The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-11 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

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Triumphant success of " Poor Jack," equal to " My Pell and
my Partner Joe." Mr. T. P. Cooke in Two Pieces. Ex-
traordinary attraction, and crowded houses.
THIS EVENING, MARCH H.
Will be acted a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called
POOR JACK ; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR.
hi which Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the
Company, will perform.
After v-hieh,
ROBERT MACAIRE.
Robert Macaire by Mr. T. P. Cooke.
To conclude with
THE RIEVER'S RANSOM; OR, GILDEROY.

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' TEFIORE and SALOMONS, and others, as
examples of Jews performing all the duties of
good citizens. He also explained that the pre-
sent law did not actually exclude the Jews, for
they were admitted into the town councils with-
out taking any oath.
Two Tory gentlemen, Captain HAMILTON and
Mr. MiLNEs, to their honour, spoke in favour of
the Bill; and Captain HAMILTON declared that the
speech of Sir R. INGLIs would have decided him
to support the Bill had he heard no arguments
in its favour. Untaught, however, by this pro-
per rebuke, Sir ROBERT INGLIs resolved to keep
the land Christian by keeping the Jews out of
office, and he divided the House. The second
reading was carried, however, in spite of him, by
137 to 24.

The County Coroners' Bill was also read
a second time, after a short debate.
The Double Costs Bill, the Roughing of Cattle
(Ireland) Bill, and the Evidence Bill, were
severally read a second time.
In a Committee of Ways and Means, a sum of
8,000,0001. was voted out of the Consolidated Fund.
The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring
in a Bill for the better regulation of Municipal
Corporations in Scotland.
The House adjourned at Eight o'Clock.

We yesterday gave an outline of the pro-
ceedings of the meeting at Liverpool to
petition for the repeal of the Import Du-
ties ; we have since then received a com-
plete report, but we find nothing in it of
sufficient importance to induce us to publish it
entire. Believing that the national prosperity
can only be promoted by removing restrictions
from our trade, and contentment only be restored
by allowing the people to be prosperous, we re-
joice at every attempt by such an influential
body as the merchants of Liverpool to knock the
fetters off our trade. It was not possible that
such an enlightened and intelligent body of men
should speak on a subject with which they must
be very familiar, without bringing before the
public a great deal of information. We yesterday
transcribed some of it, and we shall now
make some additional extracts, to illustrate
the practical workings of our present sys-
tem. The mischief of a high protecting duty to
the parties in whose behoof it is imposed was
made clear by Mr. AIKEN in the following
passage :--

At the Commencement of the present century the production
of sugar, for. hoMe consumption, was something less than
70,006 tons ;:' but in tile course of a shorter period it increased
to the enormpias extent , of 20,000 tons, until the late high
prices; the dearness of bread, and other causes, gave a check
to the consumption; -which was now 10 per cent. below what
it was some few years ago; notwithstanding the increase which
had taken place in the population. But let them now look at
the effect produced by the measure of protection. It must be
recollected that in the course of the period of which he had
been sleaking, the net average price of sugar was up as high
as 80s., and afterwards fell down to little more than 20s. Now,
only take from 80s. and 20s. the amount of freightage and ex-
penses of landing, and find the result to the planter and dealer.
The high price encouraged production to an extent beyond
what this country could consume. This stimulus was not
confined to the planters, who were content with getting good
prices for two or three years, but many were induced to em-
bark their capital in the purchase of estates, to spend money
in fitting up establishments at the west end of London; the
expense of which they could riot bear, and then down fell the
prices, and ruin overwhelmed the parties so protected.
When so ruined, let us add they clamoured for
still higher protection, for loans, for relief, and
not unfrequently the people were taxed ad-
ditionally to remunerate the planters, and the
west-enders, for the consequences of their own
unjust folly in plundering the people. Mr.
AIKEN also gave this good advice to the
Ministers :

He might be permitted to say that he could easily fancy
the possibility of a Government existing without haVing the
means of carrying out all the measures which they might deem
beneficial to the country. Then he would say, I cannot blame
you if you are unable to carry on your measures, but I do
blame you exceedingly if you do not propose them.—( Cheers).
If you do feel that, for the welfare of this great commercial
community, it is absolutely necessary to pass certain measures,
+hen you must propose and explain your measures, you must
enforce them to the utmost extent of your ability and power,
and if you were not seconded by Parliament and the people, the
blame is with them. But you have yourselves the glorious sa-
tisfaction, that, at all events, you have attempted to do your
duty.—(eteers).

