The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-27 00:00:00

BELGIAN PAPERS.

GHENT, AUG. 24.—Our city was alarmed yesterday
by the news of the bankruptcy of Mr. J. V. L., pro-
prietor of a considerable cotton manufactory. It is said
that he has failed for 300,000 francs. This bank-
ruptcy has caused a great sensation among our mer-
chants and manufacturers, both on their own account
and for its probable consequences.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 25.—The protracted stay of the
King of the Belgians in England induces us to think
that his prudent counsels will be listened to, and that
we shall ewe the peace of Europe to his intervention.
Never did a more conciliating negotiator undertake a
better cause there is no one whose advice ought to
have more weight and authority in the councils of the
young Queen. We shall not have Waf.

DUTCH FIINIYS,—AmsTERDAte, AUG. 25,
Money, Ville.
Actual petit, ili 0.1 Ciltt
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. our..., •
iiniett Syndic, 4% per cent.... 4... . 13)5 14,,,,
Ditto, ditto, V, per cent TiLA 74%
Commercial Company, 4.,.z per cent 163% 1694
aka() (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loon 1837, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month ll 93
To month ll e 5
Dutch Papers, Aug. 26.
GEIAiIAN 1• UNDS—lnguesEco, Ate. 25.
Actual Del.t, 2% per Ccnt.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOll
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. —
....—. 18%

Thirty 4ev _ -.. _____
Lean or _City, it 52,4 per Cent.
'.:, , Society ot Commerce, 4Si per Cent • 109
Bank at Belgium, 4,par Cent e 4%
National Society . .......--,..................
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 25.
A../.1a.1'11././...N -Y/Jai.L.IS.,—V AENNA, AUG. 17.
lie per Coats. Metalliques - 107%
Fear per Cents.
Three per Cents.
ElAnk Shares 1770
...Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. .
HAMBURG BOIUENHALLE, AUK. 22.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares /731 1710
A mlo.ltussian Loan lrr. 14 j, Bfq
Russian 5 per Cent. !st series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist SeiGS lO.-3
Rus;ian 5 per Cent. Hop. and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 97%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50
Ditto S per Cent 9B
I'olish Bonds
New I icket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 74% 74%
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent. lO2 101%
Spanish, New 3 per Cents. —
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, AUG. 22.
Bills. Money,
St. Schuld. Sch., 4-,, per cent. lO4 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 103 -
Exchange on London, three months 0 MN
—Prussian State Gazelle, Aug. 23.

FRENCH AND BRITISH FistiEttAttN..---The
brig of war Nautilus, Captain Bouverie, has been actively
engaged in preserving order at the fishing ground, and
keeping the Frenchmen within their bounds. This, as
might have been expected, has proved no easy task, and in
one instance at least strong measures have had to be
adopted. Friday night, a French lugger having refused to
obey repeated orders to keep farther out to !.psi it was
found necessary to use sharper means, and a shot was
fired, which splintered her bulwarks and carried away
part of her rigging. It is needless to add the
Frenchman immediately took the hint. A correspond-
ent has also favoured us with the following additional
instanee of the prompt and efficient nature of the pro.,
tection afforded by the commander of the Nautilus :
" Monday evening week Ralph Dickson, fisherman, Ben-
shall, who rents a cottage under Mr. Manderson, of Swin-
hoe, having got three of his acts destroyed by a French
boat, near the Fern Islands, Mr. Ewing, herring-curer,
and Mr. Manderson, went on board the Nautilus, to ob-
tain, if possible, redress for Dickson. Captain Bouverie
at once agreed to go where the French boat was lying in
Newton Bay, to recover the value of the nets, and took
Dickson with him, who knew the number of the boat.
After a good deal of discussion and altercation on board
the Frenchman, the crew denying that they had ever seen
Dickson's boat, Captain Bouverie felt reluctant to compel
reparation, as Dickson was not able to identify any of the
Frenchmen on board. Captain Bouverie, however, pre-
sented Dickson with a sovereign out of his own pocket, as
some reparation for his loss."—Bertvich Advertiser.
HOP DUTY.—SussEx.—We are informed that
severe distress is impending over the hop districts in this
connty during the approaching winter, in consequence of
the complete tailt:te 9f the crop of hops of this year. The
blight is very general, and is more severe than has ever
been Knotiti bj the oldest planters. The consequences
will be most disastrous, as the lovv price of Sussex hops
during the last three or four years bat esrioesly reduced the
capital of the planters, who, nor, Navin; ob!alned anything
like a remunerating price for their hops, tri:: be umlble to
meet the various payments to which they are liable, such as
for hop-poles, manures, rents, taxes, tithes, trade hills. &c.
It is therefore earnestly hoped that the attention of the Lords
of her Alnjesty's Treasury may be called to the subject,with
a view to the remission of the second instaltnent
of the duty upon the hops of the growth of 1839, and
which will become payable in November next. For this
puipose a general meeting of hop planters should be
speedily convened, or parochial petitions prepared and nu-
nieroosly signed and forwarded to the Lords of the Trea-
sury. Unless this be done, there does not appear any pros-
pect of the planters being able to meet their payments, or
to employ the labourers, who, with the present high prices
of most of the necessaries of life, will be reduced to a state
of destitution that cannot but be most deeply deplored._
Brighton. Guardian [We hope the Treasury will not
yield. The hop-growers ought to demand back from the
landlords all the sums they have laid out in the cultivation,
ever and above the natural cost of provisions, wages, &c.,
such increase being caused by the Corn-laws. Thank God,
the landowners begin to feel the consequences of their own
iniquity.—F,D. Sun.]
COSTS ON SUMMARY CONVICTIONS.—Th the
hope that clposore of the injustice will obtain a removal of
its cause, we add to (the instances we have recently re-
corded of these monstrous exactions, the following : --At
the Petty Sessions held at Castle Hedinghaai, on Aua.
18, three carters were conrieted each in the penalty of
sixpence for riding on the shafts of their carts. The costs
in one case were 8s 6d., and in the two others ten shillings
in each case. To inflict upon the poor 0 punishment
never contemplated by the law is positive injustice, and
produces hatred of the law and recklessness of conduct in
those who have not sufficient discrimination to distinguish
between the ;:•.:t and its administration, It is by such
1 proceedings as these, entailing privation and Suffering on
the poorest of the people, that their affections are alien-
ated front their super;,;.rs• .No argument will
iever recon-
cilel
a poor man to the justh:--" of a sentence which affixes
sixpence as the penalty For an 0n...1ce% condemnsbut
Ponvi ct
in twenty times the fine as the costs oi,
THE PRINCE'S flusSA Rs. .
m
—The )vitole of 'he
officers and troops of Prince Albert's Hussars will be fur_
fished with their new clotbikig by Friday (to-morrow),
and on Sunday next they w parade to St. Peter's
i:: Church in their new ia.o not hear of any
uniform. We'
- expected to
alteration with respect to the review which
I' the 4th or
take plaee as we :v.ve al
sth 01 Se . • .;eve already stated, about
pt,flioer. a esieruay there a, a . id a, 00
,
the ground selected for the review, when the
tfiro't;p::4';e t
'4 pree7.. I Dutaa.
through various evolutions with their accustomed
siva...Brig/4°n Gazette, , me,, •
ever since,

