The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-12 00:00:00

day or other a company may not be formed for
bringing Mont Blanc piecemeal to London ?
To conclude the list of important alterations, the
duty on foreign bees' wax is to be reduced
from Si. per cwt. to 11. 10s. for unbleached,
and from 41. 10s. to 31., if in any degree
bleached. The duty on the same articles from
our own possessions is reduced from 21. and
21. 10s. to 10s. and 11. The Parliamentary
paper besides shows a list of articles to be
omitted from the table of duties as obsolete,
but which if imported are to be charged an
ad valorem duty of 20 per cent., if manufac-
tured articles, and 5 per cent. if raw materials.

We learn by a letter from Brussels, that Ge-
neral GOBLET had been appointed on a special
mission to this country, to assist M. VAN DE
WEYER in the conferences which are about to

take place on the Belgian question, and that he
was to receive yesterday his final instructions
from the Belgian Ministry as to the extent of
the concession which the Belgian Plenipoten-
tiaries are to be authorized to make. General
GOBLET may be expected here on Monday.
Lord PALNIERSTON and Prince TALLEYRAND
have declined opening the conference until his
arrival.

Our correspondent in Brussels has been
assured, from an official quarter, that the
Belgian Ministry have resolved not to
pay any larger sum to Holland than the
8,500,000 florins annually, stipulated by the
Five Powers, and General GOBLET will be in-
structed to require that the payment shall not
be retrospective, the Belgian Government having,
since the treaty of the 24 Articles was agreed
upon, been put to a much larger expenditure
than that amount by the refusal of the King of
HOLLAND to accede to the treaty. He will
also, it is believed, insist upon an account being
rendered of the operations of the commission of
the sinking fund which were directed by the
King of HOLLAND, and which are said to
have produced great profits. Should this be
refused, he will naturally have a right to as-
sume that the amount of profit stated to
have been acquired has gone into the
pocket of the KING instead of the public trea-
sury, and will require some diminution of the
8,500,000 florins as a set-off against such profit.
On the point of territory, it is not likely that
General GOBLET and M. VAN DE WEYER Will
make any material concession, the Belgian Cham-
bers having pronounced very strongly upon it,
and Great Britain and France having fully re-
cognised the claim, to which Austria has also
agreed, subject only to the consent of the Ger-
manic Confederation. On the question of the
navigation of the Scheldt, it is expected the par-
ties will come to a satisfactory arrangement.
Our readers will bear in mind that, of the 24

Articles of the treaty of November, Austria
has agreed to 23, reserving one only, that of
territory, as stated above. Russia and Prussia
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ratified the treaty, with the exception of
three articles—those relating to finance, na-
vigation, and territory. In consenting to the
preliminary treaty entered into recently, M. VAN
DE WEYER made it a special condition that these
articles should be subjects of mutual arrangement
between Belgium and Holland—(de green grO.
Thus the real discussion will be between the
Dutch and Belgian Plenipotentiaries, although
the representatives of the five Powers will
formally confer with them. On twenty-one
articles of the treaty of November they can
aabree • on the other three they can only act as
mediators, unless the obstinacy of the King of
HOLLAND should compel Great Britain and
France again to act as dictators.

Lord ALTHORP last night moved the appoint-
ment ofa Select Committee to inquire into the Cal-
thorpe-street affair, and the House then adjourned
at three o'clock. With the exception of two
hours for dinner, the SPEAKER must therefore
have been in the chair from twelve at noon
till three the next morning. The House sits very
nearly as late every night, so that the Speaker-
ship is no sinecure. The greater part of the
Members of the House have not the same
fatigue, for they do not attend, because the
House will not hold them all,—an excuse which
they are determined shall continue available.

Mr. BULWER'S motion last night, for the
production of papers respecting the measures
pursued by Russia in her late interference with
the state of Turkey, was withdrawn, Lord PAL-
MERSTON declaring that he " had full confi-
dence in the honour and good faith of Russia."
His Lordship deserves the knout for this decla-
ration. Confidence in Russia indeed ! A man
might just as well place his back against a bull-
rush, in the hope that such a prop might keep
him from tumbling into a ditch, as trust to the
pledges of the St. Petersburgh Cabinet for
escape from an embarrassing position.

The THELLUSON family, it will be seen, are
to be relieved from the hardship of the position
in which they are placed, the House of Lords
having last night decided, by a" majority of 57
to 13, that the standing orders should be sus-
pended. The Bill is to be read a second time
on Monday next.