The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1841.

lution will appear bold, even to themselves, in
contrast with the craven recommendation of

the Tories, and timid in contrast with the bolder
calls of the thorough Radicals.

While we think the defence of Ministers com-
plete in relation to the Tory accusations, and
their resolve only to resign after Parliament has
met, irreproachable, we cannot approve of all
parts of the manifesto. There runs throughout
it too much of the Ministers and too little of the
national interests. The alterations proposed in
our fiscal system were far less to set trade free
than to improve the revenue. That the fiscal
regulations which the Ministers propose to alter
are dishonest, and contrary to all sound princi-
ples, seems not to have formed any part of their
consideration. It was a little more or less ad-
vantageous to the Treasury, which was the basis
of the plan, and with that the manufacturing
districts had little sympathy, and felt for it no
enthusiasm. In this respect Lord J. RUSSELL
unfortunately justifies the ridicule of the Tories,
and gives a severe kick to those over-zealous
friends who, on the eve of the elections, held
the Ministers up as the ardent champions of free
trade.

They only consistently follow out their own
principle of looking more to the revenue than to
free trade, more to the Treasury than to the
nation, when Lord JOHN RUSSELL declares that
" it would be inconsistent with my notions of
public duty to harass the Government of the
day by vexatious opposition." He will let the
Tories run their career, and, in return for the
calumnies they have heaped on his party, and
for the unscrupulous means they have employed
to defeat the Whigs, be will help them to
carry on the Government, and give to them, as
Ministers of the Crown, " the means of main-
taining the reputation of the country abroad and
internal quiet at home." The bulk of the Li-
berals will not, we believe, either approve of
this part of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S declaration, or
imitate his conduct. They will think it their
duty to harass the Tories, while his conduct l•)oks
like a truce or compact with the enemy, in which
the people are to be sacrificed in order to secure
the power of whoever may be Ministers.

The times and the circumstances under which
this address appears, give this part of it a pecu-
liar importance. Great distress prevails, which
the Tories ascribe to the Whig Administration,
while Lord J. RUSSELL'S supporters ascribe it to
dishonest Tory legislation. The Tories make light
of the distress, and are resolved to maintain the
dishonest legislation. They arc to seize the Ad-
ministration more securely to effect this scanda-
lous and dishonest purpose. Never before, in the
history of the world, certainly not in the history
of our country, was an Administration formed
on the avowed principles of maintaining a
flagitious system of legislative plunder, and no
ordinary rules can be of any force in prescribing
opposition to such an Administration.
Lord J. RUSSELL has obviously a bad opinion of
the means by which the Tories have succeeded.
He refers to the English county constituency,

implying that the Tory majority has been packed
by bribery, intimidation, and all sorts of corrupt
means, making it utterly unworthy of respect
and obedience. A majority, then, obtained by
the vilest means, to effect the vilest purposes, is
to constitute the Government. To us it seems
that every honest man, and every patriot, is
bound to give such a Government the most in-
flexible and most harassing opposition.
By a large part of the nation, which supports
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Tories are regarded
as the enemies of civilisation, and as engaged in
a deadly war against the rights and liberties of
the people. They are endangering the peace of
society, and provoking a rebellion in Ireland.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself proves that they
have violently and perseveringly opposed all his
reforms. With such a party there can be no
compromise and no peace. Our motto, at least,
is, No Surrender. Lord J. RUSSELL studies their
convenience, and promises not to molest them.
We live in difficult times, when statesmen are
required to make, not to follow precedents. We
must say that to those times we doubt whether
Lord J. RUSSELL be equal. We must say, too,
that we doubt whether the Whig policy of
conciliating and soothing the enemies of
honesty, of justice, and civilisation, be
proper. We are sure that it has not at present,
as a party measure at least, been successful;
and we doubt whether it be not as injurious to
our cause, as it obviously is to the Whigs them-
selves. The Tories are the avowed enemies of
the people ; and those who are their friends, and
wish to be trusted, must not talk of suppoi ting
the Tories.

