The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-21 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, OcT. 17.—This morning the King set out
for Wiesbaden. His Majesty goes from Brussels to
Liege, by the railroad, and will arrive this evening at
Cologne, where he will pass the ❑ight. To-morrow
night Lis Majesty will stop at Thal Ehrenbreitstein,
opposite to Coblentz, and will arrive at Weisbaden
on Saturday. His Majesty travels under the title of
Count d'Ardenne.

The Commerce Belge says, " We can assure our
readers that the sale of the establishment at Serail),"
is decided on, and will take place on the Ist of March•
next year. It will be put up at ten millions of francs.
This assurance on our part is a sufficient answer to
the journals which have announced the sale of this
manufactory as having already taken place. We will
say, however, in justification of our brethren of the
Press, that it is very probable that so experienced a man
as Mr. John Cockerill may have been able to insure the
realization of so important a sale at a fixed price, reserv-
ing to himself the chance of obtaining a higher offer by
public sale. It is, nevertheless, true that the sale will
be public, and that monied men, companies, and Go-
vernment itself, will have an opportunity of entering
into competition with a foreign bidder.
FLUSHING, OCT. 14.—Yesterday we saw from the
ramparts of this town, immense pillars of flame in the
fourth district, on the other side of the Scheldt, which
indicated a great fire. Judging by the apparent great
distance, it was supposed that the fire was in the direc-
tion of Oelburg, hut we have not yet received any ac-
count of the accident.
The Slaals Courant publishes the programme of the
ceremony of the opening of the ordinary Session of the
States General, by the King in person, on Monday, the
21st of this month.

.....OPTCH FUNDS.--AMSTERDASI, OCr. 18.
Money. Bins.
Actual Debt; 2% per Cent ..............« 59,i 51'4
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ..... .............. 99% 11,0
A ,uort sv:,dic,•lN, per cent...—. ......... 9l ~•, 93%
Ditto, ditto, 3,,(5 per cent 76% 77X
Commercial Company, 4':, per cent l7l 172
Ditto (1,:12 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto F 37. 5 per cent. 1:0% 100 Ni
Loan 1537, 5 I,er cent.
L:zehange on London, One month l2 0
Tito months .....
—Dutch Papers, Oct. 19.
61L1,,G1AN I U NDS—Baussra.ts, OCT. 18,
Actual Debt, 2,c', per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per-Cent. 9'N
3 per Cent.
Loan of CRT, 1832,4 per Cent 95
Society 01 Commerce, 4 !•41;er Cent. ll4
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7434
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
Brussels Papers, Oct. 18.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS...NIL/4NA, OCT 10
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Pier per Cents.
Tore:: p,,,.. Cents.
Bank Shares 1539
—AlWrneine Zeitung, Oct, 15.:
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beaux, OCT. 15.
Bills. 3.105ney,
St. Schuld. Sch., 41/ per cent. .............102F4 102%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 103 F 103%
kaelsange on London, three months... 6 2014
—Prussian State Gazette, Oct. O.

SHOCKING DEATII.—EarIy on Wednesday
morning last a yeoman, of Chard, named Reed, was
attracted by a most disagreeable effluvium to the lime-
kiln of his neighbour, Mr. Richard I3urrough; on look-
imr into which he discovered the lime-burner, Joseph
Flood, literally roasted, being quite dead, with one arm
and one leg burnt completely off, and some portion of
his clothes in a flame. The kiln was lighted on the
previous eight, and the deceased got in to make a hole,
is order to keep up a c,urhnreenthe 1
of
4acier
atilni through usguhffotchaet
suffocated
of limestone and cilia), v
he could effect a retreat, and it is supposed he et e
have been there five or six hours before he wa must
vered, when the body presented a frightful sp, 3CI 16C04
IVoolnier's Exeter Gazette. ictacle,--,
AWFUL Nrws.-" It is a matter o' i.great sor-
worse and worse for them. Ever,
row to us to tell the Conservatives that •
l. roltilesitsangto'ing on
tionably darkens the prospects of 'l3/ day m n
s ight or mom n .
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I.s in t
no I dsiarfeecttyi onnf, !
tli:s country. The incidents may ly, uiDsqeueits-
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thatbut the(iir
direction
oenr ails tpeatli
pd
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bn
icyy
our reiigion, and of the libertvof al' •
w'illeehigwas born with it,
die."--The l'
and with it will
..arilannia.
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The nautical drama of Paul ihe Pilot continues
its successful career, and seems to have lost none
of its powers of attraction by repetition, for it
still draws crowded houses every evening. Paul
the Pilot was last week followed by a new do-
mestic drama, entitled The Blighted Willow, in which
Mr. H. Hall, late of the Strand and the St.
James's Theatre, sustains the character of Shock, a
simple minded, almost idiotic shepherd, in whom, for
want of use and education, the reasoning powers are
almost dormant, whilst all the affections are fully de-
veloped. He was originally a foundling end orphan,
and has married one who is, like himself, en orphan.
On his wife and child, therefore, every thought and
feeling is concentrated. He is wretchedly poor ; a
murder has been committed in the neigl-,bour-
hood, and when offered gold by the murderer
to suffer himself to be taken into custody on
suspicion, and if questioned, not to deny having killed
the man, he, not comprehending the consequences, con-
sents at once, because the money will buy food for his
wife and child and make them so happy, and he does not
mind going to prison for a week or two to do that—but
yet, when urged to submit to be considered the mur-
derer, he stoutly refuses, not because he understands
exactly the meaning of the word, but he knows, from
having heard the conversation of the villagers, that it is
someting disgraceful, and he will not bring disgrace
upon his wife and child. This very peculiar character
is perfectly conceived and most admirably delineated by
Mr H. Hall, with a naivete and pathos the more touch-
ing on account of its artlessness and simplicity. We
recollect the admirable acting of this gentleman a
few seasonsago at the Strand. Since Braham gave up
the St. James's, we believe Mr. Hall has been acting
in the provinces ; we are rejoiced to find him again upon
the metropolitan boards. This is the most important
acquisition Mr. Honner has made to bis company for.
some time. The farce-of the Illustrious Stranger fol-
lowed, in which Mr. H. Hall, in the character of Ben-
jamin Bowbell, kept the audience in a constant roar of
laughter from the beginning to the end of the piece.
Since Liston left the stage, we have seldom seen a better
Boss bell. The dresses and decorations were excellent
and appropriate, and reflected great credit on the ma-
nagement. Notwithstanding the great success of Paul
the Pilot, Honner seems determined not to lie on his
oars ; be announces as being in preparation a dramatic
version of Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard, and also an
adaptation.of Les Fillet du Diable, which has been so
very successful in Paris.

