The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-04 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 30.—The average price of wheat
last week was 231. 53c., and that of Rye 1.5 f. 08c.
Wheat, therefore, remains exempt from import dut:.
Rye pays 21f. 50c. for 1,000 kilogrammes import dut,
The exportation of both, as well as of potatoes and flour
is prohibited.
It is reported that M. Henri de Brouckere ?NM be
appointed Governor of the Province of Antwerp.
BRUSSELS, MAY I.—The intense heat continues,
and a drought, which is very injurious at this season.
The degree of temperature observed on the 28th and
29th, as indicated by the thermometer placed on the
north side of the Observatory of Brussels, was as fol.
lows :—At two, p.m., by the centigrade thermometer,
25 deg. ; maximum of the night of the 28th, 10.4 deg.;
and, on the 29th, at two p.m.. it stood at 23.4 deg.
The population of Brussels, on the Ist of January,
1840, according to the census which has just been com•
pleted, was 106,144, without the suburbs. On the Ist
of January, 1830, it was 98,279. This is an increase
of 7,865, which would undoubtedly have been greater
but for the mortality occasioned by the cholera.
The Alliance, an English journal, says—lt is expected
that negotiations are pending between England and
Belgium, the result of which will be, that there will be
a daily mail between London and Brussels, that a letter
from London will reach Brussels in 15 or 16 hours,
and that the packets will not go from Dover to Ostend,
but from London direct. The two countries are rec;-
procally interested in the realization of this plan. By
means of the railway to Aix-la-Chapelle, the corre-
spondence between Germany and Great Britain would
be found the shortest and most rapid passage through
Belgium.—Journal du Commerce, May 1.
VIENNA, APRIL 22.—Gainseradorff, the first station
of the North railway, was destroyed on Saturday last
by fire, except a few houses. Unhappily some lives
were lost on this occasion.
BERLIN, APRIL 23.—1 t is said that the Archbish-,-)
of Posen has again applied to his Majesty for permistic ;
to return to his diocese, repeating his assurances of un-
alterable fidelity. But it is to be feared that his lette.
will have no better success than former applications of
the same kind. It is evident that the King is incline;
to exercise indulgence rather than rigour, as we c:
from many circumstances, for instance, since his answer
to the deputation of Roman Catholics of Posen, and th;
-was thought the more reason to expect that the
Archbishop would at length take a step which is neces-
sary for the good of his diocese.

THE HAGUE, APRIL 29.—We learn from Flushinir. t
the native town of Ruyter, that the first stone of thy' .:
pedestal on which the statue of that great naval hero
is to be erected, will be laid to-day at noon with great i
ceremony. .
The central section of the Second Chamber met to-
day, and discussed, as we hear, the laws relative to
the budget.
THE HAGUE, MAY I.—His M.,jesty has grariti.•
permission to the Dutch Iron Railway Company to
prolong the railroad between Amsterdam and Haarlem
to Rotterdam, making it pass near or through Leyden,
the Hague, and Delft.
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 30.—1 t is said that a perso•-. ;
has been arrested at Ostend, who swindled a house at
Brussels by means of forged letters of credit on the
house of Glynn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., at London,
and that his accomplices have saved themselves by'
flight.
We hear that the police in this town have been for
some time searching for the authors of several acts ai
swindling, by- means of false bills of exchange; in false
letters of
_Credit, with false or forged signatures. By ,
the great zeal of M. Waldeqk, Commissioner of
Police, a number of the persons who received the
money for those false bills of exchange have been ar-
rested.
A mother and dogitter, the latter -28 years of
age, arc said to be implicated. :
.DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MAY 1
Money. Dills:
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Aural t Syndic, 4 % per cent 9l 91N I
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 'su 75,4
Commercial Company, 4'4 per cent 'Bl 16114
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 537, b per cent. ISO 101%
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.. 9B I$
Exchange on London, One moot h ll 92%
Two months
—Dutch Papers, May 2.
BELGIAN 1' 0HM...8M/DELI, MAY I.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 9 34
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent —
-- 3 per Cent. 74
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent ......... ......„..
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent llO
Batik of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ...... ....
National Semety . —
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, May 1.
HAMBURG BOINENIIALLE, MAY I.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Hank Shares IOS% lOS
An. 10-llussian Loan 18:5 18.'")
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Serieslol l'':',lS.
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. 3d and 4th 1(I 40
Se; ins
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe ('cut 1,8% 9.*,
Dittos 2 S per Cen`
Polish Bond; 9S _
Now I icket
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 16254 164%
75% 75
Norwegian Loan, IS3i, 4 per Cent.. .........
Spanish, New .1 ner Cents. '2l%
EXCHANGES On LONDON'.

