The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 7.—We were mistaken in stating
yesterday, after another journal, that the gene•ral census
)f. the population of the kingdom is to be taken towards
he end of next month, and that instructions had been

given for that purpose. The fact is that a sum of !none)
from the next budget of the Minister of the Interior
has been asked for to prepare this important operation,
the time for which js not yet fixed.

The Russian Government has published in the
Northern Bee the account of the produce of the mines
in the Ural mountains in the first six months of 1344.
The mines of the crown yielded 68 poods 291bs. of gold,
and those belonging to private individuals 164 poods
ISlbs., in all 233 poods 21bs. (the pood is 401bs. Russian
• ^lbs. Ernoigh,) Of Platina the mines of private per-
-3u • med /5 pool)s slbs., those of the crown only 31bs.
sons —ecoutiptie4 to-day the debate on the pro-
The Champ.. the salaries of the judges.
jest of law for increas..
sented a nrojegt of law for
The Minister of Finance p„ f
c • uue, 1841, labia
the prorogation of the law of the Ist V. —'cations re-
authorises the Government to modify the ref;_
specting importations fur transit direct or transit thru...,
the entrepot.
The King is exp-cted to return from Ardenne on
Saturday.
BRUSSELS, Nov. B.—A general debate on the project
of law relative to the increase of the salaries of the
judges was closed to day,
The increase asked for the First President and the
Attorney-General of the Court of Cessation was rejected,
as well as that proposed for the Advocates-General in
ihat Court ; this last increase was rejected only by the
votes being equally divided, (35 for, 35 against, and one
declining to vote).
Some provincial journals have given assertion to re-
ports to the most unfavourable prejudices against the
attempt of the Belgian Society's Colony at Santa
Thomas. It is to be desired that the facts should be
cleared up, and the matter conscientiously investigated
by men worthy of confidence for their knowledge and
impartiality. We are assured that the Government has
just decided on a regular investigation, in which those
persons who have returned from St. Thomas from dis-
gust and fur other reasons shall be ekamined ; the direc-
tors and persons employed by the company will likewise
be interrrogated. The Frankfort journal says, " Mr.
Bicks of Maintz, well known for an invention, which
consists in cultivating all kinds of land without manure,
and obtaining from sundry soils a larger produce than
the best lands now afford, lately arrived from Belgium.
lie affirms that at Brussels he was perfectly well re-
ceived by the Court, by the Minister, and in general in
Belgium by competent judges, and found the greatest
readiness to support his plan for a subscription. He in-
tends to go to England and France, where he hoped to
have more effectual support than he has yet met with in
Germany."
We learn that Mr. Bicks has just set out for Paris
wit) Baron Lapeyrouse, to make a beginning, and enter
into some arrangements with the present capitalists.

It is stated that Earl de Grey has purchased the
Duke of Devonshire's Burton Moor estate, near Ripon.
The Earl of Ellenborough arrived at his seat at
Southam, on Tuesday, being his first visit to Glouces-
tershire since his return from India. On the following
day his Lordship attended the Winchcomb Music
Meeting, returned to Southam to dinner; and on Thurs-
day, accompanied by his brother, the Hon. H. Law, paid
several visits to some of his Lordship's old friends at
Cheltenham. His Lordship remains at Southam until
Monday, when, according to present arrangements, he
returns to London ; and will not, probably, revisit our
neighbourhood until about the middle of next month.—
Cheltenham Looher-on.

The registrdstaistics of Lancashire, as detailed
by Mr. Cobden, and stated in our last, indicate that the
time is not remote when that county will practically
assert at the hustings the principle of unrestricted com-
merce and free-trade. Twenty-one constituencies out
of twenty-five, instead of twelve against thirteen, is a
fearful look out for the protectionists ; and if the Coun-
cil of the League are not greatly mistaken in their
figures, it is high time for the monopolists and their
Prime Aliniater to be on the slut—as there must either
be a change of measures or a change of men. Sir Ro-
bert Peel, though an excellent tactitian, cannot perform I
impossibilities ; and the Lancashire anti-free-traders
must either give way to men who will r« ally represent
the interests of their great emroria of trade, or extend
the maxims of their narrow policy, to as to suit the in-
creasing intelligence and the dilating energies of the age.
If the perseverance of the League, in opening the eyes
of their fellow-countrymen to the evils of a restrictive
policy, be pregnant with results of this importance when
a good trade, and two good harvests, have replenished
the national coffers, what will not renewed exertion
effect, if a succession of diminished crop:, and a decrease I
of our India trade, should force the perils and evils of a
restrictive policy upon the minds, we had almost said the
roi s
stomachs', of all classes. 'We feel assured, to use the
words of
fa
tradeL ond London Cll noon t ,i(i)nnp;rra easy,
swell
anti-commercial
t h e grea t
porvdn c
lobbies, and give the plausible sanction of its approval
to anti-commercial measures. The time is at hand when
Lancashire will be ashamed of its share in the sliding-
scale, and Liverpool—aye, Liverpool itself, unless Bir-
kenhead is destined to be the real Venice•of the west—
will emancipate itself from the fetters of monopoly, and
become alive at length to the magnitude of the blunders
which it sanctions.—Carnarvon