The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-09 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPEF

BaussEns, Ocr. 7.--Their Majesties the King and
Queen will set out on Tuesday for Paris.
A new English Journal, of large dimensions, to.be called
the Mciehry, is !zoing- to be published t.vieQ a week hire ;
the prospectus will appear in a few days.
The Chamber of Representatives in its sitting yesterday
wa3 engaged with the reports on the electims or the new
Members.

HANOVER, SEPT. 24.—The convocation of the Estates
of the Kingdom appears to draw nearer as the people's
minds become more calm. The Opposition will not pursue
a new course, but rather that which it has hitherto done ;
still less will it be the old one than one newly formed, by
an exchange of parts, and east of all is it likely to choose
for its spokestnen, those who were the most determined to
become so, before a general conviction prevailed that ;he
King's will is to leave every one in the enjoyment of his
rights ; that he gives ear to every body who has the carrying on
business, and exerts himself more than his health allows. It
requires no acquaintance with law to know that he, as well
as every other person, on succeeding to a brother, should
possess and keep his patrimonial inheritance without a my es-
sential diminution. Now, it cannot be indifferent to him
whether he shall merely tolerate and approve, as a matter
of form, the administration of the domains, or whether he
shall direct and determine it ; but it is indifferent to the
Chambers by whom he has the domain managed, if they
arc but managed well. Pecuniary embarrassment is quite
out of the question, unless it be the embarrassment how to
dispose of the surplus re:enue, which is the greater the
better the rich harvest is managed, as the corn is good,
cattle dear, and as our wool, most of which is course, is
sold well. It is a good sign that our funds have been, from
the beginning of the reign, above par, and continue to
rise. It is worthy remark, that one journal giving its
opinion of the last artful letter of O'Connell, declares his
plans impracticable, and hopes for a satisfactory issue in
England, in the Conservative spirit, but passes over in
silence his abuse of more than Hanoverian despotism. In
truth it is more easy to believe in the revels of the Devil
on the Blocksberg, than in despotism in this country, which
all persons in office would unanimously declare to he an im-
possibility, and reject it as such. The King has not in-
fringed any rights even in the slightest degree, but be has
put an end at once to the former uncertainty that the views
of the Court here might not agree with those of the Court
in London, and that which had been approved here,lnight
be disapproved there. No change is made in things them-
selves, but a very great one in tone and manner. The
public business is executed with rapidity ; persons in office
are every day to be found at home after dinner, engaged
with their papers, and on Sundays the church is more at-
tended by ladies of distinction than the theatre. The
clergy are distinguished at Court. The Abbot of Loccam has
been made Commander of the Order. The Queen turns
the conversation on religious subjects, and on the charitable
institutions, which she liberally supports. The creation of
au institution for the blind excites peculiar interest, because
the defect in the sight; of the Crown Prince is serious, and
it is doubtful whether it can be cured. Otherwise the
fairest hopes may be entertained of him : he makes himself
beloved wherever he goes, and it is more than love—it is o.:
account of his misfortune, a tender family interest is mani-
fested for him. When the Constitution was discussed, the
possible contingency of his blindness was as well known as
it is now ; the Estates in their debates purposely avoided
all reference to uncertain family matters, but left theni to
the Family Statute, to which the Constitution accordingly
refers. Now the Family Statute expressly calls the de-
scendants of the present King to the Throne ; it decides
other disputed questions—for instance, respecting the pos-
terity of the Duke of Sussex, and it was passed with the
consent of all the collaterals. Now, as it is not
doubtful that a man may be blind and yet in full
possession of all his faculties, and capable of governing
well, it can likewise not be doubted that a man
does not lose either his understanding or his Throne,
when he loses his eyes. As the Family Statute takes
it for granted that the heir to the Throne is in
full possession of his faculties, and expressly imposes no
condition on him except. that he is descended of a suitable
marriage, and, as our Crown Prince not only has all his
faculties, but makes the best use of them, and is de-
scended from the marriage of his father with a Princess of
suitable rank ; it does not appear why the most unhappy
possible case of his remaining totally blind should be as-
sumed, and why his capability of succeeding to the Throne
should be discussed in the assembly of the Estates, when
the rights of the collaterals cannot be decided upon.

