The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-09 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green last night in-
troduced a Mrs. FISHER, a lady of considerable pro-
vincial fame, as Bess, the beggar's daughter. Ti is
lady owes her introduction to the metropolis to the
author of the drama, and her performance justifi. d
Mr. Knowles's judgment : she played it with mush
gentleness, and made no attempts to do more than the
author designed. The part is one of those which call
rather for excellent taste than for any other requisite,
and would be marred by overacting. Mrs. F.'s voice
and person are good, and she will prove a great ad-
dition to the company. The Countess of Harrington
was in a private box, and the house was well attended.

LORD ELDON'S STATE CARRIAGE—
The old state carriage in which Lord Eldon, as Chan-
cellor, usually went to Court, was yesterday exhibited
at a sale in the Pantechnicon, where it had remained
some time for the accommodation of any new Lord
Chancellor who might desire to proceed ul on safe
constitutional principles.
while
thele Mr..
Richards, forenoon o f the
Meadow 27th of
Place, lasut month,runtstie
ld
Links,
dera bwae s
rwouapl k
oi nfg in
bees
i
i hanging
agnagrdinegn. , he 0
nt h
enoticed a n
upper
pa
rcto
of_si
the summer seat, for which he immediately obtained
a hive, and had them all safely secured in the course
of ten minutes. This affords certain proofs of a warm
spring, and a promise of an -early supply of good honey,
_Edinburgh Paper.

01"FHE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

__~..-

The Conservative press of this country seems
to have taken under its especial patronage two
alleged notes, said, in the Belgic Courrier, to
have been presented to the government of Brus-
sels by the ministers of the Emperor of Aus-
tria and the King of Prussia, •respecting some
encroachments of the Belgic troops on the circle
claimed to belong to the Germanic garrison of
the fortress of
,Luxemburg. We yesterday
stated that the arrangement which retains that
fortress in the hands of the Confederation, was
not affected or disturbed by the treaty for the
separation of Belgium and Holland, agreed to
in November, 1831. The whole Grand Duchy
is at present subject to the Belgic govern-
ment, with the exception of that fortress and
a circle described by a zadius of small extent
around it. The first armistice of 1830, de-
termined that things should remain as they
then were in that respect, till negotiations for
a settlement should be tried ; and the treaty
of May last, between France and England
on the one part, and Holland on the other,
made that armistice binding till a final ar-
rangement. The only doubt which could
arise on the subject respected the length of
the radius—whether, in short, it should be two
leagues or four round the fortifications. The
two chief Monarchs of the Germanic League,
and the Diet itself, are said to have agreed with
the King of Holland that the greater circle
should be adopted as indispensable to the se-
curity of the garrison, and hence the misun-
derstanding between the latter and the Belgic
authorities on the rights of sovereignty exer-
cised by Belgium within the prescribed limits.
If there was any uncertainty on the subject, we
think that the Belgic Government could sacri-
fice no dignity in surrendering the point, rather
than risk a collision with the Germanic Confe-
deration, more especially as the arrangement is
at present only provisional, and as the final
treaty which the armistice conditionally protects
will even assign a more extended boundary to
the part of the Grand Duchy reserved as a state
of the German empire. This is literally all
that is meant by the alleged notes of the two
great German Powers, and the lovers of political
agitation may take the full benefit of the ad-
mission. It is quite true that the Germanic
Confederation is bound to Belgium neither by
the convention of May last, nor by the
treaty of November, 1831 ; the former being
made only between England and France
on one side, and Holland on the other ; and
the latter never having been recognized by the
Diet, though sanctioned by its two chief members.
It was almost unnecessary, therefore, to state
so obvious a fact ; but the statement, when
made, affords surely no indication of intended