We lay before our readers a list of the Tory
Cabinet, somewhat different from the other lists
which have been published; but which, we are
assured, is substantially accurate. For all parts
of it we do not answer. At the same time the
known repugnance in a high quarter to Sir R.
PEEL, makes it extremely probable that her MA-
JESTY may send rather for the Earl of ABER-
DEEN than for him, and prefer the Noble Earl
as the medium of communication between her-
self and her Ministers. The Tories, and Sir R.
PEEL in particular, would be ready, we believe,
to accept the plan as the means of obtaining and
securing her MAJESTY'S favour. The wily Ba-
ronet is willing to stoop to make a permanent
conquest. He will- not again attempt to carry
her MAJESTY by a coup de main, but he means
gradually to convert her to plausible dishonest
Toryism. _ _ _

In addition to thn names mentioned in the list
we understand that Colonel SIBTRORP and Sir
ROBERT WILSON are to receive important ap-
pointments.

We have received a copy of the Imperial Firman,
addressed by the Sublime Porte to FERIK TAHAn
PActiA, Got error of Jerusalem, in favour of the Chris-
tian population of Syria. This document bears date the
24th of .June, and is no duubt well intended ; but unless
its execution be carefully watched over by the Consuls of
the Great Powers, there appears to us no difficulty what-
ever in evading its provisions, The following is a
translation ;

The law permitting the Christian population of Syria to
profess their religion and carry on their business, and all the
favours and graces granted them by fen mer Sultans, are hence-
forth maintained. When members or superiors of convents
have recourse to justice for anything done against them,
the judges and authorities shall not take money from
them fur justice, nor wrong nor oppress them. Any act
of the kind skall be referred to and examined by
the Sublime Porte. Monasteries and churches shall be
respected, as well as their old exemptions and privileges.
The Greek, Armenian-Catholic and Armenian-Schismatic,
must refrain from renewing their old contentions about their
churches, and from calumniating each other. No innovation
'must be made in the old rules of the Oriental ritual, and for
the grades and classes of priests and monks. When churches
and monasteries suffer by fire or time, firmans will be granted
for repairing them ; nor must the Judges receive presents on
-this occasion. The entrance of the church of Camenca is
forbidden to the soldiers of the guard, who must have all reve-
rence fur the Bishops of Jerusalem. Such is our sovereign
will, &c.
To prevent Turkish judges from taking bribes with
both hands, and Christian sectaries from fighting tooth
and nail, will require a power more potent in Syria than
the voice of the KIIALIF-UL-ISLAM, arrayed in all the
sanctity of the mantle of the Prophet. The vices which
centuries of tyranny have ingrained in one race, and of
a similar period of degradation in another, are not to
be eradicated by the mere expression of the
Imperial will. A couple of generations must at least
pass away, the Turks and Christians being mutually re-
strained by the presence of a foreign Power equally in-
different to the false prejudices and unjust com-
plaints of both, before the blessings of good govern-
ment can be generally and permanently felt in Syria.
The Turks are in Syria what the Orangemen are in
Ireland ; and it is as preposterous to expect a Turkish
Cadi to administer the laws between Turks and Chris-
tians impartially, as it would be to suppose that an
Orange Magistrate would concede equal justice to
Orangemen and Roman Catholics.
Th following extract from a letter from Constanti-
nople, of the 27th ult., published by the Presse, presents
us with a deplorable picture of the state of the Turkish
Treasury
pces, p
Such is the penury of the Treasury that it has been ne-
cessary to sell or pawn some jewels of the Palace to provide
p
means for paying the daily expbdut t wase
s, theimen Govt enses. A few days ago money
arrived from the rovin
out upon the expedition to Candia, and the surplus sent into
Bulgaria and the other disturbed
being aware that it is not by force, but by mildness and pe-
cuniary ee
oia,t,e rl;.yln laid
sacrifices, that the insurgent districts are to be pacified.
however, been greatly exaggerated,
These
movements have,
and have only been dangerous from the weakness of the Go-
vernment. For several months the fears as to the health of the
Sultan have become serious. He is feeble and delicate, and as
he continues to pursue his enervating habits, his physicians
have few hopes of saving him. He is said also to be suffering
under a liver complaint.

