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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTODN.R 4. V

Tits news from Belgium is calculated to allay, in
some degree, the anxiety created by the recent re-
**nation of the ministry to that country. We now
learn the probability of the Liberal party being able
to regain its position—all the stronger for re-
cent difficulties. Its opponents were conside-
rably startled by the refusal, in the first
place, of M. DELAILAN 3 to accept office ;
and in the next place, by the rorogation of
the Chamber till the pith inst. Meanwhile the
Opposition will have the constitutional opportunity
of showing what power they may have for terming a
ministry. Coder all circumstances there is no doubt
but King Lrorot.n will act in a perfectly constitu-
tional manner, and that the full weight of his expm
rience, and the full power of that shrewdness
for which ho has always been remarkable,
will be brought into play. The anecdote
is now being repeated that describes his conduct in
18414, when the fumes of that latest revolution in
Paris reached Brussels, and the republicans of the Fle-
mish capital began at once to meet and to calculate
how soon the French Republic was to be followed
byre Belgian—to match. In 1830, the over-
throw of Cu sates X. had been followed by the
establishment of Belgium as an independent kingdom;
why, therefore. it was argued, should not the
installation of Louis BLANC in power in
l'iurs be succeeded by an equal elevation
of some of his Flemish admirers? The news of this
plotting soon reached the ears of the King, who sent
at once for his advisers and for some of the extreme
liberals, and rumour thus recounts the royal speech
on the occasion :—" Gentlemen," said the King, " I
hear the plans arc in progress to upset the monarchy
and establish a republic. Pray let the trouble be
spared. I was invited to take the crown of Belgium.
Only let me know your wishes, and I am
ready to relic at once it it be wise to do so. There
shall be no blood shed on my account." This busi-
ness-like speech settled the whole revolution. The
same common-sense and independence is doubtless
quite equal to existing emergencies, and we may pro-
bably be amused by much Belgian political hubbub,
but have no cause for alarm as to any real difficulties.
Our contemprniries have been discussing the re-
signation of M. !tor:intend his colleagues in a very
semis spirit ; and one of them has ran over the list
of fortresses now existing in the realms of King
Ltoroxn, with an eye to the consequences of any
advance of the French in that quarter. The very
naming of those Belgian Urdlled places and fiat
plains sends a thrill through those who know the
talus of pence to the prom's el the civilisation of
the world. Those forums" retell a @arise of
battles and sieges, from the victories of MARL-
BOROUGH to the last straggle of Wm.-
LIMA.° X at Waterloo. Belgium has, imbed,
been the battle-field of Europe ; and, taw
pily, may be so again. She has no einmel
frmtier—no ]thine, no Jura, no Pyrenees. ilis le
herself rather the frontier of the (Jerman stale—
rude a frontier to them by her strongholds, Iliono,
Tourney, Antwerp, Namur, Buy, and the rest. Her
independence after the revolution of 1830 was, in
truth, sanctioned by other countries merely that she
might be a distinct community once more, active and
mammal, and prompt to check any sudden advance
by the French upon the Rhine. This was only a
revival of the old European theory that dated back
to the peace of Utrecht. A .few months ago
there wee an obvious and notorious change
mode en the French side of the frontier.
Bohn that time the Republic had comparatively
In keeps there, but this scant supply was suc-
ceeds& by a complete glut. Lille, Valenciennes, and
every ether aveihnie point was crowded with French
sadism, weedy of nurse, if such were their orders, at
the mend el the bugle to ones the line. This con.
sealistire et fine was setheient to excite notice, but
mat ahem. The liell enestime—the flight of French
raven le Dinmeb—the diummisas en International
nsim
flnelly, the dmineentnis NAJOLtOE
@Wed taxes es Wean oral and km,
mill higher the interest felt in the
mod et the two countries. It wee thee
remembered the the Liberals were ambled to int
the revolmite of 1830 by the aid of the piglet Mite
bated Prebmtent Holland. Having heed thew
selves from the Government of the Hague, tbs.*
same clerks' intriguers were evidently kiting
towards France, and when Louts liaol.lloll
began to patronise the Church, and the
Church to esdorseinaLorts NAPOLEON, it was
noted that the Party in Belgium mod
still more ilindiff le the tiormant of the Elyria.
When the Mambos mit, &deal tendeasim were
nob selleiselke_mmilbst. 'Mewls(
_dmir voelOt
blithe Nile with that el the few Womb trhs Es-
meted hem the vine et M. Roma, the se-
emed tho abet et the Ministaimi Prosiftt by el:
votes—the ambers hub', Libido, 48; Christie and
Ultras, 64. On the declaration of this metiers
victory, _ the Ultras saw the error into which
they bed folks, and strove to redeem it. The gen-
thine sleeted by the Clerical Party declined to serve;
onedra election was emanded. and the ministerial
ommliders wee pined in the maiden he Mead have
oceepled at bet. With dignity be teemed to
s,t, ; the Meow was a oeead, and until the 96th
there will le anigle verge far rumour and
The partisans etas Freed ma Quint=
they may be galled one--plat Is the mooring
pasties arenmed by Louts Nsrotan se
the speedy eland al the d_ ay when Belgtisda
become a part ef the new Prime Empire, but the
Ultras by when aid the Osseo were esabledroar;
ILVranar.ors in a minority, see new w ire b
than ever the error of the step they took. They
wined that step in the Chamber as soon as its
emeequentes were shown—they may now daring the
Limn days between this time and. the Seth make
their repeals:cc more complete. That they will do
no there is little doubt g and at prima equally
MUM el the milintles of IL Eno= is more
than hems, ir in the Chamber mad the country.
The eonfKtßennl King, who dealt so well with the
ditheakine of lOW will doubtless be init. ready
le meet the post nemiseey. He is a protestant;
and on that ground distesishl to the ialtramontaniste,
but that very metenteations ado his popularity with
an active, merged% end iniesetial paths of the
people. This meths of the population forms an in-
tegral element in the Belgian party—the party who
really entertain a national feeling in its lime seam—
who are proud of their civil and religiose Meet
road of their national telmationead free de-
MBAS or preserving those pooh of e.tpn beetlem.
Amongst this "Belgian" party—ea °premed to priests
and Frenchmen—it is believed the siffitem may be
included. The army, if all called out, WWI master
about 80,000 strong—no mean force—to width, in
the event of a struggle, there is little doubt but •
Netherlands reinforcement would be added. Antwerp
and the other fortresses could be fully garrisoned
without foreign aid of any kind--at least until Europe
had had ample time to declare an opinion upon any
step which should make war necessary. That step,
however, is not yet, nor is likely, to be taken. The
priests have • very temporary triumph, for the 28th
of October promises to solve the temporary difficulties
in which the Belgian Liberals have been involved.

