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the choice of the two other
Heenan. FSLIZ REAL and BORIC! D'Asruaas haying ob.
tained a majority, were declared Secretaries.
The constitution of the Chamber being now complete, the
PatSIDENT, after some formal preliminary observations,
„id—l invite M. Girod (de PAW) to take the chair, and
the secretaries who have just been named to take their places
et the bureau.
GIROD (de PAln) took the chair, and embraced the
.eatporary President.
The Secretaries having taken their places, and the Pres'.
Jett xcated himself in the chair, profound silence ensued.
The president—My dear colleagues, I cannot express to
coat as I feel It my profound gratitude for the honour to
which I h.:d cot the presumption to pretend. Too destitute
,f the eminent qualities which ought to distinguish your
hesiclot% I will at least offer you the assurance of a sincere
tut' fantinpartiality—an unalterable determination to fulfil,
to the be of my ability. the duties imposed on me. But
It W freln you, especially, my dear collague•. that I must
Tpect the support I have so much need of. Deeply sensible of
That thz high mission that France basconfided to you requires
,ou wiiliprepare with me toaccomplish them, strictly °beery.
in!: your reglement, that law which you have made for your-
c-ites, and which will direct all your acts. You will main.
,air in your deliberations the order, dignity, and composure
which will render them more impressive and more effica.
eines. Permit me to hope also that you will continue to
me a kindness which I shall alwa s endeavour to merit.
The Pennant then pro thanks to the temporary
president and Secretaries, which was unanimously assented

to.
The order of the day was the ballot for the choice of
Questors.
M. TAILLANDIIII said—Gentlemen, the first duty of the
Chamber at this moment is to appoint the Committee for
drawing up the Address. (Several voices, "This is not
the order of the day.") I see no other means to enlighten
the Government respecting the political system which the
majority of this Chamber desires to see adopted. The disso-
lution or the bare modification of the Cabinet renders the
nomination of a new Cabinet indispensable. (Nume.
rous voices, " The Order of the Day ;" on the left, " hear."
It must be composed of men who PM go on with us. Pro-
visional Ministers would be a deplorable thing, and inju.
goo, to the interests of the country—(New interruption.)—
France, besides, expects with much anxiety the attitude
shies the Chamber is going to &mune in the serious cir-
cumstances in which we are placed. The Address I take
pleasure in supposing will not turn upon a ceremonious
phraseology. (Lively expressions of disapprobation.) The
Address, Gen lemon, will announce, and clearly and pre-
cisely, to France and to Europe, what are the political inten.
tions with which we are animated. I think there is no time
to be lost, and that it is absolutely necessary to depart, ;for
this time at least, from the ordinary track_bequeathed to as
by our predecessors.
M. ROUILLST de FOXVAIMa showed that the course pro-
posed was contrary to the reglemcnt, and could not be
adopted.
M. TAILLANDIEI theta proposed that:the appointment
of the Committee should be put n the Order of the Day for
tomorrow, which was agreed to.;
The Chamfer then proceeded to the nomination of Ques-
tors. Messrs. Dzianoanz and Dull were chosen.
The French papers contain no recent news from Poland.

BELGIUM.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

BRUSSELS. AUG. 3.—The appearance of the
road from Liege to this city is very remarkable.
Regiments of cavalry in motion towards the Meuse,
in order to strengthen the army near Maestricht,
cars, conveying families and their goods, flying
from Antwerp to find refuge with their friends.
The country people looking fearfully at each other,
and asking questions. At St. Trend I learned that
parties of pillage had left Maestricht and commit-
ted depredations on the neighbouring Belgian
villa_ _

The Dutch are also stated to have made an attack
on some villages uear Ghent, and compelled the
Belgian troops to retire ; but the latter being joined
by the peasantry, armed with pikes scythes, and
axes, &c. have forced the Dutch back.

