The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-24 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, Ocr. 23.—The Moniteur contains a Royal
Ordinance, according to which, his Majesty considering
that it is userul to the progress of the arts in Belgium, to
encourage foreign artists to enrich our national exhibi-
tions with their works ; desiring to give a mark of esteem
and satisfaction to Mr. John Martin, of London, and
M. Gnden, of Paris, whose pictures have especially con-
tributed to add to the lustre of the exhibition of 1833,
has conferred on these two gentlemen the Order of
Leopold.
His Majesty has also conferred the Order of Leopold on
two native artists, Messrs. Gustane \Yappers, and Eugene
Verboeckhoven.
Two pages of the Moniteur Beige, are filled with the
tables annexed to the motion of M. Eugene Smet, Mem-
ber of the Chamber of Representatives on the free exporta-
tion of flax grown in Belgium.
We are happy to find, in an English Journal, a confir-
mation of the intelligence which is so important to our
merchants, that there are to be four mails weekly between
Belgium and England, instead of two as at present.
The Courrier Beige has a long article on the Royal
ordinances conferring the order of Leopold on the artists
mentioned above. The two foreign artists will do as they
please in receiving this strange encouragement for their
great merits. It reminds them, however, that the founda-
tion of the civil order is unconstitutional in Belgium, that
it is so unpopular that the Government has not ventured
hitherto to confer it on more than two Belgian citizens,
and that the foreigners who have received it were so dis-
tinguished for being present at the marriage of King
Leopold, for attending the Queen of the French, the Dukes
of Orleans and Nemours on their visit to Brussels, or
merely for having dined at King Leopold's table. As for
the Belgian artists, M. Verboeckhoven, who is the glory of
the National School, can gain nothing by a riband and a
cross ; and with respect to M. Wappers, notwithstanding
his great merit, be has in the present exhibition not equalled
his former efforts.—Brussels Papers, Oct. 24.
VIINICA, Ocx. 12.—Prince Metternich set out yes-
terday for Linz, where their Majesties the Emperor and
the King of Bavaria have by this time arrived. On the
return of the Prince, who is expected by the 19th, we
shall probably learn something more positive respecting
the intended ministerial conferences.

The President of the German Diet will remain here till
that time. It is not yet known when and where those
conferences are to be held, or even what subjects will he
discussed in them ; for the stories of a revival of the dig-
nity of Emperor of Germany, and the re-establishment
of a tribunal of the Emperor, &c., are not worthy of
notice. The case is different with the measures that may
be judged necessary for the safety of Germany and of all
Europe. It is probable that the Plenipotentiaries of the
German Courts will have to deliberate on the question of
Luxemburg, to know that Prince F. Schwartzenberg is
gene on a special mission to the Hague, and that Count
Dietrichstien, Charge d'Affaires of Austria at Cassel,
is going to Brussels, there to remain in the same
opacity, till the arrival of M. Van Neumann, who
is at present in Italy. A French Secretary of Lega-
tion set out yesterday for Italy, but on what object is nut
known. Count St. Aulaire returned to Vienna yesterday.
Since the departure of Charles X. for Prague, many
young Carlists have arrived here, who came to congratu-
late the Duke of Bordeaux on his majority. Among them
is M. Walsh, spokesman of the travelling Carlists, repre-
senting La Jeune France, who presented to the young
Duke the sword with the inscription, " Ventre Saint
Grit," and the gold spurs.
The Duchess of Berry has arrived at Layhach with her
husband, Lucchesi Palli. It is said she has given up her
plan of accompanying the Royal Family of France
to Prague, and intends to return to Italy. Very
affecting anecdotes are related of Mademoiselle, sister
of the Duke of Bordeaux. She caused several thou-
sand francs to be given to the more indigent of the
young men who came to compliment her brother, towards
defraying the expenses of their journey, and for fear
that the same might not be sufficient, offered a pearl
necklace, which she highly prized ; which, however, was
net accepted. Most of the young Carlists have already
set out on their return to France.

The military manoeuvres in Upper Italy are said to at-
tract the attention of all experienced officers, because the
new system of exercise proposed by Count Radetzki, which
was tried with much success in the camp at Bruna, is
to be practised there. It is believed that, after having
been duly examined by a Commission appointed for the
purpose, the new exercise will be introduced in the whole
Austrian army, and the old system abolished. The
movements of the troops are facilitated and abridged by
Count Radetzki's method, so that it may lead to an en-
tire change in the art of war. Count Latour, Direct"r
of the Engineer Department, is on a tour of inspection
through the Tyrol and Italy.—Allqemeine Zeitung,
Oct. 18.