Yesterday's Extraordinary Express from Paris enabled
us to anticipate the news published in Wednesday's

journals. We except, of cows paragraphs of local in_
telligence to which we readily give insertion in our
columns of this day. Poor M. MAIIIIL, the ex-
Prefect of Toulouse, gets a dreadful mauling
from the Opposition press, for setting forth in
his defence that he did not shrink from shedding

the blood of the factious. And yet what is there
to wonder at in such a declaration ? When was
there ever a coward who was not cruel ?
Who that ever fled before a mob would not shed their
blood if he could with impunity ? And if no other proof
of SI. MAULTL'S want of courage could be adduced, might
we not refer to this very declaration made only when
he found himself sate in the capital ? He did not fare
to make su 1.). a boast at Told
The courricr dc r Indre et Loire has the following narra-

tire :--Mr. Villiers, the head of a numerous Engli!li family,
who has resided for several years in our city, was killed by a
frightful accident. Ile was returning from the country scat of
Veau, eight kilometres from Tours, where he was having some
building erected, intending to go and reside there for some
time. According to his custom, he was driving him,elf in his
barouche and four, in which were his wife and several of his
children, one of the wheels struck against a large mere stone
by the road side with such violence that the stone was pulled up
and thrown to a considerable distance. Mr. Villiers was
thrown out of the carriage by the shock; one of the horses
broke the traces and ran away ; the others continued their
course, dragging Mr. Villiers, who had twisted the reigns
round his wrist, a wheel passed over his head, and his body
dragged along a stony road, left everywhere tatters of his
clothes, pieces of flesh, or traces of blgod, 'two servants,
who were behind the carriage, were threvin off and have only
some slight bruises. In the midst of their terror Mrs. Vill ers
and the children thought at least that Mr. Villiers had re-
mained at the place were he had been thrown. What was their
despair when, the horses stopping at length, they alighted and
saw the body of Mr. Villiers under the carriage in a state which
we have not the courage to describe.
Four years ago Mr. and Mrs. Villiers, on quitting a ball, lost
a young daughter, who was the pride of her parents and the
ornament of our saloons. Eighteen months ago one of their
ions left Tours to enter into the English navy ; five months
afterwards the vessel, on board of which he embarked for India,
was wrecked in sight of Bombay, and the unfortunate young
man met his death just at the end of his voyage.
Possessed of a considerable fortune, Mr. Villiers spent his
income in this country, where one of his daughters has lately
married into an honorable family. All those who knew Mr.

Villiers, did justice to his prohibity and goodness of heart ; we
therefore were not surprised to see his funeral attended not only
by his countrymen, but also by a great number of Frenchmen,
many of whom went without being invited.—La Gazette de
France.

The Journal Des Debats announces, cf er a Belgian Journal
the Memorial de la Sambre, that during the last visit of King
Leopold to Paris, the Ministry had proposed to him to
conclude a treaty of commerce between France and Bel-
gium, one of the principal conditions of which should be
the transfer of the French line of Custom-houses
to the frontiers of Belgium, towards Holland and Germany.
We can affirm that such a proposal has never been seriously
entertained by any Ministry : such a Treaty would infallibly
produce a disastrous destitution in the principal countries of
industry in the departments of the North. The woollens, iron,
and the coal of these departments could not stand a competi-
tion with those of Belgium. No French Chamber would sanc-
tion a Treatry founded on bases so burdensome to our com-
merce with the North. —Le Constitutionnel.

