The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-23 00:00:00

BELGIUIII.

BRE:,,SELS, DEC. 21.—Average prices of Corn in the
third week of December—( Monday 12th to Saturday 17th.)
Wheat, 16f. 78c. ; Rye, 11f. 2c. per hectolitre. Import
Duties, 37f. 50c. and '2lf. 50c. per 1 thousand kilogrammes.
We hear that measures are taken in the offices of the
Commandant of Brussels against those who have opened
lists for the enrolment of men for the service of the Queen
of Spain, and that it seems to be intended to consider them
as crimps. Some doubts, which are said to be very well
founded, are entertained at Vienna and Frankfort, of the
continuance of Baron Munch Bellinghausen in his high
office of President of the Diet of the German Confederation.
Letters speak of his approaching retirement from that office
as a probable event, and attribute it to some unpleasant
circumstance that took place at Vienna in his intercourse
with Prince Metternich. Others say that M. de Belling-
hausen is deeply affected by his dramatic failure in the
theatre of Vienna. Whatever may be the truth, the retire-
ment of the President of the German Diet under present
circumstances could not be an unimportant event.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives a long
debate has taken place on the bounties allowed on the ex-
portation of sugar. It appears (says the Courrier Beige)
that the excise duty which the people pay on sugar, amounts
to 1;800,000 francs, of which in the end only 120,000 francs
remain in the public treasury, the remainder being distri-
buted in the form of bounties among the refiners of Antwerp,
Ghent, &c. Besides this, the treasury loses a vast sum
by the frudulent importation of raw sugar. M. Dumortier,
in the course of the debate said, " It is an acknowledged
fact that the duty on sugar ought to bring into the treasury
near four millions. * * * The business of the
refiner is now prosperous. Ido not doubt it, with a cur-
rency of four millions. If such a bounty were given to
every trade, were it a manufacturer of watches, it would
soon be in a prosperous condition ; but we are not people
to give bounties of four millions to a branch of manufactu-
rers ; for if we give such a sum to one, we ought to give it
to others. We cannot grant a privilege to Ghent and
Antwerp. It is said there arc a hundred sugar-houses in
this country ; four millions make 40,000 francs for each !
What is the object of this bounty ? It is to make Belgians
pay a duty on sugar, in order that the Germans and Swedes
may have it cheaper. This is the real fact, for you are
asked to allow a bounty in order that the refiners may be
able to sell cheap. To whom ? To the Germans and the
Swedes."

In the discussion of the budget of ways and means, the
excise on sugar was taken at 120,000 f.
FRONTIERS OF ITALY, DEC. 6.—The accounts from

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between the Court of Turin and the Government at II laSiUi q hj
WELunn, DEC. 11.—The Grand Duke Miqhmel had
prolonged his residence in the Palace of this town till this
time, and under the most attentive care of his sister, the
Grand Duchess, had lived in calm retirement, only taking
much exercise in the open air. His Imperial Highness,
it is well known, labours under a disorder of the stomach,
and the opinions of the physicians were that he should pass
the winter in Germany, and enter on a course of cure early
in the spring. The Emperor Nicholas has acceded to
this opinion, and after the arrival of a courier from Peters-
burgh the Grand Duke Michael set out to-day for Baden,
where we hear he will stay some days to consult the physi-
cians. It is not known where he will reside till the spring.