HAMBURG, MAY !.—I3. *,,-----TWo months, 13 3%.
S rOctiIIOLM, A mut. 21.—Seventy.five days, 11 4'3.
CI R ISTI A NIA, A pan. 12 —1 hrec months, 4 104.
PETFItsBuRuo, APRIL 21. —Two months, 381 pence
VIENNA, APRIL ?3.—Three months, 9. 511,.
I.BIP!ic, APRIL 0.--Two mo ths, 6. 13)4.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—NIENNA, APRIL 23
mg
live per Cents. Metalliques
Fohr per Cents.
BeRLIN, .tik._o494LL 28 Money.lo2i
t.t?!i
Tnrce per Cents.
Bank Shares ...
—Allgemeine Zeifung. April '2,,..
102 S
St. Schlu' illdU. Sch.,SSiA 4N, :pt.: rigc lc:. 7
11: rxi.,k ;, s,
rmirati,glsesiat: Englishs ii: tit/tin:l,z,
etlirre)e, 4A,
npi:r,e,i,ri
t(lessi.). t
6air...„3,i
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town. Earl and Countess of Sefton have arri\id
inCURIOUS BIRDS.—One day last week a merlin
flew in thrcugh the window of a cottage on the Topsham-road
made an attempt to grasp a canary which was in a
andnea
r the window. The owner of the canary, Mrs. Ilartrur...
happened to be present, and struck the merlin to the. groue,!
with a parasol ; it however soon recovered, and again made an
attack on the canary, but was ultimately killed by throwing
books at it. The merlin is not a native of this country, but
generally visits it in October. It is one of the smallest of t;;,
hawks, not 'being much larger than a thrush, but it is very ecr
rageous. It is easily tamed, and is used for hawking quail
larks, and other birds.— Western Times.

A pair of Genttl Falcons (Falco Gentilis) were
shot a few days since, by Mr. Hooper, of Chagford, in Brush-.
ford wood, near Chagf..rd. The male bird measured across the
wings from tip to tip, four feet, two inches ; and from the b4.ile
to the extrerelty of the tail, twenty-one inches. This bird •
er.tremely powerful, and commits great depredations in the
neighbourhood of the place where it builds ; it has sufficient
strength to kill and carry away a pheasant. The destruction
io nf
such a pair of marauders was therefore considered an event_
the neighbourhood of Brushford. The nest of the birds, con
twining three eggs, was also discovered and taken, but h
were accidentally destroyed.

INENING ElitilON.

APIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

was confirmed, and 4 decree yeAs, of course,
r s:)taieed against him. Mr. Burder brought the
else by ciernurrer before the C,:urt of Queen's
11-nch, sled 4teT enduring " the law's delay." has
ricrell a victory over the long-claimed and tenaciously-
pot,* of the Eecleiiastical Courts. This de-
an wit* do much to bring the High Church party to

