The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-06 00:00:00

BRUSSEL

iv PARbit.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 2.—Yesterday being New Year's Day
his Majesty the King, having about him the Ministers and
the Officers of the Household, successively gave audiences
to the diplomatic body, to the deputations of the Senate
and the Chamber of Representatives, the Court of Cassa-
tion and numerous other public bodies.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 3.—The Supreme Military Tribunal
has just pronounced its sentence on the accusation brought
against the Inspector-General of the Medical Department
of the Army. We are assured that it completely discul-
pates M. Vlemminckx from all the charges brought against
him.

We have such fine spring weather that strawberries have
been gathered at Liege, which are larger, redder, and
better flavoured than the best gathered in May.
Her Majesty, the Queen, attended yesterday, in the
Church of St. Jacques-sur-Caudenberg, a grand funeral
service which his Majesty caused to be celebrated on the
anniversary of the death of his sister, Princess Mary of
Wurtemburg.
COPENHAGEN, DEC. 27.--A very detailed programme
has been published of the ceremony of the removal of the
remains of the late King :to Roeskilde, where it will be
deposited in the Cathedral.
PETERSBURG, Dac. 18.—His Majesty, the Emperor,
has signified, by a rescript to the Prince of Karrard, his
perfect satisfaction with the admirable execution of the
fortifications of New Georgiewsk Rigese-Litewski and
lwanogorod, which are confided to the special direction
of the Prince,

ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 21.—The fete of his Majesty
the Emperor was yesterday kept• here, and doubtless in
every corner of the empire, with the usual feelings of affec-
tion and attachment by all classes of society.
The act of Pelock states that the number of United Greek
clergy and monks who declared their assent to it is 1,305.
Since then the number has increased to 1,607, so that there
does not remain a single United Greek congregation in the
whole Russian empire which has not joined in the general
work of the re-union. His Majesty has issued an order
that the denomination of United Greeks shall be entirely
abolished.—Hamburg Papers, Dec. 31.
BERL-N, DEC. 26.—The exchange of couriers betwe en
this city and London is still ♦ery active, meantime it is
still uncertain whether Baron Bulow will return to his
post at London, or be succeeded by another of our
diplomatists.
The rapid change (in about 24 hours)'of the tempera-
ture from 14 degrees (P.eaumur) of cold to several degrees
of was mtb, has caused much illness here.

AMSTERDAM, JAN. I.—However little people may have
expected from the project of law for modifying the fun-
damental law to be proposed by the Government, nobody
scarcely looked for such an insignificant proposal as that
brought forward yesterday. The Government engaged to
do much more by the communication of the Minister for
Foreign Affairs. On the 20th of January, 1831, the States-
General especially accepted this engagement in their an-
swer, and now, after all that has been said and written about
the fundamental law, after what has lately passed between
the States- General and the Government, it believes that the
proposed modifications contains every thing that the situa-
tion of the country requires. We are of opinion that the
Government does not think of thus limiting the modifica-
tions, but that it will leave it to the Chambers to propose
the essential changes. We regret that the Government
should resign its most honourable task, which must now
be accomplished by the States-General.
Tug HAGUE, DEC. 31.--The Minister of State's Lieute-
nant-General Van Den Bosch transacted business with his
Majesty to-day. We understand that his ministerial func-
tions cease to-morrow.

The Second Chamber is to assetnble on the 13th of
January.

BELGIAN tUNDS—BaussELR, JAN. 4,
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Bothsohild's Loan, 5 per Cant lll
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 921%
-- ----- 3 per Cent. 70%
Loan of City,lB32, 4 per Cent....
Society of Commerce, 4!,,,i per Cent ll4
Rank of Belgium, 5 per Cent P3N,
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brusseis Papers, Jan. 4.
DUTCH FUNDS,—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 3.