One more quotation from Mr. W. RATIT-
BONE'S speech, describing the loss of a trade we
formerly carried on in furniture, caused by the
timber duties, must suffice. He said—

There was formerly in this country great manufacturing
of furniture carried on, and particularly in Lancaster, but
there it had been comparatively cut off; in Liverpool it had
been very much diminished ; and now, instead of supplying
our own West India colonies with cabinet goods, manufactured
in our own country, they went to Hamburgh, and other places
on the Continent. In consequence of the competition from
abroad, the importation of Spanish mahogany had decreased
from 1,083,191 feet to 918,383 feet in the preceding year. The
export to the Continent had suffered a diminution within the
course of the past year. The manufacturer at Hamburgh gets '
his mahogany for 45/., whilst the British manufactorer paid
901., thus showing clearly that we were furnishing the means
of cutting our own throats.

We cannot, however, leave the subject with-
out expressing our regret that the meeting
should designedly have excluded from conside-
ration the worst of all import duties—the duty on
foreign corn. It was supposed that the question
might engender disputes, and therefore the re-
quisionists agreed beforehand to say nothing of
it. One honest fellow, who is described as an
operative, expressed his dissatisfaction at the ar-
rangement, but was appeased by the explana-
tions offered to him, and the implied disapproba-
tion of the meeting that the food of the labourer
should be made the subject of a tax. No men-
►ion was made, either in the resolutions or in
the speeches, of the Corn-laws, except as they
were severely condemned by the general *ti,ln-
nunciation of all laws as demoralizing which
limit the field of employment, and of all
imports as detrimental which are levied on
the necessaries of life. Many persons, ourselves
included, wish that the Corn-laws had been
denounced by name, believing that the righteous
principles of free trade will be best promoted by
never losing an opportunity of holding up to
odium the most flagrant violation of them now on
the statute-book.

We feel, however, that we have no right to
censure the merchants of Liverpool for Ltudying
their own interest. It is very natural that they
should feel more on the discriminating duties on
coffee and sugar, which palpably hamper
their trade with the Brazils, than on the corn
duties, the abolition of which might divert
some of the corn trade, now carried on between
Liverpool and Ireland, from that port. One of
the speakers, Mr. J. B. Moortt, for example,
said—

Upwards of 30,000 tons of shipping from the port of Liver-
pool were engaged in the Brazilian trade, forty-eight or
fifty-two vessels went annually to one port, and yet he said it
would be hardly credited when he told the meeting that of the
forty-eight vessels leaving for the port of Brazil alluded to, not
one one of them returned here. There must, therefore, be
thatig t saidcouldnot
be
fact
coffee thaterp of thatcargoes
port this year exceeded 60,01 ) tons, which would have loaded up-
wards of 300 vessels instead of 48.
A Mr. MELLOR also showed where the tight
shoe pinches the Liverpool merchants :
There were in this poi t 3,000 tons of Brazilian sugar, which
would require 22/. per ton to cover the first cost, and, yet this
sugar could not that day be sold for more than 201. per ton.
The importer consequently at that low price (21d. per lb.
would lose 10 per cent. Sugar of equal quality was selling at
from 481. to 52/. per ton in bond. If they had been permitted
to sell this Brazilian sugar on the spot for consumption, in-
stea
d of refining it and sending it principally to our own colo-
nies, there would have been a saving to the public of 9%0004
We
dare not condemn the Liverpool mer-
chants for exclusively attending to their own
interests, and disregarding the general welfare,
but they must not blame the landlords who
up
hold the Corn-laws, and the Chartists who de-
mand Universal Suffrage, for following their
selfish example. If the middle-classes seek
only their own advantage they must not be sur-
prised when they appeal to the multitude
that the multitude laugh their appeals to
scorn. The working classes have been
Practically taught, unfortunately, to mis-
trust the middle classes when they agitate for
free trade or the repeal of the Corn-laws ; and
hence the cry, warranted by the conduct of the
capitalists, which argument cannot rebut, that
their object is to enrich themselves, to beat down
wages, and enslave the millions more than ever.
As long as the middle classes, however, are so
keenly alive to their own interests, and so dead
to those of others, shaking the empire to get rid
of a little personal inconvenience, and refusing
to move a little finger to redress the grievances
of the working millions, alienation and mistrust
will continue, and the landlords will continue, as
at present, to tax, oppress, and plunder both.
We deeply regret, if we may not blame,
every instance of such short-sighted selfishness;
for what is now needed more than the revision of
the tariff, even more than the repeal of the
Corn.laws, is to reconcile and re-unite the middle ,

