Star. — London, England, 1831-08-06 00:00:00

ap- If a t de der one ind of 1 of ere. ong 1 tho ly a War onal t OD &tad A of itre. 300 ting cir *del (wily Go y of ;543 s as that 1 of la the his votes (the highest 146) were se t: i t: t n a tteed on the ballot for the choice of the two other Heenan. FSLIZ REAL and BORIC! D'Asruaas haying ob. tained a majority, were declared Secretaries. The constitution of the Chamber being now complete, the PatSIDENT, after some formal preliminary observations, „id—l invite M. Girod (de PAW) to take the chair, and the secretaries who have just been named to take their places et the bureau. GIROD (de PAln) took the chair, and embraced the .eatporary President. The Secretaries having taken their places, and the Pres'. Jett xcated himself in the chair, profound silence ensued. The president—My dear colleagues, I cannot express to coat as I feel It my profound gratitude for the honour to which I h.:d cot the presumption to pretend. Too destitute ,f the eminent qualities which ought to distinguish your hesiclot% I will at least offer you the assurance of a sincere tut' f a ntinpartiality—an unalterable determination to fulfil, to the be of my ability. the duties imposed on me. But It W freln you, especially, my dear collague•. that I must T pect the support I have so much need of. Deeply sensible of That thz high mission that France basconfided to you requires ,ou wiiliprepare with me toaccomplish them, strictly °beery. i n! : your reglement, that law which you have made for your c-ites, and which will direct all your acts. You will main. , air in your deliberations the order, dignity, and composure which will render them more impressive and more effica. eines. Permit me to hope also that you will continue to me a kindness which I shall alwa s endeavour to merit. The Pennant then pro thanks to the temporary president and Secretaries, which was unanimously assented to. The order of the day was the ballot for the choice of Questors. M. TAILLANDIIII said—Gentlemen, the first duty of the Chamber at this moment is to appoint the Committee for drawing up the Address. (Several voices, "This is not the order of the day.") I see no other means to enlighten the Government respecting the political system which the majority of this Chamber desires to see adopted. The disso lution or the bare modification of the Cabinet renders the nomination of a new Cabinet indispensable. (Nume. rous voices, " The Order of the Day ;" on the left, " hear." It must be composed of men who PM go on with us. Pro visional Ministers would be a deplorable thing, and inju. goo, to the interests of the country—(New interruption.)— France, besides, expects with much anxiety the attitude shies the Chamber is going to &mune in the serious cir cumstances in which we are placed. The Address I take pleasure in supposing will not turn upon a ceremonious phraseology. (Lively expressions of disapprobation.) The Address, Gen lemon, will announce, and clearly and pre cisely, to France and to Europe, what are the political inten. tions with which we are animated. I think there is no time to be lost, and that it is absolutely necessary to depart, ;for this time at least, from the ordinary track_bequeathed to as by our predecessors. M. ROUILLST de FOXVAIMa showed that the course pro posed was contrary to the reglemcnt, and could not be adopted. M. TAILLANDIEI theta propos ed that:the appointment of the Committee should be put n the Order of the Day for tomorrow, which was agreed to.; The Chamfer then proceeded to the nomination of Ques tors. Messrs. Dzianoanz and Dull were chosen. The French papers contain no recent news from Poland. BELGIUM. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. BRUSSELS. AUG. 3.—The appearance of the road from Liege to this city is very remarkable. Regiments of cavalry in motion towards the Meuse, in order to strengthen the army near Maestricht, cars, conveying families and their goods, flying from Antwerp to find refuge with their friends. The country people looking fearfully at each other, and asking questions. At St. Trend I learned that parties of pillage had left Maestricht and commit ted depredations on the neighbouring Belgian villa_ _ The Dutch are also stated to have made an attack on some villages uear Ghent, and compelled the Belgian troops to retire ; but the latter being joined by the peasantry, armed with pikes scythes, and axes, &c. have forced the Dutch back. Gen. Dibbets, who commands the garrison of Maastricht, received applications, within the last week, from various persons, desirous of leaving that city. " Go, if you like ; bat I'll take care you shall not return after you have seen your King, who will not have six weeks' reign." Leopold arrived in this city this morning at half past four o'clock. and felt necessarily much ex hausted from his rapid journies. The conduct of the Dutch Monarch is considerd by the best judges here as that of a madman, who wishes to revenge himself on the city and inhabit ants of Antwerp, and on all the Belgians. The condition of the present Belgian army