Gen. Dibbets, who commands the garrison of
Maastricht, received applications, within the last
week, from various persons, desirous of leaving that
city. " Go, if you like ; bat I'll take care you
shall not return after you have seen your King, who
will not have six weeks' reign."
Leopold arrived in this city this morning at half-
past four o'clock. and felt necessarily much ex-
hausted from his rapid journies.
The conduct of the Dutch Monarch is considerd
by the best judges here as that of a madman, who
wishes to revenge himself on the city and inhabit-
ants of Antwerp, and on all the Belgians. The
condition of the present Belgian army is admitted
by competent judges, to be such as not to ensure
success against a body of regularly disciplined
veterans. This fact being known to the Prince of
Orange, and to his father and brother, is said to
have stimulated them to attempt a coup-de-main ;
but the Belgians, being 4,000,000, will not suffer
2,000,000 to conquer them.
Great apprehensions are felt as •to the fate of
Antwerp, which is altogether at the mercy of Gen.
Chasse. A gentleman just come from Antwerp
has described the inhabitants as in a state of stu-
por. Barricades are said to be forming ; but the
Dutch fleet and gun-boats have taken their station
opposite the town, and four frigates are in sight.
The Belgians are resolved to form a levy en masse
so as to prevent the Dutch troops from making any
progress into their country.
The number of Dutch vessels in the Scheldt is
as follows :—Zelandis, ship of the line, 90 guns,
opposite Flushing; a frigate of 46 guns, opposite
Terneuze; two gun-boats, opposite Welsoude ;
Amphitrite, frigate of 46 guns, opposite Bats ; a
frigate of 46 guns, and four sloops, opposite Saftin-
gen; Le Dauphin, corvette of 28 guns, and 4 gun-
boats, opposite fort Frederic ; a bomb-vessel and
steam-boat (Curacao), of 12 guns, at Doel ; the
frigate Euridice, 46 guns, opposite Lillo; a brig
18 guns, and two gun-boats, near forte Perle ; the
corvette, Proserpine, 28 guns, two mortar-boats,l
.:rd two gun-boats, opposite fort St. Marie ; the
Comet, corvette, 28 guns, and two gun-boats,
opposite to Le Pyp Tabac,
Intelligence has reached this city that the Dutch
troops, to the number of 50, left their fort at Lief-
kensboek in boats, to go to the dike at Keetenis,
which they began to cut. The Belgians sent a
parley, to inquire why they did so ; to which their
commander answered, that it was necessary for the
defence of the fort. They completed their purpose,
and thereby inundated the country, and caused
ulisery amidst thousands of families.
The garrison of Nlaestricht, to the number of
1,2t10 infantry, made a sortie yesterday morning
4t five o'clock : they were accompanied by two
squadrons of cuirassiers, and four field pieces.
They proceeded along the canal to Reekem, and
:sturncd back at two o'clock in the afternoon.

At 8 o'clock yesterday morning the Dutch
:sited near Ghent the Capitalen Dam, and after-
• rds went to Assenede, which they pillaged,
4nd occupied for some hours the villages of Bas-
sevelde Esuelde. The number of Dutch troops
said to be disembarked at Capitalen Dam is said to
be 7,000. They are intended to attack Ghent,
-end inundate Flanders.
The Governor of Antwerp has written to Gene-
ral Chu to state, that if an attack by bombard-

