The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-26 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 23.—The Independent of this
morning contains the following article :
We announced two days ago that the Orangeist Com-
mittee had sent Deputies to the Hague, to London, Frank-
fort, and Toplitz ; the Journals of that party here imputed
to us the most odious intentions. We persist in our reso-
lution not to publish any of the names of the self-styled
representatives of the genuine national opinion. We will
add, however, that two of these Deputies, who lately left
Ghent, were received at the Vague by M. Van Doorn,
now Minister of the Interior, and formerly Governor of
East Flanders.

The following is the watch-word brought back from the

Hague, " To excite disturbances at Ghent, Brussels, Ant-
werp and Liege, on the celebration of the anniversary of
September."
We shall see how these gentlemen will succeed in exe-
cuting the orders of M. Von Doom. For our parts, we
believe that the only result will be their having been put
to the expense of the journey.—Courrier Beige, Sept. 24.
BRUSSELS, SErr. 25.—0 n account of the solemnity
of the day appointed to render funeral honours to the
memory of those patriots who fell in September, 1830,
at the commencement of the Belgian revolution, the
Courrier Beige, and other Belgian Journals, have not been
published to-day, 25th September. The Moniteur Beige
appears, however, as usual, but is almost wholly filled
with the debates of the Chamber on the 22d. A short
article merely states that Brussels was very gay the day
before, that the fetes had commenced, that the exhibition
of pictures was opened, and that the city was full of
strangers.—. Brussels Papers, Sept. 25.
(From a private letter in the Leipsic Gazette.)
LUCCA, SEPT. 2.—For these three days we have cele-
brated a truly national festival. The following are the
particulars :—About twenty individuals who, during the
last year had become obj-cts of suspicion to the police,
chose voluntary exile, in order to escape death. Strict
investigations were immediately set on foot, in order to
discover the most zealous propagators of liberal doctrines.
But when, after tedious inquiry, and fruitless expense, no
discovery could be made, and the interrogatories tended
only to show the injustice of the proceedings that had
been commenced, the Ministers held a council, in which
they resolved to form an inquisitory tribunal, like
that formerly existing at Venice, by which they
might be enabled to cause all persons suspected
of liberal principles to be executed within 24 hours,
without hearing the deposition of witnesses or the defence
of the accused. They had already written to Rome for
three executioners.

All this took place during the absence of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Lucca. On his arrival at Milan, on
his return from Germany, the abovenamed resolution of
the Council was presented to him. He was urged to give
it his sanction, and entreated to leave Italy again, on
the pretext that there was a conspiracy against his august
person. The high-minded Prince, far from listening to
unworthy counsellors and again leaving his states,
following only the wise counsels of the excellent Marquis
Cesar Borcella, set out for Lucca the same night, and on
the night of the 25th of August, arrived at his country
seat at Murlia. On the following day, the authors of the
Decree again urged the Duke to sanction it. A look of
contempt and indignation was the only answer of the
august Prince. On the 26th his Royal Highness, of his
own accord, granted a general amnesty, which the ba,e
opponents of it did not publish till the 30th. This un-
expected change of things (for the well known sentiments
of the Ministers gave good ground to expect the
contrary), gave the city a festival, the inhabitants
indulging in the most sincere and unbounded joy.
In the evening there was a grand illumination, not only
in the city and the immediate environs, but also in the
villages. When the Duke came, on the evening of the
31st, from his country seat to the theatre, he was received
at the city gates by a body of the most distinguished
citizens, who took the horses from his carriage, and,
amidst cries of " Long life to our Noble Prince," and
accompanied by 600 troops, drew him to the theatre.
During the performance, which was frequently interrupted
by the acclamations of the delighted citizens, unable to
suppress their feelings, a great number of sonnets were
thrown from the galleries, one of which, with two beau-
tiful wreaths of flowers, was presented to the Duke in his
box by two ladies, the wife and a ❑ear relation of one of
the exiles.