is admitted by competent judges, to be such as not to ensure success against a body of regularly disciplined veterans. This fact being known to the Prince of Orange, and to his father and brother, is said to have stimulated them to attempt a coup-de-main ; but the Belgians, being 4,000,000, will not suffer 2,000,000 to conquer them. Great apprehensions are felt as •to the fate of Antwerp, which is altogether at the mercy of Gen. Chasse. A gentleman just come from Antwerp has described the inhabitants as in a state of stu por. Barricades are said to be forming ; but the Dutch fleet and gun-boats have taken their station opposite the town, and four frigates are in sight. The Belgians are resolved to form a levy en masse so as to prevent the Dutch troops from making any progress into their country. The number of Dutch vessels in the Scheldt is as follows :—Zelandis, ship of the line, 90 guns, opposite Flushing; a frigate of 46 guns, opposite Terneuze; two gun-boats, opposite Welsoude ; Amphitrite, frigate of 46 guns, opposite Bats ; a frigate of 46 guns, and four sloops, opposite Saftin gen; Le Dauphin, corvette of 28 guns, and 4 gun boats, opposite fort Frederic ; a bomb-vessel and steam-boat (Curacao), of 12 guns, at Doel ; the frigate Euridice, 46 guns, opposite Lillo; a brig 18 guns, and two gun-boats, near forte Perle ; the corvette, Proserpine, 28 guns, two mortar-boats, l .:rd two gun-boats, opposite fort St. Marie ; the Comet, corvette, 28 guns, and two gun-boats, opposite to Le Pyp Tabac, Intelligence has reached this city that the Dutch troops, to the number of 50, left their fort at Lief kensboek in boats, to go to the dike at Keetenis, which they began to cut. The Belgians sent a parley, to inquire why they did so ; to which their commander answered, that it was necessary for the defence of the fort. They completed their purpose, and thereby inundated the country, and caused ulisery amidst thousands of families. The garrison of Nlaestricht, to the number of 1,2t10 infantry, made a sortie yesterday morning 4t five o'clock : they were accompanied by two squadrons of cuirassiers, and four field pieces. They proceeded along the canal to Reekem, and :sturncd back at two o'clock in the afternoon. At 8 o'clock yesterday morning the Dutch :sited near Ghent the Capitalen Dam, and after • rds went to Assenede, which they pillaged, 4nd occupied for some hours the villages of Bas sevelde Esuelde. The number of Dutch troops said to be disembarked at Capitalen Dam is said to be 7,000. They are intended to attack Ghent, -end inundate Flanders. The Governor of Antwerp has written to Gene ral Chu to state, that if an attack by bombard- um- Ws& was N. foss • a ing, &c. be made on a peaceable city, he shall use reprisals. General Chasse has replied as under. " Citadel of Antwerp, Aug. 2. " At the moment when the renewal of general batik. ties puts an end to the private convention which existed between the city and citadel of Antwerp, I think it my duty to reply to the observation in your letter of to-day, No. 10 line 10, having the honour of reminding you that the said convention, at first concluded with the regency of the city of Antwerp on the 27th of October, 1831, and violated by a shameful act of treason on the same day, to be again claimed according to the intentions of the civil and military chiefs of Antwerp, expressed on the 28th, and the object of which was to suspend the fair means of attack ; and a bombardment, which was rendered necessary, from the treacherous manner in which my troops baO been wailed at Antwerp, not by regular troops, but by a portion of the inhabitants, and even by tine BurOer Gaard, contrary to all the usages of war; and this me to put an end o ute convention, bringing matters to the state they vac in at the conclusion ; there can be no doubt of riy rip: to renew operations; no law can be objected to my right of attacking a town occu pied by troops opposed to me, or curtail the means of war fare which I may use against them ; and it cannot be ad mitted that the troops which might attack me on the outside, should have the power of posting themselves in Antwerp, without my being a' liberty to provide against their approach. You think that the City of Antwerp ought to be considered beyond the field of battle, but for that purpose it should be out of your position ; that it neither supplied you with provisions. arcoal , loci tinge, or magazine. If the part taken by the inhabitarts of Antwerp, in the engagements of October, end the manoce in which they sacrificed my troops, had not Veeed this city in a par ticular position, with respict to the sited,.l, your proposi tion would be ailmissable with resji-ct to nu enemy coming from without, who might stunk the citadel Irons the outside o: the city; but you are in possession of it. and draw your principal resources from within its walls. Be sides, the batteries of the city are directed against it (the citadel) and my flotilla, and against the communica• Lion of .he citadel with Holland by the Scheldt. These bat teries have been erected under the