The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 23.---The Chamber—ofliepresentatives
renewed its labours yesterday. It sat with closed doors to re-
ceive communications from the Government on the commer-
cial questions. It was decided that the members of the
Senate might be present.
The Chamber again sat in a Secret Committee, and heard
the first part of a report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on
the commercial negotiation, of Belgium since 1830.
We are assured that all this part of the report related to
the negotiations with France, to the circumstance which led
to the concessions of Belgium in 1836, then to conference,
and lastly to formal proposals tending to a customs union
with that country.
The Minister res.(' the documents relating to the projected
union, which made, it is said, a great impression.
The Minister will continue the reading of this report to-
morrow.

The members of the Commission whom the Government
sent to England to study the system of prison discipline in
that country, returned to Brussels some days ago.
A letter from Rome says, that the Count d'Oultremont,
Minister of Belgium at the Holy See, had gone, in the middle
of this month, to Florence, to be present at the marriage of
Prince Luitpold, of Bavaria, to the Archduchess Augusta of
Tuscany.
A letter from Vienna, of the 15th, says that the Archduke
Francis, fourteen years of age, the eldest son of the Archduke
Francis Charles, and at present the presumptive heir to the
Imperial Crown, was attacked with scarlatina, but that the
disorder proceeded in the usual course, and that no alarm
was felt.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BausseLs, Aran. 23.
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 11)3
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. 99
4. Three per Cent —-- Thirty-seven Mini, ns, ditto .. ~,,,,,,,»„ 7776
------- i 1840)..........
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cen —
1843.... ....... ...."..•"• .. .. ••••••••••••••••• 104 %
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 6BY
I.sue of 1841. .. .... ........ 109%
.......... ....“
—Brussel; Papers, APLIL 24.

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OPENINGS OF RAILWAYS IN MAY.—The neat
month promises to be remarkably prolific in the opening to
the public of various important railways throughout, that
have hitherto beets but partially, or not at all in operation.
On the 4th will be opened the Liverpool and Derby Junction
line. Early in the month aho, as is understood, the "West
London') Railway will be brought into full operation, to the
great advantage of the Birmingham and Great Western fines,
whose passengers will be furnished with a West-end ter-
minus. Then the Bricklayers' Arms Branch, that affords a
like accommodation to the Croydon and Dover Railways,
and the Norwieh and Yarmouth Railway still come into
play in the ensuing month, the opening of the latter being
fixed upon for the lit.. Lastly, and most important of all,
the Bristol and Exeter will also be opened to the travelling
public, completing nearly 200 miles of railway to the western
?arts of England. May thus has quite its share in interest- •
ing railway occurrences.
ENGLISH THEATRICALS FOR HOLLAND.—In con-
sequence of the approaching Dutch fair to be held in Holland
during the forthcoming month, three companies of English
comedians, tragedians, dancers, musicians, &c., amounting,
it is said, to upwards of 200 persons, have been engaged from
London, and will leave this country at the commencement of
the next week.

Rear-Admiral Wix, C. 8., is suffering from severe
indisposition at Plymouth.