The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-05 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1832.

The Russian ratification has been at length
officially, though tardily, completed in all its
important bearings—the full recognition of the
King of BELGIUM, who is now acknowledged
as much an independent Sovereign as his Ma-
jesty of HOLLAND. What steps the Dutch
KING may take in consequence of this final
ratification, we know not; but if he is mad
enough to think that he can accomplish by his
own arms, what his Royal relatives of Prussia
and Russia have deelined,she will find himself
egregiously mistaken. France will not brook,
nor England tolerate the irruption of the Dutch
army into Belgium. Peace is the best course
which the Dutch King can now pursue.

The following extracts from Brazilian Papers
received this morning, will be read with inte-
rest, as showing that the Brazilian Government
is beginning a Reform in the right quarter—the
education of the people—thereby laying a foun-
dation for the formation of an intelligent public
—the surest guarantee for national liberty and
independence :

(From the Diario do Govorno.)
Rio DE JANEIRO, FEB. 18.—The General Consul of
the province of Minas Geraes, considering the advantages
that might arise from the employment of more decided
means for the civilization of the Indians, rho at present
form an heterogeneous class, burdensome to society,
I.vhereas they might be made useful members—
Art. I.—There shall be in the province of Minas Ge-
raes a school for the instruction of the Indian youths, and
in the place which the President of the Council shall judge
to be the most eligible ; the building selected for the pur-
pose to be properly divided to accommodate the chidren of
both sexes.

2.—ln this school shall be taught the dogmas of the
Christian religion, the principles of civil and moral edu-
cation—reading,, arithmetic, and Brazilian grammar. The
children to be admitted from the age of five to twelve
years.
The remaining articles contain various regulations.
The Council General of Minas Geraes has also adopted
resolutions for the encouragement of foreign colonists to
settle in this province.
FEL 21,
.The Regency has sanctioned and ordered to
be carried into execution, a decree of the Legislative Assem-
bly, by which the regulation of the decree of June 25,
1831, creating several Professorships in the province of
Ceara, is extended to all the provinces of the empire.
FEB. 23.:—A despatch from the Minister of Finance
to the President of Minas Geraes, orders that from

1, the levying of all duties on the exportation and
importation of goods from one province to another, shall
cessa according to article 51 of the law of October 4 last
year, and all Custom Houses on the frontier towns which
have no other destination, shall be abolished. A circu-
hr with the same orders has been sent to the Presidents
of Goyaz, Matto Grosso, St. Paulo, St. Catharine, Rio
Grande do Sal, Espirito Santo, Bahia, Pernambuco,
Alagoas, Rio Grande do Norte, Parahiba, Pianby, Ceara,
Sergipe, Para, and Maranhao.
In the sitting of the General Council of Minas Geraes,
of Feb. 9, M. J. Pedro de Carvalho read the following
proposal :
" That the General Council, the legitimate organ of
the sentiments of the province which it represents, pro-
tests to the Regency in the most solemn and explicit
manner, that the province will never consent to the
slightest attack on the Constitution that has been sworn to,
nor even to trifling alterations, except by the means pre-
sented by the Constitution; that it will never recognise
any government organised by any means foreign to the
Constitution, frankly declaring that in that desperate case
the province will assume the attitude which becomes it in
the national representation, of which it comprises at least a
fifth part, and will adopt those measures which it shall
judge necessary to preserve its tranquillity and union, duly
providing for its interests and external relations according
to its geographical position.
That the President in Council be recommended to take
measures of prevention within the limits of the existing laws,
and that in the disastrous case of the subversion of the esta-
blished order, and the intrusion of any illegal Government
into the capital of the empire, we shall convoke the repre-
sentatives of the Province, to take in common such
measures as may be necessary for public and private safety,
and for the preservation of property, employing in the
meantime the public confidence which his character, zeal,
and talents, have justly acquired him among his fellow-
citizens.
Council General, Feb. 9, 1832.

