The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-07 00:00:00

KING OF HOLLAND'S MARRIAGE

(Correspondence extracted from the Parisian Prints.)
Tut HAGUE, Sart% 80.--The public 11;4 seen with
pleasure the ilandeljblad aliude to the delicate quo tion Of
the King's marriage, which no (net journal had dared
to do. The languace of the HundeAbiad proves that
the news has foundation. It is thought that this
article was published by the paper at the request of the
King's children, who, not being able to get their father
to renounce his marriage, had recourse to the prees
to
see whether a manifestation of pubic opinion would not
have more influence than they. We hear that the King
and his children have quarrelled. The Princess Mart-
anne, wife of Prince Albert of Prussia, is about to
return to her new country ; and Prince Frederic, who
has for some time been absent, declares that he will not
return to Holland unless the King gives up his inten-
tion of marrying, which would entirely ruin him in the
I public estimation.
The following details relating to the Countess d'Oul-
tremont and her family are given in the Journal dc
Flandres :—" bldlle. Henriette d'Oultremont is sister
to the Count d'Oultremont who married the Princess
de Ligne (Mdlle. Duras), mother of our late Envoy
Extraordinary to London. Mdlle. Henriette d'Oul-
tremont is 43 years of age. She was Lady of Honour
to the late Queen Wilhelmina, and her sister at the
time holds the same situation in the household of this
Princess of Orange. On the death of the Que(
Mdlle. Henriette left the Court of the Hague, and re-
turned into Belgium, notwithstanding the earnest en-
treaties of King William, who always showed a great
attachment to her. About a year ago she went
back to the Hague with her brother, the Count
d'Oultremont, who is cousin german of the Bel-
gian Ambassador at Rome. If we are rightly
informed, it was about February last that King Wil-
ham made a proposal of marriage to her. She did
not refuse this highly honourable offer, but told the
King that, after such a declaration, it was impossible
' for her to remain at the Hague until their relative
positions were distinctly defined. From tlpat time
Mademoiselle d'Oultremont has constantly resided in
Belgium. This firmness only confirmed his Majesty
in his resolution. The opponents to the marriage
insist upon the circumstance that Mademoiselle d'Oul-
tremont is not noble on the mother's side. In fact, the
Count, her father, married the widow of a merchant of
Antwerp, and from which union came the Chamberlain
of King William, the Lady of Honour of the Princess
of Orange, and the future Queen of Holland."

LOVETT AND COLLINS.—(From a Corre-
spindent of the Morning Post.)—The Visiting, Justices
of Warwick gaol have granted leave to Lovett and Col-
lins to rent a room in the prison and to furnish it with a
table and two chairs, and to have a fire. I❑ other re-
spects they are to be treated like other prisoners, both
as to the dietary and the general di,e'pline of the prison.
Their friends have either already pr&ented a memorial,
or are getting up one, to the Marquis of Normanby,
praying a further relaxation of the prison discipline, and
the liberty of supplying them with tea, meat, and other
luxuries. Their friends even entertain the idea that the

Home Secret,Ary will within a short period remit their
punishment altogether, and grant them their liberty.
PARIS, OCT. 3.—There are rumours of a modi-
fication of the French Cabinet, but I think them pre-
mature. All the Ministers are at Fontainbleau with
the Court. Count Mole and several other Statesmen
en disponibilite have also repaired to Fontainbleau.
Guizot and Thiers were invited, but both refu-ed. The
former is finishing his important essay on the Ameri,•an
war and the character of Washington, which is to be
followed, it is stated, by a biographical sketch of
Luther ; the latter is still engaged upon his History of
the Consulate and the Empire.

