The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-28 00:00:00

FLANDERS PAPERS.

BRUNSWICK, AUG. 14.—We lately read an article
in the Bremen Journal announcing that our Duke was
about to marry. This news caused great joy here, but
we are to learn that it is unfounded.

HANOVER, AUG. 19.—We hear that there is a sitting
of the Council of State to-morrow, in which the ques-
tion is to be discussed, " How far it:might be advisable,
necessary, or useful, now that the new Constitution is
published, to grant an amnesty, to those who have op-
posed the Government, through attachment to the Con-
stitution of 1833."
HANOVER, AUG. 2—The King returned yesterday
from Brunswick.
ALTONA, AUG. 22.—Their Majesties the King and
Queen of Denmark arrived here at 1 o'clock this morn-
ing from Itzehoe, with a numerous suite. They were
received at the gates of the town by the Governor and
the principal civil authorities.
This morning the King visited several public esta-
blishments and held a levee. The town is to be illumi-
nated this evening.
ODESSA, AUG. 7.—Count \Ville, general of ca-
valry, died on the second of this month, at his estate,
Oreanda, on the south coast of the Crimea.
HAMBURG, AUG. 25.—Their Majesties the King and
Queen of Denmark visited our theatre yesterday even-
ing where at their desire the opera of Guido and Ginevra
was performed.
For some weeks past there have been reports that
Count Von Sedenitzki, Prime Bishop of Brcslaw, has
resigned his high dignity. It is added that his Majesty
has given him the title of Excellency, and appointed
him Privy Councillor and Member of the Council of
State. This prelate has most probably taken this de-
cisive step to avoid a collision with the Court of Rome.
—Harnburgh Papers, Aug. 25.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 26.—Their Majesties arrived at
Oftend the day before yesterday, at nine o'clock in the
evening.
Several individuals, implicated in the affairs of the
meeting in the Rue Haute, were set at liberty the day
before yesterday.
We were assured on Friday last, that Sir Hamilton
Seymour, Minister Plenipotentiary of England at
our Court, had 'announced to all the English
officers at Brussels that they were to pro-
ceed to join their respective regiments. We would
not repeat this report without having ascertained its
correctness ; but in the meantime the Emancipation
mentioned it, and we then said that we had heard of it.
From subsequent information we are able to say that
the news was not correct, and we are authorised for-
mally to contradict it.
ANTWERP, AUG. 26.—The Marquis of Londonderry
arrived here yesterday on board the Staad Antwerpen
steamer.

Letters from Louvain say :—" In pulling
down the
walls of a cellar in the fish-market, a vase has been
found, containing about 5,000 small pieces of silver coin
of the 12th and 13th centuries, belonging to Brabant,
Hainault, and Flanders, most of them in perfect preser-
vation. This is a most happy discovery for the numis-
matical history of our country. We cannot conjecture
how such treasure could come to be concealed in such a
place, for at the time whon it was buried there it was
equivalent to a large fortune."—Journal du Commerce
d'Anvers, Aug. 27.

The Hull letters from London are now con-
veyed by raway the entire distance, and are due to the
Post-office at ten minutes after nine in the forenoon,
d aft the
arerrnoon,
in-
stead of a quarter to duce in the afternoon,thane mail
for London leaves Hull at half-past four in
instead of ball-past eleven forenoon. By this
merit Hull is brought a day tearer to London thananfgoer-
merly, there being ample. time to reply. the same day.-
Thus, though above 40 miles more distant than Lincol
Hull is practically an hour nearer t.o Loudon than we are.
How long is this to continue 2—Lincoln Gazette. •

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS oF YESTERDAY.

