The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-13 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

We have been much struck with a genuine collection or
Dutch and Flemish pictures, which are now exhibiting in
Bond-street, but which will, we understand, be sold by
auction tomorrow. Many of the works of the best
masters are comprised in this collection, which, though
not very numerous, is, so far as taste and judgment are
concerned, one of the hest we have seen. The pictures
are the private property of an artist of superior ability, Mr.
Frank Howard, the able illustrator of Shakspeare, who
has been for years collecting them at considerable cost,
and invariably with great discrimination. In the cata-
logue we find the names of such celebrated painters as
Kneller, Morland, Reynolds, Teniers, Rembrandt—whose

" Head of a Burgomaster" is, in its way, a rare speci-
men of art ; Rubens, Vandevelde, whose picture of
" Shipping," in black and white, is worthy of this old
master's abilities ; Vandyke, Wilson, A. Cuyp, Watteau,
Gainsborough, De Witt, and Hobbima. Of tliese, the
Watteau, the Gainsborough, and the Cuyp specimens are,
we think, the fi ist, though there is scarcely an indif-
ferent painting in the whole collection.

Besides his pension of 50,0001. a-year, Prince
LEOPOLD, as well as being a Field-Marshal, has enjoyed
all the emoluments of a Colonelcy of Cavalry for fifteen
years, his Royal Highness having been appointed Colonel
of the Fifth Dragoon Guards in 1816. This Colonelcy of
course becomes vacant by his acceptance of the Crown of

Belgium.
The Belgian Deputation, charged with the
definitive offer of the crown to Prince LEOPOLD, arriyed
at the Brunswick Hotel, in Jermyn-street, on Monday
night, at twelve o'clock. They were received in the diffe-
rent towns of Flanders through which they passed with
the greatest enthusiasm ; and during the changing of
horses immense crowds of citizens surrounded the car-
riages, crying, " Vice le Roi !" " Vice Lebeuu !"
" Vive noire patriotique Ministre." At nine o'clock
yesterday evening the Deputies waited on the Prince, and
were received with the most marked cordiality. They
remained with his Royal Highness till eleven o'clock.
We understand it was arranged, during the interview,
that the Prince shall be called, " Leopold, Premier Roi
des Beiges." It was also settled that the Prince should
leave London on Saturday next, and proceed to Brus-
sels, by way of Calais, where lie will deep ; he will then
proceed to Ostend, leave again on Monday morning for
Bruges, Ghent, and Alost, and make his public entry into
the metropolis on Tuesday, at twelve o'clock. The Depu-
tation dine with the Duchess of KENT to-morrow ; Prince
LEormaa the Cabinet Ministers, the Foreign Ambassadors,
and Lord PON SONBY are also invited. We understand,
from good authority, that the King of HOLLAND has sig-
nified his intention of acceding to the preliminaries. It
is M. DE MU ELINAERF, Governor of West Flanders, and
not Baron WooLataß, who makes the fifth Belgian Deputy.
The acceptance on the part Of the Belgians of the prelimi-
naries of peace was received by Lord PALMERSTON on
Monday last. It was signed by M. LEBEAU, as Minister
for Foreign Affairs.—Morning Herald.
CRUMBS OF COMFORT.--" At Tewkes-
burr," (triumphantly observes the Bristol Journal, the
organ of boroughmongery in that neighbourhood,) "there
was lately an election for a sexton, the contest being be-
tween a Reformer and an Anti-Reformer. The Anti-
Reformer
rod
successfuligus.
candidate, by a majority of
On Friday last a married woman named MARY
HONE, residing at No. 110, Union-street, in the Borough,
o
three
committed suicide under these circumstances :—lt ap-
peared that she was so passionately addicted to gin-drink-
ing, that she not only made away with all her own clothes,
hut also those of her husband and children, in order to
procure the liquor. On Friday night she went to bed, as
usual, drunk, and her husband being awakened in the
middle of the night by the noise of a heavy rall on the
floor, got up, and discovered his dissipated wife lying near
the fire-place, with her throat cut, and the bloody razor in
her hand. She had, it seems, got up out of hot while her
husband was fast asleep, and 'taken the razor from the
Itable drawer, with which she committed the act so effec-
tually that she only lived a few hours.