The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-30 00:00:00

the fleet ; and preserving it, the Parliament and the Ad-
miralty have preserved and deepened the impression

that the naval service is one full of horrors, and fit
only for felons. The country and the Government
have their proper reward. "We could send" said the
Secretary of the Admiralty a short month ago,
" thirty sail of the line to sea in a very short time,
of we could only get men for them."

There will be found elsewhere in The Sun a brief
report of the proceedings which took place at Hud-
dersfield on Saturday last, the day on which Mr.
RICHARD OASTLER delivered to a great crowd in
that town the speech from which we yesterday laid a
few extracts before the public. We also publish a
letter from Mr. THORNHILL, in which he states the
reasons that induced him to discharge OASTLER from
his stewardship, and one from the latter person to his
former master, denying the charge of embezzlement,
and calling upon him to answer
.certain questions.
This we think Mr. THORNHILL is bound to do.

In an account of a duel which took place a few
days since, and which appeared in our columns on the
23d inst., the name of one of the principals should
have been Mr. CHARLES KENRICR, nephew of
Captin Sir JoHN' Ross, and not Mr. PONSONBY,
as was stated to us by a correspondent.

We have received a letter from Dr. ALEXANDER
CROMBIE, late of Greenwich, and well known to the
public as the author of several first-rate works in various
departments of literature, disclaiming all connection
with the Highland Destitution Committee, one of
whose Secretaries bears the same surname. It will be
seen by this gentleman's letter, which is inserted in
another column, that he is one of those (and if we are
rightly informed they are not a small number) who have
withdrawn their subscriptions from the controul of the
Committee, in consequence of the course pursued by
some of its members in the destination of the funds.

The French Mails, which should have reached
London at an early hour this morning, have not yet
arrived. Subjoined are extracts from the Brussels and
German Papers, which have just come to hand :
BRUSSELS, Aua. 26. —Our superior clergy have lately
received a very important letter from Rome, in which the
Pope prescribes the 'course which is to be followed in mar-
riages between Catholics and Protestants, that are celebrated
by the ecclesiastical authorities in Belgium.

- Counsellor Muller, who has the management of the ports
which are farmed to the Prince of Tour and Taxis, including
the principal states of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and
Russia, has just arrived at Brussels. We are assured that
the object of his coming is to conclude a convention with the
Belgian Government for the conveyance by an iron railroad
from Ostend to Aix-la-Chapelle, all the letters from Belgium
and to England. In this manner the North of Europe- will
gain two days in its intercourse with England and the
countries beyond the sea, to which the English packets go.
Our northern neighbours will be indebted to our iron railroad
for this improvement.
ANTWERP, Au°. 28.—The Antwerpen and the City of
Hamburg steam-boats, which ought to have arrived yes'erday,
were hindered by running agretn,d. The delay that was thus
caused was the only harm accruing from the accident.
The former, which arrived at ten o'clock last night, run
aground yesterday morning at half-past five o'clock, opposite
Flushing, on the bank of Calloot, and was so deep in the sand
that it was necessary to take out a small part of the cargo ;
some of the passengers fearing a longer delay, came to Ant-
werp by the boat from Flushing.
The Cityof Hamburg ran just at the same time, near West
Capellon, on the bank called the Paarde markt ; it was like-
wise obliged to take out its cargo; it took it on board agsin
when it got afloat; it arrived here this morning tt half-east
eleven o'clock. The accident was caused by the thick fog, '
which rendered it impossible to distinguish the coast.—Jour-
nal du Commerce d'Anvers, Aug. 29.
The Moniteur Belge says that on the first ten days of this
month of August the number of passengers on the Railroad
was 63,348 ; second ten days, 113 129. Total from the Ist
to the 20th of August, 176,469. The receipts were 91,7311.
43c. ; and 150,6831. 37c. Total, 242,4341. 80c. These are
figures which reveal the greatest means of communication
ever yet opened in the world. Compared with our iron Rail-
road, conveying 113,000 persons in ten days, what are the
English Railroads, with their Aristocratic convoys of 100 or
150 persons ? and these masses have been conveyed, not on a
double road, as all those in England are, when they have not
three or four lines, in part of their course, but on a road which
is almost every where single, with a material less by half than
what would be strictly necessary. Nothing can stop, nothing
can restrain tha crowd, tha palliaades which enclose
the stations arc forced—the carriages are taken by storm,
the armed force its obliged to interfere, in order to make
it possible for the trains to depart, and surprise is expressed
that delays sometimes take place. If there is anything to
cause astonishment, it is that in such a chaos it is possible for
the service to go on, and that, whatever may be said, with a
certain degree of regularity; for in fine, all those who pre.
sent themselves, however numerous, are conveyed to their
destination.

