The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-26 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, OCT. `23.—The Prussian Government
has just published the following notice :
" I hereby acquaint the public that by a Cabinet
Order of his Majesty, dated the Bth of this month, the
exportation of horses along the frontiers of the whole
monarchy, and in all directions, is prohibited for an inde-
finite time.
" Berlin, Oct. 14,1840.
" The Minister of Finance, D'ALVEN3LEREN."

OSTEND, OCT. 22.—The ramparts of the town, from
which the artillery was removed after the signing of the
24 Articles, are again armed. All the cannon and
howitzers which were formerly on them have been re-
placed. It appears that the orders for this purpose
were very pressing, for not only the gunners, but the
soldiers of the Gth regiment in garrison here have been
employed.
ANTWERP, OCT. 23.—The Princess Victoria steam-
boat arrived off this city yesterday afternoon, at five
o'clock, from Hamburgh, with horses. It appears that
in the storm which it exporienced it was necessary to
throw overboard 81 horses out of 83 that were embarked
at Hamburg. It is said that the loss will fall on the
contractor, who engaged to deliver them in good con-
dition to the French authorities at Valenciennes.
BELGI AN k UNDS—BausseLs, Ocr•
Actual Debt, 2!..i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cont ts4li
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent
per Cent.
Thirty.ssven------ .•
Loan of City, 15311,4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
National Society .
Exchange on London (short) ............... . 11 7-34
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 23. ..
AUSTRIAN PUNDS.—VIRNNA Oc
Five per Cents. fetalliques ............... T. 15
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents. ............... 98
Bank Shares —.
..................... " ............. 704
—A/igen:eine Zeitung. Oct. 141 .................. :560

on Friday afternoon Colonel and Lady Mary
Fox arrived at Holland House, Kensington, per railroad
from Yorkshire, where intelligence of his Lordship's se-
rioas illness had been immediately forwarded to them by
express. On alighting from the carriage and learning the
melancholy information of his Lordship's decease, her
Ladyship immediately fainted, and still continues indis-
posed. The mansion and demesne at Arripthill, in Bed-
fordshire, which was left to the late Lord Holland by the
late Earl of Upper Ossory, it is understood, now becomes
the property of Colonel Fox.
TERNIINATION OF THE TURN-OUT.—It is with
no ordinary gratification that we are this week
o
stats that the cotton mills in this town
are
agalloyrnent on
ac-
tivity. Part of the hands resumed their
eemsterpdays at the
Monday morning, and the
remaineer y
reduction of per cent.—Blackburn
Gazette.neinnabfulendt

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 9.4.
Seamen continue to drop in at this port for general
service, in considerable numbers. The Emerald, Sylph
and Vulcan, all arrived on Tuesday, with m !n from ,e.rious
quarters ; and the Gipsy came en the following day,
with volunteers for the Britannia and Howe. These
ships are now quite complete, and without fuss or noise,
have been manned with more than ordinarily good crews
in a very short time, and in spite of the higher wages
given by merchant ships. The regularity of a man of
war, and the easier work to be done, strongly attract
seamen to the service ; and we are Ilre that if
pensions commenced a little earlier, viz. after fif-
teen years' service, and if an able man aiming at
a higher pension were never rejected, b 1 cause he looked
a little old, these attractions would be very considerably
augmented. Both the Howe and Britannia have this
week each taken on board fifty stout boys for ser-
vice in the Mediterranean. We regra tto see an able
wrtec in the l'imcs, making such a gloomy tomparison
of the relative force of the English and French fleets in
tl;e Mediterranean. The feeling which dictates such
comparisions is very un-English, and %,e more than sus-
pect the correctness of the data, upon winch they are
founded. We have no doubt the French ships enu-
merated are all in commission, but we do not think they
are all manned. The Britannia and Howe, of 120 guns
each, were inspected this morning nt Spithead, by the
Commander-in-Chief, and both ships will proceed to
join the Mediterranean fleet about Tuesday next ; the
Calcutta, 84, is already on her passage out, which will
make our force in that quarter, seventeen sail-of-
the-line and thirteen steamers, the greater part of the
latter, first and second class, and the latter force will
very shortly be increased by the addition of the
Salamander, Hecate, Locust, and Comet. With re•
gard to a home service or squadron of reserve as it is
called, we have the Caledonia, 120, commissioned this
week, for the flag of the Commander-in-Chief (Sir G.
More), at Plymouth, in lieu of the Impregnable, 104,
which is ordered to be manned for sea, and Nile, 92
and Bombay, 84, are preparing at the same port : at
Portsmouth we have the Indus, 84, partially rigged,
and the Vengeance, 84, nearly ready, and both ex-
pected to be put in commission early next month ; an
estimate is also demanded from the officers of the differ-
ent dockyards of the cost to commission the Neptune, 120
the London, 92, Monarch, 84, Formidable, 84, and
when ready, they will also be commissioned. To these
six .50-gun frigates will be added, as inquiries as to time
and expenso ' r completion have been made respecting
the Vindictive,- Warspite, Vernon, America, Eagle, and
Gloucester.

The Russian corvette Abo, of 10 guns, Captain A.
Younser, arrived yesterday from Cronstadt, bound to
Kamschatka ; she saluted the Admiral's flag this morn.
ing, which was returned, and the platform guns are
loaded for a similar compliment to the Russian flag on
their saluting the garrison.

The Russo-Finland ship, Furst Menschikoff, Cap.
tain Lalin, from Hull, bound to Toulon, is at the
Motherbank.

The Penguin packet, Lieutenant Luce, arrived at
Falmouth, on Monday. from Mexico. She left Vera
Cruz, Aug. 24, and Havannah, S.,pt. 4. Her Ma-
j-sty's brig of war, Victor, left the latter place on the
same day for Halifax, with dispatches for the Admiral.
orought on merchants' account from
Mexico about 189,000 dollars, and 200,000 more were
expected to arrive down in the commencement of Sep-
tember.

The S apphire, troop ship, arrived at Quebec, on tha
03(1 ult. from Plymouth, with Marines, for the Lakes.
The Horatio transport, Lieut. C. Chapman, agent,
with a detachment of thirty men of the 69th Regiment,
under the command of Captain Paxton, and 179 con-
victs under the charge of Dr. Thompson, for the public
Works at Bermuda, arrived out at that Wand on the
29th August.

The survi.ying vessel Gulnare, Capt. Bas field, arrived
at Charlotte Town, Prince Edward's Island, on the 29th
August, and sailed again for Quebec on September Ist.
We fear that in one of the ships fitting at this Port
for foreign service, the recent Admiralty, order prohi-
biting extravagance in the gun-room mess, has escaped
notice, for the members have been required to provide
themselves each with Six Silver Forks ; and the subscrip.
Lion on joining the mess is 15/., 5/. of which is for wine.
Considering that the ship is going to a wine country,
this might be reduced ; but the silver fork affair is pre-
posterous.