Etrembert having examined with the micro-
scope several of the infusoria from Africa, animals which
ordinarily have no more than the fifteenth part of a line
in diameter, and which he fed on indigo and carmine, has
discovered that they possess no less than from thirty to
forty stomachs.—La Lanterne Magiqrce.
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Having some days ago published a letter
from Dr. Prati, containing assertions and observations re-
lative to Buonarroti, an Italian naturalized in France, who
had been imprisoned by the police of Paris, we attached
to the letter, signed as it was with the writer's name, a
credit which we have since had reason to be satisfied was
not due either to the facts alleged, or to the authority of
Dr. Prati. That person, in holding up his client as a
martyr to the cause of liberty, had sunk all mention of the
details of his life, which another correspondent of known
character, addressing us under the signature of " Z,"
describes as a course of wild and desperate fanaticism ;
Buonarroti, as is stated by " Z.," having been one of the
most remorseless agents of the committee of public safety
under Robespierre, and eager to eclipse in deeds of cruelty
that atrocious and terrible murderer of his fellow-beings.
We grieve sincerely to have been made the uncon'ciou I
channel of what now appears to have been a gross misre-
presentation of the history and merits of M. Buonarroti.
and by consequence of the probable motives hy which the
French Government has been actuated in its proceedings
towards him.— Times.

LIVERPOOL CoRN-EXCHANGE, OCT. 23.
--At our Corn-Exchange this morning there was a mid.
dling attendance of the trade, and a large show of samples
of all kinds of grain, meal, and fluor. There was a
moderate retail demand for the best Irish new wheat at
about the currency of Friday, which was 2d. per 70Ib.
higher than this day week ; and a few parcels were also
taken on speculation at from 6s. 9d. to 75., and for one
very choice lot 7s. ld. was paid ; middling and inferior
samples, as well as all kinds of old, were flat. Oats were
rather heavy of sale, and barely supported the prices of
Friday, no Irish exceeding 2s. Bd. per 451 b. Barley
exceedingly dull at 34. 9d. to 4s. per 601 b., as in quality
for malting descriptions. Malt steady as quoted. Beans
flat, and Is. to 2s. cheaper. Flour met a middling de-
mand, at 38s. to 40s. for general runs of Irish, but choice
marks obtained Is. to 2s. more. Meal was in tolerable
request at 235. 6d. to 235. 9d. for best new, and at 225.
to 225. 6d. for old.

A few weeks since an elderly lady, proceeding
in an omnibus towards the west end of the town, desired
to be set down in the Strand, and, on alighting, gave the
conductor a half-crown piece, demanding the change.
The fellow, however, instead of complying, called to the
driver " All right ;" and l.e immediately drove on, leaving
the lady in the mud, and minus 2s. A similar occurrence
took place with another lady last week, but who was
fortunately defrauded of Gd. only. Women are generally
selected by these fellows to practise their impositions on,
and who are, therefore, cautioned not to stir out of the
vehicles till they are in possession of any change coming
to them.

DON PEDRO.—TIIB agents of Her Most
Faithful Majesty Queen Donna Maria in this country,
have received instructions to send out 500 horses for the
use of the cavalry. An extensive horse contractor has
engaged to furnish them all caparisoned for the sum of
12,5001. part down in money,l and the remainder in bills.
The to horses are expected put on board in the course
as
Of a fortnight, and three large preparing for
that purpo,e ; five others are taken up
to pare convey men and
stores fur Oporto.
THE IRON TRADE.—The iron works in
the neighbourhood of Bradford are at the present time in
a state of considerable activiiy. At Bowling two addi'
tional stacks will be shortly called into operation, and at
Low Moor the works are about to be con.iderably enlarged.
In Staffordshire the price of Iron has risen 53. per ton on
pigs, and 10s. on manufactured ; and the demand
wagesbrisk
at this rate ; a further rise expected. Workmen's
have been advanced. Coal has gone up Is. per ton. At
a Meeting of the Yorlobire and Derbyshire ironmasters,
held on Thursday, at the Tontine Inn, it was unanimously
resolved to advance the price of metal. The price of best
pigs is fixed at 61. ss. ;No2, at 51. 155. ; No. Sp
at
Si. ss. ; and a corresponding advance on manufactured
Iron. A general briskness pervaded the trade.—,Sheffield
Iris.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1633.

