The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-22 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 18.—His Majesty's birth-day, was kept
on Thursday, here, and in the other islesof the kingdom, with
the usual festivities. The Mouiteur publishes this morning
the nominations of burgo-masters and aldermen in several
rural communes of the provinces of Antwerp ; it also pub-
lishes two petitions of manufacturers of beet-root sugar,
soliciting a diminution of the drawback on refined sugars.
The Chamber of Commerce has just given its opinion on
the statutes of the Society of " Mutualite Industrielle."
The grounds of this opinion, which is wholly unfavourable
to the Society, are stated at great length. The Chamber
of Commerce has not confined itself to the consideration of
this Society, lilt has taken this opportunity of pointing out
the dangers to which the abuse that has lately been made
of the principles of association (joint•stock companies) ex-
poses commerce and manufactures. The parts of the
statutes of the Society in question which the Chamber cri-
ticises with the greatest severity are those which modify
the institutions of savings banks, and those which allow
Belgian capital to be employed in foreign manufactures.
DEC. I9.—At the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives
to-day, M. Dumortier called the attention of the assembly
to the circumstance of which we have already spoken, of the
arrest of four (not seven) Dutch officers by the gendarmes
in the Belgian territory, and of their having been carried
off in triumph by a large body of Dutch troops that came
from Macstricht. He asked what the Government had
done to revenge this outrage on the national dignity. The
Minister of the Interior said, that only the Dutch cavalry
had come beyond the limit, which indeed did not render the

restriction of the territory less flagrant, but they sent a
flag of truce, and the Belgian gendarmes, not being strong
enough td resist, were obliged to release the officers whom
they had arrested, and rho returned to the fortress with
the detachment ; and he said that a remonstrance had been
addressed to General Debbits, who replied that he did not
reddgdigti the limits of the territory of the fortress ; that
their pretensionjeO!4d not be admitted by the treaty of
20th May, nor by they tonvention of Zondhoven, the
Government had therefore appliel to the Powers who
signed the treaty of May 21.
It appeared in the course of the debate that the Dutch
officers of the garrison were in the habit of visiting, without
arms; a tavern called Tourne-Bride, in the Belgian terri-
tory, arid that in point of fact, no intentional infringement of
the territory had been committed ; but M. de Brouchere
thought that, as this fact was well known to the
Government, they ought either to have given orders not to
molest them, or if it was not disposed to tolerate the prac-
tice, to hate given notice to the Governor of Marestricht,
that it would no longer permit officers in plain clothes, and
without arms, to come beyond the limits of the rayon of the
fortress.

M:bumortier was not satisfied with the application to
Foreign rowers. He thought they ought to help them-
selves. The Po7lland arrived here a few days ago, which
is to carry King Otho, and his younc, Queen to Athens.
Hence it seems to be certain that the King will embark
here, and not at Ancona, as was reported. Hitherto, how-
ever, no preparations have been made in this city for the
reception of their Majesties.
BELGIAN 1, UNDS—BitUeSELS, DEC. 20.
Actual Debt, 2;4 pet 'cent.
Rothschild's Loan, .5 per Cent. looy,
Loan of Thirty Millions..... .............
Loan of City, 1832.4 per Cent lOl
Society of Commerce, 4 Oper Cent 142
Bank of 110 glum, 5 per Cent 134
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 21.
AUSTRIAN cIiIIDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 12.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Allgoncine Zeituttg, Dec. 17.