the propaganda of principles,
but, we hope that her efforts to check it will not be met
by the propaganda of contagions.
(From Le Temps of Wednesday.)
It appears that some traces of the Duchess of Berri have
at last been discovered. She is now on the road to Naples.
Some think that her Royal Highness was proceeding to
Vienna, but that diplomatic reasons have induced her to
abandon that intention for the present.
The following is a recapitulation of the electoral re-
turns:—

Out of 460 Deputies to he elected, the number of
nominations at present known amounts to 445
Former Deputies re-elected 242
Deputies who formed a portion of the 221.
Number of Deputies supposed to belong to the Op-
position

126

Telegraphs are being constructed ut the office of the
Minister of War, and are made on such a plan that they
can be worked during either the night or day.

Those who had received the decoration of the Cross and
medal of July met yesterday evening in the large room of
Vauxhall, on the Boulevard St. Martin. Nearly 3,000
persons were present. A report was read from the Com-
mittee appointed to receive and forward the petitions of
those citizens who consider that they have been passed
over by the National Committee of recompenses; and it
has been declared that more than 900 citizens have been
neglected or deprived of their share of the rewards, and it
has been agreed that a single decoration (the Cross) ought
to be c.nferred on each of the combatants. A petition to
this effect has been drawn up, to be presented to the
Chamber of Deputies.
(From the Quotidienne of Wednesday.)
_ _ _

Letters from London state that the King of England
was so impatient to know the result of the first discussion
upon the Reform Bill, that the Chambeilain had orders
to announce it to his 111.rjesty the moment it was known.
It is said that the messenger who conveyed the intelli-
gence to Windsor received a present of 1001., and that
the King, on hearing of this favourable result, observed,
" May the House of Lords understand the duty they have
to fulfil."

(From the Journal du Commerce of Wednesday.)
MENTz, JULY 3.—lt has been reported, since the arri-
val of a courier of the Field-Marshal who commands this
place, that Austria, England, and France, had entered into
a treaty to secure the independence of Poland, and give
her a Government similar to that of Belgium.
(From the National of Wednesday.)
ST. PETEftSBURGIT, JUNE 25.—The Emperor has or-
dered Prince Gregoriewitsch, Governor of Minor Russia,
to raise among the Cossacks of that province eight regi-
ments of light cavalry, and send them off to the army of
reserve, commanded by Count Tolstoi.
(From the Constitutionnel of Wednesday.)

PARIS.
The following news arrived yesterday, by the telegraph,
at the War Department :—" The Lisbon Gazette of the
29th of June announces that a ship of the line and seve-
ral smaller vessels have joined the French blockading
squadron. It is not probable that the ship is that com-
manded by Admiral Hugon, for our Toulon correspondent
informs us that westerly winds have prevailed in the Me-
diterranean for upwards of twenty days, and that the pro-
gress of the squadron must bare been of course delayed.
The ship perceived from Lisbon is no doubt the one
which sailed from Brest under Rear-Admiral Roussin's
orders, and which was not to proceed immediately to the
Tagus. The vessels of a smaller size are either belonging
to the station, or vessels arriving from the Azores."
(From the Journal des Commerce of Wednesday.)
PARIS, JULY 12.—Two pieces of cannon, intended for
the National Guard of Evreux, passing to-day by the
barrier, were perceived by the National Guard, and the
driver not being able to gives satisfactory account of their
destination, a report was spread that they were intended
for La Vendee, whither they were to be conveyed clan•
destinely. A considerable crowd soon collected, and ap-
peared much irritated. The cannon were,
therefore, con-
veyed to the Custom-house, rue d'Enghien. This fact
spews the vigilance of the citizens ; it must prove to the
partisans of the dethroned dynasty, that they are wrong in
depending upon popular sympathy. The Boussole, a
journal of Lille, of the legitimate party, has, under the
head of a letter from Paris, of the 9th—" A letter from
Nice sass that the Duchess of Berri is in that city, where
she arrived on the 3d of this month."

The Journal du Havre says—" A great number of
five-franc pieces, hearing the effigy of Henry V., are al-
ready in circulation at Rome. These seditious medals,
which are highly valued by the legitimates of the country,
are sold at ten francs to the most zealous ; the speculators,
attracted by a profit of one hundred per cent., intend, it
is said, to procure some, and to have some manufactured
on their own account, in case the genuine pieces should
become tcarce."

The following has appeared as an advertise.
ment in the Birmingham and Stafford Papers:—
TO THE VENERABLE_TyE ARCHDEACON OF

STAFFORD.