The Prince, deeply moved by this scene, shed tears and
exclaimed, " Now for the first time I know my people !
I have been deceived, and how ?" After the play, the
Prince returned to his country seat, surrounded by a
crowd of young men on horseback, bearing torches, and
followed by the great mass of the population, who were
intoxicated with joy. At the Prince's country house,
festivities of all kinds were prepared, in which persons of
all ranks participated. The Prince frequently repeated,
with great emotion and marks of heartfelt satisfaction,
" I have been frequently deceived ! Look at my people !
I recognise my faithful subjects ! I was deceived!"
The Ministers of Justice and Finance were immediately
dismissed, and left to the reproaches of their own con-
science. We are assured that a general reform in the
administration is resolved upon. Our Sovereign is deter-
mined to surround himself with honest, well-intentioned,
and well-informed servants. It were to be wished that
the other provinces of Italy would follow this example;
they would be convinced that the love of the subject is not
gained by chains and the executioner's axe, but by mild-
ness, tolerance, and fraternal regard for them.—Frankfort
Papers, Sept. 20.

ANCONA, SEPT., 1833.-4, I am on my
way (in the Meteor) from the Admiral and Constantinople
with Mr. Mandeville, Secretary of Legation, with im-
portant despatches from the Sublime Porte, but they have
given Mr. Mandeville 40 days' quarantine here. The
Turks are very unsettled, and are setting fire to every-
thing. I saw four fires when I left, one of which bad
burnt a good square mile of Constantinople ; I was close
to it, and never saw such a terrible blaze in my life. The
Seraskier caught one man with fireballs in his pocket,
and made the police heave him right into the fire. It is
thought the Russian fleet will be back again, and the
Turks evidently want to destroy the Sultan for calling
them in. I think the crescent is ebbing very fast, but it
won't do to let the Russians have that magnificent
country."

,
BOULOGNE, SEPT. 19.—The Subscription
set on foot in this place for the survivors from the Am-
phitrite is daily increasing ; the last account was 2,159
francs, 500 of which sum the Duke of Orleans was
pleased to subscribe. A subscription was set on foot at
the camp at St. Omer, to which the officers and men
subscribed, and the sum of 290 francs was sent to the
Committee. Our humane friend, Colonel Martin, has
sent the Committee 250 francs. Owen has quite re-
covered from the bruises be received on the night of the
Wreck.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1833.

When we alluded yesterday to the late smug-
gling transaction in which the seals of the
Foreign-office in France had been used for the
parcels which were addressed to Prince TALLEY-
RAND, we were not aware that there was any
direct connection between the person who in-
troduced the goods into this country, and any
official persons in France. We imagined that
the seals of the Foreign-office had been fraudu-
lently obtained by a bribe to some underling,
and that the whole affair was the contrivance of
a common smuggler. It appears, however, that
the person who brought over the packages, and
who was, or pretended to be, at the same time
the bearer of despatches for the French Ambas-
sador, was Count F. -, a former attaché to a
French Legation, and cousin to one of the
French Ministers, General SEBASTIAN'.
Whether Count F.-- ever delivered despatches
to M. de TALLEYRAND or not we cannot take
upon ourselves to say ; but we know that he paid
frequent visits to the French Embassy here, after
the seizure of his goods, which he would hardly
have had the impudence to have done if some
persons, nearly connected with the French
Government, had not been privy to this dis-
graceful transaction. Although the case of
Count F. -- is the first in which detection
has taken place, there can be no doubt but that
the speculation had been previously carried on to
a very great extent ; and, even in the instance
alluded to, there would have been no interrup_
tion of it if previous success had not made the
parties over confident. Twenty-seven packages
at one time was rather too barefaced a charge
for a Government messenger. Even the pro-
tocols which have resulted from the joint wisdom
of Hanover-square and Downing-street, would
hardly have formed such a bulk; and it was im.
possible for the Custom-house officers at
Dover to carry their respect for the seals of the
French Foreign-office to such an extent as to
allow so many packages to pass without inquiry
and examination.

