The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 2.—The Moniteur denounces the
treaty of trade and commerce between Belgium and
the Netherlands, which was to have continued in force
until Jan. 1, 1854. The Belgian Government at the
same time propose that negotiations shall be immedi-
ately opened for the conclusion of a fresh treaty of
commerce and navigation between the two kingdoms.
The contingent of the army is fixed at 70,000 men
for 1851.

The contingent of the conscription of 1851 is fixed
at 10,000 men.

The budget of the Minister of the Interior is fixed
at 2,157,738 f. for 1851.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Jan. 2:—

ASSET!.

Cash in hand
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due •••
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 15,318,998 f. were received
from the Branch Banks ... 58,126,924 07
Bills in the branch bank 92,439,318 0
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 3,142,900 0
Disto by the branch banks 1,434,037 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 8,889,996 10
Ditto by branch banks... ... 2,313,432 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0
Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 0
Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
Rentes, di3posable funds 42,227,238 13
Investments of the new branch banks in

f▪ .346,627,613 51
. . 124,411,898 0
• 4,673,202 07

the public funds ...
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ...
Real property of the branch banks ...
Interest in National Discount Bank ...
Ditto branch banks ...
Bills protested at Paris ••• ••.
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Miscellaneous

12,952,725 74
4,000,000 0
3,488,727 0
200,000 0
230,000 0
79,489 36

25,676 0
1,786,461 42

K 817,049,633 40

rosion, &c. She has a flush deck, with a poop cabin,
and is neatly, but not expensively, fitted. Though
she had in her nearly a hundred tons of ballast when
launched, she sat light and graceful on the water as
a swan, and looked as lofty and majestic as a vessel
of double her tonnage.
Immediately after the launch the company ad-
journed to the " mould-room," where a splendid
dejeuner was provided by Messrs. Morrish and
Feeney, and a more elegant, tasteful, and substantial
display we never before witnessed. The room was
appropriately and gaily decorated with models, flags,.
and other effective devices. The company present
numbered upwards of three hundred, and, with the
workmen and others regaled below, ample provision
must have been made for six hundred people.--Liver•
pool Albion.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
DAILY NEWS.—There never was a time in
which it was so incumbent on those nations, we had
almost said, upon that nation which Providence has
blesseti with freedom and independence, to show how
deeply and truly it sympathises with those of other
countries who, in pursuit of that same constitutional
and righteous freedom which has distinguished us,
have failed of our good fortune and wanted an oppor-
tunity for securing and who now suffer the
vengeance of despotism in so glorious a wise.
Th± time i 3 past, indeed, when England could in-
terfere by arms or menaces of arms, even to uphold
the weak and redress the injured. With the
mighty armies which now occupy and weigh upon
the continent, it is plain that nothing but public opi-
nion can contend ; public opinion, becoming en-
lightened and unanimous in a great people, conscious
of what it aims at, and possessed of men able and
honest to accomplish their aims. All we can give is
our share of light, of sympathy, and of adhesion to
the great power of opinion. In giving this adhesion
we can no longer count upon our Government.
Ministers and diplomatists, even admitting that they
feel liberal tendencies, have still the necessity of dis-
simulation imposed upon them. No Foreign Minister,
even of England, durst brave a general alliance of
all those powers in Europe who wield the mono-
poly of large armies and military resources.
Russia, Austria, and Prussia have now re-entered
into that holy alliance for the suppression of liberal
tendencies which they so vainly tried thirty years
ago, whilst France, its people bent on either order or
disorder, and its rulers on petty squabbling for
power, has neither the spirit nor the leisure to inter-
fere. In such a state of Europe circumspectness must
perforce be the characteristic of the English Foreign
Minister. And there are many who would stretch
that circumspectness to the length of interested and
feigned complicity and sympathy with the
allied despotism which now prevails. But what-
ever may be the meanness obligato of Mi-
nisters, or of candidate Ministers, and of those
organs of the press who abandon the public interest,
sentiments, and cause, in order to become the mere
mouthpieces of a man or a clique, there is no neces-
sity, but, on the contrary, deep impolicy, in the na-
tion's tinging aside its naturally liberal sympathies,
and affecting to worship a Haynau or revere a
Schwartzenberg. The English public, which can-
not be suspected of being aggressive, or even pro-
pagandist, have no need of affecting adherence to
despotism, or, like the Dutch in Japan treading on
the cross in order to be allowed to trade, profess
ourselves humble admirers of Haynau, and
partial respecters of Nicholas, in order that we
may be received into their conservative alliance.
Let statesmen bow, and intrigue, and wriggle between