We, the undersigned, being Clergy in your Arch-
deaconry and the several Peculiars within the county of
Stafford, do hereby request you to convene a meeting of
the said Clergy, for the purpose of petitioning the Legis-
lature against the pernicious effects of a late Act of Par.
liament, commonly called the Beer Act, at your earliest
convenience:—
W. E. Coldwell, Rector of Stafford.
Francis Blick, Vicar of Tamworth.
Clement Leigh, Rector of Newcastle.
T. H. Heathcote, Vicar of Leek.
Edward Whieldon, Rector of Burslem.
Henry Moor, Vicar of Eccleshall.
Clement F. Broughton, Vicar of Uttoxeter.
John Sneyd.
Henry Sneyd, Curate of Stone.
Robert Anlezark, Minister of Castle Church.
John Peploe Mosley, Rector of Itolleston.
George Robinson, Vicar of Tutbury.
William Bird, Perpetual Curate of Stretton.
J. C. Stafford, Perpetual Curate of Penkridge.
Charles Smith Royds, Curate of Haughton.
M. Kemsey, Perpetual Curate of Codsall.
Edward Whitby, Rector of Creswell.
I. Temple, Beneficed Curate of Lane End.
Stafford, June 30, 1831.
In compliance with the above Requisition, I appoint a
meeting of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry, to be held in
the Chancel of St. Mary's Church, Stafford, on Monday,
the 18th of July inst. at twelve o'clock at noon.
GEORGE HODSON,
Archdeacon of Stafford.

England contains 10,000 leagues of roads,
1,500 leagues of canals, and 1,200 leagues of rail-roads.
The territory of France is twice more extensive than that
of England, and has only 1,500 leagues of roads, 500
leagues of canals, and 40 leagues of railroads.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1831.

DEPARTURE OF KING LEOPOLD FOR BELGIUM.

This morning, at seven o'clock precisely,
Prince LEOPOLD, King of Belgium, left Marl-
borough House in a travelling carriage and four,
to proceed to take possession of his new king-
dom. His MAJESTY will embark on board the
Salamander packet, for Calais, where he will
remain for the night. His MAJESTY'S horses
and carriages were shipped this morning on
board one of the Calais packets off the Custom-
house.

A Supplement to the Gazette of last night
contains a Proclamation relative to the Corona-

tion on the Bth of September next, in Westmins-
ter Abbey, dispensing with the procession and
with the services and attendance of all persons
who, by ancient custom and usage, or in regard
of tenures, claim and are bound to perform ser-
vices at the time of the Coronation. There is
a reservation with respect to the rights and pre-
rogatives of future Sovereigns, and the rights of
subjects to claim to perform services at future
Coronations. The part of the ceremonial which
usually takes place in Westminster Hall is to
be omitted, and the whole is to be confined to
the solemnity and ceremony usual upon the Co-
ronation solemnized in Westminster Abbey.
There is to be no show nor expence ; every thing
is to be conducted with a due regard to economy,
wholly divested of the mummery and show which
added so much to the extravagance, but nothing
to the effective splendour of the last Corona-
tion. The days of patronage have now gone
by in Parliament, and with them the days of
needless " pageantry" at Court. We heard it
said that upon this occasion there will be a batch
of Peers made, amounting to about twenty, who
will add to the friends of Reform and Consti-
tutional Monarchy in the House of Lords. To
this elevation the Ultras can have no reasonable
objection, for it is usual to make Coronation
Peers—a practice in which they have themselves
largely dealt.

The Reform Committee resumed their la-
bours last night, on which occasion the factious
Opposition were again at their old work. Mi-
nisters, however, of course triumphed. These
last have, we conceive, shown infinitely too great
forbearance towards their opponents. Having the
KING, the country, together with justice and
common sense on their side, they should take
up a bolder position—assume a loftier tone—
enter into no compromise, but carry forward their
measure in a more peremptory manner, and
with as little
.delay as possible. If the Bill
proceeds no quicker through Committee
than it has hitherto done, months may
elapse before it reaches the House of Lords.
Ministers, we repeat, should be prompt—deci-
sive, and the Reformers regular in their attend-
ance, or the Bill may yet be defeated. TOe
names of the Ministerial Members who are
absent on divisions, should also be, day by day,
reported, that the country may learn to distin-
guish between the slothful and the zealous friends
of the measure. Sir A. AGNEw's absurd amend-
ment was ably answered by the LORD ADVO-
CATE, and lost by a majority in favour of Mi-
nisters of 111.

The cholera morbus is again spreading with
fearful rapidity and virulence. The accounts
from Cracow state that it has broken out there
with great violence, and the wonder is how Ber-
lin has hitherto escaped, after the open manner
in which Prussia has aided the Russians.
The news from Constantinople seems to in-
dicate that the Sultan is on the eve of making
some important change. We wish he would
take advantage of the present state of affairs and
declare war against Russia. Such a proceeding
would be very popular, and would besides be
of great service to the Poles, on whose assist-
ance he might hereafter rely against the attacks
of Russia :