M. de TALLEYRAND, whatever he may know
of the affair, has acted wisely as well as honour-
ably in declining to use his influence for the
restoration of the property ; but we hope the
matter will not rest here ; and, if the cousin of
General SEBASTIAN' be still in London, that
he will be proceeded against for the penalties of
his offence, like any other smuggler. His being
the cousin of a French Minister is a ground for
increased severity rather than for leniency ;
and whilst our gaols are crowded with starving
men, who violated the revenue laws to obtain
that bread which they were not permitted to
earn by honest industry, we can see no reason
why a foreigner of rank, the cousin of a Mini-
ster, who could have had no motive for the
violation of those laws but one of a mercenary
character, should be allowed to escape without
any other punishment than the loss of his mer-
chandize. The Count has probably taken wing,
and is now in Paris bewailing his loss with those
who were connected with him in the speculation ;
but how did it happen that at a time when he
was in the habit of paying frequent visits to the
Embassy, where he must have been seen by the
Custom-house officers who went there for the
purpose of having the packages opened in the
presence of the Ambassador, no attempt was
made to detain him ? We talk a good deal of
even-handed justice in this country ; but here
we see a wholesale offender escape, whilst the
poor devil who smuggles a gallon of brandy to
earn a shilling or two for the support of his family,

is sent' to gaol to expiate his offence, and the
parish is burdened with his wife and children.
The Turks are as even-handed in their jus-
tice in these respects as we are, and probably
more just.

Private accounts from Paris state that the
police are again on the alert for the detection of
a conspiracy, of which every one is talking
without a single proof being offered of its
existence. That the partisans of the exiled
BOURBONS are in higher spirits than they were,
we can easily believe ; for the present Government
of France has, by the persecution of the press,
the attempt to bastilize the capital, and many
other unjust and unpopular acts, accomplished
for the 1-lenriquistes the first great step towards
a change—dissatisfaction with the existing state
of things ; but we cannot believe that, even
among the besotted members of the old regime
in France, there are ten persons, possessing any
stake in the country, who are mad enough to
imagine that they could bring about a counter-
revolution in favour of their own views. What-
ever the French may think of the present
Sovereign and his Ministers, they are too en-
lightened to exchange them for the old Ultras.
If Louts PHILIP should receive his congj, it
would be for a very different result.

The report of the insurrection at Constanti-
nople is, it seems, premature, though, judging
from the present state of affairs in Turkey, and
more especially in the capital, nothing was more
likely to happen. It is perfectly true, however,
that a tremendous conflagration broke out in
Constantinople on the 30th, which was still
raging when the Meteor steam-boat left that
port on the evening of the 31st. The cause of
this fire is not known, but it is supposed to have
originated in accident.

We learn from a private letter in the Leipsic
Gazette, which will be found under the head
Brussels Papers, that the Grand Duke of LUCCA,
having lately taken the popular side against his
Ministers, was received by the people with
unbounded acclamations, and a grand festivity
and illumination took place in consequence at
Lucca, on the 2d instant, and the two following
days.

The public interest in the progress of the
Corporation Commission continues to increase,
as is natural from the incomparable political im-
portance of the inquiry. We yesterday extracted
two able articles from the Times and Morning
Chronicle on this great question of Municipal
Reform. They embrace all the topics of the
present Conservative discussion and objections.
Doubtless the corrupt, close bodies would desire
to perpetuate that power, authority, and sinister
possession so palatable to their pride and politi-
cal prejudices; but their throes of expiring
life are only the tail-splashing of an harpooned
whale. They will soon be laid " high
and dry," and their blubber securely lodged
in the safe hold of an early remedial mea-
sure of the Reformed House of Commons.
The amendment of the representation was
their certain death-blow; and this the crafty
Corporations discerned when, as a body, with a
few honourable exceptions, they so fiercely
and virulently opposed the recent great national
measure of political regeneration. The muni-
cipal question is treated by the Tories much in
the same cunning way the priests deal with the
popular reformation of Church Establishments.
The evil practices and exclusive privileges of cor-
porators, when attacked, are said to be designs
against municipal institutions, as churchmen con-
veniently describe a reform of church abuses and
the control of priestcraft as an attack on natural
and revealed religion. But these feints and
perversions of logic will no longer avail the evil-
doers. The people are too wise, determined,
and omnipotent, to be humbugged by such
trashy arguments, miscalled reasoning. The
town clerk of Leicester, and his magisterial mas-
ters, will not cloak their evil acts, nor any longer
secure impunity. We agree with the Times,
that there is no such thing as justice, if
the Leicester Corporators are not legally forced
to replace the scandalous misappropriation of the
public funds to the promotion of their individual
politics and local Toryism. In the meanwhile,
the Commissioners may expect and deserve
abuse from the Tory press and its blind readers ;
and the more gross and repeated the calumnies,
the more assured we are that the Commissioners
are effectively and zealously discharging their in-
valuable office of a public and searching inquiry.

