The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-08 00:00:00

CORN FROM AMERICA.

According to a summary of the progress of com-
merce in the United States during this year, be-
ginning at the Ist of September, 1846, to the 31st of
August, 1847, it appears that the following quantity
of grain has been exported to Europe within that
time : Quarters.
Wheat and flour 3,382,521
Maize
Rye 123,152
Barley 38,544

6,163,899
Of this enormous quantity five millions were sen
:o England.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAILS.
THE HAGUE, OCT. 2.—The accounts which we
have received from Zwolle state that the most fearful
hurricane has been raging there and along the coast
for some days past. Great fears were entertained for
the new works which are now in course of erection
there at the port of Kraggenburg, but although they
have been injured they have very happily not been
destroyed.
THE PRUSSIAN DlBT.—Letters from Berlin state
that the United Committee of the States is to meet
in November, for the especial purpose of deliberating
upon the new penal code which has just been printed
at the Government printing-office. The Provincial
Diets are then to meet till the spring, to consult upon
the communal administrations.
MUNICH, SEPT. 30.—Last night was the preli-
-1 minary meeting of the Chamber of the States-
General, when their Imperial Highnesses Prince
Luitpold and Prince Adelbert were present. Six
committees were chosen:—l. Subjects connected with
the Administration. 11. Taxes. 111. Internal Ad-
ministration. IV. Payment of the National Debt.
V. Inquiring into grievances. VI. Examination of
the motions of Members of the Council of the
Empire. _ _

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 15.—An official report
from the Governor of Dshidda mentions the revolu-
tionary attempts of Sheik Faisal Ben Turki, and the
successful results of an expedition, consisting of re-
gular and irregular troops, which, by command of the
Porte, were led against him by the Emir of Mecca.
Sheik Faisal being driven to extremities by the Ot-
toman troops, avoided a decision by force of arms,
and voluntarily submitted to the Commander-in-Chief.
Lord Cowley embarked on the 6th on board the sta-
tion steamer, the Meteor, for a trip to Nicomedea.
He was accompanied by Count Perponcher. Grizrolis,
who was mortally wounded, and had fled to Ipsara,
died a few days before M. Coletti. Brussels
Papers, Oct. 5.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AXSTEILDAM, Cox. 4.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent •.•• • . • ... • 5314 543
Ditto, 3 per Cent •• •• •• • 653 C 66
Ditto, 4 per 84% 84%
Amort Syndic, 436 per Cent.... • .
Commercial Company, 43% per Cent 163 164
East India Loan, 4 per Cent..........
Exchange on London, at sight ...... 12 07
Two m0nth5............... 11 90
On Hamburgh, at sight .. • • 35 37
Two m0nth5............... 35
On Paris • 56 81
Tw0m0nth5............... 56 25
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BausszLs, OcT. 3.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent —
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.• ••
Ditto Three per
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
Ditt0,ditt0,1840.................
Ditto,ditto,lB42 98%
Ditto, 1844. ..........
Ditto, 1836. .................. •• •• ••
Ditto, 1838 ..................... 66
Ditto of the City, 1832 .. • •
Ditto, 1843 95%
Bank . 83
—Brussels Papers. Oct. 5 .

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIT4NA, OCT. 1.
5 per Cent. 105
4 per Cent. ditto.... • • .• ........ •. .. 94
3 per Cent. ditto 66
Loan, 1834 .....• ...................... 155
Ditto, 1839 .• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• .. 123
Bank Shares ••• • • • • • ......1624
Estarhazv's Loan ........ .............