riELGI AN 1. UNDS—BRUSSELS, DEC. 21
Actual Debt, *.i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. loo,',
Loan of Thirty Millions 94 ),3
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. lOl
Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent. 142
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 134
Brussels Papers, Dec. 22.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 13.
Five per Cents. Metalliqucs
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1382
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-411,eemeine Zeitung, Dec. 18.
DUTCH FUNDS—Au 4TERBAN, DEC. 20.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent .53 53%
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A 11101 t Syndic, 4}.i percent. 93% 94
Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent. 76,4 77
Commercial Company, 4', per cent 178% 18014
Ditto (1832 and 18:33) 5 per cent.
Lxchange on London, One month l2 2%
Two months
HAMBURG BORSEN lIALLE, DEC. 17.
Bills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. —
Ditto ditto 3 percent.
Ditto Bank Shares 1355 ins)
Anglo-Rust:Jan Loan 10.214 102
I aper inscription, 6 per cent —
Russ; an 5 per cents. Metal.
Rusmai, Inscription, Dope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
rortuguese Re, envy Bonds, 5 per cent 44
Ditto, 3 per cent.. 27% si7
Dutch 24, per Cern.% 52 51%
Ditto 5 per Cents ,
Polish Bonds, 3 per cm:ts•
New Tickets
A liglo.Danish Loan, 3 per .--ntS 72 715 i
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 pc,- cents.
Spanish, in piastres 3 per Cents., ••
Cortes an, 5 per 'Cent ......... .......
Greek 4 per cents. 1833, guaranteed 1, v Prance 93 9?4,i
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AMERICA.
We have received a New Orleans P,: cc Current to the
13th of November.—" There is no extraordinary briskness
prevailing in any department of business ; but the market
is sufficiently animated, particularly for grocerie, owing to
the scarcity of western produce, and the high crices ge-
nerally demanded.
" The Money Market continues in an improving state—
indeed, it cannot be said there is any serious pressure. The
banks are increasing their discounts ; long paper is more
scarce, as the cotton houses do not accept much, and that
running from four to eight months can be negotiated at tett
or twelve per cent. per annum."

THE CANADA S:
We have Montreal papers to the 27th November ; they
state that " it is now well ascertained, by advices from Ma-
tamoras to 30th September, that the projected invasion of
Texas by the Mexicans is for a time totally abandoned.
This arises from the impoverished treasury of Mexico, and
the reduction of her 4,000 troops at Matamoras to as many
hundreds by desertion, in consequence of want of pay, cloth-
ing, and provisions.
MONEY.—Exchange at 60 days :—Bank, 9 per Cent. ;
Private, 84 to 8- per Cent.
BANK STOCK.—Montreal Bank Shares, 29 ; City, 8 per
Cent.; Commercial Bank, Ili- per Cent.