A letter from Valenciennes, of the 20th inst., states that
the Bishop of Cambray, M. Louis Belmas, who is of very ad-
vanced age, finding his strength rapidly leaving him, had de-
sired to receive the last sacrament of the church, and conse-
quently, on the 16th inst., all the clergy of the place proceeded
to the episcopal palace for the purpose. The ceremony was
announced by the tolling of the bells of the cathedral. fhe
Bishop, aotwithstanding his weak state, addressed to the per-
sons present a speech which lasted twenty minutes, and in
which he recommended to the clergy of the chapter to pray for
him, asking pardon for the faults which he might have com-
mitted in the course of so long a life, and expressing his desire
to be interred in the Bishop's vault. He then took an effecting
leave of his clergy after forty years of union and co-operation.
The host was exposed in all the churches of the diocese on Sun-
day last, and at Valenciennes letters were read announcing that
the Bishop had taken the last sacrament, and demanding the
prayers of the inhabitants of the diocese. The Prelate still lies
in the most precarious state.
A remarkable phenomenon was witnessed at Marseilles
on the 14th instant, where, between eleven and one in the i'ay,
a strong tide set in at the. mouth of the harbour, and caused the
level of the water to rise a foot and a half, knocking several ves-
sels against each other, and causing same alarm. At this port
no tides are ever felt, and the cause of this sudden rise of the
water is supposed to be connected with a volcanic phenomenon
on the other side of the Mediterranean, accounts of which will
probably be received at a future period.
Some more stone coffins were found, yesterday, in front
of St. Germain l'Auxerrois. They were placed close side by
side, and hermetically covered by one large slab. They have
been carried into the church, and deposited with the other
newly-found relics.
In consequence of the storms last week, the spinning-
mills of M. Lizet de Tourville, at Pont-Audemer, were in-
undated. A good deal of machinery and the great water-
wheel were carried away by the flood. The loss is estimated
at t3o,ooofr.
Isiumerous.visitors now go daily to the abattoir of Gre-
nelle, to see the extraordinary effect of the Artesian well. At
the height of fifteen feet above the shed, which is itself forty_
five feet high, the water rises and forms a magnificent foun-
tain sixty feet in elevation, spreadingin its fall to a diameter of
thirty feet, exhibiting in the distance a gauze-like veil, and
producing a sound equal to a powerful mill. At the point im-
mediately over the shed is placed a basin of zinc to receive this
mass of water which a pipe conducts down to one side of the
shed, and enables the men employed at the works to move
about them without being inundated. It is decided that the
tube is to be carried down to about 540 yards, at which point
there will be no fear of anyfurther obstructions. M. Hulot,
acn., isgone to Bourges, where he is engaged in boring an Ar-
tesian well, already carried down to the depth of 200 yards.
Messrs. Hulot have at this time in hand fifteen similar under-
takings in different departments.
An officer of the Legion of Honour, living in retirement
as Rheims, put an end to his existence, a few days ago, in the
following singular manner. He went out to take his daily
walk, attended by his dog, which he led by a string. When at
some distance from the town, he took the string from the dog's
collar, and with it suspended himself to a tree. A boy was
witness of this sad scene, and was willing to interfere and pre-
vent the consequences, but was prevented from approaching the
unhappy actor in it by the fierceness of the dog. The boy then
ran to call for assistance, but it arrived too late, for, before the
cord could be cut, life was extinct. The conduct of the de.
ceased had given rise for some time to suspicions that his rea-
son was failing ; and in one of his pockets was a note, request-
ing that his body might not be carried home, in order that his
widow should be spared the afflicting spectacle.
A young woman, named Emilie Rousseau, and a young
man, against whom eighteen warrants have been out for seve-
ral months, for acts of robbery, were arrested two days ago.
Pretending to be brothers, and the young woman being
dressed in male attire, they used to present themselves at
furnished hotels and hire rooms, always choosing those which
looked into the street. After two or three nights, the young
woman would return alone, telling the porter that her brother
would be absent till next day. During the night, she used to
lower from the window the sheets and other linen and move-
ables to her associate, who carried them off, and next morning
would leave the house before the robbery was discovered. They
have been committed for trial.
The Liberal du Nord states that in the night of the 17th
inst. the troops of the garrison of Douai were suddenly roused
by sound of trumpet, and a hundred men of the 2d Artillery
marched off for the suppression of a disturbance in the neigh-
bouring commune of INoyelles-Godault, in the Pas-de-Calais.
It appears that, by a recent decision of the Tribunals, some
marsh land, which had been illegally possessed by some
inhabitants of the commune, had been awarded to the
original owner, and the occupiers ordered to remove their
crops and give up possession. The occupiers hiving resisted
the decree, some gendarmes were called in, but they and the
owner, who accompanied them, were beaten and driven off.
The Procureur du Roi, M. Prevost, arrived with an additional
force, but by this time the occupiers of the land having been
also greatly reinforced, he was obliged to retreat, and was, it is
said, much ill-treated. In this state of things he sent off to
Douai for troops and 18 brigades of gendarmerie. The pre-
sence of the artillery detachment was, however, sufficient to
enforce the law, and restore tranquillity before the arrival of
the gendarmerie, and without any person having been either
killed or wounded. The Mayor of the commune has given in
'his resignation. The Liberal du Nord adds, The garde-
champetre, following the example of M. Mahul of Toulouse,
tied from the tumult."

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21.

