The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-01 00:00:00

DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsTERDAIt, Nov.

Actual Debt, '2% per cent 391% to 401. i
Ainort Syndic, 4 per cent 66 to (t

Ditto, ditto, 34 jiei- cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 95% to 9'n
Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent.
Exchange on London, one month,
Ditto, two months l2 05
—Dutch Papers, Nov. 28.

MADAME JUNOT'S MEMOIRS.--The 7th
and Bth volumes of this work have just appeared at Paris,
and the English translation (forming the 4th volume) is
also on the eve of appearance. The present portion,
among other interesting features, details General JUNOT'S
secret mission to the Courts of Spain and Portugal, and
introduces to the reader many of the Nobility of both
countries. Of the leading personages too, who figured at
the Consular Court, at the memorable epoch described,
many new anecdotes and particulars are given. Though
s i much has bee❑ written connected with the reign of
NAPOLEON, we find that there is a great deal yet to learn
about that extraordinary man ; and it must he confessed
that Madame JUNOT'S recollections of bite burst upon the
readers witb a vividity of freshness not to be found in the
writings of any of his numerous biographers.
THE MARE'S EGG.—An islander was clic('
olaligei to go into the town of Cairlebar upon busitie.s,
.and among other marvellous things which there to t his
sight, he was particul trly struck with the appearance of
an earthen jar in a shop window. He inquired what this
unknown article might be, and was informed that it was

•• a.
mare's egg, which, if placed beside the fire during the
winter, would infallibly produce a foal the ensuing spring.
The price was moderate, and the Achil man determined to
possess the treasure, and thus become master of a horse.
Having effected the purchase, he set out on his way re-
joicing, and before evening fell, came within view of hi,
own home, and sat down upon ► heathy bank to rest him-
self. He placed his recent acquisition beside him—but
alas ! from its spherical form it rolled down the hill, and
striking against a rock at the bottom was shivered by the
iilow. A hare which hail crouched beneath the stone,
st tilled at the crash, sprung from her form and went oft'
(aitessppae;edr:afteTr hwehuanthhaeppbydithdil
tmheanemgaaznectilp,
emancipated da n aquadruped
gony of
—and then exclaimed, with a bitter groan, " Inona,
diaou/! what a horse he would have been."— Wild vets
,f the West.

A friend of mine, a French Marquis, accepted
the invitation of a provincial noble who had a large family
of grown up daughters—mind that—to spend some time
at his country house. The Marquis was known to be one
of the most fastidious and difficult of the metropolitan
elegants. His host, when they were travelling down to-
gether, began to consider with himself how his guest was
to be amused. "We have excellent fishing in our river,"
s rid he, " and of a warm day we'll make
while we boat on the river, tents shall be erected for us,
Never," was the ern-
(iit7irli
o refreshmentsseene i
t will spreadbe..,
,among,A htble
excuse me,"
ineC2,7irtsteiaeia: 1 and
while
"1
'n'm—e: tficshlte. r. 'B —.c.'a "ti In: laayn at
Marquis with a shiver,
At cards?"_" Never
cuts ! Oh, you little know my delicate constitution.
the host, considerably
p:ihllu'itaoiieu.d
shr?eupn,_lty,.:_a, tN:l,e,olastvshetao,lloll:tltlawr
or rieklNtelii.,o::?_B
said
touch them."
alarmed, " thank heaven we have an excellent library."—
' Library ! Do I look like a man who reads books?"—
. My God, then, what will you do to amuse yourself?"—
"1, my dear friend ! Oh, don't trouble yourself about
ice. I shall give myself up altogether to seduction."—
Agreeable intelligence to a pere de
.farnille,-..Ne»
.litinthly Nagazint,

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BRUSSEL* WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