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reprisals. General Chasse has replied as under.
" Citadel of Antwerp, Aug. 2.
" At the moment when the renewal of general batik.
ties puts an end to the private convention which existed
between the city and citadel of Antwerp, I think it my duty
to reply to the observation in your letter of to-day, No. 10
line 10, having the honour of reminding you that the said
convention, at first concluded with the regency of the city of
Antwerp on the 27th of October, 1831, and violated by a
shameful act of treason on the same day, to be again claimed
according to the intentions of the civil and military chiefs of
Antwerp, expressed on the 28th, and the object of which was
to suspend the fair means of attack ; and a bombardment,
which was rendered necessary, from the treacherous manner
in which my troops baO been wailed at Antwerp, not by
regular troops, but by a portion of the inhabitants, and
even by tine BurOer Gaard, contrary to all the usages of
war; and this me to put an end o ute convention,
bringing matters to the state they vac in at the conclusion ;
there can be no doubt of riy rip: to renew operations; no
law can be objected to my right of attacking a town occu-
pied by troops opposed to me, or curtail the means of war-
fare which I may use against them ; and it cannot be ad-
mitted that the troops which might attack me on the
outside, should have the power of posting themselves in
Antwerp, without my being a' liberty to provide
against their approach. You think that the City
of Antwerp ought to be considered beyond the field of battle,
but for that purpose it should be out of your position ; that
it neither supplied you with provisions. arcoal, loci tinge, or
magazine. If the part taken by the inhabitarts of Antwerp,
in the engagements of October, end the manoce in which
they sacrificed my troops, had not Veeed this city in a par-
ticular position, with respict to the sited,.l, your proposi-
tion would be ailmissable with resji-ct to nu enemy coming
from without, who might stunk the citadel Irons the
outside o: the city; but you are in possession of it. and
draw your principal resources from within its walls. Be-
sides, the batteries of the city are directed against it
(the citadel) and my flotilla, and against the communica•
Lion of .he citadel with Holland by the Scheldt. These bat-
teries have been erected under the protection of the truce,
and in violation of the private convention relative to the cita-
del and the flotilla, and the general bases of the suspension
of hostilities (as have also the uorks of the cx trod part of
the citadel) Under these circumstances, ho . can I be ex-
pected to spare the city ? Whether in consequence of the
above aggressions, or of other circumstances useful for the
King's service, I shall melte use of all the means of attack
and defence within my power, as against the city of Ant-
werp ; no threat shall prevent me from making use of them
according to all the laws of war, sod the particular circum-
stances of the present case.
"Baron CHASSE, Chief Commander
of the Citadel of Antwerp."
" Antwerp, Aug. 2.
" I have been informed, and you are no doubt aware, that
the Dutch fleet before Ulla executed a movement in the
course of the morning. If you will be so kind as to reed
over the 3d article of the convention you will find therein
• the Dutch squadron, such as it is at this moment. 3d No-
vember, shall be respected.' This phrase needs no com-
mentary, and the respect which it imposes does not extend
to the naval forces which Holland has since sent to our
coasts contrary to the statu quo.
" I have the honour to inform you that, if a single ship
of war of the same fleet should show the slighest sign of
aggression, I shall instantly order the batteries to fire on
them. " F. DE TABOR."

Citadel of Antwerp, Aug. 2.
M. General—The movement of the Dutch squadron,
which has advanced on the Lower Scheldt, and up to the
prevent tumult beyond that part of its course which is in.
cluded in the convention ratified on the bth November, and
which settles the relations between the citadel and flotilla
stationed in front of Antwerp, has taken place in come-
quence of a general movement of the land and sea forces of
his Majesty the King of the Netherlands accompanying a
renewal of hostilities. In strict adherence with the terms of
conventions ; and, as I had the honour of communieLting to
you in my despatch of yesterday, nothing shall be under-
taken against the city of Antwerp, the North Fort, and the
adjacent batteries, before the expiration of tha convention,
conformable with the declaration agreed to on this head.
"Baron CHASSE."

BRUSSELS, THURSDAY EVENING. - The
greatest enthusiasm prevails in this city, and
throughout the country. Every preparation is '
making to repel the invasion of the King of Hol-
land, to whose rage and madness this unexpected
aggression is attributed.
Te greatest anxiety prevails to know if he be
aided by Prussia; but there is as yet nothing but
conjectures on that subject.
Gen. Belliard arrived in this city last night, and
at three o'clock he had an interview with the King.
He set out this morning for Antwerp, in order to
have a personal communication with Gen. Chassii,
and if possible to convince him of the dangers which
must result to Holland and its King from bom-
barding Antwerp.
The following note has been addressed by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. de Meulenaere, to
Gen. Chasse, under the date of yesterday, Aug. 3:
" The undersigned Minister of Foreign Affairs to his
Majesty the king of the Belgians, has the honour to inform
General Chasse that the Belgian government has, with the
greatest surprise, remarked, that in the act by which his
Excellency announces the recommencement of hostilities,
there is no mention made of the capitulation of the ith of
November,
.18:10.

