The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-13 00:00:00

847.

FLANDLRS MAIL.

BRIIsSELs, Arc. 9 !'heir Majesties returned i
home on Saturday, and on Monday morning M.•
had the honour of an audience. What actually
took place at that audience has not transpired, Lo: I
there can be doubt that the Hon. Deputy sub-
mitted the list of the new Cabinet. When the pre-
sent King took the helm of the state the position in
which it had been thrown by the abdication of his 1
father was anything but secure and enviable. The
state was groaning under an unheard-of debt—the
people oppressed with taxes, of which they demanded
to be relieved as a reward for their devotion and
their efforts, and complete depression succeeded
! suddenly to unequal enthusiasm. To confine the
storm which impended over the heads of his
subjects, to heal the wounds from which his
country was suffering, and from the ma-
terials of the old edifice, which was crumbling to
pieces, to erect a new one, on the very same foun-
dation, was the difficult and intricate task which the
father had bequeathed to his son. King William is
good and noble; he is chivalrous also, without being
unmindful -of his high birth, and is disting&shed by
that frank and affectionate manner for which the
house of Orange is , celebrated. He does not want
genius, but his genius is rather warlike than political.
With blind and entire confidence, he threw
himself into the arms •of the counsellors of his
father, who had neither the power nor the
lalent to respond to that confidence. A change
of Ministers was indispensable. The Ministry
that succeeded, though at first hailed by the people,
soon lost their confidence, because as soon as they
were installed in a ffice they suddenly changed their
principles and views. The King, who never Suspected
their had tattiroeeing the stone men draw back from
the measures they themselves had proposed when pri-
vate citizens, thought the time was not yet come for
the introduction of those reforms which alone could
have checked the growing evil. From that time the
Second . Chamber very imperfectly represented the
country, while the First Chamber, with a ievenue of
three million. of florins, formed only an expensive and
almost useless piece of intricate machinery, too ex-
pensive and too era irgrd. The credit of the state
was • upheld. by immense loans, in which all
were forced to • pirticipate— a budget too
elevate,t, and by no meang commensurate with the
numb r and resources of a population of so many thou-
sand souls--the di-gust which prevailed everywhere,
and which was plainly enough visible in the fearful
increase.ot emigration— the decline of manutact ureg
and of the well-being of the country, in spite of the
increase of its maritime commerce,—all this it
was, .in . fine,
:which. induced the apathy
and indifference ,to everything that emanated
from the Government, and tne little sympathy which
was afterwards shown for the monarch himself. It
is true that the King is not adored by his people, but
it is equally true that he is not hated; none doubt his
good intentions; all are ready and pleased to acknow-
ledge them ;'and, perhaps, the day may not be distant
when, guided icy this, he will see the necessity of in-
troducing the great reforms which are urged upon
him, and by this act renew and strengthen those sacred
bonds of devotion and gratitude which from time
im-
memorial have subsisted between the illustrious
House of Nassau and the people of the Low
Countries.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Banssns, Auocsx /1.
Actual Debt, 21,4 per Cent .. . • •• • • . ...•
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • -
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent-...
Ditto Three per Cent • • ••••••• • • • • .•
Ditto Thirty-seven Million*, ditto • .....
1840. • •... ••.. • •
1842..................99t.
Ditto, 1844. .•••••••••• • • • • • • •• • • ••• 94%
Ditto of the City, 1832 ••••• • • • •• • 99
Ditto, 1843 .•••••• • • • • • • • -•• • • • • • 97
Bank of Itelgium.• .. • • ••• •• •••• • • • • 85%
'-Brussels Papers. Aug. 12.
AUS7 WAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Assure 4.
5 per Cent. M etalliques ••• • • • • • • • •••• • • • • 106
4 per Cent. ditto ••••••••••• • •• •• • • • • • • 96
aper Cent. ditto •••••••••••• • • •• •• • • • • • • 69
Bank shares • • • . • • • • • • • • • • 1604
Eaterhazy's Loan .. • • • • .. • ..........

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand .........• - • 170 4
Gloggnitz ................ . ...... 123%
Vienna—Milan ..• • • ......... ..... 1104
Leghorn •••••••••••••••• .• • • •• • • • • • • • • 92
Sienna ........
Drosetto •• •• •••• •• •. • •• •• .••• •• 97
Oldenburg ••..•• • • • • •• ••••.••• • • • • ••
Pesth Bridge „
Apennine!' ••••.••• • • .• ..
LIASIIIURGLI BORSENHALLE, ArgIIST 7.
Bills. Money.
kustrian 5 per Cents ................ 107
Bank Shares • • • • • •• 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan ................
Russian 5 per Cent.. Bawl). Certificate. 102%
Ditto Ist series Inscription. • • • • • •• 102
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 106%
Ditto, in Certificate—. •••.••• • • • • • • •
New 4 per Cent., 'lope and Co. ......
Ditto Stieglitz .. • ....... ..... •• .• 904
Spanish New 5 per Cent....
Ditto 3 per Cent • 24%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 21.4 per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 25i pert ant ••• • • 57%
Ditto 3 per Cert. ................
Polish New 4 pe.r. Cent. .oan, 1844.... 81
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .. • • 83%
National Bank Shares.. •• •
DUTCH FUNDS.—AmSTERDAM, AucrilT 10.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent........... 5q4 5634
Ditto, 3 per Cent 69 69
Ditto, 4 per Cent. ••••• • • . • • ........ 87 si 88
AMort Syndic, 3% per Cent • .• 861, 87
Commercial C6mpar.y. 4% per Cent •• 1694 165%
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. •
Exchangeon London, at sight . ...... 12 05
Two 11 95
On Hamburgh, at sight .... 35 12
Two months.• • • • • • • • ...„ 56 37
On Paris • ••• • • •
Two in0nth5.............
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, AUGUST 7.
Bills. Money.
St•Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent • • • • • 92n
Prue& English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent......
Foreign Exchanges. ...... ....., „
Exchange on London. £1 Sterling, 3 Months 6 24%

106%
90%
90