The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-27 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 23.—At the beginning of the sit-
ing to-day, M. de Foere opened the debate on the
purchase of 4,000 shares in the Rhenish iron railway,
and complained of the vagueness of the expression of
the progamme of the new Cabinet. He adjured the
Cabinet to devote its attention to the critical state of
the commerce and manufactures of the country, and to
endeavour to procure markets, of which both stand so
much in need.
The King has set out to-day for France, as well as
the Doke of Saxe Cobourg and the Princess Victoria.
His Majesty does not take the same road as they do.
A letter from Vienna, of the 15th, says—" We are
sorry to hear that his Majesty the Emperor, after en-
joying for these two years perfect health, had, the night
before last, an attack (happily a slight one) of the ill-
ness to which he was formerly very subject. His Ma-
jesty's health is sufficiently recovered, to enable him to
leave his bed to-day.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 24.—The Court of Assizes of
Brabant has, after a very tedious trial, delivered to-day
a verdict of acquittal of all the individuals accused of
having taken part in the disturbances at Ghent, with
the exception of Serjacobs, who is condemned to three
months)amprisonment and the costs.

(From the HandeiSbitid.)
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 22.—We are informed on good
authority, that some respectable, well-disposed, and
wenithy individuals of this city, have seriously discussed
the propriety of addressing to the States-General a
petition, that they will persevere in their efforts to ob-
tain publicity, order, and simplification in our financial
system, as well as positive guarantees for the future, in
this respect, as well as formal engagements to secure
the legal conduct of persons in the service of the State.
It has, however, been resolved net to present, at
present, such a petition, nor to induce others to do so ;
this resolution has been taken partly to satisfy those
who desire to have recourse to petition only in case of
extreme urgency, and partly from the general conviction
that our representatives do not require any such spur
to induce them to persevere in the course which they
have entered upon. The cauntry, the Icng, and their
own independence, were sufficient recommendations to
our deputies ; entire confidence might be placed in such
powerful motives.
TIIE HAGUE, APRIL 21.—The Hereditary ?rine%
and Princess of Orange, set out this evening far Stut-
gard, where they intend to stay two months.
Her Royal Higness Princess Albert is expected here
ou Sunday next ; she will probably make bat a short
way. _ _

THE HAGUE, APRIL 2.3.—1 n the sitting of the Se-
cond Chamber to-day a number of petitions was pre-
sented. M. Luzac presented in the name of the au-
thor a treatise on the second part of the Penal Code ;
its principles developed and connected with the general
jurisprudence. M. Luzac highly commended this
work (by M. Ide Bosch Kemper) which was ordered to
be placed in the library of the Chamber.
There being nothing in the Order of the Day the
Chamber adjourned.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 22..—The Government has al-
ready answered the objections of the Second Chamber
to the financial measures of 1840. According to these
answers the amount of the expenditure is now reduced
to 51,727,215 f: there being deducted-1. The dota-
tion of the Syndicate of 2,500,000 f. ; and 2d the pro-
vision for the wants of the Syndicate 4,000,000 ; toge-
ther 64 millions. In the ways and means the loan of
6,700,600 f. is omitted, and 800,000 florins inserted as
the overplus of the ways and means of 1838. His
Majesty, as we arc assured, will in a few days issue an
important resolution, by which a great number of Ge-
nerals, Lieutenant-Generals, Colonels, Lieutenant-
Colonels, Majors, &c., including the Commandants of
the Provinces and fortresses will be pensioned.
ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 14.—An official account
from Schlusselburg of the Bth of April announces that
the ice was beginning to break up in Lake Ladoga and
the Neva, and that in many places large spaces of open
water are seen. In the City the Neva is crossed only
on foot, the passage of horses over the ice being for-
bidden.— Journal de St. Petersburg, April 14.
VIENNA, APRIL 15.—The Hungarian Diet has
granted the budget for four millions, and thus decided
on the last of the important Royal propositions.
The Primate of Hungary having invited several
Bishops whose sees are not too distant to go home for
the celebration of Easter, 'the proceedings of the Diet
will be interrupted, so that a prolongation of the Session
seems indispensable.

