The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

BRUSSELS.

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Oct 9.—The Moniker Beige publishes to-day (in
more than thirty-tyro columns) the Royal decree of the
7th of October, which authorises the formation of the
Belgian Colonisation Company, with the object of form-
ing agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial establish-
ments, on the several States of Central America. The
decree approves the statutes as they appear in an Act
executed on the 18th of September last, in the presence
of M. Evenepoel, Notary, as well as the regulations for
the sale and cultivation of the lands, as laid down in an
Act executed on the 23d of the same month, in the pre-
sence of the same notary.
The Government grants its approbation on certain
conditions.

1. An expedition to explore the country shall be un-
dertaken.

2. This expedition shall be at the expense of the Com-
pany, with the exception of an aid granted by the Go-
vernment which shall be the only participation of the
Government in the expenses and risks of this expedi-
tion, all the other charges, and consequences falling on
the Company.
3. The reports of the exploring Commissioners, and of
the Government Commission shall be published in the
Moniteur.

• 4. No colonists or workmen can be sent before the
publication of the official reports of the exploring Com-
missioners, and of the Government Commissioner, who
shall participate in their operations.
The lands are to be seleeted in the province of Vera
Pax, in the State of Guatimala.

PRESENT PROSPECTS OF THE IRON TRADE.
—lt is truly astonishing, when we look back and con-
sider in how few years the iron manufacture has arrived
at its present vast extent, and that this rapid incrt.ase has
occasioned no heavy accumulation of stock. The iron
trade, in common with all other trades, feels the effect
of any general stagnation, but not from the over-pro-
duction, as with its growth, new channels of consump-
tion have kept pace. The endless detail into which
the foundry trade branches itself, the almost universal
fabrication which it embraces, consumes a very large
proportion of the Make ; in buildings iron is becoming
a very general substitute for wood : railroads may also
be mentioned as consuming a very considerable quan-
tity of manufactured as well as cast iron, but principally
the former. It would be endless to show where it has
been, within a few years, introduced, but we cannot
omit noticing its recent application to the building of
ships.- The success attending these first trials cannot
but lead to the conclusion that, for the future, ships will
very generally be made of iron instead of wood, and, if
so, what a field it opens to the ironmaster, and how
greatly it would add to the consumption! The plates of
which the ships will be built must necessarily be of a
very superior description of iron, involving a greater
waste, and, consequently, increasing the consumption of
pig iron ; and those works must be benefited the quality
and character of whose iron stands high, as, where the
safety of hundreds or thousands of individuals is at stake,
the very best iron alone should be used. With increased
facilities of procuring iron at a reasonable price, Ame-
rica, and also France—provided that, in this latter coun-
try, the duties are reduced—will become large pur-
chasers ; and our iron trade, unlike many of the other
manufactures, being altogether the production of our own
soil, will continue to give employment to hundreds of
thousands of our population, to the great advantage of
the country at large, as well, we trust, as the individual
benefit to the ironmaster.—Scrivener's History of time Iron
Trade.

HOW TO OBTAIN FREEDOM.--Whether we
look to ancient or modern history, to the history of
other countries, or that of our own, we shall find that
one or other of these modes has been, with scarcely any
exception, the only road to obtaining relief from op-
pression. We shall be able, from time to time, to furnish
innumerable instances of this ; and without pursuing the
subject in chronological order, we shall select such
cases as may present themselves most strikingly. The
nearer we come to the present time the fewer instances
shall we find of resistance by physical force, but the
more numerous the cases of moral resistance. In cases
of fiscal oppression, the smuggler has been the greatest
friend and assistant to free trade ; and when our Chan-
cellors of the Exchequer have been deaf to every argu-
ment, and duties of 40, 50, or 100 per cent. have been
levied on commodities, let it but be shown that, in spite
of all their expensive parade of coast guard and revenue
cutters, and land waiters, and tide waiters, and custom-
houses, and custom-house officers, that the smugglers
could import for 10 per cent., and that to a large ex-
tent ; and the Legislature have consented to the reduc-
tion.—Bread Eater's Advocate.
Lord Eliot arrived by the Liverpool mail packet
this morning, and immediately proveeded to the Secre-
izry's Lodge, in the Phoenix Park. Ilis Lordship was
expt,,^ted at the Castle in the course of the day, to enter
upon th.., duties of his office ; but he did not come to
town, having been fatigued from the effects of the voy-
age.—D u Urn- Nail.
WORMS IN CRASS LA WNS.—A quarter of
an ounce of corrosi.'e sublimate to three gallons of
water (put on with a prdener's water-pan) will bring
the worms to the surface, when the greatest part of
them die (but they ought to be picked ; this process
does not in the least injure the grass. It. was tried in
the month of September last, en a bowling-green in
Penrith, 32 yards by 45, when. 99 stones weight, of 14
pounds to the stone, were taken out of it, besides several
small quantities got in making the first experiment..