The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-21 00:00:00

why does not all go well? Why does the distress of
the industrious and commercial classes increase ?
Because of the weakness of the Government ; be-
cause the authorities have shown too much in-
dulgence towards the partizans of another political
order, who advocate the Republic, because they do
not know the inconveniences of it. Let the Mi-
nistry act with vigour against these two parties,
who understand each other too well, and who join
i❑ their efforts to overthow order and the present
state of things. Let them act against the Carlist
party, by placing an insurmountable barrier between
France and the deposed family, by taking from that
family all hope of returning to France, by ordering
it immediately to sell its estates. Let them act
with vigour against all the fomenters of troubles.
Let them not suffer those who have been arrested
to languish in prison, but let them be promptly
either discharged or condemned, and let care be
taken that the guilty do not escape. If these mea-
sures be adopted, tranquillity and confidence will be
restored, and we may enjoy the advantages of the
Revolution of July There is still time; but if
there is delay, disorder will spread everywhere.
When the churches have been pillaged, they will
go to the chateau, to the palaces, and to the
houses. Civil war will then be lighted up in the
departments; and Frenchmen will no longer know
how to act. I hope that the Ministry will profit by
the advice of a friend of the public prosperity, who
has no object but the happiness of his country.—
( A pplause.)
The President observed that the Honourable
Deputy had strayed from the question.
M. de Montalivet then rose and said— Some
questions have been addressed to the Ministers, and
grave charges—he must so call them—have been
brought against them. Their general principles have
been attacked, and specific facts mentioned. If
principles only were in question, we might have
made an explanation immediately. But facts have
been advanced. Commerce, it is said, has not been
protected; there has been a violation of domicile,
and arrests have taken place. To explain these cir-
cumstances documents are necessary, and in order
to give our words the force which they ought to
have, we must call those documents to our aid.
We beg the Chamber to allow us till to-morrow.—
(Yes, yes.)
M. Baude attempted to speak, but was inter-
rwpted by cries of " to-morrow, to-morrow," and the
Chamber decided that the explanations should take
place on the morrow.
Great tumult arose in the Assembly. Many of
the Deputies left their places, and formed groups
before the tribune and Ministerial benches.

Barthe appeared much agitated, and spoke to
M. Augustin Perrier with some violence. Several
other Deputies also appeared in great agitation.
A Voice—You want a Republic, it is well known.

Most of the Deputies, upon this, rushed to the
Ministerial Bench, where this incident took place.
Tranquillity having been re-established a Deputy in
the centre was heard to say, the Ministers must
govern, or they must go out.
M. Lafitte replied from the centre with much
violence—The Government is strong; it is stronger
than the Chamber, and it will prove it when neces-
sary.—The Deputies appeared astonished at these
words. Attention was particularly directed towards
Casimer Perier, who, on seeing his brother engaged
in argument, appeared troubled ; and when the dis-
cussion on the municipal law was resumed, his voice
was so much paralysed, that not a word of what he
said could be heard.

The first and second section of the left joined
in this tumultuous discussion, and so many persons
spoke at once that it was impossible to collect the
different exclamations which fell from them.

Many of the Deputies then retired to the Ante-
chamber or the Hall of Conferences, and commu-
nicated their conjectures as to what was meant by
the observations of M. Lafitte. The greater part of
them contended that it meant the Chamber was
about to be dissolved. The Ministers then retired
from the Assembly, and it was said they were going
to hold a Council.
The Chamber then proceeded with ordinary busi-
ness ; after which they adjourned to the next day
(Friday).

(From the Moniteur of Feb. 18.—Official part.)
PARIS, FEB. 17.—T0-day, at noon, the deputa-
tion of the National Congress of Belgium repaired
to the Palais Royal. Two of his Majesty's aides-
de-camp received it at the top of the grand staircase,
to conduct it into the first saloon, where it was re-
ceived by the Minister d Foreign Affars, who con.
ducted it into the Presence Chamber. His Majesty
received it sitting on the throne, having on his right
the Duke of Orleans, and on his left the Duke of
Nemours. Her Majesty the Queen was present, as
well as the Princes and Princesses, and the Princess
Adelaide, the King's sister. The Ministers and
aides-de-camp of the King surrounded the throne.
The President of the Congress delivered the fol-
lowing speech :
" SIRE,—The legal organ of the Belgian people, the
sovereign Congress, in its sitting of the 3d of February,
elected and proclaimed King his Royal Highness Louis
Charles Philip d'Orleans, Duke of Nemours, your Ma-
jesty's younger son, and has intrusted to us the mission to
offer the crown to his Royal Highness in the person of
your Majesty, as his guardian and King.
" This election, which was hailed by the acclamations
of a free people, is a homage rendered to the popular
royalty of France, and to the virtue of your family : it ce-
ments the natural union of the two nations, without con-
founding them. It reconciles their wishes and their na-
tural interests with the interests and the peace of Europe,
and by giving to the independence of BAgium a new sup-
port, that of the French honour, it ensures to other States
a new element of force and tranquillity.
" The constitutional compact on which the Crown of
Belgium rests is finished. The nation, whose independence
is recognised, expects with impatience both the Sovereign
of its choice, and the benefits of the Constitution to which
he will take the oath. The answer of your Majesty will
fulfil its well-founded expectations, and our just hopes.—
Your accession has proved that you know all the power of
a truly national wish, and the sympathy of France is a
pledge to us of it■ ready assent to the suffrages of Belgium.
" We deliver into your hands, Sire, the official decree
of the election of his Royal Highness the Duke of Ne-
nioui.s, and a copy of the Constitution decreed by the
Congress."
The President of the Congress then read the act
of the Congress in the following terms :
" In the name of the Belgic nation,
1' THE NATIONAL CONGRESS
" DECREES"

" Art. 1. llis Royal Highness Louie Charles Philip
d'Orleane, Duke of Nemours, is proclaimed King of the
Belgians, on condition of accepting the Constitution, such
as it shall be decreed by the National Congress.
" He is not to take possessio❑ of the throne till after
having solemnly taken, in the presence of the Congress,
the following oath :
" I swear to observe the Constitution and the laws of
the Belgian people, to maintain the national inde-
pendence, and the integrity of the territory.
" Brussels, Palace of the Nation, Feb. 3, 1631.
" "The Secretaries Members of the Congress,
" ' VISCOUNT VILAIN XIV,
" LIETDZ.
" H. DE BROUCKERE.
"" NOTHOMB.
" ' The President of the Congress,
4' 4 E. SURLET CHOKIER.'

" The King answered to the Deputation
" Gentlemen,—The wish which you are commissioned
to lay before me in the name of the Belgic people, on pre-
senting rue with the act of the election which the Na-
tional Congress has just made, of my second son, the
Duke of Nemours, for King of the Belgians, fills me with
sentiments which I request you to express to your gene-
rous nation. I am profoundly affected that my constant
devotedness to my country has inspired you with this wish.
I shall always be proud that one of my sons has been the
object of your choice.
" If I listened only to the inclination of my very sincere
desire to yield to the wish of a people whose peace and
prosperity are equally dear and important to France, I
should readily accede to it. But whatever may be my re-
gret, whatever may be the affliction which I feel in refus-
lug you my eon, the strictness of the duties which I have
to fulfil imposes upon me this painful obligation ; and I
must declare that I do not accept for him the crown
which you are commissioned to offer him.
" My first duty is to consult, above all things, the in-