and lower classes. Till they be again knitted to-
gether by mutual services, and mutual kindness,
and confidence between them be restored, society
will continue to resemble, as at present, a sleep-
ing volcano.

and the members, parts of the same body, and to
depreciate foreign trade, or the home trade, or
agriculture, is as silly as to depreciate the right
or the left leg, or to say that the hand is more
worthy than the eye.
What Mr. HUME and Mr. WARBURTON, whom
the Post ridicules, and what we and all the
Anti-Corn-law League want, is not to injure
agriculture or the home trade, but to make the
Legislature remove the restrictions it has laid on
foreign trade on the unfounded pretence that, by
so doing, it encourages agriculture and the home
trade, as if our steam-engine manufacturers.
would be benefited by cutting off our trade
with the Brazils. We want the Legislature,
by allowing freedom to commerce, to enlarge the
market for the productions of our industry. Our
demands are now met by holding up to us the
example of the continental States for imitation.
Is it then come to this that the Tories, formerly
such mouthing boasters of English freedom, now
tell us, for lack of sounder argument, that our own
old English freedom is worth nothing, and that
to be great and good we must follow the ex-
ample of knouted Russia and police-ruled
France ? We have for some time mourned
over the gradual decay of sound economical
knowledge, and the growth of a very unreason-
able love of political contrivances to encourage
trade, amongst the countrymen of ADAM SMITH ;
and of this spurious importation from abroad by
the disciples of the CASTLEREAGH school of poli-
tics, the recommendation of the Post to en-
cumber our trade with restrictions, after the
manner of France and Ruisia, is the masterpiece.

A singular, and, for all true patriots, a melan-
choly change has of late years crept over the
mind and policy of England. There was a time
when it was the boast of her sons, speaking of
her free institutions, that she was the wonder of
the world and the envy of surrounding nations.
Latterly all respect, all love, all reverence for
these institutions has come to an end, and there
is one almost universal anxiety to imitate, and to
rival in multiplicity and minuteness of regula-
tion, the despotisms of Russia and France.

We reproach no one party with this as a pecu-
liarity, for all parties seem to act and feel alike
on the subject. If, to quote an example or two,
the metropolitan police, an imitation of France,
was introduced by Sir R. PEEL, the centralized
management of the poor, following his practices,
and those of Holland, ,was recommended by the
Whigs; while the Radicals claim the merit of
a completed police Act, and a multitude of abor-
tive attempts to fetter our limbs and our minds
under the pretext of taking care of our health,
our morals, and our lives.
Having got so far in our race after foreigners, we
shall no doubt, bye and bye, adopt their pass-
port system, and their system of taking an ac-
count of all the movements of every individual.
In fact, it is somewhat unjust to insist as we now
do on the Government protecting every indivi-
dual against every possible evil, and at the same
time refusing to it the authorised means of
watching over and curbing those wicked spirits
who are the immediate cause of disorder. We
regret this departure from the localizing and
even individualizing system of our Saxon ances-
tors, and this imitation of the centralizing system
of France, itself but an imitation of the system of
old imperial Rome, which placed the whole
world in subjection to one tyrant.
One of the most extraordinary specimens of
this anti-Saxon, un-English spirit of imitation,
which we have yet met with, appeared in yester-
day's Morning Post. It seems to us the
last stage of grovelling, misplaced worship
of an idol, which time and experience have
proved can give no aid to man. If there be
one part of human exertion and skill for which
England is, and has been, for ages superior to
all the States of the Continent, except Holland,
and the Hanseatic towns at one time, while they
were free and independent, it is the extent of her
trade promoted by comparative freedom. While
the Elbe, the Danube, the Weser, the Seine,
the Loire, and the Garonne, could not boast of
a single steam-vessel belonging to them, there
was scarcely a river in England but was crowded
with steam-vessels ; and they had been sent all
round our coast, and even across the At-
lantic almost, before they became familiarly
known on the Continent. We refer to this fact,
as the example of that commercial activity and
enterprise in which England has for ages sur-
passed all other nations but her own free-born
children in the United States.

