The letters from Brussels contain but one piece of intelligence
—the arrival there of General GOBLET; for which, as the General left London on Saturday on his way thither, we were somewhat prepared. His arrival has created quite a sensation. The people great and small do nothing but run about the street asking every one they meet, " What do you know of General Goblet? what news has General Goblet brought ?" Happy fellows these Bruxellois ! Here, many a man sometimes asks, with considerable earnestness, " What are we to have for dinner to-day? where are we to get dinner to-day? shall we get any dinner to-day?" and some mote inquisitive and less believing subjects will even go so far as to demand what there is for dinner to-morrow ; but, with the exception of the honourable corps of penny-a-line men, we seldom hear Of any one with whom leisure is so plentiful that he can afford to run about the Strand or Fleet Street, seizing every one he meets by the button, to inquire what he knows of the last- imported general. We were wrong in stating that the Brussels letters communi- cated only one piece of news : there is a second—Mynheer MAX LESOIME has been dismissed from the Presidency of Agriculture at Liege. He had refused to take an active part in relation to LooroLD's Government. We highly commend Mynheer MAx's passive resistance principles. Could any thing be more unreason- able, while every fellow in Brussels is allowed to saunter about the streets inquiring after General GOBLET, than to require activity from the President of the Agricultural Committee at Liege? Mr. ROTHSCHILD is said to have taken the remainder of the Belgian loan (2,000,0001.) on the express condition that LEOPOLD "do not go to war." Mr. R., like the worthy Mynheer MAX, dis- likes all such activity.
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