The Earl and Countess of Durham left their
residence in Cleveland-row on Tuesday evening for Lamb-
ton Castle, to receive his Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex, who is about to pay the Noble Earl a visit at his
seat in the North. Lord and Lady Durham arrived in
town only on Sunday from the Isle of Wight, where they
have been residing three months, with the exception of
the interval the Earl was at Cherbourg. We understand
that his Lordship's health is much improved.
MILFORD HAVEN, SEPT. 23.—Sir James
Graham, and two other Lords of the Admiralty, viz., Sir
T. Hardy and Admiral Dundas, arrived at this port on an
official visit last Saturday in the Lightning steam vessel,
accompanied by the Endymion frigate, Vestal sloop,
Rapid brig, Dee steamer, and Falcon yacht, the property
of Lord Yarborough. Yesterday they attended divine
service at the Dockyard Chapel, and to-day mustered the
workmen of the yard, inspected the detachment of marines,
and transacted other business connected with these depart-
ments. It is expected they will complete the purport of
their visit to-morrow, and leave this for Cork on Wednes-
flay. The Vestal, a vessel of Captain Symonds's con-
struction, is now beating down the Haven, so as to precede
the Admiralty in their voyage to the Emerald Isle. She
is a beautiful ship, and beats everything she has come in
contact with. She has a round stern, but so beautifully
disguised as to have every appearance of a square one ; her
cbreadth iss
yemn oornmd
so
s here with their Lordships.s , compared with others of her class.
ALARMING Ft RE.—On Thursday evening
a little before ten o'clock, a fire broke out in one of the
cockles at Bourneoast, the property of the Baroness
d'Montesquieu. The fire commenced at the extreme end
of the building, and at one time raged with such violence
that no hopes were entertained of any part being pre-
served. Fortunately the Phesnix Fire Office engine was
promptly at the spot, followed closely by thou of the
Kent and Norwich Union, and succeeded in preventing
the flames from spreading through the entire range. The
principal part of the Baroness's hops were moved into an
adjoining meadow, and saved by the praiseworthy exerlions
of the lower classes, who had assembled in great numbers.
The building is considerably damaged and uninsured.—
Kentialr Gazette.

CONSECRATION OF ST. MARTIN'S
CHAPEL, BURLEIGH•STREET, STRAND.