protection of the truce, and in violation of the private convention relative to the cita del and the flotilla, and the general bases of the suspension of hostilities (as have also the uorks of the cx trod part of the citadel) Under these circumstances, ho . can I be ex pected to spare the city ? Whether in consequence of the above aggressions, or of other circumstances useful for the King's service, I shall melte use of all the means of attack and defence within my power, as against the city of Ant werp ; no threat shall prevent me from making use of them according to all the laws of war, sod the particular circum stances of the present case. "Baron CHASSE, Chief Commander of the Citadel of Antwerp." " Antwerp, Aug. 2. " I have been informed, and you are no doubt aware, that the Dutch fleet before Ulla executed a movement in the course of the morning. If you will be so kind as to reed over the 3d article of the convention you will find therein • the Dutch squadron, such as it is at this moment. 3d No vember, shall be respected.' This phrase needs no com mentary, and the respect which it imposes does not extend to the naval forces which Holland has since sent to our coasts contrary to the statu quo. " I have the honour to inform you that, if a single ship of war of the same fleet should show the slighest sign of aggression, I shall instantly order the batteries to fire on them. " F. DE TABOR." Citadel of Antwerp, Aug. 2. M. General—The movement of the Dutch squadron, which has advanced on the Lower Scheldt, and up to the prevent tumult beyond that part of its course which is in. cluded in the convention ratified on the bth November, and which settles the relations between the citadel and flotilla stationed in front of Antwerp, has taken place in come- quence of a general movement of the land and sea forces of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands accompanying a renewal of hostilities. In strict adherence with the terms of conventions ; and, as I had the honour of communieLting to you in my despatch of yesterday, nothing shall be under taken against the city of Antwerp, the North Fort, and the adjacent batteries, before the expiration of tha convention, conformable with the declaration agreed to on this head. "Baron CHASSE." BRUSSELS, THURSDAY EVENING. - The greatest enthusiasm prevails in this city, and throughout the country. Every preparation is ' making to repel the invasion of the King of Hol land, to whose rage and madness this unexpected aggression is attributed. Te greatest anxiety prevails to know if he be aided by Prussia; but there is as yet nothing but conjectures on that subject. Gen. Belliard arrived in this city last night, and at three o'clock he had an interview with the King. He set out this morning for Antwerp, in order to have a personal communication with Gen. Chassii, and if possible to convince him of the dangers which must result to Holland and its King from bom barding Antwerp. The following note has been addressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. de Meulenaere, to Gen. Chasse, under the date of yesterday, Aug. 3: " The undersigned Minister of Foreign Affairs to his Majesty the king of the Belgians, has the honour to inform General Chasse that the Belgian government has, with the greatest surprise, remarked, that in the act by which his Excellency announces the recommencement of hostilities, there is no mention made of the capitulation of the ith of November, .18:10. " Generisl Chasse cannot be ignount that the city of Ant werp is, u well u the rest of Belgium, comprised in the suspension of seine, dated the 20th of November, 1830, which constitutes, on the part of the Dutch and Belgian governments, an engagement towards the Five Powers, un der the mediation of which it was concluded. 6 • It is in this general sense that the suspension of arms of the 30th of November is to be understood. " His Majesty the King of the Belgians has, therefore referred this affair to the mediating powers, and has placed more particularly the city of Antwerp under the safeguard of those engagements. His Majesty awaits an immediate answer. " It is in the interest of humanity that the undersigned is ehrrW to make this fact known to General Baron Chaise. His Keaßeny will appreciate, no doubt, the motives of this communication, and will examine, if his sense of duty does not prescribe to him to suspend, until informed of the answer from London, the execution of the determinations which be appears, from the letter of the lit of August, to have taken. The commanders of the Belgian forces have received most positive instructions to abstain from all hostilities against the citadel, as long as his Excellency General Baron Chasse shall not have openly provoked them. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the following was posted on the walls of Brussels: PROCLAMATION OF THE KING. Belgians !