The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-13 00:00:00

DENM A RK.

Our Hamburgh correspondence contains accounts
from Copenhagen of the Bth inst.
The Danish Industrial Exhinition has been closed.
Messrs. Peto, Ricardo, Althrop, and Andrews,
•vho are travelling in Denmark on business con-
nected with the rail ways of that State, have had the
.nonour of an audience from the King.
The Royal Family of Sweden have arrived at
Ilamburgh.
The Copenhagen papers state that the work of
razing the fortifications of Rendsburg will be begun
on the 17th. The War Department has ordered 500
men to be employed for the purpose. The expense
of the work will, it is supposed, be covered by the sale
1.7. f the materials.

BELGIUM.
The Debats has the following on the commerce
of Belgium :
" We consider it important to frequently
state etate of commerce in Belgium, th'xealpfieingeottihae-
Lions which France has ente,redtincwt, which
that country
into with
appears to
give a particular interest, Be.gi.atnhe
marked commercial
have hitherto profited largely
revival which almost everywbehiebyhas characterised 185').
the Belgian Govern-
The monthly tables published
Govern-
ment show that the exports of coals, machinery, linen
threads and cloths, plate and window glass, and cotton
stuffs had much increased up to the Ist
.of Aagust
last In coals the augmentation has h been 125,000 tons
and that altogether in importsntoof
France;
f thei n
..
linen-
threads the difference is upwards i
~reater part of which has also been sent
238t0 kFI .n
eagsc.
linen-cloths the increase 19 upwards of 60 per cent., and
also bears mostly on our purchases. Pig-iron has in-
creased but little, and wrought iron and small castings,
particularly nails, show a diminution, which seems to
prove that the competition of Germany is increasing.
The exportation of sax in masses has also fallen OS,
ant sheet-zinc has considerably increased, England,
where building is going on at present to a great ex-
tent, taking a large quantity. The exportation of
books has not mach varied. Belgian imports have na-
turally felt the effect of this acceleration of sales. In
place, for instance, of 6.548 000 kilags, of raw cotton,.
Belgian manufactures had consumed up to the Ist of
August, 13,189,000, or nearly double; in raw hides the
increase had been from 639,000 to 985,000.
The amount of corn gives a fair idea of
the extraordinary wants of Belgium; the quantity
of wheat has risen from 269,000 to 600,000.
.The
Came is the case for all articles of consumption,
aseh as coffee, coarse sugar, tobacco, salt, all of
which show a large increase; but it is English salt which
this year has had the advantage over ours, the inverts of
which has notably decreased. Salt is one of the articles
mentioned in the treaty, the renewal of which is now
proposed, and it is annoying to remark that our wines,
woollen-threads, silk-tissues, and woollen and cotton
cloths, which are in the same case, have not gained,
but have even lost. Such is the case with the com-
merce, properly so called, of Belgium. Now, if we
examine the state of her transit, which her position, her
railway from the Rhine to the sea, and her canals tend
le render so important for France, we shall find that it
12A3 also considerably increased. By the Belgian-Rhenan
hallway alone the transport from the east to the west,
that is, from Antwerp to the Rhine, was during the
last three months 15,992 tons, in the place of 9,229,
or an augmentation of 73 per cent. The movemtrit
of corn towards Northern Germany, the wants of
which have aeen exceptional, counts no doubt for
:::inch in this increase; but the greatest part attic prin-
cipal manufacturing mat:era have participated in this
improrernont, The same has not been ex,ctly the case
for the transit from the west to the east, that is from
Cologne towards Antwerp, which has slightly fallen aft.
But that is °lie of the consequences of the extraordinary
amount of corn w::ich Germany has on this occasion
caused to be brought to herself in place of sending it, as
to ET;gland The boats on the Rhine are also muk-
ng, and not without some success, grand efforts to turn
snide to the profit of the pa Waage down the Rhine a part of
the Belgian traresit. However that may ba, that of
Prussia by Belgium in manufactured produce appears as
yet not to have lost anything of its habitual importance.
From all that precedes, it may be concluded that the
commercial affairs of Belgium are et present in an excel-
lent position, and in what regards our relations, that
reentry has sensibly increased the opening which it finds
in our consumption."