The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-30 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

OFFICIAL-DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

BRUSSELS, OCT:' 26.—From the 27th of October 1834,
there will be four mails weekly for the conveyance of letters
to and from England ; they will be despatched on the fol-
lowing days, viz.:—

PROM OSTEND.----On Wednesdays, Thursdays, Satur-
days and Sundays.

FROM DOVER.—On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridayi
and Saturdays.—llloniteur Belgi, 27th Oct.
BRUSS:2LS, OCT. 27.—The Queen of the French, the
two r-rincesses, and the Prince de Joinville and suite left
iiirussels yesterday, to return to Paris.

We mentioned in our Number of the 20th that the Minister
of Finance had asked the opinion of our Chamber of Com-
merce on the question whether it would not be advisable
to have an armed Belgian navy, to protect the mercantile
navy?

We now learn that the Chamber of Commerce has
answered in the negative most of the questions on which
its opinion was asked. Ist, It was shewn that we could
not build a sufficient number of ships to equal the armed
navy not of states of the first order, but even of some of a
very inferior order ; that under present circumstances it
would be dangerous and unseasonable to build ships of war
likely to become the cause or the pretext for new collisions.
It then lays it down as a principle that no Government
could protect our flag except in a military point of view,
and to secure the execution of treaties, or to maintain a
system of policy adopted by the great Powers, for the sake
of preserving the balance of Europe ; that in this case the
commerce of the Powers which should protect us in this
manner would have no reason to fear any injury from this
protection ; but that on the other hand Belgium would
obtain no other guarantee than that which resulted from
the Law of Nations.

Coming to the proof of the facts thus laid down, the
Chamber of Commerce shows that in the present state of
manufactures in Europe, no Government could give a
purely commercial protection by sea to Belgium, without
acting contrary to its own dearest interest, consequently
that if such protection were possible, it could never be sin-
cere, unless it were paid for by concessions on our part,
which we could the less make with respect to our commer-
cial navy, as it has for the most part expatriated itself for
want of protection from the Government. It recommends
this point to its atfention.

H-ence it seems that the Chamber of Commerce con-
siders the protection derived from treaties and the law of
nations as suspicious ; and to prove this, it alleges the case
of Prussia, Hamburg, Bremen, Oldenburg, &e., which
have not a single armed ship, and whose flags are, how-
ever, respected in every sea, and this because their States,
most of which are neuter, like Belgium, duly appreciate,
the guarantee of which we have just spoken, for if Prussia
in particular was not guided by this conviction, it would
have long since had an armed nary, as it possesses all the
means of forming one.
The Chamber of Commerce concludes its reports by
expressing its opinion that it is the commercial navy espe-
cially that engaged in the fisheries which forms seamen for
the service of tbP, State ; not the armed navy, which forms
seamen for the commercial navy, as seems to be supposed.
Baussas, OCT. 28.—The Minister of the Interior is
eausibg the officers of his department to draw up a general
statistical view of Belgium, which is to give a correct view
of the state of commerce, agriculture, and manufactures,
and such details as are calculated to enable the public to
understand the real state of the country.
The Handelsblad of Amsterdam, contains the following
article

" We hear of a new note which our Government is said
to have transmitted to the Three Powers of the North,
and in which the course of the negotiation, and the dif-
ferences with Belgium, are described. It is said to defend
the conduct of the Dutch Government, and to prove that
it has tried every means to put an end to those differences.
Lastly, these Powers are said to be invited to use their in .
fluenee to bring about a renewal of the Conferences at
London, and a conclusion to our affairs."_

BELGIAN FUNDS—BRUSSELS, OCT. 28,
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent 52
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 9874
Loan of the City, 1832,4 per Cent ..........
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 29.

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LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, OCT. 28.-.
Sales of cotton to-day 1,50 0 bales, but prices are without
change, and very firm. Being market-day in Manchester we
only attribute this small business to most of our leading men
being there.