An international Free-trade Congress is to assemble in the Belgian
capital on the 22d September, and sit for three days. The local Freetrade Association will take the lead in the business. The British. Chambers of Commerce have been invited and are expected to send delegates. The members of the Conference are to be advised not to make speeches, but statements of fact leading to practical measures. Two questions are to be submitted for consideration 1. "What are the artificial or natural obstacles opposed to the extension of the commercial relations of the country to which each member belongs ? "
2. What are the practical means proposed, or to be proposed, in each country, to remove or diminish the obstacles which impede the extension of commercial relations with other nations ? "
In answer to the first question, each member of the Congress will be requested to state the facts which relate either to his country at large or to his particular industrial or commercial pursuit ; and the reasons, if any, why customs or other restrictions should be maintained in countries with which his country has commercial relations. Upon the second_ proposition each member will be desired to furnish such documents as he can' give upon the subject, as well as a résumé of his views and opinions upon it.
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