The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-10 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

i3MISSELS, JAN. 5.—M. Chtrles de lirouekere was in-
stalled yesterday morning as Administrator-General (or
Minister) of the t'inances.

Commet-cial affairs are increasing so much at Brussels,
that the tribunal of commerce is obliged to sit three times
a week instead of twice.

A detachment of Chltaetirs of our garriKon is gone to-
day to Vilvorde, to relieve the citizens who guard the
House of Correction. The Provisional Government has
resolved to advance the sum of 20,000 florins to the Por-
tuguese emigrants at Bro.ges, on account of the arrears of
pay due to them by the Brazilian Government, they not
having ret-eiVed any thing since the ht of January, 1830 :
one.thlrd of the sum to be distributed among them, and
two-thirds among their Belgian eteditors, is proportion to
the amount of their chime.

Notice of this advance of 20,000 florins Shall be given
to Mesus. b. Thomas de Mascarethas, and L. A. de
Abreu and Lima, at London, agents of the Government of
Terceira, who are commissioned by the Emperor of Brazil
to provide for the wants of the Portuguese emigrants.
Baussitts, JAN. 7.—A French Cabinet messenger,
who arrived here yesterday evening, from Paris, with de-
spatches from the Belgian Government, set out again
yesterday evening for Paris, with despatches.
A British Cabinet messenger was despatched this morn-
ing for London.
Hostilities have actually taken place in the environs of
Maestricht. The armistice has been violated, but which
party has been guilty of the violation ? This is what we
do not know, or rather what is concealed by the Provi-
sional Government, which has not condescended to say a
word to its people respecting those hostilities. If it has
reason to be silent, it should know that the people has still
stronger reasons to complain of silence.
The Journal du Commerce of Antwerp contains a
petition to the Congress iu favour of the Prince of Orange,
which is proposed to the inhabitants of that city for their
signatures.

Another journal contains a similar petition from the
city of Ghent. The following is the substance of the pro-
posed petition from Antwerp :—Belgium, enclosed be-
tween the PrAvers of the north and France, cannot be
independent unless it is governed by a Prince who engages
the confidence and gratitude of the Powers who interest
themselves in the preservation of our frontiers, and in
maintaining the balance of Europe. The political system
adopted by the Cabinets, and the absolute necessity of peace,
seem to force us to turn our attention to the Sovereign fa-
milies who are more or less closely allied in blood with the
House of Nassau. On the other hand, our peculiar situation
with respect to Holl tnd, which commands the mouth of
our rivers as well as the Rhine, makes it necessary for us
to be on good terms with that country : the interest of
both countries requires that they should not be placed
again in th it state of permanent commercial hostility of
which Belgium has been the victim for two centuries.
For these reasons, and to save our fine country from total
ruin, we believe that the only remedy to the evils we now
are under is, to call to the throne of Belgium the Prince of
Os ange, himself the victim of his love for the Belgians,
lately so much beloved by the inhabitants of Brussels, for
whom he generously devoted himself,—whose children are
Belgians, brought up amongst us,—who has led us to the
field of glory, and is ready again to shed his blood for the
Belgians. Let the national representation then revoke its
too precipitate decision, and put an end to a prescription
which ought not to extend to the innocent. Having lis-
tened to the voice of honour, let our deputies now listen
to that of justice. It will tell them that the voice of the
people is for the Prince of Orange, and that the Prince of
Orange alone can save us from the precipice on the brink of
which we stand.