The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, SEPT. 27.—We have had no news
for some days worth communicating. The reports
inserted in different Journals, respecting many Cabi-
net Councils that are said to have been held, are
quite incorrect, for the Cabinet Council has not met
since the return of Baron Verstolk von Soelen,
From this circumstance it is probable that no new
instructions have yet been drawn up for Baron Ver-
stolk von Soelen, and therefore the report given by
a Dutch Journal, of yesterday, of the speedy return
of his Excellency to London must be considered as
premature.

FLUSHING, SEPT. 29.—We learn from the Scheldt
that the Belgian fleet, consisting of five gun-boats,
has dropped down to Fort La Croix, and that the
desertion from this Jeune Marine, as they call it, in
imitation of La Jeune France, La Jeune et
daily increases. The Director assigns as a reason of
their desertion that the greater part of the crews
consist of the very dregs of the populace, of dis-
charged galley slaves, Habitues des Banges, con-
demned criminals, who have had their punishment
commuted for service in the fleet.

The Hessian Gazette says that Prince Paske-
witsch, with 40,000 men, and a deputation from
Warsaw, waited for the Emperor of Russia, at Mod-
lin. His Highness the Duke of Nassau follows
the Emperor to Modlin, and returns by way of
Berlin. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of
Prussia will visit the Rhenish provinces in the
autumn, and then go to fetch his august consort at
Tegemsee.

Nothing seems to be doing in the political world
as far as the affairs of Belgium are concerned. The
London Conference no longer meets: whether it
will soon resume its operations remains to be seen.
Prince Talleyrand and the Belgian Plenipotentiary
Goblet have left London. Our Minister Verstolk
will, perhaps, shortly resume his functions as Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs. On the part of England
remonstrances, it is said, have been repeatedly
made to our Governmenr, but whether they have
been or will be sincere is not known. The journey
of the Austrian General Count Clam is supposed
by some to have a political object. We hear that
he has arrived here to-day. The Russian Secretary
of Legation, Donavuroff, whe was sent on a mission
CO the Emperor of Russia, has returned to this town.
THE HAGUE, OCT. 1. The arrival of Prince
Schwartzenberg seems to have given rise to the
report that the Austrian General, Count Clam, has
arrived here. It is said that he or some other
Austrian Plenipotentiary will come here shortly, as
Count Clam was at Munehengratz at the time of
the interview between the Emperor of Austria and
the Emperor of Russia, and i, expected to come
direct from that place hither. This confirms the
notion that he is coming on a political mission.

DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, Ocr. 1.
Actual Debt, 2% per cent 47% to 48%
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent B5 to 8514
Ditto, claw, 3% per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 104% to 10•4‘
Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 1833, 5 per Cent.
Exchange on London 12 02 5-10 to 11 97 5-

CONGRESS OF BOHEMIA.

(From the Courrier Francais )