Irst Highest Lowest

Price ' I'i:ice. Prick. Price
Trench S ver Cents
3 per Cents. cx. div 76 63 .. 76 63 ... 76 43 ... 76 50
Sank of trance
Laf!Me Bank 1,0001. SI are; 1050 ...leso ...115U —10:0
5,000 f. Shares 5115 ...5115 ...5115 ...5115
Belgian 5 per Cents.
New Loan 10'2% ... 121 ... 1C2% ... It 2i,
ipanish Active VliAi ... ::11,4 ... '.2.1 ... 1.1
Passive 4N ... 4% ... 4% ... 4%
New Deferred
,:ennolitan
Roman .... 103 ... 1(3 ... 102% ... 102%

HALLWAY SHARES.
Versailles, L.ll, lO2 50 ~. I 0 50 ... 192 :0 ... 192 50
P-• I/ 315 ... 315 ... 315 ... 315
4S I :15 ... 481 25 :j..m4:1,i025 ... 481 '25
Awnsj o , al s,ho 2114,
Orleans,ent to t
itr3sbL,w,". v fr. 297 50 ...:37 50 ... '233 ... 236 0,5
--, --CH l'UND.s.—AnsTru.Am.
,ium.SBwyt Money. rills.
51% 52
100io 101
Amert Sv. '', ,4 Yi per cent 9o* VeN
Ditto, ditto;;* 3% per cent.
per Cent
74 74*
Commercial Company, 4.,:, per cent 155 1:6%
Ditto (1)x35 and 1637) 5 per cent. ......
Loan 1837, 5 per cant.
Exchange on London, One month l2. 10
Two months .....
Hamburgh, One month 3a 15
Two months .••
Dutch Papers, July 21.
rELGIAN k UNDS.—BHUIpri.E. JULY El.
Actual Debt, 2'A per Cent.
100
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Gila N
Loan...oan of Thirtyhirty
..._____lillions., 43 per tc7eernitt. .
....
-----Thirty.seyen------- ••
---- (I '40)• lOl
Loan of City, F. 112, 4 per Cent B2
Socictyot Cormovrce, 4 ~4 per Cent 93%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ...... ........... 75
National Svciety •
Exchange on London (shoit)
--Brussels Papers, July 21.
five per CUcSnlit'sß.lßAleNtalgiucNal)3. 107
--Vrussa, JULY 11
Four Per Ccnts• .04..4 ...... ••••••••••••••• ................... S%
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
alleernetne Zeit:ink:. July 18.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Jul' 17.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. ... 106%
Bank Shares l6lO _
Anglo- ktussian Loan lO 4 10834
Russian 5 per Cent, Ist series, CGrtiticate
Inscription, Ist Se:i•;s lO2 101)
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series O-.52 •
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1640) Bn* 86
Dutch Actual Debt, 2N, pet Cent f.o% 534
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Polish Bonds
Ncw l icket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7534 75%
N..swegian Loan, 1834, 4 pet Cent...
I,:pnisli, New 5 per Cents. l6 *
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. JULY 17.
kills Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 434 per cent. 1,0% ,0.134
Prussian English Loan, It3o, 4 per cent 102 101*
b; xchan g e on London, three months 6 19% -
-Prussian Slate Gaulle, July 18

PAISLEY.—We are sorry to state that here we
have not the prospect of any improvement whatever in
the state of trade. Heavy failures are still occasionally
taking place, and the number of unemployed workmen
are gradually on the increase. To-day (Saturday) the
number of persons paid by' the Belief Committee
amounted to upwards of 600, most of them heads of
families.---Ayr Observer.

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ABROAD.
FOREIGN-COLONIAL.

The justificatory address of the run-away ex-Pre-
fect of Toulouse, M. Mahul, is rather roughly handled by
the Paris journals of Wednesday. The Courrier _Fran-
cois and the Constitutionnel are very much displeased
with the light-heeled ex-official for denying that he
shrunk at the idea of shedding the blood of the factious,
which he says " was at once his right and his duty.'
M. Mahul knows best the " rights and duties" of Pre-
fects appointed by the Citizen King, nor shall we
contend that the obligation of shedding the blood of the
disaffected is not included in them. All we care to ob-
serve is, that M. Mahul was less eager to shed the blood
of others than careful to preserve his own. His objec-
tion was not so much to kill as to be killed. He disliked
the popular principle of reciprocity in bloodshedding,
and so •he took to his heels. M. Mahul is mani-
festly not to blame. He proclaims that it • was his
right and duty as Prefect to shed the blood of the factious,
and that he was quite ready and willing so to do, but a
rabble of rascals interfered, and not only would not let
him, but- actually proposed !to mete to him the punish-
mentwhich he intended for than ! And so M. Mahul,
half dead with terror, fled to Paris to inform the King
of the insult offered to his • Throne and dignity in the
person -of his Majesty's dutiful Prefect. After so
heroic an exploit, the King cannot do less
than reward M. Mahul with a Peerage, with

