The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-28 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1832.

The question of Poland comes on to-night
for discussion in the House of Commons. We
are glad of this, for though we are by no means
sanguine that any steps will be taken during the
present Session to ameliorate the condition of
that most aggrieved country, still we feel con•
vinced that a bold declaration of opinion in the
British Senate, will have the two-fold effect of
inspiriting the Poles and depressing the energies
of NICHOLAS. An intelligent correspondent,
whose letter on " Poland" will be found in
another column, challenges a diversion in her fa •
your on the score of self-interest, because " in
point of commercial advantage, it is more our
interest to be on terms of amity with
Poland than with Russia." We grant
the cogency of this argument, it is striking
and universally unintelligible ; still we would
prefer putting the question on higher vantage
ground. We would claim the independence of
Poland on the score of humanity—of civiliza-
tion—of intellect. So long as the countrymen
of Sobieski are held in a state of vassalage
by the barbarian Kalmucks and Cossacks of
the North, it is a perfect farce to talk of the
march of mind, the liberal spirit of the age,
and 80 forth. What is gained to freedom in
one part of Europe, is lost to it in another,
and the intellect of the South is more than
counterbalanced by the excessive barbarism of
the North. A day, we know, is coming when
the powers of light shall conquer those of dark-
ness ; but it is a sorry consolation to those brave
Poles who are now wasting away by inches in
the dungeons of St. Petersburgh, or breaking
their hearts in the wastes of Siberia, to know that
this day is yet in futuro. They have a right
to look to the spirit of the age for instant, not
Prospective, emancipation, for it was a noble
reliance on that spirit which first induced
them to unfurl the banner of independence.
They appealed to the generous mind of Europe,
but their appeal, instead of being answered as
they had every right to suppose it would have
been, was met by confiscation, torture, and pro-
tracted servitude. The revolutionary Government
of France, and the Reform Government of
England, both lifted to power and popularity by
the same spirit that hurled Poland on Russia,
both declared against her ; for this is one of
those few cases in which neutrality is fully as de-
cisive a line of conduct as a show of hostility
itself. For England there may be some (though
not much) excuse, but for France there is none.
She, or rather her merchant KING, has sold Po-
land, literally for thirty talents. The child, the
champion of the Paris barricades, has turned his
back—the degraded traitor—on his brethren ofthe
Warsaw barricades. The royal puppet who owes his
all to revolution, discourages the same spirit when
it rears its head in any other country than France.
He countenances it when he can turn it to ac-
count—when he can make it a matter of profit ;
but has no notion of encouraging it, when
honour is the sole reward to be acquired. And
1° this base, plebeian spirit on the part of a Ctizen
KING, Poland is now sacrificed. Because Louts-
turdPnE loves the chink of gold, thousands
ofP the noblest spirits of Europe are condemned
to
hopeless exile. And yet this is the man who
professes to have the interests of humanity at
heart I Shame on such cant

Jrussels and German Papers, received this
morning, state that the Dutch will not evacuate
the citadel of Antwerp, and, what is more, that
the Courts of Russia, Prussia, and Austria will
not cooperate in forcing King WILLIAM, nor
allow the French to insist on his doing so by
force ! What, then, becomes of all the fraudu-
lent protocols on the subject ?
Brtussitts JUNE 26.—The Senate is convoked fur
the 2d July.
trd We are assured that the Minister of War has just given
ers to look out for a piece of ground in the neighbour.
hood of Brussels suitable for the erection of barracks for
the troops of our garrison, that are now quartered on the
luhabitants.
A letter from the Hague of the 23d of June says, that
;` though the contents of the last protocols are not pub-
known, it is still reported that the proposals of the
'onference are such that Holland cannot assent to
Ithern. It is also said, that on some points there will
great obstacles on both sides. People's minds are
-I.'kh engaged with the state of affairs, and deeply sensible
the importance of the present moment, but in general

'hey have confidence in the resolution of the Government
ellich. on its side, may depend on the nation.
" P. S. The Cabinet Council, at which the Prince or
Orange was present, has decided that our Governmen
cannot accept the last proposals of the Conference. There
is a report that the States-General will he convoked."
(From Le Courtier Beige.)
BRUSSELS, JUNE 26.—We are able to announce posi-
tively that the King has not the intention to marry before
the evacuation of the citadel of Antwerp.
THE EVACUATION OF THE CITADEL OF

