The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

FEARFUL ASSASSINATIONS AT PLACE
ST. GERY.

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BatrssnLs, SEPT. 4.—A most atrocious number of
isteassinations was committed yesterday at the resi-
dence of M. Evenepool. The sister of that gentleman
and two female servants were in the house. The
scan-servant, coming home soon after nine o'clock,
was surprised to find the door open, and going into
the ball, found the two servants, terribly mutilated
and covered with blood, lying in a corner. He in-
stantly gave the alarm, and, accompanied by the
police, rapidly followed the course of the traces of
blood, when, on arriving at the room of Mademoiselle
Evenepool, an old lady fifty years of age, they found
her assassinated with the utmost cruelty, lying on a
bench. The most minute investigation has been made.
It is evident that the murderers must have had per-
fect knowledge of the interior of the house. M.
Evenepool was at the theatre when this tragic occur-
rence took place. No trace has yet been discovered
of the murderers, but it is supposed that they got in
by the garden, and then entered the house by means
of false keys. The object of the assassins was to
possess themselves of Mademoiselle Evenepool's
jewels, which they succeeded in taking, and likewise
some money. It is quite impossible to conceive the
emotion which this terrible affair has caused. The
house is, now surrounded by gendarmes, and every
exertion is being made by the magistrates and police
to find out the assassins. The man-servant, after a
long investigation, has been set at liberty. The
lovers of the two young women are being strictly
guarded. A former coachman has also been arrested.
The marks of footsteps traced from the blood about the
house have likewise been measured. The property con-
sisted of gold watches, brooches set in brilliants, &c.,
gold chains, jewellery, fourteen pieces of 3 florins of
the Netherlands, and other money, and some English
coin; minute descriptions have been sent to all the
pawnbrokers.
The bodies of the three unhappy victims are to be
officially examined this evening by MM. Jolly and De
Roubaix.
Bzusser,s, SEPT. 4.—The price of corn for the week
ending Aug. 31st was :—W beat, 25f. 30c. ; rye, 15f.
ie.,- being a fall of—Wheat, If. ; rye, 80c.
From the 2511 to 31st August thirteen vessels
entered the port of Antwerp, laden wholly or in part
with grain. The importations were :
Wheat .565,600 kil.
Rye 1,028,830 „
Barley
Flour
Rice

2,140.530 kit

Madame W. G., who caused the death of
M. Mochez, by administering to him five grains of
phosphorus, still continues under arrest.
Among M. Mochez's papers have been found
several prescriptions of this quack doctress,
which she had given to M. Muchez, who is
to be disinterred and examined. The chemist who
furnished W. G. with the drugs is said to have been
wrested.—Flanders papers, Sept. 5.
BRABANT, AUG. 13.—Our seed wasp articularly
fine in the spring ; subsequently it suffered from
drought, so that, towards the boundaries of Moldavia,
it threatened to be almost destroyed, as likewise did
the grass, but the rains which fell afterwards both
here and in Wallachia, quite renewed the face of the
earth. On the whole, however, the harvest
is bat middling. Although we have a great
demand for exportation, we have still a large
supply of our old stock on hand, so that we
can still continue to supply our neighbours; but
it is to be hoped that Western Europe will not
want our help much longer. The maize, which is
our chief, is admirable. In Moldavia, where the rain
was not so copious, things have not turned out so
well as here, especially as that place, as well as Bess-
arabia and Eastern Wallachia, have suffered from the
locusts, immense flights of which devastate the coun-
try for miles round, and may, perhaps, continue
their ravages fir some years, which is generally the
case. The banks of the Peuth have suffered exces-
sively from them. Every possible experiment is
made to effect their destruction, but hitherto quite
without effect.
Potatoes are not our staple food, and are planted
only by way of exception ; the blight from which
they suffered last year has hitherto not made its ap-
pearance. Dr. Gagee, a large landed proprietor, had
planted a field with them, which he found diseased at
the time of the crop, but in one portion of the field
where he had planted cucumbers between the potatoes,
the latter was scarcely visible among the luxuriant
leaves which covered mem in ; he was surprised to
find the potatoes perfectly fine. This is an isolated
fact which deserves attention, and we may mention
that it is a matter of observation that when the pota•
toes are planted sparingly among other vegetable,
they have thriven. .1 hus a farmer in Ba len .tates
that all his potatoes hay.• been fine, which he attri
butes to the circumstance that with every seed of
potato he put in two pew, which have grown up
with the potatoes, and now yield a second crop.—
Flanders Mail, Sept. 5.

AUSTMAN FuNns.—VIENNA, Auonsi• 211.
5 per Cent. Metalliques ..
4 per Cent. ttto. ••• • • ••• • • ...... 95 sy
3 per Cent. ditto• ••• • • • • •• • • •• 68
Loan, 1834 . • •
Ditto, 1839 •••• • • • • •• • • ••• • • ...... • • • 124%
Bank Shares • • • • • •
Esterhazy's Loan

RAILWAYS.

The Northern, or Ferdinand •••• .• •• •• 16A%

- -
Gloggnita • • • • se -• • 120 VI,
Vienna—Milan • •• • • • ••••• • • • •• ..... 108 tr

Leghorn ••••• • • • • •

•• •••• .• ••

Sienna • ...........

.......... 761;

Groeetto • • •• •• •• ••
Oldenburg •••••• •• •• .•
Pestois •• •• ............
Penh Bridge .. ••
♦peunlneu •• •.•• •• •• ••

. .....

.......... 94%

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bstranis. SErf. 4.
Actual Debt, 214 per Cent • • •••••• • • • ..
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• •• • •
Loan of Thirty Millions. Four par Cent. •
Ditto Three per Cent.. •• ••
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • •
Ditto, ditto, 1840 •••••••• • • • • • • •• 98%
Ditto, ditto, 1842 ••
Ditto, 1844. ••• • • •••••• •• • • • ••• 93%
Ditto, 1838 .... • • ...... • ...... • • 6A
Ditto of the City. 1832 •••••• • • • • .• • 99
Ditto, 1843 • ...... •• • ..... •• • ,••• 96%
Bank of Belgium. •.. • • •••• . • . Es s
~Brussele Papers. Sept. 5.
PRUSSIA :4 FUNDS.-13BILIN, Arocsr 31.
Bills. Money.
St.Schuld Sch., 314 per Cent •.•••• • • 931 i 92%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1839.4 per Cent •.• • • •
Foreign Exchange 5........................
Exchange on London. Al Sterling, 3 Months 6 24% G 24l