The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-11 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 9.—His Royal Highness the Duke of
Orleans, who has been expected here for some days past,
arrived at the palace of Laeken yesterday evening.
Sir Robert Adair is expected at Brussels about the Gth
Jan. next.

Baron Diskan, who was lately sent to England by the
Belgian Government, returned yesterday evening.
Baron de Arnheim, the Prussian Minister, is expected at
Brussels in a few days.

CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES--SITTING OP

DEc. 8.

The President stated that he had received a letter from
M. Gendebien,addressed to the Chamber, in which he says
that he cannot attend the debates, but wishes his letter to
be read. It gives his reasons for his vote on the budget.
The Chamber decided that the letter should be read. It
stated that the writer refused to vote for the budget, be-
cause he has not confidence in the Ministry, for various
reasons which he assigns.

The Minister of Finance had a communication from
the Government ; he observed that the change of Ministry
in a neighbouring country (England) had excited, doubtless
without reason, uneasiness in our friends, and may give a
gleam of hope to the enemies of our independence. As
there is reason to suppose that there will be no change of
foreign policy, the Government intended to wait for some
weeks before it increased the budget of the war department ;
but fears having been manifested in these walls, the Go-
vernment proposes a new Article, by which an addition of
10 centimes (that is 10 per cent.) would be levied indis-
criminately on all the taxes, which would make a sum of
seven and a half millions applicable to the expenses of the
army. This, said the Minister, will shew Europe that Bel-
gium is prepared for any sacrifice that may be necessary,
and that if it was once attacked unawares, such an experi-
ment could not be made with impunity a second titne. As
soon as the political horizon shall permit us to see the inu-
tility of our extraordinary armaments, the Government will
immediately put a stop to them, and A project of law will
be introduced to abolish the additional 10 centimes, if they
should not be wanted.

M. de Robaulx wished that the Ministry should make a
report on the domestic and foreign policy of the country,
which he thought absolutely necessary at a moment that
the accession of the Tories to power in England threatens
the existence of the national independence of Belgium.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs said, at present there is
only one remarkable event, the dismissal of Lord Melbourne,
and the appointment of the Duke of Wellington. It is
impossible to form our just opinion of the English Ministry,
which is not yet formed. For my own part, ldo not parti-
cipate in the apprehensions which some members have ex-
pected. However, the Dutch government, considering this
ministerial change in anothei light, tnd thinking it sees a
gleam of hope, it is the duty of t'ne Belgian government to
watch the movements of the butch army, in order to be
prepared against any
aP;gression. I am convinced that
Belgium would not awdeal in vain to its old allies ; but it does
not need foreign aiL,
with Holland, it has nothing to fear from a contest
ough tto be on its guard against any perfidy.
It will, indr.ed, have to bear an additional expense, but I
am con';'inced it will bear it with pleasure for the support
of independence. I must, however, protest beforehand
against any false interpretation that may be given of my
words out of this Chamber. I therefore declare, that up
to this moment the Government knows not of any act, of
any fact, of any word whence it might be inferred, directly
or indirectly, that the Tory Ministry does not consider
itself as irrevocably bound by all the acts of its predeces-
sors, and there is nothing in our diplomatic affairs that can
impose the slightest fear ; but prudence makes it our duty
to reinforce our army into the same proportion as that of
Holland. The Government does not mean to make any
extensive armaments, but merely to prepare for any sud-
den event or rupture of the armistice. I therefore support.
the proposal of my honourable colleague, to give the Go-
vernment a vote of credit, of which it will make nop use un-
less circumstances render it necessary.
Some further discussion ensued, in the course of which,
the Minister for Foreign Affairs said, that o 4; course the ex-
istence of a new Ministry in England ce,Uld not have been
notified to our Plenipotentiary at Le;ndon, because no Mi-
nistry was yet formed, but that, the Duke of Wellington
has notified in the same term:; as to the other Plenipoten-
tiaries, that he would ree-ive our Minister at certain hours
for communications to be made to his Government. The
Duke has made other communications, not only to our Mi-
nisters, but to the King himself ; such, for instance, as the
notice_ of the death of the Duke of Gloucester. With re-
spect to Luxemberg (M. Dumortier having asked aques-
tion on the subject), the Minister said the late decision of
the Diet for the formation of arbitral tribunals, did not
apply to' Luxemburg.
Messrs. Robaulx and Pirson insisted on having a de-
tailed report on the political' situation of the country. The
Minister for Foreign Affairs said he could give no farther
information.
M. Jullien thought the Minister had given all the expla-
nation he could give.
The motion of Messrs. Robaulx and Pirson was put to
the vote and negatived. The debate on the budget of
Ways and Means was commenced (and continued on the
9tb). Nothing remarkable has yet occurred in the debate.
BELGIAN FIYNDS.—BnussELs, DEC. 9.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent 51%
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 97 .!44
Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent 99%
Brussels Papers, Dec. 10.

