The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-14 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, JULY 12.—The average prices of wheat and
rye, in the first week of July (3d to Bth, both inclusive),
were—wheat, 1,694 f. ; rye, 1,167 f. per hectolitre. The
import duties remain at 3,750 f. and 2,160 f. per 1,000 kilo-
grammes.
VIENNA, JULY 3.—Prince Metternich receives this
evening the visits of the Foreign Ministers for the last time
before lie leaves Vienna, which he will do on the sth, going
first to Ischl, where he will only stop till the 7th, and then
go, by way of Salzburg, to Munich. Many officers of the
Austrian army have asked and obtained the Emperor's leave
to go, at their own expense, to the Russian camp. Manzone
Capaceine, the Papal Legate, has arrived here. M. de
Tatischeff, the Russian Ambassador, will go this week to
Carlsbad. Sir F. Lambe likewise intends to visit some
watering-place. The French Ambassador and the, Nuncio
remain at Vienna.
VETS, MAY 22.—We are•here in the greatest dread of
a visit from the insurgents in the vicinity, whose audacity
is really astonishing. In the (Greek) Easter week 300
of them came down from the lura Mountains, surprised
Porturia, a considerable place two leagues from this, dur-
ing the weekly markets, killed or wounded some men who
were inclined to resist, carried off all the goods that they
could take away, took also ten hostages of the best fa-
milies, and after committing various wanton and cruel acts,
retreated without obstacle to these mountains. Some days
ago 3,000 Turkish troops arrived here to chastise the
robbers, and to recover their plunder, but they have done
nothing ; they positively refused to penetrate into the
mountains for fear of an ambush, and remain idle spec-
tators, while the robbers make a jest of them.
BELGIAN UNDS—Bilissms JULY 12
Actual Debt, 24 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions 92%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 99%
Society of Commerce, 41. per Cent. 13454
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l3s
...Brussels Papers, July 13.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Ynnora, JIrLY 4
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1360
Zeitung, July 9.
To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE.

Sut—ln your report of the proceedings of the Lanibet
meeting last night, I am made to avow myself a friend t°
universal suffrage, and to the total repeal of the new Poor'
law Act.
Most emphatically I declared myself adverse to universal
suffrage, but friendly to household suffrage.
As to the new Poor-law Act, I stated that I had origi"
nally voted against it, and was not, therefore, answerable
for its defects. I expressed my decided objection to the
clause giving plurality of votes, and my anxiety that this
and some other evils arising from the measure should be re'
;Bodied, but I did not state any desire for its total repeal.
J r- - -a' L.& nithwr intirn..l.. I hop°
you will do me the kindness to insert this correction of 11°
error which, of course, was purely accidental.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
June 13. C. TENNYSON D'EYNCOUItrr•

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The Queen Dowager is in better spirits than cou
have been anticipated, considering her recent bereavement.
Her Majesty is in tolerable health ; and in her retirement 55
Bushy is gradually recovering from her fatigues.
Captain Steele, Paymaster of the Revenue Police,
dropped suddenly dead, last week, in Loughrea.—Tug"
Herald.
Notwithstanding the exertions of the new police
and other peace-officers employed at the late King's funeral, the
robberies committed in the castle-yard and chapel were very
numerous. It appears, from information received yesterday at
Scotland-yard, that a gentleman named Wells, residing in
Cheapside, was robbed of a valuable gold watch ; Mr. Lens'
bert, of Coventry-street, was robbed of a purse containing
nearly 201. in gold and silver ; a lady, of 39, Dorset-street,
Portman-square, of between 3/. and 4/., and a portmanteau. in
which was a large quantity of wearing apparel, was stolen
from the back of a carriage. Many of the inhabitants of
Windsor and Eton, who were likewise incautious enough to
take their cash with them, returned home without it, so that
there is no doubt whatever of the body of thieves present hal-
ing reaped upon the whole a very excellent harvest.
PAISLEY.—We regret to state that the prospects
we have held out of an improvement in trade for the last few
weeks have not been realized. Some heavy failures in the
shawl trade, and severe losses sustained by several manufactur-
ing houses, have again damped the brightening prospect, and
have been the cause of a considerable number of workmen be-
ing thrown idle. The men employed by the relief committee
this week stand at the extraordinary number of 1,989, and the
wives and children dependent on them to 8,067. We have
again had a remittance from our kind friends at Edinburgh,
who;altogether, have sent to Paisley not less than from 1,500/.
to I,6ool.—Renfrewshire Rl:former.
Considerable misapprehension and alarm have been
occasioned within the last few days in the neighbourhood of
Warwick and Leamington, by a report that one of the Lea-
mington Banks had stopped payment ; and the notes of the
Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, and the Lea-
mington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, have, in
consequence, been looked upon with suspicion. It forms s
part of our duty to the public to state, that the above Banks,
being the only two Banks of issue in this town, are in a most
prosperous condition, and that the fears which have been en-
tertained are without the slightest foundation. The truth,
however, is, that the Directors and Proprietors of the other
Bank, viz. the Leamington Bank—which has not been a Bank
of issue for the last 15 or 18 months, but has circulated the
Bank of England paper—have thought proper to take steps
gradually to reduce and wind up the affairs of the Bask., Its
doing this no local circulation has retired.—Leantington Chron.
THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.—After musing
for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same
meditative face, into a back ante-room, opening from the yard ;
and there, retiring into a corner, called up
before his mind's
eye a vast amphitheatre of faces, over which a clusky curtain
had hung for many years. " No," said the old gentleman,
shaking his head ; "it must be imagination." He wandered
over them again. He had called them into view, and it was
not easy to replace the shroud that had so long concealed
them. There were the faces of friends and foes, and of many
that had been almost strangers, peering intrusively from tie
crowd ; there were the faces of young and blooming girls that
were now old women ; there were others that the grave had
404anged to ghastly trophies of death, but which the minds
superior to his power, still dressed in their own freshness and
beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the brightness Of
the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay, s
and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be
heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light ,
to shed a soft and gentle glow upon the path to heaven. But
the old gentleman could recal no one countenance of which
Oliver's features bore a trace ; so he heaved a sigh over the
recollections he had awakened ; and being, happily for himself.
an absent old gentleman, buried them again in the pages af
the musty book.—" Oliver Twist," by Boz, in Bentley's Nis'
cellany.
Yesterday, at Guildhall, Henry William Dawson,
of Cannon-street, servants' hiring-office keeper, who has Inv-
dergone several examinations, on charges of fraudulently ob-
taining money from individuals, under pretence of providing
them with situations, without having the means of so doings •
was committed to Newgate, by Alderman T. Wood,' to take ,
his trial at the next sessions.
A gentleman in office under the Harper Trustees
has this week run off to Gretna with an accomplished girl of
about 18 years of age, the daughter of a widow lady, residing
in Priory-terrace. This is the second elopement from Bed-
ford within two months, a pupil of Dr. Witt's having
ously run off with a young heiress, the daughter of a retired
solicitor, resident in Bedford.
NEW METHOD OF CAULKING SHIPS.--Mr'
Yetts, of Yarmouth, has taken out a patent for a new method
of caulking sea-boats, which renders them water-tight, ne°
prevents the oakum from being pressed out by the straining
of the planks. Mr. Y. effects this by introducing a narra"`
strip of caoutchouc (India rubber) on each side of the threads
of the oakum on the outer sheath of the vessel.—Norseo
Mercury.
The vineyards of Johannisberg, belonging to Prince
Metternich, have suffered so severely from a hail storm, that,
the damage has been estimated at 100,000 florins.