The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-24 00:00:00

THE ANNUALS.

1V IV YEAR'S GIFT for 1833.
LONDON, 1832. •
This is a very graceful New Year's present
for young folks at Christmas time, when pareolli
are usually well disposed to give, and children
to receive, such little social gifts. The verso
and prose are simply and feelingly written, 3l'e
the illustrations, if not of a very first•ritf
character, are at least of an average order
merit. Mrs. A. A. WATTS is the ackno°'
ledged editor.

LITERARY SOUVENIR for 1833.
LONDON, 1832.
The illustrations to this volume are only
in number ; in all preceding years, if we remePl;
ber rightly, they have been twelve. We kric)he
not the cause of this curtailment, and have 1,0
less reason to complain of it, as uncommon 0115
have been taken to render the present illustrati°llo,
proof against the most rigid critical inspects.o
Danby's poetic painting, in particular, of Fame
on the Sea shore, has had every possible justlicr,
done to it at the hands of the ergraver,
In the literary portion of the Souvenir flolll'ol
stands out prominent, with the exception
Wordsworth's finely-imagined sonnet on Abliche
ford, which is very properly placed first in
volume.

THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN ore°
perused in The Sun of Tuesday your 00%0
on the Duke of Buceleuch's "prudent subscription," o', the
any surprise, (for his Grace's name is often beferwavo
public,) but with the impression, that you had net 1
et'
so candid a view of the subject as might have beepe iv'
pected from your celebrity as a Journalist. Let ,3040 ii,
dulge the hop, then, that you will allow this short
cation of his Grace to find a place in your coluning'oriV
1. The Duke of Buecleuch judges proper to 01).4 se,
on public occasions, not according to his fortune, beaded
cording to his rank. And this determination is ft'oi
on the most reasonable grounds. There are Bevel?' oiel
Dukes and Mat vises with not the half of his Ofterol,
and were his Grace on any such occasion to be over 'lto its
it might deter some of them from coming forwards pout
this way diminish the general amount of conto.buood
Besides, it would be somewhat invidious for his
rote
thus to parade, as it were, his large fortune he'°—
eyes of his fellow-citizens. 001
2. The Duke of Buccleueh finds it necessary fret tO
to contribute according to what he conceives to '1"„r1
value of any particular charity. An urgent distrels,
useful charity is sure to receive from him a mere °le, 'lf
donation than one whose utility is more siur, 11 eel„eb'
whose claims are not so pressing. Now, in all —,;reCnii
it would evidently be improper for his Grace' to be "odee
entirely by the extent of his fortune; and hardly' los. es'
in any case could such a rule be easily laid down
actly observed. Dirge
S. The Duke's rent roll is large, but not quite B!tbda
as you seem disposed to rate it. But were
it larged'itatrit is, there would be wide room for its full exPrijoriet°;
His Grace's situation, as an extensive landed-1i%all!,
in various parishes, renders it necessary for bial, isvt
scribe to a great variety of different charities; o",ipti°lll
the number, rather than in the amount, of his eub
that we are to discover the beneficence of his Grct'-91131
may be stated, however, that there is a post-town 1°409:
vll'r
fries-shire, which the Duke is improving and beaicoP,
greatly to the advantage of the inhabitants, at a eici
siderable expense: and, were it necessary, I e°ll'
tion other instances of charitable expenditure °aextensive scale. rt3theo
4. The sum of one hundred pounds appears t°7,eoge h
a handsome contribution, when compared with
appear on the same list. The sums subscribed ,b
Cadell and Murray, to which you allude, are indee
is tbet,
but, perhaps, not largt r than what is called forndert.oo
peculiar circumstances. The publishing firm, n edit',,
direction of the one, will gain greatly from the rie tlte'aye
of the Waverley Novels ; and the theatre, under„ by
nagement of the other, has profited immense2oesteila
writings and patronage of our " Scottish Sha'illatic,
The subscription of the Edinburgh banking' et% ,gdo,
may also be pronounce! munificent; but then ta,
gate incomes of the various banks amount to 3 re.(4 by der
did sum, and they mere nearly preserved front
eloquent reasonings of the late honourable Bar"itiobt'ett
:he signature of "Malachi Malagrowther." to er,,,jo
perfectly true, that the Duke of Buecleuch is e
the intended edifice entirely from his own funld ileP,reic
were he to do so unreasonable a thing, he Woo..ivg tm
the public of an excellent opportunity of testify "t 01;
grateful admiration of the "Mighty 11linsintretli.;e0fet_roryi;,,
I have deemed it propel., Mr. Editor,
to vindicate the liberality of my distinguished cotiobly
His is a liberality, I am bold to say, neither. r`eyeri
fuse, nor vainly ostentatious—..but regulated to

