The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-20 00:00:00

EVEN LNG- EDITION.

ANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

ifer.tussims, ArrlL 16.—The Chamber of Commerce
aintwerp informs the merchants that according to a
oatch from the Belgian Consul at Alexandria, the
-),rtgue has spread in an alarming manner in that city,
::nd that, according to a notice from the Consul at
' Smyrna, it has also broken out at Trebizond.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 17,—We learn that M. Lebeau has
'been received to-day by the King, and had the honour
to present to his Majesty a list of the persons v;hom lie
thinks qualified to fain part of the future Ministry.
Composition of the new Ministry, from the Courier
Beige :
M. Lebeau—Foreign Affairs.
M. Charles Ropier—lnterior.
M. Mercier—Public Works.
General Ruzen, War.
M. Liedtz—Justice.
M. Damon Dumeatier— Finances.

It is not without difficulty that six honourable citi-
zens have been willing to take their seat in the Minis-
' terial car, that old machine the wheels of which creak.
and which is wholly of joint. The Moniteur Beige
-ays nothing of these nominations.
RUSSIAN FRONTIERS., APRIL .s.—According to the
accounts received here from Russia, all thoughts of a
new expedition against Khiva are for the present given
qp. The immense materiel which has been lost by
?erowsky's expedition cannot be so quickly replaced in
ttussia ; besides the expense of this expedition has not
been so inconsiderable as to be disregarded. All that
can be said at present is, that another expedition against
Khiva is not likely to be undertaken till next
:ear. Then, however, it will take the route over
mountains, where there is no want of water, and
,cross which the passage may be effected in the tempe-
rate seasons ; one-half of the troops composing the ex-
oedkion will be sent across the Caspian Sea from the
ast coast, from which, to the gates of Khiva, there is
lit an inconsiderable march to perform. The two last
xpeditions (Ila the years 1819 and 1825) failed from
-:milar causes. It is to be hoped more care will be
c.aken next time.
HANOVHC., APRIL 13.—T0-day the Kin.. received
a a solemn audience a deputation of the Assembly' of
se Estates of the Kingdom, who presented an address
ipressing their gratitude to his Majesty for having pre-

inted to the Estates the draft of a Constitution in
kyhich the most of the enactments which had been

rmerly asked by the Estates were adopted. The
' _ing returned the following answer to the address :
" I thank you for the address which you have pre-
.anted to me. This address is a real comfort to tee.
Chat the Estates will endeavour to attain the ob-
.ect to which the wishes of all good Hanoverians
.re directed, I am convinced, by your assurance
hat you will lose no time, and will spare no
wins to complete this work. I can with truth

fissure yost that it does not contain a chapter, a para-
graph, or a sentence, which has not been carefully con-
,;idered and discussed. You must know that I am not
' I,erf.ectly master of the German language. Therefore
must closely examine and comprehend everything that
t may be able to sign my name to. You know I am a
aan of my word—what I say I promise to keep. I
,:an assure yom I have but one object—the happiness
and prosperity of the country, and I never had any
other. You know the fidelity of the Hanoverians. I
have always placed the greatest confidence in the coun-
try. Unhappily, some bad pajsons are everywhere

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:net with, but the mass is good and honest. I feel as if
a stone is taken from my heart by hearing what you say
to me. I am now certain that we shall obtain our
object.—Hanoverian Gazette.
E.ELGIAN I. UNDS—Baussets, APRIL 17.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Bothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ......... ....." IC2%
Lnan orchirty Millions, 4 per'Cent.....
3 per Cent. ..... .... 74th
Loan of City, 1832,-1 per Cent. ........ .......... 94%
Socicty of Commerce, 4 %per Cent llok
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...." ......
National Society .
• Exchange oh London (short)
—Brussels Papers, April 17.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 17
Money. ilillc,
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent - 3
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amet Syndic, 4% per cent lifil.' . 1
Ditto, ditto, 3% per ,
cent. 754, 7 il,;
Commercial Company, 4!4 per cent lBO-., , n3i
Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto N 37, S per cent. lOl% I:,
Loan 1837, 5 per c0nt..... .................
Exchange on London, One month...—. I I 9;!.', '
Two months ......
—Dutch Papers, April 18.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL !;
Five per Cants. Matalliques . ................. ............ ;- '..,
Foar per Cents 1 i ~
Three per Cents.
Bank Sharps .....„............... ........ .... ..............
—4llga:seine ZeUesig, April 14 . '
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beattie, APRIL 1,71. •
Bills. - Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. " 104 IV? li„
Ptuaian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent 103 Y. 104
F.xchange on London, three months tS 19%
—Prussian State Gazette, April 15.

ATTEMPT TO SET I'LRE TO THE
SOCIALISTS' " HALL OF SCIENCE."