lIELGIAN li UNDS-1111i73gELs, OCT. 7.
Actual Debt, 21, per Cent.
Itothschild'., Loan, 5 per Cent. IOIU
Loan of Thirty Millions.- ...............
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 100,„
Society of- Commerce, 4 l, per Cent I: 9.,:i
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 1421,
—brussels Papers, Oct. 7.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 29
Five per Cents. Z.lctalliques
Four per Cents.
Three eer Cents.
Bank Shares
—Aligemeine Zcitung, Oct. 4.
AA MBUIt& BORSEN HALLE, OCT. 6.
Bills. Money.
Austrian MetPuiques, 5 per cent.
Ditto stilt° 4 per cent
Di, _ ditto 3 per cent.
Lotto -Bank Shares 1379 1377
Angio-Thissian Loan lo6k 10634
Paper inscription, 6 per cent
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Russian Inscriptims, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent .......
Ditto, 3 per cent. 24% _
Dutch 21, rer Cents. s2y, 521(
Ditto 5 per Cents b9 %
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets 1517; 151%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 704 70
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cent,
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent l7 17
Greek 4 per cents. 1i:13, guaranteed by France
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Ilkmatign, Ocr. 6.-13 10Y, ; two months. 139.
Si. PETEKSITURGII, SUPT. 20—Three months, lu%.
STOCKIIOLM, SEPT. 23.—Two :saonths, 12 l'7.
LiLltl.lN, OcT 3.—Three months, 6. 25%.
—Hamburg Papers, Oct. 6.

LA MB AND COLERIDGE..—" Charles," said Cole-
ridge one day to Lamb, " did you ever hear me preach ?"
" I never heard you do any thing else," said Lamb.
ROCHDALE.—On Thursday last, all the principal
woollen-manufacturers at Rochdale, agreed to pay their
weavers the advance asked for. The drapers, hosiers, and
haberdashers of Ashton-under-Lyne have agreed to close
their shops during the winter, at eight o'clock- on all even-
ings, except Mondays and Saturdays.-211anehester Guar-
dian.

We are authorised to contradict the statement that
there is to be a splendid episcopal palace at Ripmi. No
plans have been made, or even thought of for a mansion. as
a residence for the Bishop.—York. Herald. _ _ _

Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a
youth. named Samuel Cross was amusing himself on the
barges off the wharf of Messrs. -Bovill and Co., coal-
merchants, of Milford-lane, Strand, when he discovered the
body of a man lying on his back on the mud between two
barges. The boy immediately gave information of the
circumstance at the house of Mr. Bond, the Bull, in Mil-
ford-lane, when some coal-porters. who were present went
down to the water side and brought the body to the above
house. Judgin,g from appearances, the unfortunate man
could not have been in the water but a very shirt time. He
is in stature about five feet six inches, and of a dark com-
plexion ; he was dressed in a black body coat, black waist-
coat with a rolling collar, black trousers, Blucher boots,
chocolate-coloured silk cravat, with a fine linen shirt,
drawers, under flannel wais!clat, and white cotton stock-
ings there were no initials on the linen ;on the middle
knuckle of the right hand a wart is apparent ; no papers or
documents were found on the person of the deceased to
trace his identity, nor was any cash or other property dis-
covered when searched by the police at the House of Mr.
Bond. Information of the discovery was forwarded to the
Coroner for Westminster, who has appointed an inquest to
be held on the body this. day.

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LODGING-HOUSES OF TIIE LONDON BEGGARS.
—ln those lodging-houses which were formerly open to the
begging fraternity promiscuously, and where business was
carried on on a large scale, it was found, from experience,
necessary to take certain precautions against the abstrac-
tion of any of the articles of furniture. Mother Cum-
mings, who died a few years since, and who for a long pe-
riod kept a lodging-house in a low street in Bloomsbury,
always made a point of turning the key on her customers
when they went to bed, and then unlocked the door with
her own hand in the morning. By this means she pre-
vented any of them making away with any articles of fur-
niture in the course of the night ; and as she witnessed
every one of them quit their hovels in the morning, the
idea of felony in the case of her property was out of the
question. I may here mention, that Mother Cummings,
while she was alive, kept by far the most extensive lodging-
house for mendicants, of any of her contemporaries. She
has been known to have had, on repeated occasions, up-
wards of eighty lodgers in one night. And, strange as it
may seem, it was proved to be a fact, that she had one
round bed in which, when there was an unusual demand
for accommodation, eighteen or twenty persont have been
huddled together for the night. Mother Cummings made
always a distinction between fly:: bette.. and inferior class
of mendicants. With this vie,,v she ',lad two prices for ac-
commodation for the night. The charge for a bed in or-
idinary cirentustthlees was two-pence per night ; but if any
olio 01(7se to indulge in the luxury of clean straw, the charge
was four-pence. The charge, therefore, of the different up-
plinants for lodgings, in the matter of their bed, enabled
her at once to range her customers into two classes ; and
both were treated by lier with a measure of attention cor-
responding to the place they occupied in her estimation.—
Sketches in London. bg the Author of "-Random Recollec-
tions."

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