We subjoin an extract from a letter from Alex-
andria, which we have just received from a naval
officer of high rank, who took an active and dis-
tinguished part in the capture of Beyrout and
Acre, and whose views are quite in accordance
with those which we yesterday expressed re-
specting the hatti-scheriff or firman conferring
upon the VICEROY the hereditary Pachalic of
Egypt. Having already published that docu-
ment, the translation which, he so obligingly
sends us comes too late ; but we are 'not the less
sensible of the kind intention thus manifested to
serve us. We unite with him in the expression
of a hope, that the British Government will
insist upon those modifications being made
in the firman, which MEHEMET ALI re-
gards as essential to the maintenance of his
authority in Egypt. England cannot and will
not accord to the SULTAN the right of nomi-
nating any of the VICBROY'S sons he pleases to
the Pachalic of Egypt. To do so would be to
deliver over the country to the horrors of a perio-
dical civil war, and to deprive the reigning PACHA
of the allegiance of his own family. We know
that the Porte would never have ventured to
carry its domination to the height it has done,
but for the underhand intrigues of Lord PON-
SONBY, and therefore the wisest thing the Go-
vernment can do is to recal this diplomatist
from a post in which he has long ceased
to be distinguished for anything btxt mis-
chief. We must confess, however, that the
chief .ground of our confidence that justice
will be accorded to the VICEROY, is based on the
presence of Commodore NAPIER at -Alexandria,
who throughout has displayed equal saga-
city and courage in bringing this question to
a satisfactory final adjustment. The Gallant
Commodore is not hackneyed in the crooked
paths of diplomacy, and we have no doubt
that his sterling good sense will be more
than a match for the chicanery of the Divan
under the sapient guidance of Lord- PONSONBY..
While NAPIER remains at Alexandria, we are
sure that the VICEROY will be under the
guidance of counsels in perfect harmony with
the best interests not only of Egypt but of Eu-
rope. And now for our extract :
" I now send you the translation of the hatti-
scheriff, conferring on Mehemet Ali the heredi-
tary Pachalic of Egypt. He has consented to
the 2d, 4th, sth articles, and the part of the 6th,
which regards the construction of ships of war.
He very properly rejects the Ist article, which,
if accepted, would set all his family by the
ears, and bring on a civil war. Article 3d he
has begged the Porte to mO'dify, as being too
oppressive to Egypt. He also objects to the
part of article 6th, which relates to the appoint-
ment of officers. Hitherto the Pacha has ap-
pointed all officers under the rank of General of
Division,- and he conceives a deviation from that
would disorganize his army, and indeed create a
mutiny. . _

Nor has this commercial activity been in-
consistent with agricultural improvement.
On the contrary, with the probable ex-
ception of some parts of Belgium, of Lom-
bardy, and of Tuscany, all of which, however,
were indebted originally to commerce or manu-
factures for their agricultural prosperity, Eng-
land is as much superior to the despotic States of
the Continent for her agriculture as for her
commerce. Most of the useful arts, and even
some of the fine arts, have here obtained a like
ascendancy. We cannot think that the absence
of crime and the general security of person and
property on the Continent are such as to warrant
us in having recourse to the police system of des-
potic States; but we are sure that our commer-
cial and agricultural success, in comparison to
theirs, is sufficient to make us all start with horror
at any proposition to adopt their commercial
system. The writer in the Post, however deeply
in love with restrictions, says—

•° On the Continent of Europe we behold the Governments
doing all they can toencourage ',ratable industry, both
agricultural and manufacturing, * * They have
resolved, and we think they have very wisely and patrioti-
cally resolved, to encourage their own manufacturing in-
dustry, rather than that of Great Britain ; and, therefore,
we feel confident that, if peace continue, they will not aban-
don their present policy, no matter what alterations' Great
Britain may make in her commercial tariff."

