The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-06 00:00:00

iinUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 1. —The time fixed for the ratification
of the 2l• articles is again arrived. After so many delays,
there is every reason to believe that we shall have a final ar-
rangement. However, if any difficulties should still ariw,
it would not be a reason for imagining that the Powers
think of a restoration of Belgium. They have been
sensible, from the beginning, that t',ere would 1.), too
many difficulties to overcome before such a result could be
obtained.

The silk and cot'on manufactures of Cleveld, Rcypdt,
and Elberfeld, are smuggled in large quantities over our
frontiers; and the smugglers, though detected in all their
manoeuvres by our custom-h:iuse officers, arc not dis-

ccuraged.
Very lately eight bales of cotton handkerchiefs, gx
were seized at Henri-Chapelle, concealed under the sacks
of calamine. The value was considerable.

Colonel Buzen, commander of the fortress and province
of Antwerp, has been appointed aide-de-camp to his
Majesty.
The funeral obsequies of Genera! Bellbird were cele-
brated, as we have already said, yesterday, with great
solemnity. M. de Meulenaere, 'Minister of Foreign Affairs,
pronounced an eulogium, i❑ which be gives. a view of the
long and active life of the General. M. Ch. de Brouckere
made a short but very moving speech, which dr,tv tears
from all Frei,ent; and Sir Robert Adair, who attempted
to speak, could only say, " Adieu General, adieu my
friend."

FEE. 2. —A sul.scriptirm is open for erecting a moms•
ment to the memory of Gen. Belliard. The King has sub.
scribed 100 florins.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has to-day communi-
cated to the Chambers the ratification of the treaty of peace
by France and England. The civil list is fixed at
1,206,000 florins. The expense of keeping the Royal
Palaces in order is included in it.

FEB. 3.—The pictures heloilging to the King of Hol-
land, which adorned the Royal Palace at Brutoels, were
sent to the Hague the day before yesterday.
The independence of Belgium, its G •vernment, its pre-
cent Constitution, are at length recognized and guaranteed
by France and Entland, which have been the first to ratify
the treaty of the 15th of November. The 55th protocol
announces this important fact, which gives to the prin-
ciple of our revolution, and to the independence of Bel-
gium, the sanction of tw ) of the great European Powers,
and secures to us the reward of our long and severe cx•

ertions.
The P:en;potentiaries of the three other Powers have
not received orders to exchange the ratifications of these
Courts, but have desired that the protocol may he left open
for them till those orders shall be received by them.
One important const quence of the ratification by France
and England is, that the treaty of 15th November acquires
thereby a character of irrevocability, which will preserve
it from every modificatio❑ or change that may have been
demanded by Holland, or proposed by the other Powers.
Within the last week the cholera has returned with such
malignity at Bei lin, that from 13 to 20 pers,ms are daily
attacked by it.—Brussels Pupers, Feb. 4.
:BERLIN, JAN. 29.-THE CHOLERA.
January the 25th there remained two patients.
New cases. Recoveries. Deatli.4.
`'6th I)
t:ith I 0
:'sth 0 0
So that now, again;, we are without any patients,—
Prussian State Gazette, Jan. 29.
NUREMBURG, JAN. 26.—The Swabian Mercury con-
tains the followinf article from Po•en :
The Poles banished to Siberia are divided into three
&asses. In the first are those who took part in the original
insurrection, of the 29th of November, 1830; these are
sent to Nertschinsk, where they must work in the mines.
The second class are sentenced to hunt sables in the northern
drovincos. The third class, in which are several superior
officers, are placed under the superintendence of the pal ce
at Tobolsk and in the vicinity, without any farther re-
straint. With respect to Prince Radziwill and some other
distinguished Poles, it is said they will have to reside in
Astrachan and the southern provinces of the empire for
some years, till the affairs of Paland are settled. The
propeoy of all those officers who have not accepted the
amnesty is sequestrated by the Provisional Government.
Their children are sent to the school for cadets, at Riga,
whence they will be sent in :he sequel as common soldiers
to the army.—Ntiremburg Correspondent.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S PREMlER-
suit'.—We have very recently been let into some of the
secrets of tie Duke of WELLINTON'S overweening ambi-
tion. Our proofs we shall give as we may see occasion.
At present we only tell an anecdote which ought to be
known. When GEORGE the FOURTH requested the
Duke of WELLINGTON to form a Ministry, nothing was
further from his thoughts than making the Duke Premier;
the KING thought, as a matter of course, be would go
to the Horse Guards. But the Duke considered Mr.
CANNING'S rule toa good to be departed from. When the
KING, then at Windsor, opened the dispatch-box contain-
ing the Duke's list, be burst into an exclamation of
mingled mirth and amazement—. his eyes! I
asked him to make out for me a list of a Cabinet, not to
put his own name at the head of it." But GEORGE the
FOURTH hated " trouble ;" the Duke's name remained
at the head of the list, and the KING let it r:rn,in.—
Spectator.

We regret to announce the death of Mr. R.
CAIRO, surgeon, assistant to Mr. SANDERSON, surgeon,
Musselhurgh, which happened on Tuesday. The death of
Mr. CAIRO has caused a very great sensation in Mussel-
hurgh, having caught the cholera while attending his
arduous duties ou the sick o( the 4th district of the burgh.
He was slightly predisposed to the complaint, having oc-
casionally suffered severely from spasms. He was last
winter anatomical assistant to Mr. LIZAItS, —Caledonian
Mercury.

Sunday last, an extraordinary circumstance
took place in Great Marlow Church, viz.—the christening
of a Jew, in the person of Mr. SLOMAN, the comedian,
&c. What could have induced this vocal Israelite to
choose Marlow for hi, place of conversion ?—Bucks

The venerable and patriotic Earl of EGRE-
motsr has zealously engaged in the scheme of relieving our
superabundant population by emigration to Canadl ; and
has offered to convey any person of good character, in the
parishes where his princidal Sussex estates are situated, to
that country, free of expense.—Portsmouth Paper.

PANTOMIMES.—Four hundred persons are
nightly employed in the pantomime at Covent-garden the-
atre, on the stage, behind the scenes, and in the orchestra.
Of this number are 90 carpenters in the. machinery,
property, and scenic department. The usu•tl cost of one
of these relics of olden Christmas at a patent theatre is
2,000/. ; and upwards of 10,000/. are annually expended
in producing pantomimes for the amusement of ti,e lirge
and children of this great tnetropolis.—Mirror.

DIED.— On the 18th tilt., Mrs. TWIDDY, Of
Snailwell, near Newtuarket, at the extraordinary age (with-
in a few months) of 110 years; leaving her youngest child
now 84 years old.—Nottingham Review.

An awful instance of the uncertainty of life
occurred yesterday. The RTV. IT. REVELL, of Burton-
crescent, late one of the candidates for the lectureship of
the Female Orphan Asylum, who had U. en engaged
during the whole of Saturday, according to his usual
practice, in visiting and relieving the sick poor of Somers-
town district of St. Pancras parish, and in preaching at
the Institution for the conversion of Jews in Camden-
town, returned home about ten o'clock at night in full
health and spirits, and retired to rest, but not coming
down stairs at his usual time yesterday morning, his ser-
vant became alarmed, and went up to his room, where he
found hint a corpse in bed.

GLASGOW MAIL--A meeting of banker,
merchants, manufacturers, and other gentlemen con-
nected with Leeds, Bradford, and neighbourhood, was
held at Leeds on Tuesday last, to consider the question of
the proposed diversion of the Glasgow mail from Leeds.
There was but one opinion as to the injury that the with-
drawal of the mail would bring upon Leeds, because no
branch conveyance can be eitlicr so safe or expeditious as
to letters, papers, and parcels, or so satisfactory to passen-
gers ; but there was some discussion as to the best line for
the mail's northern route after leaving Leeds. It was
agreed that a deputation should go to London to confer
with the Postmaster-General, and to explain to his Grace,
in the fullest manner, the decided advantages of the line
by Ilkley, Skipton, Settle, Kends', and so on, over Shap-
fells, instead of Stainmoor. On the other hand the
parties interested on the great north road are on the alert,
and a powerful interest will be exercised to accomplish the
desire of the Glasgow merchants.—Leeds Intelligencer.
THE DEVIL'S LEAP.—Near Belgrave, in
Leicestershire, are shown the prodigious leaps which a
devil (for by the catastrophe I suppose it Was not the great
one) once made against a boastinz shepherd, who vaunted
that he could out-vault Satan. Each bound of the fiend
went across a valley, and the first hill on which he lighted
was called Wonlep," i. e. one leap ; but the lost
" Burstall," for though the devil beat the shepherd, it was
with so much exertion, that in the 1,..5t spring he fell down
and burst %sunder like the Chaldean Dragon-- The Boa-
doir, a new Magazine.

Bedford Lord Grantham
Berks 'Earl of Abingdon
Bucks Duke of Buckingham 1
Cambridge
Chester Earl of Stamford
Cornwall
Cumberland 'Earl of Lonsdale i
Derby 'Duke of Devonshire i
Devon ,Earl Fortescue
Dorset 1 Earl Digby
Durham Marquis of Cleveland
Essex :Viscount Maynard
Gloucester 'Duke of Beaufort, K.G.
Hants (Duke of Wellington

Hereford 'Earl Somers
Hertford
fluntingdon.. ...... Duke of Manchester
Kent Marquis of Camden, K G.
Lancaster Earl of Derby

Duke of Rutland, K G.
Earl Browniow ,
LL i:iec(iioilll testerat:n-,
Holland,
aiK,ruteds,iteoe:
l. i
1
INliddlesex • Duke of Portland
Monmouth
Norfolk Hon. John Wodchouse
Northampton
Sorthumbet land... Duke of Northumberland
Nottingham Duke of Newcastle
Oxford
Rutland Marquis of Exeter
Salop
Somerset Marquis of Bath
Staffbrd Earl Talbot
Suffolk

Surrey
Susex 'Earl of Egremout

Warwick
Westmoreland (Earl of Lonsdale
Wilts Marquis of Lansdowne
Worcester. !Earl of Coventry
York—East, West,. Earl Carlisle, Earl flarewood,3
& North Ridings and Duke of Leeds
WALES.
I
Anglesca
Brecon Duke of Beaufort
Cardigan W. E. Powell, Esq.
Carmarthen lord Dynevor
Carnar,on , Lord Willoughby de Ereshy ...
Denbigh
Flint 'Earl Grosvenor
Glamorgan Marquis of Bute
Merioneth !Sir NV. W. Wynn, Bart
Montgomery !Lord Clive
Pembroke ISir John Owen, Bart
Radnor (Lord Rodney 1

Total

27 VC
95 123
90 144
28 51
58 74
54 90
39 34
79 79
144 186
43 68
59 82
119 170
17 170
131 130
97 155
102 146
18 25
143 147
151 175
27 41

153 169
44 57
119 197
49 84
40 46
44 54
53 71

6 9
IP6 144
97 150
70 66
98 156
215 '254
189 1t,49
42 66
18 30
71 89
92. 136
311 414
14' 21
371 61
33. 64
75 64
17i 31
41; 65
26, 41
36; 54
14! 21
:31: 44
35 45
29 33