A regeta came_ off at Richmond yesterday to cele-
brate the natal day of his Royal Highness Prince
Albert. The contest was for a very handsome wherry and
various money prizes, the donation of H. Selwyn, Esq.,
of Pagoda House, Kew-road, and the inhabitants of
Richmond. The whole tvits under the patronage of the
Right Hon. the Earl of Errol. The competitors were
sixteen free watermen of Richmor.d, and the order of
rowing was us follows :—Four heats wt.,:h two boats in
each (double sculls), and the first man in each to row
the fifth and grand heat, which would of couriszi con-
sist of four boats. The distance was the same eac::
time, the men starting from Richmond-bridge, down
the river, round a boat moored off the Marquis of
Ailsa's, up to a boat off the Duke of Buecleuch's
and return to the bridge. The first heat was started
at a little after one, in the presence of some hun-
dreds of spectators. It was between Edward Redknap
and Charles Godfrey, red, and Henry Rigby and Wil-
ham New, white. The latter party took the lead at
the start, and won easily. The second heat was with
Richard Messam and James Snell, red, and William
Jackson and James Godfrey, white. It was a better
heat than the first, and won by white. The third heat
was a beautiful one, and was between William Bell
and Joseph Burn, red, and George Howard and Wit-
ham Wheeler, white. The men were together all the
way down, and rowed in beautiful style. Red then
took the lead, and were pressed very hard by white
for considerable distance ; red, however, shot ahead,
and won t.t.. e heat, which was rowed in less time than
_
'-u- ones. The fourth heat, between
any et the Prey"- ',II Jackson, red, and George Bor-
ley Cripps and in- . ,te
was' won, ,
by the latter ;
ley and Charles Cripps,
and the occupiers of the four -;nninz boats then Pro-
ceeded to take refreshmeint and rest previous to
the grand struggle, which was appo:Mled n:r six o'clock,
it will be seen that the colours white aidma .291 Y had
been used in the first four heats, and, as no ilagl tu.:111
three who wore the former had won, it was indispens'eMy
necessary that the men should draw for fresh colours
to distinguish them in the concluding heat, and this
having been done, the men took their stations thus for
the flea' heat :—Jackson and Godfrey, stripes; Righ)
and New, white ; Bell and Burn, blue ; and Borley
and Cripps, red. The whole tour boats were steni and
stern for half a mile, and, in turning, white certainly had
the advantage, and appeared going on in good order
to win, but they rowed too near the shore and scraped
the ground. White and stripes made a fine wager ;
stripes, after being scull and scull some little way,
rowed by and went ahead, but were obliged to work hard
to maintain their pos'tion. Stripes came in first, win
fling' by a length only; blue second ; and white third.

LOUIS PHILIPPE'S INSINUATING ADDRESS.
—De Balzac gives the following anecdote in a small po-
litical periodical which he is now publishing in Paris :
" One day, when Thiers and Dufaure were upon intimate
terms, and whc n the King of the French was engaged in
' brewing' a new Ministry, Thiers met Dufaure upon the
grand staircase of the Tuilleries. ha,' said the for-
mer to the latter, you arc now ascending these stairs for
the first time; take care of yourself, Dufaure. If you find
his words prodrcing too strong an effect on you, think of
something else to prevent you from being entrapped. You
go up a patriot; take care you do not come down a mere
courtier.' The conference took place, the parties present
being Thiers, Dufaure, and Royalty. Thiers, who knew
what he was about, listened, replied, commented, and dis-
cussed. Dufaure, on.the contrary, was led to the embra-
sure of a window, which he left with tears in his eyes, and
Dufmre was not the only person that wept. When they
deicended the stAir6 together, Thiers said quietly to
friend, ; Ilion cher, you are bedevilled.' Iliers was right :
has been no better than a hanger-on of the Court
Oh, the eloquence of Majesty "