Mr. King, who accompanied Captain Back to the
Arctic Regions, and who has just laid before the public a
HistorT of the Journey, is now at Brighton; with a view
of gaining' support in favour of a new expedition to the
Arctic Shor.?s, at a cost of 1,0001. only ; 4001. of which
is already subst:ril-ted. A pamphlet, detailing the project,
has been presented bj' Mr. King to the Sussex Scientific and
Literary Institution, as well as to the principal libraries,
which is well worthy the attention of our readers. Mr.
King is now engaged in staffing a splendid arctic wolf,
which he has brought from London as a present to the
Mantellian Museum.—Brighton (;,-actte.
On Tuesday last, at the ancient church of St. Sa-
viour's, Southwark, was rung by the Juntir Society of Col-
lege Youths, a true and complete peal of c,:ters, on Stead-
man's principle, consisting of 5,001 changes, in toe short space
of three hours and fifty-minutes, by ten men only, :u the most
masterly manner, being the first peal of the kind ever per-
formed in this intricate method in the aforesaid church, and
for striking cannot be excelled by any other company in
England.
A telescope of very large dimensions and high
power, will soon be completed by Mr. E. Henderson, the
astronomer. The telescope is a front view reflector (or
Herschellean telescope) of twenty-six feet focus ; the me-
tallic reflector, or speculum, is eighteen inches in diameter,
and will bear a power so high as 3,000 times. The instru-
ment and its attendant furniture will weigh somewhere
about eight cwt. This telescope, when completed, will be
the largest in the British dominions.
Yesterday morning the inhabitants of Waterloo-road
were thrown into some alarm by the bursting of a baker's
oven, which burnt the whole of the floor above. Several
engines arrived, but the neighbours had previously extin-
guished the flames by throwit'-, the contents of the water-
butt over it. The inmates had previously got every article
of furniture out of the house, and deposited it in the ground
of Zion Chapel.
Armand Marie, Marquis de la Belinaye, Knight of
Louis, and the last remaining, we believe, of the French
Noblemen who emigrated to this country at the time of the
first French Revolution, died at his residence, in Upper
Harleystreet, on the 20th inst. Mote than forty years
had elapsed since his first exile ; he was seventy-five years
of age. Of an ancient and once very opulent family of
Britanny, allied to many of the noblest houses of France,
he, singularly enough, derived his origin from a Scottish
Knight, who, some ages back, followed s warlike Baron in
his invasion of that dukedom, and settled on conquered land.
From early intimacy at the University of St•rasburg with
some English fellow-students of his own rank, and from the
resemblance of its institutions, and, in many counties, its
language, to those of his free native State, M. de la Beli-
naye had early visited, and was exceedingly. attached to,
England. After the loss of his large estates in France and
• at St. Don:ingo, he was long indebted to the English Go-
vernment for sup;iort. His sons, born in England, owed
their education at the Military College of Penn to its
liberality, and to the i'ostering care of the great loyalist,
Edmund Burke. The misfortunes of his party and family
preying upon him more and mote with the increase of years,
he lidd long seceded from society. The Marquis had been
in the French army until the dishandiocc, in Germany, of
the army of Prince Conde, of which his ,`'ether, a Lieut.-
General, commanded a division.
We have all either seen or read of that ..,notnalous
creature, a while blackbird. Perhaps of a morn:ng, too,
gentle reader, after sitting up too late on the previous night,
you may have been told that the white of your eye wag red,
and all this, too, without starting. A native of Paddy's-
land asked a neighbour if he bad ever seen red blackberries ?
" To be sure I have," said Pat, " all blackberries are red;
when they arc green !"—Laird rf Logan.
According to the accounts from Vienna of the 12th,
received yesterday, the Emperor of Austria was then quite
recovered, and applied himself to the t;ffairs of the state as
usual. His Majesty would not, however; have any levees
for a week ; but his uncle, the Archduke Louis, would
hold them in his stead. It is added, that Count .Kolowrat
was to resume his important functions in a day or twcr.•
The following curious coincidences and mistakes in
punctuation appear in a catalogue of books lately published :.
—Essay on Stupidity—bound in calf Hints on the Ori-
ginal State of Man—very old. The Conscience of Law-
yers—afaree. Hints to Carpenters—in boards. Trans-
actions of the 'Bank—gold edged. History of the Giants—
large paper.
NEW FIRE-PROOF DRESS.—At a fire (not a
a serious one) which occurred on Thursday morning, at Mr.
Knight's, stationer, Basing-lane, Watling-street, the Pari-
sian smoke-proof fire dress was, for the first time brought
into actual service. Mr. Braidwood himself put it on, and,
descending into the cellar, there remained till the fire was
completely extinguished, passing through the parts where
the smoke was most dense, without experiencing any incon-
venience. The firemen who were not so equipped, wero
not able to remain in any part of the cellar more than ten
minutes, and experienced a difficulty of breathing, and their
eyes were red and swollen, as if they had been crying. There
were two engines brought to the spot, one of which was
employed in supplying Mr. Braidwood with a continuous
current of fresh air. The flames never mounted above
three feet from the floor, nor was the smoke particularly
dense, so that the apparatus cannot be said to have been
fully tested on this occasion ; but enough was done to confirm
Mr. Braidwood in the opinion former experiments had in-
duced him to form of its great utility in the case of fires in
cellars. Colonel Paulin, the commandant of the sappers
and miners engaged in protecting Paris from fire, is the in-
ventor of the dress, and the suit used on this occasion was
sent as a present from the gallant Colonel on condition that
no copies should be made from it. It is of leather, en-
closing the head, arms, and trunk in a case, which, by means
of hose connected from the back, is kept constantly inflated
with fresh air. There are glass holes for the eyes, and a
whistle to give signals with.