There is no foundation for the statement of
a Morning Contemporary under the head of
Brussels, that the Northern Powers have with-
drawn from the Conferences on the Belgian
Question.

Brussels Papers to the 22d inst. have been
received. Their contents, however, are without

interest.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bau3sELs, Oct 9.1.
Actual Debt, 9. j.'2 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 911,4
Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, 1833, 4 per cent.

Some of our contemporaries have stated that
General MINA, and other distinguished Spa-
nish patriots in this country, bad offered their
services to the Queen Regent of SPAIN. We
have authority to contradict this statement, and
to say that they have no intention of interfering
in the dispute between the QUEEN REGENT and
Don CARLOS, so long as it shall bear the
character of a struggle for personal ascendancy,
without regard to political principle. MINA,
and his brave associates, are ready to unsheath
their swords for Spanish liberty, but not for
Spanish ambition. They are ready to hazard
their lives again in the cause of reason, but they
have borne the calamities of exile too long to
wish to exchange them now for the disgrace of
co-operating in the maintenance of despotic
government. If the Queen Regent of SPAIN
should declare for a Constitutional system, the
assistance of MINA and his associates will not
be withheld, or, perhaps, even without such a
declaration, they would not hesitate to offer it,
if they saw Don CARLOS gaining ground,
and felt assured that, by co-operating with
the present Government for a season, they
could prepare the way for Constitutional
changes. These veteran patriots, however,
have had too much experience of the ingratitude
and profligacy of Courts, to trust to a policy
which is influenced by Louts PHILIP, and
directed by ZEA BERMUDEZ. At the same
time, it is just to them to say that their own
political principles are very much misunderstood
in this country. They arc not the wild revolu-
tionary beings that they are generally supposed
to be. Although they cannot concur with the
imbecile and ianorant woman now at the head
of affairs in Spain, whose Neapolitan bringing
up was sufficient to prevent the possibility of her
entertaining liberal opinions, inthinking
innovations, however respectable in printhat all
innovations,
ple are l
improper, they do not think that the Constitu-
tion of 1812, or any other form of Constitution
proposed by mere theorists, would be the best

that could be given to Spain at the present
moment. They are aware that for ameliorations
to be lasting, they must be gradual ; and that,
although the best form of Government is not, as
the QUEEN REGENT says, that to which the
people are accustomed, it is that to which
the people can accustom themselves without
danger of commotion. MINA, ARGOELES,
VALDEZ, TORRENO, and other eminent
Spanish refugees, require a representative
form of Government, and trial by jury.
Short of this they would not be satisfied,
but they know that there are many institutions
which, although corrupt and vicious, have their
root in the ignorance and superstition of the
mass, and that they can only be destroyed gra-
dually to be destroyed safely. By the constitu-
tion of 1812, an attempt was made to lop off
these institutions, but the effect was merely to
remove the branches so as to allow them to shoot
forth afterwards with new vigour. To do any
good they must be uprooted, and that can only
be the work of time, and of that concentration
of power in the hands of a Government for good
purposes, which years of gradual reform can
alone produce. As far as the cause of order is
concerned, the constitution which MINA and
his friends would give to Spain, would be unex-
ceptionable in the estimation of the most timid,
but it would be so well based on principle that
twenty years would not pass over without a total
destruction of the corrupt and debasing
influence of the priesthood, and of the
tyrannical sway of an unfeeling aristocracy.
They would not emancipate the people entirely,
and then educate them, in order that they might
appreciate the advantages of their emancipation,
but would give them, in the first instance, those
constitutional privileges to which all men, edu-
cated or not, are entitled ; and having done so'
they would proceed to enlighten them as to
their true interests, and make concession go
hand in hand with information. From such men
as these there is nothing to fear for the cause of
order. Their reform, after the first great sweep,
which circumstances would render practicable,
would be gradual, but it would be sure, and,
with a free Constitution, Spain would become as
great in the scale of nations as she is favoured
by the gifts of nature. Industry would keep
pace with freedom, and the governing and the
governed would concur in the work of rege-
neration.

A report was current yesterday in the City,
that the continuation of the battle between the
Constitutionalists and the Miguelites on the
12th inst., was unfavourable to the former. We
are enabled to state, that the official accounts
received by our Government, up to the evening
of the 12th inst., are of an entirely different
character. The enemy were retreating rapidly
before the Pedroites.

