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verbs and services, so that lions the present period, they may all be
employed and fixed in proper situations.
•• 4. That although the spirit of rivalry should cease between the
eflicers of the old regiment and those of the militia, and the bands of
volunteers, as they should all consider themselves as a part of the ex-
isting and permanent army, in order to increase the sympathy
which ought to influence the minds of all, two lists will be made,
the one relating to permanent and patriotic services, and the
other containing an account as to the length of service and military eni-
ploymcnts for the purpose of examining and regulating the different ap-
pointments of those who have served in the same regiments aid claYses
i of troops.
" 5. That the above propositions as soon as they have been approved
of by the meeting of Patriots of the Provisional Junta of Catalonia,
shall be submitted for the sanction of a general junta of chiefs, officers.
and volunteers, each signing in his real name the vote which he may
think proper to give.
(Signed by the Members of the Junta.)
" Perpignan, Oct. 6."
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From the Courrier des Pays Bab.
" ACTS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
" PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF BELGIUM.

" PIRIOD OW ELECTIONS, COMPRI OF PRI:ICU:DINO% Me RAT OP 1111 orn

INC or VIZ CONORILSS.
" The Central Committee, on the report of the Commission of the
Constitution, seeing that the decree of the 10th of October, 1830, de-
clares that the number of deputies to be elected in each administrative
district, and the course of electoral proceedings, shall be established by
a particular decree :
"Art. 1. The elections shall take place throughout all Belgium on
the 27th of Oct. inst. the electoral proceedings shall commence at nine
o'clock in the morning.
" 2. The number of deputies to be appointed in each district is fixed
as follows :—for Southern Brabant 27, Limbourg 17, Eastern Flanders
3d, Western Flanders 28, Mons 30, Namur 10, Antwerp 18, Luxem-
bourg 16.
" 3. The electors of each administrative district shall assemble in one
or mere sections, as local convenience tray require, and at the principal
town in the district.

" There shall be a bureau in each section. This bureau shall be
composed of a president, a vice-president, two scrutineers, and a
secretary.
" 5. The magistrates of the district in the principal town of which
the election takes place is of right president; the burgomaster of the
principal town is vice-president ; the two youngest counsellors of the
repncy, or members of the council, are scrutineers; and the secretary
of the commune of the principal town Is secretary of the bureau.
" G. In every place where the electors of the same administrative dis-
trict are divided into several sections, the persons mentioned in the pre-
ceding article will form the principal bureau, and appoint the citizens
who will compose the other bureau.
"7. The electors shall meet in the Town-hall of the principal town
of the administrative district, or in any other place appointed for that
pufpose.
8. The local administrations shall present the lists of electors
which they have drawn up in virtue of their office, or on the demands
of citizens, to the President of the bureau, on the 26th of October next
at the latest. _ _

`"9. The bureau shall have the regulation of the assembly: It shall
decide provisionally upon all difficulties which may arise in the course
of the proceedings, subject to the definitive decision of Congress. The
members of the bureau cannot vote unless they fulfil all the conditions
which attach to electors.

" 10. The electon shell vote by ballot.
" 11. The name of each elector who deposits his vote in the urn
shall be inscribed by one of the members of the bureau in a list which
will show the number of voters.

" 12. The scrutiny shall take place in the current sitting, and
openly.
" 13. The President likewise shall declare the result of the scrutiny
at the current sitting.
" 14. In the districts where there are several sections, each bureau
shall conduct its scrutiny. The result of all the scrutinies shall be laid
before the principal bureau.
" 15. No one is elected at the first taking of the scrutiny, if he has
not an absolute majority oi votes.
" 16. If all the deputies to be elected in the district have not been ap-
pointed at the first taking of the scrutiny, the bureau shall make out a
list of the persons who have obtained the most votes. This list contains
twice u many names as there are still deputies to be elected. The votes
at the second taking of the scrutiny can be given only to those whose
names are in the list, and the election will be decided by the majority of
votes.

" 17. In every ease in which there may be either at the first or se-
cond taking of the scrutiny an equality of votes, the preference shall be
given to the eldest candidate.
" 18. The members of the bureau will draw up a proces verbal of the
election, and transmit it directly to the committee of the interior.
" 19. The National Congress will assemble on the 3d of November
next, at nine o'clock in the morning, in the Chamber of the ci.devant
States-General at Brussels. The Congress will instal itself under the
Presidency of the oldest deputy. The four youngest deputies will
execute provisionally the functions of secretaries. After verifying their
authority, the Congress will appoint these officers definitively.
"20. In the communes and chief towns of the districts in which the
authorities may neglect to fulfil the obligations which the present decree
and that of the 10th of October impose upon them, the electors are
directed to supply the defect.
•• Brussels, Oct. 12.

- "DE POTTER, " OENDEBEIN,
" SYLVAIN VAN DE WEYER,
" C. ROWER"
BELGIAN JOURNALS-ME BELGIAN.