On the principle here expounded the writer
stimulates the Legislature to imitate the Go-
vernments of the Continent in encouraging, as
he supposes, the industry of our people, by lay-
ing restrictions on its exercise. The best encou-
rag,ementis to allow itto obtain its proper reward.
The farmer cultivates the ground beyond the
supply of his own wants, in order to obtain the
luxuries which trade supplies, and in proportion
as they are cut off the stimulus to his exertions
is deadened. Every encouragement for one
branch of industry is a restriction on another,
with a tax in addition to enforce it. We cannot
believe that legislators are 'so well acquainted
with the relative value of different branches of
industry that they should say this can be advanta-
geously impeded, and that promoted. We are
decidedly adverse to this blind plan of imitating
the policy of the French and the Russians, and
experience justifies our aversion.
Suppose, for example, our cotton manufacture
had been regarded by the Legislature of the
last century as an exotic, making us dependent
on a foreign State, and the Legislature had done
all in its power, instead of leaving it to its fate
happily for us, to prevent its growth, and encou-
rage some other branch of trade—suppose that
it had succeeded, and then Lancashire, instead
of now containing about one million of inhabi-
tants, and being cultivated in every part, and
everywhere intersected with roads and canals,
would have remained one of the least improved
counties of England. The cotton manufactory
came late into existence, and is therefore unin-
cumbered with a multitude of restrictions which
legislation previously fixed on other trades.. In
this respect it is like steam navigation, which has
grown into greatness without the help of legisla-
tive protection. Both these branches of industry
have contributed eminently to Britain's present
greatness; but both would have been nipped in
the bud had the Continental system been applied
to them. At the same time they contribute
much to the extension of agriculture and the
value of its produce. Without steam navigation
the London market would be inaccessible to
many parts of Scotland. Without the cotton
manufacture the farmers of Ireland and Lanca-
shire would receive nothing in exchange for their
products. It is obvious that the success of
these and similar branches of trade, foreign
and domestic, affords the best encouragement for
agriculture, and to lay restrictions on them is
really to deprive the agriculturist of markets,
customers, and payment for his labour.
This leads us to expose a mistake in the Post,
which no writer, looking beyond the dead letters
he was transcribing, could have fallen into.
Our Contemporary puts down a long array of
statistical figures, and comes to the conclusion
that from the land we raise 246,000,0001. an-
nually,lß4uBt,Ohooow,oooisl.,tha
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while manufacturing industry yields only
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large proportion of the 246
millions exchanged
for manufactu • ring produce, which is the sole
measure of its value ? But for the f manu acturm •
g
produce, the agricultural produce would have no
value ; but for the demands of the manufacturer,
and what they supply in exchange, it never would
be'produced. The value put down by the Post
is not measured by use, but by exchange, and
is, in fact, derived from the commerce and the
manufactures which the Post places in opposi-
tion to it.

" It is probable this hatti-scheriff has been
concocted by Lord Ponsonby, who carries his en-
mity to Mehemet Ali beyond all bounds. The
rejection of the Napier Convention, and the me-
nacing, attitude of the Turks, which obliged
Ibrahim Paella to pass to the eastward of the
-.Dead Sea on his march to Gaza, has hurried into
the next world many thousands of men, women,
and children, and if the Allies shouldl insist on
the first article of the hatti-scheriff, there will be
discord in the family and civil war in the coun-
try. Syria is now completely evacuated, and the
Turkish steamer has returned to Constantinople
with Mehemet Ali's answer, couched. in very
submissive terms. It is to be hoped the British
Government will use their influence with the
Porte to change the offensive articles, otherwise
this country, which is ngw in an improving state,
will be thrown into disorder and confusion, and
there is no need of that, for the Ottoman Em-
pire will find quite enough to do in Syria and
Arabia without creating anarchy here."