Actual Dabt, '2% per Cent Money. 13111 s.
51% ;,2.C,
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amon Syndic, 41?,4 per cent. 91% 923
Ditto, ditto, 3Y, per cent
Commercial Company, 4, per cent 105% 1674
Ditto (1632 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto i;37, 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 95% 9614
Exchange on London, One month l2 021/4,
Two months
—Dutch Papers, Jan. 4.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 23
Five per Cents. l&talliques
Feist- per Cents
Titre pia Cents
Bank Shams 1660
—4l4",•emeine Zciteng, Dec 28
HA AlB U liG BOINEN:H A LLE, DEC. 31.
Bills. Money.
Austria= 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares

A thin-Russian Low, .. 106% 106%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certi tie:de ...... 103 103
Inscription, Ist Series. lo3k 103
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 99 97%.
Ditto in Certiticates

Dutch Actual Debt, 26' pe- Cent 5l , 51
Ditto 5 per Cent ........ ....„..... 98 '"
Polish Bondi
New ticket • 15314 155%
Angle.Datilsh Loan, 3 per Cent 7IX, '71%
Notwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent ..
Spanish, New 3 per Cents
EXCHANGES Og LONDON.
HAMBURG, DEC. 31.-13. s%—Two months, IS. 3%
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 24.—Seventy.five days, 11. 44.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS..,..BettuN, Dec. 31.
Bills. Money.
St, Schuld. Sch., 4 i per cent. lO4 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% 1021,
Exchange on Landon, three months 6 21Si
—Prussian State Gazette, Jan. 1.

PARLIAMENT RELIGION.—The Magistrates
and the Police are busily engaged at present in making
the Church hateful, and the Sunday an abomination to
Englishmen. They shut up at their pleasure, Temple
Bar and every other thoroughfare where a church
stands in the way—in every hotel and tavern, however
well conducted, they proclaim on the advent of that day
which was intended as a day of gladness and rejoicing
'for every Christian, that it shall be a day of gloom and
sadness—a day of pains and penalties ;on the Sabbath
the police become eves droppers, spies, and informers.
This sacred day is associated with the terrors of the
law—with police-officers and gaols ; on all others but
this we may eat, and drink, and drive, and go to bed
as we please. To the caprice of a small and meddling
sect, all rational enjoyment and healthy exercise are sa-
crificed. Individual liberty is treated with contempt,
and the great law of the Founder of our religion re-
versed. These impious Pharisees say, " man
was made for the Subbath." In the hope
that these blind leaders may yet see what
incalculable mischief they are doing to true religion, we
direct their attention to the following truths, delivered
by an acute observer of mankind and a good Christian,
the Rev. Sydney Smith :—" You may drag men into
the church by main force, and prosecute them for buy-
ing a pot of beer, and cut them off from the enjoyment
of a leg of mutton ; and you may do all this, till you
make the common people hate Sunday, and the clergy,
and religion, and everything which relates to such sub-
jects. There are many crimes, indeed, where persuasion
cannot be waited for, and where the untaught feelings
of all men go along with the violence of the law. A
robber and a murderer must be knocked on the head
like mad dogs ; but we have no great opinion of the
possibility of indicting men into piety, or of calling in
the Quarter-Sesions to the aid of religion. You may
produce outward conformity by these means ; but you
are so far from producing (the only thing worth pro-
ducing) the inward feeling, that you incur a great risk
of giving birth to a totally opposite sentiment. * *
To compel men to go to church under a penalty, ap-
pears to us to be absolutely absurd. The bitterest
enemy of religion will necessarily be that person who
is driven to a compliance with its outward ceremo-
nies, by informers and Justices of the Peace. In the
same manner, any constable who hears another swear
an oath, has a right to seize him, and carry him be-
fore a Magistrate, where he is to be fined so much
for each execration. It is impossible to carry such'
laws into execution ; and it is lucky that it is impos-
sible—for their execution would create an infinitely
greater evil than it attempted to remedy. The com-
mon sense, and common feeling of mankind, if left to
themselves, would silently repeal such laws ; and it is
one of the evils of these societies, that they render ab-
surdity eternal, and ignorance indestructible. Do not
let us be misunderstood ; upon the object to be accom-
plished, there can be but one opinion ;—it is only upon
the means employed, that there can be the slightest
difference of sentiment. To go to church is a duty of
the greatest possible importance ; and en the blasphemy
and vulgarity of swearing, there can- be but one opinion.
But such duties are not the objects of legislation ; they
must be left to the general state of public sentiment;
which sentiment must be influenced by example, by the
exertions of the pulpit and the press, and, above all, by
education. The fear of God can never be taught by con-
stables, nor the pleasures of religion be learnt from a
common informer."

