The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, MAY 20.—The average price of wheat
last week was 18f. 7c., and that of rye 10f. 82c. per
hectolitre. According to the second section of the sth
article of the provisional regulations for the execution of
Article IX. of the treaty of the 19th of April, 1839,
relative to pilotage, merchant-ships with a less draught
than 15 decimetres are not obliged to take pilot in the
Scheldt. In order to enjoy this advantage, several cap-
tains leave Antwerp with little or no ballast, and as they
drop down the river take in the quantity of sand which
is wanting ; after having thus fraudulently increased
their draught of water which would make a pilot neces-
sary, they endeavour to -pass Flushing in the night, and
thus to evade likewise the payment of the pilotage duty
on leaving the river.
The board of pilotage at Antwerp have received the
strictest orders to check this abuse; the delinquents will
be preseeated by virtue of the law of 26th March, 1818,
which renders them liable to a fine of 10 to 100 florins,
and from one to fourteen days' imprisonment, and they
will have only to blame themselves for the delay which
may arise from the prosecution to which they will ex-
pose themselves.
GHENT, MAY 19.—Twelve workmen from our manu-
factories went on Monday to Ostende, where they are to
embark for Mexico. We are assured that they have
entered into an engagement for five years, and that a
good livelihood is secured to them during the whole time
of their engagement.
FRANCFORT, MAY 17.—Baron Solomon Rothschild, of
Vienna, has arrived here from Paris, where he has spent
the greater part of the winter. He will set out in a
few days for Vienna. It seems that there is no foundation
for the report that the object of his visit to Paris re-
lated to a new loan for Austria. Mr. Rothschild brings
the assurance that the general peace will not be inter-
rupted. France is going at length to quit the state of
isolation in which it has been placed, and the treaty by
which it will return to the general system of Europe is
said to be signed.—Journal du Commerce d' Anvers,
May 22.
TURKISH FRONTIER, MAY 7.—We have still but indif-
ferent accounts of the insurrection in Bulgaria, which all
agree in one point, that it has assumed a very serious
character, and that it was entirely provoked by the savage
brutality of the l‘lussulmans. The frightful excesses at
Lesskoveza and liaminitza, which have already been no-
ticed, are confirmed from various quarters, and unhappily
other Christian towns have been the scene of similar
atrocities. The insurgents, however, are said to be in
want of money, and more particularly of arms, powder,
and lead. Most of them, it is said, are armed only with
scythes, &c. _
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VIENNA, MAY 13.—His Imperial Highness the Arch-
duke Palatine of Hungary and his consort are expected
to-day at the Imperial Palace. The Princesses Amelia and
Augusta of Saxony will leave Vienna on the 15th to re-
turn to Dresden. The Archduke Stephen will pass the
summer at Milan, probably to make himself acquainted
with the administration of the. kingdom of Italy. The
absence of her Majesty the Empress will be longer than
was expected, so that she will not return before the
middle of next month.

THE HAGUE, MAY 19.---The Utrecht Courant of to-
day gives a long account of the reception of his Majesty
the King in that city. The Sections of the Second
Chamber has been engaged for these two days in consi-
dering the answers of the Government respecting the modi-
fications made in the project of law containing regulations
for the institution for lunatics and the manner of their
being received or discharged from those asylums. To-
day the Chamber has to meet, and the Central Section,
as we are assured, will make its report on the project of
law .respecting lunatics, the discussions on which will
commence next week. We hear that many changes have
been made by the Government in the project of law re-
lative to "appropriation for the public benefit, which have
rendered it necessary to make an entirely new draught of
that law.

THE HAGUE, MAY 21.—His Majesty, the King, re-
turned in the evening of the 19th, from Utrecht.
Monsignore Capaccini, Extraordinary Envoy from his
Holiness the PoFe to the Court of the Netherlands,
arrived here the dry b!fore yesterday.
FLUSHING, MAY 18.—We learn that Rear-Admiral
Arriens is to have the command of the squadron, on
board of which his Royal Highness Prince Henry is to
make a cruise in the North Sea.

We learn from the Journal of the Duchy of Limburg,
that his Majesty has definitvely organised and regulated
the administration of the Protestant Churches in Lim-
burg. The Board of Admistration is composed of seven
members.

DUTCH FUNDS.-..A6IBTECDAM, MAY 41.
Money. Bills.
(etual Debt, 234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Arnett Svndic,4)4 per cent My 91
Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent 75
Commercial Company, 4.4 per cent 194% 16514
Ditto (1335 and 1837)5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97 ly 9734
Exchange on London, One month l2 ON
Twomonths 11 95
Dutch Papers, May 22.
BELGIAN 11 UNDS—llausslx.o, MAY 21.
Actual Debt, 251 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent...„.„„..„ ZOO
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93
3 per Cent.
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(1 40) IOOX
Loan of City,lB32, 4 per Cent.........„....„ Bl%
Society of Commerce. 4 ly per Cent lOl
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..
National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
Brussels Papers, May 21.