I can state, on informatio❑ on which I place every reli-
ance, that up to 5 o'clock this afternoon, no summons had
yet been made to the citadel, and, of course, it was not
likely to be made, after so late au hour, this day. I also
learn from the same source, that very probably to-morrow
and the next day may pass over without its being sent, be-
cause (as I have often said), Marshal Gerard will not make
the summons until he has every thing in readiness to en-
force it. The utmost activity prevails in every depart-
ment of the army to hasten all the preparations, which
are rapidly approaching to completion. It would he only
going again into all the uncertainty of conjecture to offer
any opinion as to the time which may intervene between
the summons to the citadel and the commencement of hos-
That will of course depend altogether upon
Ch isse's answer. If he demand time, it is not probable
that it will be refused, but I think it unlikely that he will
make any such demand. The Court of Holland must long
ere this have decided upon the course which it will take
with respect to Antwerp, and the Baron must have long
since received definitive instructions in that respect.

The most prudent precautions have been taken by the
French military authorities to put the inhabitants of the
villages in the vicinity of the city, who may be within
range of a stray shot or shell, on their guard. The civil
magistrates have informed the inhabitants that they will
give them as early notice as possible of the intentions of
Baron Chasse with respect to the neutrality of the city.
Should, however, those intentions be of a hostile kind, it
is very likely that the citizens themselves will be made
aware of them as soon as the magistrates. If the city
should he attacked, all the women and children will, it is
said, be sent out, but the male adults who shall have con-
tinued there till then, will he obliged to remain to render
any assistance that may lie required in case of fires.
Nothing has as yet been done towards the appointment
of a new Ministry to succeed those who have just resigned.
The great difficulty is to get any set of men who may be
able to command a sufficient majority in the Chambers to
enable them to carry on the affairs of Government. I
stated in my letter of yesterday that not one of the parties
who thus joined in opposing the Ministers is of itself suffi-
ci. ntly strong to command the necessary influence, for it
is impossible to expect that such discordant elements could
unite and act together for any length of time, so as
to give stability to an Administration formed on
their presumed support. Decidedly the strongest
party in the Chamber was that cf the Ministers, and
there are many of the sincere friends of the Government
who are not slow in expressing their opinion that the re-
tirement of those Ministers, under the circumstances in
which they were placed, was quite an imprudent and ill-
advised step. It was reported here this morning that M.
de Theux and M. de Muelanaere were sent for by the
King, with a view to the formation of a new Ministry.
It is, I understand, quite true that the former has had
an interview with bis Majesty; but up to the hour in which
I write, nothing has transpired to show that his Majesty's
wish in getting a new set ofadvisers has been accomplished.
The address, as you will have observed, was agreed to
yesterday, without any additional amendments. The total
number for its adoption was 44 ; against it, 38. There
are, I understand, many of the representatives who would
have supported the Ministers if they thought that the re-
sult of the vote would be their resignation. It is, however,
now too late, unless, indeed, that the tenders of support in
future from some of those who voted against them should
induce them to resume their portfolios ; an event not very
improbable, if the difficulties of forming a new Adminis-
tration should not be removed in a day or two. •