" Generisl Chasse cannot be ignount that the city of Ant-
werp is, u well u the rest of Belgium, comprised in the
suspension of seine, dated the 20th of November, 1830,
which constitutes, on the part of the Dutch and Belgian
governments, an engagement towards the Five Powers, un-
der the mediation of which it was concluded.

6• It is in this general sense that the suspension of arms of
the 30th of November is to be understood.

" His Majesty the King of the Belgians has, therefore
referred this affair to the mediating powers, and has placed
more particularly the city of Antwerp under the safeguard
of those engagements. His Majesty awaits an immediate
answer.

" It is in the interest of humanity that the undersigned is
ehrrW to make this fact known to General Baron Chaise.
His Keaßeny will appreciate, no doubt, the motives of this
communication, and will examine, if his sense of duty does
not prescribe to him to suspend, until informed of the answer
from London, the execution of the determinations which be
appears, from the letter of the lit of August, to have taken.
The commanders of the Belgian forces have received most
positive instructions to abstain from all hostilities against the
citadel, as long as his Excellency General Baron Chasse shall
not have openly provoked them.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon the following was
posted on the walls of Brussels:

PROCLAMATION OF THE KING.

Belgians !—On taking possession of the throne, to which
the national will has called me, I said, on my addressing the
representatives of Belgium—

lf, notwithstanding all the Emilia, made to preserve
peace, we should be menaced with war, I should not hesi-
tate to appeal to the courage of the Belgic people, and I
hoped that they would ell, and together, rally round their
Chief, for the defence of the country and the independence
of the nation."

These words I this day address to all the natloo.

Without a previous declaration, the enemy have suddenly
tecommended hostilities, thereby despising and breaking as
one time the engagements resulting from the suspension
of arms and the principles that regulate civilised people.

They have not hesitated to perpetrate the most odious
breach of the law of nations, and by a surprise they wish to
gain some momentary advantages. They are the same men
whom you conquered in &ptamber ; they now appear in the
midst of peaceful districts, preceded by devalued= and in.
cendiarism.

Strong in the conviction of oat right, we shell repel this
unexpected aggression—we shall oppose force to force.

Already once you overcame HoUsed ; you commenced
the revolution by victories; you will censolidos it by vie.
corks; you will not prove unworthy of our pledges recd.
lotions. Your enemies await you to the plates which have
already bees witnesses of their defeat..
Every one Oyes will do his duty.

Belgians i Ills you, I will defend Delesun.
I rely on the Civic Guard--oo the sing —a die courage
and devotion of all.

I am gobs to my poet.
I I wait, hen, for all the Belltrulh to whom litaz romalf7,
honour, and liberty, are dear.

Brussels, Aug:4.-

LEOPOLD,

The King set out this afternoon for the army.
Before his departure he nominated M. Lebeau.
Member of the Council of Ministers, and De
Brouckere and Lebeau have accompanied his Ma-
jesty, who left town in the direction of Vilvorde.
The late Minister of War, General Dufailly,
whose resignation was last night accepted, has been
nominated bead of the staff of the army, and set
out last night for Antwerp. General Goblet, Col.
Prisse, and several other officers, have also set out
for the army. The second battalion of the Civic
Guard of Brussels went this morning, in the best
spirits, to Boom. The Civic Guard of Louvain is
gone to Lierre.
General d'Hoogvoorst, the Commander-in-chief
of the Civic Guard of the nation, is to set out to-
morrow. General Cockelberg takes the command
of the moveable Civic Guard. A battery of six
pieces of cannon left Brussels this morning, and va-
rious other batteries are now getting ready. There
were great crowds assembled to witness their de-
parture, and the greatest excitement prevails
throughout this city in favour of the King, and
against the Dutch, whom they call cotiards, incen-
diaries, and assassins. The cry if, "" On forward
—on."

