The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-19 00:00:00

DUTCH AND GERMAN MAIL.

ROTTERDAM, MARCH 13.—Our city has just been visited
by Mrs Elizabeth Fry, of London, who is so well known
for her indefatigable exertions to improve the moral condi-
tion of prisoners. She bas just examined the prison in this
city for youthful criminals, with the religion and moral in-
struction of the children in which, having conversed a long
time with the members of the Board, she could not refrain
expressing her eatisfactien, and an ardent wish to see in-
troduced into her own country, an institution, the first ex-
ample of which was given to Europe by our country.
BELGIUM,. MARCH 15.—After three days' debate the
Belgian Chamber of Representatives decided, by a ma-
jority of 42 to 38, that the amount of the pay of General
Van der Smissen should be struck out of the Budget.
According to a statement in the Ministerial Independent of
the 4th, at eight o'clock in the evening all the Ministers,
immediately after the Clamber broke up, held a Council,
and then tendered their resignation to King Leopold.
UTRECHT, MAUCH 15.—The Belgian Members of the
Committee of Liquidation having arrived here, the sittings
are held daily in an apartment of the old Palace.
ST PETEESBURG, 11IAticu 7.—Major-General Tretteur
has obtained a patent for ten
railroad of his invention. years, for a moveable iron

Letters from Ismael say the Danube is quite dear of
ice. Merchantmen are beginning to arrive here. The
it habitants do not remember any instance of the naviga-
tio❑ of the Danube being open so early.
The St. Petersburg Journal has no news whatever of
the exnedition to Khiva.

TOWER HAMLETS -AN TI-CORN-

LAW MEETING.

Yesterday a meeting was held at the Court Ilouse,
Osborne street, Whitechapel, pursuant to advertisement,
fer the purpose of preparing a petition to Parliament for
the total repeal of the Corn-laws. A small party of
Chartists were stationed in different parts of the Court.
Mr. MARTINEAU was called to the chair, ar,d stated, at
considerable length, the objects of the meeting.
Air. COATES proposed a resolution to the effect—" That
the imposition of prohibiting duties on Corn inflicts a heevy
urden upon all who live by their labour, whether thLt
Labour he agricultural or manufacturing."
Mr. FARY seconded the resolution.

A Chartist, named SAVAGE, n proposing an amendment,
said he th tested the Corn-laws as mid and unjust, but
their repeal without an equal adjustment of the funded
dt-bt—( Hisses, and cries of " Bravo," and " Oh, oh")--
and the enfranchisement of the whole male population of
the age of 21, and untainted by crime—( Loud huzzas)—
culd be of no advantage to the working men, but tend
still further to oppress and degrade them.—(Great con-
fusion.)
Two Chartists then successively addressed the meeting,
and were followed by Mr. E. F. Young, late Member of
Parliament for Tynemouth, and by Mr. Gregg, the lec-
turer against the Corr-laws.
Mr. Laurence, My. Offer, and Mr. Michael Scales,
severally addressed the meeting, but the uproar was in-
cessant, and only detached fragments of wbat they uttered
could be heard. _ .

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The amendment was then put, and about fifty hands
were held up for it, and the original resolution was sup-
ported by a very decided majority. The triumph, as it
appeared to be considered by the inhabitants of the Tower
Hamlets, was received with loud buzzrzs.
Dr. Lushington and Mr. Clay both advanced to the
front of the hustings, and the Doctor endeavoured to ad-
dress the meeting; but a sturdy red-headed Chartist
" breasted" him, amid a scene of uproar which is inde-
scribable ; and having patiently awaited for the abatement
of the storm for upwards of ten minutes, and no symptom
airs calming down being visible, the Hon. Members made
their bow, and withdrew at five o'clock.
Resolutions were then agreed to for the abolition of the
Corn laws, to be presented to the House of Commons by
Dr. Lushington and Mr. Clay.
Thanks were voted to the Chairman amidst tremendous
uproar, and the gentlemen on the platform left the meet-
ing, the Chartists contending that they had the " best of
the day," although their amendment was not carried.

The patent spectacles, manufactured by Mr. E.
Solomons, No. 36, Old Bond-street, and 10, Old Jewry, City,
rank in importance among the greatest of modern inventions,
which is of the greatest importance to the public, in conse-
quence of their improving and preserving the sight, and their
being of less specific gravity than any others, will be found
highly advantageous to all persons having a determination of
blood to the head or eyes. Their great efficacy is most satis-
factorily authenticated by the concurrent testimony of thousands
of living witnesses of the first respectability in this and the
sister kingdom ; added to which, the documentary proofs sub-
mitted through the medium of the daily Journals, decidedly es-
tablish Mr. Solomons reputation as an optician and scientific
man. His voice conductors, recently invented, are the most
powerful instruments hitherto discovered for defective hearing.
Deaf persons are enabled, from their minute construction (being
only of an inch in diameter), to wear them entirely unseen ;
they aro inserted and removed with the greatest facility. BY
their use musical sounds, and the lowest whisper breathed at
public assembly, vibrate on the organs of hearing in such a
pleasant manner as to afford the greatest relief to those afflicted
with the distressing ailment of deafness. Owing to parties of
the same name fraudulently advertising spectacles as " newly
invented," the public attention is particularly directed to the
address of the above establishments.
COWES, MARCH 17.—The Earl of Durham
who has been severely ill, is slowly recovering, and has been
recommended to try the sea air ; and wo hear it is his Lord-
ship's intention to take up his residence at Cowes early in the
Spring. He has always found the air of that plaee agree with
him. His Lordship intends purchasing a yacht, and we believe
is in treaty for the Louisa schooner, -built by 'White last fall.
It is a little curious that his first yacht was the celebrated
Louisa, built by White. for Lord Belfast; and the one he had
last year the Wanderer, was the property of the gentleman for
whom this
Louisa was built, and who at present owns her ;
she is considered a particularly handsome vessel.
SUICIDE FROM DESTITUTION.--
On Tuesday
evening a :engthened investigation took place before Mr.
Baker, the Coroner, at the Eight Bells public-house, opposite
Spitalfields Church, touching the death of William Jenkins,
woo was found hanging from a hook in the wall quite dead.-
he poor fcl!ow w,:s refiaLce to a state of want. The Jurv.
:Fto Fsc, 4,rai v,itacsse•s, fut,lrt,o4l a \ redid. " Tetif
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