hostilities, though followed by the declaration
that the entrance of Belgic troops within the
great radius of the fortress would be repelled by
force. What is said about the conduct of Ge-
neral Dumoulin goes for nothing, in the face of
an order of the Diet, reversing his acts, com-
manding him promptly to liberate his Belgic
captive, and authorizing him to settle the ques-
tion of the disputed limits with the Belgic
military commandant of the district. But do
these Conservatives, who still cling to the hope
of future misunderstandings between the Ger-
manic Powers and the new kingdom of Bel-
gium, from the very indifferent, or rather mo-
derate language, of these notes (supposing
them to be authentic), not reflect in what ca-
pital these notes were presented, and by whose
hands they were delivered ? Do they not re-
collect that the scene is in Brussels ; and that
the representatives of Austria and Prussia are
the diplomatic actors ? And have they not sa-
gacity or penetration enough to see the im-
mense stride which has been made in securing
the cause of Belgic independence by that recogni-
tion of the new Government which the presence of
these ambassadors indicates to all Europe ?
How can King William of Holland pretend to
any right over what he still presumes to call
his " rebellious provinces," when not only
France and England, but Austria and Prussia
also, have their representatives at the court of
his successor in the Belgic Netherlands ? It is
such pretensions as these which the allies
should put down by a strong united effort, or an
immediate settlement, and which the presence
of an Austrian and Prussian envoy at the court
of Leopold must so far tend to discourage, that
have produced the disturbances which, as we
observe with regret, have taken place in Brus-
sels on Sunday last. Our Brussels correspon-
dent described in his last letter from that capital
the absurd display of Orange feeling by a few
of the old women of the party in purchasing the
horses of the Prince of Orange, in order to tes-
ffy their respect to his Royal Highness by
sending them after him out of the country. The
compliment was no doubt a little equivocal,and
the difficulty of completing the purchase money
though the required sum was extremely insigni-
t7cant, may be regarded as a test of the weak-
Pegs o Orange loyalty in Belgium. But the
disposition of the malcontent faction was shown,
though not their liberality, and the populace
are not always ready to treat malignant imbeci-
lity with passive contempt. The publication of
the list of Orange subscribers, whose rebellious
loyalty was knocked down for so very little at
the horse mart, has, in consequence, given
rise to an attack on their houses, which
every lover of regulated liberty, and civil
order, must deeply lament. We refer our
readers to :the details of the disturbances,
which will be found in another part of our
journal. At the same time that we regret the
violence and excesses which have been com-
mitted, not only because they have led to the
destruction of property, and because they weaken
our oonfidence in the security of order, but be-
cause theydishonour the cause of freedom, and
furnish an o,?caston for counter-revolutionary
declamations against the recent political changes
in Belgium (with which they have nothing to
do), we are bound to say that the conduct of
.
the parties who provoked them deserving of
the severest reprobation, if not of indicial rigour.
It is perhaps not known to most of our readers,
that while the great majority of the Belgic
people of all classes, including nobility, clergy,
landed proprietors, merchants, manufacturers,
professional people, the tradesmen of towns and
cities, and the cultivators of the soil, or the in-
habitants of the country, are in favour of the
new constitutional arrangement of the throne and
the kingdom, there is still a small but active
faction, who were favoured by the late govern-
ment, or fluttered about the late court, dis-
posed on every. occasion to encourage disaffec-
tion or to provoke disorder. Several of the
chamberlains, nobles, courtiers, or officers of the
Dutch King who enjoy large estates in Belgium
have never returned to Brussels since the late
revolution, though their persons have not been
proscribed nor their vroperty threatened by the
new government. Iheir hotels are empty or let

