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gatuvfrai? to £ HOIUmi>'s posta LONDON, SEPT. 8. THE Paris Journals contain little news of any mo- JL ment but the most important, if true, is a com- munication from Belgium, inserted in the Messager de Chambres, which states that "the difficulties with Hol- land are drawing to an end. Leopold has just acceded to all the propositions of William, such as they were set forth in the last act of the Conference. Belgium will not have the free navigation of the Scheldt, but will pay a toll, which is to be, pro tempore, that which is applicable to the Rhine. She will not have the right to open a direct communication with Germany. A slight reduction on the interest of the debt will be made to her. Luxembourg will not be given up to us. How- ever hard these conditions," says the article, we shall avoid a war. Ministers are unwilling to make known at present their adherence, through fear of exasperating the commercial and manufacturing portion of the po- pulation of Belgium; but, with time, all will become calm, and Belgium may still flourish by the advantage the will derive from the fertility of her soil.On this article, the Morning Herald observes—" This last sen- tence is written in the spirit of caustic irony on the fu- ture prospects of Belgium, in the event of submitting to such concessions; for if she abandon her claim to a free navigation of the Scheldt, and the right to open a direct communication with Germany, she must give up commerce, and return to the plough. Her reward for submitting heretofore implicitly to the dictates of the London Conference will be the ruin of her trade, the loss of all the rights which the recognition of her inde- pendence implied, and the scorn of the world for so miserable a sequel to the magniloquent drama of her Revolution.The Constitutionnel mentions a new slight which has been put upon Louis Philip, by the refusal of the King of Holland even to open his letter notifying the marriage of the Princess Louise with the King of the Belgians and, after enumerating a list of insults which the Government of July has received at the hands of the Absolute Courts, calls upon the King to assume a less accommodating tone in his relations with parties who scarcely disguise their contempt for his title and person.—Symptoms of fermentation are breaking out again in the western districts, and there is reason to fear that the country in that quarter will again be for some time a prey to civil war. The Duchess de Berri is still in La Vendee, and it is be- lieved that the peasants are again acting under her im- mediate orders.—The Moniteur states that in the de- partment of Seine and Oise, the produce of the harvest will be most abundant.—The cholera has undergone a considerable diminution in the number of deaths and new cases in the capital. There is still no direct news from Portugal of mo- ment. Preparations are stated to be making for a speedy attack upon Oporto, which on the other hand is said to be strongly fortified. Reports of an early and formal recognition of Donna Maria as Queen by France and England, continue to prevail in Paris. Letters from Coblentz of the 22d of August mention a great improvement of the navigation of the Rhine by the explosion of the rocks forming the well-known danger of the passage called the Binger-loch, between Coblentz and Mentz, which was happily effected in the presence of Prince Frederick of Prussia, and a great concourse of spectators, the rock being bored in dif- ferent places, charged with powder, and fairly blown out of the water. The vessels on the Rhine were de- corated with the Prussian flag, and innumerable other colours, and the shores lined with music and rejoicing multitudes. Every trace of danger is now obviated. Steamers and ships deeply laden can now pass, not- withstanding the lowness of the water during the heat of the summer. ———— The Gazette of yesterday afternoon announces that his Majesty's Levees will be discontinued until further notice that Benj. C. Brodie, Esq. has been appointed Sergeant-Surgeon to the King, in the room of Sir Everard Home, Bart. deceased; that the honour of Knighthood has been conferred upon Frederick A. Roe, Esq. Chief Magistrate of Bow-street; and that the Hon. J. D. Bligh has been appointed Secretary of Embassy at St. Petershurgh. During the whole of yesterday there was an unusual degree of activity prevailing among the Corps diplo- matique, and which was said to have been caused by important dispatches received from Vienna, Berlin, Brussels, and Holland. In the evening couriers left town from the Prussian, French, and Dutch Embassies. Sir Thomas Trowbridge, who has recently arrived from Oporto, states that the condition to which Por- tugal has been reduced by the exactions of Don Miguel, and the warfare between the Usurper and the legiti- mate Sovereign, is deplorable in the extreme. He does not seem to despair of the cause of Don Pedro, but he expects more, we believe, in his favour from the want of energy and courage of the Miguelites than from the resources which the Constitutionalists possess — Morning Chronicle. Their Majesty's gave a splendid dinner at Windsor Castle this evening, in honour of the anniversary of the-Coronation. It is understood their Majesties will pass the winter at Brighton. We are happy to hear the Duchess of Gloucester is fast recovering from her late indisposition. A paragraph having appeared in the newspapers that the Lord Chancellor would be engaged during the recess in preparing judgments which he had promised to give, we are authorised to state that no judgments whatever remain to be given except the decision of one of the points in one cause, and that two orders which remained to be made at the rising of the Court, and one in a matter heard after the Court rose, were all made within a week after the rising.