The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-18 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 16.—The Chamber in its sitting yes-
terday passed to the second vote on the law relative to
free entrepots, which, after some modifications of secon-
dary importance, adopted on the motion of the Minister
of Finance, was passed by a majority of 45 to 17.
A new commercial convention was signed at Paris on
Saturday last between the Governments of France and
Belgium.
The negotiations were concluded by the Prince de
Ligne and M. Van Praet on the part of Belgium, and by
M. Guizot, M. Cunin-Gredaine, and M. Lacave La-
plagne on the part of France. M. Duchatel also took
part in them, and M. Griterin, Director-General of the
Customs, was invited to several conferences.
The negotiations, which were commenced in October,
and suspended fer a short time at the beginning of
November, lasted two whole months.
M. Van Praet is expected every hour at Brussels
with the new treaty. (We hear that M. Van Praet has
just arrived.)
The district of Mort consists of seventy-eight com-
munes, in each of which there is a committee, the ob-
ject of which is to find work and subsistence for the
poor, who are ♦ery numerous in that district, and their
numbers daily increase in this calamitous season. It is
to be feared that though the charity of the public was
never more ardent, the resources of the committee will
soon be exhausted, unless assisted by the Government.
To give an idea of the misery which prevails in those
commune 3, we will mention that the great majority of
the people subsist only on turnips—a bad and unwhole-
ome kind of food, and yet if, in consequence of frost,
after the entire consumption of the crop, the turnips
soould be wanting, we ask how are the people to exist ?
It is high time to have recourse to economical soup,
the distribution of which has become indispensable.
Effectual measures ought to be immediately taken for
the protection of property and of the farmers, for robbe-
ries are daily committed. At present the robbers take
only what they want for food, and content themselves
with plundering the kitchen-gardens, but when these
gardens are completely stripped, the thieves will not
hesitate to break into and plunder houses.
The journals contain numerous announcements of sub-
scriptions for the relief of the poor, and of plans for pro-
viding them employment during the winter. The Ostend
papers give long details of the hurricane of th© 11th and
12th of this month, which extended along the whole
coast of Flanders, and did great damage to the dykes and
other works.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausszts, DEC. 16.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • ...... •••.• .•
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Lean of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.• • .
Ditto Three per Cent • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditto, ditty, 1840 • 100
Ditto,ditto, 1642 . 101%
Ditto, 1844. • • • • • • • • • .. 98%
Ditto, 1836 •
Ditto, 1838 ...... ..
Ditto of the City, 1832.••..
Ditto, 1843 ••• • .• ...... ••• • • •••• • • 100
Bank ofßelgium.• • • • • •• • • • ............ 776
—Brussels Papers. DEC. 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 9.
I per Cent. Metalllques .
4 per Cent. ditto • • •• • • • • •• • • • • ••• • • • . • .. 100%
3 per Cent. ditto ••••••••••• • • • • • • • .. • 76
Loan, 1834 • •
Ditto, 1839 .• • • • • ....... .....
Bank Shares • ....
Esterhazy's Loan ••• • • • •• • ..........
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand •• • • • • ...... 185
Glopmnitz •• • • • • ••• • • • • • • • • 131%
Vicuna—Milan • • • . • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 108
Leghoni 115%
Perth 106
Sienna .. ••• • • • .• ..... •••• • • • •• 100
Grosette •••. • • • • • ... •• • • • • 98%
Oldenburg
Pestoja .• • • ...... ••• • • •
—Allgernelne Zeitung, Dec. 13.