The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-22 00:00:00

FLANDERS, DUTCH, AND HAM-

BURGH MAILS.

FRONTIER. or POLAND, FEB. 7.—lt is said that u
Russian army of 80,000 men is to be assembled at Ka
I.sh. So much at least is certain, that measures are
tdcen to fortn magazines for such a number of troops.—
!Vilna Gazelle.

FRONTIER. OF POLAND, FEB. 4.—Travellers who
lat-ly visited Warsaw affirm that they have heard
there that the number of troops now in the
king-
dottt of Poland amounts to two hundred thousand
men (only infantry). This number may be exaggerated,
but it is certain that all along our frontiers not only
the towns in which garrisons are usually placed, but
the small places which can only be called towns, and
which in general have no garrisons, are now lull of
troops. They are entirely supported, as we learn, at
the expense of the Government, by which a great deal
of money is brought into circulation. There is but
little cavalry in our frontier towns, probably because
forage is dearer than in the adjacent Russian pro-
vinees.—Sivabian Mercury.
ST. PETERSBURG'', FEB. 6.—According to Gffleiai
accounts the population of St. Petersburgh at the end
of 1840 was 470,202, of whcm, however, only 132,590
were females.
The number of births was—

Males 5,544
Females 4,475

Total 10 019
The number of deaths is not stated.
Dultil FUNDS.—‘ISISTEROAM, Feu. 19
Money , lili's.
tctual I).lbt, ‘2.!4 per Cent . 4944 SO
Jilto, ditto 5 per Cell t.
A ,nOlt SIIICiIe, 4 per cent 8 % 87
Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent 701,,, 7014
Commercial Corn.any, 4' per cent 15'.;34 15 .1
Ditto (0;25 and 1837) 5 per cent. ......
Loan 1`.137, 5 per cant. il44 95
Exchange on London, f lire month__
Two months ......
Dutch Papers, Feb. 20.
r.ELuta:-: ilUNDS—LittisgEtl. FEB. 19.
Actual Delst, 2Ni per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per o.llt 1.734
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9
----- 3 per Cent. —

1.4

,Thirty.sQven•

i_4o
Loan of City, IL5.11:, 4 per Cent 873,4
Society ot Cornni rce, 4 Xiper Cent ll2
Bank of I:.clgainii, 5 per Cent... .......... t. 81,4
National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 19.
AUSTRIAN FUICIDS.—Virt•iNs, FEB. 11
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. Po
Three p,..r Cents.
wink Shams
1653
zettung, Feb. 16
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, FEB. 16.

Austrian 5 per Cents.
'lO i% 1044
Bank Shares
An ~10- Russian Loan lO6 3A' 01;%
Ilussizti 5 per Cent. !st series, Certificate 10'2% 10:2
Inscription, Ist Se.i,s lOl 100%
Rus:ian .5 per Cent. Hop., and Co. 3d and 4th
SerLs
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pc,- Cent 4%
Ditto 5 per Cent 4S
Bond. -
147
New rick.A
Anglo-Danish Loa,,, 3 per
N %%region Loan, 4 per
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. IQ%
r;XCHANGES ON' LO N DON.
Hmostinu, FEB. 16.-13 4N..—Two months, 13 3
STOCKHOLM, FEB. s.—Sevoity-five days, 11..8.
VIENNA. FEB .9.—Three months, 0. •itl.
CIRISTIANIA. FEB. 3 --1 brec months, 4 48.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BeataN, FEB. 16
St. Schuld. Sch., 4w per cent. Bids. Money.
n 10:1%
Primion Euriish- Loan, 11430, 4 per cent 111,N
Exchange on I.‘ndon, three mont las 0 171
—Prussian State Gazette, Feb 17.

A few nights since, two English sailors, accord-
ing to the Semaphore cf Marsei:l2s, who had taken t4o
much grog on board, picked a qua•rel in that town
with son.e Frenchmen. Words ran h.gh, and blaws soon
ensued. In t`.e conflict one cf the tars caught the leg of an
ad% erstry in his teeth, and held iP, as in a vice, t;11 obliged
to lei:1116h his hold by etc overwhelming power of num-
, era ; mind not then till so be itea ih it nut a feature in his
face could to recognised. His brother blue-jacket. inei
aunt at his ur.f.ir treatment, iate-posed, and determined to
display all his skill and strength in the science of boxing,
rushed iato the centre ef at least twenty of the assailants cf
Iris messniate, and delivered tie blows with such force that
ne soon made a circle round him, the diameter of which was
at least the length of bis own arms. Jack cleared his way
obt, and made towards the can hut was fo!lowed by so
many adversaries that he teal at last knocked down. He lay
for some time, perhaps not stunned, but only to recover
-is late..th. and then, suddenly springing up, faught his way
through a whole phalanx, till some polite otne• ri took him
under their protection, and placed him in saf:ty. The
Semaphore concludes its account with blaming the conduct
of ifs tellow-t