liberalism and illiberalism—that is their profession—
but let the British public follow a straightforward
course, and repudiate those who have compromised the
cause of liberty by their assaults upon property as well
as on the just laws of society and of religion, as well
as those who deem the world again ripe for the appli-
cation of brute force, and for the ignoring of every
other principle of government save violence and fear.
Whatever may betide the world, even if the whole con •
anent be destined to undergo the yoke of despotism,
and if the " era of the Caesars" have indeed again
returned, still principle and honour must prompt
us to avow those sympathies which not all the dissi-
mulation and abnegation on our part would make the
allied despots believe we are really without. The
duration of military despotism, at least in central
Europe, is an utter impossibility. And if armies have
been made overwhelming by their numbers, they
are rendered unmanageable by the same numbers.
And ere many years elapse we shall have as many
parties in them as there are in the people, whom
they are destined to devour and to oppress. As
to Germany, its revolution is but commencing.
Its thirty years of peace are over. And we see
as little chance of the dualism of Austria and
Prussia subjecting Germany by any new Bund
at Dresden, as of the Frankfurt Parliament subduing
Austria and Prussia by votes and long speeches. The li
day is not distant when the popular party will be in
Germany, where Court parties are, at present, in the
ascendant. And it must not then be said that we
encouraged or chimed in with any brutal system of
repression and reac'ion. It is, therefore, with great
pleasure that we beheld in our columns a long sub-
scription list, signed by the first houses concerned
in the German trade, in favour of the victims of
Hesse. If ever there was resistance constitu-
tionally made without blood, without disorder, without
appeal to any bed passione, or the awakening of
one subversive principle, it was that unanimous re-
sistance of the Hesians, before the unanimity of
which the Elector of Hesse fled. Left to himself;
the Elector, bad as he is, would not have quarrelled
with his people ; and left to himself, he afterwards
would have become reconciled to them end to the
constitution. But the Elector was a cat's-paw in the
hands of the Frankfort Diet to wound and provoke
Prussia in the first instance, and then to humble her.
Hassenpflug himself admitted that the resistance and
flight of the Elector were solely done in obedience to
the Diet. A more Mechiavelian, illegal, or unwar-
ranted interference or intrigue never took effect for the
oppression of a brave and constitutional people. H-id
there remained one spark of heroism in the breast of
Prussia, Hesse should have been defended in its con-
stitutional rights. But the meanness. with which
Hesse was abandoned is only to be equalled by the
infamous and overbearing trickery with which that
country has been oppressed. Prussia throughout
acted the part of Judas, first supporting the resist-
ance of the Hessians, then preventing the Elector
from compounding with that resistance, whilst its
last act forms such a climax of treachery, that it will
be indelibly written upon every German heart. At
the last hour the Hessians were told that a Prussian
and an Austrian Commissioner v. ere coming to
arrange their affairs. The Hessians of course looked
to the Prussian as their protector and friend. He
counselled them to submit, to acknowledge the autho-
rity of the Diet, and that in return they should have
fair treatment and conditions. They submitted ; but
on mentioning the conditions to the Austrian Com-
missioner, the latter exclaimed, "Who is this Prus-
sian—this Peucker ? He has no authority here.
I am the representative of the Diet ; he is no-
thing, and has the power neither to promise aught
nor to protect any one." To such treacherous
falsehood, and to such humiliating castigation and
insult, did the Commissioner descend, in order that
he might successfully play the part of Judas to
the Hessians. Language is wanting to characterise
such baseness. Meantime the officers of the Hessian
army, and too many of the civilian functionaries of the
electorate, are the victims of adherence to their con-
stitution. They are turned adrift, deprived of liveli-
hood, and of all hope save in revolution. A short
month back and Prussia seemed to offer them a refuge;
for it was in the cause of Prussia, as well as of con-
stitutional freedom, that they were sacrificed. But
Prussia itself has since then been as much betrayed
and subdued as Hesse. 'The constitution is nullified,
and the kingdom of the great Frederick laid at the
feet of the Austrian Minister, whe declares in a pro-
clamation that he magnanimously refrained from con-
quering and humiliating Prussia. The answer to
which from the Court of Berlin was an invitation to
that Austrian Minister to become its guest. This
sufficiently proves that Prussia offers no retreat to
honourable men and constitutionalists. The Hessian
officers must become exiles not merely from the land
of their allegiance, but from Germany, over which
the united eagles of despotism irresistibly reign, and
where in consequence nothing but servility can be
tolerated. We trust, however, that the subscriptions
of the Germans and the English will suffice to secure
to these noble victims a pittance and a refuge, until
such time as the present tyranny be overthrown.

