The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-10 00:00:00

THE CUSTOMS AND COMMERCE.

This is the great question for Belgium. Now the in-
terests of France cannot be sacrificed to the Royalty of one
of our Princes.

The time is past when the convenience of reigning
families was alone consulted in political transactions. The
quality of King of the French hinds Louis Philip towards
France, and he knows that so great an obligation must
absorb all others. _ _

The Indicateur of Bordeaux says—" We learn from an
almost official source, that the project of recognising the
debt of the Spanish Cortes, in proportion with the finan-
cial situation of the country, is under consideration in the
Cabinet of his Catholic Majesty."
(From the Moniteur of Monday.)
PARIS, FEB. 6.—The chief editor and responsible ma-
nager of the Moniteur has received a summons, in the
name of General Lacroix de Boegard, to appear, on the
16th of this munth, before the tribunal of Correctional
Police.

(From the Gazette de France of Tuesday.)

Pawls, FEB. 7.-M. de Genoude having undergone
the month's imprisonment to which he was condemned by
a decree of the Court of Peers, left St. Pelagic this morn-
ing. A few hours afterwards an officer of police went to
his residence to summon him to return to prison, by virtue
of a sentence passed under the late reign, by the Tribunal
of the First Instance of the department of the Seine, on
the complaint of M. Mechin, whom M. de Genoude had
represented as openly contending against tlie existing order
of things.
Since the sentence the revolution of July has taken
place ; an amnesty for •all transactions of the periodical
press has been published. M. Genoude has refused to
return to St. Pelagic, and is going to take steps to be able
to judge if the amnesty is a truth.
PARIS, FEB. S.-BOURSE, HALF-PAST FOUR.--111 the
absence of official intelligence respecting the Belgic ques-
tion, there has been very little business done on 'Change
but that little has been under unfavourable impressions.
The cry of all is, that war is inevitable.
From Warsaw we learn that the Russians had made an
advance beyond Grodno on the 12th ult.
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, FEB. 7.---Five per Cents., VIC 20c.
.'55. 65c. 60c. 50c. 55c. 60e. 55c. LOc. 931. 60c. 50c. 45c. 50c. 60c.
55c. 50c. 40c. ; Four and a Half per Cent., 831 ; Four per Cents.,
771. 50c. ; Three per Cents., 601 30c. 35c. 55e. 50c. 60c. 50c. ;
Bank Shares, 1,535; Rente de Naples' 62f. 60c. The. 631 621 95c. ;
y, IA Rente d'Espagne, 17 18 17 17 1714 14 171 A ; Royal Spanish
Loan, CON ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 44 45 44.( .74 45
; Haytian Loan, 321 Exchange on London---One month,
pap!,,r, 25f. 10c. ; Three months, paper, 231.---Cours Authentique.
r 'MINCH FUNDS.-PARIS, FEB. 8.-Five per Cents., ME 15c.
40e. 35c. 40c. 30c. .35c. 45c. 40c. 30c. 25c. 30c. 25c. 15c. ;W.
20c. 30c. ; Three per Cents., 601. 20c. 25c.
' 36c. 25c. 20c 15c. ;
Bank Actions, 1,5351. • Rode de Naples, 621 75c. SOc. 9•c_ ;.ltente
d'Espagne, 17y, 4 17 1%, i4 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 6O;
Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 44% Exchange on London,
one month, paper, 25f. Ille.; three months, paper, 25f.

HAMBURG AND BRUSSELS PAPERS.
HAGUE, FEB. 3.—The Second Chamber of the States
General continued to-day the discussion of the Address
to the King upon the communications made to the Cham-
ber in his Majesty's name. The Chamber agreed to the
Address by a majority of 29 to 18, and transmitted it to

the First Chamber, which will take it into consideration
to-morrow. If approved, it will be presented to his Ma-
jesty the day after to-morrow in the usual form. It is re-
ported that the Chambers will soon after adjourn for some
time.—Official reports from Maestricht bring very cir-
cumstantial accounts of the occurrences in the fortress
during the time that it was blockaded by the Belgian troops.
HAGUE, FEB. 2.—Yesterday evening late a courier is
said to have brought despatches to the British Ambassador,
and with them another very important Protocol from the
Ministers of the Five Powers. It is affirmed that the plan
of giving the Government of Belgium to the Prince of
Orange is listened to with more and more favour by the
inisters of the Great Powers.

HAARLEM, FEB. 2.—The King's force is considerably
increased in Dutch Flanders. The 17th division is gone
'roll] Bergen to Middleburg, probably to be embarked for
:he Isle of Cadsand.

