The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-04 00:00:00

GERMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS.

Baussims, DEc. 29.—M. Goblet is preparing to set
out for Berlin, to take the place of Ambassador, in the
zoom of General Merckx, who arrived at Brussels yes-
terday. _ _ _

Two Royal ordinances, dated Dec. 27, are published,
the first accepting the resignation of General Goblet as
Minister for Foreign Affairs, the second appointing Count
Felix de Merode to hold that office ad interim.
ANTWERP, DEC. 28.—The Dutch corvette Comet
struck at the entrance of the basin of Flushing, and sunk.
At low water mark men were employed to get out the
cannon, &c. ; meantime the passage is blocked up, and
the Bellona merchantman, bound for Batavia, is hin-
dered from putting to sea by this accident.

BRUSSELS, Dire. 31.—Count Lebartier has already
enlisted SOO men for the service of Donna Maria. These
men go from Ostend to Gravesend, thence they are sent
to Lisbon.

Count Vincent Toozkiewiez, proprietor of estates in
Galicia, and one of the principal chiefs in the Polish in-
surrection in the Ukraine and Podolia, arrived at Brussels
yesterday evening with his family : he has been expelled
from the Austrian States, and successively from several
German principalities, at the request of the Emperor
Nicholas.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 31.—The Moniteur contains the
Royal Ordinance promulgating the Budget of the Ways
and Means for 1834, agreed to by the two Chambers.
The estimate of the revenue is 84,279,578 francs.
M. Beaulieu, Aide_de-Camp to General Goblet, will
accompany him to Berlin. M. Serrings, hitherto Secre-
tary of Legation at Berlin, will go as Charge d'Affaires to
Lisbon.

The manufacturers of Ronaix, in East Flanders, have
declared their formal assent to the representations made to
the King by the manufacturers of the other cities of the
kingdom, respecting the alarming situation of the cotton-
manufactories; they know no means of improving it, but
those stated by their brethren.
BRUSSELS, Jarr. I.—The Deputation of the Senate
will proceed to the Palace to-day at half-past one, to
compliment their Majesties on the new year.
The Members of the Court of Cessation and the public
bodies will also compliment their Majesties on the same
occasion.

The Chamber of Representatives having adjourned,
there will be no deputation.
A great number of soldiers, whose furloughs expired
yesterday, waited on the Commandant of the Place to join
their respective regiments ; but their furloughs having
been prolonged to the 31st of March, they were sent back
to their homes. Those who did not wish to take advan-
tage of this prolonged leave of absence were sent to their
repective regiments.

The Moniteur of to.day publishes the law by which the
amount of the army on the war establishment for 1834 is
fixed at 110,000 men, not including the moveable civic
guard. The amount of the levy for 1834 is fixed at the
minimum of 12,000 men, who are placed at the disposal
of the Government.

A decree of the 31st December describes the several
kinds of medals which are to be given by the Government.
The Senate having, in its sitting of December 29, con-
cluded the discussion on the budget of ways and means,
which it adopted by a majority of 29 to 3, discussed, on
the 30th and 31st, the budget of the war department,
which it voted, and yesterday closed the general debate on
the budget of the department of Justice. The debate on
the several articles will be on Thursday.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Dec. 31.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 95
Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, 1833,4 per cent.
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 2.

ANTWERP, Jaw. I.—ln the course of last year, the
number of vessels that entered our port was 1,108, mea-
suring together 127,220 tons. In 1832 the arrivals
were 1,258 ships, measuring 145,639 tons. There has,
therefore, been a diminution of 150 ships, and 28,419
tons, compared with 1832, which is the more remarkable,
as the siege of the citadel entirely suspended the navigation
of the Scheldt for six weeks in 1832.—Journal du Corn.
mere d'Anvers, Jan. 2.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, Dec. 24.
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent 97' 963(
Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent 103y9
Ditto .... 1822, 5 per cent.... 103%
Ditto, 13onda lB3O, 4 per cent.... 91% 91%
Exchhange on London 6.243 E
_pri4jsian State Gazette, Dec. 25.. .