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached
us. The Chamber of Peers on Monday
,pro-
nounced the Editor of the National' M. DELA-
ROCHE, guilty of a breach of privilege, for having
described it as an hospital of Incurables; and
Irvasrevseuuffteerdinbgimfrofmremsevbeerieu
being
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he was sentenced to pay a fine of 10,000 francs,
and to suffer imprisonment for one month. Tf the
Chamber of Peers cannot be independent it can
be tyrannical. In describing it, recourse need
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not be had to negations. It has a positive cha-
edW,
been apprised of its evil perpetrations. In
England we only think of the Chamber of
Peers as a Jury for the trial of regicidal con-
spirators and the manufacturers of infernal ma-
chines. So far as regards legislation, tile French
Chamber of Peers is a mockery. No one ever
dreams of regarding it in the light of an inde-
pendent branch of the Legislature.
Before the trial of the National, Count MOLE
defended the Peerage from the attack made
upon it in the correspondence of the Prince
of MOSKWA, son of Marshal NET, recently pub-
lished in all the Journals. The Count is a great
stickler for antiquity, and contended that the
Peerage dated from 1815. It is something
to be able to prove that it had a BOURBON and
not a revolutionary origin. No proof is wanted
to convince France that it has not degenerated
into a liberalism that would have displeased
Louis XVIII. It has lost none of its illiberality
nor of its subserviency to the Court.
The typhus fever is raging among the garrison
at Ham.
The Deputies did not meet in sufficient num-
bers to make a " House" on Monday.
The Vigie Morbihan states that a frightful mortality is de-
cimating the population of L'Orient, as well civil as military.
Young females, artillerymen, seamen, marines, . and soldiers,
have been carried off in an alarming proportion since the Ist of
January last.
Count Philip. de Chabot, who is to act as Consul-General
of France at Alexandria, during the absence of M. Cochelet,
arrived at Toulon on the 4th, in the morning.
The Acheron packet is placed at his disposal, and will
con-
vey him to Egypt.
A letter from Oran, of the 25th of February, says :
" The last razia which we undertook has spread consterna-
tion among the distant tribes, and its most decided and imme-
diate effects are the dismissal of the Corps of Observation on
the line from Cheliff to Mascara, and the precipitate journey
of the Emir to the west, in order to prevent the mutiny which
is ready to break out in the corps stationed in the country of
Tlemecen. but. we lost two brave
" This razia cost us only a few men,
officers, one of the cavalry and one of the infa!rtry, who were
killed, and are greatly regretted by the whole division.
" At Mortaganen, the troops turned out on a false alarm.
It was the Arabs running from the camp. of Mustapha Bon
Timmy, who, passing by the country of the Hacherns, attempted
to carry off some men, or rather, perhaps, some. hea4 of cattle.
" The fine weather has returned; the heat is already very
great. We are to take the field very shortly, but it is utterly
impossible to penetrate into the general plans. You may,
'h
however expect to hear soon of a successful expedition, for our
General as a happy turn.
" The health of the troops is very good. Great supplies
come from France, which gives us good reason to believe that
the expedition of General Bugeaud will very soon touch our
provincNe.
Nothing of importance has occurred at Anew. The #

—Again, the Post separates our foreign from
part cannot flourish
of our home
our home trade, but the slightest reflection ought
ePr.ostA
great art that
On
t withouto satisfy
the theo other.
trade consists in the exchange of cotton
cloth for food, of sugar and tea for meat,
of coffee and wine for beer and fruit,
and if we imported and exported less, the
home trade would suffer in proportion as the
foreign trade was diminished. Knowing the
intimate connection between all branches of in-
dustry, we never have indulged in any non-
sensical calculations as to the relative value of
different branches. They are all, like the belly

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, IVIARCH 11, IR4I

Duke of Nemours and the Duke of Aumale are expected by '
the end of March ; the first is to command all the cavalry, the
second a regiment of infantry."— Le Commerce.
B tUSSELS, MARCH 7.—Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
arrived at Brussels this week, and set out for Luxemburg after
stopping 28 hours.
BRUSSELS, MARCH B.—The King left Brussels this morn-
ing, attended by M. Comday, Secretary to the Civil List. His
Majesty will return at the beginning of next week.
A letter from the Hague to the Emancipator, says, "It is
not believed here that the ex-King will return to Holland.
His marriage to the Countess of Oultrement has increased the
irritation which the discovery of his financial intrigues had ex-
cited. In the recent sittings of the States-General the Minister of
Finance acquainted them that King William had spent in
Belgium, since the revolution, to support his cause in that
country, above thirteen millions of florins. Mr. Rochusson
presented to the sections a list of the persons amongst whom the
sum was divided, but he refused to allow it to be printed, or
even to have a copy taken."
The Courrier Beige alone received 1,460,000 francs, ac-
cording to the disclosures printed in the Belga, at the time of
the twenty-four articles, an allegation which has not been con-
tradicted.

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