AMSTERDAM, FRB. 4.
Actual Debt, 214 per cent. • . . 43% to 43N
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent. . . . 78 to 79%
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. . . . 56% to 57.
—Dutch Papers, Feb. 5.
WARSAW, JAN. 27.—0 n the 22d, Francis Sollik
brought forward a motion in the Chamber of Deputies,
in which he affirmed that the present representatives had
not power to declare that the dynasty reigning in Russia
had forfeited the Crown of Poland and to proclaim the in-
dependence of the country. He desired that new elec-
tions should take place, but was hindered from speaking by
cries of " Order."

The day before yesterday, in the evening, the Govern-
ment received the Proclamation of Field-Marshal Diebitsh
to the Poles and to the Polish Army.
WAusaw, JAN. 26.—1 n yesterday's Sitting of the Diet
the Throne of Poland was unanimously declared ♦acant.
According to the latest accounts from the frontiers hostilities
had not commenced. The Polish troops are stationed en
echellons from Praga to Bresez and Kauen ; here every
thing is quiet for the present. In consequence of that part
of the Proclamation of Count Diebitmch in which he de-
clares a white scarf the symbol of submission, the white
cockade has been laid aside and the tri-coloured cockade
assumed in its stead. The individuals accused by Lieut-
Colonel Dobrouski on the 11th, of treasonable designs
against the Ex-Dictator, have all been honourably acquit-
ted, not a shadow of proof having appeared against them.
Their accuser has in consequence been placed under
arrest, and it is expected that proceedings will be imme-
diately commenced against him.
Wartsaw, JAW. 27.—The Russian troops are said to
have received strong reinforcements, and to have advanced
from Grodno. On the 11th Count Diebitsch removed
his head-quarters from the latter place to Sokdke. Hos-
tilities have not yet commenced, in the proper sense of the
word ; but the well-known Polish partisan, Colonel
Kushel, has been several times over the Bug to disturb
the Russian foreposts, a feat the more easy of execution,
as, with a frost of 16 degrees, the rivers in that part of the
country are completely frozen. Prince Radzivil has ad-
dressed a proclamation to the troops, in which he tells
them that the fate of their country can now be decided on
the field of battle alone, and calls upon them to emulate
the deeds of their fathers. The Countess Wongsowicz,
who lately presented a standard to the Guard of Honour,
has within these last few days given her whole service of
plate, to be applied to the purchase of warm cloaks for
the men belonging to that corps. An anonymous gift of
100,000 florins was sent into the public treasury about
the same time.

PETERSBURGH, lAN. 18.
THE CHOLERA AT MOSCOW.
New Cases. Restored. Died.
Jan. 9.
10.
11.

There remained 68 patients, of whom 31 were expected
to recover.—Journal of St. Petersburgh, Jan. 19.
(These Journals contain nothing new relative to Poland.)
HAMBURG, JAN. 28.—The Elbe is wholly covered
with ice as far as Neumaklan, and partially from that
place to Blankenese, but the ice is not safe in all parts.
FEB. 1..—.-BORSEN llALLL—Business to-day was chiefly
confined to Anglo-Russian and Polish Bonds; the latter
securities, which, according to the official announcement
of the Bank, will he regularly drawn, were done to-day
for cash at 91, and for the end of the month at 89i.
Discount 2 per cent.
End of February.
Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent.
Anglo-Russian Loan BB%
Hamburg-Russian Loan BB
Polish Bonds ... 8.9%

New Prussian 4 per Cents. BO
Austrian Bank Shares 1035
Austrian Metalliques

New Austrian 4 per Cents 79‘,
New Hanoverian Loan 9B
—.Hamburg Reporter.
BERLIN, JAN. 29.
St. Sehuld Sch. 4 percent.
Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 percent... 9B
Ditto Ditto 1822, 5 per cent. )96
Ditto Bonds 1830, 4 per cent.
—Prussian Slate Gazette, Jan. 30.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Hamburg, Feb. 1.-13. B%—Two Months, 13. 8%.
Petersburgh, Jan. 21.-10%.
Berlin, Jan. 20.--Three Months, ti. 217;3.
Bremen, Jan. 28.—Two Months, 597.
Amsterdam, Feb. 4.-11. 90—Two Months, 11 82 5.10, 11, S 5.

LONDON,
TIIURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1821.

By Brussels Papers of the 6th and 7th inst.,
we learn that the National Congress had dis-
cussed the remaining articles of the Constitu-
tion, which were agreed to. Some observations
were then made by certain Members with re-
spect to the recent election of the Duke de
NEmoußs, and whether any news had been re-
ceived that France had formally declined his no-
mination. One Member observed that England
had formally protested against the election.
Several Members proposed that the Depu.
ties should not return home until the news
should be officially received from Paris in what
manner the Deputation had been received.—
This proposition was carried by a majority of
75 to 26 :

BRUSSELS.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.,-...SITTING OF FEB. 6 AND '7.

