The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-07 00:00:00

BRUSSELS.

OCT. 2.—A funeral service, in memory of Madame de
Beriot was celebrated yesterday morning in the church of
Laeken, which was attended by the friends and relations of
Monsieur and Madame de Beriot, by deputations from
the musical societies of Brussels, and numerous admirers
of the talents of the artist whose loss is so universally de-
plored.

" Some journals," says the Courrier Beige," express an
opinion that there can be no foundation for the reports of
preparation of war said to be making in Holland for the pur-
pose of a new invasion of Belgium. We thought it our
duty to publish whatever we had been told on the subject,
in a letter from Paris, that if there were any foundation for
it, we might at least not have to reproach ourselves with
neglecting to inform the Government of what was passing.
To-day we think ourselves obliged to act in the same man-
ner. We have the following in a letter from Ghent, of
October 1 :

" There is a great movement among the troops in that part
of Flanders which is still occupied by the Dutch ; and from
the measures of our enemies we expect a speedy attack on
the sluice called Des Isabelles, the only position on the
Scheldt which we have preserved in that country.
" A landowner, who resides near the point which seems to
be threatened, has just sent an express to the General com-
manding in the Province, to inform him of what is passing
in Dutch Flanders."

Will this information be regarded ? Is it remembered
what passed in 1831, on the surprise of the sluice of Ca-
petalendam in circumstances precisely similar to the present ?
The possession of the Sluice des Isabelles is of the great-
est importance to us, because it gives us access to the
Scheldt ; and to the enemy because it is the only point oc-
cupied by the Belgians that interrupt his communications
on the whole line "in Flanders, between the two extreme
points of Sas and Capetalendam.
OCT. 4.—Baron Venim, the Prussian Minister, and Ge-
neral de Merckx, set out for Germany the day before yes-
terday.
OCT. s.—The average prices of Wheat Rye for the
week, from 26th Sept. to Ist Oct., were—Wheat, 16f. 46
cents., and Rye 10f. 62 cents. per hectolitre ; the import
duty respectively, 37f. 50 cents., and 21f. 50 cents. per
1,000 kilogrammes. A letter from New York, of Sept. 7,
informs us that the Congress, on the representation of the
Belgian Government, has decided that our ships and goods
shall be admitted on the same footing, and paying the same
duties, as Dutch and other privileged ships.
BELGIAN I UNDS—BaussELs, OCT. 5.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Itothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO
Loan of Thirty Millions 92%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. lOO
Society of Commerce, 4 S‘; per Cent 142%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 124%
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 6.

SPAIN.
(From the Madrid Papers.)
Madrid, Sept. 27.
PROTEST OF THE PATRIOTIC SOCIETY OF MADRID AD-
DRESSED TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE lIOME
DEPARTMENT.

