The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

EVENTING St'N.

IS THERE A TAX ON IMPORTI"=D

BREAD ?
TO TEE EDITOR 01 THE' SUN.

Sra,—On a careful perusal of the Journal of Tract;?,
I cannot discover that bread or biscuits, under the head
of Corn or Grain, are at all mentioned, or under any
other head ; consequently bread and biscuits can be atlx-
rnitted under the following head of duty :
Goods not particularly mentioned. (See p. 55.)
Goods being either in part .or wholly manufactured,
and not being enumerated, nor otherwise charged with
duty, and not prohibited to be imi.•orted into, or used in
Great Britain or Ireland, of 1001. vi due, 201.
Under the above circumstances, I consider that bread
and biscuits can be made in the Isla.nds of Guernsey
Sark, Jersey, or Alderney. Flour, &c., can be procured
from America, or elsewhere, to any amount- London
and the eastern parts can get supplied immediately from
Calais and Boulogne. I am, &c.
[Like our Correspondent, we cannot find the article
Bread any where enumerated in the Tariff, or in "
Laws and Regulations of the Customs." We remenTber,
however, that in 1838 or 1839, a proposition was made to
establish a Bread-Making Company in Holland, aid im-
port bread by steamers from that country; and we believe
the proposition was not carried into effect, becauseit was
understood that the importation would be contrary- to
Sun.]

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL:
USSELS, Nov. 16.—For some days past the mixed
commission of Navigation of Antwerp, has met very
very frequently. It appears that the operations of the
Commiecion are very much advanced. This is the cause
of the abst7nce of M. de Brouckeil, the principal Belgian
Commissioner,. from his place in the Chamber of Repre-
sentatives. _

His Majesty limas commuted the sentence of death
passed by the Court of Assizes of Brabant on Vander-
nunlen to hard labour' for life and the pillory.
The day before yeste7rday Mesers. Vandersmissen and
Parrot, and Madame Vaedermissen, were examined at
great length by M. Delcoure,
On Saturday afternoon Genc"r.al Vandersmissen, accom-
panied by M. Van Bursel, Commissary of Police, went
from the prison of the Petit Canoes to see his mother,
xho is confined to her bed. The th.meral remained two
three hours with the patient, and w,as then conducted
ck to his prison.
The Feuille de Tournai of the 13th says
" A report has been circulated since Thvrsday even-
ing, which has dreadfally alarmed our fellwx-citizens.
It was stated that an attempt had been made to blow
up our citadel. We subjoin a notice, which will put an
end to these absurdities.
" The Colonel Commandant thinks it his duty to in-
orm the citizens that there is no foundation whate‘'er
for the report that an attempt has been made to blow up.
the powder magazines of the citadel, and that they may
be perfectly easy in that respect.
(Signed) " CHARLES DE LA PLANQUE.
" Tournai, Nov. 13, 1841."
A grand fete at Vauxhall is announced, which will
be got up by the English residents in Bruisels, in honour
the birth of the Prince of 'Wales.
An innovation of great advantage to our city has'been
introduced, in consequence of wai the cargoes hitherto
landed at Antwerp, will, in future, be brought to our
basins. M. I. B. Meirs, of Brussels, to whom we are
indebted for the first realisation of this idea, has just
received a cargo of figs, oranges, cork, &c., by the
Reine (a Belgian ship) from Villa Vova direct.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 12.—His Majesty, as Grand Duke
of Luxemburg, has appointed M. Von Scheriff to be
his Minister Plenipotentiary to the German Diet, and.
likewise to the Courts of Hesse Cassel and Nassau, and
the city of Frankfort.
We have learnt, from what we consider to be good
authority, that his Majesty has been pleased to appoint
his son, Prince Alexander, to be his representative in
the Grand Duchy.
DUTCII FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Nov. 16.
Money. BD's.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent ................a 50% 511 a
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. ..... ..... 99)(2 99%
AMOS t Syndic, 4% per cent 904 ill%
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent .......... ... • 75 70Y1
Commercial ompany, 4!4 rer cent ....... . 155 M .15.!A
Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... ..„ lti Xr 102
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month .. 12 It:
Two months ......... 12 to
Hamburgb, One month 35 73,
Two months 33 1564;"
Dutch Papers, Nov. 17.
ttELGI AN U N DS—naudang , Nov. 16.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. .... ..... 53
Kothschild'b Loan, 5 per ..... 10114
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92
3 per Cent.

Thirty.gcven

(1 ' 40)••.••••..• 101%
Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent 94%
Society of Commerce, 4 Sper Cent -101%
13:Ink of' Belgium, 5 per Cent.... .....
National Society.
Exchange on London (sh,t)
—Brussels Papers, Nov. lb.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. lil,
five per Cents. Metailictees
Font per Cents.... ....... ........... ....... .. ..........
three p,r Cents.
Bank shaus '562
—All7enieine Zettung. Nov. 13.
H Milß 1J Itli 13051.ShNHALLE, N0v.17.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Sham —158 J
Anglo-Russian Loan ICB% itko,4
Russian 5 per Cent. let series, Certificate
inscription, Ist Se:iqs IO
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d end 4th
Series ... ..... .... ...... •..•. ..... .......... 981,4 98
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840)
Dutch ,etual Debt, 2% pei Cent ...... , 50
Ditto S per Cent —
Polish Bondi
___

New ticket
Anglo.Danisti Loan, 3 per Cent 76 751 i
N..twegian Loin, lBa4, 4 per Cunt..........
SF.nish. New 5 per Cents.— 15%
EXCHANGE% ON LONDON.
Prrsesnunon, Nor; 5. —Two months. 3S 13- 3 pence.
RICA, NOT. 6. —Three Months, 39 r... 16.
VIENNA, Nov. 6.7-Three months. 9. 65.