The French Papers of Tuesday have been
received, but their contents are very vague with
respect to Spanish news. The Ultra Papers,
such as the Gazette de France, insist that all
Spain is in revolution, while the Liberal Papers,
with more probability, state the cause of the
young QUEEN is, on the whole, in a very
promising posture. Tranquillity reigned at
Madrid on the 14th inst.

The actual position of Don CARLos conti-
nues as yet involved in mystery, nor does it
appear that any success has attended the
parsial rising of his adherents. It is stated
in the Journal de Paris that the Spa-
nish Government has recognised the Queen
of PORTUGAL, and broken off all com-
munication with Don MIGUEL. This is
the only rational course which the QUEEN
REGENT could pursue, and it goes, we think, a
good way to neutralise the effects of her incon-
siderate manifesto. As to Don MIGUEL, the
withdrawal of Spanish influence from his pre-
tensions must accelerate his fall, if it have not
already taken place.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, OCT. 2'2.
Five per Cents., 101 f. 80c. 1021.
Three per Cents., 74f. 10c. 65c.
Bank Actions, 1,725 f.
Rente de Naples, 901. SOc.
Roman Five per Cents., 90%
Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 16.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 37%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 784.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 6334.
Belgian Loan, 1831, 94.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 30c. • money, '2sf. 25c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 20c.; money, 25E 15c.
—Cours Authentique.

We direct the attention of our readers to an
article which we have copied from the Morning
Post, on the speech of the King of HOLLAND
to the States-General. It is a rich specimen of
the would-be complaisance of the Tory portion
of the Press towards their Dutch favourite, but
verifying the old adage of " praise undeserved
is satire in disguise ;" every line of the eulogist
is a bitter censure upon the person eulogized.
Our contemporary praises the King of HOL-
LAND for his moderation and forbearance, and
attributes the delay of the negotiation respecting
the Belgian Question to the " insidious artifices"
of others. The moderation of the King o f
HOLLAND may be judged of by the fact of his
demanding from the Belgians the full amount of
their portion of the interest on the joint debt, dating
from the first negotiations on the subject, although,
by his own artifices, he has contrived to delay those
negotiations during a period of two years, during
which the Belgians have been put to an expense
treble the amount of their portion of interest on
the joint debt, for the maintenance of an army
on the war footing—the King of HOLLAND
refusing, at the same time, to render any account
of the enormous profits supposed to have been
derived by him from stock-jobbing, with the
proceeds of the sinking fund, to a portion of
the
King
which profit the Belgians are certainly entitled, if
they are to bear their share of the responsibility
to the holders of the National Securities. We
should like to know who the " others" are whose
artifices have stood in the way of the moderation
of h
of HOLLAND and of his desire to
bring negotiation to a close. Excellent
Monarch, sui
generis," as the Post styles
him, how his benevolent and paternal heart must
have been lacerated by the delays of PALMEns-
TON and TALLEYRAND ! Yet, how grateful
amongst all these obstructions to his earnest

endeavours to accelerate matters, must he have
been for the siege of the citadel of Antwerp,
which event he must admit to have been a de-
parture from that system of procrastination
which has prevented his putting the seal to the
independence of his beloved, although ex-
subjects !

Although sufficient time has not elapsed for
us to know what line of policy the Emperor of
RUSSIA would adopt on hearing of the death
of FERDINAND, the conductors of the Carlist
Press in France affect to believe that it will be
in strict conformity with his general opposition
to every thing bearing the slightest tendency to
liberalism, and that he will not permit the
legitimate rights of Don CARLOS to be set
aside by the claims of an infant sovereign. We
entertain a very different opinion on this subject.
The Emperor of RUSSIA, however he may
regret the loss of the beloved petticoat embroi-
derer, who was such an admirable type of abso-
lutism in Spain, will find ground for consola-
tion in the anti-innovation manifesto of his
widow, and will probably attempt to strike the
'following bargain with Louts PHILIP, who has
had nerve enough to protest against the late
treaty between Russia and Turkey. " Let me
do as I like with Turkey, and you shall have
your own way in the Peninsula." NICHOLAS
knows very well that the juste milieu King of
the FRENCH will not attempt to convert the
Spaniards to Liberalism, and he is equally well
convinced that this show of concession, by giving
him full scope for his projects on Turkey,
must place him in a position to dictate to the
soi disant Liberal Cabinets of Europe. As to
the legitimacy of Don CARLOS, there can be
little fear that NICHOLAS will make himself so
ridiculous as to contend for it. It would be
laughable indeed to hear the Russian Autocrat,
who usurped the throne which belonged to his
elder brother by the right of succession, and who
sent a younger brother to CONSTANTINE when
within forty miles of the capital, to inform him
that if he did not sign an act of abdication he
would not enter St. Petersburgh alive, advocating
the legitimate rights of Don CARLOS. NI;;;
CHOLAS will not put himself out of the way to
serve the Spanish Carlists, if he can make a
successful compromise with their opponents.
He is whetting his fangs for a final gripe of
Turkey, and if Great Britain and France give
way on that point, they will be permitted to do
as they please with Spain and Portugal. What
a cheering there will be in the Ministerial press
of London and Paris when this question shall
be settled. " See how we have managed the
Emperor NICHOLAS!" will be the exulting cry.
Not a word will be said about the condition of
his forbearance. That will be reserved for the
moment when, debased and degraded, the Bri-
tish-and French Cabinets shall see the Darda-
nelles closed against the ships of the two nations.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, OCT. 23.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrived the Britannia,
Frankland, from Trieste.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. —Wind W.S.W., blowing hard.—
Arrived the Despatch, Brown, from Cadiz.
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PLYUOUTH, OCT. :a —lt continned to blow heavy from S.W.
all last night, but moderated at noon to.day.—Arrived the
Active, Vivian, from Denia ; and Aurora, Gale, from Seville.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 22.—Wind W.S.W. to S.W., fresh breezes.
—Arrived off port the Profit and Loss, Towler, from Odessa ;
and Eschylus, Douglas, from Seville.
DARTMOUTH, OCT. 22.—Arrived off port the William, Hod.
nell, from Demerara.

BRISTOL, OCT. 23. Arrived the Mariner, from Bay Cha-
leur ; Providence, from Denia ; and Herald, from Palermo.
STANGATE CREEK, OCT. M—Arrived the Susannah, Rogers,
from Malaga. _

MILFORD, OCT. 22.—Arrived the Emma, Harris, from Ares_
sina—lost her mainmast. _ _

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 22.—Arrived the Ann, Walker, from Sa-
vanilla ; Corinthian, M`Dowell, horn Demerara; Catherine
Jackson, Fernold, from New York; Lord Stanley, Hall, from
Quebec; Sir George Murray, Beverley, from St. John's, New
Brunswick; and Mary, M`Kenzie, from Cadiz. Off port the
Frederica, Page, from New York; Nautilus, from Quebec;
and Gazelle, Asbridge, from Trieste.
LANCASTER, OCT. 22.—Arrived the Felicity, Farndale, and
Fame, Wright, from Archangel.
GREENOCK, OCT. 21.—Arrived the David, Munro, and Ca-
ledonia, Hart, from Demerara; Iris, M`Kennan, and Favourite,
Burns, from Quebec.
DUBLIN, OCT. 22.—Arrived the Stamfordham, Ayne, from
St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; and Maria, Brown, from Quebec.
CORK, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Dominica, Bowman, from
Quebec.
BELFAST, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Morgiana, Hetherington,
from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; and Bolivar, M`Mann,
from Quebec.
STOCKTON, OCT. 22.—Arrived the Catherine, Whitfield,
from Quebec; and Branch, Gowley, from St. Petersburgh.

Off the Wight the Nero, Jarvis, from Oporto.
The Sarah Margaret, Mackenzie, from St. John's, New
Brunswick, was driven on shore in Galway Bay on Saturday
night, and it was feared would be totally wrecked.
The Farmer's Delight, from Jersey to Shoreham, was on
shore yesterday near Rye—crew saved.
The Wear, Hesketh, from Sunderland to Dordt, was lost on
the Hinder Sand the 19th June—crew saved.
The Clifton, Greig, from New York to Rotterdam, was on
shore on Goree Island on Saturday, bottom up—crew saved.
The Ocean, Maxton, from Hayti, put into Helvoet, leaky,
having struck on the Hinder.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have no arrivals as yet, with the exception of the
French express from Paris, which brings an improvement of
the French Rentes to 74f. 65c.

Accounts from St. Sebastian, to the 16th inst., state that
General Castro Terreno had arrived at Miranda with 3,000
men, and that 4,000 more were expected with the Infante Don
Sebastian.

At Tentarabia a movement had taken place in favour of
Don Carlos.