r;EL(4IAN HINDS—BaIi!MELO, Aram 24.
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cint I. 1244
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. 74 y,
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent ...........
Society of Commerce, 4N,per Cent llO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...... ......
National Society . _
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, April 9.4.
DUTCH FUNDS.—Awirreanam, APRIL 2t.
n oey. 8.
Actual Debt, '2% per Cent Bi
5N flll..
Ditto, ditto 5 per coat.
Amon Syndic, 44 per cent sali s.l
JAW, ditto, fN per cent 7SY, 7sai
Commercial Company, 41, per cent lfill6 fil
Ditto (IKI2 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1437, 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cont.
Exchange on London, One month ll IV,
Two mcm,is
—Dutch Papers, April 25.
A USTMAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 18
Five per Conts. Metalliques . ION
Foul- per Cents. 1+
Three per Cents.
1833
Bank Shares
__

—Allgemeine Zrissinr, April 21.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—B;aux, Aram 91.
Blils. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4%, per cent. - 104 k 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 10. i yv 102,
Exchange on London, three months ... 6 ISI
—Prussian State Gazelle, April .2

"THE MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCESS DASCH-
KAIV."—The recently-published autobiography of this extra-
ordinary
kind that has appeared
similar
e oirs of a woman (observes the Conservative Journal)
who,' at eighteen, headed a revolution, was the caressed cons-
person has excited more interest than any work
for a long time put. "
memoirs of a
panion of Catherine; for twelveyears President of the Academy
of Arts and Sciences ; who travelled over the principal coun-
tries of Europe, and corresponded with its most eminent
scholars and statesmen—with Voltaire, Diderot, Robertson,
Prince Kaunitz, and Bishop Talleyrand ; who exhibited
talents for governing and improving mankind equal to those of
her Imperial mistress; who was banished by Paul and recalled
by Alexander ; who made the woman-hating Frederick of
Prussia stand bareheaded in the presence of his troops com-
plimenting her for a quarter of an hour, and drew the invalid
of Fernev to the supper-table when his doors were closed
against the most illustrious parsonages and brilliant wits of
Europe—the memoirs of a being so versatile and various, and
who passed through so many vicissitudes, cannot but be NW,
nently interesting."
On Thursday a melancholy event took place at
the factory of Mr. T. Spackman, at Greenland, near Brad-
ford, to a poor man named Zachariah Smith ; being at work,
he was caught up by what is called the drum, and dreadfully
crushed in various parts of the body; he survived a few hours.
when death put an ens( to his sufferings.

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• LONDON:
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 140.

Well, did we not correctly anticipate the pro,
ceeditip of LlN's auxiliaries at the anti-opium
gathering at the Freemasons' Tavern on Friday last
In our columns of Friday night and Saturday
morning; we gave the fullest report of the meeting
of any of the London Journals ; and if we did not
accompany that report with an invitation to our
readers to allow their disappointment at its perusal
to provoke no other indication of annoyance than
a laugh, it was because such an intimation ap-
peared to us altogether unnecessary. There was
one point only upon which LIN'S friends might
claim to be impartial. If they approached the dis-
cussion of an important international • question
under strong prejudices against exciting stimu-
lants, they
.proved, by their speeches, that
they kiltw nothing of the facts on either
side. Probably, as none of them conld read
Chinese, they magnanimously resolved not to listen
to the exiyarte statements of Captain ELL lOT,
and his interpreters, Ailonntsozi and GUTZLAFF.
Now therois a stimulant quite as destructive of the
rational exercise of the. powers of the mind as the
fumes of spirituous liquors, or the inhaled intoxicat-
ing essence of opium. That stimulant is prejudice,
having ignorance for its basis ; and we regret to
observe that the. teetotallers, and other over-
righteous persons of:: that stamp, labour as much
under its pernicious influence as the most unre.
claimed gin-drinkers under the excitement of that
beverage. Lord STA NIIOPE,
soul-destroying
al-
beit a Peer of -Parliament, and a member of the
highest judicial tribunal in the kingdom, could not
perceive that there would be anything at,all extra-
ordinary in our enforcing our Custom-house laws
against the French, in the same way that the
Chinese, have done against us. Neither could the
Ncible• lord understand upon what just plea France
could feel tffended at such a vindication of the.

