The Belgian Chamber of Deputies has been engaged in discus-
sing the budget for 1833. The Minister of Finance, according to the eorre pondent of the Times, made the following general state- ment of the income and expenditure of the kingdom.
" He showed that the ordinary budget, as soon as the army could be definitively reduced to thelleacC establishment, would not exceed 66,000,000 of francs; which, with the addition of 17,000,000 francs, the proportion of the debt of the late kingdom of the Netherlands, which has been allocated on Belgium by the Conference' and 2,000,000 francs, as the interest of a future loan to cover the ,accuinulated arrears, would mate the whole of the future budget amount to no more than 83,000,000 of francs,—a sum which is evidently far within the re- sources of the country even at its present rate of taxation. According to this estimate, the peace establishment of the War Department is stated at 25,000,000 francs ; but there is every probability, after a few years of gradual transition, that this approximation may be considerably diminished. Ou the other hand, the Minister anticipates the addition of souse 7,000 or 8,000 francs, as the in- terest of the indemnity proposed to be given to the sufferers by the inundations, the pillage, and the other events of the Revolution."
