The Belgian budget for the ensuing year gives the estimate
of 29,837,857 for the Public Debt, 90,849 for the Marine, 30.525,000 francs for the War department, and 11,321,355 francs for the Finance, or a total, with other items, of 105,632,724 francs. This shows a de- crease in the expenditure of the present year of 2,265,000 francs. The reason why the saving effected has not been greater, is stated to be the extra outlay on railways, fortifications, and the efforts made to extend the foreign commerce of the kingdom by the establishment of government agents or consuls in various directions.
Ai the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-General of Hol- land, on the 26th October, the Minister of Finance presented a state- ment of the finances, with the budget bf the expenditure and the ways and means for 1841. The total ex penditure is stated at 63,649,654 florins ; of which the King's Household constitutes 1,200,000; the de- partment of' the Interior, :3,403,070 ; Marine and Colonies, 5,206,374 ; department of War, 11,969,325 ; and the National Debt, 26,324,250. The budgets of past years are avowed to have been incorrect ; hence there is an apparent increase in the expenditure of the present. Tito Monite«r announces that Count Demidoff, who had been raised to the rank of Prince by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, had obtained from Rome, according to the formalities required by the Church, per- mission to espouse the Princtss Matilda, daughter of Jerome Bona- parte. The official account of the reestablishment of peaceful relations be- tween Russia and Kltiva has appeared in the St. Petersburg Journal of October 2-1111. Details as to commercial ietercourse had been left for future negotiation. The official notification makes no mention of Khiva being placeul under the protection of England.
A letter from Constantinople of the 7th October, published in the Augsburg Gazette, states that the treaty of (Inkier 'Skelessi being about to expire, (on the 8th of July 1841,) Lord Ponsonby and M. Thal' (the Russiian Minister ad interim) addressed several questions on the subject to their respective Governments. In reply to these questions, Thal received instructions that his Government renounced the ad- vantages stipulated in the treaty of Unkiar 'Skelessi, inasmuch as the. treaty of London had definitively settled the question of the Darda- nelles and the Bosphorus; and that the Porte, on her side, under-- took to put those two channels into a proper state of defence.
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