Thirty.aeven•

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIsnna, MAY 11.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Foot per Cents. lOl
Three par Cents
Bank Shares l6lO
...Allgemerne Zeitung. May 19
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Banns, May 18.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Scb., 4 per cent. lO4 103yi
Prussian English Loan, 11130, 4 per cent 102 101%
hitchange on Landon, three months 6 19%
—Prussian State Gazette, May 19.

ANTI-CORN-LAW TEA PARTY.--There was
a very numerous and spirit-stirring meeting in the Corn
Exchange, on Thursday evening last, eight hundred
ladies and gentlemen being present, including a number
of Clergymen and Ministers of various denominations ;
and many of the addresses were of the most deeply
interesting character, and distinguished by great elo-
quence. We had prepared a report of the proceedings,
the insertion of which We had been compelled by a pres-
sure of other matter to postpone to our Wednesday's
number.—Manchester Guardian,
THE CRISIS.—The die is cast. The Minis-
ters will not resign. They are still, and will long re-
main, the constitutional and confidential advisers of the
Queen, who, with unexampled fortitude and courage,
stands by her Ministers whilst they fight the battles of
the people against the most greedy monopolists of any
age or couway. The Government has nobly done its
duty ; it is now for the people to perform theirs. There
must be no surrender now—no compromise. The people
must resolve either to assist the Government hi uphold-
' ing their rights, or make up their minds to lose the most
remote chance of further reforms for the amelioration
of their condition, or a lessening of their intolerable
burdens. The commercial code, Which deprives millions
of labour and food, must be reformed; or revolution,
with all its horrors, will sweep over the nation I and the
only party that can or will reform that code is that of
the present Government,--Brighton Herald.
We believe that the Anti-Corn-law meeting at
Kendal is already producing excellent effects in the agri-
cultural districts. The Tories are pleased to sneer at
the clergymen who felt it their duty to attend at that
meeting, but it seems singular that it should not have !
struck some of them, that there must tisstitedly bd same
most unrighteous and palpably unchristian injustice in
those laws which could bring together Clergymen of so
many differing perstiasitinS unaniiiidtislY and cordially
to condeniii these men, of whom it is said,
if goy say it not of themselves, that they are more
righteous than their neighbour,. will these men, even if
they think the modification of the Corn-laws may bring
some loss to themselves, hesitate to offer some sacrifice,
in order to restore peace, and insure prosperity to the
community ? It surely is but a very questionable religion
which shall exclude such simple action of the simplest
charity. lge it remembered, however, that we wholly
Iletrj% anything but prosperity can follow on adopting_
his line of policy which Ministers have, pointed out.—
Kendal Mercury.
GRAND ENTRANCE TO HYDE PARK.—NUM.
hers of workman are busily employed in
_taking down •
t
the spacious brewery recently belonging Messrs. S. Go-
ding, at Knightsbridge, preparatory to forming the
grand entrance into Hyde Park, on the site of which
are, to be erected splendid foot and carriage entrance
,4ates, with a keeper's lodge, to be named Prince Al-
bert's Gates. Survey-ors have also been taking plans for
the erection of splendid mansions, the fronts of which
-will be towards the park, extending fron,i, the new en-
trance nearly to-=Hyde Park .Corner.kh.e small old..
houses and -shops 'on that side,are speedily to he re-
;awed tor that purpose...

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen had a dinner party on Friday at Bucking-
ham Palace. The company included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Leiningen, the Duchess of Su-
therland, Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower, Lady Anne
Maria Dawson,
Miltor .earl of •Liverpool, Selina Viscountess
Isaroness Spaeth, Earl of Morley, and Lord Cla-
rence Paget.
The Band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards was in
attendance during dinner.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. Her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended
by the Countess Brownlow and Enrl Howe, arrived at
the Palace, Among the company were the Marchioness
of Normanby, the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lord
Burghersh, Lady Barham, and the Hon. Misses Noel,
Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, and Mr. George
Edward and the Hun. Mrs. Anson.
The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
attended and assisted at the performance of Beethoven's.
Battle Sinfonia. Her Majesty's Private Band was also
in attendance in the Grand Saloon during the evening.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. M. Daw-
son, visited her Majesty and Prince Albert, on Saturday,
and remained to lunch.

