The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-31 00:00:00

THE RATIFICATIONS.

We n,ntior.ed on Friday Ne'rinight, that no obaracle to
the perfect efficiency' of the London treaty wai to be
dreaded front Auqria, and that c'e Gov,rrim,nt of Prince

Metternich was about to prove at-oriCei;;;;;;;I faith and
its love of peace, by ratifying a convention agretd to ►,y
two of its plenipotentiaries in its name. The formal ex-
ecution of this ratification should not, with such a power,
be be made dependent either on the simultaneous move-
ment of Prussi.t, or the concerted accession of the northera
autocrat. This is the day on which, we believe, the three
rerna ning ratifications were to be exchanmed.
Even though the three new ratifications of Austria,
Prussia, and Russia, were to be affixed to the treaty to-
day, we are afraid that the acquiescence of an essential

party to the peaceful settlement of the Belgic qutor ion
would not yet be forthcoming. Count Oiloff, the Rus-
sian Envoy, on whose operations at the 14,,,,1ne, and about
whose arrival in London, so much ►peculation liar been
indulged, has not brought the adhesion of the King of
Holland to the arrangement made fur him by his best and
oldest Allies.

We have hitherto abstained from characterising the
conduct of this respectable Monarch by any harsher term
than that of obstinacy, and we ►hall not exceed our for-
mer moderation on the present occasion. Tido ob-t nary,
however, we may add, must. be founded on some hope of
advantage, or of some fear of evil, arising from resistance
to the wishes of his a lies, b,canse an unreasoning un-
reasonable perseverance in a roome of poley which can-
not, by possibility, lead to a destrab.e or profi abl result,
would be hate short of insanity. What, then, is the un-
certain event on which the Dutch Monarch sakes the
success of his own pretensions, and the security of the
peace of Europe ? What is the pr;ze which he z ecru to
draw in tt e lottery of European changes? %% hit is the
element in the present combinations of politics, the re-

of which might be expected to give a new aspect to
his affairs ? We may confidently answer that this "
rertain event" is the passing of the R-torm Belt—that this
'‘ prize' is its anticipated rejection by the Houle of Lords—..
a:A that this undefined el meat inourpiesintpolitical com-
binations is nothing more nor less than the existence of a

Whig 'Ministry depending on Reform. The calculation
it a favourable change In lain Dutch Majesty's fortunes,
by a change in the Conned, of Etigl.,rd, might st.ll be an
alniurlity ; but on that change alone ran the King of
Holland now rely in postponing his acceptance of a treaty
fr.nhd with the concurrence of all his allies.

This delay of a final settlement, anti this consequent
danger of a new collision in the Netherlands, is ran, among
the many evils, foreign and doin,:stic.whico we now sugir,
and have suffered from :the twelve months' agitation 01 a
question which ought long ago to have been placed beyond
reach of doubt or cavil. Every branch' of our trade and
industry is depressed at home, and more than half of our
influence is paralysed abroad, by the gloomy electric cloud,
pregnant with storms, which is observed by foreign rs as
well as nitives to hover above th • legislative discussions of
the Upper House. The etme motive which (we know)
has prevented builders, for instance, from commencing
their spring oper ,tions with the employment of hundreds
of hricklayers, now out of work, has hitherto indu•ed
King William of Holland to refrain from signing the tit aty
of London. We beseech Lord Gley to observe this f ct,
and not only to show energy, by some immediate dent, n.
striation of the power to pass tue Bill, but to convict, a the
Anti Reformers that they must submit to .11 its conse-
quence,. Why is Sir Charles Bigot, so connected as he
is with the Duke of Wellington, and with the Anti Re-
fortiters, allowed to remain at the Hague? It Lord Grey
will not make Peer•, surely Lord Palmerston may ua.ke
Ambassadors.— Times.

In the forthcoming work entitled " The Fair
of May Fair," we understand it is the writer's intention to de-
velope the secret of some recent events in the beau-monde. 7 he
narratives embraced in the volumes are four or five in number,
two of which are respectively called " The Divorce," and
" The Female Gambler." We have not heard the names of
the others ; but it is thought that the work will create a great son_
ration among the parties concerned, and their numerousfrien*.
Lord Kerry, sot' of the Marquis of
.lown, attained his majority on Saturday; but the event, in eon
,quence of the Noble Marquis's ministerial and parliamentary
itgageinent., will not be celebrated until Easter week. -1)
ekes Chtkette.