The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-11 00:00:00

HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.

The following official announcement appears in
the Moniteur Beige of the 7th inst. It created
considerable excitement in the Belgian capital :
" The Count de RECHBERG, Charge d'Affaires
of His Majesty, the Emperor of AUSTRIA, and the
Count D'SESPENDORFF, Charge d'Affaires of
His Majesty the King of PRUSSIA, quitted
Brussels on the 6th of this month with the per-
sons attached to their legations."
The Members of the Chamber of Deputies have
agreed to remain in Brussels during the prorogation,
that they may be at hand to communicate with the
Government in the event of any measure contrary
to their views, being resolved on for the settlement
of the dispute with Holland. This, their real ob-
ject in lingering near the seat of their Legislative
labours, though not avowed, is understood by every
person, and creates uneasiness because indicating
suspicions of the patriotism of the Government.

The inhabitants of Venloo have been directed to
lay in provisions for a month.
It was rumoured that the QUEEN of the FRENCH
and the Princess CLEMENTINE had left Paris for
Brussels.

A number of horses intended for the use of the
Belgian troops, belonging to M. RUBERT, were
seized by the Prussian authorities between Mun-
ster and and Wesel, and their owner taken into

custody. The exportation of horses from Prussia
being strictly prohibited, their seizure by the
Officers of Customs was in execution of an ordi-
nary duty, and therefore totally unconnected with
political considerations.

Letters from Frankfort state that, notwithstand-
ing the warlike attitude assumed by Holland and
Belgium, and the powerful armaments of Prussia
already in motion, no doubt is felt as to the preser-
vation of the general peace. The military arrange-
ments made by Prussia are not regarded in the
light of measures meant to counterbalance the
movements of France on the northern frontier, but
rather as auxiliary to the pacific designs of the
French Government. It was, moreover, the con-

viction of persons who had recently visited Bel-
gium that the more respectable classes were all
strongly opposed to the idea of a war with Holland.
The manufacturers, in particular, were anxious for
the continuance of tranquillity, so necessary to their
recovery from the shock given them by the brief
suspension of payment by the Banki, of Belgium;
but their voice was drowned by the clamours of
revolutionary demagogues, having everything to
hope and nothing to fear from anarchy and the
sword. Belgium has her CATALINES as well
as ancient Rome.
Sit powder wageons are gone to-day to Antwerp, to
receive at the Citadel a quantity of ammunition to be con-
veyed to Limburg:
A letter from Hasselt of the sth Feb., says:—." The
garrison of Maestricht makes frequent sallies with a great
number of men in the environs of the town."
It is still reported at Maestricht, that a corps of 20,006
men is to be stationed in the town. This corps, it is said,
is that which is posted along the Meuse, between Grave
and Nimeguen. The inhabitants of Maestricht are much
dissatisfied that the importation of corn and potatoes from
Belgium is prohibited in the town.
(From the Courrier Beige.)

BRUSSELS, FEB. B.—lt is said what most severely af-
fected the maritime commerce of Antwerp, was the obli-
gation to touch at Flushing or at Ternewzen, to wait for
permission to enter the Scheldt or to put to sea. Often
the winds and tides which were depended on had changed
when the Dutch thought fit to allow ships to proceed on
their voyage. There are continual remonstrances against
this order of things, and it was,declared preferable to pay
a higher toll in order to enter and depart without obstacles.
This is the ground for establishing a Dutch officer at
Antwerp. The proposed duty is certainly too high, and
if our Minister for Foreign Affairs had intervened in time,
we should doubtless have obtained a reduction. But it is
only Just to say that this is a part of the bank, near Ter-
neuzen, the keeping of which in repair annually amounts
to a large sum, which sum sometimes exceeds 900,000 florins.
Though it is the interest of Holland to make those repairs,
it has not neglected to endeavour to throw part of them
on Belgium. However, the remonstrances of the English,
Dutch, and French merchants will doubtless have much
influence in the sequel in obtaining a modification of this
duty, which will press more heavily on them than on us.
A Cabinet Council was summoned and met at the
Palace.

