Much has been said and written this week respecting th.:
arrangement of the Beleic-Duteli question; and the ii have published programmes of the terms of seldom ing to this project, Luxemburg and Litiubeigai rated from Belgium ; the navigation of the &etch& the annual payment of interest by Belgium on theanaeted debt to be reduced from 8400,000 florins to 3,500,000 S aate.s. Some difficulty was raised by France, it was said, at the elevernth War; 14;P. ilertoaart
and the final settlement was again put off. That the affair is still unarranged, appears from a passage in the speech of the King of Belgium on opening the session of the Chambers ; which cere- mony took place at Brussels on Wednesday- " Our differences with Holland are not yet arranged. The lights and in- terests of the country are the sole rule of my policy : these have been treated with the care which their importance requires, and will be defended with p r- severance and courage."
Loud cries of "Vive le Roi f' were uttered on the conclu- sion of this sentence. It was announced that the army would be kept at its present amount, as the Dutch force was not dimi- nished. LEOPOLD drew a pleasing picture of the general prospe- rity of his industrious subjects ; referring to the manufactories, railways, and other internal improvements completed and in pro- gress, to the amendment of laws relating to juries and libels, the better ordering of prisons, and charitable asylums, and the culti- vation of the fine arts.
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