The annual mortality has decreased in the
United Kingdom nearly one-third in forty years. In 1780
the rate of mortality was taken at one in 40 ; in 1795 at
opc in 45 ; in 1801 at one in 47; in 1811 at one in 52;
and in 1621 at one in 58.
Many and very curious details (not hitherto
known) relative to the famous battle of Fontenoy are
ornnrised in the new historical novel, " The Black
Watch.". The author has been fivoured by access to
Valuable documents connected with the subject ; and has
been, therefore, enabled to describe that memorable action,
and the subsequent rejoicings at the Court of Louis XV.
in Paris. One of the midnight orgies at Versailles, in
which Madame de Pompadour is brought on the scene,
will be read with no little astonishment, and will almost
Vindicate the fierce revolution which subsequently de •
throned the son of that voluptuatis monarch.
THE LATE HURRICANE.—On Tuesday
last it blew a hurricane from the N.N.W. The City of
London steam-boat, Captain Grant, left the Royal
harbour of Ramsgate, at eight o'clock, A.M., and took in
passengers at Margate. She experienced the commence•
ment of the gale off Herne Bly, the liea breaking over
her, and sweeping the decks fore and aft, obliging the pas•
sengers to secure themselves to the sides and the ropes of
the vessel; notwithstanding which she made good way,
and reached the Nore at twelve o'clock. Several vessels
were on shore at the mouth of the river, and the ships
bad their sails torn in pieces. Many of them lost their
sails, and were unmanageable. At Holyhaven a coast-
guard vessel got adrift, and was drifting down Sea Reach.
One of his Majesty's revenue cutters went to her assist-
ance. The river has not been known to have been in
such a rough and disturbed state fur many years. The
City of London arrived safely, and landed her passen-
gers, amongst whom were several ladies, at St. Ka-
tharine's wharf at half-past four o'clock, r.st., and the
passengers heartily thanked the Capin for his skill and
great annum.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1834.

The Journal des Debats, which, with the other I
Paris papers of Wednesday, arrived last night,
contains an article on the difference with Russia
respecting Turkey, in which the writer assumes
that the Emperor of RUSSIA will concede so far
at least as to afford the British and French
Governments a tolerable assurance for maintaining
their present pacific disposition. What the
extent of the concession is, which the British
and French Cabinets consider sufficient to pre-
serve their honour and interests, we know not,
but we very much disapprove of the confidence
which many of our Contemporaries here and in
France appear to repose in the pacific intentions,
or the want of courage, of the Russian Em-
peror. We hope our Ministers and those of
France do not hold a big language only in the
belief that the Emperor of RUSSIA will not fight,
and, therefore, that they may threaten the use
of force with the certainty of not provoking
any act of hostility ; for if that be the case,
who can say but the Emperor of RUSSIA
may have similar ideas as to a disincli-
nation for fighting on our part, and in a blind
confidence of our pacific disposition, be in-
duced to go further than he would otherwise
have done, and render war inevitable ? This
would be something like the scene in " Pere-
grine Pickle," between the Painter and the
Doctor, and would be disgraceful to the national
character. Before the British and French Cabinets
made any remonstrance to Russia, it was their
duty to decide on adopting the alternative which
would be open to them in the event of the re-
jection of that remonstrance. They ought not
to speculate for a moment upon the probable
effect of warlike demonstrations and menaces on
the mind of the Emperor of RUSSIA, but pre-
serve a dignified calm during the discussion,
relying rather upon the justice of their own
cause and their means of enforcing it than upon
the supposed reluctance of the EMPEROR to
plunging into a contest.

It appears by the Brussels papers which
arrived this morning that a Polish Count, who
was lately the proprietor of extensive estates in
Galicia, had arrived in Brussels, having been
expelled from the Austrian States at the request
of the Emperor of RussiA. This is another,
and by no means a surprising, instance of the
influence exercised by the Emperor of RUSSIA
over his allies and confederates. The next step
will probably be the military execution of every
Polish subject of the Austrian and Prussian
Sovereigns, who may be suspected by the Em-
peror of RussiA of entertaining opinions similar
to those of the patriots of the Duchy of Warsaw.
There is no news of interest in these papers.

Prussian papers to the 26th ult. arrived this
morning. They contain no news of importance.