to strangers, and they employ all their intrigues
to forward the desperate cause of their late idol.
The mildness and leniency of the government
seems only to encourage their machinations by
the hopes of impunity ; and because confiscation
is abolished, they appear to think that they
may employ a part of the funds enjoyed under
the existing laws and institutions of the state to
weaken their authority, or to shake the stability of
the throne. It is this faction which formed the
subscription purse to buy the Orange stud—a
kind of sweepstakes of rebellion. We should
be sorry to see an attempt to put down even such
a faction by the clumsy expedient of new penal
statutes, which might affect others as well as
themselves, but we discover sufficient reasons in
their present outrageous conduct, and the dis-
turbances which it has provoked, to stimulate
the Great Powers to demand an immediate set-
tlement of the Belgic question, by the delay of
which only such scenes as have lately disgraced
Brussels could occur.—Times.

The Treasury writers seem to deduce very
comfortable assurances of the amicable inten-
tions of Russia from the hospitality displayed by
Count Pozzo di Borgo towards Lord Durham,
in Paris. But who doubts the disposition of
Russia to continue on amicable terms with
England as long as she is allowed to carry on
her ambitious projects unmolested ? Russia is
too wise to court war while peace brings her all
the advantages of conquest. It was not by
going to war with England, but by maintaining
her " amicable relations" with her, as the
King's speeches have it, that Russia was enabled
to annihilate Poland, to bring Persia under the
yoke, and prepare Turkey to be incorporated
with her vast dominions. These accessions of
empire has the Russian government secured,
during a few years of peace, and while England
maintained with her a most friendly alliance.
Why, then, should that government have any
disposition to fall out with our own rulers,
whose readiness to be duped by the crafty emis-
saries of the Autocrat has done as much for the
advancement of Russian ambition as many vic-
tories could have done ? The quill of Count
OrlofFachieved more than the sword of Diebitsch.
Not only has Russia derived the advantages which
we have mentioned from her friendly connection
with the " liberal" Government of England,
but she has actually been assisted by our Go-
vernment with the very " sinews of war." The
millions of the people's money that were handed
over to Russia by. the promoters of the Russian
Dutch loan job enabled the Autocrat to make
his last immense exertions to overwhelm the de-
voted and betrayed Poles. No doubt a portion
of that very English gold went to bribe the
venal Ministers of the Sultan and buy off all
opposition at Constantinople to the Orloff
treaty, by which the Turkish empire is assigned
in mortmain to the haughty Czar. While the
worthy descendant of the Northern Semiramis
continues to find a peace with England so pro-
fitable to himself, what object could he have in
disturbing it ? Was not Lord Durham smiled
upon, complimented, and feasted, by the Auto-
crat himself, when he went on his mission to
St. Petersburgh, as he is now smiled upon,
complimented, and feasted, by Count Pozzo di
Borgo ? Yet, though that embassy of Lord
Durham's to St. Petersburgh was said to have
cost about 20,0001., the results of it were not
worth a pin's fee. Count Pozzo knows how to
manage a vain and weak man. His dinners are
more easily discussed than his diplomacy. He-
and Louis Philip know the uses of political
hospitality.—Morning Herald.

It is related in an account of the life and ad-
ventures of a certain mariner that, having been
shipwrecked on an unknown island, and seeing
a gallows erected at a short distance from the
shore, he exclaimed, " Praise be to God ! we
are at least in a civilized country." This story
has been forcibly recalled to our recollection by
an extract from the Irish Journals which we
gave in our Paper of yesterday, detailing the
circumstances of the case of Mr. Robert Cole
Maxwell, condemned to death at the Limerick
Assizes, for shooting his cousin, Mr. Holmes,
in an endeavour to take possession of a certain
farm, bequeathed by a relation to one or other
of the parties. The point in dispute was to
which party the estate was left ; and, to esta-
blish this, each side proceeded,—not into a
court of law, as is the humdrum method in
this country,—but to the field of battle,—there
to decide the matter, as in the olden time,
by force of arms ;—with the assembled vas-
sals of their respective houses ;—their ad-
verse banners displayed ;—shouting their
war cries and clashing their arms, to the
delight and edification of an admiring neigh-
bourhood I This scene, reader, occurred in
the county of Limerick, in the province of
Munster, in the year of our Lord 1834. The
account of it is to be found, not in an Irish
historical novel by Banim, nor in an Irish ro-
mantic tale by Lady Morgan. It is not the
high-wrought conception of the dreaming
novelist, but the dry matter-of-fact narrative of
the cautious journalist ;—it is not a fancy pic-
ture of the days of Brian Boiruhme, but a veri-
table incident of the reign of William IV.
Were our mariner to arrive in the county of
Limerick during such a scene, might he not
exclaim—sick of civilization and of cities—
" Praise be to God ! the days of chivalry are
come again ; here we are at least in an
uncivilized land ;—if we have not a gal-
lows to cheer our sight, we are at least
spared the law of Lord Brougham ; and
if we are demolished by the clubs of the
savages, we shall at least be spared the
protocols of Lord Palmerston !" Yet, if
Lord Brougham be not Lord Chancellor
there,—Lord Plunket is ;—if we have not Lord
Palmerston for Irish Secretary, we have Mr.
Littleton ;—or, in other words, we have the
law without its protection—and the gallows
without its terrors,—we have Lord Plunket with
his family—and Mr. Littleton with his father-
in-law ! But, seriously, let us ask our readers
' is it to be credited that this is an account of the
means by which legal right is sought to be
established in a Christian country—and in the
nineteenth century ? Is it to be credited, we
ask, that this scene should have occurred within
a hundred miles of the Irish metropolis—and
within a hundred yards of a police station ;
and if it is to be credited,—if it be neither the
ravings of terror, nor the rantings of Toryism,
—if it is to be found in the columns of the
Dublin Mail and of the London Times ;—if,
while it furnishes comment for the one, it does
not elicit contradiction from the other ;—if this,
we say, be all true, is not the vaunted security
of an English fireside a madman's boast ;—is
not the glorious distinction of being a British
subject an idiot's drivel ?—Morning Post.