—On taking possession of the throne, to which the national will has called me, I said, on my addressing the representatives of Belgium— lf, notwithstanding all the Emilia, made to preserve peace, we should be menaced with war, I should not hesi tate to appeal to the courage of the Belgic people, and I hoped that they would ell, and together, rally round their Chief, for the defence of the country and the independence of the nation." These words I this day address to all the natloo. Without a previous declaration, the enemy have suddenly tecommended hostilities, thereby despising and breaking as one time the engagements resulting from the suspension of arms and the principles that regulate civilised people. They have not hesitated to perpetrate the most odious breach of the law of nations, and by a surprise they wish to gain some momentary advantages. They are the same men whom you conquered in &ptamber ; they now appear in the midst of peaceful districts, preceded by devalued= and in. cendiarism. Strong in the conviction of oat right, we shell repel this unexpected aggression—we shall oppose force to force. Already once you overcame HoUsed ; you commenced the revolution by victories; you will censolidos it by vie. corks; you will not prove unworthy of our pledges recd. lotions. Your enemies await you to the plates which have already bees witnesses of their defeat.. Every one Oyes will do his duty. Belgians i Ills you, I will defend Delesun. I rely on the Civic Guard--oo the sing —a die courage and devotion of all. I am gobs to my poet. I I wait, hen, for all the Belltrulh to whom litaz romalf7, honour, and liberty, are dear. Brussels, Aug:4.- LEOPOLD, The King set out this afternoon for the army. Before his departure he nominated M. Lebeau. Member of the Council of Ministers, and De Brouckere and Lebeau have accompanied his Ma jesty, who left town in the direction of Vilvorde. The late Minister of War, General Dufa il ly, whose resignation was last nig ht accepted, has been nominated bead of the staff of the army, and set out last night for Antwerp. General Goblet, Col. Prisse, and several other officers, have also set out for the army. The second battalion of the Civic Guard of Brussels went this morning, in the best spirits, to Boom. The Civic Guard of Louvain is gone to Lierre. General d'Hoogvoorst, the Commander-in-chief of the Civic Guard of the nation, is to set out to morrow. General Cockelberg takes the command of the moveable Civic Guard. A battery of six pieces of cannon left Brussels this morning, and va rious other batteries are now getting ready. There were great crowds assembled to witness their de parture, and the greatest excitement prevails throughout this city in favour of the King, and against the Dutch, whom they call cotiards, incen diaries, and assassins. The cry if, "" On forward —on." In Antwerp, the inhabitants being roused, are busy in making barricades ; they don't seem af frighted at General Chase's threat*. It is thought that hostilities will commence there to-night, as at half-past nine o'clock it will be nearly high water, and the Dutch frigates may attempt to ' come up the river, and will be find at by the Bel gians from the forts du Nord, upon which the Commandant of the citadel will, it is thought, begin the bombardment. The Dutch yesterday unmasked a battery at the Tete de Flandres, op posite the town. A proclamation has been issued to the Burgo master of Antwerp, by the Commissary of the district, to hold the civic guard in readiness for action. Baron de Lamberto, Governor of East Flanders, has published a proclamation to the in habitants, in which he states that the cowardly enemy had begun without notice to spread devas tation by fire and inundation on all sides, and that he trusts the Belgians of tho provinces will co operate with him and the troops in proving that they have not degenerated from their ancestors. The Civic Guard of Ghent is ready to march im mediately against the enemy. The highest enthu siasm prevails in Liege and the provinces: there are numerovs bauds of Civic Guards ready, whose I cry is—" We fear not the Dutch nor the cowardly leaders." The communication from Ghent to Ostend, it is feared, has been stopped by the occupation of Mal deghen by the Dutch. The English mail from Ostend passed there this morning. The Dutch have landed troops in different places on the Scheldt: there have been various skir mishes. The wounded have come to Ghent and the other towns. At Maestricht a sortie was made yesterday. The Belgians are concentrating their forces of that dis trict at Hawk, near Turnhout. On Tuesday the Dutch drove back a regiment of lancers and the civic guard of Brussels. There have been several wounded and killed on both sides. The head quarters of the King will be stationed to-night as Malines or Conticht. The Belgians are enraged with the Dutch for having surprised their outposts at Capitalend= and Verlaet, and orders have been given for these places to be retaken. It is intended to withdraw several of the troops now in the province of Lux embourg, and to send them to the frontiers. The Dutch fleet, having attempted to pass the Ford du Nord, were fired at from the fort, and were compelled to draw back. The inundation of part of the province