In Antwerp, the inhabitants being roused, are
busy in making barricades ; they don't seem af-
frighted at General Chase's threat*. It is thought
that hostilities will commence there to-night, as
at half-past nine o'clock it will be nearly high
water, and the Dutch frigates may attempt to'
come up the river, and will be find at by the Bel-
gians from the forts du Nord, upon which the
Commandant of the citadel will, it is thought,
begin the bombardment. The Dutch yesterday
unmasked a battery at the Tete de Flandres, op-
posite the town.
A proclamation has been issued to the Burgo-
master of Antwerp, by the Commissary of the
district, to hold the civic guard in readiness for
action. Baron de Lamberto, Governor of East
Flanders, has published a proclamation to the in-
habitants, in which he states that the cowardly
enemy had begun without notice to spread devas-
tation by fire and inundation on all sides, and that
he trusts the Belgians of tho provinces will co-
operate with him and the troops in proving that
they have not degenerated from their ancestors.
The Civic Guard of Ghent is ready to march im-
mediately against the enemy. The highest enthu-
siasm prevails in Liege and the provinces: there
are numerovs bauds of Civic Guards ready, whose
I cry is—" We fear not the Dutch nor the cowardly
leaders."

The communication from Ghent to Ostend, it is
feared, has been stopped by the occupation of Mal-
deghen by the Dutch. The English mail from
Ostend passed there this morning.
The Dutch have landed troops in different places
on the Scheldt: there have been various skir-
mishes. The wounded have come to Ghent and
the other towns.

At Maestricht a sortie was made yesterday. The
Belgians are concentrating their forces of that dis-
trict at Hawk, near Turnhout. On Tuesday the
Dutch drove back a regiment of lancers and the
civic guard of Brussels. There have been several
wounded and killed on both sides. The head-
quarters of the King will be stationed to-night as
Malines or Conticht.

The Belgians are enraged with the Dutch for
having surprised their outposts at Capitalend=
and Verlaet, and orders have been given for these
places to be retaken. It is intended to withdraw
several of the troops now in the province of Lux-
embourg, and to send them to the frontiers.
The Dutch fleet, having attempted to pass the
Ford du Nord, were fired at from the fort, and were
compelled to draw back.
The inundation of part of the province of Ant-
werp has already commenced, and the poor farmers,
almost distracted, are driving their cattle towards
Brussels.

The garrison of Maestricht made a sortie on
Monday last. One theusand two hundred infantry,
having cash a half-loaf on their back, two squad-
rons of cuirassiers, with forage for a day, and four
pieces of cannon, left the garrison by the gate of
Bois le Due, at five in the morning, and directed
their course along the canal towards Rukheim. It
is not known the object of this sortio. The Dutch
have destroyed the dykes at Liefkenshock.
The enthusiasm of the people increases hourly,
and the whole Civic Guard are determined to join
the army. They will with difficulty be restrained.
I have just heard that the Dutch are fighting
near Maldegem, a village between Burgos and
Ghent, on the high road to Ostend. Ghent is
greatly agitated.

GERMAN T.—The latest reports we have of the
Bavarian Legislature are dated the 20th and 21st
of July, when the Chamber of Deputies held its
60th and 61st sittings. That assembly was then
chiefly engaged in the discussion, of amendments
proposed by a committee on a law project for met!i-
fying one of the sections of the Constitutional coda
which relates to elections. It appears that the
election of certain descriptions of persons are not
valid unless they are ratified by the government.
'The Chambers resolved, by 96 to 5, that with
regard to the principal magistrates of towns, and
retired or pensioned officers, if under no obligation'
to return to active service, no such sanction for
their admission as deputies should be required.
The Morning Post, the organ of the Welling-
ton and Charles the Tenth's party. contains this
morning the following version, or rather distortion :
Louis Philippe, in defiance of the professions of
peace so repeatedly and so recently made, has re-
solved upon an armed interference in favour of
Belgium agoint Holland. This desperate step un-
settles at once the general policy of Europe, and
puts a term, we fear, to her tranquillity ; it is the
challenge f Revolutionary France to the legi-
timate Governments of the Continent, and must
in self-defence be accepted. The neighbouring
power of Prussia cannot be in inactive spectator,
but will follow the dictates of honour and sound
policy in giving immediate assistance to the King
of Holland, with the prospect of a speedy co-
operation on the part of Austria,and Russia. Thus,
in order that the tottering *roue 4 Louis Phillips
may lie preserved for a time from impending de-
struction, the dame of war is rekindled in Europe,
and the bests interests of mankind are sacrifieed.