In these two sittings the remaining articles of the new
Constitution were discussed and agreed to, and every ar-
ticle having been voted by a majority it was ordered to
be printed on the 18th.
M. Ory desired that the Diplomatic Committee might
be called upon to communicate to the Congress the news it
may have received since the election of the King was
known at Paris. I have learned positively (he said) that
England formally protested, on the 2d of this month,
against this election, and that it was decided on the 4th,
in a Council of Ministers, that France should refuse. The
Provisional Government is said to have known it on Sa-
turday evening.

Nothomi, in the name of the Diplomatic Committee
(M. Vin de Weyer having gone to Antwerp), said, " The
assertions of M Ory are extracted from two commercial
letters which he showed toe this morning. I will op.
pose to them a letter of M. Wallez of the sth, in the even-
ing, which says, that the assent of England was not
doubtful ; and another written to M. Barthelemy,
by the Count de Giles, and which M. de Gen-
debiec has opened in his absence, in which it
is again said that he did not doubt that France
would accept. I have been to M. Bresson to know what
might have been the subject of the conference of Feb. 2.
The Plenipotentiaries had received a despatch from the
King of Holland, complaining of the non-execution of the
armistice and the interruption of the communication be-
tween Aix-la-Chapelle and Maestrieht, between Maes-
triclit and North Brabant. M. Ory speaks of a Council
of Ministers, and of a Protest of the 2d. A report was
spread in the city yesterday, that the French Government
had sent to Brussels a despatch, in which it was said
that it was useless to send a deputation to Paris. We
have received no despatch.—(Marks of satisfaction.)
M. Gendebien—The two letters which we have re-
ceived not only continue the positive assurance of the ac-
ceptance, but consider it as certain that there will be
no war. _ _ . . _

M. Ory—l thank the Diplomatic Committee for the
explanation which it gives us, and I hope that they will
not prove fallacious.
M. de Cocq, and several other Members, proposed that
all the Members should give their word of honour not to
quit Brussels before the news is received from the Depu-
tation sent to Paris. As the acceptance is still doubtful,
it would be imprudent is separate at this moment.—
Seconded.

Robaulx—lf any Members want to go home for a
few days, this is the moment, for when the deputation re-
turn■ we shall have to prepare for the King.
The President—At the first news the Congress may be
convoked.
M. Nothomb—l was at the meeting of the Deputies
tent to Paris ; before their departure they agreed to meet
together to-day ; they do not expect to be received by the
King el the day after to-morrow, so that we cannot expect
to hear from them before Friday.
M. Delerew proposed a sitting for to-morrow, to delibe-
rate whether the Constitution shall be promulgated in the
usual form. .

M. Lebeau—That cannot be; for the Sovereign may
desire the Constitution to be modified—he has a right to
do so—he may refuse. The Constitution may be made
Republican.
M. le Cocq's proposition was then put to the vote, and
carried by 75 to 26.
GHENT, FEB. 6.—A deplorable event has taken place
in this city. Some patriots, exasperated by the insults
which the Messaper de Gaud has lately heaped on the
commandant Van de Poele, the sappers and others of our
most respectable citizens, went yesterday evening to the
house of the editor, where all the windows were broken
in a moment. The mob forced the doors, and broke all
the furniture in the house, scattered the types, and com-
mitted other excesses. The Messager de Gaud appeared
on Monday, containing only one page, giving an account
of these outrages. _

GHENT, FEB. B.—The Messetger de Gaud reports
that some young men have visited several public-houses,
and burnt the half sheet of paper of which its number
was composed._

BRUSSELS, Fee. B.—The Provisional Government re-
ceived yesterday evening by a courier from Paris, news
from our Deputation : three of our Deputies who arrived
first, we are assured, have had an audience of the King,
who told them, that as a father he was much flattered by
the preference given to his son by the Belgic Congress, but
that as King lie did not think he could accept it. Our
Deputies were very well received, and lodged in the Palais
Royal.

According to another account, the despatch written by
our Deputies ends with these words:—" Do not be alarmed
by the reports in the journals : we are full of hope."

(From the Vrai Patriote.)
The Journal &Anvers publishes further particulars of
the blowing up of the Dutch gun-boat, by which it ap-
pears from the statements made by three survivors of the
crew, that there was no dispute between the Captain of
the vessel and our officers : he was not asked to strike
his colours, but he had previously declared he would blow
up the vessel rather than be made prisoner.
The Prussian State Gazette has for three days given
news from Warsaw, all of January 27. In its last num-
ber, it gives an extract from the report of the Minister of
War to the Diet on the 24th, relative to the military pre-