the style and title of Baron of Toulouse. Peerages in
France have been the reward of services less dangerous.
For example, his successor in Toulouse, M. lluvalle, was
made a Peer for smoking the Duchess of Berry out of a
chimney, after the fashion with which inhuman s weeps
treat their lazy apprentices.
The French journals were lately very angry be-
cause Lord Palmerston, in a speech at Tiverton, con-
demned the inhumanity with which France was
conducting the war in Africa. Some of them even
dared to deny the fact. We have now before us an
" Order of the Day," addressed to the " Soldiers of the
division of Algiers," by their Commanding Officer, Ge-
neral Baraguay d'Hilliers, dated " Blidah, July 7,
1841," which more than bears out every statement made
by the Noble Foreign Secretary. We call tke atten-
tion not only of France, but of the civilised world, to

the following extract from it :
" Soldiers of the division of Algiers—l am indebted to your
zeal and courage, to your devotedness of every moment, for the
accomplishment of the mission intrusted to me by the Gover-
nor. You have responded in a becoming manner to the ex-
pectation of France. You have destroyed the miltary esta-
blishments of the enemy , you have carried away their women,
children, and cattle; you have committed to the flames their
houses and harvests; you have spread destruction everywhere,
without their ever daring to offer any serious opposition to
your march."

So that " to respond in a becoming manner to the expec

tations of France," the French soldier in Africa is ex-
pected to " carry away women, children, and cattle," to
burn houses and destroy harvests, without encountering
the face of an enemy ! This is a war of brigands and
not of soldiers. An army so employed must be in the
most brutal state of demoralization. We wonder not
that the King withdraws his sons from the moral con-
tamination of so debasing an atmosphere. _ _

The Archbishop of Paris has issued an order to his

clergy against marrying theatrical performers. John
Wesley said that he never knew an instance of a Metho-
dist becoming a bookseller who did not desert the band
meetings of the elect in six months. This came of the sin
of reading and reflecting. The good Prelate, no doubt, has
discovered that the actors of profane mummeries do not
thereby increase their respect for their fellow performers
in the spiritual line, and so he dooms them to perpetual
celibacy ! How long will the world endure such eccle-
siastical tyranny ? Was society made for priests, that
the members contributing most to its amusement should
be treated in this way.

A melancholy account of the death of an English
gentleman named Villiers, for some years settled in
France, will be found in another column. While in a

carriage with a part of his family the horses took fright,
he was thrown out, and killed. Mr. Villiers was greatly
respected.

---- While the Dutch Minister of Finance, M. Rochus-
son, was attending a Cabinet Council on Sunday, his
wife, whom he left at home in good health, dropped into
the arms of a lady who came to congratulate her on her
safe delivery of a child a fortnight before, and instantly
expired.
The Duke of Marlborough, with his family, and
Baron ..Mackau, Vice-Admiral, arrived at Rotterdam, on
Tuesday, from London.
The Marquis of Blandford arrived at Rotterdam,
from Amsterdam, on Tuesday.
—The anniversary of the accession of King Leopold to
the throne of Belgium was celebrated in Brussels with
great pomp on Wednesday. At ten o'clock the King set
out by the railway from the Palace at Laeken to the
camp at Beverloo. No Sovereign in Europe has so
pleasant a time of it gadding about as King Leopold.

AT HOME.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The south-east corner of Bond-street and Piccadilly
is daily obstructed with packages, &c., of largo dimen-
sions, which remain unnoticed, while a poor applewoman
is routed as a pest.
The Thames Tunnel progresses fast. The shield
is no longer to be seen, as it is now again at work form-
ing a junction with the shaft, which is nearly sunk to
the required depth on the Wapping side.
Glass church bells are among modern wonders.
One has just been cast in Sweden. Its diameter is six
feet, and its tone is said to be finer than any metal bell.