In the Loans, last night, there was two or
three hours' debate about the very secondary ques-
tion of the occupation of the Azores by Donna
Manta. Lord ABERDEEN moved for papers.
Lord GREY treated it truly as a question of no na-
tional importance. But the Duke of WELLING-
TON was grave, and Lord Hou.sa D argumenta-
tive in reply, stating that we have no concern with
Portuguese parties.
In the COMMONS, on the presentation of some
petitions against further grants to Maynooth Col-
lege, by Mr. Panciva 1., several Irish Members,
spoke in defence of it, and Capt. GORDON against
it, who dwelt on the anomaly of a Protestant
Government paying £.19,000 per annum to sup-
port the Catholic Religion. Mr. O'CONNELL
was warm in reply, and said he thought Capt. G.
was qualified to be Chief Inquisitor in Spain.
Mr. O'CoNN ELL presented a petition against
the Subletting Act, which Lord KILLEEN sup-
ported; and, on the statement of Mr. CRAMPTON,
it appears that this mischievous law is to be much
qualified.

Merthyr Tydvil and Cardiff, per Lord P. STUART,
prayed to have separate Members, Cardiff having
48P houses, at £lO. and Merthyr nearly 30,000
inhabitants.

In the Committee on the Reform Bill, after
Nt NETT-Two several speeches, the whole of sche-
dule D was passed. Twenty-three towns bad one
member each assigned to them, but KENDAL,
WALSAL, and WHITEHAVEN, were reserved for
further discussion. On GATESHEAD a long de-
debate took place, terminating by a division, 264
to 160.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCIL

The excitement this morning in the City is as
great as was usual in the time of the hottest war.
The Paris and Brussels news, of which we have
given such ample details, came quite unexpectedly
—particularly the intelligence of the interference
of France in the affairs of Holland. Consols,
which left off yesterday at 811, opened at 806, and
immediately went down to 791 for the account;
and at this hour they are at 793-80. The Foreign
Money Market is in a state of ruin and stagnation.
Every other subject yields in London to-day to
the events pending in Belgium and France. The
King of Holland has diverted attention from the
questions about the French Ministry--but this
quixotic enterprise has not lessened the importance
of the expected changes in France. Poland must
be secured, and in this sentiment London sym-
pathises with Paris.
The pressure of various temporary matter ex-
cludes any abstract of the report of a great meet-
ing in Dublin, to answer the question put by
blindness or theory, whether Ireland itself demands
a system of Poor Laws ? More intelligent and
eloquent speeches could not have distinguished
any meeting; and if they fail to convince it is
only because the force of truth, like all force,
often stimulates opposition in the weak or
wicked. We lament that the length of
this discussion shuts out another report of a great
meeting at Wexford, relative to the Newtownbarry
massacre. A more manly spirit never was dis-
played at any meeting of country gentlemen, and
many of the declarations evidently flowed from the'
purest sources of patriotism. We hope that they'
will persevere, finish what they have so well begun,
and make a salutary example of those who have so
grossly outraged the moral feelings of the age, and
whose successful impunity would be an everlasting
stain on our laws and national character.