The undersigned members of the Patriotic Society,
which they have the honour to represent, inform you that
they have read in•yesterday's Gazette a Royal order, ad.
dressed to the municipality of Madrid on the 19th instant,
in which her Majesty states, that having taken into consi-
deration the wishes expressed by the municipal corporation,
she refuses to extend her protection aad support to the
Patriotic Society, and forbids it to assemble. All the
members of the Society boast a glory in being faithful sub-
jects of her Majesty, and consequently they respect her
orders ; but, observing strictly the laws, they desire also to
defend true public order, which cannot exist unless the go-
verning body and the governed interpret in their literal
sense the provisions of the law. This course of conduct alone
can ensure and consolidate the public tranquillity, and no
departure, even the most trivial, can be made from it with-
out promoting disunion and disorder, and producing dissen-
tions which would not fail to weaken and enfeeble all poli-
tical association. Your Excellency must be convinced of
the truth and justness of these principles of constitutional
law, which we grieve to say have been violated in regard to
the patriotic societies, legally authorised by the decree of
the Cortes of the 21st of October, 1820, as well as by the.
law of the Ist of November, 1822, sanctioned by the
ng
on the 29th of the same month. The manifest infraction
of this law, together with the violation of the 131st article
of the Constitution, which we haVe all sworntcinobserve in
I virtue of a Royal order, places the undersigned
theExcellency,..thheart o
beingrpain_de r
ful necessity of declaring to your
faithful subjects of her Majesty, and respectingd
1 the society will suspend its meetings, out the
same time,
exercising the right which the article 373 of the Constitu-
tion gives to every Spanish citizen,
facetheyeri,of the approaching
reseravpeptroehing
the them-
selves the liberty of 'protesting, in
Cortes, against the infraction of text of the law com-
mitted by the responsible advisers of the Crown.
Dated Madrid, Sept. 23.
Signed by the President, the Secretaries, and Treasurer
of the Society.
Letters from Bayonne of the Ist. inst. announce that
Don Carlos had not yet left Estella, on the 28th ult., and
that General Villareal had returned to Salinas, from his late
in the valley of Mina. incursion 0,000 men had been
shipped on the 28th at St. Sebastian, for Gijon, to oppose
the progress of the Carlist expedition, into the Asturias.
A letter from Hernani of the 29th stated that the British
Auxiliaries had lost 100 men, between killed and wounded,
at the affair of Lasarte, on the 27th. M. de to Lour
Maubourg, the French Ambassador in Spain, reached Ba-
yonne on the 30th.

SWITZERLAND
The Federal Directory has addressed the following cir-
cular to the cantons :
" BERNE, SEPT. 29.—Most honoured, faithful, and dear
Confederates,—ln consequence of a resolution of the ordi-
nary Diet of 1836, dated the 29th of August last, the Fe-
deral Directory addressed, on the same day, to the Ambas-
sador of France in Switzerland, the note of which the
tenour had been discussed and agreed to on that day by the
Federal Assembly.
" In answer to that note of the Diet, the Federal Di-

rectory has received the here annexed communication of th
Ambassador of France, dated the 27th inst„ which, al-
leging as reasons the above-mentioned note of the 29th of
August, as also the debates on the affair of Auguste Con-
seil, announces to the Confederation that the Embassy ac-
credited in Berne by his Majesty the King of the French
has received orders from its Government to suspend all
official intercourse with Switzerland until France shall have
obtained satisfaction for those facts.

" Considering the important consequences a communica-
tion of the kind may have, and, in particular, its having
been occasioned by the decisions and deliberations of the
Ordinary Diet of 1836, the Federal Directory deems it
expedient, agreeably to the provisions of the Bth article of
the Federal Constitution, to convoke in Berne an Extra-
ordinary Diet for Monday, October 17, and to address to
all the States a pressing invitation to furnish their Deputies
in that Extraordinary Assembly with extensive instructions
and powers, which will enable them to concur efficaciously
in everything that may be decided upon and agreed to
under existing circumstances, in the wdl-understood inte-
rests of the Confederation, specially as regards the present
relations between Switzerland and France, and also as re-
gards the relations of Switzerland with Foreign Powers
generally.
" We rely on the enlightened spirit and patriotic senti-
ments of all the cantonal Governments, and trust they will
concur efficaciously in every act which the welfare, honour,
and independence of Switzerland may require, in the com-
plicated circumstances in which our beloved country is now
placed.
" With this expectation, we offer you, &c.
" The Avoyer and Executive Council of the Canton of
Berne, forming the Federal Directory.
" TSCHARNER, Avoyer.
AM. RHYM, Federal Chancellor."
Dr. Keller has completed the bill intended to regulate
the condition of foreigners and political refugees in the
Canton. The bill will be laid before the Grand Council
in the course of next session. Its principal object is the
execution of the Concordat, and the definition of the right
of asylum. The following are the most striking provisions
of the bill •

" Foreigners are forbidden to take any part whatsoever
in secret or political societies. The expelled individual
who shall have violated his parole shall be sentenced to hard
labour. The Executive Directory is empowered to annull
all concessions of rights of citizenship, contrary to the laws,
even those granted previously to the promulgation of the
present law."