The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-06 00:00:00

FLANDERS 1111 AIL.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 3.—The average prise of in the week
ending Saturday, January 30, was 29f. 29c , and that of rye
23f. sc. The prices show an advance of 99c. on wheat, and
of 96c. on rye per hectolitre.
The Chamber of Representatives adopted yesterday the
articles composing the chapters 1 to 4 of the budget of the
war department.
The King and Queen are expected this evening about ten
o'clock; their Majesties will arrive at Valenciennes at seven
o'clock.
A terrible accident has excited general consternation in
the communesofßupelmonde and of Basele. In the brick-kilns
of that place, the upper parts suddenly sank in!on Thursday
last, and buried eight persons in the shaft, from which the
brick loam is taken. None of them had been extricated on
Thursday evening. The owner of the works was among
them.

A correspondent of Berlin writes to the Augsburg Gazette,
that affairs relative to public worship will be administered in
future by a central consistory, at the head of which Mr.
Eichhorn will be placed, who, according to the Hanover
Gazette, will be succeeded in the department of ecclesiastical
affairs and public Instruction by M. de Savigny. This con-
sistory will be divided into two section ; one to have the
direction of the affairs of the Protestant Church, and the
other those of the Roman Catholic. The publication of the
tolerance and diet, which was pronounced sometime ago, has
been delayed by the preliminary arrangements for the orga-
nisation of the Consistory.
The general merchants, especially those of Silesia, continue
to pay much attention to the modifications which the incor-
poration of Cracow will occasion in the commercial relations
of the late republic. The Silesian merchants who have a
large capital engaged in the transactions with Cracow already
suffer, and will suffer much more, from the new custom-
house arrangement at Cracow.
The Universal German Gazette says that at a very nu-
merous meeting of workmen which has taken place at that
city, the incorporation of the former republic had been ap-
proved as favourable to the manufactures of the country, and
that a deputation had waited on Count Deym, the Austrian
commissioner, to acquaint him with the wishes of the As-
sembly. On the other hand the deputation of the mer-
chants of Cracow, who asked for a delay of the incorporation
with the Austrian line of customs, received only a derisive
answer that they might be permitted to send back the goods
which were in the entrepot to the persons who had sent
them. Several merchants declared that they would rather
leave these goods at the disposal of the Government; others
were endeavouring to sell them at any rate before the 29th
of January.
A letter from Frankfort to the Cologne Gazette states that
everything is ready on the road from Frankfort to Cologne,
that the conveyance of the India mail, by way of Trieste
and Ostend, may be effected with the greatest possible
rapidity, that this trial, which is to decide the superiority
of this road over that by Marseilles, may not be impeded
by the obstacles which Mr. Waghorne's express met with
on the last occasion. Large distributions continue t) be
made, not only among the poor, but privately among re-
spectable families for improvements.
THE KINGDOM OF HA NOVELL—The passage between Ham-
burgh and.liarburg, on the Elbe, was become extremely un•
safe, since the thaw has set in. On the 26th of January a
sledge from Ilarburg broke in at Rechersteig, in a place
where the ice was considered to be secure, and the cargo
consisting of a sum of money, amounting to 200,000 rix
dollars, fell into the water, but was happily recovered. The
waggons, chiefly loaded with potatoes, coming from Hanover,
have for some days gone by way of Wilkemsberg. The
luggage sledges, however, continue to come to Hamburgh
across the North Elba. _

FRANKFOIT ONTTIERIIINE, JAN. 28.—Her Imperial High-
ness the Crown Princess of Russia is expected to visit the
Grand Ducal Court, near Darmstadt, in the approaching
spring unless unforeseen obstacles should intervene. The
accounts of the health of the Princess are said to be satis•
factory.
The reports which have lately been circulated respecting
the second marriage of his Highness the Duke of Nassau are
quite destitute of foundation, and although such an event is
much desired by his subjects, there does not appear to be any
likelihood that their wishes will be soon fulfilled.

Many English families have this winter taken up their
residence at Wiesbaden, probably because rent is very low
there at this season. In our city, on the contrary, the num-
ber of strangers who come to winter is this year only small,
which is, perhaps, owing to the high price of provisions, &c.,
here, and theirown circumscribed means may also contribute;
though it cannot be denied that our city, like all other inland
commercial places, has disadvantages in respect to trade, yet
its general prosperity is advancing: otherwise we could not
account for the fact that our city is greatly beautified in the
interior, and is also increasing in its suburbs. We are ex-
pecting a speedy commencement of a more active trade.
The ice on the Maine and the Rhine broke yesterday, and
unless severe weather set in, or high water, which unhappily
may be expected during mild weather amid the mountains
covered with snow, the navigation will quickly recommence.
This event is looked for with some anxiety, because large
exportations of fruit are expected from Holland, and hence
naturally a falling in the prices here. It is, however, stated
that the prices of corn are still rising in Holland. If the
present mild state of the weather should continue, our
labouring classes, who are almost starving with cold and
hunger, will be enabled to procure work.
Caecow, JAN. announcement of the Imperial
Commissioner, Count Deym, dated the 25th instant, states
that all letters coming to the Imperial Post-office of Cracow,
to be forwarded to the kingdoms of Poland and of Russia,
and to be forwarded by way of Michaelowich, and those
coming to that place to be forwarded to Cracow, are to be
charged, from the Ist of February, 1847, on sending and on
delivering, a reduced local postage of three kreuges for a
single letter.