"We have conquered our independence. What shall we make of
it ? Ought Belgium to constitute itself a federative republic ? Should
it, after having secured its rights by a very liberal constitution, consti-
tute itself into a republican monarchy like France ? These are the
important questions which occupy all minds. If Belgium should con-
stitute herself a federal republic, how can or cannot the different pro-
vinces be independent? If their independence be proclaimed, will opposite
interests never excite amongst them fatal schisms, cruel contests ?
These are serious difficulties which we cannot yet resolve, but
to which we feel ourselves bound to direct the attention of our
readers. If we constitute ourselves into a monarchy, what
Prince shall we call to the throne ? Shall it be a foreign
Prince ? Our national self-love cannot endure such a proposition.—
Shall it be a Prince of Nassau ? A vehement opposition re.
pals, without distinction, all the members of this family. The blood
which has been shed forms, it is said, an insurmountable barrier between
it and us. In this state of things what remains to be done? How
can such opposite opinions be conciliated Let us return to principles.
Sovereignty new resides in the people: they exercise this sovereignty
through their representatives. Any power, any society, which should
attempt to decide our great questions before the people have had an
opportunity of declaring their wishes through their representatives, will
indeed attack the national sovereignty.
" The success which this power or society might obtain would be but
momentary, because its wish, perhaps, would not be ratified by the na-
tion, whose will alone can triumph definitively. It is in virtue of
these principles, the only true and wise ones, that the Provi-
sional Government has not desired to decide definitively with
respect to the future. By Its first act, it declared the inde-
pendence of Belgium. By a second act, and which has been too little
attended to, it declared null alt acts or proceedings which might be exe.
cuted by Belgians not furnished with powers from the Provisional Go-
vernment. In the communications which have taken plate between the
members of this Government and the Envoys of the the former
have constantly declared that they were not in a situation to treat re-
specting our future state. By thee* acts they have laid the foundations
of a new order of things. They have convoked a National Congress.
For it alone is reserved the task of consolidating the work of Govern-
ment. Let all our attention, then, be directed to the approaching elections.
They will decide our independence, our political welfare, and all the
future."

From the Message+ des Chandra, Oct. IG.
"PARIS, Ocr. lb.
"It is certain, that on the evening of the 10th the Belgian (lens.
darmes, supported by the Burgher Guard, refused to permit 250 men
to pass the frontier, who came with the intention of joining the Belgic
patriots. In order to facilitate their return home, the Government has
just ordered that they shall receive, far the expenses of their journey,
30 centimes per myriametze.
" Viscount Alford, and the Rev. Mr. Kinsey, passed through Bal.
deux, in the department of the North, on the 11th, coming from Brits.
eels on their way to London. They ware bearers of despatches horn the
Provisional Government of Belgians be the English Govesumeet.
BAYONNE, OCt. 0.
(Corresposulawe d die ifessager.)
It must be asksowhipi the hopes of the Cuudtatiasellats, tor the
triamph of their cause in Spa, are very ilLietradal N dwil.Th_m
she meleesOda hussies. Mat in me here la lo
as/dense I the NW el dusk hem can melte nothing but pity.
Nine ibeensaleet Wipes. web merles a &Snot costomo, AM et
beim. cow spa* amass i fie, as tar as the Adoor. Muir me.
Miller arnibeir only Addy on their iron and haggard cones&
ariesea, ate hit only to Mohan Mum. Such is the sight which pre.
sena knit *am Bayonne to Armen I perhaps it is otherwise towards
Caialorda. To the per man, whose destitute condition elks as, are
to be joined the rear mind at Paris, and tbe Italians and Porta.

;ties', a r araletts, actortnte to 0— :;•..t which 1 have sec:., ct
exceed 700 stn n, 1710 s of them office:a. To complete their misfortune.
this mass is d't. aicd into patties so inveterate against each other. that if
they had aiIII they would probably employ them against each other,
namely, the partisans of Valdez against those of Mina, and owe versa,
before they attack the Apostolicals. It is not to be believed that in
such e state of demoraliLation,without unity ingtheir direction, they will
prepare to invade the Spanish provinces. Besides, distrust reigns
amongst then: ; each feats to meet in his comrade a disguised agent of
the Spanish Government. Every day new disputes arise resnectin., the
chief command. Cabal,, intrigu,, and menaces are employid, to obtain
diplomas for the principal offices of the nation. Every ambitious chief
has his creature, and maLs us witnesses of deplorable scenes. Here we
have meetings of all the principal Liberals—Mina, Rotuma, Alpuente,
figurer, Sancho. Lopez Banos, Calatrava, Badilla, Valdes, Mendez.
Vigo, Gurrea, Chapalangarra, attend them. It is very seldom that they
can agree. The Pastor is the one who appears to have acquired the
most importance, but every one has his own parthiers, who do not ac-
knowledge the other chiefs, even as companions in arms. Let modera-
tion triumph in the Cabinet of Madrid, let letters of pardon arrive here.
and not a tenth part of the refugees will remain.
PAmis, Ocv. txtraordinary disclosures of the prisoner at
Toulouse, and the letter of Prince Polignac (inserted in all the Jourr.als),
deserve, on tie p:trt of the committee of accusation, the most serious
examination of the facts which have called them forth. A new in-
cidet:t is introduced Mtn this great !trial ; and this word trial ought to
bring back the mind to that calm dignity which the formalities of a judi-
clal proceeding require. A truce, then, to those cries of death unworthy
of a humane and civilised people. When public opinion, constituted as
a national jury, shall assist at this terrible investigation, the discussion
on which will soon commence, it must be averse from pronouncing sen-
tence before the pleading of the cause, and to punish by anticipation.

(From the Gazette de France, dated October 16 )
Paws, OCT. 15.—The Duke tie Blacas has just sent to us the letter
which he wrote to Baron Pasquier, assigning as his motives for refusing
to take the oath, the illegality of the acts which have constituted the
present Government, and the duties imposed upon him by the law of
succession to the throne. We shall not publish this document till the
tribunals have decided on the action brought against us for having
printed the letters of M. de Kergorlay. A letter from Bayonne of the
9th rays. that General tlina had left that city, and gone to Bordeaux,
whither he was called by important business.

(From the Monitettr of October 15.)
PARIS, Oct. 14.
The Committee of Inquiry of the House of Peers has commenced
its operations. A mandamus has been issued against Berrie, now in pri-
son at Toulouse in order that he may be heard respecting the disclo-
sures announced by him in a letter published by several journals. To.
day several witnesus have been examined, others are summoned fur Sa-
turday.