The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-29 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

In the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium
on Monday, M. de Brouekere, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, made the following observations relative
to his conduct in the l:resent ministerial crisis :
" When this Camber met, I hal the honour of stating
that the Cabinet had resolved on retiring. Since then
attempts have been made to form a new Cabinet ; but
thus far they have led to no resu:t, and the negotiatio;)s
are still continuing. In this situation I should act vary
imi.r.)perly if I entered into a detailed statement. The
moment for doing so has not yet arrived. I believe it
right, however, to make two observations. It has been
stated that the Ministry retired under the pressure of
foreign influence. I give to this rumour the most
formal denial. No presmre whatsoever was exercised
on the Belgian Government. Our relations are equally
good with all the States of Europe. None of them would
think of weighing on the internal affairs of Belgium.
Such is my first declaratiol. It has been also said I
took measures for reconstituting the Ministry with new
elements. But mint also is one of the false rumours
which have been so prodigally Tread about during the
last few days. I have bad no communication on the
subject with any one, either directly or indirectly, either
personally or through another party. I know my duty
too well to interfere with the Royal prerogative. I leave
it in all its plenitude the exercise of its constitutional
rights. Lastly, a short absence which I made a few
days ago from Brussels is stated to have had a political
object. But the object of that absence was the accom-
plishment of a pious family duty. I only raw when at
Paris some members of my own family and intimate
friends. The quality of minister does not assuredly pre-
vent communications of that nature."

A letter from Frankfort-on-the-Oder, in Prussia,
of the 22d, says :—" By an order of the Minister
of War, the exercises to which the officers of the
landwehr are required to be subjected in the regi-
ments of the line, arc to take place this year in the
district of the 6th corps d'armee with greater strict-
ness than usual, owing to existing political cir-
cumstances. The officers are to be required to pass
from four to six weeks in battalions of the lino."

The Oest. Deutsche Post of Vienna announces

that Spain and Portugal have acceded to thee
European coalition, and that the treaty was signed
at Paris on the 21st.

INDIA, CHINA, AND

A USTRALIA.

TRIESTE, Wednesday, March 28.—The steamer
Bombay arrived hero at 11 a.m. this morning, in
112 hours from Alexandria.

She brings the following summary of news from
Alexandria :

ALEXANDRIA, March 23.—The India mails leave
Alexandria this day with advices from Calcutta of
Feb. 24 ; Madras, Feb. 28 ; Galle, March 3; Bom-
bay, March 3 ; Shanghai, Feb. 6 ; Hong-kong,
Feb. 15 ; Singapore, Feb. 23.
The India mail also brings advices from Sydney
of Jan. 27 ; Melbourne, Jan. 31 ' • Adelaide, Feb.
3 ; and from the Mauritius, Feb. 18.
From India we learn that Hyder Khan had ar-
rived at Jellalabad, as the representative of Dost
Mahomed, on his way to Peshawur, to negotiate
with the Chief Commissioner.

Lord Dalhousie is gone to the Nielgherries.
The condition of Oude becomes daily more de-
plorable.
At Calcutta and Bombay trade was dull, and
freights low. The price of opium has declined.
The Four per Cents. are at a discount of 7 per
cent.; the bank discount at 10 per cent.
Exchange, 2.1.
From China we learn that the French had again
attacked Shanghai, and had been repulsed with
loss by the rebels.
The country round Canton is in the hands of the
rebels.

The export of tea from Foochow this season has
reached 26,000,0001 b. _ _ _

Exchange at Canton, 47-?, ; Shanghai, 6.7.
From Australis. we learn that Sir W. Denison
arrived at Sydney on the 17th of January.
No further disturbances had occurred at Bal-
larat.

Trade in Australia had somewhat improved, but,
politically, matters were unsatisfactory.
The prices of wool were flat ; the gold market
was dull—price, 31. 16s. per oz. Freights have
fallen. Wool, ld. per pound weight ; tallow, 60s.
per ton to London.

A MERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.

.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday.
This morning the Royal mail steam-ship Canada,
Captain Stone, arrived in the Mersey, with the
usual mails from the United States and British
North America. She sailed from Boston on the
17th inst. and Halifax on the 19th, three days
later than her appointed time ; and has brought,
besides the mails, 80 passengers and $1,000,000 in
specie on freight.
The Royal mail steam-ship Africa, from hence on
the 3d inst., arrived at Halifax on the I.sth inst.,
and the United States steamer Pacific, from hence
on the 27th ult., arrived at New York on the 13th
inst. The news of the Emperor of Russia's death
created a profound sensation.
The latest date from California, per the Illinois,
is Feb. 16th. She brought over a million dollars
in gold dust. New diggings had been discovered.
The trade was hi a depressed state.
From the Havannah wo hear that tranquillity
continues. _ _ _

A bill had been introduced into the Legislature
to exclude from the_mines all persons who are not
eligible to citizenship. This bill, if it becomes law,
will drive from the mines many thousands of the
Chinese. _

A new political party had sprung up in San
Francisco, whose ulterior designs were supposed to
aim at the formation of a Great Western Republic.
It proposed immediately to organise Oregon and
California into States, and to annex the Sandwich
Islands and Senora, and as much more of the terri-
tory of Mexico as can be conquered or purchased.
News from the Sandwich Islands, of the 27th
January, state that the King had discontinued the
negotiations for the annexation of the Islands to
the United States.