sacredness of our laws a. 3 the starvation of all
the Frenchmen-In London, unless brandy stnug,glers
- off Itam.;gate would freely deliver up their contra-
band cargoes. Lord
.STANIIOPE'S youth was
evidently not spent in the profound study of the,
law of nations, and as book authorities may have
little weight with him now, we recommend him,'
just by way of learning what the civilized world
'thinks up.un these p6ints, to hint to the French and
American Ambassadois our right and our determi.

nation tx) vlopt Lis s mode of enforcing Custom.
house laws- How .M. GUIZOT wou:d elevate his
eyebrows, to itinthri;;.how long his noble visitor had
escved froin Hanivel; . STEVENSON, more
credulous, you'd acct..nt the communication as a
covert ticclai ation of war, and in six months we

I. should have General SCOTT marching at the heed
Of a' Republican army to lay- waste the- Canadas.
•
, But the modesty of ',lN's auxiliaries was equal
to the little acquaintance which they appeared to.
have of the question which they assembled to
proyounce judiment upon. They did not pro-
-130-sp the impeachment . of her MAJESTY'S
•
Ministers, nor • d ...
'id thy recommend to the
rtatiob the pCirchaSe of a piece of• plate to be
• . • , • .•
presented 'to: the , High, Commissioner for his
inhOinan treatment :of the red-bristled bar-
barians. They were Content to address her MA-
prohibit the •
JEsTr t 9 e opium traffic, and to charge
herself with the due and rigorous execution of
the Crtis'tOrn-hons'e laws of a Government that.
scorns to hold any communication with her or any
other European SOvereign, or to permit a subject of
her sex so' much as to touch the soil of China !
While her MAJESTY allows opium to be, served
as a ration to her Oriental troops, on the same,
principle that a certain quantity of beer and
spirits is allowed to British soldiers and sailors,
she. is to watch so carefully over the morals of the
Chinese as not to Suffer
.an ounce of the drug to
find its way. into any part .of the Celestial Em-
pire ! The modesty of asking her MAJESTY to do
for the Chinese* what,she ha.4.never thouaht' of doing
for her own subjects--,-what, however, willing,
she has not the -power of doing and what
the bare attempt:to do would cost this country more
than the value of our whole trade with the Celesial
altogether so Hibernian that we cannot
imagine how it could have pervaded a meeting of
sober-minded. Englishmen. But did it did not
occur to the sage oracles of tee-totalism that LIN
might not approve of •Queen VrcrontA's Protec-
torship of the morals ',of the Celestial Empire ?
Could they not suppose' it possible even for the vir-
tuous Emperor of CHINA to prefer our opium to
the presence in the Chinese Seas.of a British fleet,
prepared to cooperate with him in enforcing the
laws against smugglers? At an expense of from
thirty-five to fifty millions sterling the Government
might transfer the 'traffic in opium to Burmah, Siam,
Bagdad, Egypt, and 'other 'States unconnected
with Great Britain, but without maintaining a strong
fleet in the Chinese waters, not an oun e of Opium the
less would be smuggled. Now the Emperor of CHINA
does not want our aimed co-operation under any
pretext whatever. He would not accept of it,. and
. to force it upon him would be regarded by him as
a declaration of war. The extravagance of men in.
their cups is proverbial, but proceedings more ex-
travagant than those of the water-drinking abettors
of Chinese' tyranny at the meeting at the .Free
masons"lavern, on Friday last, are only, to be
sought at the dinners of the BRA.DsHA WITE
wassailers of Canterbury: But Lord STANHOPE
is to bring the question before the House of Lords I
Well, the sooner the better. We shall then have
something more to say about it.

The Times on Friday inserted sortie extracts
from a pamphlet, by Sir T. (COCHRANE, entitled
Proposal, for the more Efficient Manning of
her Majesty's Elect."
,The interest We take in.
this subject will not allow us to pass by even the
extracts, though we have tot seen the pamphlet.
A short'passage froai the Times howevei;
make out readers acquainted with what Sir THo-