The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the
Queen, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of
some Courts-martial.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the garden of
Buckingham Palace on Saturday forenoon.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty
on Saturday.
The 'Band of the Scots Fusiliers attended at Bucking-
ham Palace on Thursday night.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince and Princess of Leiningen, left Buckingham
Palace at a quarter past three o'clock on Saturday after-
noon, in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hus •
sars, for Claremont. Her Royal Highness the Princess
Royal, with her attendants, followed in another carriage
and four. The Royal Suite occupied two carriages and
four, and consisted of Lady Portman, Baroness Lehzen,
Baroness Spaeth, Lord Poltimore, Colonel Wemyss,
Colonel Wylde, and Dr.• Prcetorius.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to
their carriage by the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord
Steward, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the
Household, and Captain Francis Seymour.
Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner had the honour of
joining the Royal Circle at Claremont at dinner, on Sa-
turday evening.

Viscount 3felbourne arrived at Claremont yesterday
afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty. Sir R. and Lady
Gardiner had also the honour of joining the Royal
dinner party at Claremont last evening.
The Queen Dowager attended Divine service at the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The
Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden preached the Sermon, from
Acts, chap. ii , verse 33. The Rev. Messrs. Povah and
Haden read the Service for the day.
The Bishop of Norwich and the Dean of Hereford,
the Clerk and Deputy-Clerk of the Closet, were in wait-
ing. Her Majesty's Suite consisted of the Viscountess
Barrington, Hon. Miss Wheatley, and Earl Howe.
The Duchess of Kent attended divine service yester-
day morning in the Chapel in Kensington Palace. Lady
Anne Maria Dawson was in waiting on her Royal
Highness.

The Duke of Cambridge,. accompanied by the Prin-
cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince
George of Cambridge, went to Kew yesterday morning,
and attended divine service in Kew Church. Colonel
Jones was in waiting on the Royal Duke. Their Royal
Highnesses returned to town in the afternoon.
The Queen Dowager visited the Duchess of Kent yes-
terday at Clarence House, St. James's.

The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny How-
ard and Sir George Cowper, honoured the Italian Opera
with her presence on Saturday evening.
The Queen Dowager attended divine service yesterday
afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowa-
ger on Saturday at Marlborough House.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied,
by the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, honoured the
Duke of Wellington with their company at dinner last
evening at Apsley House.
Mrs. Stevenson, the Lady of the American Minister,
was prevented from attending the birth-day Drawing-
room of her Majesty by a fall from her carriage, whic
has confined her for the last two or three weeks to the
house. We are gratified to hear that Mrs. Stevenson is
now convalescent.

Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Spanish and Por
tuguese bondholders, transacted business at the Foreign.
office on Saturday.

The Earl of f]rrol, Lord Steward of her Majesty's
Household, gave a State Dinner in celebration of her
Majesty's Birthday, on Friday, at Grillon's Hotel, to
the following party :—Viscount Acheson, Lord Gardner,
Lord Rrabazon, Lord Hastings, Lord Marcus Hill,
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, Hon. C. Cavendish, Right
Hon. George Stevens Byng, Sir Charles Napier, Mr.
Standish, Mr. Massey Stanley, Mr. P. Stewart, Mr. R.
Steuart, Sir Thomas Marrable, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Row-
land Alston, Mr. Bannerman, Mr. J. Duff, Mr. Ricardo,
Mr. T. Duncombe, and Lord Robert Grosvenor.
Visoount Melbourne's State Dinner on Friday, in cele-
bration of the Queen's Birthday, included the following
distinguished guests :—His Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex, the Dukes of Cleveland, Somerset, Devon-
shire, Sutherland, and Bedford ; Marquises of Anglesey
and Westminster ; Earls of Zetland, Clarendon, Lich-
field, Rosebery, Spencer, and Fitzwilliam ; Lords Straf-
ford, Hatherton, Carington, Portman, Howden, Ducie,
Dacre, Duncannon, and Barham, and the Hon. C.
Howard. •