The consecration of this chapel of ease to the parish
church of St. Martin's in the Fields, built under the di-
rection of the Commissioners for erecting new churches,
being appointed for to-day, the chapel was opened at an
early hour, and, long before the arrival of the Bishop, was
filled by a most fashionable congregation of which the
female beauty of London formed no inconsiderable
part. The interior of the chapel exhibits a neat
and elegant specimen of modern gothic architecture,
accompanied with convenience and comfort. The Bishop
of London arrived at half-past eleven o'clock, and entered
the Church at the north door, accompanied by his Chap-
lain. His Lordship was here received by the Chancellor of
the Diocese, the Registrar, Minister, Churchwardens, and
Trustees, and by them conducted to the Vestry-room, where,
having robed, his Lordship proceeded to the front of the Com-
munion, where he was presented by the minister with the
petition of consecration, which his Lordship delivered to
the registrar, who read it to the congregation. The
Bishop then, accompanied by his Chaplain and Clergy,
walked from the east to the west of the Church, and back
again, repeating the 24th psalm. When the procession
arrived at the Communion Table, the Bishop having taken
his seat on the north sirle, the deed of conveyance was pre-
sented to his Lordship, who laid it on the table, and
offered up the usual prayers and supplications on such
occasions. The Chairman then read the sentence of
consecration, which the Bishop signed, commanding it,
together with the petition and deeds to be recorded in his
registry. The service of the day was then read by the Rev. Mr.
Finch, the future Minister of the chapel, in a most
impressive manner ; at the conclusion of which the com-
munion service was read by the Bishop, who preached a
most excellent sermon, from the 14th chapter and 32(1
and 33d verses of St. Paul's Ist Epistle to the Corin-
thians—" The spirits of the prophets are subject to the
prophets, for God is not the author of confusion, but
peace, in ad the churches of the saints."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.W., light.—Arrived the
Black River packet, Bawn, and Portlind, from Jamaica ;
and Foxhound, Emmett, frotn the South Seas—sailed
from St. Helena 6th ult.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.S. to W.W.S.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Wind S.W., very stron.—.
Arrived the Echo, Cocker, from Aveno; and Active,
Lamot, from Memel.

FALMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W., fresh
gales and squally.
COWES, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Ann, English, from
Virginia. Off the Wight the Leontine, Johnson, from
Baltimore.

PENZANCE, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Liverpoo! packet,
Saintly, from St. Petersburgh.
GLOUCESTER, SEPT, 24.—Arrived the Hebe, Part-
ridge, from Cadiz ; and Caroline, Gerard, from Riga.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24. —Arrived the Northumber-
land, Reynols, from New York ; and Providentia, from
Palermo.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Hugh, Crosby, from
St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; St. John, Decent,
from Gibraltar ; Patriot, Slocomb, from Cadiz; and
Niney, Way, from London.
CORK, SEPT. 23.—Arrived the Wellington, Kelliher,
from Sr. Andrew's, New Brunswick.
BELFAST, SEPT. 28.—Arrived the Brilliant, Richard.
son, from Cadiz. The Good Intent, Matthias Wich, to
Newry, put in here very leaky, having been on shore.
NEWRY, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Edward Reid,
Forest, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.
STOCKTON, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the George IV.,
Kearsley, from Miramichi.
OSTEND, SEPT. 25.—The Aurora, Jones, from Londo❑
o Havre, and the Philadelphia, Amis, from Rotterdam to
tPhiladelphia, are both under repair.
MERAGISSEY, SEPT. 24.—A brig, said to be foreign,
and timber laden, has been driven on shore to-day between
this and the Deadman Head.

HULL, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Anna, Pitcairn, from
t. Petersburgh.

The Lord Byron, James, of Liverpool, bound to Gaboon,
is wrecked at Bunbia, crew and part of her stores, &e.
saved, and arrived at Fernando Po.
The Commerce de Paris is the name of the French
Whaler entered yesterday as lost.
The Tonge Elizabeth, Debet, from Rotterdam to
Batavia, put into Plymouth, dismasted.
The hull and masts of the Elizabeth, Holmes, from
London to Halifax, stranded to the eastward of this port,
have been sold for 3151. 3s. sd.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

OSTVESTRY RACES, SEPT. 24.

Sweepstakes of 20. sous. each for 3-yr. olds. Mile and

half. Five Subscribers.
Sir T. Stanley's ch. f. by Battledore
Sir W. Wynne's ch. c. by Langar 9.

The Shropshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, and 50 added by
the Innkeepers. Mile and half heats. Seven Subscribers.
Mr. Giffard's Traveller 1 1
Mr. Mostyn's Puss
A Sweepstakes of 10 soya, each, with 30 added by Sir R.
Hill. Mile and half heats. Four Subscribers.
Mr. Allanson's Lady Moore Carew 1 1
The Mr. Giffard's Miss Charlotte 2 2
Mr. Richardson's Augusta
Gentlemen's Purse of 501. Heats two miles.
Mr. Moss's Eagle 1 1
Mr. Nanney's Captain Wattle 2 2