In a letter from the Hague, dated the 7th inst.,

it is stated that the Speech of the Queen of GREAT
BRITAIN, at the opening of Parliament, has satis-
fied the Dutch that the dispute with Belgium will
be settled without the firing of a musket. The
pacific intentions of King LEOPOLD arc well
known in Holland, and the unpleasant duty imposed
by his position, of feigning a repugnance to sign
the. Treaty, fully appreciated. But the portion of
this communication which will excite most sur-
prise, is the following :—" The appointment of
the Polish General was made by LEOPOLD,
for the express purpose of affording the
Ministers of Austria and Prussia a ground to quit
Brussels. By this demonstration, combined with
the assembling of French and Prussian troops on
the Belgian frontier, a reaction must necessarily
take place on the part of those who do not join in
the mad and wicked project of the advocates for
war, but who have not yet had the courage to make
themselves heard." Whether this statement be, or
be not, correct, we cannot tell ; but for our own
part we do not believe a syllable of it. Much as
King LEOPOLD is opposed to a course which he
must know would be attended with disastrous results

to Belgium, we believe him to be far too patriotic to
seek to avoid it by the repetition of a policy to be
studied in the darkest pages of the history of
unhappy Poland.
On the 6th instant, the Prince of ORANGE set
out for the head-quarters of the army. The Dutch
Government, in order to manifest more clearly its
pacific intentions, has ordered the troops in North
Brabant to withdraw the distance of two leagues
from the Belgian frontier.
THE HAMM, FEB. B.—The Stag!: Courant contains a
report of a negotiation for realizing Losrenten, bearing in-
terest at 5 per cent per annum, charged on the transmarine
possessions of the kingdom, the interest of which is fully
guaranteed by the kingdom by the law of the 22d of Dec.
1838. The amount of 14,000 shares of a thousand florins
each, is to be issued in the negotiations of Losrenten to be
sued according to the above law quoted. We have re-
ceived the important news of the prorogation of the Bel-
gian Chambers, and the resignation of two of the Mi-
nisters.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 9.—lt is said that the Government is
negotiating with the Conference to obtain that, in case of
the compulsory abandonment of Luxemburg and Limburg,
those two countries may be occupied for two years by some
other power than Holland, in order to avoid the acts of
revenge and reprisal, which many persons fear, who have
openly manifested their Anti-Dutch opinions.
We do not believe the news of the departure of M.
Dumont for London, announced_ by the Beige : it is too
late. It is a measure which the Ministry should have taken
earlier; but in this, as in most of the negociations and resolu-
tions to which it is forced in its own defence, our diplomatic
Minister has always been one idea and one day behind
hand. The Minister of War, finding it impossible to procure
horses abroad, has resolved, it is said, to purchase 1,800
in the Ardennes. Every body accounts, in his own way,
for the resignation of Messrs. d'fluart and Ernst, and
imagine from it that the Government gives up all resist-
ance to the last Protocol of the Conference. For our
part, while we see in the Cabinet Nothomb, the learned
author of the:" History of the Revolution of Belgium," we
shall not despair of the cause. We believe, on the con-
trary, that we may affirm that the retirement of the two
Ministers is to be ascribed only to the apprehensions which
they conceived of the consequences which might result to
Belgium from the appointment of the Polish General
Skryznecki.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsrEnnam, FEB. 3.
Money. Sills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
- • -

Ainort Syndic, 454 per cent
944 9.4
Ditto ditto, 34 per cent.
.79. 80

Commercial tonifia.ny, 4,, per cent l74► 175
Ditto (IKI2 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan 1836, 4 per cent.
Ditto 1037, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month
Two months
BELGIAN 1. UNDS—Baussti.s, FEB. 9,
Actual Debt, per Cent. ... 52%
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent.."""""'................ 97'4
Loan of Thirty Rlillions, 4 per Cent.
3 er
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cepnt Cent. 6B
Society of Commerce, 414 per Cent lib
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
National Society
100
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 9.
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