The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-29 00:00:00

is death to them ; they need no bitterer punish.
nent.

On the subject of the Six Acts Mr. HUME
spoke with spirit and sagacity. He strenuously
advocated their repeal, as they were already a
dead-letter, and were besides a disgrace to the
Statute-book. Nothing, indeed, can be more pre-
posterous than an attempt to enslave the free exer-
cise of opinion. It is sure to escape its trammels,
and defy the power of its persecutors. Almost
every blessing that England now enjoys, she owes
to her free Press. It is this that has elevated her
in the scale of nations ; supplied her with the
means of moral and intellectual improvement ;
taught her the value of her own varied resources;
and is now triumphantly leading her towards the
goal of full and perfect rational liberty. It was
a free Press that destroyed the hydra of bigotry—
that abolished the Test Acts—emancipated the
Catholics—and taught the people how to de-
mand and how to deserve Reform. Above all,
it was a free Press that boldly entered the den
of the Boroughmonger, and dragged the mons-
ter from his lair ; that gave the first blow to cor-
ruption, and has yet to give the last. While
this Press continues free, the people will always
be secure in the enjoyment of their rights and
privileges ; but when once it becomes enslaved,
and despotism gains the ascendancy, adieu for
ever to the boasted liberties of Englishmen.

The following are a few extracts from Brussels
and German Papers received this morning :

BRUSSELS, JUNE 25.—The Regent will to=morrow re-
view the Civic Guard of Brussels and- its district, as well
as a great number of troops of the line, infantry, cavalry,
and artillery, from the neighbouring garrisons. The total
number to be reviewed is estimated at 20,000 men. Ge-
neral Goethals, Daine, Tieken de Terhove, and Malherhe,
who had been for some days in this city, have received
orders to leave it immediately, and return to their posts.
They left Brussels last night. General Goethals took the
road to Namur, General Tieken to Antwerp, and General
Daine to Him.lt.

The Belgian Moniteur contradicts the report of the
resignation of General Tieken de Terhove and Malherbe,
which we copied from La Belge.
Arms were distributed yesterday among the first ban of
the Civic Guards of a great number of the neighbouring
communes. The distribution will continue without in-
terruption as the arms are received at the War-office. The
Courrier of this morning says, that the sections of the
Congress are very busily employed in preparing the budgets
of the different departments, in which it is hoped great re-
ductions will be made. It appears that our finances are
in a pretty good condition. No more than about three
millions of the forced loan have yet been paid in. The
Treasury being sufficiently well supplied at present, the
Minister of Finance has thought there was no necessity
for forcing the payments, which are, in fact, more sure,
when a little time can be allowed to the contributors.

The Journal of the Government of Aix-la-Chapelle.
has given notice that the Landwehr will not be assembled'
this year to he exercised.
The High Military Tribunal has decided on the
examination of the evidence in support of the accusation
agiinst Major Keasels, that there was nothing in the evi-
dence to support the accusation, and consequently there
was no ground for further proceedings; be-is therefore to
be immediately set at liberty.
. ANTWERP, Jima 24.—Some persons persist in assert-
ing that the works for the attack of the citadel are con
tinned at Kiel, We can assert that these works have
ceased. It.was reportedan 'Change, that Prince Leopold
had accepted the Crown of Belgium on the following con-
ditions :—the left bank of the Scheldt to remain to the
Dutch, a part of Venice" to be ours; Maestricht to be gar-
grimmed by neutral troops; Luxemburg, and the division
of the debt, to be the subject of negotiation. We think it
will be prudent to wait for the return of our deputation be-
fore we indulge in hopes that may not be realized..
: Pita/fame:is, JUNE 22.—A letter from Corfu of the
lith, brings reports that a merchantman had met a Turkish
fleet of thirty sail steering its course to the Adriatic sea.—
It will probably go to the coast of the Pachalic of Scutari.
The cholera has again appeared at Ribinsk' on the
Wolga, in the government of Jeroslaw, 330 wersta, 220
miles north of Moscow, and also in the government of
Moh ilew.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

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Accounts from Pernambuco, by a vessel in 50 days, state that
a revolution had taken place there, and that all business was sus-
pended. It is also stated that the Brazilian Government were in
great want of money, and have been obliged to borrow money
from the merchants to pay the troops.
The following is posted at the North and South American
Coffee-house
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 27.--;Arrived the Eleanor, Bardwell, from
Riga, with a green flag flying, and ordered off to Milford."
LIVERPOOL, Jf TNE 27.—The quantity of British Plantation
Sugar offering at present is more than adequate to the demand,
and the prices were barely supported ; the sales this week amount
to 1,100 hhds. but nothing doing in East India. The extent of
business done this week in cotton reached 16,170 bags, but the
market hasbeen dull, and the prices of low quotations of Ameri-
can and Brazil are again a shade lower.
THE FUNDS.
We have no arrivals this morning either of foreign mails or
ship letters, consequently we have a great dearth of information
up to the present hour. The Dutch steamer is expected every
hour, which in all probability may bring some important infor-
mation in regard to the movements of the Polish Ministry, as by
the last accounts it was expected that a great battle would take
place between the two armies.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 82% RI for the Account,
opened at the same price, and continue at that quotation at pre-
sent. Brazil Stock has gone down about 2i per cent. this morn-
ing, owing to the unfavourable news from Pernambuco.

HALF-PAST ONE.
We have no account as yet of the arrival of the Dutch steamer,
nor have we any political news to the present hour. Consols,
which were in the early part of the morning at 82% for the
Account, have taken a stand, and within a short period have im-
proved to 834 ; at present they are 835, with little doing.
An express has arrived from Paris, but nothing of its contents
has as yet transpired.
In the Foreign Market Brazil Stock was done as low as 50; it
is now 51 to %. In the other Foreign Securities little or nothing
doing.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols, 8311.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols I Danish

Ditto for Account 831
Brazilian Bonds.. 501
Buenos Ayres....
Chilian Ditto
Columbian, 1824.

Greek, 1825.... --
Mexican, 1825. 381

Peruvian ---
Russian
Spanish l5l

The greatest natural curiosity of the present
ay is a bullock belonging to Sir D. H. TnoaoLn, Bart.,
at Syston Park, which by far exceeds in size any beast
ever seen, and is supposed to weigh about 160 stone.
)A SHAVING CLAUSE.—BRAND, in his
" History of Newcastle," says, that at a meeting of the
fratogity of barber surgeons there, in 1742 (of course
long before Combination Laws were thought of), one of
the resolutions enteFed upon the minutes was " That no
brother do shave JOHN Ro*ENs9N till he pays what he
owes RO6ER? 51D1,70,??
Last week a young spermaceti whale, measur-
ing 11 feet in length and 12 feet in girth, was caught by
some fishermen off Bognor. The captors were making a
mEttcblz exhibition of it at Chichester, when the MAYOR,
owing to the hcat of the weather, found it necessary to
order it: removal.

CASIMIR THE JUST.—The following anec-
dote is given of CASIMIR. 11., King of Poland, in 117 e.
hle was one day at play, and won' all the money of one of
is nobility, tvhci incensed at his ill-fortune, suddenly
struck the 'Prince a Wow oA thp ear, in the heat of his
..teeoptroulled passion. He fled homptliOely fForn justice;
but, being nuclued and overtaken, was condemned to lose
his head. The generous CAsimiß determined otherwise.
"jam not surpri-ed," said he, " at the gentleman's con-
duct; for pop having it in his power to revenge himself
n ftutune, pa wuu4er hp should attack her favourite in
me." After these generous wok
.4's hp revolted the sen-
tence, returnsd the netpleman his money, and declared thatl
he alone was faulty, as be encountged, by his example, a ,
pernicious practice that might term ate in 019 ruiA or
hundreds of th; peonle. This Prince was indeed a father
to his subjects ; be viewed Pfr.: pp'iression of the nobles
over the serfs with an eye of sorrotti; and though I,t was
not ;n his power to change the cOnstittition of Polish 'so-
ciety by eutani.ip4.4g them and making them perfectly in-
dependent, What he could do, 11, lid, in protecting them
by strict laws from wanton cruelty. He; bs left behind
him the character of the most amiable monarch that ever
swz.ypl the Polish sceptre. He had faults, but they were
almost lost in tile n-,..anher of his Roble qualities and his
virtues. He was a laQer of peace, and the friend of the
people. —Pletchir's History of Pohind.