(From 'the Globe.)
The arrivals from the Levant, of which we give the
the details in another portion of our columns, convey
interesting particulars of the present state of the Eastern
question, which the French papers, received this morn-
ing, are also occupied in discussing, on the data supplied
by the correspondence from Alexandria, which was
brought by the Etna. M. De Lamartine has
also thrown down a golden apple of poetical descant,
and political discord, in the shape of a letter to the
'Journal de Saone-et-Loire, on the conflicting interests
involved in this question, which he would reconcile by
a grand partition of the Ottoman Empire into four
Protectorates—Constantinople and the Black Sea to
fall under Russian protect:on, Egypt under that of Eng
land, the shores of the Adriatic under that of Austria,
and Syria under that of France. This is a poetical ,
method of preserving the integrity of the Ottoman em-
pire. We do not mean to sneer indiscriminately at M.
de Lamartine's ideas, after the fashion of some of our
Parisian Contemporaries. There is certainly too much
imagination in them for practical guidance ; but imagi-
nation, after all, is the only faculty by which we can gain
any insight into the dim future of Eastern destinies.
The imaginative flights of M. de Lamartine have
been at least taken from Eastern ground, and are founded
upon local: impressions. Where he errs is, perhaps,
chiefly in projecting his views too boldly into a far fu-
ture, and prompting lines of conduct not justified by the
necessities, or policy, or rights of the present, however
they may, or may not, result from the slow process of
years, or ages. The Journal des Debats observes justly,
" The question of the East is, at this day, the great
question of the world. We are well aware that the status
quo, even if it can be once more maintained, is, after ail,
only an adjournment of that question. But what is
peace at any time but an adjournment of war ? We
have already adjourned it for ten years ; if we should
only adjourn it by the maintenance of the status quo a
few years more, humanity and civilization would be
greatly indebted to us."
(From the Standard.)
The press rarely escapes censure and punishment
when it transgresses, or which is practically the same
thing, when malice or vindictive spite can bring it within
the clutches of the law. Even its best services are
partially and parsimoniously acknowledged ; the mere
talkers who steal and parrot its reasoning, running
away with the far greater share of the public gratitude,
and for that which it does not do—though much the
greater part of virtue lies in forbearance—the press
obtains no credit whatever. Justice to " our order,"
calls upon us at this moment to try, at least, if we
cannot obtain for the press of England that acknow-
ledgment which is unquestionably its due. if
the British Empire and Europe escape the cala-
mity of a war, of which no man can calculate
the duration or the event, the blessing will, under Pro-
vidence, be mainly due to the British Press. Had we,
instead of avowing our dislike to war, instead of em-
ploying towards the French people and their King the
language of respectful friendship, while we manifested
a perfect scorn of the fear of hostilities—had the Press
of England, instead of pursuing this conciliatory and
manly course—a course in which we rejoice to say the
press of all parties was unanimous—had we, instead
of this, merely imitated the press of Paris, no human
wisdom could have saved Europe from the scourge of
a desolating war. It was only necessary to retort upon
our French contemporaries their own arts—to arouse
the people of England and to provoke the
people of France to feelings that could be extin-
guished only in seas of blood. There was no
want of topics exactly reflecting those which the Paris
Journals did not scruple to employ ; but to particula-
rise these topics would be in part to incur the guilt of
employing them. Let the consideration be dismissed
with this remark—that if Great Britain has her weak
points, her censurable errors, her seeming divisions,
France has more of both, greater and more real.
They have not, however, been touched upon by any
single British Journal of which we are aware. But the
services of the British press in this momentous crisis
are more than negative. We have reasoned with the
French people, in a tone of respect and earnestness, to
assure them at once of our friendly feeling and of our
sincerity ; we have let them see that we consult their
honour and welfare, next to our own ; we have let them
know that we can distinguish between a people and its
corrupt minister—must we add, between a people and
its corrupt press!
(From the Courier.)
The Church struggle in Scotland is, we see, progress-
ing, and the attention of the people, for some time past
so much turned to the contest between the civil and
ecclesiastical judicatories, as it manifested itself in the
case of the Strathbogie minister, has received, since the
last meeting of the Commission ofthe General Assembly,
a new direction. A presbytery in the west of Scotland
—that of Irvine—was proceeding in terms of a law of
the Church lately passed, to detach, quoad spiritualia,
a portion of the parish of Steuarton from the charge of
the parish minister, and to erect it into what is called a
quoad sacra parish, when the patron, and we believe
the principal heritor of the parish applied for and ob-
tained an interdict from the Court of Session against
their doing so ; and this on the ground that it is not
competent, under the law of Scotland, for the Church,
of her own authority, to make this disjunction. We
believe that in this view of the law the patron is right ;
and that, without the co-operation of the Court of
Teinds, the erection of even what is called a quoad
sacra parish, where all the temporalities of the benefice
remain in the hands of the minister quoad civilia, is
beyond the reach of the Church Courts. But, be this
as it may, the interdicted presbytery did not go into the
Civil Court to show cause why the inhibition should be
removed. They went, like good ecclesiastics, to the
General Assembly. The Assembly remitted the case—
most important as it was—to that doubtful and conve-
nient body, a commission ; and the last commission, in
perfect keepinc, with the spiritual independence now
claimed, ridiculed the idea of submitting to the Court
of Session how far the law and statutes, founded on by
Mr. Cunningham, of Lainshaws, justified the resistance
he was making to the proceeding of the Church Courts.
The interpretation of these laws and statutes the com-
mission took at once into their own hands : it would not
even refer the matter, on the motion of the Procurator, to
the next Assembly, but at once directed the Presbytery
to proceed in the allocating of the quoad sacra parish,
nothwithstanding the interdict of the Civil Court!
This deliverance, no doubt, was guarded by directions
to take care that they did nothing that could be re
garded as an infringement of civil rights, or beyond
the strictly spiritual domain ; but within these limits,
the Presbytery being left to define them as they
may see fit, they are to set at nought the decrees
of the Civil Court ! This is " going it" with a high
hand on the part of Mr. Dunlop and his coadjutors ;
and we shall see, by-and-bye, what the upshot of all
this is to be.

AN IMPUDENT ROBBER.—On Wednesday after-
noon, a gentleman, named Menzies, residing in Osna-
burg-street, Regent's-park, was crossing Finsbury-square,
on his way home from the Bank, where he bad been to re-
ceive some money, when he was accosted by a tall, gentle-
manly-looking man, who politely requested to be informed
the hour. Mr. Menzies immediately took out his catch,
and while he was examining it, the stranger exclaimed,
" Good God I what is the matter there ?" Mr. Menzies
turned his head in the direction indicated by the stranger,
who instantly snatched the watch from his hands, and made
off with it in the direction of Sun-street. Mr. Menzies
instantly pursued the scoundrel, but though several persons
joined in the pursuit the thief eluded them all in the nume-
rous alleys with which the neighbourhood abounds, and got
safe off with his booty. The watch had only been pur-
chased a few days previous, at Barraud's, in Cornhill. It
was a silver hunter, and cost fourteen guineas. The loser
intends advertising his toss and giving a description of the
robber.

The Watchman says that John Thorogood, the
Church-rate prisoner, has been released from Chelmsford
jail, his friends having paid the rate and costs, in alt
amounting to SO/. or thereabouts. This is said to have
been done without his knowledge or concurrence.

A CONSCIENTIOUS BRIGAND.—A letter from
Temeswar, in Austrian Servia, bearing date the 27th of
July, relates the following trait of the notorious Berzewitch,
chief of the Bosniac brigands :—A young man named
Yarkitch presented himself before him, requesting to be
enrolled in his band. On being asked for the proofs of
his bravery, he replied that he had just assassinated the
father and two brothers of a young girl, whom they had
refused to him in marriage; and that the girl having de-
clined to follow him, he violated her, and then set fire to
the house. " I see," said Berzewitch, coldly, " that you
are a man of courage ; but you must pass through an-
other trial to prove it, and for that purpose you must go
up to the mountain with one of men." Berzewitch then
whispered a few words into the ear of one of his brigands,
and Yarkitch and the latter set off together; when they
bad reached the summit of the mountain, the robber com-
missioned by Berzewitch blew out Yarkitch's brains with a
pistol. Shortly afterwards the brigand chief wrote the
following note to the Temeswar Magistrates :—" The
assassin, ravisher, and incendiary, Yarkitch, has been
punished with death by my order. BERZEWITCH, Captain
of the Free Bosniacs." The bearer of this note disap-
peared immediately after its delivery ; and Berzewitch has
since been called throughout the whole district " the
grand justiciary."
Mr. J. Howard Galton, of Haddon House,
Worcester, has declined the invitation to stand on the Ra-
dical interest for the borough of Droitwich.

A circumstance in itself so singular as almost to
be unworthy of credit bas lately occurred in this city
(Constantinople). Two Persian gentlemen, each pro-
vided with credentials from bia Government, at one and
the same time demand to be acknowledged by the
Sublime Porte in quality of Charge d'Affaires. The Porte
unable to decide as to the one most worthy of credit has,
in this embarrassing position, proposed that their
claims to be submitted to an arbitration, and they having
assented, it was determined to entreat the assistance of a
delegate from each embassy, whose jiint decision was to
be final in the settlement of their claims. We have not
beard if this nomination has been accepted by the dole.
gates, who have already been addressed on' the subject by
the Porte. This surely is a case without parallel in diplo-
matic history. —Manzari Shark, or Oriental Observer, of
Aug, 8.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Daniel Davis, who was some days ago accused of
having uttered a forged bill for 1081. 12.5., purporting to
be drawn by Messrs. HinchelifTe and Co., paper stainers,
of Golden•square, and addressed to Mr. Smith, painter,
St. Albans, was brought before the Lord Mayor, by
Cuthbert, the officer...

Mr. Charles Phillips appeared for the complainant,
and Mr. Jones attended on behalf of the prisoner.
After hearing evidence which led to no result, the
Lone MAYOR remanded the prisoner till Tuesday week.