ANTWERP.
We have already given our opinion on the degree of
confidence, which it seem+ to us that the country may
place in the last promises of the London Conference. We
have ❑ow a few words to sac on the efficaciousness of this
measure, which may be resolved iron at the Foreign-office
to insure the execution of these promises.
We believe that we may assert, that in the diplomatic
meetings which discussed the coercive measures proposed
by Prince Talleyrand and Lord Palmerston, the Plenipo_
tentiaries of Prussia, Russia, and Austria, expressed them-
selves on this subject in a manner so formal and explicit,
that no doubt can be entertained that their Courts have
firmly resolved--Ist. Not to make their troops cooperate
in any ca.e in the executio❑ of such a design ; and 2dly,
Not to allow France to send an army to Holland to compel
King William to sign the twenty four articles ; so that,
supposing that the Northern Courts are really sincere in
the promises which they makeus (a very gratuitous suppo-
sition), it is nevertheless certain, that the sending of a
British squadron to the coast of Holland is the only act of
armed intervention to which it is possible to make them
consent.

Now experience hes taught us that there is no reason to
hope that such a demonstration will suffice to overcome
the obstinacy of William—and if he thinks fit to resist
England, as he did in November last, we have the follow-
ing ultimatum,—Either the English fleet will content it-
self with keeping the port. and coasts of Holland in a
state of blockade, and then this act of hostility will have
two great inconveniences: the first will be to excite
against the Ministry that proposes such a measure all the
English merchants, whose great intercourse with Hol-
land would be greatly affected, and all whose ships in
the Dutch ports King William will not fail to have seiz-d ;
the second will be to ruin the reviving commerce of
Antwerp ; for there can he no doubt that if the English
blockade the mouth of the Scheldt, the Dutch will imme-
diately hinder our ships from coming down the river ; or
else the English fleet will endeavour to force the passage
into the Scheldt, and then such an enterprise would re-
quire, as in 1809, at the time of the expedition under
Lord Cochrane, the cooperation of a land force to take pos-
session of Flushing, I3uskwas, and all tke forts which de-
fend the banks of the river, an army, the formation of
which would require sacrifices which the English Parlia-
ment would probably not sanction, and, after all, there
would he a chance that the English fleet might not suc-
ceed. Our conclusion, therefore, is, that ice ought to
manage our business ourselves.

THE CHOLERA AT BRUSSELS, Etc..—. After the lapse of
nearly a week without any new cases, a woman was sud-
denly attacked on the 23d, and taken to the hospital, but
it is now said she has not the cholera. On the 25th, in
the evening, three persons from one house in the street
Seauerhuk were brought to the hospital, supposed to have
the cholera.

A case supposed to be cholera occurred at Antwerp on
the 24th in a workman returning from Ghent.

GHENT.
Deaths. New Cases.
June '''" of 65
4.3 IS 55
24 25 43
23 22 53
Tbere are now 54 patients under medical treatment and
67 convalescent. There have been 28 recoveries within
these four days.—Brussels Papers, June 27.

We are compelled, by a press of matter, to
leave over the Court Circular till to-morrow.

We refer to another part of The Sun for
news from Paris. It is now understood that
Prince TALLEYRAND has'positively declined
taking office either as President of the Council,
or as Miaister in any subordinate department.
This bodes no good to LOUIS-PHILIPPE.

The convention between his MAJESTY and
the Emperor of RUSSIA, respectitig the Russo-
Dutch Loan, has been laid before Parliament
and printed. As it must receive the consent
of Parliament before it is carried into effect,
we sincerely trust that the House of Com-
' mons will never sanction it, unless Russia
consent to a full and immediate recog-
nition of Polish independence in word and
deed. It is an insult to the people of this
country to be called on to pay money to a power
like Russia, which never loses an opportunity
of sacrificing British interests to her inordinate
ambition. Witness even her present shuffling
conduct with respect to Belgium, at the mo-
ment she is asking for English money to sup-
port the obstinacy of that political Juggler, the
King of HOLLAND, who has acted throughout
as a deceitful tool in her hands! Really
we think Lord PALMERSTON ought to
have some respect for British feeling if he
evinces so little for the honour of a British
Minister. The thing is worse than too bad