VICTORIA.
The pantomime called Don Juan, brought out at this
theatre on Friday, was repeated on Saturday night
with much success. The part of Don Juan is by Mlle.
Chevalier, who possesses great personal charms, and,
what is of more importance to the audience, great skill
and spirit as a pantomimist. She was loudly applauded.
The part of Scaramouch was by Mr. Matthews, and
the other characters were well sustained.

TRIUMPH OF THE VOLUNTARY

PRINCIPLE.

THREE CHURCH RATES DEFEATED.

We have this week to congratulate the friends of
religious liberty on the vanquishment of the hydra-
headed monster, spiritual despotism, in three parishes
in this town, during the past week.
The Select Vestry of the great and populous parish
of St. Margaret, in whom is vested the power of laying
all rates, have—notwithstanding the threat of a second
Queen's Bench prosecution—courageously postponed
the consideration of a rate for another six months, this
b&ng the third year since a rate was laid.

The parishioners of St. Mary's, though the most
artful devices were adopted—though the bitter pill of
intolerance was gilded by "moderation" and meekness,
and attempts were made, by minimizing injustice, to ren-
der it palatable—refused to be drawn from their adhe-
rence to a great principle ; and, by a very large majo-
rity, rejected even the " small" rate demanded fro•a
them ; making the third year in which this parish also
has been freed from the hated impost.
The inhabitants of the Radical parish of All Saints,
—who, for four years, have compelled the dominant
sect to sustain their church, like honest men, from
their own resources—have maintained their proud po-
sition—have again signalized the parish as the very
citadel and stronghold of Liberal principles, where the
Church-rate party have never dared to go to the poll,
and where those enemies of all civil and religious
liberty, the Tories, have never done so, but to be over-
whelmed by immense majorities.

We have only space, in conclusion, to direct the at.
tention of our readers to our reports of the various
meetings ; and to call upon the friends of religious free.
dom, throughout the kingdom, to imitate the example.
of those in Leicester, where only in one parish out of
five, can a Church-rate be obtained ; and there a noble
band have refused to pay it, and will do so—though
one of their number is even now in the merciless grasp
of the Protestant Inquisition—even to the last ex-
tremity.—Leicester Mercury.

IMPROVED PATHS IN ST. JAMES PARE.—
As our columns have so long borne witness against the
badness of the gravel-paths in this much-frequ.,ote'et
public thoroughfare, it cannot but be gratify*, to see
that our suggestions on the subject are ..4n gl,_f di, way of
adoption by the Commissioners of Woods -and Forests.
They have at length determined to seleert certain por_
tions of St. James's Park for the purrdose of experi.
mentalising, and by that means asee'etaining which is
the best material for counteracting the evil. The
pathway of the Birdcage-walk was selected for the first
experiment, which is that of macadamizing on a small
scale. The granite is broken into pieces the size of .a
small pebble, and the foundation of the pathway heirs g
first loosened, a quantity of the granite is scattered over
it, and that again is covered with fine gravel well
rolled. The portion of the pathway which has been
thus prepared has been found to answer admirably. The
part of the Park chosen for the second experiment is
the centre mall leading from Storey's-g,ate to Spring-
gardens. Here the ground is first prepared as if for a
gravel walk, and when rendered peidectly smooth •a.
layer of gas-tar, about half an inch in thickness, is.
spread over it, and upon this is placed a layer of rough:
gravel, worked in, the whole being then covered with
fine gravel. This latter process had never bee❑ used
at any place in England except Norwich, and the
walks in the neighbourhood of that city, which are tamed
for their firmness, are all prepared in the manner de-
scribed.