The provisional arrest of Mr. Samson, son of a
rich banker in London, for the enormous sum of 200,000
francs, has just been confirmed by a sentence of tho Tribunal
at Brussels.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The King held a Privy Council yesterday, which
was attended by the Lord Chancellor (Lyndhurst),
the Duke of Wellington, Marquis of Camden, Earls
of Rosslyn, Amherst, and Jersey, Lords Ellenbo-
rough,, Cowley, and Maryborough ; Sir R. Peel, Sir
CA M. Sutton, Sir John Beckett, Sir H. Hardingc,
Messrs. Goulburn and Herries —our future Reform-
ers I Sir It. Peel was sworn into office as Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and received the Seals of Office
from the King. He will also be First Lord of the
Treasury ; but with respect to the latter, some delay
must take place. Parliament was ordered to be further
," prorogued from the 18th of the present month, to
i
Thursday, the 15th of January. But this is a mere
matter of form, as Parliament can be dissolved at
any time. Nothing, however, is yet known of the
Dissolution, though it is probable that the moment
the Ministerial arrangements are completed it will take
place. The general belief, in well-informed quarters,
is that Lord Stanley will not take office ; and this
belief is strengthened by the knowledge that the King
has sent for his Lordship. It is no doubt supposed
that if the King appeal powerfully to Lord Stanley,
representing that a Cabinet cannot be formed without
him, his pride may be flattered by having a Royal
suitor for his favour. Those, however, who know
Lord Stanley best, declare that he is too honest and
too proud a man to allow himself to become a tool in
the hands of old stagers, who either will disgust the
nation by an open profession of Tory principles, or
hypocritically assume the mask of Reformers, which is
still worse. The Standard intimates that Lord Stanley
will not march through Coventry with the Tories. "It
is believed (says our contemporory) that Lord Stanley,
though giving his cordial support to the Administra-
tion, will, for the present at least decline office." If
he support any of the measures of the Administration,
he will support them cordially, but he will not stick
his knees into Sir Robert's back ; he will not be the
tool of Sir Joseph Surface. The Standard adds, that
the ex-Radical Sir James Graham is not so squeamish
as Lord Stanley. " The accession of , Sir James
Graham, acting under Lord Stanley's advice, is confi-
dently hoped for." Why should Lord Stanley advise
another to do what he is too proud to do himself ?
The truth is, that Sir James Graham requires no ad-
vice; his desire to serve the Duke and Sir Robert, is like
Mr. Serjeant Spankie's, spontaneous. If the Duke wish
him, he may have the Cumberland Baronet by a nearer
cut than through the intervention of Lord Stanley.
He has but to ask, and Sir James is his man in an
instant. Sir James, we are told, succeeds to the Chief
Barony of the Exchequer. It is understood that no
other arrangements will be made, till the answer of
Lord Stanley has been received. It was expected
last night. The Tory papers begin to be a little more
communicative as to the professions of the new Minis-
try. The Standard tells us that the Tories are to be
Reformers ; but that though Reformers, they will not
be apostates, because, circumstances having changed,
the opinions suitable to a former state of things are
not suitable now. " There is a fraud (rays our con-
temporary) in the bare admission of such a word as
apostacy into the controversy. In a new state of affairs,
there can be no apostacy in politics ; because all politi-
cal opinions depending upon existing institutions and
existing relations, they must give way .with those
. institutions and those relations upon which they de-
pend ; otherwise what will follow ? What, indeed, is
demanded to follow by those who abusively employ
this topic ? Why, this ; that a political system once
changed by bad men, for bad purposes, must to the
end of time be administered by men as bad, and for
designs as evil." This is very craftily expressed, and
may mean, that disapproving of the men who carried
the Reform Bill, the Duke and Sir Robert disapproved
of all the measures proposed by them, which were
consequently bad up to the middle of last month, but
that the same bad men being now out of office, the
same measures may be proposed by good men ;
or it may mean that the late Ministejs having
changed the institutions of the country, for the
sake of protecting the people against the abuses of
misgovernment, another set of men may profess a
