The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-24 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 21.—The meeting of the English re-
sidents of Brussels took place yesterday morning at the
Hotel de l'Europe, It was composed of all the English
of distinction now at Brussels ; Lord Ranfurly presided,
assisted by Lord Combermere and Admiral Drummond.
The meeting deeply sympathising with the victims of
the lamentable catastrophe which has afflicted several de-
partments of France, resolved that subscriptions should be
opened in all the towns of Belgium in which there are
English residents, and appointed a Committee to receive
them. 2,300 franca were subscribed on the spot.
According to the present arrangements of the British
Post-office, all the letters from Belgium for England are
forwarded to the chief office in London, whence they arc
again forwarded to their destination. Thus letters from
Belgium for Dover, for instance, are not delivered to their
address till they have twice travelled, to no purpose, the
distance between the two places. It was for the interest
of both countries to change a system which caused such
delays, and we learn that an application to the English
Post-office has been completely successful. From the Ist
of December next the letters from Belgium to Dover, and
the places between that town and London, will be enclosed
in a separate bag, and directed to the postmaster at Dover,
who will forward them to their destination.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AsirrEitoas, Nov. 2.)
Money. Bill..
• tetual Debt, 2.% per Cent
.)itto, ditto 5 per cent.
A omit Syndic, 4% per cent...... ............
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 71•14; 7214
Commercial Company, 4t per cent 16434 166%
Ditto (183.5 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1537, 5 per cent........ ...............
Exchange on London, One month l2
Two months
Dutch Papers, Nov. 21.
Bautiems „ Nov. 21.
RAocttrhu;:a:clLhDiGiedib,,At ,LZ2:3I.I,UmSNr
per CDe5
Cantn—t.
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 584
___--(1,4;,) 9.-.)%
3 per Cent.
----..Thirty•seven-----... CS%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent tal
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent 11()
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... ..........
National Society . ..,-
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Nov. 21.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 13
rive per Cents. Metalliques • lO3
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares l7lO
—Alipenzeine Zeitung, Nov. 19.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Nov. 20.
Bills. Money
A ustrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
A nylo-Itussian Loan 1071% 107
Russian 5 per Cent. lst series, Certificate
Inscription, lit Series lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop:. and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 971% 97
_ -
Ditto in Certificates ' S7%
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 4i 4934
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. '7314 73
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Celt...
Spanish, New 3 per Cents. —
eXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, Nov. 20.-13 4 N.—Two months. 13 2U
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13.—Seventy-five days, IL 36.
PETRRSBURGH, Nov. 10.—Two months, 39 13.16 pence.
HERLIN. Nov. 17. —Three months, 6.16 h.
LEH.IIC, Nov. 16.—Two mo ths, 6. 11N.
VIENNA, Nov. 12.—Three months. 9. 46.

HAMBURG
GR

MARKETS.
AIN.

Wheat. Marks 333 to '154 Barley, hiecklenburgh 174 to 194
--. Magdeburg 036 to 3A - Magdeburgh... 180 to 0,6
- Anhalt, white 3,4 to : 81 --- Holstein
--- red ... 236 to 363 -- Summer l6B to liB
-- Brunswick 330 to 354 Oats, Eider ..... l2O to 136
- Mecklenburg 214 to :Al3 -- Mecklenburg ... 144 to 11i8
- Polish - Holstein
--- Holstein - East Friesland... 12, tle 133
Rye, Mecklenburg
-- Dantzic
-- Elbing and Ko. Buck Wheat 6O to s's
nigsburg 225 to 246 Rapeseed, Hanover ... 501 to 525
-- Upland
- Riga 2lO to '230 Tares

COTJ
Carolina and Tennestee 714 to 9%
Georgia, ht suit
2d , 644 IPh
2d and 4th 5! f,
COI
Ithicha 13 to I.IX,
Batavia
Sumatra
Rio 4% 54
Bahia

'ON.
Maranharn
;Madras 4A
Surat
Domingo
'EE.
Domingo
La 6 ui. I, 4
6 1,4
Porto Rico 5 i %
Ila vannah 4N tiN,

8? Discount.)
Bahia, White 5% t o 7 IA
Brown 5 5N
Pernambuco, White 5% 7%
. I Brown 5 NI
;rown, 5 to 6N.

SUGAR._ (Wit'
Ilavannah, White 6 to 9
Brown 5 iii
Etio, White 5% 654
Brown
Manilla. Br,

IRELAND.

The London mails have been delayed by the boisterous
state of the weather, but the storm has ceased. As yet
no account has reached Dublin, through the provincial
press, of any losses by shipwreck on the coast of Ireland,
or of any material injury inland.
4 DARING ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE WILLIAM RAD-
CLIFFE, ESQ., OF LAOAN VALE.-It is with feelings of the
utmost horror that we publish the details of a most villan-
ous attempt, on the part of some murderous ruffian, to take
away the life of the above respected gentleman. Last
Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, as Mr. Radcliffe
was sitting in his parlour at Lagan Vale, a shot was fired
at him ; the assassin taking his aim through a chink in the
window-shutter, by which he was enabled to see his in-
tended victim. Happily the cowardly scoundrel was frus-
trated in the execution of his design. The ball struck the
table, and glancing off, fell under the chair upon which Mr.
Radcliffe was sitting. The doors of the house being
locked, that gentleman was obliged to go up stairs to pro-
cure the keys. Upon finding them he immediately opened
the hall-door, and, accompanied by his two sons, rushed down
to the porter's lodge, when as he was in the act of areu,ing
the inmates, a man dressed in a light-coloured frock coat
and glazed cap, dashed past. Mr. Radcliffe and his sons
followed the fellow, but quickly lost sight of him, owing to
the darkness of the planting at Orrr,cau. At the wooden
pathway, leading into Ann-street from the county Down,
a person answering to the above description, passed,
running so furiously that he did not stop to pay the toll,
but, pitching it to the keeper, proceeded on rapidly. This
was about half an hour after the firing of the shot. Con-
nected with the foregoing particulars, it may be stated
that the watch-dog at Lagan Vale was taken away by some
person on Wednesday evening. About five o'clock on the
same day a man called at the lodge and inquired if Mr.
R idelffe were at home. Receiuing an answer in the
affirmative, he inquired the road to the house, arid pre-
tended that he was going there, but he did not do so. Not
the slip; test suspicion attaches to any one, ror can any
reason whatever be assigned for the commission or the
outrage, Mr. Radcliffe being a gentleman universally es-
teemed. Among the immense numbers who, at various
times, have been employed by him at his mils, there is not
one who speaks of him otherwise than in terms of the
highest respect and afLction. Informations have been
forwarded to the Castle• and a rev. ard will immediately be
issued for the apprehension of the culprit.—Belfast Vin-
dicator.
" The Hon. James King, Mitchelstown, is removed
from the commission of the peace for Limerick and Tip-
perary, for sending to prison James Tobin, on a conviction
for stealing timber, the man having been summoned to
Petty Sessions far the charge, but which in the interim
Mr. King himself adjudicated, apprehending the fellow
would abscond."--Limerick Chronicle.
The preceding paragraph appeared in the limerick
Chronicle of last Saturday, and has since gone the round
of the papers. The removal of Mr. King and the transic-
a year ago. For
it would be difficult
pit i oh na apl luurdpeods
eto t
he stookto
rpyl ai eg
omwo rrevived
n
to say, though doubtless the Chronicle had some sinister
object in renewing Cork Reporter.