SMUGGLING V. DUTY.--A singular adventure
has just occurred to a douanier (Custom-house officer)
on the Belgian frontier. A pretty, arch-looking peasant
was seated by the road side with a large basket, care-
fully closed and locked with a padlock. A douanier,
who was famed as a gay Lothario, approached her, and
asked for whom she was waiting ? She replied that, she
had been waiting for her brother, who had promised to
meet her there. On seeing the basket 7 the douanier,
with all due politesse, suggested that it was his duty to
inspect its contents. She replied that the basket be-
longed to her brother, hut that she had no idea what it
contained. On his proposal to accompany her to the
neighbouring Custom-house, and there to examine the
contents of the basket, she said that if he would carry
the basket there she would follow him on the arrival of
her brother, but she was afraid to leave the spot as she
had appointed to meet him there. The gay douanier
walked off to the office with the basket uner his arm,
and deposited it on the counter at the bureau. Two or
three hours elapsed, and no person appearing to claim
the basket, it was agreed to open it, when, to their sur-
prise, a fine full-grown child was found fast asleep, and
which has not even yet boon claimed by the arch-looking
peasant.

SUDDEN DEATH IN A WORKHOUSE.—On
Friday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Gell,
at the Royal George, Castle-street, Leicester-square,
on the body of Eliza Cotton, aged sixty-five, for fifteen
years an inmate of the St. Martin's workhouse. Mr.
Bainbridge, the workhouse surgeon, said he thought she
died of apoplexy, accelerated by intoxication. Verdict
—" Died of apopleXy."

EVENING ErnrlON.

TIIE C i A

U L tiliJ A itl)

The following account of a trial before the Council of
Discipline of the National Guard in Paris, will give an
idea of the mode in which this redoubtable force is or-
ganised and conducted.

M. Noel, a voltigeur of the Guard, was charged with
having abandoned his post and his musket, and with
havinc, struck his sergeant.

President—What have you to say in justification of
such unsoldierlike conduct ?
Noel—Eh, mon Dieu! What occasion is there to
make such a fuss about nothing ? I was on guard in
the evening, and was terribly thirsty, when who should
pass by but one of my friends. "Is that you, Noel ?"
said he. "Is that Pierre ?" said I. And then says
Pierre, ".What are you doing there, are you amusing
yourself?" " Not at all," said I, "on the contrary, I
am as badly off as in an eating house at 32 sous per
head, and much worse." " Wll, then," says Pierre,
" will you enjoy yourself ?" " And why not?" replied
I. Upon that, says Pierre, " Lay down your elarinette
(musket), and come and blow yourself out with a litre of
petit bleu (wine)." " There is no refusing that," said
I ; and laying down my musket of public order, off I
went to the wine shop. When the litre was gone I
could not do less than pay for a litre also, and the second
being drunk, Pierre in honour must pay for a third, and
I could not in honour refuse to call for a fourth. By this
time we were both mellow, and lost our centre of gravity.
It was not until eleven o'clock, when I had slept off
my wine, that I comprehended the fault I had commit-
ted, and I assure you I had a famous remorse of con-
science—first, for having been drunk and given myself
a headache ; and secondly, for having abandoned the
musket of order ; but the affair is over, and I do not
see the necessity for taking me out of my business to
answer for my conduct.