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand .......... • . 15734
Gloggnitz • • • • .04 • • •• • . •• - • .• • • • • • • • • •• 120
Vienna—Milan .• • •• • • •• • • •• • • ••• • • • • • 108
Leghorn •• •• •••••••••• •••• •• •••••• •••• 8634
Grosetto •••••• .• • • • • • •• ••••• • •• " 973(
Oldenburg .. • • .... •• • • •
Pestoia • • • • .............• •• • • •• •• • • •• ••
Pesth Bridge
Apennlnen •••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 93%
lIAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, OCT. 2.
Bills. Money.
knstrian s'per Cents 106
Bank Shares ........................ 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan 101
Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate.
Ditto let series fnscription. ••••••• .• 104%
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.• 96
Ditto, in 96
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 88
Ditto Stleglitz ....... ......... 87
Spanish New 5 per Cent • • ............ 12 12
Ditto 3 per Cent 22 22
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent.. 25
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ..... 55
Ditto 3 per Cent. ................
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan. 1844....
Anglo-Danish Loan. 3 per Cent ...• •• 823(
National Bank Shares .... ............
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BARLIN, SEPT. 29.
Bills. Money
St.Schuld Sch., per Cent . •. • • 91%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent......
Foreign Exchanges .......... ..............
Exchazge on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months 6 24% 6 2414

100%

FATAL AND DISTRESSING CASES OF POISONING
NEAR STROUD.—EarIy on Monday morning, four chil-
dren of a man named Tilley, of Pithcombe, were seized
with such violent symptoms as to require medical assist-
ance, and accordingly a surgeon was sent for from
Stroud, who found all the children labouring under
effects such as are produced by irritant poisons. Anti-
dotes were therefore promptly administered, and it was
found on analysis that arsenic had been swallowed. It
was also ascertained that only half an hour before they
became ill, they had each of them partaken of some
pudding, which was charitably given to them by friends
of a deceased person in the neighbourhood; and which
pudding was also found to contain arsenic. This led to
as investigation by the coroner, who ordered a post
modem examination of the deceased, when the stomach
was found to contain arsenic. Portions of the pudding
were also found in the stomach. Until the children
became ill, no one had the slightest suspicion that the
deceased's death had been caused by poison. One of the
children, a little boy, aged 11 years, died on Thursday
afternoon, and it is the opinion that the sister, a little
girl, will very quickly follow. The eldest son, a oung
man nineteen years of age, is lying in a dangerous state,
and only the youngest child, three years old, is likely
to escape. The adjourned inquest on the deceased, from
whose house the pudding was brought, was held yes-
terday morning, but the particulars have not yet reached
us.—Glowcester Journal.

FEMALE LYNCH LAw.—Last week a novel scene,
which attracted considerable attention, was enacted in
one of the hop gardens at the Elms Farm, in the neigh-
bouring parish of Iden. It appears that on the day pre-
vious, a man from Woodchurch, Kent, who was engaged
in the hop picking on the farm, had, in the most inde-
cent manner, beat his wife in the way that some parents
punish their children. A number of females (also from
Woodchurch), who were picking at another faun in the
parish, having heard of the treatment that one of their
own sex had been subjected to, determined upon inflict-
ing summary punishment on the offender. They ac-
cordingly provided themselves with bunches of stinging
nettles and hop bines, proceeded en masse to the garden,
where the culprit was at work pulling poles. Having,
by a ruse, dispossessed him of his bill (used in cutting
away the bines) they at once commence their work of
castigation by a process well know to school-boys as
" birching," and having at length satisfied their notions
of justice, they released the culprit, Rho having suffered,
not from the " stings and arrows of outrageous fortune,"
but from the equally smarting and more tangible effects
of nettles and hop bines, gladly availed himself of the
opportunity to retire, looking as happy as if he had
.tumbled into a wasp's nest.—Sussex Advertiser.