VIENNA, JULY 4.—Accounts from Cracow received
yesterday, announce that the cholera has broken out there
with great violence, so that in the first day out of sixty-
eight persons seized with the disorder, forty-eight
died. The accounts from Lemberg are also very melan-
choly; the number of new cases increased by a hundred,
and above half the cases were fatal. Symptoms of cholera
have appeared also in Rzeszow and Larcut. The report
that it has appeared in sotne counties of Hungary border-
ing on the Carpathian mountains, happily proves to be un-
founded.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 10.—For some days past we
have been under great apprehensions that the tranquillity
of this city may be soon disturbed. The Sultan left the
capital on the 2d of this saionth, only as it was said tie-
the fleet to the Dardanelles. But the measures
il:ee
PahnaYnvig
e been taken are of such a nature that even
n
thecitti'llaint reports in circulation are unfounded, we may
expect h
long. He has invested the Caimacan with extraordinary
powers,
the most powerful of the great men here, as well
owers, and has taken with him the sons of man)
tt
,thethat the absence sewn
which
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is hitherto Sultano a circumstance
‘ be
of as
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empire, '
quite unparalleled in the Ottoman history in the time of
peace. But what excited the greatest apprehension is the
measures taken by the Dewlet Naieri (Director of the
Police). This officer, immediately after the Sultan's de...
parture, issued a proclamation, by which all public festi-
vities, the meeting of more than three persons in places of
public resort, &c. are forbidden till farther notice,and
every inhabitant is exhorted to be at home by sun-set. To
this is added the report generally spread yesterday that the
Sultan had landed at Rodosto, and was about to proceed to
the army at Adrianople, and that the fleet had not passed
the Dardanelles, but had anchored in the Sea of Marmora.
These eireumstatices in some degree justify the conjecture

that the active Sultan intends to carry into effect grew'
plans of reform, particularly the long reported pro-
ject of seizing the estates and revenues of the Mosques
and the !ileums for the use of the State. On this
supposition, that such of the great men whom the Sultan
has taken with him are considered as hostages for the pre-
servation of tranquillity, and it is believed that he is going
to Adrianople in order, in case of an insurrection, to b.
able to act against the capital on one side with the army,
and on the other with the fleet, on which be can depend.
The plague has now broken out at Smyrna. Our Go-
vernment, n receiving information of this fact, has or-
dered that all vessels coming from the Archipelago shall
perform six days' quarantine at St. Stephano.
According to the latest accounts received here, the
Grand Vizier was at Ochrida, and Izzet Pacha was or-
dered to Scutari, to besiege Mustapha Pacha. The aqua
dron sent to blockade the coast of Albania had arrived at
Durazzo.
BRODY, JUNE 20.—The cholera has almost entire!)
left us; we were well acquainted with the disorder, bs
what we had heard and learnt from the neighbouring
Russian provinces. The poorer classes have suffered from
it. Those who lived temperately, but had a sufficiency o'
good food, were dressed in warm clothing, and in clean
airy rooms, were quite secure from the disorder—at least
there are are very few instances to the contrary—and it
the times had been better, we should so far have relied o❑
this certainty 'that we should have abated very little of
our commercial activity.
VIENNA, JULY 4.—Four per Cent. Metalliques, 671 ;
Bank Shares, 986.

We learn from a series of resolutions passed
at a late meeting of the Irish Distress Commit-
tee, that, notwithstanding the liberal public sub-
scriptions entered into for the relief of 291,000
individuals now in a state of absolute starvation
in the West of Ireland-12,0001. are yet want-
ing to make up the amount necessary for the
support of those wretched beings. " For this
sum," say the Committee, " there seems to be
leo provision, except in the continued bounty
of the public, or in the interposition of
his Majesty's Government." Such being the
case, and so urgent the necessity, we con-
ceive it our bounden duty most respect-
fully to appeal to the charitab'e disposition
of the Irish Protestant Bishops and Pluralists;
to intreat them to come forward at this season of
calamity ; and from their own well-lined pockets
to make up the sum required for the relief of
their starving countrymen. Most anxiously, day
by day, have we consulted the list of public sub-
scriptions for the destitute Irish, in the hope of
seeing there the names of the wealthier members
of the Protestant establishment, but scarcely one
have we yet seen. The late Bishop of DERRY,
indeed, figures in the list as the donor of 25/.
which, considering his Lordship had for up-
wards of twenty years enjoyed the uncontrolled
possession of the richest diocese in the world,
and had besides peopled Derry with a rich and
prolific colony of friends and kinstnen, is no
great stretch of charity ; but with the exception
of this name—never to be forgotten while the
county is over. run with KNOXES—and that of the
Archbishop of TUANI, not a single Member of
the Irish hierarchy appears on the list of sub-
scriptions. English tradesmen, and even me-
chanics and labourers, have contrived, out of
their scanty earnings, to contribute their widow's
mite, but the Irish Bishops and the Irish Plura-
lists have hitherto coldly kept aloof. The
voice of expiring humanity has not yet
passed the gates of their sumptuous palaces,
but has died away in an inuadible whis-
per at the threshold. We trust this cold—this
heartless indifference will not longer continue,
that the Irish hierarchs will awake to a sense of
their duties as men and as ecclesiastics ; furnish
the requisite amount of charity ; and show
that they have as benevolent dispositions
as our English mechanics and agriculturists.
Surely this is not exacting too much from them!
If an English operative who has to support a
family on a pittance of sixty or seventy pounds
per annum, can yet find means to contribute his
mite to his distressed fellow-creatures; an Irish
Bishop, with an annual income counted not by
tens but by thousands, may be expected to fur-
nish some little pecuniary assistance ! Its Pro-
testant establishment has been the ruin of Ire-
land; let it now come forward and make honour-
able reparation.