Tna temporary retirement of the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUILR for the purposes of incubation has
afforded an unusual opportunity for the smaller offi-
cials to come out at tho various agricultural meet-
ings which are usually held at thi• time of the reersi
a...n The ..ut:rroa-GaNZBAL has blown some
pounce into the eyes of tho Suffolk Farmers at
Framliogham, an operation which appears not to
have given them so much relief as they desired.
Mr. lIENI.LY has discovered at Banbury that the,
Reform Bill is the cause of all our evils, and
that to employ a great amount of labour
at low wagts u the most expensive labour which=
be employed. But it has been reserved for the
Right Hon. WILLLUI BUISOZOAD to make the most

remarkable coalession whist hae as yet proceeded
from the Tory Cabinet.
At the anniversary of the Dunmow Agricultural
sad Labourers' Friend Society the pliant Major
opened the proseediags with a speech which did
honour to YE; beldam. It will be remembered that
twice dais' the present year the BECIZTAILT
AT Was has bad to meet his constituents
for re-eleetion, and that on both occasions be
stigmatised the crowd who had assembled, and who
did not muck relish his elegem*, with the mild
epithets of " rabble," " the vilest rabble he ever
saw." We do not know whether this language, de;
livered with tones and gesteses worthy of Bedlam,
with frothing lip, glaring eye, and clenched fist—for
so it was—constituted NIA* BEZZIIFORDII *WAS to
open the proceedings of a society which has for its
professed object the distribution of a few trumpery
rewards to the hard-worked and ill-paid Mowers
who toil on the Brox clays—and whisk
serves indirectly as a club where small
Tory squires and Der its parsons may
bees sad bluster under tho iatemes of pabliebouse
pert sad political excitement. Be this as it aiff,
lifter BISEIVOID was the tees et the meas. Be
lord less lb hearers the geed the misty was b-
eveled b do them by promoting their aualbete and
stimulating their industry, a sentiment whisk does
not appear to have been reseived with very rest es-
thusissm by the " vile rabble," one of wbolikast
having the fear of his mutter before his eyes, uttered
a cry of " Raise oar wages." To this the gallant
Major, haunted no doubt by the nuns evil
genius which attended him at Braintree,
called out, "If the labourers had things at a
much cheaper rate, and had nearly the same
wages, they were in a much beller condition shoe tag
were before :" and on a repetition of the interruption
by a cry of "I get only seven shillings," he abso-
lutely clinched the nail by these remarkable words
—" Yost are much better off with sere* eliallinp now
than with nine shillings before." Why, is sot this
the very sentiment which Protectionist squares in
triple row absolutely hooted at when it
from the mouths of I.Preetraders, and yet t proceededei
TART AT WAR has the frailty to let the cat out of the
bag, and avow his belief that the agricultural laboulur
is better off under Free-trade than he was under
Protection.
There is something satisfactory in this avowal,''
coming from such a quarter; and we cannot help
being also gratified at seeing some awkward at-
tempts
on the part of the speaker to explain away
his outrageous conduct at Braintree. We rejoice at
it—not because it shows any sincere repentance on
the part of Major BERLSPORD, for no one could sus-
pect him of any such feeling—but because it is evi-
dent that such conduct on tho part of a Cabinet
Minister is damaging to the party to which he be-
=As moon as Parliament meets, the Braintree
will have their revenge; and if they could see
the spetsele of a Benesronn-bait— such as will no
desil be exhibited in that assembly—they would
about forgive their maligner. We trust, however,
that there will he no delay in tho inquiry, as we
have a shrewd suspicion that it will not be long before
a snug Colonial appointment may enable the gallant
Major to relieve the Cabinet and the country from a
presence which is as damaging to tho one as it is un-
satisfactory to the other.