.ko(t obtain tht:ir consent to a measure similar

• , -.hat which they, by their clamours, induced the Go-
-,.-ajzient to withdraw, hut which !hey will now see—
, f,.-.•ir eitrbeing anointed with the miraculous " sight
i ‘istoret' of the Conte, of Qeeen's Bench—was as eon-
rederate toward Churchmen as it was conciliatory to.
4 e,l;rd, Dissewers from the E;tablislitnent.
• (From the Courier.)
Lord Fitz villam is one of the Whig genus so wither-
-1 ingly sketched by Burke in his description of Francis
Duke of Bedford, then the head of the Russell variety
.es .
1 of the doss, who, 'sail the great philosopher, " was i
s.ratlred, reeked, and dandled into a Legislator."
If 3 no doubt a misfortune for the. country that
i re's:tatty legislators should so he formed, but fortu-
, 74-at+ the breed has geuerally been found harmless
ietherto, and may therefore he tolerated as fantastic
i freak.. of natere and the speeies. If there tv; re no
Isuch places NS Sr. LII k'...4 maekind rtiglit pass for all
b ing ~yrtly sime : and even Lord Fitzwii:iam mightbe
th;stakeu for a legi,lator if co persons such as the Greet
Duke, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Aberdeen, Zee. tic.,
chimeed to sit im the same nlace or to be in existence at
the same t-ime. By diet el long cramming his Lordship
has been absolutely done into a smattering of the thing
ca:led political economy ; he is moreover sentimental as
4 dairy maid ore r " Parecia," and reads', like Niohe ell
spars, with his white racket handkerchief as a mute at a
funeral, as the Northampton shire folks could tell. The
standing tberne of his late moving exhihitioni is the
Cern-laws—

" T!ie Corr-laws," hi. exclaims, " limit the food of the
61,nrcr. Thev make fo,d Ge and they make it akar,
Look at Inc oreration cf these laws at the oresebt moment.
Tbc fou,poand loaf which four }Pars ago s;:id at four-
prLco, sells now at niacpenee half pray. Such is the
b!iehting inthmoce of the Coro- laws."
If die Corn-laws "limit the fond of the labourer,"
why th4n they are aid:ag mon. f ffic•iently the operation
el the New Poor-laws, of which he is the charripon.
The objects of the lets Poor-laws, according to the
Omission of their Multhusian advocates, arc to drive.
the labourers to a coarser kind of f'od ; to keep
down popintion to the means of subsistence ; to dis-
courage natrriage by the separation of husband end
parent and child ; to reduce wa2es to the
7,-5)11zos el the Po isle serf and the Bonne operatives.
Ego, the Corr.-taws shou:d be bugged by Lord Fitz
as the very ty:rfection of politica; economy, and
tilo most inimitable machinery for carrying out his ty.,ca

(From the Standard.)
It is amusing to see Lord John make a pAratle
of (llseJosing the state ot our relations with the United
-States, about a fortnight after ev,zry fact which he
slated inad been published in all the newspipers of
the United Kingdom, and sit weeks after they were
uniYarsall-v and officially pror.sulgated in the Un'it,4l
S: rtes. Tee bungle which r,,evented the moving a the
estimates lust night is no less whims:m:ll: the House
h.:14 been suffered to 21 pive on Wedne.sday, and not in-
vitud to meet on Thur,..tay, apparently to gain vrne for
th:. mysterious Amettc.ta exposition. Li consequetA,
'BO notice ot a Currunittee of Supply was given, and as
to vote away the public money, without notice of such a
Committee, w,Juld be a precedent of the worst con-
twiluence, the public business has been thrown over to
Izo-A- week.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCF,
(LLOYD'S.)

The sap William :Metcalfe, Captasat Phillipson, from
London and Plymouth, to Port Philip, will numerous
passengers, arrived at her destinatin on the 15th of Nu.
'ember—all well.
The ship Mary, Captain McAuley, from London, to
Sydney, arrived at the fatter port on the 24th of November
—all well.