A PROLIFIC CROP OF POTATOES,---TWO 'i
potatoes were planted, of the Dartford Shaw descrip-
tion,
whole, by two Staff Sergeants of the Royal Ma-
rines, in the Woolwich Divisional Garden, which p ro-
duced the following crop :—one potatoe produced half'
a peck very fine, and the other produced ninety ..ei:ilit
in number, weighing 211bs, and measuring the pr
,a"k and
a half. The first half-peck had nearly come t 0 perfee
tion. The latter half-peck would have pr-
ground three weeks longer. It has iseesl reported as a
diuced half
a peck more if they had been allowed to r eraain in t'ae
event thtathree-quarters,
But potatoehad beet n.
u. gnero
one singular
pound
and
toes grown in the Divisional Gar,' ofwn the v.eigphoig-
tna
Jen, as above-men-
tioned, weighed upwe.rds of twio po Ands and four ounces.
THE MANAriER IN T.JlS'fßEss.—The Sema-
phore of Slarsei':ies contai us t'ae following :—.6 To torus
an idea of thy:: numerair, tribulations which afflict the
manager of a provie.cial. theatre, we have only to cast
our eyes over the following list of diseas-es which at
present prevent aearly the whole personnel of our
theatre from app caring on the stage. The authenticity
of this documen t is guaranteed by sevc!ral` respectable
medical practiti, „ers :—M. Bremens, leader, a chronic
disease ; M. D amoreau, first tenor, wound in the leg ;
M. Roy, first low comedy, abdotn.nal tumour ; Mme
Roy, chief e
,uenna,comic
singer, brain fever , M. Frederic, comic
singer, bows-
;1 complaint ; M. Dubadie, baritone, fre-
quent von-
.tings ; M. Poppe, chief old noble, nervous
deafness .'!.iltne. Duquesnez, second duenna, painful
sprain-- -requiring the use of a cane ; M. Darboville,
comic ac., or, , , h d iasis •M . Fournerant, orchestra.
icude r 7 ,ny poc on r , . „,.. Pepin,
second
inilarnmation in the left leg , AL
lead e' ! of the orchestra, hurt is the hand by a tall ;;
Mom' .1. Mi inoret, prima donna, detained by her husbaro,,
' ) .is yr .ry unwell ; Mlle. Louisa, prem tere danseus r,
to
.nporai sly absent from the theatre on account of her
a • maternity ;M. Ronqur,t, comic danetir,
pproach mg
„. .
convalem :ent. What hospital'; .1
an - -This return of sick
and wor aided beats the list we l'
.tely published of the
diploraa tic casualties at Const,a-atinople.]
C oMPEADMISE Oa F r...LONY.—A circumstance
of an extremely curio°.
/ her observation, s nature has been just brought
op
1' ae facts attending which are briefly
as follow :—A ger
Aleman of Cork, a ci-devant militaire,
dined with a frie ad at Raffeen, and afterwards accompa-
ni ed one of tb.the
la guests to the house of the sister of
la tter, situat,
..tci" -
near the scene of the late police mur-
der. Afte, towards
some stay there he returned t-
C ork alor
' t
Le, and was met by two persons of respec
a ble app
iearance, who robbed him of a gold watv ,
v north ;
i: S guineas, with its appendages, and also 1 .
rest ed
him. The individual thus robbed never
tlliisfloaeLf the circumstance, and a few daysker after
resid-
,y I"te :411 was offered for sale to a wa..tcl--hmna -
agr'eed to
"*.;": not a league from Patrick-street,
wthe respectable
Purchas ait for ten guineas, and. desirednthe meanwhile the
"fit". ,an to call the next day.
watehn ,aker, who suspectedtowhorn the watch be-
ho
had been robbed,
longed , applied to the gentleman w
and he , immediately recognised the property. What was
refused to say
the o insequenee ? .
The watchmaker
ed the watch from an indi-
more than that be had recervef a
gentleman, but refused
vidua i moving in therr spherehe wner of the watch Was satisfied
to gi• vs- his name.
ty restored, and declined any further
at ha ring his property
Chronicle.
inqui ry.—ALimerwi-AL BRICKS.—It is not geraerally
0 ORNAMENTAL
kinds of ornamental bricks mar now be
1 gvn
withoutthat all
their being subject to more the ,n double
madAt ‘ve Tnis information may conduce to tb .6 re-intso
"- ''ofthe ancient style of brick-work tal deb contri-
duc :tion
i ,ed so much
of • ture ol
to the beauty the arc hitec
bit ~n r y and Elizabeth.
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