It will be observed in the accompanying papers, that
the President of the Chamber of Representatives has ap-
plied to his Majesty to know when it may please him
to receive the address. His Majesty replied, that being at
the present moment without responsible advisers, he could
not receive or reply to the address. He must, therefore;
defer its reception for the persent.
It is a singular situation for a country placed in such
critical circumstances as Belgium now is, that one of her
greatest difficulties should arise—not from her enemies—
not from any misunderstanding with her allies—but from
that body to which all good Belgians looked with confi-
dence, for aid and advice—the men whom they had chosen
to represent them in the national council. This is deeply
to be regretted in every point of view, but in none more
than in the advantage which will of course be taken by
the Orange party of the weakness which this division of
opinion would seem to indicate, as far as relates to the
general policy of the Government.
To pass from great things to small, I may mention a
circumstance which has given rise to some small talk
amongst the news-readers here to-day. A paragraph ap-
peared in one of the papers of this morning, stating that
" Mr. Mitchell, one of the editors of the Morning
Chronicle, was arrested on Monday at Antwerp." The
gentleman here named has, I believe, nothing whatever
to do with that paper. He is the lively correspondent of
another London morning paper, on some of whose articles
of news I have had occasion to comment, as being founded
more on fancy than on fact. The particulars of this affair,
I :tuppose, will have reached you from Antwerp. They
?re, Ls nderstand very simple. A man comes into a city
whieYl way be considered i❑ a state of siege ; he i
suspected (of I know not what, but I shou'd suppose is
could not be of too great affection for the present
G ,vernment), and is placed tinder arrest until furthert
inquiry is made about him. On such inquiry being
made he is liberated, and ordered to quit the city.
This is the whole affair, about which more has been
already said than it is worth. It may, perhaps, find
its way over to a certain portion of the London press
under different colours, and probably be cited as an in-
stance of the severity of this Government. On this I shall
only observe that the Government of Xing Leopold, if
it has any weakness, it is that of being too lenient to its
enemies. I need scarcely add, that if any writer in Hol-
land were to give his pen the same liberty with respect to
the Government of William of Nassau, as this fanciful cor-
04pondent has done with respect to that of Leopold, he
would not be allowed to remain 9.4 hours in the kingdom,
or if he were, it is more than probable that his domicile
would he within one of its narrowest cachets. W.

THURSDAY, TWO O'CLOCK, P. M.

Nothing further has yet transpired with respect to the
summoning of the citadel. A paper of this morning (the
Memorial Bilge), which is generally the best informed as
to what is going on at Antwerp, speaks of a demand
made by Marshal Gerard on Chasse to respect the neutra-
lity of the city. _I think this is extremely improbable, for
sorel7 it would be premature to talk of exempting the
city from any share in the contest until an answer to the
summoae to surrender puts it oflicially out of all doubt
whether a contest is to take place or otherwise.
The summons to surrender, I should imagine, will pre-
cede all other communications. However, in this I may
be mistaken ; I therefore give the report of the Memorial
as I find it.
The accounts from the bead-quarters of the French
army, as well as from Boom, speak of the most active ex-
ertions being continued to get every thing ready, but the
trenches have not been cut, as was reported yesterday.
All the tents, &c. &c., necessary for an encampment of
15,000 men, have been got ready. If they have the same
sort of weather there that we have here, it will be most
uncomfortable for the soldiers, with most of whom
this is the first cnmpaign. We have had very heavy rain
tiers for the last two days, and there is little present ap-
pearance of improvement.
The greatest and hitherto insurmountable difficulties
present themselves in the attempte to form a new Admi-
nistration.
The first to whom the King sent to form a Ministry
was M. de Theux ; he did all he could, and failed. The
King then sent for M. Fallon, who up to this hour has
met with no better success; indeed, his chance of making
up an Administration, which could stand for a week, was
infinitely much less than that of De Theux. It was amus-
ing, I understand, to hear of the reception he met with
from some of those to whom he applied, and who had
been already applied to, and had refused M. de Theux.
Some openly laughed at the request as a chimera ; others
told him that if he did succeed in getting together a new
set of men to join him, be might, perhaps, count upon
the support of 18 in the Chamber in the first week, and
not on that of more than seven or eight in the second.
This objection to M. Fallon is not a personal one, but
he is not considered of weight and importance enough to
arrange a Ministry. Here then the matter rests at pre-
sent, and it is impossible to say what will be the result
whether we are to have a new set of men, or whether the
old will come back. If the former, where are they ? Who
Is to he Minister of Justice ? and who of the Interior ?
Is it such a man as M. de Brouckere for the one, and as
Dumortier for the other? You might as well talk of Sir
B. Vyvyan for First Lord of the Treasury, and George
Bankes, jun., as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Eng-
land, making allowance for their difference in politics, as
the two former are as ultra on the " Movement" side, as
the latter are on the Conservative. However, they would
he about equally as fit for those appointments respectively
in the estimation of all but themselves.
But supposing M. Fallon, or any other, could succeed
in filling up those appointments with men even mode-
rately qualified to fill them, where is he to find a Minister
of Foreign Affairs? I would venture to say, that in the
whole opposition, though there may be four or five vain
cr ambitious enough to take it, there are not two, I