CAUTION TO QUACKS.—Saturday, in the
Police-court, Glasgow, a person was fined in the sum
of ss. for distributing an indelicate quack hand-bill.—
Scotch Paper,

SPAIN.

( From the Times.)

The decrees lately published in the Madrid Gazette
have already been described in the letters of our cor-
respondent, but the great importance of the two which
relate to the property of rebellious ecclesiastics in-
duces us to insert complete translations of them :

" ROYAL DECREES.

" The criminal obstinacy with which some indivi-
duals belonging to the secular clergy have disregarded
the reiterated admonitions of my Government, and,
neglecting the exemplary sanctity and the meekness
essential to their order, have converted themselves
into partisans and accomplices of the faction which
disturbs and afflicts the country, calls for the adoption
of severe measures to maintain the lustre and dignity
of the clerical body itself, and to provide for the safety
of the state. For the purpose of accomplishing these
important objects, I have resolved on the following
decree :

" Art. 1. Possession shall be taken of the tem-
poralities of all secular ecclesiastics, of whatever class
or hierarchy, who, joining the ranks, or the revolu-
tionary juntas of the rebels, or emigrating from these
kingdoms without the competent license, may have
abandoned, or shall in future abandon, their churches.
" ' Art. 2. As the criminal acts to which the pre-
ceding article refers are such as are done openly, and
may easily be known by notoriety, the confiscation of
the temporalities shall take effect immediately on the
flight of the ecclesiastic becoming known by public
report. _ _

' Art. 3. In like manner the temporalities of the
ecclesiastics who shall assist the factious by providing
them with arms, ammunition, or money, to forward
their iniquitous plans, shall be confiscated.
" Art. 4. Moreover, the temporalities of those ec-
clesiastics who shall receive or conceal the rebels, or
shall induce any persons to join them, or shall excite
movements and seditions among the people, in order
to withdraw them from the obedience due to the Go-
vernment, shall be confiscated.

" Art 5. In order that the confiscation of the
temporalities may take effect in the cases provided by
the foregoing articles, it shall be only preceded by a
short and summary inquisition, and' no further mea-
sures shall be requisite.
" ' Art. 6. The Procurador Sindico of the place
where the ecclesiastic whose temporalities may be con-
fiscated resides, shall, in virtue of his office, take care
that they are transferred to the sub-delegate of Pro-
vincial Rents, information thereof being transmitted to
me through your department.
" Art. 7. If the ecclesiastic possess a benefice with
the cure of souls, such an amount shall be deducted
from the seized temporalities' as, according to the deci-
sion of the synod of the respective bishops, shall be a
sufficient income to the individual appointed to fulfil
that charge.
" Art. 8. The fund of temporalities which may
result from the application of this decree, will be des-
tined to the payment of the assignments which I may
be pleased to grant for the drying up of the tears, and
the consoling of the parents, children, and widows of
the loyal who may be killed, or may die in defence of
the safety of the country, and of the legitimate rights
of my exalted daughter; and the remainder, if there
should be any, will be applied to the extinction of the
public debt.
" ' Art. 9. The enforcement of the penalties pre-
scribed by this decree shall in nowise prejudice any
judicial proceedings undertaken according to due course
of law.

" 6 Take notice hereof, and do what is needful for
the fulfilment of the same.

" ' In rubric, by the Royal Sign Manual, at Aran-
juez, March 26, 1834.
" D. NICOLAS MARIA GARELLY.'

" The asylums which religion has consecrated to re-
tirement and virtue cannot be converted into centres
of rebellion, without prejudice and injury to institutions
which are the objects of the veneration of a Catholic
country. But as, unfortunately, experience has shown
that some monasteries and convents have been, and are
still, profaned by subversive plans and deeds, desiring
equally to consult the safety of the state and the honour
and sanctity of the cloisters, I have resolved on de-
creeing as follows :
" Art. 1. Any monastery or convent, whatever its
institution may be, from which any individual belong-
ing to the community shall fly in order to pass over to
the rebels, shall be immediately suppressed, if within
the space of 24 hours afterwards the prelate does not
give information thereof to the nearest authority, and
certify that he has commenced the necessary proceed-
ings against the fugitive.
" Art. 2. Any monastery or convent from which the
sixth part of the community shall fly to pass over to
the rebels shall also be suppressed.