The authors of the proposal were requested to withdraw,
and draw up letters to the Ministry and to the President
of the Province. They retired accordingly, and returned
with the following outline of a letter :
" The General Council of the province of Minas Gerais,
foreseeing the calamities that must result from the projects
which the anarchists and discontented, with the most
scandalous publicity, are contriving for their criminal pur-
poses with the subversion of order, and being convinced by
experience that the confisgration is imminent when a fac-
tion strives to destroy the law and overthrow the legal
Government, substituting another of its own, which
must necessarily share the same fate, always to the ruin of
the State, has resolved in its sitting of this day to state
to your Excellency, that you may communicate the same
to the Regency in the name of the Emperor, that the Ge-
neral Council, the legitimate organ, &c., in the words of
the above motion.

" To his Excellency Sir F. Lino Coutino, Secre-
tary of State for the Affairs of the Empire."
This letter was unanimously approved by the Members
present.
. .

FEB. 27.—A decree of the Regency, orders an entirely
new organization of the Academy of Belles Lettres, which
has hitherto been little more than a nullity.

The Nos. of the Diario, to March 3, contain nume-
rous official articles relative to the internal affairs of the
empire.

\Are arc happy to perceive by the returns this
day, that the cholera is nearly extinct in the me-
tropolis and its suburbs. There are only two
new cases in the returns, and no deaths. This
is extremely consolatory, when we reflect on the
dreadful mortality in Paris, which swept away
whole families in about four-and-twenty hours—
spreading consternation and death throughout the
capital, which might with melancholy propriety be
termed the City of the Plague. Confidence has
now happily been reestablished in London Vier
the visitation of the cholera—but had the pesti-
lence broken out in Paris before it appeared in
London, how dreadful would have been the
public apprehension of the horrible visitant
—approaching with slow but sure forebod-
ings of general calamity. Much as trade and
commercial activity have suffered in conse-
quence of the appearance of the cholera among
us in its modified character, the energies of
the country have not suffered in a hundredth
part what they would, had the plague first mani-
fested itself in the fearful—the desolating man-
ner it has in Paris.

The various Reform Meetings that have taken
place throughout the country, within the week,
and more especially in Scotland, will, we take for
granted, have a most salutary effect on the Ultras
and the Waverers. The Bill goes into Com-
mittee—positively, as play-bills say of a last
performance, but with more truth, we hope—on
Monday next ; on Monday next, too, the Bir-
mingham Political Union hold their grand meet-
ing ; and it is to this most important meeting, in
conjunction with the other provincial ones, that
all the more valuable portions of the Bill, the ten
pound franchise in particular, will owe their sal-
vation. We say salvation, because, notwithstand-
ing the late dubious observations of Earl GREY,
we cannot bring ourselves to believe that he
means to act otherwise than with the strictest
integrity towards the people. His Lordship
well knows that he has been raised to his present
lofty elevation solely by the people ; that they,
and not a party, have kept him there in spite of
all the machiavellian intrigues of the Tories,
and will not be slow to evince his gratitude and
devotion, to what after all is, at least, as much
his own interest as tildes. Apart from the
people, Lord GREY, though an Aristocrat, is a
mere cipher ; connected with them, and identi-
fied with their interests, he commands the re-
spect of all Europe. The very cause of
which he has put himself at the head, is
the cause of universal humanity,—that great and
holy cause which is rapidly working its way, amid
storm and tempest it is true, but still with posi-
tive success, in France, Austria, Prussia, and
even Russia. By his advocacy of the Reform
Bill Lord GREY holds a prouder and more en-
viable position than any man now alive. He it
is, who if Poland is to be freed, if Italy is to
have justice (nothing more) done it, will be the
main agent in doing so. Is it to be supposed
then that he will voluntarily descend from his
proud pedestal ; that he will shrink from the
glorious opportunity of being the benefactor of
his race ? Never. The bare supposition im-
plies a degree of baseness to which the head
and heart of Earl GREY have ever been and
ever must be, perfect strangers.

Reverting to the more pressing domestic topic
of the Reform Bill, we may observe that the
document respecting public property, as pub-
lished a day or two since in The Sun, com-
pletely disproves the lies so industriously circu-
lated by the Ultras, from the period of the first
mooting of the Reform question, that the Bill
would give preponderating influence to those who
possessed no property, to the detriment of those
who did possess it. This falsehood Was made
to have special reference to the House of Lords,
which, it was insinuated, by the passing of the
Ministerial measure, would be despoiled of all
that legitimate influence which arises from the
possession of property. Now the document in

question unanswerably proves that the property
possessed by the whole united aristocracy, is
a mere feather in the scale when weighed
against the property possessed by those to whom
the ten-pound franchise will give a share in the
Constitution. The former is actually not a
fiftieth part of the amount possessed by the
latter. Such being the acknowledged fact, we
wonder to what new calumnies the Ultras will now
have recourse. Their ingenuity, great as it un-
doubtedly is, must be sorely puzzled, as will,
doubtless, be abundantly evinced in the approach-
ing discussion on the Reform Bill.

The Anti-Reformers seem a little at sea with
respect to their future proceedings. It is said
that some of the more violent contemplate with-
holding their opposition to the Bill in the Com-
mittee, in the hope of throwing it out on the
third reading. If the amendments of the waverers
are carried, they say, the Bill will be sure to
pass—their object is to throw it out altogether.
When it comes to the third reading, they say it
will be too late to create Peers.

New York papers to the 7th April have
been received, but they contain no news: but
private letters from Washington encourage the
hope of a speedy and satisfactory adjustment
of the Tariff question. It is now expected
that a duty of twenty-five centimes ad valorem
will be put upon English articles manufac-
tured in the United States ;—an abolition of
duties upon all others except silks and wines,
and a moderate duty upon them, is middle ground
upon which all parties will he disposed to meet.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S

DEAL, MAY 4.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrived the
Prince Regent, Mallard, from New South Wales—sailed 9th
January—spoke the Southworth transport, from London to New
South Wales, 2:kl March, lat. 48, long. 27, W. ; Hebe from
Singapore; James Daly, M'Kenzie, and Medra, Coward, from
Jamaica; Robert, Fuge, Trio, 11PLochlan, and Violet, He-
nart, from Lisbon. Arrived from the river and sailed the
Clyde, for New South Wales; and Lord Lowther, Fowler, for
China.

PORTSMOUTH, Mal' 4.—Wind light and variable.—Ar-
rived the Mitchell, Biass, from Charente. ow port, the Royal
George, Embleton, from Mauritius—sailed Zth Jan., from
the Cape 4th March, and from St. Helena 16th.

FALMOUTH, MAN 3.—Wind S. S. W. to W., heavy gales
and squally,—Arrived the Zephyr packet from Brazil—sailed
from Rio Janeiro 3d March ; Helen, Caldwell, from Gonaives;
and Deborah, Stark, from Tarragona. Off port, the Stirling
Castle, from New South Wales—sailed 15th Jan.

DOVER, MAT 4.—Arrived the Jane Ingram, Ball, from
Lisbon.

BARNSTABLE, MAY a-Arrived the Arid, Blundell,
from Lisbon.

BRISTOL, MAY 4.—Arrived the Earl Liverpool, Pines,
from Nevis.

LIVERPOOL, MAY a—Arrived the Silas Richards, Hol.
dridge, from New York ; Duc d'Orleans, from Savannah ;
and James, Cook, from Faro. Off port, the Higginson, from
Barbados; Ann, Paley, from Lisbon.

The Eliza, Brown, of Liverpool, for Havannah, foundered
at sea 24th Feb.
Arrived off St. Helena, the Gambier, from Mauritius.
Arrived at New York, the Caledonia, Graham, and George
IV., Hellyer , from Liverpool.
Arrived at Philadelphia, the Colossus, Coffin, and Carlow
packet, Panhallow, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Boston, the Harvest, Bradford, and Liverpool,
Barstow, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Baltimore, the Waller, Mouatt.
Arrived at Castine, the Antioch, Whitney.
Arrived at Havannah, the Lord Normandy.
The Meridian, Curtis, from Charleston to Trieste, was lost
at Cape Hatteras 22d March.