The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 28.—The Hollando-Belgian treaty
which has caused so much discussion out of doors,
and which was voted a few days since b. y the
Netherlands Chamber, was under debate in our
Chamber of Representatives for four days. Ain
Hoffschmidt contended that the treaty should be sanc-
tioner', be.c.ime it was ersentially connected with the
coLvention concluded between England and Belgium,
and with the negotiations already commenced fur
,t,Le s tern of ysintroducing modifications into
differen-
tial duties. The Minister for I+ oreige Affairs forcibly
supported the changes introduced, on the ground of
the general prevalence of the free-trade system.
They were inutipens3ble by the customs and mari-
time legislation of of er countries ; and the conclusion
of a treaty with England or Ho)land was quite im-
pos3tole unless: those circumstances were taken into
consideration.

On being put to the vote, it was found that
eighty-nine members were present—the ayes, 59 ;
and noes, 30. Two members were absent.

ITALY.

The Official Gazette of the Duchy of Savoy, of the
26th, has a leader on the vote of 20th December, from
which we extract the following passage :
" What has been done in the course of the last
three years induces us to believe that nothing will be
changed in the international policy of France. The
bases of existing treaties will be maintained. The
chart of Europe drawn up in 1815, and which La-
martine wanted to destroy, will remain untouched.
There will be but one man more with sovereign
power over a great nation, less agitation in the
masses of all countries, more order and commerce.
Such will, probably, be the remits of the popular
inauguration which the repeated oui of the French
people has consecrated. This event will save Savoy,
for many years at least, from the illusions in which
the Separatist party lately attempted to involve it.
Nothing now exists of this party but the name. The
direction of its ideas cannot but have changed with
the facts, which have proved how imprudent its ma-
nifestations were, and upon what ill-calculated
chances it staked our secular existence, without con-
ditions, as if Savoy had no right of prescribing con-
ditions to those to whom it was intended to deliver
her up. Montecquieu, the general of the army of the
Alps, wrote as follows in 1792 I believe it js
neither the interest of France nor that of Savoy to
unite themselves. It is not that of France, since she
must not excite the jealousy of Europe by aggran-
disement ; nor that of Savoy, as her taxes, if raised
to the proportion of the French debt, would be beyond
her means. Besides, is she sure that the French
Constitution, which does not exist yet, will be to her
taste ?' These reasons, given by the very general
who was appointed to conquer Savoy, are of great
weight, which is still enhanced by the late events.
Let us stay where we are. Let us aid the Executive
by our union, in giving us the best organic laws pos-
t ihle, and the greatest measure of general comfort.
That will be much more certain, and better also.'

GLASGOW AND Souza-Wm:amt.:l RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ending December 27, 1851:
Passengers (16,942), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages.. £8,7E6 6 5
Corresponding week in last year 3,330 6 4
Glasgow, December 29.

COURSE OF EXCHI
&muterlaxt ...... • • • • 11 17
Ditto, three months.. 11 15%
.... • • .. •• 11 1314
t...atwerp • • • • • • •• •• • • . • 25 45
r.ru3sel3 ....., 25 45
11-trabtxrgh .....:3.8. 13 10%
rl,ri3, 3 ,lAys'3lgllt ••
25 25
rAtto, 3 montha 25 45
.'..'s*b2!'_!as • • •• ••. 41

,NGE.-(1211IS DAY.)
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1e•h0"n........•••••• 30 85
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'Sew York.6o days'sight
Philadelphia ....
enicze crECLLIO27, PEZ 01.
Forelgn Geld Wham— £3 17 9
L'atugal Goldeoin .. 0 0 0
Deubloons .. 0 0
`law Dollars ••.••• 0 0 0
'iiirc•rln bars .....••• 0 0 0

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FY:4AV or ton:Maine.. ... 120%

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Vieste, ditto.... •• .... 12 20
Pat3rsburgh,Sil. Rble..
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THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Windsor, the 23th day of Di:et:Taber,
1331, Dr.zysirlit the QuEt,i,'s Most Excellent llitjesty in
Coul,cl.l. IThr Maj,sty having been plelsed t:.) sprint
the 107,11 t Honourable Grailville G:crv, Earl Gran-
c,(l of her Majesty's Principal Sccretaries of
:State, his L9riailip was this day, by lv,r lilnjesty's corn-
rnancl, swor:l one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State necordtn_gl7.

WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 29.
This clay iir.'i all'-."lce of hcA, m5jt,..31
:......
Ilia Excellency Mca,.44tir Alexandre) Colonna Wa-
?,,,a-Ai, Ambassador rrom ,
French Republic, to
r1;-'r a letter from the P Ith°
*ident of the French 11.,,-
ivibijc, reccrnpanying a F,' tet;• of tapestry from the
French nation on the occasion c
1.1,e Great Exhibition;
And the Ems" °Y do Brlinervi! .t.;
'4.l°Y Extraordinary
ntiary_ rem, tdhaatE_
after
of all
and Minister l'ienipoL.
the Russieor, on his return to Eng..ant.v
%temorary
absence: to :larch they 1 .
Were res.p,_c 1 c 37 Educednt by
•-.v',,-; Secretary %
the Earl Granville, latr 1L1j.—.7 Mate for
Foreign Affairs.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC.
29.
e
Corp; of Royal Engineers—Brevet ..112,j0r A l
retired
u
dot,
Gordon to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Here,
full pay; Second Captain Edmund Ogle to be Captal
__
vic3 Gordon; First Lieutenant John Williamson Lovell
to be Second Captain, vino Ogle• S,,_corri
Lieutenant
William Coles Phillpotts to be iirst Lieutenant, vice
Lovell, Dec. 6.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 29.
Royal Itgiceent of Artillery.—G,,ntkmen Cadets to
he Second Lieutenants—Thomas Bland Strange, vice
lii:?rs, promoted; Francis Lyon, vice Luce, pro-
moted; Markham Le Fer Taylor, vice 1)z:one, pro-
moted; Raynsford Cytherus Locgley, vice Palley, pro-
moted; Edward Keate, vica P. W. L'Estrange, promoted;
Thomas Wright Blakiaton, vice Burt, promoted; Arthur
Lister Kaye, vice G. F. I:Estrange, promoted ;
Jos Julian Smith, vice McTernan, promoted ;
Eardley Maitland, vice Irvine, promoted ; Maurice
Edward Covey Sleeker, vice. Lascelles, promoted ;
William Arnold Burrowes, vice Grylls, promoted ;
John Lardner Clarke, vice Ellis, promoted; Algernon
Purling Joy, vice Champion, promoted; Henry Thorn-
hill, vice Biggins, Promoted; Arthur Thornton Grat-
wicke Pearse, vice Dgmes, promoted;
Thomas Priaulx
Caroy, vice Carpenter, Promoted; William Francis
Walker, vice Sr. john, promoted, Dce. 17.
Corps of Royal EngiCeerS7Gontkmen Cadets to be
Second-Lientenants, with temporary .tank—Alired
Georze Goodall, vivo Merry, proteeted; John Mervin
Cutelitra Drake, vice Henri', resignsd; Edward Re-
nouard James, vick Ratken,
nrotrited ; Charles William
Townsend, vice Ds Vere, promottd, .1),:c. 17.
{This article is substituted for the coo Vs hlth appeared
in the Gazette of Friday last.]
Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Fifeshire.