The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-04 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Moniteur of Tuesday, Feb. I.)

PARIS, JAN.. 31.—1 n our numbers of the 16th and
19th of January, we published the decrees issued by the
Governor of Martinique and Guadaloupe, in conformity
with the orders of the Minister of 111triue, to abrogate the
loci! acts enacting various probihiticn, with regard to the
people of colour. Similar regulations have been adopted
by the Governor of French Guiana, in a decree of the26th
of November, 1830.

A letter from Sedan, of January 25, gives the following
details :

" Since General Montfort of the Engineers passed
through this town, above 500 workmen have been rm-
plo►cd in fortifying it, and putting it in a respectable state
of defence. The season has not interrupted the works for
a moment, nor does it binder the arming of the place and
Citadel, which will scon be complete. M. Delavigne, who
directs all these works, has just been appointed Lieutenant-
Colonel of Engineers.

" We have in garrison the 9th Regiment of Dragoons,
700 strong, and ►the 35th of the Line, which has just funned
its 4th battalion. The recruits for these two regiments
are exercised twice a day, and, being full of ardour and
zeal, they rapidly improve."
(From the Messager des Chambres, Wednesday, Feb. 2. )
Wzsszmuasii, JAN. 27.--The Bava►ian General
Braun, Commandant of the fortress of Landau, five leagues
from this tows, has just sent word to one of his friends,
that the town of Landau would be given up to-day to the
Austrian troops and those of the German Confederation.
(From a letter published by the Augsburgh Gazette.)

TRIEStE, JAN. 18.—Letters from Constantinople of
the 12th of December, announce that the Ottoman Porte is
making considerable armaments both by sea and land. All
the ships of the line at the arsenal are to be got ready for
sea as soon as possible. New levies have already begun to
be raised, and the troops are frequently exercised Though
it is affirmed that these extraordinary preparations are in-
tended for an expedition, said by some to be fbr Patras,
by others for Candice, it is sul,ected that the Porte may
very prob sbly have an intention of deriving advantage
from the affairs s f Poland, if they should take a tura un-
favourable to Russia.

(From the Gazette de France of Tuesday.)

PARIS, JAN. SO.—A remarkable fact is, that the
Journal des Debuts is now quite warlike. I.et us see
what there is at the bottom of this boasting.
It is said that war is intended : it will not be made,
for it cannot be made, except on account of Belgium; and
there is no solution of the Belgic question which can lead
France to war without alienating England.
War might ensue either in consequence of the union of
Belgium with France, or of the acceptance of the crown by
the Duke of Nemours.

In these two cases England would separate itself from
France, the English Ministry would be overthrown, the
war against the French revolution would be popular in
England, Sir R• Peel would be Prime Minister, and Wel-
lington Generalissirno of the armies of Europe. General
Diebit ch would be on the Rhine in April, and, as M. Se-
hastiani said, the gauntlet would he thrown down to Eu-
rope, and France would have to recommence, not, ac-
cording to the expression of the Minister, the campaigns
of Buonaparte, but the campaigns of 1813, under Buona-
pal te.
It is evident you will do nothing that will alienate
England from you.
If you could have England and Austria for auxiliaries,
against Russia and Prussia, you would stand the chances
()fa war, but England and Russia against you, the Don
Quixotism with which you reproached M. de Lafayette
must have paged over to the side of the resistance. And
yet you are putting on foot all the active force of France,
you are going to sell the forests of the Clergy and those of
the State. You increase the debt, add to the taxes, pre-
pare doubtless for loans to meet the vast expenditure—you
make your conscripts exercise by candle-light, and sus-
pend over commerce and manufactures the fear of war,
like the sword of Detnocles. France must be told how to
reconcile all this military display with your firm resolution
not to make use of it.

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All this armed force is destined not against invasion,
but against tie movement, which you now call anarchy.
Thus the Debats says that all these armaments are di-
rected against anarchy—to arrest the movement—that is
to say, the development of the principle of the sovereignty
of the people, for which no sacrifice will seem too dear fir
France, which remembers 1793. This calculation will
be acted upon till France inquires whether this principle is
woi th what it costs.

PARIS, FEB. 2. —llO ensE, II A LI,PA ST FOUR.—We
have not a word of news, but abundance of reports, e.ch
of which is circulated with the intention of depressing the
Funds, and have indeed prevented the improvement which
bona fide liquidations was calculated to have produced.
One 01 those is the return of the Duke of Wellington to
the head of affairs in England ; another, that the Belgic
Congress have declared their country a republic, and Ge-
neral La Fayette its President !
FRENCH FUNDS.---PARIS, FEB. 2...-Five per Cents., 93f. 8 c.
Bk. 85c. 80c. tiOc. 70c. 65c. 50c. 60c. 50c. 45c. 50c. 55c. 60c. 50e.
EtsgPaegonne' London—One month, paper, 251
46 46 IA 46 ; Haytian Loan,.
4,c. 43e. ; Three per Cents., 611. 20c. 30c. 15c. 61f. 60f. 95c.
Bank Actions, I,s‘f. 50c. ; Rente de Naples, 631. 15c. 10c.
Rente d'Espagne, 145 L 15; Royal Spanish Loan, 60% ;
3RI 0
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.uoenitElhexcilaiper, 25f..--Cours Authentique
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In-one of the parishes in the weald of Sussex
there are now, we understand, upwards of one hundred
men employed upon the roads.—Drighton Gazette.

We understand that the rot is so much among
the sheep in the eastern part of the county. that the people
abstain from eating mutton altogether. We have heard of
one farmer who has 170 sheep in this state, which he
offered to sell at 2s. a head. Is there no law to prevent
farmers from selling sheep with the rot?—Brighton G az.
ENORMOUS EEL.—A woman named GRAY
in passing through Wyhe water meadows, -on Thursday
last, caught an eel which measured 42 inches long, and 10
inches in girth, and weighed seven pounds and three
quarters. Sherborne Mercury.

Of Mr. THEODORE HOOK as a Novelist,
especially
with reference to his Let successful work,
" Maxwell," a contemporary critic remarks, " The me-
tropolis is a mine of gold to him; and he fords something
worth the search, where few but himself would think of
looking at all. London is his proper home, his lawful
right and inheritance, and he may justly lay claim to he
considered its literary Lord Mayor. Every perbon about
town is his property, and he paints and publishes him as
he pleases ; he regards whole families as so much raw ma-
terial to be manufactured into mirth. He is squally happy
in a counting-house in the East, at a ball at the West, or
at a dinner-party between the two.