FARNHAM HOPS, SEPT. 25.—The picking in
most parts of this district is now complete, and exhibits
a very great casualty of the crop ; for in some of
the best grounds there have been grown some of the
worst hops ; indeed very many hills have been of so
very inferior size, that they have not been thought
to be worth putting across the pickers' bins ; it has
been computed that nearly fifty acres in the parish
will not be picked, in consequence of their inferiority
as to size and injury from storms ; for at this place
they (the growers) are exceedingly particular in their
pickings, taking care not to be at the expense of get-
ting into bag aad paying duty for an inferior article.
At the last Weyhill Fair, the growers regretted having
so many hops of an inferior description, which has
taught them to be more careful this year ; it is there-
fore expected that the market will he supplied with
better articles in this than in former years. In the
best grounds of this parish there is not nearly an
average crop ; the extremes are the best as to quantity
and quality, viz., at Wrecklesham. Dipnell Hale, Bad-
shot, &c. ; and even at these places the picking has
fallen far short of last year's growth, and yet some par-
ties fancy the duty of the district of Hants will amount
to as much as last year, because some of the surrounding
parishes have a tolerable crop ; but they cannot make
up for the deficiencies of Farnham, which it is calculated
may fall short at the fair of many hundred bags under
the supply of last year. The collection of Salisbury dis-
trict is likely to exceed that of last year ; for the hops
are very good at Alton, Bentley, Binstead, Froyle, Sel-
bourne, Odiham, and some other parts of this collection,
although these are in the County of Hants.—Devizes
Gazette.
It is satisfactory to find from recent official re-
turns that the effects of the late crisis in France have
not fallen so severely upon that portion of importion
which has reference more particularly to internal con-
sumption as might have been expected. The falling off
in the quantity of colonial sugars on which duty has
been paid for home consumption during the first eight
months of the present year, to which the returns extend,
is rather considerable, as against 44.000.000 kilo-
grammes absorbed within the same period of 1838,
no more than 35,000,000 were so placed
this year. No inconsiderable portion of this dimu-
nition, however, may fairly be attributed to the
long delay which took place before the reduction
of duties on French colonial sugars, finally determined
on, was officially announced, in the anticipation and
still uncertainty of which as to time, stocks were natu-
rally run to the lowest point in the hands of dealers
both wholesale and retail, to reap all possible advan-
tage from the diminution of the import when it actually
took effect. The sales of coffee, on the contrary, not
acted on by the same causes, and, therefore, so far a
better criterion of the state of consumption, had in-
creased from 7,900,000 kilogrammes in 1838, to
8,400,000 this year. The same result was observable
in coeoa, and may hereafter be expected on colonial
sugars, now that tie lower rated duties are in operation.
Amongst the produets imported and used in me-
nufactures, a considerable decrease may be noted in the
quantity of cotton taken into consumption. In the
first eight months of 1838 duty was paid on 35,000 000
kilogrammes whilst this year on only 25,000,000.
This decrease is not peculiar to France, however, but in
an equal extent has taken place in this country, if not
elsewhere. The extraordinary extension of the co, tin
manufacture during the last four or five years here, in
France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States

simultane,,usly, may serve naturally to account tor
much of the reaction now remarked, but it cannot be
denied that no small proportion of the decreased
consumption may be traced to the high and unrea-
sonable prices so long, and even still in some measure,
maintained on cotton by the monopoly established be
the speculations of the United States and other hanks
of the Union. In the consumption of wool an augni:m-
tation, however, may be noted. Such had been the ac-
tivity of the woollen manufacture this year, that
9,200,000 kilogrammes of wool had • been consumed
against 8,300,000 for the eight months of 1838. In
various articles necessary for bleaching and dyeing an
increased absorption had also taken place ; on olive oils
duty had this dear been paid on 25,000,000 kilogrammes,
against 23,000,000 for 1838. From these facts it
would appear, that real commerce had remained bound,
and to a great degree unaffected, amidst the fever of
oth 'speculations and rash enterprises by which the
monetary derangements of France had been brought on.
PLATE ROBBERY.—lnformation was on Thurs-
day given at the Metropolitan Police-station of the
following extensive robbery :—Between the hours of
five and nine o'clock on Wednesday evening the dwel-
ling-house of Mr Bloxham, 66, Chester-square, Pim-
lico, was entered by thieves, and the following articles
of plate stolen :—Four silver dishes and covers, forty-
two silver spoons, a large number of desert forks and
spoons, a soup ladle, and other articles of plate, The
property was in a chest, deposited in the bedroom of
Mr. Bloxham, and there is no doubt that the thieves ef-
fected an entrance through the attic window from some
unfinished houses.