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign Office. It was attended by all the Ministers.
The Council sat two hours,
Mr. Ainsworth and Mr. Somers had an interview with
the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Home
Office. Colonel Anson had an interview with the Noble
Marquis.
Mr. R. Steuart had an interview with Lord John Rus-
sell on Saturday at the Colonial Office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Duke of Rutland and Lady Adeliza Manners, in Bolton-
street, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam, at
Gorhambury, Herts ; the Hon. R. Law, at Mivart's Hotel,
Brook-street, from a tour ; the Hon. Stafford and Mrs. Jer-
ningham, at ditto, from the seat of Lord Stafford, in Norfolk ;
Lady Shelley and Misses Shelley, at ditto, from Field-place,
their seat in Sussex ; Mr. and Misses Holbeck, at
at ditto, from their seat in Oxfordshire ; Lord and Lady
Rodney, and Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. , in Pall-mall, from
Arlesford House, Hants ; Sir John Beckett, in Strafford-place,
from Brighton ; Lady Beresford, in Portland-place, from
the Continent; Sir Fleetwood and Lady Pellew, in Grafton-
street, from Paris ; Lord and Lady Thomas Cecil, in Eaton-
place, from Burleigh House, near Stamford; the Earl of
Stradbroke, from his seat in Suffolk ; the Marquis of Salis-
bury, in Arlington-•street, from Hatfield House ; the Countess
of Beauchamp, in Portman-square, from Sussex ; Sir George
Talbot, Bart., and Misses Talbot, at Mivart's Hotel, from
Leamington Spa; Mr. A. S. Douglas, at ditto, from Has-
tings ; Mr. and Mrs. Severn, at ditto, from Wales ; Mr. R.
Pulsford, at ditto, from a tour in the United States ; Captain
Twinlow, at ditto, from a tour; Mrs. and Miss Vialls, at ditto,
from a tour ; the Countess of Mountnorris, from a visit to Vis-
countess Valentia, at Brighten ; the Marquis and Marchioness
of Exeter, in Grosvenor-square, from Burghley House, near
Stamford, Lincolnshire ; Lord Walpole, in Grafton-street, from
Paris ; Lord and Lady Do Saumarez, from Cheltenham ; Lord
and Lady Rivers, in Belgrave-square, from Brighton ; the
Right Hon. Lord Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, at the
Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street ; Captain John Vivian and Lady,
at ditto, from Hampton Court.
DEPARTURES.

The Earl of Yarborough, from Arlington-street, from
Brockleshy, his seat in Lincolnshire ; Sir Francis and Lady
Lawley, from Grosvenor-square, for Brighton; the Rev. Ver-
non Harcourt and family from Mivart's Hotel, for West Dean
House, near Midhurst, Sussex ; Mr. G. O'Moore, from ditto,
for his seat in Ireland ; Sir Thomas and Lady Whichcote,
from ditto, for their seat in Lincolnshire ; Mr. J. Y. Burges,
from ditto, for Lymington Spa; Sir Thomas Dyke Acland,
Bart, M.P., from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, for his
seat, Killerton, Exeter.

CHANGES.
Sir Wm. Ingilby, Bart., on a tour in Germany, from bis
seat in Lincolnshire ; Viscount and Viscountess Haberton, at
Malvern Wells, from Cheltenham; the Earl of Donoughmore,
at Dublin, front Knocklofty House, Clonmell ; the Earl and
Countess of Carnwarth, at Tonbridge-wells, from Brighton.

LITERATURE.
THE QUEEN'S POISONER-3 Vas..
Bentley, London, 1841.
In this historical tale—which is the production.
of Miss Costello—we have a spirited, and tolera-
bly accurate sketch, of the internal condition of
France, during the last ball of the sixteenth cen-
tury, when the disputes between the Catholic
and the Huguenot party were raging with the
bitterest acrimony. The Queen-Mother, the un-
principled.Catherin'e de Medicis, of course figures
prominently among the characters, and next in
importance to her, is her crafty Florentine ad-
viser, Rene Bianco, from whom the story derives
its name; for he was the chief agent in her nu-
merous acts of murder, generally taking off his
victims by poison, as the least troublesome mode
of getting rid of them. This character is the
best sustained in the tale ; it is forcible, without
being exaggerated, and satisfies us that the au-
thoress thoroughly understands the temper of the
period of which she treats. Of the young King
of Navarre—afterwards the famous Henry
.the
Fourth—we have but a few cursory glimpses,
which we do not regret, for Miss Costello has not
been so successful in her delineation of this dis-
tinguished personage, as might have been ex=
pected. His character is so faintly pourtrayed,
that we have some difficulty in making otit the
lineaments. The story, generally speaking, is an'
interesting one, though it is not very skilfu ly
conducted ; and the details of the massacre of
St. Bartholomew—that " bloodiest record" in the
pages of French history—are given with singular
boldness and ,energy.

BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—WC are authorised to
state that Sir Benjamin Hall will again come forward as
a candidate for the representation of this borough at the
approaching dissolution.
TEWKESBURY.—At a special meeting of the
Council of this borough, held on Tuesday last, petitions
to Parliament,, praying for the immediate adoption of
the proposed Ministerial measures for an alteration of
the Corn-laws and a reduction of the import duties, were
unanimously agreed to,' and have since been forwarded
for presentation.— Worcester Chronicle,' -1••
We 'are requested to state, that Mr= g-utile did
not dine with -the -Chineellor of the spcchequer, on
the Queen's Birth-day, as stated in the-Court Circular,