The Scotch Reform Bill passed the House of
Commons last night. A very spirited debate
took place on the motion of Mr. TRAIL (the
Hon. Member for Orkney) that Orkney and
Shetland should have each a representative in
Parliament. The LORD ADVOCATE opposed
the motion in a speech befitting the puppet
which has generally enjoyed the title of Lord
Advocate—but how unworthy of FRANCIS
JEFFREY ! He confessed that the case of Shet-
land was one of great hardship—he allowed that
it was separated from Orkney by7a tempestuous
ocean. He did not deny that the inhabitants of

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the two districts were aliens and strangers to
each other,—and had no more inter-
course, or acquaintance, than if they had
been separated by half the globe. He did not
deny that they had been for generations past
two distinct counties for every practical pur-
pose, but he found it convenient to drop
the Reformer and play the special pleader
on this occasion. He attempted to throw
dust in the eyes of Honourable Members,
by showing at great length, and by a very clumsy
process, that by an old musty Act of Parlia-
ment passed in 1669, in the blessed reign of un-
restricted liberty, these two clusters of islands
were erected into a Stewartry—a Stewartry
they were, and a Stewartry they must remain.
That was a name so sacred—so hallowed that no
consideration on earth could induce him to change
it ; the very idea of such an innovation made his
hair stand on end. The Shetlanders, he said,
were at best only a parcel of fishermen, hardy
navigators to be sure, but nothing more ; that
they inhabited a region of sterility, upon
which Providence had laid its hand ! and
had no claim, either i❑ point of wealth
or population, to a separate Member, espe-
cially as none of the large counties in Scot-
land had got two Members (meaning Selkirk,
no doubt). Nothing but hardy navigators ! This
is a speech from the mouthpiece of an Adminis-
tration that talks about ships, colonies,
and commerce ;" we cannot help thinking
that the 30,000 hardy navigators of Shet-
land are fully as valuable to the nation
as the 6,000 "souters" of Selkirk, and the Ina-

ority of our readers will, we doubt not, be of
the same opinion. The day has been when
hardy navigators were thought of some im-
portance and that day may come again. Why
had not the large counties got more than one
Member—why ? because the Learned Lord re-
fused to give them more, and because he
refused to give two to some, he makes tha
a reason for refusing one to a county whicl
cannot possibly be united to any other dis.
trict.

This is the new doctrine of con-
sistency. The Learned Lord quoted the
island of Lewis as an instence of similar hard-
ship with that of Shetland. He forgot, how.
ever, to state that the people of Lewis are in
constant communication and intercourse
with the people of Ross—that the
cannot

communicate with the other
parts of Scotland without passing through
Ross-shire—whereas an Indian Bramin on the
banks of the Thames is not a more unusual
spectacle than a Shetlander in Kirkwall, or
an Orkneyman in Lerwick. Sir GEORGE
MURRAY gave a most complete answer to
the Learned Lords's laboured speech, which
he justly pronounced a signal failure. He per-
sisted in calling Shetland a county, to which
title it had as good a claim as any county in
Scotland, and he said that so strong did he consi-
der its claim to a separate representative, that if the
Honourable Mover would shape his motion
so as to avoid taking a representative from
the burghs or counties, he would support
him. Mr. HUME approved of the motion,
but advised the Honourable Mover not to
press it to a division.—(His support, no
his advice, was wanted on this occasion.)
Several other Members spoke in favour of the mo-
tion, which was eventually withdrawn. During:the
discussion Lord ALTuoilp sat as still as a mouse.
When the Learned Lord said that the hand of
Providence had disqualified the Shetlanders for
participating in the rights of freemen, we
thought we perceived a tinge suffuse his honest
countenance ; he seemed to think there was a
far heavier hand than that of Providence on
those devoted islanders,—namely, the hand of
the LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland.