The plan of giving dinners to the Liberal
Members of the House of Commons, by their
constituents, continues in favour. It certainly
affords an excellent means of keeping Honour-
able Members in mind that they have consti-
tuents, and that those constituents expect their

wishes to be fulfilled ; whilst the good things
the company discuss before the speechifying
begins, serves to smooth away the asperity of
political feelings. The last of these politico-
convivial meetings which we have to record
took place at Chard on Tuesday last, being
a dinner given to Mr. C. J. TYNTE, the
Member for West Somersetshire. There is
one thing to be remarked in the speeches de-
livered at this dinner (given elsewhere), which
we have noticed in every former dinner of the
kind, viz., the necessity which the Member has
been under, however devoted to Ministers, of
acknowledging that they had not enough relied
upon the people, but had truckled to their ad-
versaries. Thus Mr. TYNTE says :

" My Hon. and Rev. Friend has eulogized his Majesty's
Ministers, and I quite concur with him that more has been
done by the present Ministry in one Session, than by any
former Ministry in years—(Cheers)—but yet, allowing
them great praise, I must also give them some blame, for
not having been less conciliatory with the party who
formerly held power, and for not having (backed as they
would have been by the people of England) assumed a
bolder attitude, and a more energetic tone.—(Loud
cheers. )"

The cheers with which declarations of this
kind have been uniformly received, will, if
Ministers be wise, be taken as a hint by them
that they must change their course. Mr.
TYNTE'S declaration of his conversion to the
ballot, is one among many symptoms that the
next Parliament at farthest will render conscien-
tious voting as safe to the poor as to the rich.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JAN. 3.—Wind W., moderate.—All the outward.
bound sailed last evening.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind W.S.W., squally.—Put back
the Prince George and Upton Castle, for Bombay. Arrived
the Mercury, Peason, from Copenhagen.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind N.N. W., moderate.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind N.N.W. to W., moderate.—
Arrived the Stephen, Irving, from Pictou.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Thetis, Keith, and Eu-
gene, Richardson, from Riga ; and Britannia, Frankland,
from Stettin.

DOVER, JAN. a—Arrived off port the Orissa, Tod, from
Singapore—sailed the 28th August.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Emperor, Chaffer, from
Savannah; and Malvina, Rockett, from Quebec. Off port the
Doris, from Jamaica ; and Helena, Butman, from New York.
THURSO, DEC. 30.—The Manley, Penzie, from Liverpool to
Kirkaldy, put into Scrabster Roads yesterday, with damage
every thing on deck carried away, having been struck by a sea

The Ann and Elizabeth, Gosterlow, of Boston, has been.
:owed into Harwich, abandoned.

The ➢fary, of South Shields, was fallen in with on the 2d
instant, abandoned.

The Sally, Byers, from Belfast to London ; Alexander and
Jenny, Beck, from Wick to Bristol; Mary Ann, M`Lachlan,
from Glasgow to Kirkcudbright; Lime, Cobb, of Irvine; and
John, Rittson, of Killough, were driven on shore near Belfast
the 31st ult.

The Elizabeth, Stotton, from London to Shields, put into
Harwich, with loss of mainmast, &c.

The Arethusa, Jaques, from Limerick to Liverpool, was
driven on shore in Caven Byran Bay the 31st ult.
The Diana, Cowan, bound to Liverpool, was driven on shore
at Galway the 31st ult.
The Mary Ann, Clark, from Boston to Burnham, is on shore
near the latter port—cargo discharged, partly damaged.

The Diana, Campbell, from Glasgow to Ballina ; Perseve-
rance, of Dumfries; and the Benbullen, Hawk, of Sligo, were
driven on shore at Sligo the 31st ult.

The Hope, from Newry to Runcorn, is on shore in Bootle
Bay.

The John, of Strangford, is on shore near Formby.
The Providena, Howard, from Wisbeach to Leeds, was
driven on shore near Wainfieet the 2d instant—crew saved.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Singapore Papers to the 24th August have been received at
the North and South American Coffeehouse. The following
are extracts :

Late letters by the Laurel inform us, that affairs in Java
remain quiet, but not so at Padang, to which place the Commis-
sioner-General, Vander Bosch, proceeded on the 10th instant,
with the intention of bringing the greater part of Sumatra
under the rule of the Dutch, and of establishing a Governor
there. We are informed on private authority, that on a very
recent occasion matters were so bad, that had not timely assist-
ance arrived from Java, Padang itself would have fallen into
the hands of the natives.

We are also informed by letters, that disturbances have
taken place at Jambia, near Palembang, whither troops have
been sent.

The following is from the Java Courant :—" Intelligence
has been received that the Chief Jambia, supported by some dis-
contented natives of Palembang, had made an inroad into the
district of Rawas, belonging to the Presidency of Palembang.
The President has already taken the necessary measures to repel
the unexpected attack."