The King arrived at Brussels from the camp at Beverloo
the evening before yesterday, and set out for Ghent Raiload
yesterday morning, accompanied by the Minister of Pub-
lic Works.

BERLIN, Aye. 19.—The Emperor and Empress of Russia
will pass some days at Potsdam and Berlin before they return
to Petersburg. While they are at Potsdam (in the middle
of September) the section of the iron railroad from that
place to half-way on the road to Berlin, is to be opened.
Some delay will take place in the completion of the second
half of the line, because there will be a pretty
.long
cut through an eminence of 35 feet in height with a
hedge, where the high roads will have the iron railroads
under it, and not far from that place a vaulted passage, where
the high road will have the iron railroad above it. However,
the Directors hope to have the second section also completed
in the autumn, so that the citizens of Berlin will be able to
reach in half an hour the beautiful environs of Potsdam.
The return of the Imperial Court is expected at Peters-
burgh in the middle of October, and with a degree of anxious
impatience.

The Emperor and Empress, besides whom the Crown
Prince is likewise absent, have never remained so long out of
the empire as on this occasion. Meantime, the restoration of
the Winter Palace is proceeding with incredible activity.:The
number of military labourers alone is 5,000, who do every
thing for half the price demanded by masters of the class of
citizens. The Emperor thinks of receiving the Court by the
new year in the restored palace. The marble with which
the walls are to be covered is expected from Italy, where it is
furnished for half a million of rubles, whereas a million and a
half were asked at Petersburgh.

BELGIAN k UNDS—BRUSSELS, Ana. 29.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. 73%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 9734
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent 14934
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l4O
National Society
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 29.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ana. 20.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank shares .. 00000000000 .. 0000000000 .....•.......•... 00000
—Aligemeine Zeitung, Aug. 25.

The value of gold taken from all the gold mines o
the United States for the last ten years, is estimated w
30,000,000 dollars.

We regret to learn that typhus fever, of a very ma-
lignant character, has appeared in the neighbourhood of Ash-
ted, three deaths having occurred in one family, other members
of which are deemed to be in a dangerous state. A medical
opinion has been expressed that the disease originated, or kas
been promoted by the presence of stagnant pools and ditches in
that vicinity. The public authorities have been addressed on
the subject.—BirminghamGazette.
_Last week a ruffianly fellow named Pope was, for
successive acts of brutal outrage towards his wife, sentenced
by the Magistrates at Birmingham to twelve months' impri-
sonment, in default of finding sureties for his good behaviour.
On hearing which he immediately dashed his head against the
spikes surrounding the dock, and but for the resolute conduct
of the gaoler and other bystanders would have thus committed
self-destruction.

OLD MAIDS.--A correspondent informs us that
Holdsworthy, a neighbouring parish to Milton Abbott, where
there is such a dearth of ladies, contains in the small town
alone, 31 respectable eld maids, besides a great uumber in the
parish.—Devonport Independent.
lItISFi ANTIQUITIES—The antiquary and lover
of Irish history will be pleased to learn, that an addditional
leaf will probably be added to the annals of our country. Se-
veral stones inscribed in the ancient Ogham character have
lately been discovered in the parish of Dungin, near Dingle,
in the county of lie ry, by the Rev. George G. Gubbing,
the Rector of Drumlin. The place where they were found
contained several human remains, which, from the mode
in which they were placed, leads to the conclusion that
it must have been a place of heathen sepulture. In this
neighbourhood lies Ventry harbour, famous in Irish history
for the exploits of the Finnic, under Fin M'Coul, and as the
spot where the Danes possessed their last hold in Ireland.

- Waterford Mail.
, .
A fine rat, perfectly white, is now in tne possession
of Mr. T. Quitter, of Feering ; it was caught on his farm a
few months since. In. April last a white mole was caught on
Mr. Ho3e) wood's estate at Marks Hall, and is now in the
valuable collection of stuffed animals belonging to Mr. J.
Spading, of Halstead. An ermine, perfectly white, except
the tip of his tail, which is black, was killed on Mr. R.
Smoothey's firm, Baia Hall, near Halstead, by his dogs, in
February or March last; it is now in the possession of Mr.
F. Smoothey, of Halstead. [The weasel with a black tail is
called the ermine when it is white, and the stoat when it is
red or yellowisb.]—Ei.4ex Literary Journal.