The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-12 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

A letter, received yesterday from Brussels, an-
nounces the dissolution of the Belgian Cabinet,
caused, it is said, by a difference of opinion on the
question of obligatory instruction. MM. Rogier
and de Vriere, who are warm partisans of the mea-
sure, retire. It is added, that M. Henri de
Brouckere, brother of the burgomaster of Brussels,
will be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. M.
Frere, the defender of the status qua, leaves the
Finance Department to assume the direetion of the
Interior.

A letter from Constantinople of the 31st states
that the Porte is much annoyed at the impulse
given to the Suez Canal scheme by M. de Lesseps.
The Ministers state the opening of the canal would
be attended with more inconvenience to the Porte
than advantage, and that if it depended on them it
should never take place, and that at all events the
firman will never be granted for it until a formal
and unanimous demand be made by all the Powers.
Meantime, the Porte has repeated its order to the
Viceroy of Egypt not to allow even the preliminary
works to be commenced without the express autho•
risation of the Sultan.

FEES TO COUNSEL AND ATTORNEYS IN CRIMINAL
PILOSECUTIONS.—We understand that at the quarter ses-
sions at Maidstone, on Thursday last, the subject of the
present mode of conducting prosecutions was taken into
consideration by the justices present, and resolutions were
passed expressive of the opinion that fees to counsel' and
costs to attorneys should be allowed in all prosecutions in
which the court has power to allow the expenses. The costs
are to be taxed by the clerk of the peace, and allowed con-
ditionally on notice being given him by the attorney em-
ployed, two days before the sessions, or sent with the depo-
sitions, when prisoners are committed within that time. In
cases in which the required notice may not be given (that
is, in effect, where no attorney may be erhployed), the clerk
of the peace is to instruct. Mr. Beale, the clerk to the ma-
gistrates of Bearsted Petty Sessions, to conduct the prose-
cutions. These cases would probably but seldom occur,
and as it may be presumed that they would be of a trifling
nature, the fees to counsel and attorneys in such cases are
to be limited to one guinea each. Although the justices
present at the sessions have not power to establish any po-
sitive rules of this kind, there is every reason to believe that
the practice will in future be in accordance with the resolu-
tions agreed on, so that the want of proper attention to the
conduct of prosecutions, by which the ends of justice have
not unfrequently been defeated, will by these arrangements
be obviated.—South Eastern Gazette. .

SMUGGLING.—The practice of smuggling over
from the opposite coast contraband spirits, so rife and in such
wholesale quantities about 30 years since, has not entirely
ceased. An attempt to land a cargo at Littlehampton,
shortly before Christmas, was foiled, when the usual course
of sinking the tubs was resorted to. For several days the
boats of the R. C. Cameleon, and of the stations westward,
have dredged for the same, and have been rewarded by fish-
ing up about 20 tubs, the residue having been lost in the
late turbulent weather.—Sussex Advertiser.