The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-25 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

The Belgium 31oniteur publishes the following
manifesto of the new Ministry, in the shape of a
circular from the Minister of the Interior, ad-
dressed to the governors of provinces :
"BruPsels Nov. 23.

"Monsieur le Gouverneur—You have learn .d by the
official journal of the royal decree pronouncing the dis
solution of the Chamber of Representatives, and con-
voking the electors for the 20. h of Dec. next. I enter-
tain no doubt that you have taken the necessary steps
for having all the preparatory measures prescribed by
law regularly carried out.

" Die motives which hays decided his Majefty,
in this circumstance, to make use of his constitu.
tional prerogative are explained by the facts them.
selves. Tue cabinet to which we succeed found
it necessary to resign, in spite of the numerical
majority which supported it in the chamber ; and
still less could a new ministry, issuing from the
ranks of the oppotlition, expect in its course of govern-

went a support from that assembly. The cabinet, there-
fore, which withdrew had pointed out to its successors the
only course that it ought to pursue ; since the retirement
of that ministry would be inexplicable, if it did not mean
that, even in its opinion, the parliamentary majority was
no longer in conformity with views of the majority of the
electors. Such is also our own conviction ; and the
appeal to the electoral body was consequently indispens-
able to establish that accord, without which the repre-
sentative government would lose all its force and all its
Verity.

In th!s country, where the duration of the parliamen.
tart' mandate is very limited, extraordinary meetings
of the electoral body have never taken place uni, es in
cases of imperious necessity. At the present time circum-
stanceshave commtnded an appeal to theelectors. This act
moreover, is only the exercise of a right reserved to
the crown, at the same time that it is a homage paid to
public opinion.

" Th© convocation of the electors at this particuli r
season has teen called inopportune. But the Cabinet
could only take the situation such as their predecessors
had made it, and as they transmitted it on the eve of
the meeting of the Chambers. The period of the di,.
bolution has not therefore been of our choice. Howe\ er
that may be, the electors, we doubt not, will fulfil the r
mission with the decision and zsal of men who know a 1
the value of their rights, and who, from an experience
of 27 years, are skilled in the practices of the represei .
tative government. Their:patiiotism will acquire fre• h
energy from circumstances, and their intelligence wi 1
readily comprehenl the importance of the great discus-
sion which has commenced.

" This discussion is not new in the history of the na-
tions, nor peculiar to Belgium ; the presentation and the
discussion of the Charitable Institutions Bill have shown
with us the character and bearing of it in a more striking
manner than ever.

" The policy which the Cabinet represents is well
known to the country, which has seen it at work under
circumstances cf great difficulty bath as regards domestic
and foreign affairs. Taking it in a general point of view,
it is a thoroughly national policy, one of conservatism
and of order ; and which pursues progress with persever-
ance and constancy. It is a policy which is attentive to
the moral and material wants of the people ; leaving to
the initiative its tree impulse, and which strengthens all
elements of 1 11b110 prospt sit 7. This policy has its mission
to preserve one of the constitutional oases of governments
and modern society—theintegrity of the rights of the State
and the independence of the civil power. This is now
one of the first duties of the Government, and rendered
still more pressing by the recant discussions which have
so warmly excited the country.
" The system which it adopts Exposes, we know, the
Cabinet to accusations, which its adversaries brought
forward with unexampled violence almost before it was
formed. They falsely represent that religion is in peril.
But it is their policy and not ours that paces it in dan-
ger. The separation between public worship and the
State is one of the bases of our sage constitution, and
this basis ought to be maintained. Religion has already
been too much compromised by the contact of passions,
and for the advantage of personal ambition. It is not
adapted for being mixed up in the conflicts of parties;
and it is time for it to be restored to its pacific domain,
in order to obtain the respect of all.
" It now belongs to the electoral body to decide if the
ideas which the cabinet entertains respond to the wishes
and wants of the country. The more the support of the
electors may be general and manifest, the more effica-
ciously can the cabinet fulfil its task ; and the more also
will the Government be guaranteed against the crises
which embarrass its march and enervate its action, to
the detriment of security and public prosperity. Endea•
your, M. le Gouverneur, in your relations with the
people, to enlighten them as to our intentions, and to
correct the false appreciations of which those intentions
may be the object. Repel, in particular, tee al egatione
of those weo, after having caused the existing situation
and by their exaggerated exieencies and their imptu-
dent acts plunged the country into perturbation,
endeavour to calumniate our origin, our object, anti
the country itself. Our origin is perfectly regular and
constitu' local. The present Cabinet emanates from the
royal prerogative acting in full liberty. Our object is to
reassure the public conscience and interest against the
intolerant doctrines and pretensions of another age,
which were lately condemned in the tribune by the
chief of the preceding Cabinet himself. As to the
country, which is perfidiously represented as a prey to
disorder, to riots, and to revolutionary agitation, arid
on which our adversaries have not fea•ed to call down
the distrust and the animadversion of foreign govern-
ments, it will know how, by its sate and patriotic atti-
tude, by its firm nee and prudence, t.) confound its
detractors, to respond becomingly to the appeal of its
King, and to gain new titles to the esteem of Earopl
" CH. ROGIER."

TURKEY.
A Constantinople letter of Nov. 12, in the Gazette
du lllidi, says :—" The Sultan, on the late change
of miniatry, caused M. Thouvenel to be assured
that foreign politics had nothing whatever to do
with his determination to recal Reschid Pacha to
power, but that ho had taken the step solely for
reasons connected with the internal government of
the country ; the services of that statesman being,
in his majesty's opinion, indispensable for the set-
tlement of certain pending questions. M. Thouvenel
replied to the Sultan's messenger that his M-Ljesty
was perfectly free to choose his ministers, and
owed no account of his conduct to any one ; that
consequently, he could only consider the sep
which his Majesty had condescended to take in
communicating with him as an act of courtesy
that he was deeply sensible of this mark of attention
to France, but that he should have felt still more
flattered if the information afforded had been given
before the nomination of Reschicl Pacha ; thitt for
the rest he should reserve his judgment on the
conduct of the latter until he saw his acts. Such,
if I am well informed, is the substance of the an-
swer given by M 1 Thouvenel to Emin Bey when
sent to him, but the conversation between them
was so long that the latter, not being able to trust
to his memory to report the purport of it to the
Sultan with precision, begged M. Thouvenel to re-
peat in writing what he had said, which he did.
Meanwhile the French ambassador has not yet
either called upon Reschid Pacha, or sent to him
those congratulations on his appointment which it
is usual to send thrott.,h the medium of the first
interpreter."