The public anxiously await the results of the
Conferences now terminated, and although, accord-
ing to the Journal des Desbats, the supreme wisdom
in these times is to do nothing at all, no one will
imagine that the Holy Alliance has met for such a
purpose, and that more than twenty Ministers, Di-
plomatists, or Generals, have been called to Mun-
chengratz, merely to add to the splendour of their
master's retinue. Our letters from Germany, on
the contrary, are unanimous in representing the im-
portance of the matters under deliberation; and,
without letting us precisely into the secret of the
resolutions adopted or discussed, these letters fully
confirm the fac•s we have already published, and
afford details upon many other points. Thus we
can no longer doubt that the favourite plan of Prince
Metternich, namely, an Italian Confederation, has
been brought once more upon the carpet; and that
the repugnance manifested hitherto by Russia and
Prussia has been completely overcome by the offers
and considerations of that system of public order
which Austria undertakes to guarantee, in return for
the protectorate which she is to be allowed to exer-
cise from Vienna to Chambery and Palermo.
On seeing the Prince Royal called to represent
Prussia at Munchengratz, every one felt convinced
that that Power was resolved upon war, and would
undertake it if the Emperor Nicholas thought pro-
per. This conjecture was, in some degree, un-
founded, and the Prince has been under the neces-
sity of moderating his martial humour and that of
the Prussian Nobility. But one thing, nevertheless,
is sure, and that is, the existence of military pre-
parations of no less formidable a nature than if war
were to break out to-morrow. These measures
have been the subject of mature deliberations, to
which each person brought the tribute of his own
personal knowledge. Reports of the respective
forces of the Three Powers, and of their Allies,
were laid before the Congress, with accounts of
their exact situation. Military plans were likewise
discussed. The cordon to be formed, or that, ra-
ther, which is already formed, is becoming more
perfect every day, and it will eventually so circum-
scribe us as to leave little room for the action which
we are to exercise, according to the Desbats. It is
scarcely necessary to say that the elastic principles
of intervention and of non-intervention put in prac-
tice since the year 1830 have been once more sanc-
tioned, revised, and augmented. We know not
how they will be applied in the manifestoes which
are about to appear, nor whether the Holy Alliance
will dare to publish in form such monstrous doc-
trines; but certain it is that they will appear in the
documents in question some way or other. More-
over, the appearance of the first manifesto depends
upon certain casualties which will either extend or
modify its contents.
The Allied Sovereigns do not appear much
alarmed at the protection extended by the Whigs
to the Juste-Milieu ; and they await the solution
of certain intrigues which are reaching a close. The
Russian Ministers have been heard publicly to say,
that in case of war, nothing was to be feared from
England but neutrality.
The affairs of the East were also taken into con-
sideration by the Sovereigns: the arrangements long
ago contemplated were once more discussed. But
if it be easy to conceive the object of the arrange-
ments in question, it would be most difficult to
penetrate the secrecy in which the result of the de-
liberations is involved. What is no secret, how-
ever, is the long report upon the situation of France,
for which the Congress was indebted to the zeal of
M. de Mercy, charged with the task by Prince
Metternich. The situation of what is called Pro-
paganda, and that of the new dynasty, are appre-
ciated in this report in a way by no means flattering
to the Juste-Milieu. This report contains a de-
tailed account of the forces of France on land and
water ; a calculation of the number of men which
the conscription annually furnishes; an account of
the state of the fortified places on the frontiers of
France, their means of resistance, ammunition, &c.;

an estimate of the quantity of arms at the disposal
of France, and of the number of National Guards
duly equipped. The situation of the various par-
ties, their respective forces, to use the words of the
memoir, the dispositions of the mass of the people,
that of the departments in which the majority ad.
here to the elder branch of the Bourbons, are deve-
loped at great length in this document. And here
it is evident that the old Nobility of the departments,
or some of the party in Paris, who are but too sub-
ject to delude themselves, have furnished the exag-
gerated statements of the report. To conclude, this
document represents the influence of the Juste-
Milieu as void of effect upon the energetic portion
of the nation, and the popularity of the King as
decreasing.

THE INSECURITY of the DAVY LAMP.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The result of a series of chymical experiments
warrants us in asserting that the Davy Lamp will, under
many circumstances, not of uncommon occurrence in coal
mines, cause the explosion of the fire-damp, and thus,
instead of giving protection to the miner, becomes itself
an instrument of his destruction. A full knowledge of
this alarming fact, makes it imperative on our part at once
to war❑ all persons from its use. As it is most important
that a charge of this nature should be either confirmed or
disproved, the scientific members of our public institu-
tions will, we hope, no longer remain silent to an appeal
to their judgment. Reason, justice, and humanity, call
for a full investigation of this subject by a board of public
men, that there may no longer be doubt where there
ought to be certainty. This call will not, we feel assured,
if aided by the power of the press, be made in vain.
The great importance of this investigation to the miner,
the mine-owner, and many others, will, we trust, render
our letter worthy of your notice.
We remain, Sir, your obedient servants,
UPTON AND ROBERTS.
66, Basinghall-street, Oct. 3, 1533.
[We publish Messrs. Upton and Roberts's letter, be-
cause it is really upon an important subject, albeit that we
incline to suspect the warning against Davy's Lamp is in-
tended as a delicate puff for some supposed improvement
of their own. If our memory does not deceive us, a
series of experiments were some years back made with
Davy's Lamp, by which the cause of its occasional failure
was discovered, and the means of insuring constant safety
by its means, pointed out. The theory upon which Sir
Humphrey framed his lamp may have been erroneous,
but it is certain that his invention has saved many lives.
—En. Sun.]