On Sunday morning last, at an early hour,• a stran2x,
zpparently determined, and yet wholly unsueeessrul,
attempt appears to have been made to set on fire the
r the new and unfinished building on the north side ul
Camp Field, built, it is stated, by the Socialits, and
oallcd " The HaLl of Science." A woman living in a
oottage in the neighbourhood, risinr, to get some medi-
cine for a child, about a quarter before six o'clock, ob-
..;,!rved through the boards which close up the wain
e',ltrance door at the east end of the building, a strong
Ight or dame, which led her to remark to her daughter

'iat the men were at work in the building. She
apposed at the time, that it was some fire the
-,-,rksaren had lighted to melt lead, and thought no
)re of it ; but about six o'clock, looking agaii
tiaough the chamber window, she saw a man creep
• i
~.stdeways through an aperture made by rernos,ing
me of the boards placed to block up the cellar window.
Hiving crept through, he placed the board upriglA
against the window, and then, stepping upon the Ico.-
~ path, he looked across Camp Field, and immediately
k. alked quickly up Byrom-street. Still her suspiehA:s
were not excited, nor, as she says, did she think any-
.hiog further about what she had seen, till she ..as
'old that an attempt had been made to fire the build-
; and she then told what she knew, and described
:lie man to be of middle height, rather stout, and to
Lave the appearance of a bricklayer's labourer. fie
,sore a sort of moleskin dress, the jacket being of the
shape called a "Cheadle swinger," and parts of his
dress were marked with lime or mortar. The more-
,:ng was wet, and she did not- see so well as to
be able to notice the man's features minutely.
About sine o'clock the same morning, one 'et
toe persons connected w:th the building, oir
entering it, as usual, for the purpose of
seeing that all was right (a practice, it is stated,
adopted because of there havir, been a number of
pales of glass broken in the windows, night after night),
t found that no fewer than three fires had been made in
different parts of the building, with shavings and pieces
of wood, moistened with turpentine ; and that all these
fires had burned out, without doing any material mischief
. to the building. One of these, the flames from which
had been seen. by the woman, was on a sort cf landing-
' place, in the entrance at the east end of the building ;
and there a place, two feet square, was burned in the
ene-inch planking, which was laid as a bad or support for
flag-stones. When the man entered the bililding at nine
u'cloek, this fire had just burnt itself out. Another fire

'lad been kindled in- an adjoining room, with a window

looking eastward, but little above the ground, and
so placed, that any one passing within fifty yards of
that end of the building could not fail to have per-
ccited the flames through the window, even before
hey had attained any considerable height or extent.
The floor here is partially charred, as it from a fire of
shavings and turpentine, and it is stated that a thick
piooe of wood, laid upon the floor, was found to have
been burned through. The third place was in the
north-east corner of the large room on the second floor
of the building, destined for a lecture theatre. A large
heap of pieces of wood was left by the workmen in this
corner, and the incendiary would seemto have se-
, ,ected the place on that account ; but in other respects
At is the last spot in the whole building which any one
would have bean likely to fix upon, fearedwijo detection.
!It is close to large unglazed' window,
separated only by a narrow entry from which
is
t
window of an adjacent dwelling-house. Hada an
chayrcher
slept in this room, tho blaze so close to thewindow
must have immediately awakened and alarmed thec
sleeper. There was a blind to the house window
which was down ; but it is said that no one sleeps in'
that room. In this, as in the two other instances, the
man who examined the building shortly after nine
3'clock, found the flames extinct, though several thick
pieces of wood were burned, and others more or less
charred. It is said that the floors being of white deal
were less combustible than of red deal ; and that the
wood was not dry, and the rooms and walls damp.
The last is the only reasonable solution of the difficulty,
and it is still somewhat unaccountable that so much
t should have been burned, and that the flames, after
• being uncontro'led for three hours, should die out of
I thtnnselves. However, we have stated the circum-
stances, as they have been related to us ; and there we
must leave this strange affair.—Manchester Guardian.

We understand that Father Mathew, the cele-
brated Irish apostle of temperance, has intimated his intentione
of coming to this country in a few weeks, to administer the
tee-total pledge to his countrymen in St. 'Giles's, and other
parts of London. It is supposed that at least 50,600 will re-
ceive the tee-total medal at his hands.
The Crown has caused the furniture and books
of George Glennie, the late managing director of the Union
I Annuity Company, to be valued by the Sheriff, under the ex-
tent in aid issued by the Court of Exchequer for the non-pav-
mem of the advertisement duty for the Gardenr's Gazette '
and Court Gazette, of which he was formerly a joint pro_
-with The goods were valued at 150/., and they, tog ihreor:
-with the books, were declared forfeited to the Crown.-eTh, Teditors under the bankruptcy had been induced to believe that.
tit e books would have been given up to them.
THE PRISONERS UNDER NAPOLEON.---One
certain proof of the excellence of the judicial institutions under
the Empire will be found in the constant and progressive dimi-
MAI number of state prisoners, whieh on th
. O!' of --jaw • e
; tile
18th Brumaire amounted to 9,000,
ohna, by PrincebroughtdbeenDais.,down to
150 in 1814. Opinions of 2‘aole