President—But this is not all ; you are accused of
having struck your sergeant.
Noel--That's another affair, and still less worth
talking about. I was at the guard-house, where
the gentlemen, were discussing the eternal sugar
question, which interested me less than the Postilion
de Longumeau or a tune upon a barrel organ, and to
get rid of the annoyance fell asleep. I dreamt that I
was spending the day at the Barrier, and that .a piou-
piou (a young soldier) had taken the liberty of pinching
the chin of my wife. In my indignation I laid about
me, and, waking, who should I have ben thumping—not
the piou-piou, but my sergeant. * •
The Capitaine—Your excuse is not admissible. Tho
sergeant's report is very different.
Noel—Take it or leave it as you please ; do you
mean to say that because a man is a National Guard
he cannot be a somnambulist?

The President—Your conduct has be infamous ;
indiscipline, insubordination, abandonment of your
post, and intoxication. The tribunal must be severe.
You are sentenced to twelve hours' imprisonment.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEI,

Per Quarter.
Cgrlis I

Nheat.

Barley.

S. to S. S. to
65 —136
68 ! 32 38
45 GO 28 35
68 I 41
70 38
66 80 34 45
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
00 90 00 401
00 9 4 0 0 20'
100 11 0 0 0 56'
S 0 10u 40 50,:

Oats.

1110rpeth..,—...-
Penrith
Winchester —1

Bea.

Pease.

S. t 7 S.

3. s
41

22 S 4
2C 96

48 '4O

P. to B.
43

Per
Cardiff-..
Carmarthen.
Cowbridge--.1
Swansea --.1

23 27
s. d. s. d.
00 44
00 29
0 40
22 34

42 <6
s.
00 00
56 00
50 53
56 60.

40 41

35 36
s. d. s. d.
00 0 0
00 e •
00 o •
00 00

76 6 C
86 90
90 n 0
0. 00

Per 14011,
Barnardcastle IS- 6 21 9 8 0 93' 7 0 8 8 9 0 12 0
Durham 1.2 (5 136 70 ii Oi 6 0 8010 0 130
Richmond -16 0 21. 0 7 0 9lk 5 0 8 0 9 0 11 0°
Stockton...,._ 13 0 16 8 0 0 9 9 6 0 8 0 7 6 8 4
NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE.-Jan. 4.
Red. White.
Wheat, Northumberland 49s 72s 7ls 76;.1
- Norfolk and Suffolk f,7s, 71: 73s 76,
Berwick anti Scotch fill, 64s -1 685.
Foreign 6ss. 31s. ... 89s, 763.1
Rye, Norfolk ,ind Suffolk 4os 45 -s. -s.
- Foreign Us 33s -s. -s. '
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk,.. 38s. 44s -s. -s.
---- Grinding and Feeding na 34c... -s
6336: 47-2: i. ... ::: 7........:5ie ..,: ". :
.- Sas .1.:
13talt, Norfolk and Suithlk
Beans, Small
- Tick 42s 44s .
Pease, White
-s
ss
Gray
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 3os. 31s -a. --8.
-.--- -
- ---- Feed 283 29
- Foreign
Flour (per sack) 51s. 53e. -, s.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET-Jan, 3.:
Wneat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk -6.105. to 67. fine 741.
Lin. and Cain.
- Yorkshire
- White
-s 603 to 653. fine 765.
.---- Foreign, teed
White -a. -s. to 74a. nne 8:s.
.. . - fi, to 45,. fine 482.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk -
Lincolnshire -e. to 30s. fine 425.
-
Yorkshire Wold •• • gs. to -e. One 39,,
- Foreign
Beans, New
-. Old 42s. to 465, fine 48a
Oats, Potato
-s. to 32a. fine a"
--- Poland
-s. -8. to 3•25. fine ffis,
- Frieziand and Small ...
• lt,:!aling ........................ ~...
Shelling .............. ..., 351. to 38s. Od. per Lone
Malt
Rapeseed . e .. .............. •-..5. 465. fine 53e. per Load.
.... ... i.. -1. Os. 24!. Os. 251. Os. per Last.