The obnoxious qualification clause was alto•
gether withdrawn—both for burghs and counties,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY,

FROM LLOYD'S

DEAL, JUNE 27.—Wind E.N.E.—.Five, r.at.•—His
Majesty's ship Talavera is proceeding to Sheerness; and
his Majesty's ship Donegal remains. Arrived the Miranda,
from Grenada. Arrived from the river and sailed the
Rifleman, Hutchinson, for Van Diemen's Land.
PLYMOUTB, JUNE 26.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the
Perceval, Spear, from St. John's, N.B. Sailed the Lord
Wellington transport, for Dublin ; and Britannia, for
Bengal.

DOVER, Jusz 27.—Arrived off port the Rising Sun,
Honge, from Rio Janeiro.

LivsurooL, JUNE 26.—Arrived the Clarissa Ann,
Owens, and Aquila, Board, from Charleston; Clyde,
Thompson, and Prince Leopold, Blade, from Bahia. Oil
port the Eleanor, from St John's, N.B.

DUBLIN, JUNE 26.—Arrived the Brothers, Hynes, from
Demerara; Thykett, Shotton, from Bordeaux; and Bloom,
Gray, from Riga.

WATERFORD, JUNE 25.—Arrived the Reliance, Scott,
from Trinidad. The Hors!), Hill, Hunter, bound to Que-
bec, put back, with loss of foremast and bowsprit.
CORK. JUNE 25.—Arrived the Everetta, Heyton, from
St. John's, N.B. Off port the Margaret, M'Allister, from
St. Domingo. Sailed the Leonidas transport, for Halifax.
HULL, JUNE 26.—Arrived the Dalrymple, Dawson,
from Wy burg.

SHOREHAM, JUNE 27.—A new schooner caught fire in
the dock yesterday, and the larboard side was considerably
damaged. A large quantity of new stores have been burnt.

The West Indian, Cook, from Antigua, is not arrived,
as stated yesterday in the Commercial List.

THE MARKETS.7(THIS- DAY).

„
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended June 22, lk
made up from the Returns
of the Inspectors is the different Cittes and Towns in England
and Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
02s 4d.f Oats 21s. 54.1 Beans...—. 355. 6d.
Barley 335. 1011 Rye --- 245. 4d Pease...—. 365. Id.
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AYERAGES OP THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING.
Wheat...—. 625. 04.1 Oats 21s. sd.+ 8ean5...,...... 355. NI.
Barley—.--335. 6(1.1 Rye 345. 11 ;1 345. Ild.

DUTIER ON FOREIGN CORN.
Bd.l Oats 15s. 3d.1 Beans...—. 16s. 9d.
Barley --.125. 4d.1 Rye ...... ISs. 3d. Pease* ISs. 3d.

HAY Al A RKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
II
CUMBERLAND
Meadow L
H AT. E, ST. J AMES ' S . ) Coarse heavy Lowland
£2 15 to £3 0
New Meadow Hay 3 0 310
' Useful Old Ditto 3 5 4 6
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 415
Glover Hay
5 0 6 10
' Oat Straw £1 14 to £1 16 I Wheat Straw ... 118 2 0
Supply rather limited, trade dull, and prices stationary.
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5
New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Eye-grass Hay 3 15 4 15
Clover Hay (extra tine)....£6 10... Generally
),,t Straw ... .E 1 16 to .£1 16—Wheat Straw 2 0 2 2
A moderately good.supply, trade rather dull, and prices as las
quoted.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WELVE O'CLOCK.

By the French mail this morning we have the fol-
lowing report at Paris of the arrangement of the new
Mini‘ters

M. Dupin, (eldest) Keeper of the Seals; President of
the Council, M. Barthe ; Minister of Public Instruction,
M. Thiers ; Minister of Commerce and Public Works,
M. Argout ; Minister of Finance, M. Girod. MM. Soult,
Regny, Sebastiani, and Montalivet, keep their portfeuilles.
The following is stated to be a note written by Louis-
Philippe to King Leopold, (but not credited):--" All is
finished, Sire, the treaty of the 15th Nov., is going to be
executed, and I have the assurance of the three Northern
Power, should Guillaume persist to refuse to negotiate—
to acknowledge you, my army is ready to march and serve
you as a rear-guard, and the English fleet will protect you.
You have informed me that the intentions of the King of
Prussia are very pacific towards you, and I have received
recently a letter from his Prussian Majesty of the most
friendly description."