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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'clock.
OPENING OF THE BELGIAN
CHAMBERS.

TILE KING'S SPEECH.

BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.

Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday) the ordinary session
of the Belgian Chambers was opened by King Leo-
pold in person. His Majesty, who wore the uniform
oc a general of the civic guard, proceeded on hone-
back from the palace to the Chamber of Representa-
tives, passing in review, as he slowly rode down the
Rae Royale, the four legions of the civic guard. On
his arrival at the Paleis de la Nation, he was con-
ducted with the usual ceremony to the above chamber,
when he took his scat on the throne, the Queen and
the other members of the royal family having pre-
viously taken their places.
His Majesty then delivered the following speech :
GENTLEMEB,-1 am able to congratulate myself on the
marks of confidence and of friendship which I continue to
receive from foreign powers. An incident has occurred in
our relations with the see of Rome. Explanations respect-
iag that event, which bat excited peblic opinion, will be
laid before you.
A treaty or commerce and navigation has been concluded
with the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It will be submitted
to your approbation. Negotiations are bring carried on, in
order to extend our commercial relations.
The efforts of my government are directed towards the
procuring of external outlets for our commerce. Much in
that respect may be expected from the spirit of enterprise,
judiciously /tided. A society of commerce, combined with
the establishment of factori s (ronsploirs), is one of the mea-
sures to be taken in order to attain that object.
A pntsl o nventiou, wl lets has just been concluded with
France, on a large basis, reduces the peeing* of international
letters, and affords great facilities for the transmission of fo-
reign correspondence.
The transport of merchandise and the receipts of the rail-
way continue to increase in a remarkable proportion. Mee-
sores for increasing them still further, and for introducing
ameliorations into the management of that important service,
are in course of preparation. Pecuniary advances will be
required f out you in order to finish the railway stations sat
the double lines of rail, as well as to complete the materiel
of transport, and to finally close the account of the expenses
of the first establishment.
Private industry has gone hand in hand with the state in
bestowing new means of communication on the country.
That industry will always find my government disposed to
facilitate the execution of its engagements.
Your co-opemtien will be required for public works of
high utility. The improvement and formation of by-roads
(so intimately connected with the prosperity of agriculture)
are entitled to a large share of consideration, with reference
to those works which shall offer useful resources for the
needy and laborious classes.
Amongst the districts which may justly excite the solici-
tude of the government and the chambers, we must give the
first places to several in our Flemish provinces. Constant
efforts are expected from us, and the nation will not hold
itself aloof from those sacrifices which this painful situation
may impote on it. After two years of rude trial,
Providence has come to the aid of the poor classes by as
abundant harvest. The immense influence which agricul-
ture exercises on the destinies of the country is understood
by my government ; and agriculture on its aide hart proved
that it can appreciate our intentions. The eagerness with
which, on a secent occasion, it responded to the appeal which
was made to it, has testified to its c inldence in the views
and acts of the government. By a happy coincidence, the
exhibition of the agricultural produce played n brilliant part
alongside the productions of that industry which has revealed
notable improvements. Agriculture and industry, far from
being hostile one to the other, should lend reciprocal aid.
Equally useful and honourable, they are equally worthy of
all our solicitude. Very soon a common solemnity will re
unite those who have distinguished themselves by their
labours in those two noble careers. I shall be happy on
that occasion to have it in my power to bestow, before the
eyes of the country, due recompenses upon the labourers of
all ranks.
The forthcoming exhibition of the fine arts will afford the
Belgian school the opportunity of proving that it continues
worthy of its past career, and that it may bear a comparison
with foreign schools.
Public instruction, to which it may be said, the civilisation
of the country is attached; should be one of our first presen-
tations. The legislature will have to vote the measures
necessary for perfecting and campleting its organisation.
The army, that great national institution, continues to
deserve well of the country. Its good organisation, its pa- ,
trietism, its discipline, and its devotedness, render it worthy
of all my sympathy and of the great interest which you take in
in it, and of which you continue to afford it so many proofs.
I am happy to see my two sone enrolled in its ranks.
Your solicitude for the indigent claws will induce you to
discuss, in the course of this seesion, the projects of law re-
lating to pawnbroking establishments (monta-de-peae), the
mendicity depots, and the management of the insane. The
penitentiary system calls for reforms, which I recommend to
your attention.
As the ordinary resources of the treasury are not sufficient
to meet completely the demands already set forth, and to
provide for those which are foreseen, extraordinary provi-
sions are required. Belgium can the more easily face this
situation of affairs, inasmuch as she has passed through the
financial crisis more successfully than other countries.
It is desirable, gentlemen, that the budgets which will
be laid before you for 1948, he voted before the opening of
that year. We shall thereby avoid the grave inconvenience
of provisional credits. This step is the more necessary, inas-
much as you will have to examine, in a few months, the
budgets for 1840.
Propositions for modifying, in certain points, the commit-
nal and electoral laws have been announced ; and bills to
that effect will be presented to you.
In a material and financial, as well as in a moral and poli-
tical point of view, this session will, I trust, be marked by
numerous and useful labours. I gladly look for an assurance
of that kind in the active aid and sincere support which you
will give to my government.
(His Majesty was greeted on the conclusion of the speech
with loud cries of " Vive le BM," and shortly afterwards
left the Chambers, returning to the palace by the Rue
Ducale. The troops then defiled before the King in front
of the palace. Although the weather was unfavourable, an
immense number of persons witnessed his Majesty's arrival
and departure ]

The following intelligence from Paris has arrived
by express :
The Journal des Debate announces the suicide of
Count Brewton, ambassador of France at the court of
Naples.
The Madrid Gazette of the 4th contains two royal
decrees, accepting the resignation of Generals Cor-
dova and Roe de Olano.
The Duke of Valencia is appointed Mir.iater of War.
General Concha has been removed from Catalonia.
General Alaix has been banished to Valencia.
It was expected that actual war would commence in
Switzerland on the Bth.

We have a further arrival from the Cape of Good I
Hope, with accounts from Graham's Town to the end
of August, from which it appears that Sir Henry
Pottinger had formally declared war against San-
dilli, chief paramount of the Gaika Kaffir tribes. In
the proclamation issued by her Majesty's commis-
sioner, the grounds for hostilities are stated to be :
First, that Sandilli had refused to deliver up to
the British authorities a thief who had stolen
thirteen gnats from one of the Kat River settlements;
secondly, That, instead of checking plunder along the
colonial border, the measures of this chief were of a
kind to encourage such excesses, be benefitting
himself by confiscating the plunder ; and, thirdly,
That he had not only declined to make atonement, but
sanctioned and encouraged his followers to repel by
force of arms the detachment sent to enforce the
British demands; "by which violent proceeding," says
the proclamation, " twoof her majesty's subjects were
killed and severely wounded ; and Sandilli obviously
thereby placed himself in the light of a rebel to
the queen's authority, and set at nought the
paramount power which he had acknowledgei
and under the protection of which he had, on certain
terms, been admitted." The proclamation then goes
on to state that, in his anxiety to avoid the recurrence
of hostilities, the British commissioner had caused it

to be intimated to Sandilli that if he would even then
deliver up two hundred stand of anus, and surrender
the thief in question, matters should revert to their
previous friendly footing. With the'e terms,
however, Sandilli refused to comply, and
took measures for defending his country, having
set the British authorities com?letely at defiance.
" Therefore," says Sir Henry Pottmger, " taking
it into my deep and lengthened consideration, that
such contumacious and headstrong behaviour cannot
be longer overlooked, without endangering the gene-
ral peace and tranquillity of the whole colony, and
particularly both sides of the frontier, by disturbing
the system which I have been for months past most
anxiously and sedulously endeavouring to introduce
and perfect; and moreover, reflecting that where peo-
ple dwell (as is the case with some of the colonists
and a part of the Gaika Kaffir tribes) on either side
of an imaginary line of demarcation, it is alone by
mutual rigid adherence to their engagements, by the
strictest observance of good faith, and by crime
being speedily and effectually punished, that the
success of the desired system can he possibly secured,
or even anticipated, I have determined, in the
Queen's name, and in virtue of the powers con-
fided to me as her Majesty's high commissioner,
to have recourse to the only method that now
remains to call Sandilli to account for his con-
tumacy, and to vindicate the offended dignity
and honour of the British government. I
do, therefore, hereby proclaim the said Gaika
Kaffir chief Sandilli to be a rebel, and de-
nounce him as no longer under the protection of
her Majesty's government, and I do further hereby
invite and call on all classes and conditions of
persons residing in this colony, to be aiding and abet-
ting in carrying my intended measures against the
said rebel chief into effect, by assembling in com-
mandos, to be headed by leaders appointed by them-
selves, at Shiloh on the day of the ensuing month
of September, end thence to enter, supported by her
Majesty's regular troops and the colonial na-
tive levies, the country of the said Sandilli.
And I do hereby further proclaim and pro-
mise, as an inducement to all persons to come
forward, that all cattle and other booty captured by
such commandos, belonging to or found within the
country of the said Sandilli, or any others who
may take part with him, shall become the liana
fide property of, and be retained by, the captors,
and that no claim shall hereafter be made on
the part of the government, or on any other pre-
tence, for an account of, or the restoration or re-
linquishment of cattle or other property so cap-
tured. And Ido hereby further proclaim that all the
other Gaika, T'Slambie, and Tambookie Kaffir
chiefs, the bushman Madoor, and their followers,
who have declared their wish and intention to re-
main neutral, and to abide by their engagements
during the approaching hostilities, are, and shall be
understood and taken to be under the protection of
the Queen of England, so long as they shall act upon
and be guided by the above-mentioned declaration ;
and I do strictly, solemnly, and unqualifiedly enjoin
and command all persons bearing allegiance to her
Majesty to refrain from molesting such neutral (or
friendly) Ka .; re, and to consider the protection of
them and their lives and property to be a paramount
duty."
The determination of the British government to
chastise the perfidy of Sandilli, and the terms of the
prlclamation in which it was announced, is favourably
spoken of by the Graham's imen Journal. The only
I anxiety was, that when hostilities were recommenced
they should be undertaken in a manner to command
success ; as failure upon any point, much more reverse,
would certainly be the ruin of the colony. hi order to
show the necessity for adopting prompt measures, the
Graham's Ton Journal gives accounts from the
frontier, exhibiting the effect that procrastination was
having upon the native tribes contiguous to the
colony, who were beginning to misconstrue forbear-
ance into fear, and appeared, in some instances,
not unwilling to abandon a neutrality of
which they were rather impatient in favour
of hostilities undertaken against the British. A
letter from Fort Beaufort says: " Mocomo, who is ,
permitted to perambulate the fort and neighbourhood
at his pleasure, does not scruple publicly to
declare his conviction that the British go.
vernment is afraid of his countrymen, the
Kaffirs. He speaks of the troops and of their
parade with contempt, and states plainly that
no concession will be made by his people to
gain the favour of the colonial authorities. The
tone assumed by Sandilli is equally audacious.
Every message from the governor has been treated
with disregard, the chief assuming an attitude of de-
fiance, telling his people not to listen to any mes-
sages from the colony, but to proceed with their
ordinary occupations.

