The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-31 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

THE FlaGut', OCT. 29.—The Stoats Courant pub-
lishes the following official announcement :
" The King has sent for Messrs. Thorbuke and
Nedermeger Von Rosenthal for the purpose of having
a personal conference with those gentlemen.
" The King has at the same time informed Messrs.
Doncker, Curtius, and Sightenvolt that he considers
their mission terminated."

The Handelsblad, in quoting this article, says " At
the end of six weeks we are in the very position we
might have been at the first. The negotiators have
been dismissed from their task, and the King himself
will now go to work with Messrs. Thornlike and Ro-
senthal. Several days will now probably elapse
before a favourable solution is arrived at. Let us
hope that this will be the last phasis of the Minis-
terial crisis."
The Nieuwslode states that the King has not yet
taken any positive resolution. It likewise contradicts
the statement that the King had summoned the Pre-
sident of the Second Chamber to an audience.
Various reports were afloat in the capital yesterday
respecting the Cabinet, and a further delay was again
apprehended from the rumour that, under present
circumstances, Mr. Van Golstein also had declined
taking part in the Cabinet. Mr. Bruce has quitted
the capital and returned to Zwolli.
It is the general topinion that in this unheard-of
state of things it is the duty of the Second Chamber
to meet. The Stoats Courant announces the arrival
of the overland Netherlands mail ; the news from
Java reaches to the 25th of August. A grand popu-
lar festival given at Java on the Ist, and a splendid
ball, at the Government House, a few days after, in
honour of the success of the expedition to Balls, gave
very general satisfaction.

DREADFUL DISASTER IN AL-

GERIA.

A letter from Philippeville of the 20th gives an ac
count of a dreadful disaster which has just occurred in
the neighbourhood of that town. On Sunday the 14th,
after nearly six months continued drought, a sirocco
wind commenced with greater violence than had ever
been remembered. Such of the inhabitants who had
long resided in Algeria soon began to feel apprehensive
of danger, for they were aware that the Arabs never
failed to take advantage of the wind to effect a clear-
ance of their groundliboth in the plains and on the
mountains, by setting fire to the thistles and brambles
with which it had become overrun. Their fears were,
alas ! too soon realised, for in a short time after the
sky to the south of the town became illuminated, and
clouds of smoke, mingled with sparks of fire, were seen
approaching the town. The whole country, from the
mountains of Oued Zeranna to the nursery ground,
a space of three square leagues, appeared like
one immense furnace, the flames of it advancing
towards the gardens and the depots of forage,
almost beneath the walls of the town, destroy-
ing everything in its way. All the farms in the
neighbourhood were rapidly reduced to ashes,
and the flames soon after crossed the walls, and
commenced their ravages in the gardens within
them. The flames burst out in twenty different
places at once. The inhabitants of the town and
the troops used every exertion ; the engines were
taken by very great efforts to the upper gardens,
and a chain formed to convey water, in which
many women joined with the most devoted courage.
Others taking their children in their arms rushed
towards the sea as their last means of escape.
Showers of burning sands were hurled through
the air, sometimes even hiding the flames themselves.
Great fears were at one time felt that the whole town
and the Fort d'Orleans would be destroyed, but
fortunately the wind veered, and carried the flames
in another direction. Property to a very large amount
has been destroyed. All the produce of the late harvest
hat been swept off. All the meadows of the Govern-
ment, and those of N. F. Barrot, some with the crops
cut, and others standing, have been entirely destroyed.
The banks of the old Roman canal, which were
covered with olive- trees, vines, and mulberry-trees,
are now bare. All the plantations which ornamented
our roads, all the luxuriant gardens have nothing now
left but the blackened soil. The farms of M. de
Gourzas, M. Piglia, M. Legeay, and others have
been all destroyed, and had it not been for the change
of the wind the town of Philippeville and knumber of
other farms would have been destroyed ; as it is the
,oss is immense.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.

MASTER OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE, OCT. 29.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Lord Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy, Lieutenant
and Captain of her Majesty's Coldstream Guards, to be
Equerry in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of
Lieutenant Colonel the Honourable Charles Beaumont
Phipps, resigned.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Joseph Haynes, woollen warehouseman, Alderman
bury.

BANKRUPTS.

Eliza Neuens, watchmaker, Bread-street, to sur-
render Nov. 10, and Dec. 15, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole-
man-street; Hopwood, Chancery-lane.
Cornelius Bray, trader, Landport, Southamption, Nov.
7 and Dec. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Low, Chan-
cery-lane; Ford, Portsea.
Richard Knight, licensed victualler, Albert-place,
Mitcham-road, Croydon, Nov. 10, at eleven, and Dec.
15, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall chambers, Basing-
hall street; M'Leod and Stenning, London-street, Fen•
church-street.

David George Foster, ironmonger, St. John's square,
Clerkenwell, Nov. 5, and Dec. 18, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole-
man-street; Bolton, Dudley.
John Beales, apothecary, Haleswortb, Suffolk, Nov.
10 and Dec. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street• buildings; Barrett,
Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Thomas Vertue, seed merchant, Trinity-terrace,
Tower-hill, Nov. 10, and Dec. 15, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street; Russell, Martin-lane, Cannon-street.
Henry Brower, wood tip-hat manufacturer, Manches-
ter, Nov. 12, and Dec. 3, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ;
Vickers and Diggles, Manchester.
Peter Healey, factor, Birmingham, Nov. 3 and Dec. 4,
at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Rushworth, Bir-
mingham.
Samuel Wilson, draper, Westbromia kb, Staffordshire,
Nov. 10, and Dec. 11, at half-past ten, at the Birminglistm
District Court. Vaipy, official assignee, Birmingham;
Stuart, Wolverhampton; Smith and James, Birmingham.
Richard John Hicks, paper manufacturer, Manchester,
Nov. 14 aid Dec. 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Maples and
Co., Old Jewry; Greene, Liverpool.

- ' DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghull-street.

W. F. Mills, Hart-street, Mark-lane, and High Hol-
born, merchant and gunmaker, Nov. 23, at one—J.
Beddow and Frederick Berryman, Little Love-lane,
Wood-street, Cheapsido, Scotch and Manchester ware-
housemen, Nov. 20, at two—W„Barton, Old Brentford,
grocer, Nov. 23, at two.
In the Country.
W. Ambrose, Awre, Gloueester, timber merchant,
Nov. 22, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—B. J. Maun-
der, Mark, Somersetshire, draper, Nov. 20, at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol —W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J.
Langhorn, Berwick-upon-Tweed, bankers, Nov. 22, at
eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W. S.
Batson, Berwick-upon-Tweed, banker, Nov. 22, at kalf-
past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Wilson,
Berwick-upon-Tweed, banker, Nov. 22, at eleven, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Langhorn, Berwick-
upon-Tweed, banker, Nov. 22, at half-past eleven, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Bonny, Liverpool,
tailor, Nov. 22, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—W.
Drinkwater, Liverpool, draper, Nov. 22, at twelve, at
the Court, Liverpool—W. Labrey, Manchester, grocer,
Nov. 22, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—T.
Stother and W. Richards, Manchester, joiners, Nov. 22,
at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—T. Stother, Man-
chester, joiner, Nov. 22, at twelve, at the Court, Man-
chester.