The inhabitalts of Brus:e!s are eagaged in ceei glorious days,"
by feasting, dancing, &c. The order of the Iron Cross will, it is said, be conferred on these only who were wounded during the battle. The gayeties, it was feared, would be rather dull. Some discontent exists in consequence of tickets of admission So certain concerts having been priced as high as ten and five francs. It seems absurd to call the fetes popular, and then exclude all the poorer classes from a principal part of the entertainment. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle represents a favour- able change as being in progress in the minds of the Belgians and the French people : they are beginning to discern the fully of gutting throats at the bidding of despots.
" A remarkable change has been operated in the minds of the middling .lasses 3a France and Belgium. That craving after the excitements and empty glories of war—that reckless indifference to the accumulated burdens and distresses entailed thereby on nations, which prevailed at the commencement of the present century, has yielded to a rational desire for more substantial benefits. A more general diffusion of wealth and education, and a more immediate participation in She blessings of civil liberty—in giving the people greater knowledge and a more direct interest in the soil, and, above all, in the stability of public credit— Lave opened their eyes to the true sources of individual and national prosperity. It has taught them to mistrust the perilous seductions and interested declama- tions of ambitious leaders, and to discover that it is the policy of corrupt Govern- ments to excite foreign wars, in order to divert public attention from domestic abuses. For external war and internal reform are as opposed one to the other as sear and economy ; and without the latter there can be no hope for the people. Bad the Conservatives remained in office in England, or the Movement party risen to power in Franc , war would probably have ensued. What then ? Why, another series of glorious victories, and with them another hundred millions of stational debt—to be paid by the sweat and blood of the people."
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