The ensemble, as it is called, of the address of
the French Chamber of Deputies, was carried on Monday, by a triumphant majority. The number for Ministers was 233, while against them there were only 114. A great many amendments were offered in the course of the discussion, but the whole of them were negatived. The Dupix party, it is plain, are determined to make common cause with the Ministry. The people without, notwithstanding the furious tirades of the journals, seem to be equally disposed to support a Cabinet which is determined to maintain public order, without which neither freedom nor property :can subsist. The King, in his answer to the address, says " We shall soon see our soldiers, our children, return with honour to their country, and bring back from the banks of the Scheldt a new pledge of the preservation • of peace. That day, which we await with impatience, and which cannot be remote, will give the surest and most splendid demonstration of the wisdom of the system which we support together with so much perseverance."
We hope this will satisfy, if it do not silence, the bawlers against French perfidy, who would fain persuade us that the driving out of the Dutch can only lead to the permanent occupation of Belgium by the French.
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