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might say there is not one, typo is acquainted with its duties.
In this difficulty in which the King is placed, the bu-
siness of Government is nearly at a static] still.

I heard of a motion which, it is said; will be submitted
to the Chambers i❑ a day or two, if, i❑ the interim, a Mi-
nistry should not be formed, for an address to the King to
call back the men who have retired. This I have not
been able to trace to any authentic source, but it is not at
all improbable. W.

ANTWERP, THURSDAY, NOV. 29, THREE O'CLOCK,
AFTERNOON.

This morning has passed over in expectation; yet no-
thing is known by the public. Rumours of various kinds
are afloat ; among others that strange one of a negotiatio❑
being opened for 14 days' armistice, but on inquiry from
well-informed persons, I have been assured that the first
and only negotiation will be the summons to General
Chasse, and that it is certain that that summons will be
delivered on to-morrow, provided that some extraordinary
and unforeseen incident does not arise to prevent it. It
is expected to be given early.
Some military men who have studied the position of
the lunettes St. Laurent and Kiel, mention to me, that
although prevented by the sentries from approaching the
places near them, they have reason to think that the French
have traced two batteries in the prolongation of the faces
of the lunette St. Laurent, to keep down its fire, while they
push their sap up to the crest of the Glacis, and formltheir
breaching battery. They afterwards attack the op
demilune of the citadel. It is thought that the lunette
Kiel, near the river will be solely silenced by a ricochet fire.
The three tricoured flags are now flying near.
Those of the French and Dutch are alike, save that
the former has the streaks parallel to the staff,
while the latter is perpendicular to it. The French
have now 114 cannons, mortars, &c., ready to play
upon the citadel, whi!e the Dutch have, perhaps,
an equal number to rebist the attack. Very few hours
will elapse before the guns will be heard, and many a
Gallant heart will cease to throb, because William of
Nassau and the Dutch wish to perpetuate, even in the
10th century, the monopoly they obtained from the indo•
lent King of Spain, Philip IV., in the 17th.
The Belgian flag—tricoloured also—is flying still on the
beautiful spire of the cathedral ; but it is not yet known if
the Dutch desire of vengeance will not implicate the city,
and thereby produce the roar of 400 guns, from the
Dutch gun-boats, the Belgian fortress, the French bat-
teries, and the citadel. _

This is, therefore, an anxious period for thousands, and
Europe looks with eagerness to see if civilization and the
progress of the arts of rendering men happy are to suc-
ceed here over the efforts of prejudice and interest, to
hring back the old state of things.—Morniny Paper.

HOP DUTY.

AN ACCOUNT of the
GROWTH of the YE.

Districts, and the Old from
Districts. Duty.
Barnstaple .Z''') 7 10
Bedford 3l 12 6
Bristol 8 1 10
Cambridge 0 15 0
Canterbury 48,689 IS 2
Chester 0 9 8
Cornwall 7 2 9
Derby
Dorset lOB 5 11
Essex 867 15 10
Exeter 29 17 4
Gloucester 2 14
Grantham
Hants
Hereford 11,767 11 2
Isle of Wight 5 3 6
Lincoln
Lynn 8 17 6
Old duty 112-20 d. per 1b.....
New -,-,, 8-2,:d

DUTY on HOPS of the
R 1832, distinguishing the
n the New Duty.
Districts. Duty.
Northampton
Oxford ll 7 10
Plymouth l4 1 8
Reading 9 6 10
Rochester 75,861 10 10
Sarum 4,386 10 4
Salop
Stourbridge
Suffolk 494 12 6
Surrey
Sussex 66,406 13 8
Uxbridge
Wales, Middle 54 19 8
Wellington
Worcester 3,513 14 8

Total £•41,770 16 2

Total
W. C(
Excise-office, London, Nov. 31

J:139,018 4 34 4-20
102,752 11 10-4-1E,20

£241,770 16 2
YrTHELL, First Gen. Acct,

THE PRESS THROUGHOUT the WORLD.

