The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-09 00:00:00

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DUTCH MAIL.
TEE RAMIE, Nov. 4. —His lir
Prince of Orange returned from Si
fore yesterday.
In the sitting of the States-Gene;
jest of law for regulating the dispos
the colenial revenue was passed, aft(
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a majority of 27 to 13.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 6.—The Minister of the Color ion
hereby give notice that the Governor-General of Inc ha,
by authority of his Majesty the Bing, has directed the
tariff of import duties on ready-made clothes, of wooll en,
or cotton,Lin Java, Madeira, and the west coast tit
Sumatra, to be modified as follows :
" The duty on these articles is augmented by-30 1 ter
cent: on the value. The duty is now 20 florins.
"When imported in ships of the Netherlands, wi 1h
certificates of origin in the Netherlands, and likewise of
their being manufactured in that kingdom: the dt ty
is ten florins when imported in Netherland ships vt
without certificates of origin, as respects the- Y-aw
material, the duty is twelve florins.
" And that the said Governor-General isauthori4ei to
declare-this modification applicable to all such articles of
clothing experted from this country since the 15th of
October this year.—J. C. BAND.—The Hague, Novel a-
ber, 1846."

In the debate on the application of the surplus of t be
colonial revenue, several members spoke on the subj, ict
of the isle of Borneo. His Excellency the Colon
Minister said, that he had listened with satisfaction to
the energetic language occasioned by the fear of sec: 3,1
a' dispute of our territorial possession in the Intl: as
Archipelago.
The Minister said that the exchange of diplema tic
notes between the Cabinets of the Hague and of Lc al-
don was not yet terminated, and that it would be m ti-
trary to Parliamentary usage to speak explicitly on
that subject. His Excellency added that he m,
ut
avoid giving an erroneous interpretation to thto
treaty of 1824. Every negotiation between ti ,r►n
states of unequal force offers particular diffieultit a,
which are increased when the weakest endeavours to
enforce inadmissible pretension. The treaty of 18. /4
owes its origin to the difficulties which formerly are se
between the agents of the two nations. The simu 1-
taneous* possession in Sumatra had caused collisioi is
which might have bad serious consequences. The Only
means to prevent them was to iput an end to all posst
a-
sion in common. England, therefore, gave up Sumat M
and all the places which are held on the continent • )f
India and the peninsular of Malacca ; there is, they a-
fore, no doubt respecting the meaning of the treaty. No sv
the Netherlands, having been in possession for many
yeais of two thirds of the island of Borneo, the Goven ..-
ment of the Netherlands thinks it would be contrary 0
the spirit of the treaty if the English form a settlemei
in the north-west part of Borneo. Great Britain pre -
tends that it is free to settle at all points from which it
is not' expressly excluded, or where the Netherland s
do not exercise any positive and recognised rights.
The English Government had, however, added that it
was by no means the intention at this moment to make
use of the rights which it thinks it possesses of forming
a settlement on'the north coast of Borneo. As for taking
possession of the island of Labuan, the Government of
the Netherlands have never opposed it, that island not
being within the limits of what we consider our terri-
tory. We have never set foot in that island, or bad any
political or commercial connexion with it. The Minister
said that they had not lost the hope of convincing the Ca-
binet of London that our interpretation of the treaty of
1824 is correct, and that he had sufficient confidence in
British good faith to hope that the English Government
would abide by its resolution not to take possession of
any part of the isle of Borneo.—Dutch Papers, Nov. 7,
1846.

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