34 ; --- Vzs
Luviniams ox
Wtrit,--.Ceylon, 12th ult., lat 37, lon.
, islewfoundland to Trinidad, 17th ult., lat.
41, lon. 34 ; Jicob Pennell. from Liverpool, by the Ex-
pi ress pleaet, arrived at F.lmouth ; Neptune, of Liverpool,
-ilr New Orleans, 16th March, lat. 27, lon. 88 ; Buto, of
Do;dreeht, 27th ult., lat. 50, lon. 10; Scotsman, from
Jamaica, 25th ult., lat. 50, lon. 8, by the Delight packet,
I arrived at Falmouth ; Juverna, Cape de Verds to Bristol,
list tilt., lat. 44, lon. 14, by the Zante Packet, arrived at
',., Falmouth ; Prima Donna, London to Swan River, 17th
4.- March; Stag, from Antwerp; Margaret, Bristol to Ja-
'!. rnaica, out 27 days; Velocipede, Cadiz to New fouadland,
i by the Shepheri, Jardine, arrived off' Falmouth ; her Ma-
t jest%'a ship Partridge, on a cruiss. off Bahia, 9th March,
by the Rsyal George, arrived,ff Falmouth ; John and
1 Janes, Plymo,sh to Que te.t.-, 16th tilt hit 44, lon. 24,
f•
• t„ Quebec, bound to New iCork, 21st ult., , lat.
)by the Italy, Miller 47, lon 16, arriv.-d at Cowes ; Experiment,
Christopherson, Bes.snarahuco to Trieste, 17th Ma-ch, by
the Slice, Anders:Ai arrived at Cowes; Sake, from Lon-
(Ion, 29t'a Match, lat. 32 N., lon. 761 V., by the Curis-
tophe Colombo, a, rived at Havre ; Taglioni. Lehesque,
B,rdeaux to Tampico, and o,Par, Latahie, Bo: d• aux to
/Iwo. Orleans, 22d .March, lat 21. lon. 63, by the General
1 Fiy, Be aurnont, arrived at Bordeaux; Salimer, Coats,
Clyde to Jamaica, 10th ult., Tot. 24, Inn. 36.
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EASI' ILri.i Still-YING.
gifivals —Herefordshire, Chapman, from Bombay, off
1 Falmouth, sailed Deli. 25, Mangalore, Jan 3, Table Bay,
1 • Feb. 24. St. Helena, Nl.o•ch 6; Royal George, Richards,
from New South Wales, off Falmouth. satled D,c. 11,
Bahia, March 9 ; Symmetry, Butler. from Manilla, cff
i Kingsbridge, sailed November 12. Singapore, December •
6, St. Helena, February 12; . Shepherd, Jardine, from
Swan River, Falmouth, sailed Jan 1, St. Helena. Feb.
/ 29: Royal Exchange, Limon•, from the Cape of Good
) Ho c, in thc Downs, sailed Feb. 14; Tartar, Edwards.
i- frair, Mauritius, off Falmouth, saied Jan. 18, Cape of
G'Md Hope, Feb. IL
Arrivals at Sydney, New Srmth WaleP.—Asia, Bloom.
) field, Noy. 2, from Sowl: America; Grecidn, Richards,
1 8:11, from Manilla ; Lady M'Naghten Gowen,
ICalcW.ta; William Carey, G.endav, 10th, from Hobfrartm . Town ; Jes.iic, Bruce
BroCkle , 19:h, from iNt.w Zi,aland; Andes
bau,
lt. from Bordeaux and aglais ; Mary, M•Aulev,
'i 24,h• from Plirnouth awl Cape of Good ft.pe ; Maid,•
Nubarlt e, 2t3, from p Livercl; Diana, Lane, 27, from
1.!....- Nla Town; Skerne. Munro, from Sloth Australia ;
jesty's =hip Elorald, Ni-3. 28, from Hobart Town ;
\Strathisla, Fox, Dec. 4, tram Timor, South Auitralia
and Port PhiliP t Susannah Anne, Anderson, from 1
Niw Zeallnd ; Rang.. r, from Not Philip ;. 4,Eltyro, Ryan,
pf:,.. hack from sra• hound to JAva; F'sir Barbadian. Wll
7, from Bay of Plenty; Di,sna, Harvey, from *Bay of
Wands; Orient, Talor, 8; KMnear, 'Stallard, acd Bar.
i mail, Austin, s-'l from London; Nimrod, Dads, from the
' Soz.,,ii Sons arid Bay of Hanes.
t
1
LY,Tarp_fros from Sidney, New South Wales—Orwell,
wires, Inv. 1, for China :, Amelia Thompson, for 13,41
Pi2ilip ; Revery Wellesley, for Java; Caledonia, Liddell,
for Batavia ; Aug,ustri3 Cesar, fur Lati3c,ston; Gaillar-
IL (li;n for CaLut'a; John Dunscombe. 17, for New Zr.a..
' land Cl• cks'one 10 fir whiling; Lacy Ann. 20, for
; ~ • , • I '
Nero Z t,tillid ; Jane, 21, ta• whaling, Currency Lass. for
Nev ZL.aland; Elizdl,..th. 23. for the fishery; Aust-allan
Packt.t, 25, for Port Poi io ; Christiana. 21, for Adelaide.