One of the gentlemen at Wexford, B. Osborne,
Esq. declared " that he considered the greater
number of such aggressions as that at New-
townbarry were committed in consequence of
the present system of tithes, and the con-
duct of the class deriving advantage from
them." He said, "he had taken the laborious
trouble to search accurately the files of some Irish
Journals, and he found that no less than six-and-
twenty thousand persons had been butchered, in
twenties and tens, during the last thirty years in
Ireland, in the enforcement of this system on
the people." (Loud cries of hear ! and cheers.)
Why this does not amount to quite so many as
a thousand persons butchered for tithes in the year;
and what is that, after all, to be put in comparison
with the unspeakable advantage of possessinga sine-
cure Church, in which no idolatry is taught, or
any thing else ? 0n1y26 thousand persons butchered
iu tens and twenties, in thirty years. If the Clergy
are not efficacious to rave souis, they prove that
they can kill bodies ; for, one with another, it
would appear that they kill their man every year.
This must tend very in tch to the spread of the
Protestant religion, ann the extirpation of idolatry.
The King of limiand appears to have commenced
the strife in a curiotrA, but perfectly characteristic,
manner. Without the slightest notice (for the warn-
ing of Gen. L haNir alrieich only to the truce con-
eluded bete-veil the cif add of Antwerp and M. Rogier
j on the zsth of NOVember, with reference to that town
only)he directed a •einent upon two frontier places,
1 •
called Capitilentfam and Verlaet, and they were
necessarily taken by surprise ; and King Leopold
I has ordered the re-captine of these places, thus
basely, and against all the rules of civilized war,
I snat, Led from him.— Herald.

vreseut curse of the country is the ascend-
noisy a men in all departments of power and go
vernmeut, who were selected as fit instruments by
Ministers, who, in skiecession, have tyrannized for
the last forty years.
Wo have this day rev:slice, German Journals, but
their contents were anti, tlis :ed in this Paper yes-
terday, by the letter of our Paris Correspondent.
They merely give some details of the riots in Pestb,
the deaths of Liest.-Col. Rottenpeller, of the
Archduke Rodolph, Bishop of Olmutz, of General
Frimout, and the mortal illness of Baron Von
Skeittenbeim, commander in Gallicia—all men-
tioned yesterday.
The Insolvent Commissions hare been perform-
ing their unwelcome tours. Who would imagine
that the dein:embolis of the authors of Magna
Churta should endure the progress of junior judges
inflicting punishments on misfortune, without the
sanction of twelve sworn men How we are
degenerated !

SECOND EDITION.
STAR OFFlCE—err—Lux PAST 3 o'CLoclc.
The Holm of Comstows met this morning at
half-past twelve, when the Speaker took the Chair.
Lord ALTHORP, seeing the bon. member Sir
Riciisan Vy xi/A w in his place, expressed a
wish that he would postpone his motion on the
subject of Belgium.
- Sir RICHARD VEIT TA N declined complying
wish the; wishes of the Noble Lord in the situa-
tion that country was now placed in with regard
to all Europe.
The Marquis of CH AN DOS inquired whether
the government had had official advice of the march
of the French troops upon Belgium, and he wished
to be informed whether the measure was with the
sanction of this government.
Lord PALMERSTON said, as soon as the King
of Belgium had heard of the breaking up of the
convention by the King of the Netherlands, he
had sent to the French Government, begging
immediate assistance; and the result of that

message had been, that the French Government
had ordered an advance of French troops
upon Belgium; and at the same time, a
communication of what had taken place had
been made to this Government. (Hear, hear ;
Order, order.)

Lord STOII RMONT then expressed a wish to
know whether this Government had given its
sanction to the course pursued by the French Go-
vernment.

Lord PALMERSTON stated that he was unable
at this moment to comply with the wishes of the
Honourable Membar.

Sir R. VYV VAN then said that this circum-
stance of itself 'hewed the necessity of his bring-
ing forward his motion, and he wished to be
informed whether the fleet now at Portsmouth had,
or had not, been ordered to sail to the coast of
Holland ; for the whole question resulting out of
his motion, rested on the doubt whether this was,
or was not, the case.