241
12
18
441
103

.1-
!4417 537

Prince LIEVEN, the present Ambassador
from the Russian Court, has performed the functions of
that distinguished appointment for a longer period than
any other foreign diplomatist, having been the represents-
, ure of the great Autocrat of the North prior to the coo-
elusion of the French war. The Princess was in attendance
on the Duchess of OLDENBURG (late Queen of WURTE3I-
BERG) during the visit of that illustrious Lady to the British
metropoli.i, in 1814, when Louts the Eizhteenth tirade
his public entry into London, accompanied by the PRINCE
REGENT and the Ditche:s d'ANGouLEmE. On the aCCei-
siun of the present Emperor of RussiA to the throne of
the CZARS, his MAJESTY conferred the rank of a Prii:ce
of the Empire on Count LIEVEN, as a testimony of Im-
perial approbation of his public services.
\%e regret exceedingly to state that MUND EN,
whose comic talents continued unimpaired until he finally
took leave of the stage, is confined to his bed, and that
exceedingly faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.—
The veteran has arrived at a good old age; we believe he
is upon the verge of eighty.
A species of justice, of which they are not
perhaps aware, is at this moment probably impending over
the Bristol magistrates. Whit would these " hide and
seek" personages have to say, if some of the many indivi-
duals whose property fe 1 a sacrifice to the consequences of
their miserable selfishness ar terror, were to bring actions
of damages against them for the ruin thus entailed on the
sufferers and their families ? Is there a Judge on the
bench who will affirm that such actions are not maintain-
able? Is there a Jury in England that would refuse the
full measure of indemnification? KENNETT, the ineffi-
cient Lord Mayor of London during the riots, was cast in
heavy damages for the losses incurred by LANGnALE and
others, whose premises were destroyed. Where the prece-
dent of inefficiency has been so well followed, why should
not that of retribution ? Times.

I MORE MILITARY TORTURE.—It is with
feelings of indignation and horror that we have this week
to record a case of barbarous punishment by the cat-o'-nine-
tails, which has been committed in the metropolis by the
sentence of no less than three unfortunate men belonging
to the second battalion of the 3d Regiment of Scotch
Fusileer Guards, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel
DRUMMOND. The court-martial was composed of the
officers of the regiment, and on Saturday morning the
battalion mustered in the usual place, in the Armoury-
yard, Bird-cage-walk, St. James's, when Joarti HALES, a
private belonging to S.r ARCHIBALD MURRAY'S company,
was brought out from his place of confinement, together
with privates STANLEY and LEAVER, to hear the minutes
of their court-martial read over to them by the Adjutant
of the regiment. HALES was charged with being absent
from the regiment, and unlawfully disposing of a watch
belonging to one of his comrades; and the Court sen-
tenced him to receive 300 lashes, or 2,700 stripes, on his
bare back, with a cat-o'-nine-tails. STANLEY and Lenvzs.
were found guilty of absenting themselves from the regi-
ment without leave, and STANLEY was sentenced to re-
ceive 200 lashes, or I,soo stripes; and LEAVER was
sentenced to receive 150 lashes, or 1,350 stripes. After
the Court-in irtial was read, the unfortunate men were
ordered to strip, and they were tied up, one after the
other, and the horrible and degrading torture commenced
by the drummers, who were changed, after every 25
lashes, to take their rest. HALES bore the torture with
the greatest firmness and fortitude ; not a groan escaped
him, and he received his full sentence of 300 lashes.
SrASTLEY also never uttered a groan, and after receiving
180 lashes out 4200, he was forgiven the remaining twenty
lashes. LEAVER was taken down after receiving 100
lashes out of 150, but not a cry or a groan bad escaped
him. The back of HALES was in a most dreadful state;
the flesh was cut in all manner of ways, and the blood
had actually run into his shoes. The whips of the
drummers were absolutely steeped in blood. The wretched
men were afterwards conveyed to the military hospital to
he cured of their wounds. We understand that a number
of influential and humane persons, who heard of this a:t
of barbarism on Saturday afternoon, have determined to
convene a public meeting, on a future day, to petition
Parliament to abolish this inhuman mode of punishment.