The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-22 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

The Dibats says :—" We learn from Brussels that
M. H. de Brouchere has definitively abandoned the
mission of constituting a cabinet, and that M. de
Theux has been sent for by the King. The new
Ministry is to be chosen amongst the most moderate
members of the Catholic party. M. H. de Bouckere
and his combination failed on the question of the pre-
sidency of the Chamber, which was very inopportunely
raised. The projected cabinet proposed M. Delfosse
as President, but it was evident that the opposition
would not have accepted that candidatesbip. The
name of M. Loos, burgomaster of Antwerp, and
member of the Chamber, was put forward, but with-
out any more success. M. Loos is the intimate friend
of M. Charles Rogier. There was afterwards a
question of giving the portfolio of the finance de-
partment to the same M. Loos. After many goings
and comings, everything seemed terminated on Satur-
day evening, and the arrangements were concluded :
when the return of M. Piercot from Liege made
known the existence of new difficulties, which appeared
of a nature to prevent the formation of a new Minis-
try. M. H. de Brouckere then declared respectfully
to the King that his efforts had been unsuccessful, and
that be resigned into his hands the mission which he
had accepted. It is said that in the new combination
M. de Theux will have the Ministry of the interior ;
the Prince Joseph de Chimay, the Ministry of Fo-
reign Affairs; and M. Mercier, the Ministry of Fi-
nance. But things, however, do not appear so far
advanced as is pretended in certain saloons at Brus-
sels."
The Indipendance of Brussels, alluding to the as-
sertion of the Journal de Francfort, that the Belgian
Government had addressed a note to the foreign
powers on the subject of the differences with France,
says :—" The Belgian cabinet has not addressed any
note to the cabinets of Europe on the subject of the
commercial difficulties between France and Belgium.
It has merely done what is usual in such cases, and
what we believe the French Government has done in
the present case, transmitted to its representatives at
foreign courts explanations of what had passed, in
order to enable them, in their political conversations,
to defend the line of conduct adopted by their Govern-
ment. We are informed that the circular in question
was transmitted to the different Belgian legations
before the official publication, of which it is an ana-
lysis, had been made."
A meeting of the linen-thread spinners has just
been held in Belgium on the subject of the commer-
cial differences with France. As the members of
the meeting could not in the present ministerial crisis
address themselves to any minister, they resolved on
sending a direct address to the King. The Belgian
journals do not state the nature of the address.

We read in the Independance of Brussels :—" It is
not a thing of rare occurrence to see dogs panting
and dragging their master up the steeps of the city,
while he idly lolls in his little carriage ; but what we
have never before seen is a stout, well-grown man in
the vigour of age, drawn by his wife, harnessed be-
tween two large dogs. It was in the Rue de Namur
that we a few days since witnessed this act of conju-
gal autocracy, borrowed from the habits of certain
Arab tribes. The Mussulman attitude assumed by
the Brabant Bedouin was quite in character; the pipe
which he smoked, his copper-colour countenance, and
his long black beard gave him quite the appearance of
a real child of the Atlas."