.The British steamer Bogota arrived at Panama
on the 15th ult., with $430,670 on freight, and the
mails from Valparaiso'to the Ist of February.
Chili remained tranquil. The revolUtion at
Para was at an end. The question of the Presi-
dency occupied the public mind, General Castilla
having refused the post:
The accounts from Jamaica of the 26th ult. are
unimportant.
Letters from Mexico of the 12th inst. report that
Santa Anna had returned to the capital after having
defeated the insurgents near Marenes, and forced
the main body, under Alvarez, to retire after a
desperate battle.
The steamer Nashville would leave New York for
Liverpool on the 21st inst., instead of the Pacific.
At the departure of the steamer money was
easier at New York, and stocks firm.
The cotton market was unsettled.
The market for hrovlstuffs was dull and rather
Freight a trifle lower.
Exchange on England 68 slightly advanced.

Bills on London, 1091 to 1091 ; on Paris, 5.111 to
5.131.
Cotton, breadstuff's, and provisions were dull,
but prices remained without material alteration.
Iron was drooping ; 50 tons Scotch pig had been
sold at 30 dols. for six months.

THE NAVVIES AT THE TRENCH gs,
TIM SANITARY COMMISSIONERe.

The public will learn with scarcely leas surprise than
satisfaction that the main object of the Crithean. Rail-
way Expedition is already completed, and that the
munitions of war are now being conveyed direct
from Balaklava to the trenches. It is needlesi to
say how vast a remission of toil to the overtaxed
strength of the troops is thus effected, and with what
increase of vigour and animation they now address them-
, selves to the legitimate prosecution of the business of
the siege, without the exhaustion consequent on lab mrs
wholly alien to those of lan ordinary military nature.
Moreover, the line is now laid and worked from Bala-
klava to the French camp, at the top of the steep in-
cline hitherto by horses, but at the date of the last ad-
vices the engine had begun to supersede animal power,
which was gladly used for other purposes. Thanks
to the agency of the railway, we have now begun to re-
ciprocate the services the French had bestowed upon
us in our extremity, for a large, quantity of hut and
hospital timber had been forwarded as long ago as the
10th, and such aid was highly appreciated by our allies,
who are enthusiastic in their admiration of the system-
atised application and endurance of the navvies, and
delighted by the methodical order and regularity that
prevail through all the arrangements of the corps.
This- recognition on the part of the French is the
more remarkable as they themselves now are, and have
all along ben, well provided with horses and other means
of transport. The branch to the opposite side of the
harbour has for some time been completed, and available
for removing the heavy guns and mortars on the Dia-
mond wharf, and by rendering both sides of the har-
bour available is of the greatest utility. The issue 'de-
partment of the commissariat for fuel and barley has
for some time Lack been removed from Balaklava to
Kadikei, where the nevvies had likewise constructed
, a proper depot and platform, with the requisite sheds
and conveniences. Of the assistance which tho rail-
way corps are to the commissariat, aed of the immen-
sity of the operations of the latter department, some idea
seny be formed when it is stated that of barley alone
nearly 1,000 sacks are required, by the army' daily ; and
in the conveyance of this vast quantity Mr. Bally, the
officer who looks after the matter, gladly acknowledges
the assistance he receives from the navvies!, and does
everything in his power to facilitate its being rendered.
So, indeed, do most of the heeds . and subordinates
.in
E all the other departments at Balaklava, the condition of
which has undergone a most beneficial change since
the teilway has begun to lighten it of some of the
enormous traffic, or rather impediments to traffic and
aggravation of confusion, which bad so long rendered it
the eynonyna of everything that was chaotic and distract-
ing. The removal of the issue department for all descrip-
tions of army requirement., an well as of for ige and fuel
from Balaklava, would, of course, still further contribute
to relieve the town, and it is to be hoped that by this time
the Quartermaster-General has adopted this course, es-
pecially as to the issue of food in the camp, which would
eave'the men the necessity of coming all the distance
to the town for provieione, and marching back with
them. As further instances of the miscellaneous utieity
of the navvies, it may be mentioned that the Naval Bri-
gade falling short of water, the well-sinkers belonging
to the railway corps 'bad been sent to bore to obtain
water in the neighbourhood of the camp, and it was ex-
pected that their researches would be speedilyefficacious.
The limeleilns continue in full operation, and two more
were beieg in course of construction near the Third
Division in the front. The washing place, for the hos-
pital had likewise been completed, and altogether the
whole sphere embraced in or influenced by the opera-
tions of the railway corps was assuiningan aspect in every
way the reverse of what had prevailed a very short time
ago. As late as the 17th, the date of the most recent ad-
vices'we are now quoting from. the weather had been oc-
casionally extremely warm and enervating, and the navvies
had begun to complainof a deeree of lassitude which they
bad never experienced in England even when the ther-
mometer had ranged considerably higher. This natu-
rally begets alarm as to health, when the heat shall
have really begun to act upon the prodigious area, now
affected by the process of animal decomposition of all
kinds going on within several miles of the British po-
sition on either side ; and proportionate anxiety is be-
ginning to be fel for the arrival in the Crimea of Mr.
Rawlinson, the engineer of the sanitary commission, whose
preliminary labours are so indispensable to the benefi-
cial exercise of the skill of his medical coadjutors—Drs.
Sutherland and Gavin. As regards the commission, it
has already done some good, and paved the way for an
infinite deal more, at Constantinople. The hospitals on
shore at Scutari and Kululee, and' the floating one at
Seraglio Point, have been inspected and reported on.
The authorities have given the commissioners every as-
sistance, and the works recommended are already com-
menced.

