The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-24 00:00:00

PROTEST OF PRUSSIA,

I can announce to you as a fact, about which not the slighteit
doubt must be entertained by you, after official and positive.
inform'ation—

" That M. de Werther, Ambassador of Prussia, has hada
most animated conference with M. Sebastiani, Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, relative to the subject of Belgium and Holland.
The Ambassador of Prussia laid before M. Sebastiani, Ist, the
note addressed by Count Mole, when Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in 1830, to the Cabinet of Berlin, by which lie
required a formal declaration on the part of Prussia never to
interfere in the quarrel between Belgium and Holland. 2d,
The reply of the Cabinet of Berlin to this note, in which it engaged
to comply wills the desire of France on the express condition that
the Cabinet of the Palais Royal would enter on its side into the
same engagement. 3d, A convention which was to serve as the
rule of conduct of the Conference of London, in which, after
the desires expressed by the French Cabinet, it was agreed to,
as the basis of the negociations, that the decisions of the
Conference of London were not to be carried into execution
until after the two parties had freely accepted them.
" The Ambassador of Prussia further observed, that the
French Government had always opposed itself to the employ-
ment of coercive measures against Belgium, when the Bel-
gians refused to accept the basis of separation guaranteed
to King William by the 12th protocol. That it would
then be most unjust and in contradiction with the principles
established by itself, if the French government should
now take measures to force the King of Holland to accept
conditions that the whole Dutch nation has refused to
agree to. That he, M. de Werther, advised the cabinet
of the Tuileries to reflect a little more on the grave con-
sequences which must result from such a precipitated proceed-
ing, and above all to persuade itself that no menaces would in-
duce Holland to yield on a question which touches her dearest
interests, and which attacks her known 'independence."
_ _

Now, if the Prussian Minister at Paris could
be so well prepared for such an event, is it not
clear that Austria, and more especially Russia,
have made up their minds to the same effect ?

But a few days, perhaps a few hours, will place
this beyond question. It is part of the
game, the hypocritical game, that these
combined Powers have been playing for the
last two years—ever since the downfall of
CHARLES X. ; and now that they have got
him safe, he will answer their purposes but
too well to commence a legitimate crusade
against " revolutionary France."
We have given in another part of The Sun
such full particulars respecting these matters,

that we must defer any further observations for
want of room. By to-morrow we may expect
news from Spain direct by the Lisbon mail. Don
CARLOS and the Apostolicals will precipitate
matters in Spain.

The news of the death of the King of SPAIN
has excited a lively sensation among the Portu-
guese constitutionalists in London. Whatever
may be the result as to the succession, it is
believed the constitutional cause in Portugal
must be benefited. Should the moderate party
in Spain obtain the upper hand it can only be
by an understanding with the constitutionalists,
and, in that case, Don MIGUEL will be devoid
of all support from Spain ; or should Don
CARLOS seize the Crown, he will, in all pro-
bability, be urged by the high absolutists to
declare openly in favour of Don MIGUEL, and
so produce immediately that state of things in
the event of which the British Government is
bound by treaty and honour to interfere by force
on behalf of Don PEDRO. The French Go-
vernment, in the mean time, will not be idle.
It appears, by authentic accounts received this
morning from Paris, that an announcement has
been made to Lord PALMERSTON of the readi-
ness of Louts PHILIPPE to send any force
that may be deemed advisable into Spain or
Portugal, if circumstances should induce the
British Cabinet to take an active part, and call
upon France to assist it ; and we are assured
that the order prohibiting Spaniards from join-
ing the ranks of Don PEDno will be re-
laxed. A morning Contemporary, in a let-
ter from Paris, states that Marshal SOULT
some weeks ago made an arrangement with the
Ex-Empress of BRAZIL, by which he under-
took to send a large army to the assistance of
her husband, but that the expedition was pre-
vented by the refusal of the EMPRESS to fulfil
certain conditions. It is hardly necessary perhaps
to say that this is mere Parisian gossip. In the
first place the EMPRESS has no power from Don
PEDRO to enter into an engagement with the
French Government ; and at the time in ques-
tion, the Marquis of PALMELLA, who had full
powers from the Regency, was in England, and
in total ignorance, as we know, of any such
scheme on the part of the French Cabinet. In
the second place it is notorious that General
SEBASTIANI has formally pledged himself not
to take any step in favour of Don PEDRO with-
out the knowledge and approbation of the British
Cabinet. It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to say,
that Lord PALMERSTON will be indebted for
the first information of this arrangement between
the EX-EMPRESS and Marshal SOULT to the
columns of our Contemporary.

