The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-10 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE BELGIAN
CHAMBERS.
SPEECH OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS
IN THE ROYAL SITTING OF NOVEMBER 8.
SESSION OF 1842-43.
The following is the speech delivered by the King
of the Belgians on the afternoon of the Bth :
" Gentlemen,—l congratulate you, in the name of
the country, upon your °long and labourious session,
ended a few weeks since, and during which you hare
resolved so many important questions.
" The short interval which separates us from it has
been employed by my Government in the execution
of some of the laws to which you have given your as-
sent, and to the preparation of others which we are
coming to.
"'The loan that you have authorised, ayd the con-
clus'on of which was urgent, has been contracted at
an advantageous rate that attests our credit.
" The law on elementary instruction has been re-
ceived everywhere in a manner which gives me a
plain confidence in the facility of its execution, and
presages the favourable solution of questions of the
same nature.
"You have been eager to answer to the appeal that
I made to the national sympathies in authorising my
Government to concur with the provinces and the
commonalties to perpetuate the memory of men who
have illustrated the Belgian name. The exhibition of
pictures and sculpture has given a new proof that our
country has maintained the rank that it has acquired
during three centuries.
" Ihe direct_negotiations opened during the year
with the Cabinet of the Hague, have been brought to
a conclusion satisfactory for every interest; all the
difficulties relative to the separation of both countries
have been simultaneously resolved : this treaty, a com-
plement of the treaty of London, will be undoubtedly
the first object of your deliberations.
" It is without intermediate party, and inspired by
a mutual sense of conciliation, that the two Powers
are come to place themselves definitively in a normal
situation ; the first consequence of this accord has
been the signature of a convention of internal navi-
gation.
" This result, in regulating our relations with the
Low Countries, will have a favourable influence on
our connexions with the other Powers which have con-
stantly given to us proofs of confidence and amity.
" The negotiations with Spain have brought up, as
a first result, a convention which will be submitted to
you, and which opens anew this ancient market to one
of our principal industries.
" In prosecuting other negotiations, it is impossible
not to consider certain measures of internal legislation
as necessary.
" Several products, which are the basis of our ex-
portations, are submitted by law to export duties which
nothing can longer justify.
" Other articles of foreign importation mar be sub-
jected, without any grievance for our commercial con-
cerns, to an increase of import duties, for the sake of
national in lustry and of the public treasury.
" You will have to decide also upon the conclusions
ef the Commission of Inquiry * which
you have in-
stituted, these two years, and the operations of which
I have contemplated with great interest.
" Perhaps in order to encourage our exports for re-
mote countries, we shall be led to recur to an institu-
tion to which the present laws of nations oppose no
more the obstacles N'‘ hich existed in other times.t
al gt
up t o customs,
account
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will he brreol
routing tgi
ourrailway havinagessed over the frontiers of France,
and being on the point of reaching those of Germany;
the Government will probably have occasion to de-
mand special powers for their solution.
" The province which has been laid out of this
great system of communications has received 'with
gratitude the compensation that you hare allowed to
it; another province,§ a victim of the precedent of di-
plomatic necessities, is in expectation of the law,
which willrealise one of the boons of your last session.
" Independent of the projects of law which are yet
lying before you, you will examine several
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fit solutions, though they do not compromise our
financial situation, require, however, the creation of
nt.w ways and means, for the purpose of bringing the
public revenues to a level with the charges.
" Several financial laws have been presented to
you, others will be presented at the same time with
the budget of ways and means. Provisional resources
for 1843 have been regarded as indispensable until
these laws, designed to increase our income and to do
:,ustice to the claims against several imperfections of
actual legislation, be adopted and enacted.
opportunity to modify.
,advantageously " The new legislative dispositions have
the situation
of our army, and have forwarded promotionslawfully
attained. wyen the
*nstruction, and
tion, which, added to the discipline, 1
ves roofs,p continuo
devotedness of which the army gi
" These measures have stimulated a noble. emula-
to render it worthy of my confidence and of your in-
terest.
momentarily interrupted; I have
your deliberations
is
" Gentlemen, you will now resume the course of
but one wish to offer, itthat, in all respects, the
be, for the country and for myself,
nt
heew soenstsiino
un a
tmay i
on
of the preceding one."
* Parliamentary .
Commission of Inquiry into the com-
mercial and industrial Concerns of Belgium.
t The speech alludes to the ancient Commercial Com-
pany of Ostend.
The province of Luxemburg.
The province of Limburg.

FRACAS AT ZANTE.—CORPU, OCT. 11.—On the
3d inst. a fracas tiook place in Zante between the sol-
diers and inhabitants, 'which might have
beenattended
with most serious consequences. The facts in a few
words, and without exaggeration, follow:—In
the 'barrack of St. Lucia, near the Grand as
Sabionera,
is stationed the grenadier company of the 97th Regi-
ment. Four soldiers of this company, at about eight
P.M., entered a canteen, about fifty paces distant from
their quarters, and after having taken their wine de-
sired to retire without paying. The owner opposed
them, and one of the soldiers began to laugh, and gave
a whistle. At this signal almost all the company,
armed with sticks, rushed out, and a violent scene
ensued. Two Zantiots were severely wounded by
blows from the sticks ; one died in a few minutes, and
the other was in a state of imminent danger when the
the express left. Of the soldiers three were wounded
by stones, one severely in the head, and the others
were badly contused. The police force arrived in time
to quell the tumult, which threatened to increase, and
order was restored, accordtng to our letters from
Zante. Several orders are said to have been given to
the troops, and to-night the Geyser steam-frigate will
leave this for Zante with two companies of the 42d to
relieve the 97th, who will be brought to Corfu.
Lord Wro. ttesley has lady finished the erection of
an astronomical observatory on his estates near this
town. It is built in a commanding situation about a
field's length from the great Holyhead road, and is
fitted up with a variety of suitable instruments.—
Wolrerhanipon Chronicle.
METAL HOUSES.—Houses compo Intro-
duced exclusively of
iron and cast metal, the first of the kind ever
into Ireland, are about to be constructedin
Carysfort avenue, near Blackrock. The cost of each
house is estimated at 1,200/.—,Dublin Freeman
Journal.