1 THE CRIME CF INFANTICIDE.— At an inquest
hciii on Friday before Mr. W'aklev, in St. Pancras, on the body
lOf a new-born chi(.', which 113;4 been found exposed in the
11f.,,,ii et's-Rirk, a juror said he would mover inn an inquisition
to a verdict of guilty in a ease of infanticide. Anil on being
itskiNl his yearn) by the Coroner, said, that no doubt it was a
. great crime, but hi.; conscience. as the law at present stood,
prevented him. He would starve hiinse.f to death ra, her than
submit. Coroner—Not if the evidence was clear and conciu• i
sive against the party accused ? Juror —No. The Coroner 1
•f said that there wax a strange feeling getting abroad, and he hail
_ noticed a repugnance on the part of jurors to sign or agree to a
verdict wherein the life of a human being was in jeopardy, not
only in cases coming before the Coroners, but at the Criminal
(,ourte, and cited a case (of rape) wherein one of these jurors,
according to a morning paper_, said, " No matter how conclu-
sive the evidence might be, he would not agree to a verdict of
guilty. fearing the oinsequences attending such a verdict."
He (the Coroner) said that this was a most lamentable state of
society, and he thought that where a party was found guilty of
murder he ought to suffer death.
cus C i
L iAIRO—ILLINOIS.--We notice, by the St.
papers, that a portion of the site of
Cairo city,
at tlip mouth of the Onio, which is not yet protected
by levees and embankments, has been nearly overfhwed b
1y
II
the recent great
.. rise c f the
flood Western rivers. The ware
rs
are now subsiding, and this has established the fact
of the perfect practicability of making this commanding
pbskion wbol;y
• •
city of New Orleans by it embankments.

TROY TRZ DAILT PAPERS or StTCIIDAT.
1. (From the Globe.)
i The Braintree Church Rate case, to which, from
the important question it involved, public attention has
, been extensively drawn, is at length decided. The
i judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench, after hear-
ing the most eminent oounsel on both sides, and taking
considerable time for deliberatinn,haa determined the im-
jrmrtant controversy ; and it is now for ever determined,
'
that the pariithiontrs duly convened, and in vestry assem-
I Vied, baring refused a church rate,there is no power vested
' githier in the Churchwardens, or in any other authorities,
tti mike and levy a rate for such purposes. Lord Den-
man's exposition of the law and custom of England re-
specti.ng Church-rares, from the ear. test times, was at
once elaborate and lucid, and will be read with interest
[ by the most learned for its satisfactory application of
principles to time point raised for the decision of the
I Court, and by the public for its vneral informationond
ri ita settling is question which has been often mooted, but
1 t.)hicia parties 'have shrunk from putting in the necessary
Itrain for decision, trout a dread of the expenses which
Ilitigsatien wculd neerssar:ly involve. The question
! *same beftire the Court of Queen's Bunch on a writ
i 6-f prohibitieu, to stay the preece.dings in the liecle-
(, Ain /Ilea' Claw: against Mr. Birder, a parishioner of the
patialt 4 Braintree, in which parish the parishioners
fit vestry Said refused a church-rate : the church-
wardens, on their refesal, assumed the power of sup-
plying the deficiency by making a rate, which, on the
I refusal of certain cf the inhabitants to pay, they se-
reeled Mr. Birder as one of the most prominent of the
1 diAshlents, and on his pleading before the Magistrates
tlie illegality of the rate as the ground of his refusal
) ro ?ay it, they instituted proceedings against him in the
Eiccl:Adastical Court, where the legality of the rate