The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-19 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS

BRUSSELS, Nov. 13.—After much hesitation the 11
nistry is at•length completed. M. de Muelenaere remains
Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. de Coghetu, of Finance ;
M. de Raikem, Justice; M. Jord Fallon is appointed Mi-
nister of the Interior; M. Ch. de Brouckere remains at
the head of the War department, but has no seat in the
council of Ministers.
M. Felix de Merode and de Theux are Members of the
Council.
We are assured that Lord Dover will succeed Sir R.
Adair as Ambassador from England to King Leopold.
It is thought Lord Durham will set out for Paris to-
day or to-morrow.
We believe we may announce that a new Protocol will
shortly arrive.
It is said that a courier from London brought word
yesterday that the Conference had recognised Leopold
King of the Belgians.
A British Cabinet messenger set out yesterday from
Brussels with despatches for the Hague.
Letters front London, whieh deserve entire confidence,
announce that immediately after the arrival of M. Van de
Weyer, who was expected, the steps taken by the Powers
in Common for the recognition of Belgium will be made
known at Brussels.
BaussEt.s, Nov. 14.—The Moniteur Beige says,—
" The Courrier is mistaken in stating that M. Ch de
Brouckere, though Minister of War, is no longer a member
of the Council of Ministers."
As we announced yesterday, a courier who arrived
from London the day before yesterday in the evening,
brought a new Protocol of the Conference, by which the
Powers recognise King Leopold as King of the Belgians
the conditions by which his Majesty is required to accept
the 24115 article being thus fulfilled, he yesterday, after a
Council cf Ministers, gave his assent to the treaty of peace.
In a Couneil of Ministers held last Friday, Messrs.
pinneraude and Faber were appointed Commissioners at
London, to conclude and sign the arrangements which will
follow the acceptance of the twenty-four articles,
Nov. Pineraude set out for Lonion yesterday,
M. Faber is not to go, as the Government will send only
one Commissioner, to lessen the expense.
The following, according to the Independent, are the
contents of the new Protocol, the arrival of which we an-
nounced yesterday. It is the answer of the Conference
to King William. The answer is stated to be i❑ sub-
stance as follows :

,‘ That the Five Powers do not dispute King William's
character of an independent sovereign, and thlt in this
character he is fully at liberty to make war if he thinks
fit, but that in their character of independent sovereigns
also, and for the interest of Europe, the five Sovereign
Princes represented in the Conierence at London reserve
to themselves the right to vtake war on King William if
he recommences hostilities.
" That it would be useless for King William to send
Plenipotei.tizries to discuss the twenty-four articles, as
1 discussion on them is closed, and as the only point
now required is the unqualified acceptance of the twenty-
four articles, and the recogniticri by the King of Holland
of the King of the Belgians, this recognition being gua-
ranteed by the five Powers."
The Courrier says on this subject :—" We announced
the arrival of a new Protocol, and it seems that on this no-
tice the optimists have given the reins to their imagina-
tion. This Protocol they say has arrived, and contains,
according to some of them, the recognition of King Leo-
pold by the Five Powers, according to others a final sum-
mons to the King of Holland to accept the 24 articles
without further delay. We are very sorry for it, but we
believe that we may be certain that nothing of all this yet
-zists. The Itloniteur, which certainly would not be the
last to communicate such news to the public if it were
true, doe; not say a syllable of it, and, on the other band,