The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-28 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1829,

Despatches were received at the Foreign
Office this morning from Lord STUART DE
ROTHSAY, our Ambassador at Paris, and also
from Sir CHARLES BAGOT at Brussels.

Dutch Papers of the 26th, and St. Peter-
burg of the 12th December, have been received.
The States General have adopted the project of
law for providing pro tern, for the public expen-
diture. We hope the KING will learn by this
manifestation of national feeling what he has to
expect from pursuing his crusade against the
liberty of the Press :

THE HAGUE.
Second Chamber of the States General,: Sitting
of the 23d December, 101 Members present—Nu-
merous petitions were presented containing objec-
tions against the Project of Law relative to the
duties of Excise on Beer, Spirits, Wine, and Sugar,
some relative to what are called the grievances, and
also some counter petitions.
The Order of the Day was the debate on the
Project of Law for providing, pro tempore, ways
and means for meeting the expenditure (already
voted) of the annual and decennial Budgets. Most
of the Members who delivered their opinion thought
that the proposed plan was better than that which
the Chamber had rejected; and that besides, as the
Chambers had adopted that part of the two Budgets
which fixes the expenditure, it was a matter of
course that it should approve of the ways and means,
and as the proposed law was to be considered only
as a temporary measure, there would be no valid
reason for rejecting it. M. Douker Custins said—
" There is now no time to make alterations ; we
must not debate but resolve, as the proposed laws
are to be in force for the space of one year only
I have no difficulty in assenting to them. Ido
homage to the moderation and wisdom of the King,
and to the zeal and judgment of the Officer of State
who has counselled the sovereign to adopt this mea-
sure. We have all one and the same object in
view; we all desire the prosperity of our dear
country. Let us then be unanimous; let us under-
stand each other, and constantly bear in mind that
there is no happiness for the Netherlands, but under
the sceptre of the House of Orange.",
The question being put, the two laws were
passed by 100 votes to one, the single exception
being M. de Stassart.

The Chamber then proceeded to discuss the pro-
ject of law relative to the proportion in which the
sum voted for the land-tax is to be paid by the
several provinces. This law, after a short debate,
was carried by a majority of 85 to 17.

ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 12.

The number of ships that have arrived in the
port of Cronstadt during the present year was 1.509,
and of them that sailed 1492. In 1828 the numbers
were 126.5 arrivals, and 1291 departures ; so that
we have this year 244 arrivals and 201 departures
more.

TIFLI3, NOV. 20.

Last Sunday, the 15th, the Metropolitan, accom-
panied by all his clergy, went in procession to the
square before the hotel of the Governor-General,
where Te Deuni was performed in the middle of a
square, formed by troops that have returned from
the campaign against the Turks. The Governor,
lnd the civil and military officers now at Tiflis, were
present. The Field-Marshal afterwards gave a
grand entertainment, to which the Seraskier of Er-
term= and the Turkish Pachas now here were in-
vited. These distinguished persons will leave us in
a few days to return to their homes.

The following from our Paris Correspondent,
on the projected internal improvements in France,
will be read with interest and advantage for the
just views taken of the subject :

" PARIS, DEC. 23.

" It is said that when Napoleon first saw the
town of Rouen, and the splendid picture pre-
sented by the banks of the Seine from the
neighbouring heights, he regretted that the
capital of France had not been placed there. It
may be supposed that it was not merely from
its picturesque attractions, but rather from its
supposed superiority as a place of maritime trade,
that this extraordinary man expressed a prefer-
ence of Rouen to Paris, as the site of his me-
tropolis. It may be doubted, however, whether
Rouen could have realized the idea ascribed to

him, even with all the means and appliances of
his almost unlimited power. Its situation, I
believe, would not admit of its becoming the
centre of any great system of internal navigation,
an advantage which is undoubtedly possessed by
Paris in an eminent degree, and the realization
of which, as I suggested in some of my former
letters, is at present the great object of ambition
among many of the leading capitalists in France.

" What I have said of Rouen, with reference
to its natural unfitness to become a great mer-
cantile depot, is also applicable to Havre, al-
though in regard to external commerce it is at
this moment the first port in France, receiving
as it does the greatest quantity of sugar, cotton,
coffee, and foreign and colonial produce iu gene-