-Times. A requisition signed by 200 Citizens of London was presented to the Lord Mayor on Friday by Mr. Shoo- bridge, of Cheapside, to request his Lordship to con- vene a public meeting for the purpose of considering the propriety of erecting Alms-houses for the recep- tion of poor decayed inhabitant householders of the City of London, or their widows, to commemorate in a national manner the benefit conferred on the freeholders, freemen, and householders of London and the country generally, by the Reform Bill, and thereby hand down to posterity the names of King William IV., Earl Grey, Lords J. Russell, Althorp, Brougham, and other ne- le-minded Reformers, through whose perseverence ,32at a blessing had been obtained. The Lord Mayor cordially approved of the plan proposed, and would not only most willingly convene the meeting, but would preside over it. It is understood the meet- ing will take place next week at the London Tavern, the Egyptian Hall having lately undergone repairs, which preclude its being used for the present. The Committee of the creditors of his Royal High- ness the Duke of York again met on Wednesday, when several additional and highly-respestable members were elected, and intimation was given that many of the creditors who had hitherto abstained from joining the coalition, had signified their determination to lend their aid towards prosecuting the projected inquiries, in which men of the first professional eminence are engaged. No communication had been received from Sir Herbert Taylor or Sir Benjamin Stephenson (the Executors of his Royal Highness), nor had the former condescended to make any reply to one of the creditors who had applied to him by letter to know whether there was any truth in the statement put forth in the Court Journal that" arrangements. were making for the discharge of his Royal Highness's debts." The Committee again adjourned to Wednesday next, and will thus continue their meetings weekly until the task they have undertaken has been completed. The Sun states that a brave and distinguished officer in the British service has volunteered in the Portu- guese constitutional cause, and offered to provide three thousand men, on conditions to which it is believed the Marquess Palmella will agree. There is little doubt, says the Globe, that Charles X. and his companions in exile will quit Holyrood- house and take up their residence at Gratz but we hear that it will be required as a condition from them, that the Duchess de Berri shall remain quietly at home with her family. Earl Grey stated a few days ago, to a person of high rank connected with the French Court, that all the reports of disagreements in the Cabinet, and particu- larly of want of cordiality between himself and Lord Palmerston, were utterly unfounded.—Mark-lane Express. A line of telegraphs is to be established forthwith from Berlin to Coblentz, whereby intelligence can be transmitted in three days from Berlin to London. The Brazilian Government has intimated to the Commissioners for the settlement of the claims of Bri- tish subjects for disputed captures, that the whole of the claims supported by due evidence are to be adju- dicated within six months from the date of that com- munication. Lieutenant Holman, the blind traveller, has arrived in this country from New South Wales. In the same ship (the Strathfieldsay) came home Captain Stuart, of the 39th Regiment, who made a tour of discovery in the interior of New South Wales. The brother of the Austrian Premier, Prince Met- ternich, travelling under the title of Count Andreossi, arrived in town at a late hour the night before last- He is said to have come on a diplomatic mission to this country. By the decease of Sir Albert Pell yesterday, a va- cancy is occasioned among the Judges of the new Bank- ruptcy Court. Yesterday the Custom House was thrown into alarm by receiving news that the reduction of salaries, which was to have been prospective, would take place forth- with upon a larger scale than had been contemplated. In some instance 1001. a year has been lopped off sa- laries of 4001. There are 108 Candidates in the field for 53 seats in Parliament belonging to Scotland. All the counties are contested for except Banff, Bute, Dumfries, Forfar, Kirkcudbright, Orkney, and Peebles, and all the burghs except Ayr, Dysart, &c. The fears which were one time entertained that the registration under the operation of the Reform Bill would have been defective, appear, we are glad to per- ceive, likely to turn out quite unfounded. The num- ber of voters who have sent in their claims appear to bear a very fair proportion to that of the qualified. The