of Ant werp has already commenced, and the poor farmers, almost distracted, are driving their cattle towards Brussels. The garrison of Maestricht made a sortie on Monday last. One theusand two hundred infantry, having cash a half-loaf on their back, two squad rons of cuirassiers, with forage for a day, and four pieces of cannon, left the garrison by the gate of Bois le Due, at five in the morning, and directed their course along the canal towards Rukheim. It is not known the object of this sortio. The Dutch have destroyed the dykes at Liefkenshock. The enthusiasm of the people increases hourly, and the whole Civic Guard are determined to join the army. They will with difficulty be restrained. I have just heard that the Dutch are fighting near Maldegem, a village between Burgos and Ghent, on the high road to Ostend. Ghent is greatly agitated. GERMAN T.—The latest reports we have of the Bavarian Legislature are dated the 20th and 21st of July, when the Chamber of Deputies held its 60th and 61st sittings. That assembly was then chiefly engaged in the discussion, of amendments proposed by a committee on a law project for met!i fying one of the sections of the Constitutional coda which relates to elections. It appears that the election of certain descriptions of persons are not valid unless they are ratified by the government. 'The Chambers resolved, by 96 to 5, that with regard to the principal magistrates of towns, and retired or pensioned officers, if under no obligation' to return to active service, no such sanction for their admission as deputies should be required. The Morning Post, the organ of the Welling ton and Charles the Tenth's party. contains this morning the following version, or rather distortion : Louis Philippe, in defiance of the professions of peace so repeatedly and so recently made, has re solved upon an armed interference in favour of Belgium agoint Holland. This desperate step un settles at once the general policy of Europe, and puts a term, we fear, to her tranquillity ; it is the challenge f Revolutionary France to the legi timate Governments of the Continent, and must in self-defence be accepted. The neighbouring power of Prussia cannot be in inactive spectator, but will follow the dictates of honour and sound policy in giving immediate assistance to the King of Holland, with the prospect of a speedy co operation on the part of Austria , and Russia. Thus, in order that the tottering *roue 4 Louis Phillips may lie preserved for a time from impending de struction, the dame of war is rekindled in Europe, and the bests interests of mankind are sacrifieed. In the Loans, last night, there was two or three hours' debate about the very secondary ques tion of the occupation of the Azores by Donna Manta. Lord ABERDEEN moved for papers. Lord GREY treated it truly as a question of no na tional importance. But the Duke of WELLING TON was grave, and Lord Hou.sa D argumenta tive in reply, stating that we have no concern with Portuguese parties. In the COMMONS, on the presentation of some petitions against further grants to Maynooth Col lege, by Mr. Panciva 1., several Irish Members, spoke in defence of it, and Capt. GORDON against it, who dwelt on the anomaly of a Protestant Government paying £.19,000 per annum to sup port the Catholic Religion. Mr. O'CONNELL was warm in reply, and said he thought Capt. G. was qualified to be Chief Inquisitor in Spain. Mr. O'CoNN ELL presented a petition against the Subletting Act, which Lord KILLEEN sup ported; and, on the statement of Mr. CRAMPTON, it appears that this mischievous law is to be much qualified. Merthyr Tydvil and Cardiff, per Lord P. STUART, prayed to have separate Members, Cardiff having 48P houses, at £lO. and Merthyr nearly 30,000 inhabitants. In the Committee on the Reform Bill, after Nt NETT-Two several speeches, the whole of sche dule D was passed. Twenty-three towns bad one member each assigned to them, but KENDAL, WALSAL, and WHITEHAVEN, were reserved for further discussion. On GATESHEAD a long de- debate took place, terminating by a division, 264 to 160. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCIL The excitement this morning in the City is as great as was usual in the time of the hottest war. The Paris and Brussels news, of which we have given such ample details, came quite unexpectedly —particularly the intelligence of the interference of France in the affairs of Holland. Consols, which left off yesterday at 811, opened at 806, and immediately went down to 791 for the account; and at this hour they are at 793-80. The Foreign Money Market is in a state of ruin and stagnation. Every other subject yields in London to-day to the events pending in Belgium and France. The King of Holland has diverted attention from the questions about the French Ministry--but this quixotic enterprise has not lessened the importance of the expected changes in France. Poland must be secured, and in this sentiment London sym pathises with Paris. The pressure of various temporary matter ex cludes any abstract of the report of a great meet ing in Dublin, to answer