The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-20 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 17.—We learn that the prepara-
tions for the solemn ceremony of the 23th of this month,
are proceeding with the greatest diligeoce both in the
church and out of it.
ARNIIEIM, Nov. 15.—We hear that horses continue
to be purchased in these parts, and sent to France, for
which, if approved, good prices are obtained, and as
there is a sufficient number of horses to meet the de-
mand, the farmer profits by the opportunity to sell them
to advantage.—Dutch Papers, Nov. 18.
FRANKFORT, Nov. 15.—The Independent of Bros-
sets, of the 10th of this month, gives, under the head of
Armaments in Germany, a letter, dated Frankfort, Bth
November, which betrays the most complete ignorance
of what is passing in Germany, in malevolence, in bad
faith, in the writer of the letter ; the Conservative Jour-
nals must be on their guard against such articles, which
are much more suited to the columns of the National.
To all these exaggerated statements of the correspondent
of the Independent, we have to reply," The Government
of Germany have -had occasion to be convinced, in the
present state of affairs, that there exists in the common
country a national spirit strong enough to meet any
event which might disturb the general peace ; hut
these Governments have, at the same time, wisely re-
solved not to give their armaments in the western fron-
tier of Germany an extent and a character which
might have rendered the position of the Conservative
party in France more difficult, and paralyzed the efforts of
the King of the French and his Government to pre-
serve peace."—Journal de Frankfort, Nov. 15.
BERLIN, Nov. 13.—We are able to affirm, on the
authority of private letters, to which full credit may be
given, that the two brothers Grimm will comply with
the invitation of the King of Prussia to come to Berlin.
If these eminent men have perhaps hesitated to accept
a situation in Berlin all difficulties are removed by the
highly advantageous proposals which have been made to
them both with respect to salary and the scientific du-
ties which they will have to fulfil.—Hanzbu rgh
Borsenhalle , Nov. 14.

SELGI AN l• UNDS—BRUSBELS, Nov. W.
Actual Dent, 2, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent .IN .
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ETI IA
(F4',)
,------ 3 per Cent.
—Thirty.seven--- ~. 67 %
Loan of City, 1332, 4 per Cent. 9O
Society of Commerce, 4!.iper Cent llO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... .........
National Society. —
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Nov. 18.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—VIENNA, Nov. 10
Five per Cents. Metalliques - IOOX
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1727
—.4lleenteine Zeituisg, Nov. 13
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Nov. 14.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1:01
Anelo.Russian Loan 107% 1074
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Se'ios —
Russian 5 per Cent. Hopa and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 9712 97
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2V, per Cent —• 4',4K,
Ditto S per Cent — -
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo.. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 73 7'%
Norwegian Loan, 1554, 4 per C.nt. lOl
Spanish. New 3 per Cent 5.....—....,.......
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beals', Nov. 14.
Bills. Money,
St, Schuld. Sch., 4,•9 per cent. ...... .......103% 10234
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. ii9,/,‘
klictiange on London, three months ... 6 16%
—Prussia's Slate Gazette, Nov. lb.

TOTAL WRECK OF THE LORD

NELSON, OF MILFORD.

(From a Correspondent of the Liverpool courier.)
The Lord Nelson, from Poole to Runcorn, being off
the North Bank last night, and having made a signal
for a pilot, but none having boarded her (supposed to
have been in Hoylake), she struck upon the North
Bank, and continuing to beat violently, one of the masts
went by the board ; and the sea continuing to wash
over her, made her a complete wreck. The men lashed
themselves to the rigging of the other mast, and were
exposed the whole night ; and the vessel parting (the
decks having been washed from her), the crew expected
every moment to be ingulfed in the tremendous
seas, which were making complete breaches over
her from stem to stern. They were providentially
descried by the crew of a river boat, consisting
of the owner and three men, belonging to Benja-
min Davies, of Liverpool ; and after repeated efforts
at the imminent risk of their own lives, from the danger
of the boat being stove, the crew of the vessel being
also completely exhausted from the length of time they
had bean exposed in the rigging, they succeeded in sav-
ing the whole of them—namely, the master and his son,
three men and a boy. The boatmen having brought
them into the river, were worn out with rowing, and
the boat was taken in tow by the Egremont steamer,
and they were landed at the Prince's pierhead almost
powerless. They were taken at once to the under-
writers' room, to Mr. Court, the Secretary of the Mer-
chants' Sc.eiety for Shipwrecked Seamen, who referred 1
them to Messrs. Chapman and Willis, the agents for
Lloyd's, who said they ought to have been attended to
by the Humane Society ; and Mr. Willis recom-
mended them to be taken to the parish•office, and
he immediately waited on Mr. Court for an expla-
nation, and came to the parish-office, where the men
met with every attention, and were sent up in a coach
to the workhouse, with a pressing note to the Governor
to furnish them with dry clothes and whatever nourish-
ment and medical assistance they required, where they
now remain. The master has been very much bruised,
and was rendered almost senseless from the length of