duty on foreign corn is rapidly rising, and already amounts to a prohibition; and as the harvest is nearly secured, the Corn Laws may be considered as a dead letter for the next twelve months. Monday morning the quarterly sale of tea? by the East India House. The declaration amounted to l,400,0001bs., 100,0001bs., more than was offered at the June sale. The attendance was numerous, and the biddings very animated. A correspondent of a London paper observes, that comparing the prices of malt and hops at this time with the prices of last year, there has been a fall of nearly the fourth in the value of malt, and of one half in that of hops, and that consequently it is not un- reasonable to expect that our great brewers, will im- mediately lower the price of beer, or very materially improve its quality. A statue of the celebrated James Watt, from the studio of Mr. Cliantrey, is about to be placed in West- minster Abbey, by the side of other British worthies. It is singular enough that Great Britain should be at this time the residence of the only two parties who can ever be likely to dispute the throne of France with Louis Philip yet so it is—the Duke de Bourdeux is in Edinburgh, and Napoleon's Representative in London. Cholera has made such progress in the Island of Jersey, that is has been thought necessary to send to London for additional medical assistance and several gentlemen, whose services were required on the occa- sion, left town on Friday, at a very short notice, to proceed thither. A Million of Bank Notes placed one above another would form a pile 416 feet in height, which is much higher then St. Paul's and more than double the height of the Monument. Supposing them to be spread out, they would extend over 250,000 square feet, a space equal to the area of Grosvenor-square, London. It appears from the evidence of Mr. Horsley Palmer, that the amount of gold which can be paid by twenty- five clerks over the counter, counted by hand, does not exceed 50,0001. per day, or 2,000 sovereigns each clerk. When part of it is paid by putting twenty-five sovereigns in one scale and twenty-five in another, and so on, if they balance till the amount in each scale is two hundred, six times the sum, or 70,0001. can be paid. Thus, on the 14th of May, 1832, when a run took place on the Bank, 307,0001. was paid to the clamourous claimants for gold.—Mr. Rothschild stated before the Committee of the House of Commons that he buys bills, drawn on foreign houses, to the amount of 80,0001. or 100,0001. per week and that he received in the year 1824, in two months, bills to the amount of 1,500,0001. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AMERICANS AND FRENCHMEN. -An Englishman cannot travel a mile in a stage-coach in the United States, without being asked whether he has been on the Liverpool rail-road. In Europe, and in France par- ticularly, it is, Have you seen de Tunnel under de Thames?" It is the usefulness in forwarding the prosperity of a country that suggests the American query; whilst with the Frenchman the use is entirely out of the question; he thinks merely of the magnitude and the novelty of the un- dertaking, and never fails to remark that the engineer was a native of France.-American Paper. ASSESSED TAXES.—The act 2d and 3d William IV. c. 113 (passed 15th August), after noticing that the compo- sitions for assessed taxes now in force, will expire on the 5th of April next, extends the same for a further term of one year, ending 5th of April, 1834 except in cases where parties shall give written notice on or before 10th October next, to determine the same on the 5th April, 1833. It then grants relief from the 5th April last, in the following cases.—It re- peals the assessed taxes on public stage coaches, or carriages duly licensed as public stage coaches, [the tax on those with four wheels was 51. 5s. a-year]; the power for discharging from assessment by 57th Geo. III. c. 25, and 5th Geo. IV. c. 44, certain houses converted into warehouses, offices, or counting-houses, for a whole year, is extended to certain cases for less than a year; where a livery-stable-keeper, horse-dealer, or person licensed to let post-horses or carriages for hire, shall, by employing grooms, stable-boys, or helpers in the stables, solely in their trades, become chargeable with the progressive duties on them, they shall inlieu be assessed no more than 11. 5s. for each; the duties on shopmen, ware.. housemen, or porters, shall not be paid for any under the age of 15, and who shall not be wholly maintained and lodged by the employer; overseers, or clerks of manufactories, acting under others duly assessed, are to be exempt; and the exemption from assessed taxes on horses drawing hackney coaches in London is extended to all persons in any part of Great Britain licensed to keep hackney coaches. In the cases of exemption the usual return of the article should be made and the grounds of claims to exemption stated. The same Act declares that gamekeepers appointed by the Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, &c. shall not be liable to the Game Certificate Duty; [i. e. only where the killing of game is within the limits of their ap- pointment.]

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