the question put by blindness or theory, whether Ireland itself demands a system of Poor Laws ? More intelligent and eloquent speeches could not have distinguished any meeting; and if they fail to convince it is only because the force of truth, like all force, often stimulates opposition in the weak or wicked. We lament that the length of this discussion shuts out another report of a great meeting at Wexford, relative to the Newtownbarry massacre. A more manly spirit never was dis played at any meeting of country gentlemen, and many of the declarations evidently flowed from the' purest sources of patriotism. We hope that they' will persevere, finish what they have so well begun, and make a salutary example of those who have so grossly outraged the moral feelings of the age, and whose successful impunity would be an everlasting stain on our laws and national character. One of the gentlemen at Wexford, B. Osborne, Esq. declared " that he considered the greater number of such aggressions as that at New townbarry were committed in consequence of the present system of tithes, and the con duct of the class deriving advantage from them." He said, "he had taken the laborious trouble to search accurately the files of some Irish Journals, and he found that no less than six-and twenty thousand persons had been butchered, in twenties and tens, during the last thirty years in Ireland, in the enforcement of this system on the people." (Loud cries of hear ! and cheers.) Why this does not amount to quite so many as a thousand persons butchered for tithes in the year; and what is that, after all, to be put in comparison with the unspeakable advantage of possessinga sine cure Church, in which no idolatry is taught, or any thing else ? 0n1y26 thousand persons butchered iu tens and twenties, in thirty years. If the Clergy are not efficacious to rave souis, they prove that they can kill bodies ; for, one with another, it would appear that they kill their man every year. This must tend very in tch to the spread of the Protestant religion, ann the extirpation of idolatry. The King of limiand appears to have commenced the strife in a curiotrA, but perfectly characteristic, manner. Without the slightest notice (for the warn ing of Gen. L haNir a l rieich only to the truce con eluded bete-veil the cif add of Antwerp and M. Rogier j on the zsth of NOVember, with reference to that town only)he directed a •einent upon two frontier places, 1 • called Capitilentfam and Verlaet, and they were necessarily taken by surprise ; and King Leopold I has ordered the re-captine of these places, thus basely, and against all the rules of civilized war, I snat, Led from him.— Herald. vreseut curse of the country is the ascend noisy a men in all departments of power and go vernmeut, who were selected as fit instruments by Ministers, who, in skiecession, have tyrannized for the last forty years. Wo have this day rev:slice, German Journals, but their contents were anti, tlis :ed in this Paper yes terday, by the letter of our Paris Correspondent. They merely give some details of the riots in Pestb, the deaths of Liest.-Col. Rottenpeller, of the Archduke Rodolph, Bishop of Olmutz, of General Frimout, and the mortal illness of Baron Von Skeittenbeim, commander in Gallicia—all men tioned yesterday. The Insolvent Commissions hare been perform ing their unwelcome tours. Who would imagine that the dein:embolis of the authors of Magna Churta should endure the progress of junior judges inflicting punishments on misfortune, without the sanction of twelve sworn men How we are degenerated ! SECOND EDITION. STAR OFFlCE — err — Lux PAST 3 o'CLoclc. The Holm of Comstows met this morning at half-past twelve, when the Speaker took the Chair. Lord ALTHORP, seeing the bon. member Sir Riciisan Vy xi/A w in his place, expressed a wish that he would postpone his motion on the subject of Belgium. - Sir RICHARD VEIT TA N declined complying wish the; wishes of the Noble Lord in the situa tion that country was now placed in with regard to all Europe. The Marquis of CH AN DOS inquired whether the government had had official advice of the march of the French troops upon Belgium, and he wished to be informed whether the measure was with the sanction of this government. Lord PALMERSTON said, as soon as the King of Belgium had heard of the breaking up of the convention by the King of the Netherlands, he had sent to the French Government, begging immediate assistance; and the result of that message had been, that the French Government had ordered an advance of French troops upon Belgium; and at the same time, a communication of what had taken place had been made to this Government. (Hear, hear ; Order, order.) Lord STOII RMONT then expressed a wish to know whether this Government had given its sanction to the course pursued by the French Go vernment. Lord PALMERSTON stated that he was unable at this moment to comply with the wishes of the Honourable Membar. Sir R. VYV VAN then said that this circum stance of itself 'hewed the necessity of his bring ing forward his motion, and he wished to be informed whether the fleet now at Portsmouth had, or had not, been ordered to sail to the coast of Holland ; for the whole question resulting out of his motion, rested on the doubt whether this was, or was not, the case. Lord PALMERSTON observed, that no one could possibly say that he ought to be called upou to an swer such a question. The object of the British Go vernment, and of the Allied Powers was to maintain peace between Belgium and Holland; and there was nothing at present which led him, Lord Palmers ton, to think that this object would not be ac complished.