DEATH OF DR. FELIT► MENDELSSOHN-

BARTLIOLDY.
It is with deep regret that we announce the death
of this distinguished musician and composer, es having taken
place at Drissig, on Thursday last, Nev. 4, after a short ill-
ness. Dr. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born at Berlin, in
the year 1800—the grandson of the celebrated Jewish philo-
sopher—the son of an opulent banker and a lady distin-
gni.hecl by her great beauty and accomplishments. The
education, therefore, of the young musician was of a quality
and among a society superior to that generally enjoyed by
youths trained to his profession. His musical studies, en.
tered into at first merely by way of amusement, were prin.
cipally made under Zelter and Berger; and while he was
yet a boy he succeeded in securing the interest and affection
of Goethe, in whose house at Weimar, he was a frequent
guest. Hence not merely a rare amount of scientific know-
ledge, but also a tone of high intellectual cultivation which
distinguished his life and conversation. With him, however,
advantages of fortune and position were not the hindrances
they bare so often proved to the selfish and supine. Few
musicians have been more diligent. At a very early age, in
1824, Felix Mendelssohn made himself known by publish-
ing two pianoforte quartets, which at once established him
as a composer of the first class. Five years later he came to
England, and laid the foundation of his European renown
by the production, at the Philharmonic Concerts, of the
overture to the " Midsummer Night's Dream" (the first of
a series of similar compositions, in form and concep-
tion truly original), from that time pouring forth a
series of works in almost every style, the number and
high excellence of which was but exceeded by the
care with which they were finished. To enumerate
them here is unnecessary. The last which he produced,
" Elijah," was, like the first, written for England, and
performed at Birmingham in the autumn of 1846. Dr. Men-
delssohn successively held official appointments at Dussel-
dorf, Leipsic, and Berlin. It is needless to say bow he was,
year by year, more and moss looked to and waited for as
the one man in Europe—let us not have to say, the last of
the great German musicians. Young in years, but old in
honours ; rich in fame, and rich in friends (for to know him
was to love him), his decease leaves a veld it is hard to ima-
gine filled. The disease to which he yielded, was a nervous
affection of the brain. A wife and fire young children are
left to mourn a loss which, to them at least, is irrcpuable.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.—Today a numerous
meeting of the members of the town council was held at the
Commissioners' Room in Moor-street, for the election 0
mayor and aldermen, and the transaction of other Inuineu.
R. Martineau, Esq., ex-mayor, in the chair.
Mr. Alderman James proposed Mr. Alderman beach as a
fit and properrson to fill the office of mayor for the en-
suing year. Mr. J. James seconded the nomination.
Mr. Councillor Baldwin proposed Mr. Alderman Van
Wart as a fit and proper person to fill the office. Mr.
Councillor Hawke.. seconded the nomination.
It was then intimated that Mr. Alderman Van Wart, if
elected, could not undertake the duties, owing to his
numerous private engagements.
Mr. Alderman Geach was then declared elected with only
two dissentient voices. After which the following gentlemen
were elected aldermen:—Mr. Martineau, Mr. Van Wart,
Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. Samuel Beale, Mr. Caleb Lauder,
Mr. John Palmer, Mr. Horatio Cutler, and Mr. William

Room.
Lt% enroot., TUESDAY.—The election of mayor and alder-
men for the ensuing year has today occupied general atten-
tion. almost to the exclusion of all other bu‘iness. Mr. T.
B. Hors&lt and Mr. J. B. Moore were severally put in nomi-
nation for the office of mayor; both gentlemen conservatives.
On the pall being taken, there appeared 29 votes for Mr.
Horsfall, and 27 for Mr. Moore; the first-named gentleman
11 was consequently dec:ared to be duly elected.

THE MIN ISTRY.—A somewhat credulous contempo-
rary yesterday favoured its readers with two or three
rumours" of so extraordinary a character that it gave them
all those advantages of type and position with which journal-
ists arc apt to distinguish their most important intelligence.
Lord Grey was to resign, and to be accompanied in his retire-
ment by Sir C. Wood; while Mr. Barnard was to make
way for Mr. Hawn by vacating Greenwich, and
Lord Enfield for Mr. Macaulay, by giving up Chatham.
Unhappily for our too sanguine fnend, there is not one particle
of foundation for either of these reports. Neither Lord Grey
nor Sir C. Wood has the least intention of retiring from
their respective offices; and, however much we may desire to
see Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Hawes in parliament, we fear
they will have loag to wait if their return depends on the
resignation of Lord Enfield and Mr. Barnard.—Morning
PaPer•
THE VACANT GowN.—A meeting of the voters in
Cordwainers' Ward was held on Monday, at the Crown
Tavern, Bow-lane, Cheapside; Mr. W. Maddell in the chair.
It was resolved unanimously to support Mr. David Salomon,
aa candidate for the aldermanie gown of the ward about to
be rendered vacant by the resignation of Alderman T. Wood.