The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-13 00:00:00

degree of independence in the foreign policy of
the French Cabinet than has hitherto been
shown. What the home policy may be, is,
however, a question very difficult to solve. The
French are not easy of rule under any circum-
stances, and as every day gives evidence of in-
creasing attachment to liberty among the mass,
Marshal SOULT will not be able now, if so dis-
posed, to subjugate so many millions to a system
of Government opposed alike to the welfare and
freedom of the nation whose affairs have been
placed in his hands.

We mentioned yesterday that the unsettled
state of the Ministry in France would prevent
the adoption of any more decided measures by
the British Cabinet with regard to Belgium and
Holland, than those which have hitherto been
taken on the responsibility of Lord PALMER-.
STON. Had not this difficulty occurred, how-
ever, the delay occasioned by the last communi-
cation with the Prussian Government, would
have been sufficient to keep the question still
open. The last accounts from Brussels have,
we understand, convinced Ministers of the ne-
cessity of more decided conduct, and led to
a determination to reject any overtures on
the part of the King of HOLLAND, which
should not have for their basis some gua-
rantee of a termination of the dispute, on the
principles laid down by the Conference, and
hitherto refused by the Dutch KING. It is
to be hoped, for the honour of our Cabinet, and
for the peace of Europe, which can only be
really endangered by a want of energy and dignity
on the part of the British Ministry, that the
protocolizing system is near its end.
The state of things in Belgium at this mo-
ment is such as to create considerable anxiety,
and to show the importance of settling the
Dutch question speedily, if it is to be settled at
all. Without attaching the slightest degree of
belief to the rhapsodies and exaggerations of
the Brussels Correspondent of the Morn-
ing Herald, we know sufficient of the con-
dition of Belgium to feel the propriety of
urging our Government to adopt a bold and
decisive course, if they would prevent the first
step of the Holy Alliance scheme against liberty
—the restoration of the House of Nassau to the
Belgian throne.

The King of BELGIUM, acting strictly within
the line laid down by the Constitution, of hold-
ing his Ministers responsible for their own acts,
and carrying to an excess the spirit of toleration
which was so little evinced by the former KING,
has given his approval to several nominations by
the Minister of Justice, which are odious to the
Belgians, and, both in motive and action, mani-
festly unjust. The Liberals, disgusted with the
conduct of M. de RAIKEM, and dreading the
influence of the fanatical party, bestow upon the
KING a portion of the odium which ought to
attach exclusively to his Minister, and thus the
weight of his name in the public mind is so
diminished as to make it easy for the Orangeists
to carry on their intrigues. The unnatural
combination between the Orangeists and the
Liberals of Belgium, which was tried here be-
tween the Ultra-Tories and the Ultra-Radicals,
is forming, and the Orangeists boldly ask what
the Revolution has achieved, and what the Bel-
gians can desire which a Restoration would not
give ?

The emissaries of the King of HOLLAND
are in every part of Belgium. The gold so long
hoarded up by that avaricious man, and which,
if report speaks truly, was obtained by con-
trivances not very creditable to a King, is freely
distributed in the work of corruption ; and
whilst one portion of the Liberals, indignant at
the apparent indifference of the honour of the
nation displayed by the Belgian Ministry in its
courtesies to the Conference, would appeal at
once to arms, another portion, seduced by the
bribes of Holland, facilitates the schemes of her
agents, and embarrasses the Belgiaii KING.
The only way of extricating LEOPOLD from
the position in which he has been plunged by
the policy forced upon him by the Conference,
is to render him popular with his subjects, by
giving him the means of asserting his and their
rights. The odium cast upon him by M. de
RAIKENI was the act of the Conference, for the
nominations and destitutions which have given
such offence were made with a view to promote
negociations with Holland, in the sense desired
by the Conference ; and the least the Members
of that body can do, now that they have exposed
LEOPOLD to the suspicions of his subjects, is
to give to him the advantages which were pro-
mised as the conditions of his accepting the
Crown, and which have been so pusillanimously
withheld.

The French Chambers are now positively
convoked for Monday, the 19th of November.

The Joninal de Frankfort of the 6th inst.
abuses the Tinzes, and other English Journals,
for their late animadversions on the Diet at
Frankfort, and totally denies the reports of an
army of 400,000 being formed by the Germanic
Confederation for the purpose of putting down
the spirit of liberalism. We think the very fact
of this denial the strongest proof of its cor-
rectness.

Brazil Papers to the 20th of August inclu-
sive have been received, but their contents are
not important.

It has been long a matter of reproach to the City
of London that it has not an outlet which can be
called even decent, to the magnificent roads
which approach it from the north. We were the
first, on the removal of the old nuisance called
Fleet Market, to suggest a continuation of Far-
ringdon-street, as a❑ easy, cheap, and superb
means of supplying so great a desideratum. The
City authorities have since entertained the pro-
position ; but the matter appears to proceed with
a slowness which augurs ill for the spirit with
which it will be undertaken. We quite agree with
Mr. PEA RSON that a plan ought to be agreed to
before applying for an Act of Parliament, but
why was not the suggestion made and acted
upon long ago? We hardly understand what