The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-13 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

JASSY; DEC. 20.—Accounts from Southern Russia say
that fresh corps of troops continue to arrive on the coasts
of the Black Sea. Especially in the vicinity of Odessa,
Nikolageff, and Sebastopol, such a number of troops are
assembled that 50,000 men might easily be embarked
in a few days, if there were transports to receive them ;
of these there seems to be no want, for, not to speak of the
Imperial Navy, there' is such an accumulation of merchant-
men and transports, Russian and foreign, in the principal
ports of the Black Sea, that on the lath of December
there were no fewer than 500 of them. Most of them,
it is true, are foreign vessels intended to take corn to
the'west -if' Europe, but in case of urgent, necessity they
might be had for good freight. At NiAolajeff many thou-
sand workmen are employed in repairing old and building
new men-of-war. The troops that have returned from
Circassia have not gone to their usual winter quarters, but
are all in tae vicinity of the principal ports.
Not a ship is now dismantled and laid up ; every thing
is ready for a grand expedition to Asia Minor, and so it
may- be expected that Mehemet Ali will not take any rash
steps.

ELO lAN 1, UN DS—ltal. sst.i.e, JAN. 10 1
Actual Dest, 2,/,', per. Cent ... , :i3U
Notlischild's Loan, 5 per Cr. 9 t l'o
Loan of Thirty Nlillions, 4 per Cent 1i2,,4
:3 per Cent.
Loan of Cit%, i!-':',.., .1 per Cent O4,Ai
Society of COMIIWITC, 4.,per Cent ll4
Rank 01 Belgium, 5 per Cent S4A
National Society . —
Exchange on London (short) - • ' l2
—Brusiels Papers, Jan. 10.
DUTCH FUN DS.—AIItiTERDAM, JAN. 10
Money. Wits.
. , .
Actual Debt, '..4.4 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ...... ......... ...
A inort Syndic,-41", per cent 9I N 91
Ditto, ditto, lliii per cent 7544 . 7014
Commercial Company, 4 , per cent ltis;li 166
Ditty) (IVO. and ISM) 5 per cent.
D'tto 1837, 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.
Exchange on Loudon, One Imola h II 92. v
Two months
Money is plentiful, and offered at lower rates. The Bank
has reduced the rate of discount from 5 to 3i per cent.
_Dutch Papers, Jan. 11.
A US'flt/A N FUNDS.—Virxma, JAN. 2
Fine per Cents. 51,talliques
1: oar per Cep's
Three I.sar Cents.
Bank Shares :589
—.Allgemeine Zeitung, Jal 7.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—B6ittaN,J4N. 7.
Bills. Money.
St, Schuld. Sch., 414 per cent. lOl% 103,%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 percent 10)1i 10:?38 •
14 xutiangc on London, three months 6 'el%
—.Prussia?: State Gazette, Jan. S.

PENNY POSTAGE.-The alterations made at
the Manchester Pest-office, so far as the short trial of
yesterday .would give an opportunity of judging, appear
to be judicious, and greatly to lessen the amount of
labour, which, nevertheless, is considerably increased as
compared with even the fourpenny system.. The gene-
ral receiving-box, and that which is opened while the
.
former is closed, are placed adjoining each other at the
end of the building ; and instead of one receiving
window for letters paid when posted, there arc .now
four such receiving places ; and, in order to give more
space, the money-order office has been removed to
small premises on the ground-floor, adjoining the Post-
office, formerly a shop. Double sets of sorting boxes have
also been fitted up in the office. One remarkable feature in
the system is, that scarcely any letters are now drorped
into the old receiving-box, which appears to be almost
entirely abandoned to the newspapers. Almost all
letters are now pre-paid,—paid when posted ; and five
clerks are almost constantly occupied in attending to
the receiving-windows. One circumstance has greatly
augmented the labour of the clerks at these windows,
and that is the great number of circulars which have
already been posted here. We understiind that there
has been a perceptible diminution in the number of
letters for the last kw days, probably owing :,to the
parties postponing such correspondence as was 'not of
a pressing nature, till the penny postage came into
operation. Yesterday there was a very great increase
in tho number of letters posted here , but of course it
is as yet impossible to say in what proportion to that
under the fourpenny system, or that previously iv
operation.—Manchester Guardian.
QUEEN'S BENCH, SATURDAY.—. TOCKDAL E
v. Hatssaans Platt in this case moved for a
rule to show cause why the Sheriff should not pay over
the money kyle& under the execution to the plaintiff,
It appeared that Mr. Stockdale had brought tnis action
again:4 Messrs. Hansard for the publication of a libel
r, fleeting on him, in which action it would seem the de-
fendants did not appear, and the damages were assessed
before the Sheriff. Mr. Stockdale had been obliged to
rule on the Sheriff in every step of these proceedings.
On the 23d of November last a writ of fi. fa. was issued
from this Court, calling on the Sheriff to levy, which he
did, but it was again necessary to force the Sheriff to
sell the goods levied, and on December 19 he made a
return that " he had caused to be sold the goods and
chattels in the writ mentioned for the best price to he
obtained-for the same, and he had the same money ready
to pay over to Mr. StOckdale." Mr. Stockdale and his
attorney bad demanded the money, but the Sheriff re-
fused to pay it. The present application was, that the
Sheriff, having refused to pay the money, might be or-
dered by a rule to do so, in order that, in the event of
the plaintiff taking any steps for this breach of his duty,
he might be fully prepared.—Lord Denman—Take a
rule to show cause.

BOULOGNE, CORRECTIONAL TRIBUNAL,
JAN. 8--Two duels occurred near the column, on the
9th and 10th ult., between English subjects, without
being attended with a fatal result. As Lords Loftus
and Harley, the principals in the second affair, with
their seconds, immediately that it was ended returned
to England, the French authorities lost no opportunity
of inquiring into the proceeding. But not so with the
first ad'air ; for as Mr. B-n and Mr. F-e, with
their seconds, and Mr. Dunce, the surgeon, who was
also on the ground, reside on this side the channel,
a lengthened investigation took place before the .luge
d'lnstruction, the result of which was, that Mr.
B--n alone was brought before the Tribunal on
Wednesday, on the plea that he gave the first blow,
although he Lad been highly provoked ; when, after a
short trial, the Court sentenced him to pay a floe of
twenty-five francs and expenses, and to an imprison-
ment of six days.
M. Mevcrbeer, who is passing the winter at
Baden-Baden with his family, has just finished a grand
cantata, which is to be executed in London on the occa-
sion of the Queen's marriage. The score, which is on
its way to London, is in twelve sheets in folio, of small
writing. The upper parts are very high, and can only
be executed by a first-rate singer.
The late Dowager Viscountess Harberton, who
died at Bah on Friday, was the eldest daughter and
co-heiress of the late Mr. James Spencer, and married
the late Viscount the 31st October, 1785, by whom her
Ladyship had.a family of seven children, six sons and
one daughter, six of whom survive their revered Mother.