ime before he could be attended to, and his son, a boy

thirteen, was very much swelled. The rest were not
so much hurt, and may soon recruit under the careful
nursing of Mr. Dowdall's assistants.
The poor men have not saved an article of clothing ;
they are, indeed, objects of compassion, and were kept
in the state in which they were brought ashore for a
long time, while bandied about for a place of refuge.
The boatmen deserve great praise for their perse-
vering efforts, and for risking their lives to save their
fellow-creatures, and I trust their services will notego
unrewarded. They also report a ship to be ashore near
the Lord Nelson, name unknown.
Boatmen's names :—Benjamin Davies, owner ; and
John, Henry, and James Martindale.
George's Pierhead, Nov. 17, 1840, 11 o'clock, p.m.
Superintendent Forstall reports that the flag of dis-
tress at Bidston was observed by the undermentioned
crew of the Liverpool lifeboat, at George's Pierhead, at
two o'clock, p.m. of the 17th inst., when John Murphy,
William Chatterton, Henry Chatterton, and William
Lang, took the lifeboat from No. 1, Graving•dock, pro-
ceeded round the Rock of Cheshire, and outward ;
where they found the ship Scotland, loaded with timber,
from Quebec to Liverpool, dismasted, and without a
human being on board. They succeeded in bringing
her safe into Magazine-bank, thereby saving property
to the amount of 5,0001. for whomsoever it may concern.

It will be seen by an advertisement in this day's
Chronicle that a requi'sition, numerously signed by the in-
habitants of Farringdon Without, to Sir James Duke,
M. P,, that he would allow himself to be put in nomina-
tion for the vacant office of Alderman for that Ward,
having been presented to that gentleman, he has complied
with their wishes. The motives urged in the requisition
are,d the exemplary manner in which he discharged the
uties of the Shrievalty, his high standing and long con-
nection:Middlesex
with the commercial interests of the City of Lon-
m whichent harei di,.
1 dun, his experience
. as a Magistrate for the County of
Ills important station as a Member of Parlia-
atshe independent consistency and ability with
column, leads us° t
dischargedi that important trust. A report
of a meeting the electors of the ward, in another
eonftertain the most favourable anticipa-
tionshas the support of the
of the sueeessss
whose Sir James Duke. It is evident he
most respectable and influential in-
habitants of the ward.
nr—eawm
daps ago,
Pt
( .7.ironi
Gardel,
celebratedcle.in the annals
of the ballet, died a
82. He was born at Naneyysiang at the advanced a2,-c of
of a ballet-master of Stanisletus,
wohrraine, and was the son
Poland, became Duke of Lorraine.o on losing the Crown
of Gardel wa., v •
either
as a dancer or first ballet-master, attached for
the Academic Royale or Grand Opera of 4 years to
Paris, at which
theatre he made his debut in 1774. He established,
his re-
putation by several fine compositions,
in the lofty sty le of
Noverre and Dauberval, and was chiefly distingui,bed for
the adaptation of mytholrgical subjects to the stage. His
ballets of Telemaque, Paris, Psyche, Achille a -5_ eyros
Paul et Virginie, and La Daneomanic, had long placed
him among the first and best choregraphes.