The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-27 00:00:00

LIMA.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED FEB. 11.-At
present we have nothing interesting here; the latest
Important news was the conclusion of peace with
Bolivia, which event has prevented a war that could
not have proved otber than disastrous to that coun-
try and Peru.
Respecting loans and mining companies, in which
speculation so many thousands of British capital
have been embarked, I can add nothing to what I
have so repeatedly, and at early periods, stated; the
funds embarked in most of those adventures, if not
all, may be said to be over-rated when above zero.
Here, in Peru, there appears to be no thought of
paying principal or interest of loans : this is less
strange, being due to foreigners, when we daily see
he culpable disregard of debts due to their own
Citizens, and to some of those who have most served
them.

British and other trade in Peru is in a deplorable
situation—high duties and ridiculous prohibitions
have paved the way for smuggling upon a scale so
extensive as to deprive the state of respectable re-
sources, which they might have relied upon had
they possessed common prudence. A very natural
consequence of measures so miserable is the encou-
ragement of corruption and bribe receiving amongst
interested parties which has become too general to
offer probability of amendment. Perhaps amongst
no people did there ever exist notions more extrava-
gant and barbarous upon matters of political eco-
nomy in general as affecting the interests of their
own people or foreigners. As regards foreign com-
merce with Peru, such are the present established
regulations, as to make the smuggler the best mer-
chant. If in other countries it be difficult to pre-
vent illicit trade, what can be expected in Peru,
Whilst prohibitions and high duties exist, and she
has so extensive a coast, and no marine means worth
speaking of? Nor are they capable of paying per-
sons necessary to be employed for its prevention.

WMrA FRIENDLY PROMISE.—" Good morning,
. ~ I call upon you to solicit your vote, trusting that
you have not promised it to any one." " No, neighbour
E.) I have not promised it to any one yet ; but I will promise
thee--(Thank you, Sir,) that I will not vote for thee."
BURGH REPRESENTATION.—An address
of th
from e
Alnr CUMMING BRUCE to the prospective electors
verness district of burghs will be found in our
advertising columns. The Major has entered upon his
canvass, and Colonel BAILLIE, it is understood, will also
take the field this week. A gentleman on whose im-
partiality we can place the fullest reliance, has sent us the
following note relative to Major Commix° BRUcT'S can_
vary :—.6‘ Major CUMMING was in Nairn on Friday, in
Forres on Monday, and in Nairn again to-day (Tuesday).
He has been very successful in Fortes, and the inhabitants
have almost all given him a conditional pledge that if no
Whig candidate come forward, they will vote for him, but
if a supporter of Ministers does make his appearance,
they will instantly desert him. Nairn has done the same.
The Major holds out that he was a Reformer all along, and
refers them to
his speeches! ! ! His appearance changed
the tone of the public feeling a good deal in his favour."
The county representation will be keenly contested.
AIL, CHARLES GRANT will be opposed by MACLEOD of
Macleod, and the united influence of the Duke of GoRDoN,
Colonel GRANT of Grant, and Lord MACDONALD, will
be exerted against him. We have great faith in the firm-
, nese, intelligence. and honety of the tenants—and in the
prospective constituency of the county at large, but Mr.
Urtafir's friends 'should be on the alert..—.lnverness
Courier.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1832.

We find the following very cheering para-
graph in the Times of this morning :

" It is reported, and we believe not without good au-
thority, that Lord Durham proceeds instanter to St.
Petersburgh, on a special mission. If the purpose of
his Lordship's embassy be a direct and strenuous inter-
fet on the part of this country in favour of the
glorious and deeply-outraged Poles, we are sure that
no Englishman, no honest man of any nation in the
world, and above all, no friend to the safety and the
peace of Europe, can refrain from offering up the most
ardent prayers for the success of an undertaking so
wise, and just, and holy. As Lord Durham's mission is
not expected to continue above three or four months, his
seat in the Cabinet will not be vacated. It is really an
escape which we have had from Sir Charles Bagot ; we
suppose that the nearest friends of the latter, (anti his
amiable quantities have made many friends) will admit,
that in point of talent, sagacity, and decision, Lord Dur-
ham is a more efficient functionary than the late Minis•
ter at the Hague."