(From the New Monthly Magazine.)

. - -
" The following table is sent to us by a gentleman, as
translated from the " Annales des Travaux" of the Paris
Statistical Society, made up from information de-
, ived by M. Baibi, the well-known geographer. We sub-
jlin it as a very curious memorandum, though we cannot
vouch for its accuracy :-
Names of the Parts and Number of
Population. Periodical
States of the World. Journals,
EUROPE 29.7,700,000 2,142
France '32,000,000 490
Paris 690,000 175
Lyons
Marseilles
British Islands
London 1,275,000 97
Dublin
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Manchester 134,000 12
Birmingham
Liverpool 119,000 9
Swiss Confederation 1,980,000 30
Geneva 25,000 4
Austria......
Vienna
Milan 151,000 9
Prussia
Netherlands
Amsterdam 201,000 35
Brussels 100,000 33
Antwerp
Germanic Confederation 13,600,000 305
Sweden and Norway 3,866,000 82
Denmark
Copenhagen 109,000 6
Spain 13,900,000 12
Madrid
Port uga 1
Lisbon
Sardinia 4,300,000 8
Turin 114,000 3
Two Sicilies 4,600,000 51
Naples
Papal Territories
Rome 154,000 3
Russia and Poland 56,515,000 84
Petersburgh 320,000 29
Warsaw
Moscow 250,000 17
Greece
Napoli
AMERICA 99,30.,,000 978
United States
New York 169,000 30
Columbia
Santa F 6
Mexican Confed.
Mexico lBO,llOO 7
Brazil
Rio Janeiro 140,000 3
English America
Spanish America
Dutch America 114,000 2
French America 240,000 3
llayti 950,000 5
Aslx '390,080,000 27
Calcutta
Surat 450,000 1
Pekin 1,300,000 1
OCEANIA
Batavia 46,000 2
Van Diemen's Land 2,000 1
Otaheite
Apßicx 60,000,000 12
Cairo .
SUMMARY.

_.......____.
Europe "27,700,000 2,142
America 1,),300,000 978
Asia 390,000,000 27
Africa
Oceania 20,000,000 9

Total for the whole Globe 737,000,000 3,168

" Upon these computations, the Journal of the Paris
Statistical Society thus remarks The proportion to
which the number of journals in each quarter of the world
bears to its population is as follows :—ln Asia there is
one piper for every 14,000,000 ; in Africa, one for every
5,000,000 ; in Europe, one for every 106,000 ; in
America, one for every 40,000 ; and precisely in the same
ratio is the comparative progi ess of civilization in these dif-
ferent divisions of the earth.'
" The last number of the general catalogue printed
every aercestre at Leipsic contains 2,157 new books, the
foregoing number has but 310 less—so that, in the
course of one year, 4,004 German works have been pub-
lished ! a number which surpasses by far that of the yearly
pub ications of England and France taken together."

The solicitations of the Marquis PALMELLA
for the mediation of this count.iy in the quarrel between
the brothers of Portugal continue, we understand, to re-
ceive at the hands of Lord PALMERSTON all the attention
and favour which so just a cause and such able advocacy
fully merit. From what has transpired, the friends of
Portugal are already full of hopes that the recognition of
Donna MARIA is now not very distant ; and humanity
throughout the world must be interested in seeing an end
put to a struggle which otherwise threatens to prolong a
desolating existence, and the ultimate issue of which the
uncertainty of war necessarily renders doubtful. So ripe
are the negotiations, that the Marquis has ordered the
packet which was to have sailed to-day to be delayed for
a ciay or two longer, in tke hope of being able to trans-
mit to Don PEoRo the cheering assurance of their suc-
cessful termination.

it has been ascertained that of the accidents
carried to the public hospitals within th! last three months,
seven out of ten have been occasioned by the furious or
careless driving of.public vehicles in the streets.

