The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-13 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, MAY S.—The Amsterdam Handelsblad
says there is a report of a new Protocol, by which it is
intimated to the Belg;an Government, that if it does not
accept within a fortnight the preceding Protocols the
Powers will leave Belgium to its fate.
We lrarn from Ghent that M. Voortman still suffers
severely from his wounds ; it is feared he will be obliged
to undergo an operation in consequence of the wound
which be received from a bayonet, which is very large.
An inventory is now drawing up of the damage done to
M. Voortinan's manufactory and his dwelling-house. it
is estimated at 300,000 florins.

The Belgic ship Neptune, Captain Willems, arrived
on the 2d instant at Ostend, from London, with 22 chests,
containing 440 muskets ; and on the sth arrived an Eng
lish ship, the Lord Hawkesbury, Captain Blair, with 16S
chests, containing 3,160 muskets, from London.
All is perfectly quiet at Ostend and in the environs,
The Dutch, while raising new works about Sluis, remain
quiet. There proves to be great distress on that side from
the enormous contributions that have been levied.

Yesterday there was great agitation in the city. Nu-
merous groups were formed in the Grand Place, the PkOace
Royal, and about the residence of the Regent. The
whole of the civic guard was under arms, and numerou,
detachments even of cavalry pttroled the streets all night.
We are not sufficiently certain of the causes of this agita-
tion, of which every body speaks accord►ng to his passion,
to tell our readers to what it tends.

"iThe Orangeists," says the Independent, " report that
M. Tielmans, at the head of the Nation it Association, is
going this evening to proclaim the Republic. The 014
object of this absurd report is to hinder the election of that
honourable citizen. We advise the electors not to give any
credit to this miserable falsehood, and be on their guard
against manoeuvres, the object of which is to endanger the
success of our glorious revolution."
Baron d'Hoogvorst, commander-in-chief of the National
Guards, has addressed a proclamation to our citizens, in
which he says—" Strangers, enemies to our Constitution
and our tranquillity, endeavour to excite popular conuno-
tions, but the Civic Guard is on the watch ; faithful to the.
country and to its oaths, it is resolved to preserve, by all
means, the present order of things."
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" The Congress," it says, " will meet on the 18th.
Let the country wait patiently, by that time all will be
settled in the diplomatic world. If the Prince of Saxe
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a similar movement has taken place at Malines.
All is quiet again at Brussels. Several drunken persons
have been arnsted who cried Vice le Prince d' Orange,
orl:Vive la Republique.

IiALIFAX, MARCH 31.—" We regret to
learn by Newfoundland Papers received by the Morning
Star from St. John's, in four days, that that town was
visited on the morning of the 11th with another destruc-
tive and distressing conflagration, which destroyed a large
amount of property, and uuhoused nearly twenty families.
No lives were lost."