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 24, 1832.

By an express from Brussels we have this
morning received an official account of a change
Of Ministry in Belgium. The KING has ac-
cepted the resignations of MM. de RAIKEM,
e DETHEUX, and COYIIEN, and has ap-
Pointed the following :--
Minister of Justice, M. LEREA U.
Interior, M. CHARLES ROGIER•
then
Minister of Finances was not appointed
nen the express left.
voGeneral GOBLET, who was Minister for
,h
at Affairs par interim, is now fixed in
office.
CO
u "
t FELIX DE MErtoDE, the Chevalier
ETrt,.
Eux, and M. tie MEULENAERE, are
famed Ministers of State and Members of the
Council.

We may now congratulate King LEOPOLD
On the firmness by which he has emancipated
himself from the Anti-Liberal party, and, by
the appointment of moderate and reasonable
men, of undoubted patriotism, avoided the error
by which Princes fall—reliance on a Court
faction. The new Ministry' come into power at
4 fortunate time. This day or to-morrow the
courier sent by M. VAN DE WEYER to an-
nounce the conclusion of a treaty' between Great
Britain and France, for the coercion of the Dutch,
bill arrive in Brussels, and the popular enthu-
-lasin will give great facilities to the new Go-
\'ernment.
M. LEBEAU, the new 4'l(l the chief Member of the
of Justice,
Cabinet, was for-

merly Minister for Foreign Affairs, and was re-
cently appointed Counsellor of the Court of
Appeal of Liege. He was one of the deputa-
tion who came to this country to offer the crown
to LEOPOLD. He is one of the best orators
of the Belgium Chamber of Representatives,
and distinguished himself greatly as a
writer, before the revolution, by a vigorous and
honourable opposition to the despotic measures
of King WILLIAM, in the Politique, a Liege
Journal, of which he was editor. He is also
the author of an admirable treaty on " Le Pou-
voir Royal et ses Prerogatives." In this work
there is evidence of great talent and political in-
tegrity.

M. CHARLES ROGIER has been for some
time Governor of the province of Antwerp. He
was Member of the ' Provisional Government
during the revolution ; he is a sincere patriot,
an honest man, and a good writer. Although by
no means so good an orator as M. LEBEAU,
from want of confidence in himself, he has great
influence in the Chamber, owing to his reputa-
tion for honesty. He was for some time a col-
league of M. LEBEAU in the Politique, the
Journal to which we have just alluded.
The character of General GOBLET is already
well known to most of our readers He is, we
believe, a personal favourite of the KING, and
rather popular with the nation.

After what we were enabled to state yesterday,
the public are not taken by surprise at the an-
nouncement of the Times, of a treaty having
been concluded between Great Britain and
France, for the adoption of measures to enforce
the Belgian Treaty. To what our Contempo-
rary has stated, we may add, that the united fleets
will not commence operations until after the sth of
November. The King of HOLLAND has, there-
fore,nearly a fortnight for reflection. If within that
period he should not consent to the terms of ar-
rangement proposed to him, he must either be a
madman, or have received positive assurances of
support from Russia and Prussia in his designs
on Belgium.
The French fleet is expected to arrive at
Portsmouth to-morrow. M. CASIMIR PERIER,
the second Secretary of the French Legation,
and other gentlemen connected with the Em-
bassies here, will, we understand, be at Ports-
mouth to witness the extraordinary and gratifying
event of a junction between the fleets of France
and Great Britain.