IRELAND.
THE LORD-LIEUTENANT'S LEVEE.

DUBLIN, Nov. 17.—The attendance at Earl De Grey's
levee to-day was most numerous. The Courts of Law
were at an early hour closed by the Judges ; the divi-
sional pol'ce-offices and several public institutions were
also closed ; the Judges, the Magistrates, public func-
tionaries, of all classes—politicians of all views, religions,
and partiespresented themselves at the Castle, paid
their respects to Earl De Grey, and were in turn gra-
ciously received by him. The train of vehicles extend-
ing from Sackville-street to the Castle was immense—
composed, as it chiefly was, of private carriages. The
public conveyances were not so numerous, though every
vehicle of that species which could be procured in Dub-
lin was in requisition, and several gentlemen who could
not obtain one, for what is tritely called " love or money,"
were obliged to walk to the Castle in Court dress. The
majority of the shops, in the line of procession, were
closed, and windows in all directions were filled with
ladies, who are always attracted to such observations
whenever there is anything worth seeing in the city.
The Lord Mayor left the Mansion-house shortly after
twelve o'clock, in his vis a vis carriage, accompanied by
the Board of Aldermen. He was loudly cheered all the
way to the Castle, as well as on his return to the Man-
, sion-h ouse.

It is with much concern we have to announce
the decease of Mr. George Bush, the Civil Engineer ; he
died on Saturday last, at his father's residence in Lans-
downe-)a l .e after a long and painful illness. He was
a young an of di-stinguished talents, and though oat y
in his thirty-second year, had completed several wor ks
of great importance, particularly in South Wales. He
was much beloved and respected by a large circle of
friends and connections.-13rightcn Gazette.
EXTENT OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS.—
The Liverpool Times, in announcing the birth of the
Duke of Cornwall, thus sums up the vast extent of the
empire, which it is to be hoped he will, at some future
and distant day, preside over :—" Salutes in honour of
his birth will be fired—in America—on the shores of
Hudson Bay, along the whole line of the Canadian
Lakes, in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland,
in the Bermudas, at a hundred points in the West
Indies, in the forests of Guiana, and in the distant
Falkland Islands, near Cape Font '• in Europe—in the
British Islands, from the Rock of Gibraltar, from the
impregnable fortifications of Malta, and in the lonian
Islands ;in Africa—on the Guinea Coast, and St. He-
lena and Ascension, from the Cape to t
hefortresso rang e
River, and at the Mauritius ; in Asia—from thenby
of Aden in Arabia, at Karrack in the Persica Gulf;
the British army in Affghanistan, along the
ciliri,mg. to
eas,laya
Mountains, the Banks of the Indus and
at Prince of
the southern point of India, in the Island tohf Ceylon, be-
yond the Ganges in Assam and Arracasli,
Wales Island and Sineapore, and onitihe
Australia, at tli
ores of China,
at Hong Kong and Chusan ; and
settlements formed on every side
which separates
of in
Australian Con-
tinent and Islands, and in the Stra_o
~,rinee has
ever
the Islands of the New Zealanders. .I\ 1
ntry—in ancient or
been born, in this or any otheruca
(1, I be hailed with re-
modern times—whose birth
joicing at so many different and distant points in every
quarter of the world."
Yesterday evening an
CORONER'S INQUEST
inquest before Mr. Payne,
inquest was held in the Ftlwe
of the body of Mr. Edmund
independent pro-
the City Coroner, on vier
Baker, aged 78,nine years been an inmate of
formerly
but for the last possessing
perty,ofthe Court of Chancery.
The r contempt
the above prison o
The Jury were empanelled
p nelled at the Red Lion, Poppins-
court, Fleet street, but in consequence of a memorial of
the Warden of the
prison, from Mr. Ostler, and other
inmates, requesting that all such inquiries should be
held within the walls,_ the Jury adjourned to the
prison, w here the
evidence was entered upon. It
appeared,.froin
tlic evidence, that the deceased was of
n(c ble connexions, and had, many years
highly res.:2- ta In 1833
been in good circumstances. he was im-
prisoned for contempt of the Court of Chancery, at
Which period the whole of his household property was
sold for the benefit of his creditors, Mr. Ilillyard,
solicitor of Furnival's Inn, being employed upon the oc-
casion ' for the creditors. The deceased had languished
in prison ever since, at times suffering severely from po-
verty, his only allowance being from his nephew, Sir
Joshua Erskine, which was ten shillings Weekly. He
had latterly declined in health ; and, being. bedridden,
he was attended by Mr. Cooper, surgeon, of Bedford-
square.
He (lied on Tuesday. Verdiet--" Natural death."
We arc given to understand that the Directors
of the Grand Junction Railroad have, with a very be-
coming liberality, defrayed the travelling
expenses, &c.,
of those friends of the late Mr. Thomas Phillips who
considered it their duty to repair to the spot where the
unfortunate and fatal accident took place, and who like-
wise attended the inquest. The' expemes of the removal
of the remains of the ill-fated gent.eman to the ter-
minus of the Birmingham Railway, at Euston- square,
have also been defrayed by the Directors.
A TRUISM.—A person passing through Aln-
• wick, and observistg upon a door, " Haswell, surgeon,"
. &e., remarked the gentleman's name would be as well
t without the IL— York Courant.