Lord PALMERSTON observed, that no one could
possibly say that he ought to be called upou to an-
swer such a question. The object of the British Go-
vernment, and of the Allied Powers was to maintain
peace between Belgium and Holland; and there was
nothing at present which led him, Lord Palmers-
ton, to think that this object would not be ac-
complished.—(Loud cheers, and cries of Order.)
Mr. C. PELHAM attempted to address the chair
amicht loud calls of " Order, order;" but the
few words we could collect were to the effect,
that the present was a much more important
question than that which occurred seven yens ago,
(cries of Order, order ! Chair, chair !) in the midst
of wi ich the hon. member sat down.
After a few words from Sir R. VI, vvs w, and
some other Members,
Lord PALMERSTON said the Government were
In possession of some facts, which rendered the
postponement of the Hon. Member's motion of the
utmost importance, and which, if now disclosed,
would lead probably to unpleasant results.
Sir R. VTIT T AN, under those circumstances,
consented to postpone his motion nil,
Tuts& y.

It is understood, that in furtherance of the march
of the French troops, a British squadron is proceed-
ing from Portsmouth to the Scheldt for the protec-
tion of Antwerp.

Great discordance prevailed last night in the five
hours' Conference of Foreign Ministers at Lord
PALMERSTON'S Office, and a mutual want of con-
fidence appeared to prevail.
At the Stock Exchange, the first effect of the
news this morning was to sink Consols to 794,
but a re-action since left them, at three o'clock,
at 801. The Foreign and Northern Stocks were
of course very heavy.
Monsieur Feick, the Ambassador from the Ne-
therlands, had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey, at the
Treasury ; and the French and Austrian A mbasaidass the
Austrian Envoy Extraordinary, and the other Ministers of
the Great Powers. held a conference yesterday afmrnoss
with Viscount Palmerston, at the ForOgn Office.
Mr. Abercrombio arrived in town from Brussels
on Thursday evening, and a gentleman attached to the Mis-
sion to his Majesty the King of the Belgians left town last
night with despatches from Viscount Palmerston for
Brussels.

There was a report last night at the west end
of the town, that the King of Prussia had died -uddenly at
Berlin.
Yesterday afternoon, at a late hour, an express
arrived to Mr. Rothschild, who immediately forwarded a
communication to Prince Lieven, who at the time was at-
tending the conference at the Foreign Office ; but it was so
urgent, that his Excellency rose from the conference to receive
it. The deliberation at the Foreign Office !maid upwards
of six hours.

An Extraordinary Courier was sent off last night
with despatches from the Dutch Embassy for Holland, sup-
posed to contain the result of the long continued oonferetes
at the Foreign-officers.
Baron Zuylen von Nyevelt, the Plenipotentiary
Extraordinary from Holland, and Baron Bulow, the Prus-
sian Minister, have had frequent Interviews with the Russian
Ambassador within the last two days.
Mr. Wellesley has addressed a letter to as,
stating that the letter alluded to in the Chancery proceed-
ings yesterday, signed" Wm. Wellesley Long Wellesley"
is not his signature, which is " W. L. Wellesley."
He adds, that whatever may, or may not, be the signs.
tare attached to the letter commencing with " Courage and
perseverance." is a complete fabrication, and was never
written by him-31any if the other details, as related in the
Newspapers, will receive, upon oath, Mr. Wellesley's

A Lisbon mail has arrived, sailed on the 17th....-
The private letters state, that the French squadron
was still in the Tagus, and going to repair a ship or
two, which had received some damage in passing
the batteries. The French Admiral was about
to give up the prises taken previous to hostilities,
by which it appears that the differences are settled.
EXTENSIVEBURGLARY.—Thursday informa-
tion was given at the various police offices of a
Idaring burglary on the premises of Mr. Wright, jew-
eller, in Moseley-street, Newcestle-upon-Tyne. It
appears that the house was entered by a gang of
thieves, supposed to be London " cracks-
men" (burglars), between the night of Sa-
turday last and the morning of Monday.
They effected an entrance by cutting a bole
through the partition of the adjoining staircase,
and carried off the most valuable portion of the
stock, consisting of a large quantity of plate tsar
jewellery, a number of gold and silver watches,
diamond, pearl, and other rings, breeches, ear-
rings, bracelets, gold chains, souff-boxes, a gold
sugar boson (a copy from the Warwick vase), mad
a variety of other articles, to the amount of upwards
of 1,0001.

The pressure of For News 1,41a7 okapis us
to postpone the " Kiaes II zell Nene 1111 Ilisap.