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London, England, 1831-04-01 00:00:00

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PRICES or IRISH STACKS, DUBLIN, MARCH '29.
Sank Stock 9.10 St. Patrick In.ur. (per sh.)
Consols, 3 Der cent.
CFO.stock, 3 per cent. 58 National Ditto
Ditto. New
4 ~er cent —. Hibernian Bank
Gov. Deli. :314 percent.... St3i'3 Provincial Ditto
Royal t.anal Stock
Grand Canal Stock 25 Imperial Mine
City Deb. 4 per cent - Mining Co. of Ireland
Ballast Orli Deb. 4 -- Commercial Buildings
ce p. c.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam C.F 12 21
Ditto, at sight 12 0
Rotterdam 0 U 12 2i
Antwerp 12 2}
fiambu-g M. B. 13 12}
Altoha l3 12
pang, 3 days' sight . 25 20
no te 2 U. 25 55
Bordeaux 25 60
Beth,.
Frankfort on Maine, E. M. 151
Petersburg(, ruble, 3 Us. !o 0
Viekna, effecti 2 M. 10 7
Triestz .... dove ti.
10 6
Madrid 37
Cadiz 37
Bilboa
Barcelona
Seville 3rd
Gibraltar 47

NGE YESTERDAY.

Leghorn
Genoa 25 CO
Venice 46
Malta 46
Naples. 39
Paletri,o per oz. I:S
Lisbon
Oporto
Mc, .faneiro
Bahia 25
Buenos A,es —
Dublin, 21 days' sight l%
Cork 1!-

BULLION, PER 07.
5.
'Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 6
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 10i
New Goubl.ions 0 0
New Dollars
Silver bars, standard 0 0 0

HIGH %VATIC& AT LONDON BRI1)GK TO-I,IOItROW.
Morning... 59 minutoafter 4. Evening...7l minutes after 5.

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1831.

The change of Ministry in Belgium, and the dis-
turbances tkat have again occurred in that country,
are events which again require attention to be di-
rected to Belgian affairs, to which we should mere
frequently have referred had it not been for the more
immediate importance of our domestic politics.
Although the Belgian question has passed from the
held of battle to that of diplomacy, it is far from cer-
tain that it will not escape from the hold of the
great Powers and become again a question of war,
for it is now manifest that the, diplomatists have
altogether departed from the object for which they
met in London in November !act, and which was
then declared to be to regulate the terms of an
armistice between Belgium and Holland. The two
Protocols of the 4th and 17th of November had an
armistice for their object, and were accepted and
observed by Belgium ; but subsequently the Pleni-
potentiaries of the five great Powers have sought
not merely to preserve provisionally to the two
armies the lines which they actually occupied, but
to give to Belgium definitive limits, against which
the Belgian Congress and Government have ener-
getically protested, and still do protest. The most
material difference between the great Powers and
the Belgians is in reference to the declared intention
to exclude Luxembourg from the limits of Belgium,
and upon this question the following is the substance
of what we have gathered from the Belgian Jour-
nals of the last three weeks :

The Duchy of Luxembourg has ever since the
15th century formed an integral part of Belgium.
Having beesi governed by its own Duke during the
middle ages, it passed under the sceptre of theimuse
of Burgundy in 1461, at the death of the Duchess
ELIZABETH, of Gorlitz, From that time it has never
ceased to form a province of Belgium. It was
united as a Belgian province to the French Republic
by the law of the 9th Vendemiarie, year IV. (Ist
October, 1795), and was ceded as such by the Etrn.
Peror of AUSTRIA to Fiance, under the denomination
of the Austrian Netherlands, by the third article of
the treaty of Catnpo-Formio. 1814 the southern
Provinces of the Netherlands were separated from the
Prench empire, and remained for a time under a provi-
sional military occupation,until the treaty of London of
June, 1814, created the kingdom of the Netherlands
Without any reservation of Luxembourg, but com-
prising it under the general denomination of Bel-
gium. The Prince of ORANGE'S Proclamation of
the 16th March, 1815, declared, " That all the
" countries belonging to Belgium and to Holland
" form the kingdom of the Netherlands, and that
" he assumes for himself and his successors the
" title of King, with the addition of that of Duke
"of LUXEMBOURG, on account of the relations
" which this province is destined to have with Ger-
" Nany." Thus it is clear that these relations did
not then exist. The Treaty of June, 1814, and the
Proclamation of the 16th March, 181.5, consider
Luxembourg as an integral part of the kingdom of
the Netherlands. As to the relations which Lux.
embourg was destined to have with Germany, they
were these :—The Allied Powers were only dis-
Posed to ratify the elevation of the House of Orange,
but in consideration of a sacrifice,and without destroy-
ing entirely its relations with Germany, from which
it sprung. It had preserved or recovered its here-
ditary possessions of Nassau-Dillenbourg, S'egen,
Hadamar, and Diet; which gave it a rank among
the dynasties of Germans-, and which were regu-
isted by a particular system of succession. The
Allies required the cession of these possessions by
Way of exchange for the province of Luxembourg,
4tili this substitution, which is a mere political fic-
tion, was to have two effects, viz.-Ist, The King
the NETHERLANDS remained a German Prince as
chief of the province of Luxembourg, which was
considered to represent the States of Nassau.—
The law of succession in force in the States of
Nassau became applicable to the Province of Luxem-
bourg. But things did not remain there. In con-
sidering Luxembourg as replacing the States of
Nassau, the Prince FREDERIC, (second son of
king WILLIAM) would inherit it as soon as
his brother attained the throne of the Ne-
therlands,—Luxembourg would become a sort
Of private perquisite of the Prince, and Belgium
'night have been exposed to dismemberment.
The treaties, contemplating the inconveniences that
would result from such a state of things, gave to
taLe king of the NETHERLANDS the power of taking
te necessary measures to preserve the integrity of
hq
kingdom. This was the object of a law of the
nth May, 1816, which—after reciting that the States
Nassau (the inheritance of Prince FREDERIC)
Raying been ceded in exchange for Luxembourg,
this province would have indemnified him for the
dc'ss of his expectancy, but that as the King had
k7etsted it conformable to the ]
Duchgenera interest of the
Ingdom to re-unite to it the Grand yof Lux-
c,„6o
urge and to place it under the same constitu-
,l•,‘l,"l ws, it was just to provide for the Prince an
indemnity out of the property of the State, whose
ee.enue and power had been augmented by
a 4 ''e-union—assigns to the Prince FREDERIC
to
situate in the territory of Breda, of
e value of 190,000 florins. It is neces-
h
,tFY to bear in mind these facts, in order to compre-
end the
bo real state of the question about Luzern-
t4g) for unless we take into consideration this
8"0nd exchange, we shall always reason on incor-
rect data. As to the military relations of Luxem-
burg with Germany, the new Chief does not ap-
:i;:r_to object to preserving them, but in the face of
uprscts we have mentioned, any argument resting
ori
the assumption that Luxembourg has never
for'ned a .part of Belgium, necessarily falls to the
fr:zund• It may be added that in all subsequent acts
erollourg was considered and treated as a Belgian