It is expected that the Members of the Con-
ference will meet again to-day, if M. deMA-
TUSEWITZ, the Russian Envoy Extraordinary,
has returned to town. It is not probable, how-
ever, that any decision will be come to for two or
three days, unless the King of HOLLAND should
commence hostilities. The Russian Plenipoten-
tiary will, it is believed, apply for time to enable
him to obtain instructions from St. Petersburgh ;

but this will, of course, be strongly opposed 1)
M. VAN DE WEYER, on the part of the King o
Belgium.

The regular despatches have arrived from
Brussels at the Foreign-office, with a packet
fdr'M. VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Minister;
but there is no information in them of import-
ance-. 'An extraordinary courier would have
been sent if any thing of particular interest had
occurred.

The Portuguese residents here are much dis-
appointed at the non-arrival of the packet from
Oporto, and it is feared that some accident has
octurred. We should rather calculate that the
packet had been detained for a day at Oporto.

.No account of the change in the French
Ministry, mentioned in the private Correspond-
ence of a Morning Paper on Saturday, has been
received either at the French Embassy or at the
Foreign-office. The statement, therefore, may
be considered as unfounded, or premature.

M. de TALLEYRAND has written to say,that
luis return to London may be expected before
,he 15th of October.

We stated a few day: ago, that the Returns
the Revenue for the quarter were going on
very favourably. We are happy to announce
that the, last few days have been equally favour-
able, except as to the Post-office, in which there
wiff be deficiency for the quarter as compared
with the corresponding quarter of last year.

,Frankfort Papers contain some news from
Constanti►aople of an unfavourable character to
the PORTE. The SULTAN, however, undis-
mayed by reverses, was endeavouring to check
the victorious career of the Pacha of EGYPT,
and had ordered the Grand Vizier to take the
command of his army. Various other changes
were about to take place ; but we apprehend
that the Egyptian has proceeded too far already
to be. checked effectually by the disorganized
levies of his late master.

Accounts from Trieste state, on the authority
of letters, dated Syra, 18th of August, that
an engagement had taken place off Alexandretta,
between the Turkish and Egyptian fleets, in
which the Turkish is said to have been wholly
destroyed. This is su&pected to be a fiction, for
accounts were received of the safe arrival of the
Turkish fleet at Rhodes, after having captured
an Egyptian corvette and a brig.

The news from Vienna of the 11 th instant
is, as usual, of an ambiguous character—one
party preaching peace, and the other expecting
war. A numerous promotion was about taking
place in the army.

Lord' JOHN RUSSELL is continuing his can-
vassing tour of Devonshire, and on Wednes-
day reached Devonport. His Lordship ad-
dressed the inhabitants at a meeting held at
the Royal Hotel, and in the course of his ad-
dress was enthusiastically cheered. There was
one sentiment, however, of his Lordship's which,
if correctly reported, we are glad to see received
no cheers at all. His Lordship is made to say,
",With respect to the Church, we shall have to
remove the excrescences which tend, not to sup-
port, but to destroy the institution ; and I am
glad' to‘see by the newspapers of to-day, that a
large body of the clergy have decided on point.
ing out the abuses of the Church, and praying
their removal. This is evincing a wise spirit, and
I wish, for the sake of the proprietors of bo-
roughs, that instead of so pertinaciously sup-
porting the existence of abuses in opposition to
the spirit of the age, that they had at once,
with like spirit, offered a plan for their improve-
ment."

A pretty sort of a reform we should have got
had his Lordship's wish been realised. Can he
have forgotten that, on the Ist of March, the
House of Commons was rent with shouts of
laughter from the boroughmongers, as he an-
nounced each new particular of his plan ? Can
he have forgotten the miserable abortions of plans,
nick-named reforms, which they sketched out as
being the kind of things they were willing to
agree to ? Can he have forgotten the no-dis-
franchisement and little-as-possible enfran-
chisement principles they throughout advocated ?
The idea of obtaining a real,eificient and beneficial
reform of the Church from the Church itself,
would be as futile as to imagine that the cor-
ruptionists would voluntarily have given up
schedules A. and B. Besides, there are two
parties to the contract. The clergy have not
only to settle what they shall receive, but what
the country will give, and it would be rather
droll to do that without the country havinc,
some,voice in the matter. Pretty considerably
like reckoning without your host, I guess," as
our acute trans-Atlantic offspring would say.