AMERICAN SLAVERY.—Moses Roper, who
affected his escape from American slavery some years age,
felive:o I an address to a numerous and resp“table and.-
ory, r.t the large room at the Bear Hotel, on the evening
.f Thursday last. Bad as the system of American slivery
:and indeed slavery in all its modifications) is, it is t;) he
loped, fir the honour cf humanity, that his picture of the
abominable system was too highly coloured; but when the
cruelties, which even is our own country, were formerly
imbed by man upon his fellow man are recolleetA, it must
be acknoaleiged that Mr. Roper's statements might be
übvtantially correct. De.iply harrowing and revolting as
was his narrative to the sensitive minds of his hearers, he
assured them that delicacy wauld always presci.t those who
addressed a public meting from exposing tie worst fer-
tures e f the iniquitous system. As an instance he would
state—although it was with painful feelings he ei f so—
that he was the ille4itiinate son of a General Roper ;
and that he was sold by his own father when only two
eiers of age. For tei eral years his mother had acted as
houtekeeper to his fathe.., upon whose marriago with a
.white lady, he was sold, and removed to a distant estate
with his inother. It was no uncommon thing thus to find
fathers dooming their offspr.ng to slavery. Before Mr.
Roper commenced speaking, Farmer Benjamir, of Coate,
:nd a Mr. Wall, a wine.inerchant from London, rudely
'rntercd the room, and extinguished some of the rghtr.
0.. tieing remonstrated with, they retired, but when the
speaker was in the midst of his address, they again re-
turtia,i, and in a highly indecent manner disturbed the
meeting, and interrupted the speaker. Considerable con-
fusion ensued, surd..afrez .&-avkilo.-tbaerr meted from
the room, when they comrnencei thumping the door and
creating a disturbance in the lobby. Mr. Roper requested
the landlord, Mr. Daviee, to send for a policeman to pro
tact him, but for some reason, beat known to Mr. Davies,
he declined to interfere, although Mr. Roper had hired
the room of him for the owning. Mr. Roper said, that
he was i iterruptcd in a similar manner by Mr. Wall when
.peaking at Caine on the previous ovenirg; but that the
iio„d sense of the mecting soon put him down —(From a
Correspondent. 1— Wiltshire Independent.
ME COURTS OF EUROPE.—Few persons
who visited the principal Courts of Europe at the close of
the last century, possessed such facilities for procuring
Accurate information respecting every person, and every.
thing worthy observation, as the late Mr. Swinburne, the
well-known author of " Travels in Spain," &c. On his
arrival at the various seats of government every one
tirungel to pay him every Lt!e. atom in their power; and
the csnsequence is, that such Interesting details of what-
ever he became acquainted with, worth recording, in his
travels through France, Spain, Italy, Germany, &c., as
we find in this posthumous publication, " The Courts of
Europe," have never, perhaps, appeared. Not only do, s
it introduce to us, with an abundance of most hit 'restive
anecdote, each member of the foreign royal families, all
the principal nobility, and the most distinguirbed person.
ages in Church and Stet:, In art, literature, and science,
out .11r. ziiwiliburne being employed in au official capacity
by his own government, has contrived to enrich hi; vo-
lumes with similar pleasant notices of the family and Court
of George 111., and of every celebrated character then
existing in England.
TITHES AND CHURCH-RATES.---Sotne time
last summer a eeinand of 21. 19s. 9id. was wade upon a
member of the Society cf Friends in Truro, for tithe;, and
another of 6s. lid. for a Church-rate. Both of these
demands, according to the uniform practice of the reli-
gyms community alluded to, were, of course, refused, and
goods of the value of upwards of 134 were distrained to
meet them. These goods were sold for 81. 14s. 30.,
and after all the expenses were defrayed, about IL ss.
wrs returriel to the party as surplus, which he refused to
receive, aad it was consequently left upon some part of his
premises. Thus, for refusicg. on conscientious grounds,
to pay a sum of 31. 6.1. aid., an honest and industrious
man is fleeced to the extent of nearly 121.;
,and this is •
doge, toe, for the maintenance of religion.— Rest Breton

BRUSSELS, JULY 18.--The average price of wheat
last week was 18f. Bc., and that of rye 11f. 52e. per
hectolitre. The import duties on wheat 371. 50e., on
rye 211. 50e. per 1,000 kilogrammes ; the export duty
on both 2.5 e. per 1,000 kilogrammes.
The King has ordered a levy of 16,844 recruits
(born in the year 1818 and 1819.) This levy exceeds
that of last year by 7,644 men.
RIIENISH BAVARIA, FEB. 11.—We learn here
with astonishment, from undoubted authority, that the
French author tes at Lauterburg and other frontier
towns have annou'ced that German desert.irs, who
shall go to France with the'r horses, arm!, and bag-
gage, may enlist in any French re4iment that they
may choose, and not be forced to enlist in the Fo-
reign Legion, and that the value of the effects they
bring shall be punctually paid them. We do not be-
lieve t at this measure wili be eery successful ; but it
is a proof of hostile sentiment , which we had no rea-
son to expect from tl:e present French Government.
BERLIN, FEB. 12.—1 t seems that all our cava'ry
regime-. are to be increased from 600 to 800.
BRUSSELS, FEB 19.—We learn that the laA portion
of the I)an has been neptiat d at 3 per cent. higher
than the preceding issue, at 5 per cent. at 1001. Toe
General Soc'ety has taken a third.
AMSTERDAM, FEB. 17.—According to official ac-
count,, the population of the kingdom of the Nether-
lands on theist ofJanuary, 1840, was '2,66.5,731 soul',
adding 190,719 for the Duchy of Limburg ; the total is
2,860,450, feiides 5,299 seamen embarked in his Mt-
jesty 's ships of war.
The accounts from the province of Zealand, of the
st ,te of the rivers are not favourable. The same may
he said of the accounts from Arnheim and other placer.
The Supreme Council has rejected the appeal
of the Attorney-General against the decision of
the Tribunal of Groningen, in the affa'r of the
journal, the Tolkder Vulteid, and confirmed the
sentence of the tribunal. By this decision, the Council
has determined, among other points, that the printer is
not answerable, when the writer complained of is known
and present.