The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

TILE SA', LONDON. TU'E§D 1/, MAY 25. 18!i

BELGIt. M.

BRUSSLLS, MAY 22.—The Paris Journals announce the ar-
rival in that capital of the Princess Isabella of Spain, from
Brussels, and add that she has been taken back to the Con-
vent, in the Rue de Sante, from which 'he eloped with Count
Gurowski. According to the Eclair of last evening, hove •
ver. her Royal Highness has arrived again in Brussels, in order
to be married here to Count Gurowski.

A Ghent Journal states that several manufacturing workmen,
with their wives and children, left that town on Monday fie
Ostend, to embark for Mexico, where they are going to be em-
ployed in new factories.
Ott Wednesday last, at Namur, there was a sale of several fine
specimens of English cattle recently imported by the Belgian
Government, with a view to improving the native breeds.
Great interest was excited; at the meeting the animals sold at
prices varying from 540 f. to 210 f. a head.
BUYING A BARGAIN.—A person calling himself Monsieur
Frederick Lemoine, of very elegant manners, made his appear-
ance a few days since at Bruges with a handsome horse and
smart tilbury. Being thoroughly conversant with everything re-
lating to horses, the young gentleman quickly formed an ac-
quaintance with a number of sporting gentlemen ; the con-
versation naturally turned on the subject the most con-
genial to their tastes, and Monsieur Lemoine expressed a
wish to sell his turn-out for a moderate sum. A bargain was
forthwith concluded, and horse and tilbury became the pro-
perty of a military officer, who lost no time in paying down
on the nail 550 fr. the sum demanded. As the objects were
worth at least 1,000 fr., the military man sold his-bargain on
the following morning to a Monsieur G., and netted a hand-
some profit. Thus far all parties were perfectly content; but,
unfortunately for the officer, two days afterwards, a livery-stable
keeper rode into Bruges, at full speed, in search of the young
gentleman, and then appeared that both horse and tilbury
were his property, having been hired for half a day by the
well-dressed swindler, who had directed his steps towards
Ostend, and thence to Dunkirk, for the purpose, it is supposed, of
avoiding any disagreeable questions which might possibly be
put to.him. The affair will shortly be taken into a Court of
Law ; the livery-stable keeper claiming his property, and the
officer who loses, conszquently, his 550 francs, threatens Mon-
sieur G., as the final purchaser of the property, with an action
to make him fulfil the terms of his engagement.
The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel Soho
arrived from London yesterday at Antwerp, at a little before
twelve o'clock at noon, bringing forty-five passengers, among
them the Hon. Mrs. Spiers.
Sir Hamilton Seymour will give a grand dinner on Monday,
in honour of the birth-day of the Queen of England.
A THREATENING LETTER.—On Wednesday last the police
paid a domiciliary visit to Monsieur Puttemans, a dealer in
articles of vertu residing in Rue Montagne de la Cour, begging
him to assist them in forwarding the ends of justice. Their
object was to ascertain whether an individual would present
himself to take possession of a bag of silver which Mr. Piet, a
watchmaker in the Rue de la bla,daleine had been called upon
(under threats of horrible consequences in case of refusal) to de-
posit near a window in a passage leading to the Museum and which
separates the houses of the above-named tradesmen. The sum of
500 f. the sum required in the threatening letter alluded to, was
accordingly placed in the window ; but no person made his ap-
pearance during the whole of the night to seize the bag. How-
ever, on the following morning a young man was seen holding a
letter in his hand which he was reading, who suddenly took
away the bag, and was instantly taken into custody by the
officers. He described himself as a clerk in the employ of 31.
Muquardt, a bookseller. On comparing his handwriting with
that of the letter received by M. Puttemans, they appeared to
resemble each other so much that he was committed to prison
to await his trial. He is about 18 years of age, and had been
in the service of M. Plet, the watchmaker.— British Gazette.