The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-08 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JAN. s.—On Monday morning, at eleven
o'clock, a number of persons, and especially a crowd of
artists, attended the funeral of Mr. Lombard Nieuwen-
huys, at Laacken. Mr. Nieuwenhuys has left a fortune
of above a million, which he acquired by dealing in
pictures. He resided at Paris, and was very well known
in England. His two brothers, his partners, live, ore iu
London, and the other at Brussels.

A meeting of the ironmasters of the province of Liege
and of the province of Hainault took place two or three
days ago, at Brussels. The two opinions which divide
this branch of manufactures, viz., whether the import-
duty of foreign cast iron should be reduced or main-
tained, had their representatives at this meeting, which
was held in the presence of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs. If we are righly informed, the result of this
conference was such that the project of changing the
tariff of customs with respect to foreign cast iron, may
be considered as wholly abandoned.
Their Majesties the King and Queen came from
Laacken to the palace at Brussels yesterday, about
noon. Her Majesty was visited in the afternoon by
Monsigneur de Saint Marzan, the Apostolic Nuncio,
and by Lady Seymour, wife of the English Ambassador.
The Bishop of Ghent has just made an appeal to
the charity of East and West Flanders. He has
established a relief committee at Ghent. "Food, clothes,
fuel," says that respectable prelate, "everything is want-
ing by more than 150,000 poor in the villages of East
Flenders alone, and the last winter has exhausted every
resource. The more wealthy inhabitants of the rural
districts have imposed enormous sacrifices on themselves
for the relief of the unfortunate, and many of them are
in a state of embarrassment in consequence of their
liberality and their bounties to their poor and perishing
neighbours. The resources of the benevolent societies
are exhausted, and the grants which the Legislative
Chambers have allowed them are scarcely sufficient to
afford even a rye loaf daily to each family for some
weeks." The parish priests and pastors state that even
hope now abandons them, unless aid more powerful than
there is comes to their immediate relief. The rich, say
they, who pass the fine season in the country have now
returned to town ; if we call upon them to advccate the
cause of the poor, we are received the first time they
give us something, but the second time we meet with
refusals from some, who allege the distress in the city ;
others say that they are nut at home. What we are able
to collect from the few is utterly insufficient, we must
necessarily seek for some other means to meet the
general distress." Let us say, to the honour of our
reverend fellow-labourers, they have done their duty,
and surely deserve at our hands that we should support
them by every means in our power.
For this purpose we have prayed for the blessing of
God upon our efforts; we have established a relief com-
mittee for the poor of the country districts of East
Flanders.

On tha 4th of January a list of subscriptions will be
opened. We subscribe at the head of it the sum of
1,200 francs, and we even engage to double this sum
if some generous persons will advance us the money,
without interest, for the term of one year.
Count Felix de Merodo has just written to the
Bishop of Ghent that he promises to remit to the
relief committee the sum of 250 francs per month for
the months of February. March, and April.
The marriage of the Count Trapani with the daughter
of the Archduke Charles of Austria is spoken of.
This event is connected with the presence of Prince
Felix de Schwartzenberg, the Austrian Minister at
Naples.
The Nurenburg Correspondent affirms that the rela-
tions of the Court of Naples with the Cabinet of the
Tuilleries are much impaired since the Spanish mar-
riages.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bancsne, JAN. 4.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••••••• • • • • • • •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • ...
Ditto Three per Cent
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions!, ditto ..
Ditto, ditto, 1840 . . ..
Ditto, ditto, 1842 .. lO4
Ditto, 1844........... ......
Ditto, 1836. 95%
Ditto, 1838
Ditto of the City, 1832 • .
Ditto, 1843 ..
Bank ofßelgium...... ................. 885
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 6.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN CHANDLE, 17TH LANCERS.—
This distinguished officer died at the head-quarters of
the corps at Dundalk, on the 29th ult. He first entered
the service as a private soldier. In 1811 he was pre-
sented with an ensigncy in the infantry, from which he
subsequently exchanged into the cavalry. In 1812 he
was gazetted to a lieutenantcy, and late-in the same year
to a captaincy. His commissions were purchased by
hard service alone.' He served during the campaign of
1790, in Holland, including the actions of the 2d and 6th
of October. He also took part in the siege of Malta, and
was present at the surrender of La Valetta and the
battle of Maida. In 1807 he accompanied the expedition
to Egypt. In 1809 he served in the lonian Islands, and
witnessed the siege and capture of Santa Maria. He
was wounded before Rosetta in 1807. Captain Chandle,
in 1828, was appointed Paymaster of the 17th Lancers,
of which, it will be remembered, his Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge is Colonel.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN AGED FEMALE. —Last
evening an inquest was held at Guy's Hospital, before
Mr. W. Payne, relative to the death of Mary Bateman,
of Morgan's-lane, Tooley•s treet a maiden lady, aged
72 years, whose death was occasioned by being run over
by a cab on the 14th ult. From the statement of a
police-constable and other witnesses, it appeared that
about twenty minutes before seven o'clock on the evening
in question, the deceased, who was deaf and very in-
firm, was crossing Blackfriars-road from Great Char-
lotte-street to Rowland Hill's Chapel, when a cab
knocked her down and ran over her. She was instantly
picked,up and conveyed to Mr. Braby's, surgeon, where it
was found that her thigh was broken, and she was
brought to the hospital. She expired on Tuesday last.
Verdict, " Accidental death."
DEATH BY FIRE--Mrs. Lucy Legge, a lady who
occupied apartments in the house No. 31, Sidmouth•
street, Regent-square, while standing near the drawing-
room stove, fell suddenly into the fire, in consequence of
a fit, and was severely burnt. This painful event
occurred several days ago, and the utmost care was of
course bestowed upon the unfortunate sufferer ; unhap-
pily, however, witkout success. She expired on the 6th
instant.