The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-10 00:00:00

NATIONAL CONGRESS, JAN. 5.

Rogier proposed in the morning sitting that the As-
sembly should form itself into a Secret Committee to bear
the reasons which require that they should immediately
proceed to consider the choice of the head of the State. It
was resolved that the Secret Committee should be held in
the evening, at seven o'clock. In this evening sitting, be
said there were three parties in Belgium—the Orange, the
French, and the Anarchists—all acting in concert with-
out intending it, for all attack the executive Government.
The country, he said, was agitated, and the settlement of
the question would put an end to this agitation. Shall we
choose at home or abroad ? and whom ? If a minor, shall
there be a Regency or a Council of Regency, and who shall
compose it ? These are serious questions. It should be
known that we are engaged with this subject. You have
undertaken a duty—you must perform it.
M. Lebeau would ask the Diplomatic Committee who
are the Foreign Powers whom France has declared to be
excluded ?

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M. de Celles declared on his honour, that since nine
o'clock yesterday evening it is known that France has
formally declared that our union with that country is im-
po6sible ; and that it will not give us the Duke of Ne-
mours. This is official ; but cannot he communicated.

Lebeati—Was the Duke of Leuchtenberg men-
tioned?

M. de do not know.

M. Ch. Rogier confirmed what M. de Gilles had said.
The latter being asked, said, " I do not think that the
Austrian Princes are excluded ; but personally, I believe
that they would not be agreeable to France."
A Member—And the four other Powers?
M. de Celles—They, doubtless, exclude themselves, as
France has done so.

After some farther conversation, rather than debate, it
was resolved that the subject of the choice of the head of
the state should be discussed in a public sitting.

The Journal du Commerce of Antwerp says, with re-
spect to this secret sitting, all this noise is only the
last t frort of the faction of Msrode, which is at its last
gasp, and is wished by all the true friends of the country.

The dividends which became due on the Gth
inst. are now in course of payment at the Bank.
THE WIZARD OF TIIE SEA.—Mr. COOPER
has been sometimes styled the WA LTEK SCOTT of the New
World ; we would extend the dominion of his fancy (for
the waters cover three-quarters of the globe), and would
fearlessly pronounce him the Wizard of the Sea, to which
appellation he is now more than ever entitled by his last
production " The Water Witch." " His home," ob-
serves a leading Literary Journal, " is on the wave; in
all that relates to ship-craft, in calm or storm, fire or
fight, he is a perfect master, while he pourtrays the fears
and hopes, the business and the pleasures of a sailor's che-
quered lite, with a fidelity and vivid power which cheat
the reader into a momentary belief of the presence and
reality of the scenes that he describes." The present story
is of that marine description which affords full scope to
the author's high and peculiar powers.

Notwithstanding our county gaol and bride-
well have been cleared by the recent Special Assizes of no
less than 311 prisoners, we find that 42 more offenders
for various crimes and misdemeanours were brought be-
fore the Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions in the present
week ; 35 others are also in custody for trial at the March
Assizes; and no less than 132 are now suffering impri-
sonment, for various terms, in the county bridewell.
What a melancholy exhibition is here presented-520 cul-
prits for one county, and that county by no me ins one of
the most populous in England. Of the 132 now suffering
imprisonment, 49 are for offences against the present ini-
quitous Bastardy and GameLaws.—Hampshire Telegraph.
PATAGONIAN PIES —The Christmas pie
male by Mr. ROBERTS, of the Sportsman's Group, in
Fargate, we are informed, contained thirty rabbits, three
stones of pork, two legs of veal, and four stones of flour.
It measured in length upwards of three feet, and its weight
about sixteen stones. The other pie, served up by Mr.
KIRK, of the Cross Daggers, Rotherham, was composed
of four geese, twelve rabbits, six brace of partridges, three
stones of veal, two stones of pork, eight fowls, three tur-
keys, seven pounds of sausages, four hares, four pounds of
flour, &c.-1-ImocAßALus might have been satisfied
with such a plenitude of savory ingredients.—Essex
Standard.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank stock ••
3 per Cent. Red. 81%54
3per Cent- Cons. SO% 1
3% per Cent.
Ditto Red. 900 li
New:3% per t ent.B9% 90% 81/3g
3 per Cent Ann. 1726
4 per Cent. 1826 -• Ob 4
Bank Lft* Ann. td expiie
JAI. 5,, 1460
Oc,t. 10, 1859 1716 3-16
Jan. 5, 1860 16 15-16
Jan. 5, 1860 "
Aprlls, 1880 • --
Jan. 5, 1870-

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS TRIS DAY AT .NI t'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds —i Neapolitan —
Brazilian Bonds — Peruelaa Boris
Buenos Ayres 80nd5....... .... ,Portuguese Bonds
C a ilian Bonds zi4,„,.,......
~
Coloinbian Bonds =:Ditto, NOw " '-
Ditto, 1824
SSX
,RusNian ...II ....
Oanish - Prussian, Old
;Spanish, :F.421 l6 1551
Greek Bonds . -...--- 18".
Ditto, 1815 ..:, ; — 'French Recites, sp. c. —f. —c.
Guatimala —;---- Exchange ....•. —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds — ;-- 3 per cent. —t. C.

Ditto, J 5-

EZchange —f. —c.

FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, JAN. 4.-13. 714.—Tw0 months, 13 6.
S-rocinoLm, DEC. 26 —Seventy-five-clays, 12 37.
liencis, DEC. 30.—Three-months, 6. 1956".
CHRISTIANIA, DEC 22.—Three months, 6. 8.
ST. PrrnAsnuxon, DEC. 21.—. Three months, 10. 19-32.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Vice must decline, for reasons that will be sufficiently ob-
vious, inserting J. G. M.'s Letter.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1831.

We are informed that a respite of execution
has been sent to Reading in the cases of OAK-
LEY and DARLING; WINTERBORN is left for

execution.

The French Papers contain but little fresh in-
telligence of moment. The Moniteur states
that the Duke de MORTEMART has been
appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the
Emperor of RUSSIA, and has also been en-
trusted with a special mission. The Quotidienne
enters into some speculations on the present
state, and necessary results, of the revolu-
tion in France, and infers that war is the
almost inevitable consequence. The Constitu-
tionnel furnishes a few interesting particulars
respecting Poland.
The following are extracts from the Paris
Papers, of Saturday :