The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-11 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSEL', DEC. G.—The average price of wheat last
wcult was 19f. 58c., that of rye, 11 f. 46c.
The export and import duties arc therefore not
altered.

In the Chamber of Representatives yesterday the
order of the dry was the debate on the public debt and
dotations. M. Delchaye mentioned a circumstance on
i.hc article concerning the annual sum of 10,582,010 f.
58 centimes, to be paid according to article 13 of the
Treaty of 19th April, 1839.
The 4th section having desired to know whether this
sum was paid entire, or whether a part had been with-

held as a security for the claims of the Belgian Govern-
:neat on the Government of the Netherlands, the re-
porter declared that the information obtained on this
question bad been completely satisfactory.
The ::peaker thought this declaration much too vague,
and protested against the facility with which :the Chum-
-I,or sum of the &tit- to lioitana without te-
aininrri pl;-dge for the good faith of Holland.
Some debate arose on the subject, which terminated
by the close of the general discussion, on xhich the
Chamber proceeded to the several articles.

rtELGIAN H UNI)6-13aussELd, rEc. S.
Actoci Debt, 23_ per Cent.
fiethschild's Loan, 5 per Cut !.7
Loan of Thirty Minions, 4 per Cent

(1.4')
• 3per Cent.

-Thirty-seven--__ _____
Loan of City, 183.2, .1 per (cat 9O
Society of Cernmqrce, 4 ~.;? per Cent
Bank el Belgium, 5 per Cent t•7B
National Society.
Exchange en 1.011,101,1 (short)
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 9.
AUSTRIAN FUNI)S._..VIENNA, DEC. 1
five per Cott!. Mctallt,nes
FOX r per Cent 10(1
Three iy:r Cents.
Bar,.!: Share!,
—.Auffeyneine Zeitung, Dec. 6
H. A 111 BU liG BORAENFIALLE, DEC 8 - DEC. __

Bills. Ittfmey
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Rank Shares
A ni.lo.ltessian Low, 10,434 .0;I
Ruzsian 5 per Cent. !st series, C,rtiticate
Se-'a Inscription, Ist -- , lO3
Itusian 5 per Cent. Hop_ and Co. 3tl and 4th
Serics ... ................................... -
Ditto in Certifirv.tes
Dutch .actual Debt, 2y;) pe. Cent 4l
Ditto . per Cent —
Polish Bond. ........................ . - 144
New ticket -
A r.710-I.)aiiisli Loan, 3 per CCD 73% :
t or sgianv Lean, 153.1, 4 per Gil:.
rlftrl Shi, NCI,/ 3 per Cents.
.... _
EXCEIANGV,S ON LONDON.
11 AM BURG, DEC. t 3.-13 4 .—Two months, 13 1%
PET ERSBURGH , Nov. 27.--Two months, 29 1-16 pence
STOCE liot.m, Nov. V.—Seventy-five days, 11. 40.
rtE KM N . DEC. 5. - Three months, 6, 1 ii y
VIENNA, Nov. 28.-1 lime months. O. 44..

WAR PREPARATIONS IN FRANCE

BOCLOGNE-SCR-MER, DEC. 9.
I arrircd here this morning at one o'clock, and can-
not quit the place without giving you the fruits of what
I have seen and learned. It is now five weeks since 1
;eft Boulogne. It was then cheerless and desolate.
Although the Guizot Ministry is infinitely more firmly
established now than it was then—although the most
orilliatt feats of arms have since crowned the British
army, and the war in Syria may be said to be e.t an end,
yet I regret that these manifestations of the surpassing
oroniptitude and power of Great Britain, far from ope-
rating to ea'm the turbulent effervescence of the majority
of Frenchmen, has only served to madden and gall them
the more. We are hated with a more intense hatred
than formerly, precisely for the reason that we are
dreaded and feared. But though hatred and fear of us
lie close to the hearts of ail those who clamour aloud
for war, there is nothing on their lips but epithets of
contumely and contempt. I do not deny that the
higher commercial classes, and some of the "shopkeepers,
lament this temper of the national mind ; but they are
overborne by that vulgar, vaunting, drum-beating, gas-
c
sour-
minded sous yficiers, who are the plague of France,
andawdihnog
6of ambitious privates and envious
will
become the pest of Europe, unless they are
silenced and put down.
The preparations for war continue in this town and
neighbourhood with unabated activity. Batteries have
been placed along the jetty and behind the baths of M.
Mancel, but, maugre all these boastful preparations, I
do not hesitate to say that a couple of frigates, with 800
or 1,000 marines, could take all these batteries, and turn
them against and destroy the town itself in a very few
hours. That this sad necessity may never arise, I most
fervently pray ; but how, I ask, are you—how is any
Englishman who walks the streets of Boulogne, fed
with English gas, and pampered into something like a
decent town, from being a wretched fishing village, by
English capital—how is an Englishman to put a bit and
bridle into the jaws of those creatures, spurred, mus-
tachoed, and leather-breeched. who trail their long
cavalry swords along the pave, unless he tells them the
whole truth, not by mouthfuls only, but solidly and in
the lump?

Apropos of cavalry. Is it not monstrous that a con-
tract for 1,300 English horses should be in the count) of
execution for the last seven weeks at 880 f., or 351.45. 2d.
per horse, and that not a single London journal should
have called attention to the subject ? Already 635 of
these horses have been delivered-620 from London,
and 15, at one o'clock to-day from Dover. In 1814,
the then Prince Regent presented to Louis XVIII,
1,000 of his best cavalry horses to mount his Rarde du
corps, but it is a fact that every one of those steeds so
presented were at Waterloo. Not only, therefore, are
we impoverishing our own steeds and crippling perhaps
our own resources, but we are furnishing to our•most
dangerous—l fear our most inveterate, and certainly
most proximate—rival, the means of mounting one of
the most formidable branches of his army.
Commerce is here in a deplorable state. Confi-
dence is entirely departed, and within the last month
there have been more than 30 failures. An intelli-
gent and prudent tradesman, to whom I was speaking
this morning, counted me seven in his own street. As
usual in periods of political excitement and stagnation
of trade, all sorts of rumours aro rife. To-day there is
the report of a rising yesterday at Cherbourg, as there
was yesterday of an cuzeute at Paris. I need not say
that both rumours are wholly destitute of foundation