desire to reform abuses, in order to defeat reform.
This is the interpretation which the country will put on
the oracular dictum of our Contemporary. If the late
Ministers changed a political system for bad purposes,
they who think such purposes bad, will naturally think
measures as unlike the measures of the late Ministry
• as possible, good measures. We must submit, say the
Tories, to the new institutions till we can change
them. And iii truth it would be surprising if all the
Tories were to become suddenly smitten with the desire
to reform, as we are told by the Standard they are.
64 The whole Conservative body of the kingdom (says
the Standard), without a whisper of division or dis-
trust amongst them (if any such whisper has been
heard, let the occasion be pointed out ; until it is, we
shall reiterate it), the whole Conservative body through-
out the United Kingdom press forward to urge Sir
Robert Peel and the Duke of 'Wellington into the
administration of a Government, that in the largest
and most liberal proper interpretation of the word must
be a reforming Government." This is the most sus-
picious part of all. If we heard of the thieves pro-
fessing a warm desire to support a police, we should
think matters somewhat alarming. Why did the
Tories oppose the Reform Bill, but that they wished
to continue to quarter themselves and their dependents
on the public ? The Tories are wedded to all abuses
—they are enemies to retrenchment and economy in
all departments of the State—they were enraged beyond
measure at the steps taken by the late Ministers to in-
troduce reforms into the Churches of England and
Ireland. The Tories can only approve of the Govern-
ment of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert
Peel for reasons which ought to range every honest
and independent Irian throughout the country against
it. The Tories only acquiesce in it because they
know it is to be a refoiNing Government only in
name. The question is slioAr this—Why did the
Tories oppose the Reform of the Representation ?
They opposed it because they knew that a representa-
tion approximating to real—that is, which should be
identified in interest with the country, would not tole-
rate the abuses by which the few are enriched at the
expense of the many. Why have the Tories opposed
the Reform Bill ever since it became the law of the
land, but because they were opposed to all attempts to
give to the Reform Bill its legitimate consequences ?
They have fought for every abuse, however glaring,
inch by inch. Of all the abuses in the country, none
are more offensive than those of municipal Corpo-
rations. What an outcry has been raised by the
Tories against even the inquiry into the state of
these Corporations ! But we shall now find all the
corrupt Corporations throughout the country zealous
in their support of a Reform Government I What
pleases the enemies of Reform is of bad omen for its
friends. The man must be blinder than a mole who
does not see that the present Ministers have entered on
office with an intention to defeat the just expectations
of the people. It is supposed that in their hands, the
Reform Bill will be inoperative, and that some moment
may arrive when it may be mutilated. Any govern-
ment receiving the support of Tories must deserve the
opposition of every Reformer. The Tories cannot
succeed in their object without gulling the Reformers.
But we trust they will not be the dupes of such a bare-
faced system of deceit as is avowed by our Evening
contemporary. The opposition of the Tories to all
reforms proves either that they are dishonest unprin-
cipled men, or that they will propose no refornit de-
serving of the name. When the Wolves becoime dpar-
dians of the sheep, woe to the sheep.--Xoriqng
Chronicle. • .1.
A pamphlet, under the title of " England, Frane,
Russia, and Turkey," just published by Ridgway, so
completely confirms the opinions so often expreSSO by
us, on the evil consequences which have resulted from
the lamentable policy of this country towards Turkey,
that we cannot refrain from making one or two-remarks
upon it. . The pamphlet comutences with a-few obser-
vations on the state of Poland ; and it is fairly asked
how England and France could ever have suffered
the incorporation of any country with Russia, whe-
ther guaranteed by treaties or not ? but when it is
recollected that that heroic country had been univer-
milygeggnised as a bulwark against the encroach-
---inetjhr prsian tyranny and barbarism, that we
,173i41.0,4-9 to defend its integrity by every feel
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