LONDON
h's Almanack.)
AS IT IS TO BE IN 185
(From Pune .
From Mr. Haycock
at the Eastern Coun Station—after a miserable
journey—no porters of course —and
.
and had to stand
sentry over luggage before cabs enough
for an hour t;
es
s Diary—April 20.—Arrived
could be procured. Got 'emat
last, and drove to
Heydey's in Baker-street. Couldn't get up to the
' sorts of
door for cabs setting down, loaded with all
foreigners, and all sorts of ridiculous travelling caps
i
and cloaks. The lobby full of foreign luggage, at
d
the bou,e full of foreign men and
women. Mr.
Heydey in a great state of indignation, and
no wonder. That son of his had asked everybody
who had been civil to him in hii travels (old Hey-
day has been ass enough to encourage the boy in
running abroad on all occasions), to come to his fa-
ther's whenever they visited London. They have all
visited London for this cock and bull Exhibition, and
they've all come to his father's, of course. Old Hey-
day doesn't talk any foreign lingo, and of course
couldn't explain matters; so the foreigners had got
themselves settled, and the house is full of them from
area to attic. 'shan't stay here among 'em, and so
I've told Mrs. H.—Fred is to look us out a lodging
to -morrow
From Fred's Diary, May 2.—Got a lodging at
last—two rooms—at 101. a week ; thanks to the tight

I made. The governor and I sleep in the sitting-
room, which smokes. He has the sofa, and I have a
shake down on the table. My mother and Mary have the
bed-room, which is rather high up. The house is rather
full. There is a Chinese family down stairs, with four
daughters in one room. They are perpetually making
tea, and live upon ducks and rice. I see the
funniest little trotter-cases outside the door of
a morning—l suppose belonging to the Celestial
young ladies. lam told they inquired a good deal
at first after birds'-nests (of which they make soup at
home), and had a great many brought them by the
little boys of the neighbourhood. It appears they were
not of the right sort for eating. The Persian Prince
on the first floor is going. He had one of his attend-
ants courbashed or flogged yesterday, and the man
has got a warrant against him for an assault.
The North American Indians, in the kitchen, had
their dog feast yesterday, and got jolly on the " fire-
water," us they call gin. I don't believe they really
intended to scalp the knife-boy; it was only their
fun ; but he has gone this morning, in an awful funk.
However, it's very pleasant, if we could only get any-
thing to eat. It serves the governor right for not
staying quietly at Heyday's. I was there last night,
and we had a little quiet " punting." I was in luck
and nearly broke the bank. I give the Count and
Leginski their revenge to-night.
From Mr. Haycock' s Jourull.—lt is as I sulpected.
That swindling Frenchman is fed at my expense.
The landlady saw him leave the house to-day with a
turkey he was trying to tie up in a dirty pocket
handkerchief. I can't trust Mary. She thinks the
vagabond's a hero and a martyr—she says.
A Few Days Later.—l will go home next week, if
Igo alone. 1 can't stand any more of the Exposition.
After three hours of it, I lost Mrs. H. and Mary,
and got into a snug corner, upon a pile of hearth-
rugs, and fell fast asleep. I suppose nobody saw
me; for when I woke, the place was dark and
shut up. I nearly broke my neck among
the absurd cranks and things before I could find
a door, and then it was an hour before I could make
a policeman outside hear, and then it was another
hour before they could find a key to let me out. I
was tired to death, and went to the cab-stand out-
side the park entrence, to hail a cab. There wasn't
a driver on his box, and when I went up to the first
on the rank and rapped at the window, supposing
the fellow had got inside for a snooze, a respectable-
looking elderly gentleman popped out his head
in his nightcap, and blew me up for disturbing his
night's rest, and said he " wondered what the police
were about, not allowing people to sleep quiet in
their own apartments." I passed on to the next,
and there was another man, in his nightcap and
dressing-gown, putting his boots out of the window,
and begging the driver to " rap at the door at
eight, and bring him his hot water." Fred tells
me they are regularly let out for the night or
week, and declares that he saw placards, with
" Lodgings for a single man," on a pole stuck out of
the top of a Hansom, and " One bed to let," hung
from the window of a mangy-looking night Clarence !
I suppose people who have no objection to a double-
bedded room are accommodated in the omnibuses.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

James Denton, a police-constable of the E division,
surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment
charging him with wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. O'Brien conducted the prosecution ; Mr.
Robinson appeared for the defendant.
This case occupied the Court a great many hours,
and was not brought to a conclusion until near seven
o'clock, but the facts lay in a very small compass.
The indictment against the defendant, it appeared,
was preferred by a Mr. John Day, who carries on
the business of a carpenter and undertaker in Hast-
ings-street, St. Pancras, and the perjury imputed to
the defendant was alleged to have been committed by
him upon the hearing of a charge of assault, preferred
by the constable against the prosecutor, at the Clerken •
well Police-court, on tha 26th of October. It ap-
peared that on the day in question the defendant was
on duty in Hastings-street, near the residence of the
prosecutor, where he had occasion to order a man,
who was selling groundsel and chickweed, to go away,
and it seemed that when he had done so the prose-
cutor called to the man and purchased some groundsel
of him, and this led tea an altercation between him and
the defendant, and at length blows were exchanged,
and some other constables were called in, and eventu-
ally Day and another person, named Seane, were taken
into custody upon a charge of assaulting the defend-
ant, and resisting him in the execution of his duty,
and the prosecutor and Seane were both fined by the
magistrate. It was alleged that upon this occasion
the defendant had falsely sworn that the prosecutor
had crossed the street to him and struck him, and that
he and Seane then dragged him into the prosecutor's
shop and there again assaulted him. The prosecutor
swore distinctly that both these allegations were false,
and his evidence was confirmed to some extent by
other witnesses, but it was at the same time admitted
that there had bean a scuL9 and that the defendant
had received a blow while it was going on. On the
part of the defendant seseral witnesses were examined,
who gave a totally different version of the transaction,
and some of them confirmed the statement he had
originally made as to the prosecutor having crossed
the road and struck him in the manner he had repre-
segted, without hi, having given him any provocation.
Tile evidence on both sides was of the most contra-
dictory character.
The RECORDER havingdsummed up, the jury, after
delib-rating for nearly half an hour, returned a verdict
of Not Guilty.

il'EtV COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT
William Poulton, 45, labourer, was indicted for
obtaining by false pretences an order for the pay-
ment of 15/.

Mr. Clarkson prosecuted.
The evidence adduced in support of this charge
was this :—Oa the 24th of September last the pri-
soner called on a gentlemen named George Samuel
Ford, a solicitor, of Henrietta-street, Covent-garden,
and, introducing himself as Captain Poulton, produced
a letter, and stated that he wished to negotiate the
sale of some reversionary property. He then went
on to say that the property, which amounted to
about 20,0001, would revert to him at the death of
his mother, who was in a very declining state, and
87 years of age, and that the opinion of the medical
men was that she could not live long. He added
that he was a captain on half-pay, and commanded in
the 13th Dragoons at Giubul, where he was wounded ;
that his father was Mr. Poulton, of Maidenhead,
banker; and that it was upon his will and that
of his grandfather, both dead, that he wished to
borrow 1,0001. After some further statements
he left and called again on two subsequent occa-
sions. when he managed to borrow 15 from prose-
cutor's clerk, stating that it was to enable him to go
down to Cotner Hatch, to see his mother, who was
then dying. He appeared in great distress of mind,
and on the 29th he again called and saw prosecutor,
and he then said his mother was dead, and requested
the prosecutor would write to Mr. Robert Harris, of
Reading, banker, his mother's solicitor, and the living
trustee and executor to his father's will, and inform
him of her decease. He then asked if prosecutor
could recommend him an undertaker, and spoke about
many other things necessary under such circum-
stances, and finally borrowed 21. to enable him to go
down to Colney Hatch. On the next day he again
called, and then managed to get 151. from the prose-
cutor to put himself in mourning, stating that he had
seen his mother in her shell, and had made the usual
arrangements, and handed in a list of moneys coming
to him. He also obtained another 51., making in the
whole 271. It then turned out that the whole story
about his mother's death was a fabrication. Mr. Har-
ris had been dead some years, but he was the son of
the gentleman alluded to.
The officer who took the prisoner into custody said
that upon examining his person he found he had been
branded as a deserter from some regiment.
The jury found him Guilty.
Mr. CLAaxsoN said there were numerous other
cases of defrauding solicitors to a large amount by
similar means.

He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
In consequence of the receipt of several letters from
various parts of the country on the subject of the mock
mercantile agency of a gang of London swindlers,
the Lord Mayor mind inquiries to be made by the
police acting in the various localities to which the
correspondence referred.

The practice of the persons alluded to is to send to
tradesmen circulars, confidentially informing them of
certain facilities of procuring cash for bills, or as loans
upon goods, and, upon receipt of the securities or the
property, to turn the whole to their own advantage,
leaving their credulous dupes to get over their aggra-
vated embarrassment, caused by the active prose-
cution of the system, with the help of Providence
alone.

The following are paragraphs from one of the
circulars :
a We shall have no objection to unite an advance of 20/.
per cent. on amount of invoice, if at any time you should
happen to have goods on baud and find sales dull; and
we will use our best exertions to turn them into money
for you to advantaze, towards paying your bills as they
become due, or remit you the cash as they are sold."
" With respect to goods and parcels, please to advise
by letter first; and when goods are sent to turn into
ceaeasnhdtettroimpe.”
pay bills with, they must be forwarded in suffi-
cient
Our house will afford every facility, and be disposed
to accommodate in every practicable way the respectable
trader,
, and we trust that our exertions to give satisfac-
tion will be attended, as hitherto, with mutual benefit to
all parties who may honour us with their confidence.
Any further information
_requested will be immediately

forwarded, and all commands obtain prompt and con-
fidential attention.— We are, Sir, yours respectfully,
" B. n`PHSRSON and Ca., Gencral Factors.

" 10, Uni)n-n)w, Kitqy,land."
One uf his Lordship's correspon3,!nts said in his
letter—

" I was induced to put myself i❑ communication with
the writers, B. XPlDherson and Co., self-styled general
factors,' 10, Union-row, Kingsland, solely to find out the
manner of their transacting business, and to give your
Lordship, who through the press can inform those who
are in want (thank God I am not) of their assistance,
that nothing can result from an experiment but an ex-
posure of the want of money, accompanied by the utter
want of principle. I received an answer to toy fictitious
case, and in reply was informed that I could be accom-
modated with any amount, from 3001. to 5001. The
persons at the same time stated that I should be recom-
mended by them to a respectable broker. I wrote a
second letter, when back came the form ov a bill, a copy
of which I enclose; also the broker's address. I need
not add mote on the subject. Probably the assumed
names are all well knon to Mr. Goodman, who will
do•tbtlesc put in execution any plan your Lordship may
think necessary to suggPst to check this villany. Should
I he inwrumental in putting an end to it the purpose for
wliich I have taken the trouble will be fully answered.
I write by this post to the bill-broker to know from that
worthy his term-, and will in due course give your Lord-
ship the result."
The following is a copy of the form of the bill re-
ferred to in the letter :

"London.
" £3oo—Twelve months after date pay to my order
in London Three Hundred Pound., value received.

" Cu. EDWARD 3.

" To Mr. W. W—, Shipping merchant, Liverpool."
Across the copy of the bill werd the words " Ac-
cepted at Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., bankers,
London ;" and on the bank were, " Pay Mr. D. 8.,
or order, Charles Edwards."
Sergeant Dubois, of the N division of the metro-
politan police force, said—l went at the request of
Your Lordship to the address No. 10, Union-row,
Kingsland. The row consisted of a few very small
houses, and I inquired at all the houses there, but could
hear nothing at all of M'Pherson and Co. Even the
postman, for whom I waited, could give me no infor-
mation about them. However, upon looking over
some papers which I seized some time ago from a
gang of swindlers, I found the circular identical with
that issued by M'Pherson and Co., with the exception
of the name of the firm, which is, I understand,
changed as occasion may require to Wigram and Co.,
Masterman and Co., or Bosanquet and Co. lam
convinced that M'Pherson is no other than Wigram,
whose real name is Spurrell, and whom I have known
for years as a bill stealer. The gang is an extensive
one, and has been very successful, particularly in Ire-
land, where Wigram has a son, who is of great use to
the villanous system. Some time ago 4001. worth of
paintings were procured by Bosanquet from a gentle-
man in Kilkenny through Wigram's son. The per-
son who sustained the loss called upon me to repre-
sent the circumstances, and. I took him to Wigram,
who then lived in George-street, Kingsland, and
asked him whether that was the man with whom the
dealing had been had. The dupe, however, could not
swear to the identity of Wigram, who merely said,
on hearing the charge, " Well, you were a -- fool
to part with your property."
The LORD MAYOR—My object in publicly bring-
ing forward the subject of imposing upon men in
pecuniary difficulties by means of these circulars is,
to protect the community as far as I am able, as
chief magistrate of London, against a very extensive
mode of plunder. I have received numerous communi-
cations from persons who have sustained irreparable
mischief by the plan of operations thus adopted, and
among the dupes are several clergymen, as well as
men engaged in industrious trades, who, after having
entrusted their bills to those fellows, who had stolen
the names of eminent bankers and merchants, never
heard of the fate of their securities until applied to for
payment. I can, under the present circumstances,
do nothing but advise those who may receive com-
munications of this kind to avoid holding any corre-
spondence with the writers, and to express my hope
that this exposure may be the means of saving many
a man and many a poor family from distress. I think
it is but due to the officer who has given me the in-
telligence to state that the citizens of London are
much indebted to him for the exertions he has made
to detect the gang, and that the continuance of such
activity may enable the magistracy one day to punish
the delinquents.
A little boy, named Joseph Needle, was charged
with having picked a gentleman's pocket of a hand-
kerchief. The prisoner was not expert at the attempt
and was caught in the act by the prosecutor, who
seized and held him.

Th 4 LORD MAYOR—HOW long have you been
picking pockets ? Prisoner—l have been at it just
three months, sir.

The LORD MAYOR—And how many pockets have
you picked during that time ? Prisoner (shaking
his head)—l really don't know.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean that you don't
know because they were so many ? Prisoner, I do,
your Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR then sentenced the wretched
child to he imprisoned for one month, and gave some
particulAr directions respecting him to the principal
gaoler.