The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-26 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 22.—The averale price of Wheat last
week was 17f. 79c., that of Rye 10f. 66c. per hcctoli re.
The King and Queen and their suit- set out this morn.
ing at sev_n o'clock for Paris, by way of Courtrai and
Lille; they went from the bridge of Laeken by the iron
railway.
Sir George Hamilton, Secretary to the British Em-
bassy at Beilin, has just alighted at the Hotel de Belle
Vue; he is on his way to London with important
deapa ches.
LIEGE, APRIL 21.—Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince
and Pi incess of Leiniegen, and suite, slept here last night
on thew way from Coh gue to London.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 23.—We are afraid that their M,-
j..slies will not return to Brussels before the Bth or 9th
of May.
The Court of Caseation has been ergaged in its three
last sittings in hearing the appeal of two English inch
viduals, William Pau, and Angeline Lamont, wife of
Frederick Pype, who were condeninei, the first to 15, the
second to 12 years' imprisonment with hard labour, by
sentence of the Court of Assizes of Brabant of tne 19th
February, for having defrauded several bankers of Belgium
of considerable sums, by means of forged letters of credit.
Eight grounds for the cessation of the sentence were
alledged by appellants in a memorial, which was distributed
among all the members of the Court. The sentence of
the Court will be pronounced at its next sitting.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 22.—1 f we may give credit to the
Hague Journal, the Hecla steamer, which left Rot-
terdam on Saturday last for Helvoetsluys, is to make
a cruise, by way of trial, in the North Sea, and
afterwards to go to Cronstadt, for the purpose of
Winging back a vessel built by the order of his Majesty
the Emperor of Russia, as a present to his Royal High-
ness Prince Henry of the Netherlands. It is added, that
the Hecla is to sct out about the middle of August for the
East Indies, and that it is, if p to perfoim the
whole vu) age by the aid of steam alone.
The. Rotterdam Courant informs us of the arrival,at Rot-
terdam, of Mr. Beck, who flatters himself with having
discovered a method of propelling ships up and down the
most tapid rivers without the aid of wind, steam, or tow-
age. Accordit gto the plan, the ships arc guided by the
power of the water alone, with a regular dr gree of rapi.
dity, which may be increased or diminished at pleasure.
Mr. Beck is an inuabitant of Gie4 Biitain, and has now
come from Germany.
ISELUIANFUNDS—Bausenus, APRIL 23.
Actual Debt. 5 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 9l
3 per CenL .....
Thirty.seven—
RAN
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Bl%
Society of Commerce, 4 4 per Cent lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ......... . Bl
NationalSeeiety.
Exchange on London (shot t)
—Brussels Papers, April 23.
DUTCH FUNDS.--ASISThe.DAM, Aram 23
Money. t. i s.
ictual Debt, 2% per Cent
Jilt°, ditto 5 per cent.
A melt Svndie,4 4 per cent 9l DI%
Ditto, ditto, 31{, per cent 74 54i
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 166 18;%
Ditto (1835 and 1637) b per cent.
Luau 1237, 5 per cent. tri 93
Exchange en London, One month l2 05
Two months ..... 11 25
Dutch Papers, April 24.
AUSTRIAN FUN DS.—Vtentee, APRIL 15
Ilse per Cents. Metalliques
Fear per Cents
Three per Cents. ....................... 71%
flank Shares ....... ......... .......... 1054
...AUECMtifte ZeflUffe, April 20
PRUSSIAN FUN US.—BERLIN, A PR IL 20.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 44 per cent. ..... HON 193%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 101 100%
Exchange on London, three months ...6 19%
—Prussian State tiezetie. April 21.

In a vault under Hythe Church are deposited a
great number of human bones, which are shown to visitors
and others. The following brief account of how they
came there is given in an ancient bistory of Britain. .4 In
the reign of Ethelwo.f, in the year of our Lord 843, the
Danes landed near Hyta, or Hythe, and proceeded
to Canterbury, which was burned by them. The
Britons assembled their forces, and drove the Danes
to their shipping on the coast. where a great bat-
tle was fought, and newly thirty thousand nigh
were slain. After a time the Britons colleaA the
lytdies, and deposited them in the charnel-house under the
east pact of the Church of Hythe." Many of the above
bones are of large size; and it is calculated that the men
(in some instances) must have stood nearly seven feet
nigh. Cuts, each of which must have proved a death to
nature, ate distinctly seen on tie skulls of some, clearly
show;ng that they fell beneath the sword, and giving es
reason to credit the statement thus handed down to p
tetity, although nearly a thousand years ha
vevassed since
the above terrible conflict took place on enast._A
Correspondent of Dover Chronicle.
The exertions of the Stewards of the Covent-
garden Theatrical Fund Festival for the 29th have been,
so far, eminently successful. Their applications for the
valuable services of eminent vocal and instrumental per-
formers having in no instance met wi:h a denial.
loosing over the list containing the names of the ladies and
gentlemen who will appear during the evening, we were
struck with the judicious and fortunate selection which has
been made, nor do we remember having ever, on such an
ocemion, read, as the actors say, "a stronger bill,