—(Loud cheers, and cries of Order.) Mr. C. PELHAM attempted to address the chair amicht loud calls of " Order, order;" but the few words we could collect were to the effect, that the present was a much more important question than that which occurred seven yens ago, (cries of Order, order ! Chair, chair !) in the midst of wi ich the hon. member sat down. After a few words from Sir R. VI , vvs w, and some other Members, Lord PALMERSTON said the Government were In possession of some facts, which rendered the postponement of the Hon. Member's motion of the utmost importance, and which, if now disclosed, would lead probably to unpleasant results. Sir R. VTIT T AN, under those circumstances, consented to postpone his motion nil, Tuts& y. It is understood, that in furtherance of the march of the French troops, a British squadron is proceed ing from Portsmouth to the Scheldt for the protec tion of Antwerp. Great discordance prevailed last night in the five hours' Conference of Foreign Ministers at Lord PALMERSTON'S Office, and a mutual want of con fidence appeared to prevail. At the Stock Exchange, the first effect of the news this morning was to sink Consols to 794, but a re-action since left them, at three o'clock, at 801. The Foreign and Northern Stocks were of course very heavy. Monsieur Feick, the Ambassador from the Ne therlands, had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey, at the Treasury ; and the French and Austrian A mbasaidass the Austrian Envoy Extraordinary, and the other Minist ers of the Great Powers. held a conference yesterday afmrnoss with Viscount Palmerston, at the ForOgn Office. Mr. Abercrombio arrived in town from Brussels on Thursday evening, and a gentleman attached to the Mis sion to his Majesty the King of the Belgians left town last night with despatches from Viscount Palmerston for Brussels. There was a report last night at the west end of the town, that the King of Prussia had died -uddenly at Berlin. Yesterday afternoon, at a late hour, an express arrived to Mr. Rothschild, who immediately forwarded a communication to Prince Lieven, who at the time was at tending the conference at the Foreign Office ; but it was so urgent, that his Excellency rose from the conference to receive it. The deliberation at the Foreign Office !maid upwards of six hours. An Extraordinary Courier was sent off last night with despatches from the Dutch Embassy for Holland, sup posed to contain the result of the long continued oonferetes at the Foreign-officers. Baron Zuylen von Nyevelt, the Plenipotentiary Extraordinary from Holland, and Baron Bulow, the Prus sian Minister, have had frequent Interviews with the Russian Ambassador within the last two days. Mr. Wellesley has addressed a letter to as, stating that the letter alluded to in the Chancery proceed ings yesterday, signed" Wm. Wellesley Long Wellesley" is not his signature, which is " W. L. Wellesley." He adds, that whatever may, or may not, be the signs. tare attached to the letter commencing with " Courage and perseverance." is a complete fabrication, and was never written by him-31any if the other details , as related in the Newspapers, will receive, upon oath, Mr. Wellesley's A Lisbon mail has arrived, sailed on the 17th....- The private letters state, that the French squadron was still in the Tagus, and going to repair a ship or two, which had received some damage in passing the batteries. The French Admiral was about to give up the prises taken previous to hostilities, by which it appears that the differences are settled. EXTENSIVEBURGLARY.—Thursday informa tion was given at the various police offices of a Idaring burglary on the premises of Mr. Wright, jew eller, in Moseley-street, Newcestle-upon-Tyne. It appears that the house was entered by a gang of thieves, supposed to be London " cracks men" (burglars), between the night of Sa turday last and the morning of Monday. They effected an entrance by cutting a bole through the partition of the adjoining staircase, and carried off the most valuable portion of the stock, consisting of a large quantity of plate tsar jewellery, a number of gold and silver watches, diamond, pearl, and other rings, breeches, ear rings, bracelets, gold chains, souff-boxes, a gold sugar boson (a copy from the Warwick vase), mad a variety of other articles, to the amount of upwards of 1,0001. The pressure of For News 1,41a7 okapis us to postpone the " Kiaes II zell Nene 1111 Ilisap. . ii • .1 1 1 1 [ pi ; l''.. , 4 . ! 1 1 . i . 1 i '. if • ‘ . t I i 1 iii