24 OCTOBER 1829, Page 2

The Brussels mail has brought the speech of the King

of the Netherlands on the opening of the Session of the States-General. The picture which he draws of the state of his kingdom is a very flattering one. He seems busied with reforms on various subjects— on criminal law and public education. His Majesty announced that he was about to contract an alliance between his daughter and the youngest son of the King of Prussia.