The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-29 00:00:00

DUTCH PACERS.

THE HAGUE, AUGUST 25.—Yesterday being his Ma-
jesty's birth-day, on which lie completed his sixty-seventh
year, was kept here, and doubtless in the whole kingdom,
as a festal day, with the earnest prayer that our beloved
Sovereign may live to see many returns of it.
AmrrEttneat,l AUGUST 26.—We receive from all the
towns and communes in the kingdom great and small, the
most pleasing , details relative to the celebration of the
King's birth-day. About one hundred persons made A
trial yesterday of the iron railway to Haarlem, which was
entirely satisfactory.
MAEsTiIIeGT, AUGUST 23.—A royal ordinance of the
1 ith inst. directs that an ofteial journal of Limburg
shall be published, in which all ordinances and decrees
relative to that province shall be inserted. This and other
measures make us fear that Limburg is to have an admin-
istration quite distinct from that of Holland, and thus will
be no iced to it only in name, which would certainly be a
deathblow' to the prosperity of the province.
reee:ye from the Hague a confirmation of our state-
ment that unforeseen obstacles, wholly independent of po-
litics, prevent Count
bus de Ghissignies from being Am-
bassador from Belgium to t;:e Court, and that Prince Jo-
seph de Chemay will fill that pos.:.
ZEALAND, AUG. 22.—We are glad to hear that the o.r-
-rison is to be increased.
Wensaw, AUG. 15.—The Prince Governor of the king-
dom set out yesterday for Borodino, and will be absent for
some weeks.

LORD LYNDHURST AND THE MAYOR or
BOLTON.-The eanduct of the Mayor of Bolton during
the late riots, and his former political character, appear to
be subjects of general inquiry in the daily papers, and in
some of the provincial press. There is evidently a wish,
on the part of some individuals who have been the origi-
nators of the numerous calumnies that have already been
published, to convince the country and the House of Lords
that the Mayor of Bolton is, and has been for some time
past, a Chartist, and that his conduct, whilst in office, has
tended to create rather than allay political excitement.
Nothing can be more erroneous than an opinion of this
sort; for, as is well known to the inhabitants of the town,
the Mayor, since his election to office, has carefully ab-
stained from mixing himself up with politics, and has even,
in many instence,, incurred the displeasure of the Radicals
and Chartists, for not lending them that aid they expected
from him. On Friday evening last, in consequence of
the various misstatements that have been made, a meeting
of the Aldermen and Council of the borough to,sk place,
and the following resolutions were agreed upon, 31r. Al-
derman Mangnall being in the chair :—" That we, the
Aldermen and Common Councilmen of the borough pf
Bolton, have seen with surprise and indignation the false
and calumnious charges brought by Lord Lyndhurst, in
the House of Lords, against the Mayor and Magistrates
of this borough for their conduct during the late disturb-
ances, the whole of which charges are either gross misre-
presentations or totally without foundation.—That this
Council most cordially approve of the conduct of the
Mayor and Magistrates of the borough during the late
trying period, for their humane and just, yet firm and con-
ciliatory proceedings, and this Council looks back, with
unrningled satisfaction and pleasure, to the fact that the
late alarming commotion was put an end to, and order
restored, without the loss of a single life.—That a me-
morial from this Council be presented to Lord John
Russell, requesting that a full and searching investiga-
tion may be made into all the circumstances connected
with the late disturbances i, this borough, in order to
show the falsehood of the chargei made by Lord Lynd-
hurst."—Manchester Guardian.
CHINESE ART.—An artist named Sunqua, of
Canton, has executed on rice paper a series of six pictures
designed to illustrate the evils of opium eating. They
form a sort of counterpart to the " Rake's Progress " of
Hogarth. The first represents a young and wealthy mer-
chant, surrounded by all the elegant liexuries of life; near
him is an attendant preparing for his use the fatal drug.
In the second, he is seated on a sofa, cooking; his
companions are dancing girls, musicians, and nonrteons,
among whom ho is squandering the riches bequeathed ts^
him by his father: already he gives tokens of that ener-
vated character of mind and body which the use of the
intoxicating matter never fails to produce. In the third,
his countenance is described as haggard, and betokens
misery; he is moping and wretched; stretched on a
couch, with his pipe lying by his side. His frame and in-
tellect are both prostrate. His wives enter, behold his
emptied money chest, and stand frowning with indignation
and astonishment. In the fourth, his houses and lands
have all vanished; he is stretched on a cold floor, upon a
ragged mattress; disease has been added to poverty
he is without shoes, atfd breathes with difficulty•
In the fifth he is described as scraping together a
few poor coins, with which he is about to hasten to one of
the houses of vice, to buy the stuff which the still wealthy'
opium cater or smoker has rejected. In the sixth of the:
series, he is described as the confirmed sot, sitting on s.
broken chair; his miserable wife and squalid child are be-
side him, labouring to earn for him and for themselves the'
means of prolonging a miserable existence. These pro-
ductions are valuable, as indications thst a pernicious and
ruinous habit is becoming unpopular in Chiva.—Art-
Union.