VESSEL ABANDONED AT SEA.—About six O'clock
on Wednesday morning, Captain Togher, in command
[ of the St. Patrick steam-ship, of Drogheda, on his voyag.
from Liverpool, observed a vessel dismantled and rolling
on the waves, the sea breaking over her, about six miles
north of the Skerries, on the coast of Wales. He im-
mediately bore down, and discovered that the vessel had
lost her bowsprit, mainmast, and foretop, and received
some damage in her bows. He sent out a boat with five
[ men to board her and make an examination of her con-
, dition. They found no person whatever on board, but
discovered that she had made nineteen inches of water.
Captain Togher then sent two of his best hawsers to
her and took her in tow, leaving the five men on board
to work her, and pay attention to the tow ropes. At
eight, A.M., the wind increased blowing from the south,
which caused a heavy cross sea, and with great difficulty
he brought her to the Irish coast, having, during the
passage, broke tow ropes twice. The vessel thus found
abandoned is a brigantine named the Branstye of White-
haven, and was bound from Cardiff, in Wales, for Liver-
pool, laden with 150 tons of iron rails for some railway.
We have learned this morning (Saturday) from Liver-
pool, that the accident was caused by collision with a
Boston ship, inward bound. Oue of the crew of the
brigantine was killed by a fall from the mast, and knocked
overboard. The Branstye and her cargo are worth
nearly 3,0001.—Drogheda Argus.
SALE OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—TRANSFER
o 9 THE TRUST.—The Dock Commissioners of Birken-
head-
head held a special general meeting yesterday (Monday),
for the transaction of some important business contained
in the following notice of motion :—" The commissioners
are requested to meet on Monday, the 4th instant, at half-
past nine a.m. for the purpose of considering the pro-
priety of authorizing the Chairman and certain other
parties to enter into negotiations with a view to trans-
ferring the Birkenhead Dock
be named, upon such Trust to certainparties to
conditions as will secure the
.in-
terest of Birkenhead and the public generally, subject
to such negotiations being confirmed or rejected by the
board." Our reporter attended the meeting, but, from
the account which he has given, it will be seen that he,
with
the other short-hand writers from the Mercury and
standard, were refused admission during the discussion
of this question. We may mention, however. a current
report that the business transacted at the meeting was
said to be the adoption of a motion authorizing Messrs.
Mallaby, Jackson, and Potter to treat with three other
gentlemen connected with the Liverpool corporation for
the sale of the Birkenhead Docks, and the tramfer
the Dock Trust to the dock committee of this Ono..
Livorpool Times.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTII, TRUE SDAY.— The Amphion, auxi7

liary screw steam frigate, of 300 horse-power and 36
guns, Captain W. J. Williams, was towed from the
harbour to Spithead, this morning, by the Echo tug.
The Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lord
A. Fitzclarence, was taken out of dock to-day, not the
slightest mark of having taken the ground being dis-
cernible upon her bottom. She and the Fairy have
been removed to their usual moorings up the harbour.
The Hon. H. T. L. Corry, late Secretary to the
Admiralty, and Captain Brandreth, R.E., late Director
of Engineering and Architectural Works to the
Board, made an inspection of the new steam basin
works this morning, and expressed themselves in moat
unqualified admiration of their progress.
Mr. Percy Doyle, Minister to Mexico, will arrive
here to morrow, and embark in the Vixen steam-
sloop, Commander Ryder, on Saturday, for the seat of
his mission.

The Bellerophon, 78, Captain R. L. Baynes, C. 8.,
was docked to-day, on the removal of the royal yacht,
to have her copper examined and cleaned. She has
entered many good hands.
The Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, Lieutenant-
Commander Aylen, is receiving an overhaul and re-
fitment in this harbour prior to further service.
The weather during the early part of this day has
been very foul, heavy rain descending from an early
hour until two r.sz. At five I.M. it is clear, but un-
settled. Wind N. by \V., moderate breezes.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Ocroßslt 7.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Great Northern, 5
dis.—Great Western, 13 p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1 p.
—Leeds and Thirsk, 18 dis.—London and North-Western,
152—Ditto, Quarters, 111/2 p.—Midland Stock, 111—Ditto,
Halves. p.—North British Thirds, 11/9 p.—North Stafford-
shire, A p.—North Union (A), 20W/2—South-Eastern and
Dover, No. 4 (issued as Third shares at 6 2-3 dis.), 214 dis.—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and B.) New, 1% p.—
York and North Midland, (East and West Riding Exten-
sion), 71,4 p.