A correspondent informs us that Government
has purchased the site of the late lamentable accident in
York •street, Westminster, on which they intend to make
a commodious entrance from York-street to the new bar_
iacks now erecting in the Birdcage-walk,

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MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

The physician still continues his elaborate
" Diaries?' The subject of the present tale is
" Magdalen," and turns on the very bacneyed cir-
cumstance of a young girl, innocent, beautiful,
and all that, being seduced by an equally beau-
tiful, but far less inoffensive officer in the army.
Yet, though the topic be thus hacknneyed, it is
but just to say that it is handled in so masterly
a way as almost to give it an air of originality.
The scenes in the low brothel near the Strand
are worthy of Richardson, and remind us forcibly
of that terrific description in " Clarissa Harlowe,"
where the old procuress of Soho-square, with a
bevy of her attendant nymphs are brought out on
the canvass in colours that shall never fade. But
the " Physician" has one besetting defect. He
is too monotonous. His very exaggerations, too
(or, perhaps, to speak with more courtesy, his
impassioned scenes), have a mechanical air about
them. He deli erately heaps up horror upon
horror, as a ploughman piles up a hay-stack. He
tells by quantity, not by quality ; by the sum
total rather than by the detail of misery. It was
not thus that Fielding or Scott secured immor-
tality. Some of their briefest characters are
their very best, witness the Tony Fire the Fag-
got, and the old peevish ex-Abbot of the one,
who could weep tears of blood for Queen
Mary, but that (we quote from memory) " it is
a fine fresh morning, and the colewort grows
finely, so I must to my garden ;" and the
landladies, puppet-showmen, and small lawyers
of the other. Mr. Warren is, throughout his
otherwise clever tales, too fond of effect. He
strives to astonish, not to affect. Had he less
ambition, he would write a thousand times better.
" Tom Cringle's Log" is capital, and contains
one rich scene of humour, where a man is stung
at night by a scorpion on the nose, and his ship's
crew provide a rough poultice, which brings out
the natural rubicundity of his countenance in a
very promising style. The incident however is
detailed in rather too broad a style. It is
pushed to the very verge of extravagance. For
instance :

" Cuidado, said Do❑ Ricardo, let me manage ; and he
got a small tube of wild cane, which he stuck into Bang's
(the sufferer) mouth, through a hole in the poultice cloth,
and set a negro servant to watch that it did not sink into
his gullet, as he fell asleep, and with instructions to take
the poultice off whenever the pain abated ; and there he
lay o❑ his back whistling through this artificial beak like
a sick snipe."

" The French Revolution of 1830," is pros-
ing and truculent, with scarce an atom of
novelty in the way of argument. " The Ca Bars"
contains some masterly details of the sufferings
that the Emperor of the world, Augustus,
underwi•ent daily in his domestic capacity as
father and husband. " The Farewell to Earth,"
by Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, is very
graceful and feminine and full fraught with
feeling. We are glad to find that some of our
high-born dames can afford to think of better
things than Almacks. " The Natolian Story
Teller" displays considerable energy of descrip-
tion. " The Burial of the Mighty" is an
elegant tribute by Mrs. Hemans to the memory
of Sir Walter Scott, in which occurs this fine
expressive line—

" With all the imploring beauty of decay."

The word " imploring" possesses far more
character than the generality of Mrs. Hemans'
epithets, which are more remarkable for their
richness and exuberance than their distinctness
or propriety.