The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-22 00:00:00

THE KING OF HOLLAND'S SPEECH.

OPENING OF THE STATES-GENERAL AP
THE HAGUE, ON MONDA', Ott 19.
" NOBLE AND MIGIITY tOftlst,
" With contentment I Cttek give your Noble 111iir,litinese's,
at the opening of this ?Session, Ole ASsiiranVe con-
nexions with the foreign power's 'ain Of amicable nature.
Meanwhile the pOlitiCal'siinislion of this kingdom has re-
mained unchanged s ncb the communications made from my
part to. our A,s ttuly in Spring of this year.
" In 1114 'continuing deficiency of an opportunity to settle
tinedistearbed relation with Belgium worthily and. deinsistently
the honour and interests of the tosintey) entl its the tin-
certainty of the time when more favourable prospects will offer
to that effect, it has therefore been a principal aim of My cares,
to regulate the interior concerns in such a manner, that the
pressure of the extraordinary circumetan'aee in. iytipli Ve're‘\.-
tinue to be involved, may be less §eve'rely Wy my be-
loved subjects. For that puilso•ie the granted fur-
loughs to the volunteers. and .044.1ryen, and the men of the
sundry levies of the esatien'eA Militia' has been extended as far
as the service of tire k''.'agdom did by any means allow. With
the sense intent tie entire dismissal of the levy for the year
1826 is likewise already preparing so as to take place yet in the
course of the present year. My desire to alleviate the taxes is
moreover favoured by the amplitude of our East India produce,
which will allow an increased subsidy to the ways and weans
of the another country.
" The interior situation of the country, upon the whole,
affords reason for a grateful satisfaction.
" Order and regularity continue to prevail in the interior
administration.
" The army and navy are always giving most laudable proofs
of their discipline and order for the service.
" Opportunities for a useful activity are no where wanting
to our industrious countrymen. The meritorious inhabitants
who successively returned from the army into civic life, have
resumed their former occupations, or found other means of
supporting themselves.
" The prospects of an extension of trade and navigation
commence to be realized more and more-. In this respect an
increased animation is to be perceived..
" The manufacturing system. is acquiring a vigorous de-
velopment. Its progress. 'Luring the two latter years, ex-
ceeds what might reasrinably have been expected.
" Exceptingq t 1.., low prices of corn, the situation of agri-
culture woulel.. oe very satisfactory, the greater part of the pro-
ductions of the land having yielded an ample harvest.
ne fisheries are conducted, upon the whole, to advantage,
hnd are insensibly extending. The result of the great fish-
ery,' during the expired year, was sufficient to give content,
" The entertainment and amelioration of canals and roads,
to improve the communications in the interior, and supply
foreign nations ; also in behalf of agriculture, trade, and manu-
factures, is an object of the continual solicitude of the Gcerern-
ment, which provides for this according to the means and cir-
cumstances.
" Instruction continues to afford P'.-aid fruits ; the sciences
and arts are always meeting with iealous professors.
" The elapsed year has not been unfortunate for our dykes
and sea fences.
" By the overtures, to be made from my part to your As-
ee:ribly in the eourse of the present Session, your Noble Migh-
tenesses will be informed of the initial results of the new regu-
lations introduced in Dutch India.' The prospects for the fu-
ture continue to be favourable.
" The measures taken in a part of the island of Sumatra in
consequence of the former disturbances there, are of a nature
to dispel all apprehensions in this respect.
" A perfect tranquility reigns in all the other East tpdia
possessions.
" The West India colonies are enjoying the tame advantages.
" The prosperous course of many branches of national in-
dustry, supported by the favourable situation of the ultra-ma-
rine possessione, operate amply and beneficially upon the re-
venue. rile amount of the latter completely answers the ex-
pectat'.ons, and thus enables me to propose to your Assembly
the; supplies for the ensuing year with some diminution of
taxes, as will appear by the projects of laws concerning the
Budget, which are in readiness to be presented to your High
Mightinesses.
" The credit of the State remains invariably firm. The pre-
vious economical Administration, the Dutch good faith, arid
the co-operation of your Assembly, may serve as pledges that
it will not be shaken.
" On account of the more and more increasing hardships of
those for whom the produce of corn is a principal mean of sub-
sistence, I have thought proper to give effect to the considera-
tions that have occupied me for a long while respecting the
most expedient means to ameliorate their lot. In the regula-
tions that will ere long be proposed to your Noble Mighti-
nesses on this subject, it has been the particular aim to com-
bine the freedom of trade with the interests of national agri-
culture.
" I shall likewise call upon the mutual deliberations of your
Noble Mightinesses in the course of this Session for the en-
couragement of the cultivation of waste lands, and other rural
improvements.
" Also, not only the project left undecided in the precod
ing Session for the revisal of the Code of Commerce, with the
necessary alterations, but likewise the entire third book will
be laid before your Assembly, whilst the Commission, ad hoc,
is busily engaged with the, revisal of the code of penal prose-
cutions.
I confidentlf
diciary org expect that, especially as the law for the ju-
ar.asation and the administration of justice has al-
ready be_en completed, your Noble Mightinesses, appreciating
the v"alue of a national legislation, will readily concur in the
a''.,option of the projects that are still to be presented in the
present Session to that effect.
" I offer thanks to Providence for having been enabled,
after the fire difficult years elapsed since the Belgian insurrec-
tion, still to present to your Noble Mightinesses an encou-
raging aspect of the present situation of the kingdom.
" As long as a religious feeling, and the spirit of concord
and orderliness will characterise the Netherland people, I
continue to foster the hopes that we may expect from the
bounty of the Almighty the conservation of our present ad-
vantages, and, finally, a gratifying result."