If the object of, Lord DURHAM'S mission to
St. Petersburgh be to mediate between the Em-
peror NICHOLAS and the unhappy Poles, he
will carry with him the best wishes of every
friend of humanity and justice. There is, per-
haps, no subject on which there is so little divi-
sion in the country, as the wrongs of the Polish
nation. Partitioned among the neighbouring
potentates in 1793, deceived equally by NAPO-
LEON and NICHOLAS, and driven to de-
spair, at last, by the atrocities of a wretch
whom even the enslaved Russians would not
obey, they rose against their oppressor, and re-
sisted his hordes with a determination of pur-
pose and a sacrifice of human life, of which
history hardly affords any example. Overpowered
at last by mere brute force, they submitted to
the mercy of the conqueror, and that mercy
has blotted out the name of Poland among
the nations of the earth—has degraded the
Nobles of the land by condemning them
to the basest servitude, and driven into
exile, or banished to the frightful regions
of Siberia, thousands of brave men, merely
because they resisted oppression and fought
for their independence. There is hardly
in ancient or modern history, an instance of
such patriotism being subjected at last to such
cruel indignities. All men in this country,
even those who advocate the claims of Don
MIGUEL, and rail against every thing like de-
monstration of physical force on the part of the
people, keep silence on the subject, or join
with their political antagonists in denouncing
the cruelties of the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE
and the merciless injustice of his more civilized
brother. The state of that unhappy, but brave
people is so bad, that with the exception of some
of the Sovereigns and their arbitrary Ministers,
the whole of Europe look upon it with pity and
horror. Thanks to the determined spirit of the
British nation, the Reform Bill is carried, and
the Government can now speak in a tone very diffe-
rent from that they adopted but a few months ago
Next to the Reform Bill, there is nothing, perhaps,

which would render the Ministry so popular as
a sincere and spirited demonstration in behalf of
Poland. War, we believe, is not necessary to
avenge her wrongs. The united voice of Eng-
land and France—we may say the united voice
of the civilized world—cannot be despised even
by the Autocrat of Russia. Let Mr.FERGussoN
persist in keeping the subject alive in the House
of Commons. In the present Parliament, and
still more in a Reformed Parliament, he will
be nobly supported. That Assembly, when re-
modelled, will be the most powerful since the
time of the Roman Senate in the best days of the
Republic; because, independent of the power
vested in it by a great nation, it will have a mo-
ral strength unknown to the Roman Senate.
The object of the one was to conquer and en-
slave—that of the other will be to relieve time
oppressed, and advocate the cause of justice,
mercy, and freedom. Animated by such a spi-
rit, and possessed of such power, we look for-
ward to the day when its influence will be felt
even by the most despotic state in Europe.

New York Papers to the Ist of June have
been received, but they contain no political news
of importance. A public dinner has been given
by the inhabitants of New York to their cele-
celebrated countryman, Mr. WA su IN GTON
IRVING. This mark of respect and ad-
miration is as creditable to the intelligence of
the people as it is honourable to the genius of
the distinguished writer.

We have received the Journal des Debats
of Monday. It appears that the question of
Belgium is definitively settled in the opinion of
the Conference, who expect the acquiescence of
the Dutch KING by Saturday next. Whether
his MAJESTY will be of the same opinion
remains to be seen. The evacuation of the
citadel of Antwerp must be a bitter pill,
after a year's pertinacity in resisting or evading
the demands of the Conference. One thing
is very clear, that, however much disposed
the Dutch KING may be to seek delay by
every possible pretence, the Governments
of France and England are acting not only in
concert but in right earnest, and will not be in-
sulted by Russian intrigue or Dutch subterfuge.
The Reform Bill, now happily
...secured, will
enable England, not only to speak out, but to
act up to her remonstrances :
(From the Journal des &bras, Monday.)
PARIS, JUNE 24.—The Belgic question has become an
European question. In declaring the evacuation of their
territory occupied by the Dutch, the indespensable condition
of all future negotiations between Belgium and Holland,
the late Protocols have made to appear in full light the
unanimity and views of the principles which have directed
the late acts of the conferences. A time has been fixed—
a time beyond which facts should succeed to notes—and
this latter announcement is the last notice which several
of the Powers who have signed the treaty of London con-
sider due to the relations which united them to King
William. Our Ambassador had not quitted London
until after having put his signature to the acts which
complete and crown his splendid mission. It is, however,
fortunate for the return of M. Talleyrand, that some
organs of the Opposition have taken opportunities to
spread false reports and predictions, which experience has
so often proved unfounded. We will repeat, for the hundredth
time, that the Belgian question, the most delicate, awl,
according to their own acknowledgment, the molt me-
nacing for the repose of the world, may be considered
this day as terminated in its relations with the great Powers
of Europe. There is no longer a possible pretence
for delays—for it must be well understood that the
delay has proved for the advantage of Belgium ; and
if Holland should have been able to have brought
allies with her into the field of battle, would these allies
have allowed Belgium time to create an army which alone
would this day suffice for the maintenance of her inde-
pendence? We sincerely hope that Holland, enlightened
upon her true interest, will fulfil the dispositions of the
treaty of London. Antwerp will be evacuated, and that
at all events. If it is known at this day where the sound
of a cannon fired on the Meuse or the Scheldt will stop,
we did not know it a year ago.
FEENcri FUNDS.—Five per Cents., 97f. 15c. ; Three
per Cents., 6Sf. 30c.