Mr. Wilson, one of the inspectors of nuisances, from
Liverpool, is stationed at Scutari, and has about 20 Turks
and Greeks employed under him as scavengers. Lord W.
Pa wlett was, to have given him an int,Tpreter, -but at
present it is amusing to hear him directing in English,
net one word of which is understood by his squad, who,
nevertheless, manage to get on very effectively. The
place had begun to wear a decidedly improved appear-
ance. Dead dogs had been buried, rubbish was being
swept up and removed, and this was being done daisy
and continuously, and not by fits and starts, and it
would be vigilantly persevered in. The corridors within
tite barrack hospitals were being lime-washed, privies
flushed and ventilated, water tanks emptied, cleansed,
and roofed over, sewers cleansed and trapped, and
better ventilation provided wherever practicable.
Miss Nightingale, with whom Mr. Ravlinsou had
bad several interviews, was delighted at the pros-
pect of a change for the better, for nurses, military
officerß, and all had suffered hem fever, which ought
to have been, and whose recurrence most probably
will be, prevented. A fine young man, the fore-
man of the carpenters, sent out by Sir Morton Pete,
died of fever on the I,7th. Miss Nightingale attended
his bedside at the time of his decease, and was indefati-
gable in her services, as she is in all such cases where
there is the smallest possibility of her offering assistance
or consolation., But how limited must her utmost be
when it is remembered how multitudinous are the calls
upon her, no less than: 4,000 sick men at a time needs
ing the ministration of this heroic woman, and the
few ladies whom her example inspires and her counsel
guides. The Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity con-
tinue to co-operate most cordially with her and her
nurses, 20 out of 22 of whom have been laid up with
sickness, some having died. Mr. Newland and twO
of the Liverpool inspectors of nuisance., who would
prove most useful adjuncts to Mr. Ravilineon's staff,
were to have arrived in the Crimea on the 17th, to be
followed by Dr. Gavin on the 20th, and by Mr. Raw-
mason on the 24th. Dr. Sutherland, who had seen con-
fined to his bed with low fever for a week previous
to the 17tbr-was to return as soon as he recovered, from
Constantinople to Smyrna, where his presen.,e cannot
fail to be of great value. Towards the prosecution and
completion of all the works in the Turkish capital and
'neighbourhood, recommended by the commission, Lord
Stiatford de Radcliffe had promised all needful assist-
ance.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

1855.

The following is the House List of Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England fur the year ensuing,

VIZ. :--

FOR GOVERNORS.
Thomas Matthias Weguelin, Esq., Governor.
Sheffield Neave, Esq., Deputy Governor.

FOR DIRECTORS.

Thomas Baring, Esq.
Henry Wollaston Blake,
Esq.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq.
Arthur Edward Campbell,
Esq.
William Cotton, Esq.
*James Pattison Currie;
Esq.
Bonarny Dobree, Esq.
Charles Pascoe G-renfell,
Esq.
ThoursonHankey, j u n., Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq.
John Gellibrand Hubbard,
Esq.

Charles Frederick Huth,
Esq.

Aifreci Latham, Esq.
George Lyall, Esq.
James Malcolmson,
Thomas Mastermau, Esq.
Alexander Matheson, Esq.
'James Morris, Esq.
George Warde Norman,
Etq.
John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Henry Jam es Prescott, E-q.
Thomas Charles Smith, Esq.
Thomas Took; jun., Esq.
Francis Wilson, Esq.

*N.B.—The gentleman against whose name an
asterisk is placed is a new candidate for the Direction.
The election for Governor and Deputy. Governor will
be held at the Rink, on Triestlay, the 10th April, and
for Directors on Wednesday, the 11th April, froth ten
o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon.