The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-15 00:00:00

DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS, &c.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. •
is reported to be the intention of Ministers
reduce the duty on newspapers to 241. This can be bat;
of little service, for the increased circulation will be j:
trifling, that no additional employment can be ereali
whereas, by taking off the entire duty, not only W°
that increased circulation compensate, by the pro:luce
the excise on paper, but employment to 50,000 additior
families would he procured.
So with regard to three other articles in universal°
mand—tea, sugar, and coffee. If the duty on the forglij.
was reduced to 25 per cent , ad valorem; on coffee to
per lb. ; and on sug it to Id. per lb., the increased cF,
sumption would not only render the duties on each.'d
productive as at present, but additional employment wow;
be given to a variety of interests connected with ar
commodities.
These are not theoretic views—for instance, 201bs•
—4. n of OF

sugar is considered the average annual consumption of 00
individual in Great Britain. Now, n ithout taking
account the vast quantities of this useful and wholesti
article used for confectionary, preserves, wines, Sze.,
ordinary tea and cotil.2 drinker can consume l lb. per wi;
nearly treble the average before stated. In fact, from j
present dearness of sugar, many thousands are preven

from using it in either tea or coffee.
With regard to tea, 1 have ascertained that its props';
tionrd consumption, in wealthy and in moderately 61'
.dp
stauced families, is nearly four to one, supposing the s'!
number of persons in cash family.
But the mere increase or decrease of a hundred, or o'
hundred thousand pounds to the revenue, is nothing,,
comparison to the additional labour called into profit.:
action. The unemployed are not merely earning nothi:
they are living at the expense of the rest of the common;
They are nut only contributing nothing to the re7al4
but are themselves a heavy tax. It these persons
employed, the burdens would not only be lessened,
they themselves would contribute to support those
creased burdens.—l am, Sir,
Your very obedient Servant,
Ramsg rte, Jan. 14, 1833. W. A. HUN

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the 111oxiteur of Siturday.)
VALENCIENNES, JAN. 10.—The King having Pi
longed his visit to the military hospital at Mau",
beyond the time fixed for his departure, could not deg'
from the road to Valenciennes, to go to Quesnoy, ss
intended, and sent General Gourgaud to express his rel

to the inhabitants of Quesnoy, where every preparss
bad been made to receive the King in a manner stotS
to the patriotism of that city. The inhabitants To
much disappointed at this circumstance. A deputsof
from Quesnoy came to Valenciennes, where his °63,ii
himself expressed his regret at not being able to siot
city, to testify to the inhabitants how bigkly be
preciated the patriotism which,they had always mantfes;
in the difficult situation in which they had been phOwty
At eleven o'clock in the morning the King, with ty
Princes, went on foot out of the Quesnoy Gate to to
Glacis, where the National Guard and the troops of
line were ready to be reviewed by his Majesty.
The King having mounted his horse rode along
front of the line. His Majesty then took a positiond
an eminence which commands a view of the plain,
covered with snow, where the battalions deployed, 1"°oi
der to file before his Majesty. A bright sunshine ill,
nated this striking scene.
Those who are to receive the Cross of the Legil
Honour being assembled before the King, his Majesty
dressed them as follows :

"My Dear Comrades,—You cannot feel more 7:4
satisfaction at receiving the Crosses which I am vl
to distribute among you than I myself experieneti
bestowing on you those marks of honour. I deliver tvo
to you in the name of France, to testify its satisfaetil
mine with your fine conduct in the memorable siege °
citadel of Antwerp. You have just added nevi
our standards, to the three cherished colours, Which'
have resumed with so much pride and joy. In gilobo
these rewards, I deeply feel the loss of all the brave
whom we deplore, and to whom I should have bee!,
happy also to give those which they had so well tnell
It is for you, my brave comrades, to make up to the col
try for their loss, and to perpetuate, l,y your valoedr
devotedn is, the splendour of the French name, 3°
glory of our arms." These words were received 0
cries of " Vice le Roi I"
The Minister of War called over the name of
soldiers, and the King delivered the crosses to tilenk
Alter the revietb the King returned to the
visited the military hospit 11, where there were 84
soldiere, to whom his Majesty showed the same 101'0'
attention as to those at Mautteuge. He also irel"
kindly after four wounded Dutch soldiers in the
hospital. The Duke of Orleans recognised a sergel
the 58th, who was wounded by the splinter of alit°
,he day that the Prince commanded in the trenche.
of

LILLE, JAN. 9.—tier Majesty the Queen

French, accompanied by Madame Adelaide and the F
ceases, her daughters, alighted at the hotel of the Prete
amidst the acclamations of a numerous crowd ; ne
morning, soon after 10 o'clock, the King and Queen 0
Belgians arrived, and were soon afterwards condoeS;
the Palace, where the Queen, Madame Adelaide, se
Princesses received them as they alighted, and the 54
Queen of the Belgians threw herself into her mother's',
We shall nutattempt to describe this affecting scene,
excited in the highest degree the feelings of all Who
nessed it.

(From the Journal des Debuts of Sunday.)
FRANKFORT, JAN. 3.—A courier was deal:pitch 4
Paris a few days ago with a note to the French Cabinl
which the Diet requires an explanation relative to the
lation of the Dutch territory by Marshal Gerard's tr
A part of the French artillery destined for the si
Antwerp, took the road through Arlon, which b
to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. The Diet is no
posed to subscribe to the decision of the London
ferenee, which incorporates this part of Luxemburg
the kingdom of Belgium, and it means to assert the r
of the King of Holland, as a Prince of the Cmfeder?'
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The confirmation or the denial of this news is inn's'
expected.

(From the Q ttotidienne.)
PARIS, JAN. 12.—The Conferencebetween M. de
ther and the Duke de Broglie continues, on the sub?,
the affairs of Holland and Belgium, which seem to!
but little progress, though the Prussian Minister is 0110
have now full power from Russit, and Holland bas
him the organ of its latest pretensions. Deipatcbei.,
almost daily sent by our Minister for Foreign MK
London, and by the Prussian Ambassador to the
and Beran.

GERMAN PAPERS.

BERLIN, JAN. 3.—The capitulation of the citio
Antwerp is a most vexatious event for many paw.,
cially all those whose confidence in the Dutch
.001
them to join in the language of the Journal
Haye, according to which a surrender was not
thought ef, but that General Chasse would devote
and garrison to destruction, together with the
Antwerp itself.
Experienced military men were of a different
from the beginning they admired the brave defence
Dutch General, and find the less reason to blame thel
lation concluded on honourable terms just before tb0.,,,
would have been attempted, as General Chasse ;ail
in his report, that the contest in the breach could nos
been to any advantage to the Dutch arms.
The military question may be discussed or not;
we are now concerned with is the political question'i
e what unchanged
will
beo n
the their
first ho
lever diplomatists do not find their interrupted labours
advanced by the interlude that has taken place.
whole ,
to put the heavy load in motion again. Prussia, j
count of its geographical position, is greatly inr4
that the undecided situation of Holland and Eelgin''
are task
curious lies
to still
s e
not be protracted from year to ye tr, but come to
conclusion. It is now to be seen what the Frei')
niatry will do in the matter ; it must at
show whether it really has at heart the P
tion of general peace. The success of the
we
peace renders its part more easy. That the
army leaves Belgium immediately is a matter of
this candi.ion was laid down at the very begiin
Enaland. But as the French army returns to its
.4
pOsiii'4lB, Oil the frontiers of Belgium, and there`,
ready for action, our Corps of Observation,
Meuse, will for the present temain in its position,
farther movements of the Pru.sian troops have aI
taken place, and the hopes of peace are not
What has been said of the accumulation of Russiellj
in the kingdom of Poland and the Rut.sian Polti
vinces, is extremely exaggerated. In the whole
countries, the ex ent of which much exceeds
France, there may be, at the most, 80,000 men.
Society in Warsaw begins to revive, and the
inflicted by the revolution see gradually healing j
losses are, indeed, irreparable, and especially the
tion of so many Poles, is the misfortune that OA
almost every family. If the sentiments of the e 7.