" Art. 3. In like manner, any monastery or con-
vent into which warlike stores, clothing, arms, or am-
munition shall be received, with the connivance of the
superior shall be be suppressed.
" Art. 4. Moreover, any monastery or convent in
which it may be proved that clandestine juntas have
met with the permission or knowledge of the superior,
to subvert order and conspire against the state, shall be
suppressed.
Art. 5. The objects consecrated to worship be-
longing to the monasteries or convents which may be
suppressed by virtue of the present decree shall be dis-
tributed by the respective diocesans among the most
necessitous parishes, information of the execution
thereof being transmitted to me.
" ' Art. 6. The moveable, and immoveable property
belonging to the monasteries or convents so suppressed
shall be immediately sold by public auction, according
to due course of law.

" Art. 7. The fund of temporalities which may
result from the provisions of this my Royal decree will
be applied to the payment of the pensions which I shall
assign to the parents, widows, and orphans of the
loyal Spaniards who may die in defence of the throne
and the country ; and the remainder, if any there
should be, will be destined to the extinction of the pub-
lic debt.

" Art. 8. The application of the foregoing provi-
sions is to be understood as in nowise prejudicing the
institution of any proceedings against those who may
be guilty of conspiracy against the state.
" 4 Take notice hereof, and do what is needful for
its fulfilment.

" In rubric, by the Royal Sign Manual, at Aran-
juez, March 26.
" 'D. NICOLAS MARIA GARELLY.'"
We also extract from the Gazette an account
of the capture of the express packet :

" The Captain-General of Galicia sent to this office
on the 20th of March the following despatch :
" Most Excellent Senor,—Having communicated
to the Board for the service of the Guardacostas, to
the brigantine Guadalete, and to the Commandant-
General, ad interim, of Vigo, orders for the exertion
of the most rigorous vigilance, in order to secure the
capture of the Bilander, express packet, which, ac-
cording to information received this month from her
Majesty's Minister in London, had sailed from Ply-
mouth, laden with munitions of war for the Pretender,
the guarda-costas put to sea, and the brigantine Guada-
lete commenced a cruise along the coast. The result
of these measures of precaution has been most fortunate.
" On the 17th, at two in the morning, the guarda-
costa brigantine El Argos, Captain Don Juan Antonio
Cortina, captured the express packet. Of the parti-
culars of this operation her Majesty will be apprised
by the adjoining despatch, which I have the honour of
enclosing to your Excellency.
" I have taken care that the vessel should be
freighted, and her cargo deposited in a secure store-
house with a double inventory, one of which was
placed in the hands of the military commandant ad
interim of the province of Tuy, and the other in the
keeping of the establishment of the guarda-costas,
which will form a sufficient evidence of the freight.
" As Senor Vial in his communication to me has
said that one or more of the Pretender's agents em-
barked tin board this vessel, I have instructed Colonel
Cuesta, in case any Spaniards were really on board, to
take means to make out a particular report respecting
them, in order to the identifying their persons, and to
forward the same to me without delay, for the purpose
of laying it before the Military Commission, that the
parties may be tried according to law.
" Though the cargo is not yet formally certified,
Colonel Cuesta assures me that it consists of 2,500
muskets, 200 barrels of cartridges, 180 large barrels of
powder, and a quantity of shoes.
" I make this communication to your Excellency
for the purpose of having the fact made known to her
Majesty, to whom. I cannot refrain from recommending
the activity, zeal, and ability displayed by Colonel
Cuesta, Commandant ad interim of the province of Tuy,
who hastened the putting off of the guarda-costas and
the brigantine Guadalete, without which the vessel in
question would have escaped. The constant services
which the guarda-costa boats render in watching the
coast also merit her Majesty's consideration, and this
consideration equally is clue to the Boards anti to the

Captains of the vessels, who are all ready, on th e
slightest intimation, to execute this important service,
and in particular the Captain of the Argos, Don Juan
Antonio Cortina.'"

Captain Cortina, in his despatch, states that
when he boarded the express packet, the master
told him that he was bound to Oporto and Lis-
bon with provisions, but upon examination he
found instead of provisions the warlike stores
above mentioned. After the capture a steamer
in the service of Don Miguel came up. The
Portuguese Captain said that the cargo of the
express packet was destined for Don Miguel,
and that therefore the prize ought to be given up
to him. Captain Cortina, however, insisted on
keeping possession.