We have received Dutch Papers, of which the
ollowing are extracts :

THE HAGUE, JUNE 23. —His Royal Highness the Prince
of Orange arrived here this morning from the army. It
is presumed that his coming is connected with the im-
portant negotiations which are said to be now on foot. It
is supposed that his Royal Highness will very shortly re-
turn to the army.
THE HAGUE, JUNE 24.--His Royal Highness the
Prince of Orange, who arrived yesterday morning, set out
again in the evening to return to head-quarters. His Royal
Highness attended yesterday a Cabinet Council, which sat
till six o'clock in the evening.
BREDA, JUNE 22.—We hear from Zealand that on
Tuesday last, the 19th, an English cutter, having the flag
of its nation, with a number of pilots on board, arrived in
the road of Flushurg. Though it is usual for the channels
to be from time to time examined, and the changes to be
noted, it seems that under present circumstances a differ-
ent opinion was entertained of the cause of the arrival of
this vessel. On the following day (yesterday) it put to
sea again, escorted by his Majesty's brig 'Bra. His
Majesty's brig Windhond is expected at Flushing this
week with a considerable nurnlrr of !Arms.
AMSTERDAM, JUNE 23.—Arrived here Admiral Count
Heyden, on his way to the Helder, and Count Swaroff Ri-
minsky, Chamberlain to his Majesty the Emperor of
Russia, from St. Petershurgh. On the 22d the metal
crosses were distributed with much solemnity among the
students at Leyden and Utrecht belonging to the Volun-
teer Corps.

The Duke of Nassau issued a decree on the 16th, for-
bidding the holding of popular assemblies, the attendance
of such meetings in other states, the foundation of socie-

ties without pe;:mission previously obtained, the collecting
of money for societies formed elsewhere, and the wearing
of particular badges—such as cockades and ribands, not
legally recognized in the duchy, with the threat of fine
and imprisonment against all who transgress the prohi-
bition.

Letters from Scuttgard of the 18th of hfay, say, that
for the first time, after a very long interval, foreign troops
will pals through Wurtemburg, the Bavarian Government
having given notice of the speedy arrival of 1,800 men on
their march to Rhenish Bavaria. The chi3f command of
the troops assembled in that province is given to Lieut.-
General Delamotte, IlLiji,r-Generals Count Poppenheisn,
and Baroa Sickendorf, command under him.

AMSTERDAM, JUNE 9.5.
Actual Debt, 21,4 per cent
Aniort Syndic, 4% per cent . ..... ....... 654 to 69%
Ditto, (law, per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 9T4 to 94%
Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent. 78% to 80
...Dutch Papers, June 26.

We understand that the clause introduced
into the Scotch Reform Bill, requiring a qualification like
that of England for a Scotch Member of Parliament,.
to be abandoned by the Ministry, anti will, of course be
cancelled this evening.

Strawberries are in greater abundance this sea-
son than they have been for twenty years. Mr. NORRIS,
at Osterley, the most extensive gardener in Europe, ha.
nearly sixty acres of this delicious luxury in cultivation,
and during the present week he will bring 15,000 gallons
to Covent-garden. All the markets in London were plen-
tifully supplied on Saturday, and at a very cheap rate.
A singular appearance has been observed in a
pond where the water from the river is headed to supply
the great silk factory at Braintree. For several days the
water has, in various parts, bubbled up, and great quan-
tities of mud have been put in motion. At first it was
supposed that an otter caused the appearances, and many
persons assembled with 'ticks and dogs, to rouse and chase
the animal, but the result proved that they were mistaken.
The bubbling of the water and rising of the mud still con-
tinue, though in some degree abated.

LITERATURE.

LORD BYRON'S WORKS,-VOL. VII.
LONDON, 1832.

This volume comprises the " Hours of Idle-
ness;" English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,"
with the caustic review in the Edinburgh that
called them forth ; and many other miscellaneous
poems, foremost among which appear the exqui-
site stanzas addressed to Mary Chaworth, on
seeing her infant child. To the satire the edi-
tor has prefixed numerous explanatory notes, con-
taining short biographical notices of some of the
obscurer individuals glanced at in it. The vo-
lume is beautifully embellished ; the sketch of
the Plain of Troy, from a painting by Turner, is
one of the most highly finished engravings we
have ever seen.