It is reported, that, in the event of a continued
improvement in the other branches of the public
revenue, it will be proposed to Parliament to
reduce the present high rate of postage on let-
ters to what it was previously to the different
augmentations caused by the war system. Inde-
pendently of other considerations, nothing, we
think, can be more clear, than that a tax which
was increased in aid of the means of carrying on
the war, ought to be reduced after so many years
of peace ; but we may also dispute the propriety
of the Government attempting to derive profit
from the monopoly of a service which, if in pri-
vate hands, could be performed with equal cele-
rity and securityond at a charge little exceeding
half of what is now demanded by the Post-office.
In France, where the expense to the Govern-
ment is quite as great, if not greater, than in this
country, the postage upon a letter for a distance
of 150 miles is little more than half of what is

arged here for only 50 miles ; and as regards
he Metropolitan delivery, it is notorious that
an individual or a company could, on an im-
proved system, undertake to deliver letters at one
penny each, instead of two-pence, and derive a
handsome profit.

It is not, perhaps, desirable that the business
of the Post-office should be taken out of the

hands of Government, as, with the exception
of the high rate of charge, there is little to be

complained of which would not equally apply to
individuals and companies ; bait it certainly is a
very objectionable mode of taxation in its pre-
sent shape, and totally at variance with the prin-
ciple of facilitating the operations of commerce,
and the other communications of civilized so-
ciety. Taxes, we know, must be raised, and of
all the tax-payers on earth, the people of this
country are the most willing; but is it worth
while to raise any portion of them by means of
one of those monopolies so common in other
countries, and, generally speaking, so repugnant
to the feelings of Englishmen, when the same
amount might be easily distributed over other
branches of the revenue ? Let us hope, how-
ever, that a diminished expenditure and increas-
ing returns will enable the Government to reduce
the rate of postage, without adding' to other
burdens, and that no loss will be sustained by
the adoption o a charge better, apportioned to
the amount and character of the service.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, SEPT. 23.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Navarino,
from Cork. Arrived from the river and sailed the Victory,
Biden, for Bombay. -
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 21 AND 22.—Wind E., fresh gales.—

Arrived the Juno, Bowel', from St. Petersburgh. Off port the
Elizabeth, Phillips, from Jamaica. Sailed his Majesty's ship
Cockatrice, for Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres, with a mail ;
and Confiance steam-packet, for the Mediterraiteah.

GUERNSEY, Serr. 21.—Arrived the Content, Smart, from
Archangel.

JERSEY, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Sarah, Lelgeyt, an
Abeona, Coveney, from St. Petersburgh.
TOPSHA M, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Friends, Duke, from
Memel.

LIVERPOOL, SErr. 22.—Arrived the Bee, Chalmers, from
Montreal. Sailed the Superior, Brown, for Bombay ; John
Adair, for.the Cape of Good Hope; Madras, Thornton, for
Bengal ; and Algiers, M`Fee, for Bombay. •
GREENOCK, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Eliza, Frank, from
Jamaica ; and Iris, Welch, from Quebec.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Lowther, Hewley, from
Quebec; and Eleanor, Evans, from• London.

CORK, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the. Ann and Mary, Short, from
Quebec; and Peter and Rebecca, Reid, from London. Off port
the Corsair, from Quebec.

HULL, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Providentia, Jensen, Chace;
Murray, Mary, Frost, and Royal William, Joy,' from St. Pe.
tersburgh ; Hope, Herbert, from Narva ;' and Cumberland
Smith, from Archangel

SCARBOROUGH, SE ms. 22.—Arrived off port the John
Raikes, Milburn.

WHITBY, SErF. 22.—Arrived off port the Cane Grove,
Estelle, from Quebec.

DUGENESS, SEPT. 22.—Arrived off port the Jupiter, Webb,
of Portland, very leaky, having been on shore.

GALWAY, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Constantine, Berry,
from Quebec.

The following letter has been received from Smyrna, dated
'nth August :—" The Peras, Preston, arrived here from Lon-
don and Syra, spoke an Austrian ship at Syra about the ►oth
instant, and was informed that she had been plundered by
pirates off Cephalonia of about 2,000 Spanish dollars."

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT

CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH,

COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
New C.tses in Great Britain reported this day 508
Deaths 177
Recoveries 504