The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-29 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS

BRUSSELS, MARCH 26.—We learn that the Queen of the
French will come to Brussels at the beginning of May, with
the Duke and Duchess of Wurtemburg, and several other
members of the Royal Family of France. The Cabinet Mes-
senger Delmoitie, was sent to London yesterday with des-
patches for our Ambassador before his departure. The Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs was engaged for above an hour with
the King, and we have every reason to believe that M. Del-
moitee is the bearer of instructions from our Government to
M. Van de Weyer concerning the acceptance of the 24 Ar-
ticles by King William.
The Messager de Gand has received from the Hague the
following private letter : " Do not believe the reports spread
by the journals ; some are too prejudiced and devoid of good
faith ; the others are in haste to speak and are ignorant of
the real state of things.
The Government of the Netherlands has not adopted, and
never will adopt, the treaty of 1831. But it has declared its
complete good-will to negotiate on the basis of the 24 articles;
Luxemburg to be in any case excluded from any proposal,
being a province depending on the territory of the German
Con federation:
The negotiations will be resumed—of this we arc assured ;
but if this do not lead to the re-establishment of the kingdom,
with a separate administration, you may be certain that we
shall remain in state quo.
It would not be impossible that Belgium would be forced
by the Allied Powers to pay the arrears of the debt ; and this
is perhaps the foundation of all the noise that the journals
make.

Dl!trust, above all, the news published by the Mindelsblad,
which is only the organ of the egotism of the jobbers, and
which derives most of its inspirations from Belgium.
The Journal de la Hoye will tell you all the truth, but like
that you must, and it has not yet spoken."—Journal du am-
lit erre d'Anvers.

Ikussus, March 2S.—Yesterday at the opening of the
Chamber of Representatives, the Minister of Finance real a
Royal resolution authorising the withholding of the project of
law relative to the duties on salt. Several Members expressed
a wish that a new project of law on the same subject may be
presented to the Chambers as soon as possible.
The latest number of the Austrian Observer brings but
too melancholy a confirmation of our direct accounts from
Pesti'. We extract the following particulars in one of the
accounts from Ofen, dated 14th March. It is stated :—" On
the 23d, at one o'clock in the morning, the water attained the
extraordinary height of 27 feet 1 inch, exceeding by 3 feet the
height of the inundation of 1775, the greatest previously
known. On such an unexpected event, Pesth, of course, could
not be safe, and the water penetrated over all the banks and
dikes into the city. The distress which this event causes
among the poorer class is not to be described." The last
account from Ofcn, of the 15th, 9, p.m., says," The water in
the Danube remained between twenty-six and twenty-seven
feet elevation; to-day, about two in the afternoon, the upper
ice began to move, while the lower remained fast, end the
water has since risen to twenty-nine feet, where it now stands.
The distress, especially of the inhabitants of Pesth, is already
much greater than could have been conjectured at the begin-
idn,; not only small, slightly built houses, of which many are
destroyed in both cities, but many large houses in Pesth have
dangerous breaches in the walls, and some of them have fallen
down this morning. At all events, the greater part of the city
of peso, is devastated, and it will take many years before it can
recover from this great misfortune. In such an unexpected
vi,itation, it was to be expected that many lives would be lost.
The number of victims at Pesth, at present known, is stated
at ISO.
His Imperial Highness the Archduke Stephen, regardless
of danger, immediately hastened over the rapid stream, to
by his presence the distressed inhabitants of the
encourage
neighbouring city, and to animate the measures for their relief.
His Majesty, our most gracious Emperor, on the first news
of this disaster, sent a sum of 20,000 florins from his privy
purse, for the immediate relief of the sufferers.
It cannot be doubted that the well known and so often
proved benevolence of the inhabitants of this empire, will
zealously hasten to mitigate such sufferings, as they did eight
sears ago, when the capital and the environs were visited with
an affliction similar to that which has now befallen One of the
most flourishing manufacturing towns of Hungary."
13E t. GI AN I'ANDS—BRUSSELt3, MARCH 117.
Actual Dolt, 244 per Cent
can
nt..t.: ....................................
150.11,
14
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per
Loan of Thirty Millions ........................ 94U
Loan of city, 1832, 4 per Cent.
...... 9:33.2
Society of Commerce, 45. i pr cent ............. 163
Bank of Belgium, a per Cent._ ..................
117
Natioll3lsociety.
.......... 130.52
—Brussels Papers, March 27.
AUSTRIAN FUN D.S.—VIENNA, :‘lAriC4 17.
Five per Cents. Matalliques ........ .................. 10714
Four per Cents.
100.;,4
Three par Cents.
Bank Shares
--AligemeineZeitit ng, Mares ,?1.

SUICIDE in a UNION WORKHOUSE.

An inquest svr.s held at the New *Union Workhouse, in St.
Thoniat on Tuesday evening, before J. Dribble, Esq. one of
the Coroners of the County, on the body of Thonias Pyle, who
termina:ed his existence by hanging himself to a beam, in the
work-room of that establishment, on Sunday morning.
It appeared that the deceased was 75 years of age, and an
inhabitant of Lympstone. He got up on Sunday morning at
the usual hour, and went into the work-room and committed
the fatal act ; the body was discovered about three quarters of
an hour after, it was warm. A surgeon was immediately sent
for, but the vital spark had fled. The deceased had been ad-
mitted into the Old Workhouse about twelve months since,
and was tranferred to the New on its completion. He had
nu friends, but one of the Guardians, Captain Williams, of
Lympstone, who used to give him a trifle of money occasion-
ally, and lOoked to his little comforts. The Hon. Magistrate
on hearing of the tidings of .his death proCeeded to the Work-
house, and was much affected on learning the particulars of
the case. 'The deceased has been a man of property, but
had lived fast. He had distant relatives, it was stated at the
inquest, but no friends.
James Knight—I have been 'an inmate of this house ever
since we came over in the Union. I recollect the deceased
ever since be came into it. I sleep in the same room that he
did, but at the higher end. I saw him go out on the Sunday
morning about six—he was fully dressed when he went out of
the room. I saw him go to the water.eloset before. I heard
him say during the night " the Lord have mercy upon me."
I never in my life heard him make use of those words before.
I never saw anything the matter with his reason to the best of
my judgment. He never wanted anything that I knew of,
nor did I ever hear him complain at all. lie asked me the
Saturday before to sew this button on.
James Hodge—Deceased was 75 years old—he was ad-
mitted on the sth of April, 1837—he has been under my care
the whole of that time—lie was always a very quiet man, and
had nothing the matter with him but infirmity. I would
frequently ask him how he was, and he would say," Very well,
but terribly crippled up." He never complained of want—in
fact we tried to get a larger allowance of potatoes for the
man, and he was the man the Committee asked about it, if
they required more potatoes, and he said, " No, they had
plenty."
The Foreman, after consulting with his fellows, said, that
judging the evidence, it would be mast natural to conclude
that the poor man was labouring under temporary derange-
ment, and this was then returned as the verdict.— Western
Times.