Stocks at Amsterdam, Monday, Oct. 19.—Two and a Half
per Cents., 55i.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ADVICES, ARRIVALS, AND DEPARTURES AT
THE SCOTCH WHARFS, OcTonaa 21.
FIORE'S DUNDEE AND PERTH STEAM-WHARF.-DCparture :
the Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Company's steam-
ship Perth, John Spink commander, for Dundee with goods
and passengers.
HORE'S WHARF.-Advice the Dundee, Perth, and London
Shipping Company's smack Glasgow, William Mills master,
sailed from Dundee the 18th inst. for this wharf. ~No arrivals
or departures.

MILLER'S WHARP.—Advices: the London and Edinburgh
Shipping Company's smacks Favourite, James Dickson
master; and the Not, George Howie master, both arrived at
Leith the 18th instant. Arrival : the London and Edinburgh
Shipping Company's schooner Robert Bruce, William An-
derson master, from Leith with a general cargo. No de-
partures.

ABERDEEN STEAM WHARF.—Arrival: the steam-ship
Queen of Scotland, John Pearson commander, from Aberdeen
with goods and passengers.
LEITH AND GLASGOW WHARF,—No advices or arrivals.
Departure : the London and Glasgow Shipping Company's
steam-ship Royal Victoria, James Mill commander, for Leith,
with goods and passengers.
LEITH AND BERWICK WHARF.—Advices the London and
Leith Old Shipping Company's smack Walter Scott, William
Dick master, arrived at Leith on the 17th instant ; and the
same Company's schooner Comilla, George Marr master, ar-
rived at Leith on the 19th instant ; and the Berwick Shipping
Company's smacks the King William, J. Polwarth master ;
and the Ann, William Hildreth master, both arrived at Ber-
wick on the 19th instant. No arrivals. Departures : the
London and Leith Old Shipping Company's smack Earl of
Wemyss, A. Brown master, for Leith ; and the Berwick Ship-
ping Company's smack Stately, William Stevenson master,
for Berwick, both with general cargoes.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS-

TOM-HOUSE, OCT. 21.
Colloseum, Christie, from Hamburg ; Mary, Pallester, Ham-
burg ; Lively, Finch, Harlingen ; Hope, Cousens, Harlingen;
Batavier, Dunlop, Rotterdam ; Commercial Packet, King,
Rotterdam ; Market Maid, Weddell, Antwerp ; Marys, New-
born, Quebec ; Dart, Block, Ostend.

ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, OCT. 21,
Heros, Faillant, for Calais ; Staffa, I3amber, Demerara ;
Margaret, M'Callaster, Demerara; Mary Gray, Allen, Gib-
raltar; London Merchant, Seabrook, Rotterdam ; Rosalind,
Foursose, Trinidad ; Spanish Packet, Wrightson, Cadiz ;
Jack, Hall, Cape Coast ; Mary, Collin;;,
Gal-
loway, Amsterdam; Blucher. Malta ; Union ;
rassmorc, St, Kitt's ;James
M'Queen, M‘Gall, Nevis. and St. Kitt's.

CLEARED 01.T,'IWARDS WITH CARGO, OCT. 21.
Ellen, Blown, for vtarnaica ; Mandingo, Burgin, Jamaica ;
Coustris, Jamaica ; Jamaica, Johnson, Antigua ;
Pilgrim,.,_ Owen, Antwerp ; Creole, Tullock, Pernambuco
Black Nymph, Cortland, St. George's, Africa; Attwobd,
Morfee, Antwerp; Amity, Stevens, Terceira; Stirling Castle,
Fraser, Sydney ; Anabella, Anstruther, Mauritius.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, OCT. 21.
Excellent, Jackson, for Honduras; Oster Rusoer, Larsen,
Norway; British Tar, Irvine, Sierra Leone ; Gilbert Munro,
Duff, Bordeaux and Mauritius.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Elizabeth (late White) Sierra Leone to Sunderland, 25th
August, 150 miles from Sierra Leone, by the Napoleon, ar-
rived in the River. Mary Ann, Peters, of Liverpool, bound
to St. John's, 12th inst. lat. 46. long. 13. by the Piet Hein,
arrived off the Wight. John Troughton, of Liverpool, for
St. Andrew's, N. 8., lat. 43. long. 43. by the Caledonia, ar-
rived at Bristol.

On Monday an experiment was made with the en-
gine upon the Greenwich Railway. The distance from
London to Deptford was accomplished in six miul.ttes,
IRON TRADE.--The iron trade is extremely flou-
rishing. The low prices have erSorced a greater degree of
economy in all departments of the business, and have been
the source of many improvements. In Scotland the busi-
ness has increased 50 per• cent. during the last ten years.
In 1825 the entire quanti.ty of iron made in that part of the
empire was certainly uncl.er 50,000, whereas it now exceeds
78,000 tons, and is rapiCily extending; several new furnaces
having been constructed 10 the course of the last and pre-
sent year.—Mining JcNntat.