The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-06 00:00:00

that as the Committee appointed to class the officers of the
army according to their seniority has hitherto been unable
to act, in consequence of the frequent absences of General
Nypels, Colonel Boremans, and Lieutenant-Colonel Ha-
mesas, their discharge is granted to those officers, and others
are appointed members of the Committee in their room.
We have just received the Journals of Antwerp. Tin
Emancipation (Brussels paper) gives the particulars of
the riots at Antwerp yesterday and the day before. Thi.
city has been declared by General Beaulieu in a state of
siege. The Dutch, to the number of 300, have just
landed (April 1, iwo o'clock) at Cann°, a Belgian port.
three leagues off, towards the sea. They have cut ail the
roads leading to it. Oa the news of the troubles at
Brussels and Liege, great apprehensions were felt at
Verviers. and all necessary precautions were taken, whirl;
seemed the more necessary, as a letter was received from
the Burgomaster of Liege, announcing that a person of
consequence had left Liege with a large sum of money, in-
tending to excite a re-action at Verviers in favour of the
dethroned family. Tne Civic Guards were immediately
called out. Happily this measure was not necessary, and
the Guards were soon allowed to retire, as there was no
danger for the moment.
The Regiment of Liege has published an Order of the
Day to the Civic Guard. expressing in strong terms the
indignation and grief the Magistrates at the deplorable
excesses of the 2Sth and 29th of March, and exhorting
the Guard to be firm and prompt in suppressing any future
excesses.

The Burgomaster announces that the principal insti-
gators, Ri well as many of the wretches who were guilty
of pillage, were in the hands of justice, and will be se-
verely punished.

Tranquillity is restored at Liege, and on Holy Thursday
the people crowded the Chambers as usual.

BOLZ A NO, MARCH 24. —By the last post, orders were
received to organise a corps uf 20,000 landuiehr in the
Tyrol, of which 5,000 are to ready for active service.
The Government has. all ;at once suspended ail public
works of every kind which have no connection with mili-
tary armament,s.

We have just :received the following :—" A
gentleman recently arrived from the Continent
acquaints the editor of The Sun, that almost
every account of the situation of the Russian
army is fabricated in Paris and Hamburg.
Travellers, and particularly English and English
Newspapers, are invariably stopped in Prussia
and throughout Germany." Does not this clearly
prove the community of interest that exists
between Austria, Russia, and Prussia ? Where
is now Prince METTERNICH'S respect for the
principle of non-intervention ? It is, like a
great Duke's definition of a county meeting, all
a farce.

The boroughmongers, we find, are at their
old tricks again. We did this squad but bare
justice, when we asserted that they were veterans
in craft, and that lying, fraud, and chicanery were
their Penates, their household gods, by whorl!
they swore, and to whom they looked up for as-
sistance on all occasions where their own selfish,
domestic interests were at work. We under-
rated rather than over-rated their accomplish.
ments, when we asserted that they were as un-
principled as they were rapacious, and would
submit to any meanness, perpetrate any enor-
mity, provided that by so doing they might
further the advancement of themselves, their
mistresses, and their serfs.

A fresh proof of the Jesuitical subtilty of
this squad, and which more than bears out our
opinion of them, is now lying before us. They
have, it seems, by means of their emissaries,—
so writes an intelligent correspondent from
Hereford,—circulated) for the last fartnight,.
throughout that and the adjacent counties, thou-
sands and thousands of circulars, the object of
which is to persuade the farmers that in lending
their sanction to the Reform Bill, they are seal-
ing their own ruin. The circular states that the
main object of the Bill is to raise the . commer-
cial, at the expense of the agricultural, in-
terests ; and that the very first thing a
Reformed Parliament will do, will be to in-
troduce a free trade in corn, which will be
the inevitable and irreparable ruin of all the
farmers in the kingdom. The circular goes on
to observe that if the Bill be carried, the agri-
cultural interests will to a certainty lose a hundred
and eleven friends, and have forty-three addi-
tional opponents ; and concludes with an earnest
entreaty that in justice to themselves, the farmers
will seize this, perhaps the last, opportunity, of
supporting all those who vote against Reform.
To this precious document the signature, " A
Freeholder of Herefordshire" is affixed, evi-
dently for the purpose of blinding the eyes of
the credulous and the inexperienced. The
disguise, however, is so flimsy, that it is im-
possible not to penetrate it. The cloven foot
betrays itself at every sentence. The borough-
monger stands confessed in every assertion.
We shall not insult the intelligent English yeo-
manry by requesting them not to be led astray
by this insidious circular. We allude to it
more by way of exposure than of warning ; to
show them of what stuff their sham friends are
made, rather than to exhort them not to place
reliance on their assertion:. It must be evident
even to the most ordinary capacity, that so far
from injuring the farming interests, Reform is
the only measure that can preserve, and give
them influence and stability; that its principle is
one of conservation, not of destruction ; its
main object to render equal justice to all inte-
rests ; to encourage agriculture, but not to the
detriment of commerce ; to protect commerce,
but not to the injury of agriculture.
We have seen what the farmer has been of
late years, under the tvo-fold visitation of the
tax and tithe gatherer; we have seen to what
straits be has been reduced under the healing
sway of an unreformed Parliament ; 'we have
seen how he has gradually declined from bad to
worse, and from worse to worst, under the tre-
mendous despotism of the boroughmongjeuzic-e—,
on what principle, thin, whether of
reason, or expediency, is he now called on to
vote for the farther coninuance of that system
which has reduced him o such unparalleled dis-
tress ? Do the Anti-Reitrmers expect that having
but just escaped (and notunscathed) the visitation
of Swing, the farmer give any furthersupport
to a system under wiose protecting auspices
that famous incencliar, was reared, educated,
and brought to maturry ? No, no. A burnt
child dreads the fire. Lie farmer has had quite
enough of Swing, the idest son of the borough-
mongers, and will hetieforth endeavour to do his
best to root out the misceant and his parents from
the
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nand t Havinghera
Ie it
,beetb brought
,a anae to
gthe
of
unreformed
ParliaMent, he will no, try what a reformed one
ail do ; in the hill, pcfect, and satisfactory con-