The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-02 00:00:00

(LEFT SPEAYINO.)

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 30.—The Chamber of Representa-
tives was again occupied to-day in discussing budgets
of Foreign Affairs and of the Marine. In the general
discussion Messrs. Osy and Delahaye vehemently in-
sisted that reductions and the utmost economy should be
be exercised, and for that purpose introduced as soon as
possible into the departments of personal diplomacy
and of the Military Marine. M. Delehaye de-
clared that unless these reductions were proposed by
the Government in the budget next year, he should be
forced to vote against this budget. M. Castian went
further and declared that from this year his vote should
be neutral. M. D'Hoffschmidt endeavoured to shew that
the salaries enjoyed by diplomatic persons were not too
high, but he promised at the same time that he would
not consent to any augmentation, which is being solicited
by several of the agents.
TILE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.—On the Ist of December
the Emperor of Russia completed the twenty second
year of his reign ; in three years, therefore, he will
have arrived at un epoch, which has not bean attained
by any of the Czars before him. A fundamental law
exists in Russia which dates before the time of Peter
the Great, and by which the Emperor of Russia cannot
reign more than twenty-five years. After this period he
is obliged to abdicate in favour of the heir presumptive
of the Imperial Crown ; or, if he wants to maintain
himself on the throne he does so at the risk of braving
all the aristocracy of Russia, and of being stabbed or
strangled in his own palace. Such at least were the
customs of the Czars, for a long period has elapsed
since any attained the 25th year of his reign. The reso-
lution which the Emperor will take for this important
period has been deeply engaging parties at St.
Petersburg. Many suppose that he will abdicate
in favour of the Prince Royal Alexander Nicoleviwtsch,
who is now twenty-nine years of age, and that he will
retire into Germany, but the more general opinion is
that he will convoke the Senate, for the purpose of hav-
ing this barborous law revoked, and thus be enabled to
continue his reign without fear of the Nobles.
The Emperor himselt avoids all allusion to the sub-
ject.

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS OF RusslA.—The St. Pe-
tersburgh Journal of Manufactures publishes the follow-
in details relative to the commercial statistics of St.
Petersburgh for the year 1846. At the close of this
year there were in Russia 860 merchants of the first
class, 2,283 of the second class, 37,651 of the third
class, 34 foreign commercial houses, 7,147 peasants en-
gaged in commerce. The capital employed in com-
merce amounted to 11,603,400 silver rubles (660,303,800
franci); in 1846 82 ships were built of from 16
150 lasts, and 56 foreign vessels were bought.
During this year 44 Russian ships were wrecked, The
four insurance companies of Odessa have insured to the
amount of 3,354,852 s. r., of which 75,634 s. r. were re-
claimed for accidents.

The number of Russian ships which left the ports of
Russia during the year were 1,012 with cargo, and 33
with ballast. The number of ships which entered the
port was 683 with cargo, and 314 with ballast. 203 fo-
reign vessels were admittted to patent under the Rus-
sian flag.
EARLY APPROACH OF WlNTER.—Letters from the
East Sea Parvenues of Russia say we hare had com-
plete winter, and in the last four weeks, during the
latter half of October, snow has every where fallen, al-
though it has between while melted away. In the year
1829 winter set in at about the same season. Already,
on the 13th of November, it was necessary to remove
the fhating bridge at Riga, so that the town is severed
into two parts.
CAIRO, Nov. B.—Mehemet Ali arrived here a few
days ago, and will probably not break up for Upper
Egypt for some time. The inexhaustable nature of this
veter►i, who still moves about with astonishing celerity,
seems to promise a long life. The Viceroy has for
years been so regular in his course of life, that it is
really a matter of surprise that one word from the phy-
sicians will induce him to exchange the gardens of
Shorsbra for the citadelle.

The Government is doing all in its power to abate as
filth. as possible of the long-standing monopoly of trade;
hence the constant squabbles with all the Consulates.
The Minister of Commerce is, as is well known, an
American, and therefore by birth and from principle a
secret, and, if circumstances call for it, an avowed enemy
of all European repre,entatives; the only one who has yet
arrive 1 here is M. Barrot from France. From Abyssinia
we learn from a well informed European, who has been
long resident there:—" We are now at war. Übije, the
governor of Tigrsi, has again taken the field against
Ras Ali, the nominal Emperor of Gondar, or rather has
challenged him; for Übije is in Sernen, and Ras
Ali as arrived in Wagnera from Semen, where
both parties were gazing at each other for the
last six months with immense forces, without offering
offering battle. Each seems afraid of the other, for the
battle will be decided by the life or death of one or the
other of these chiefs. It is, however, by no means im-
probable that after the six months activity, hunger and
fatigue may bring about peace—for such is Abyssinia.
DUTCII FUNDS.—AmiTiIDAXienNe7.. 29.
Bills
Actual Debt, 2% per Cont.. •.•••• •• • 54 541 A
Ditto, 3 per Cent •• .• .• •• 65% 66
Ditto, 4 per Cent.• ••••• • • • • •• •• 544 84%
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cont....—. 53% 84
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent 162% 163
East India Loan, 4 per Cent• •..•• •• • •
Exchange on London, at sight ........12 15
Two months... •.• • • • • . 12
On llamburgh, at sight •• .. 35 37
Two months.... ••••••• • • • • 34 74
On Paris • ••••••• • • • • • •• 56 50
Two ineuths. • • ..... ••• • • 55

GREAT PARLIAMENTARY FEAT.—George Bea -
tinck, alias the Stable Mind, alias the Protectionist Pot,
can be backed for any amount, to perform the following
feat: —lle will pick up with his memory four octavo
pages of unconnected statements, trundle a theory over
a dozen great facts, contradict himself fourteen times,
swallow a score of full-sized absurdities, and conclude by
his celebrated figure•dance blindfold, among three pare-
phletfuls of statistics, without ever touching the real
point of the case, all in one hour. His money will bo
ready at any of the sporting houses, and he can alway s
be heard of at the Carlton, where he is ready to mak o
the :above match, if he can be accommodated with a
customer.—Punch.

We are most happy in being able to state, tha
Government has recognized the claims of the families
of those humane and brave officers who perished in this
town from fever while in the discharge of the duty of
relieving the sick and destitute. Early in the year Mr.
Rushton, with his usual active benevolence, made strong
representations to Sir George Grey, and his endeavours
did not want thesupport which Mr. Austin, the Poor law
Assistant Commissioner, could officially give. The re-
sult has been, that Government has placed at the dis-
posal of the two rectors and Mr. Rushton (with whom
Mr. Austin forms a committee), a sum equal to one
year's salary for each of the officers and surgeons who
died in the discharge of a sacred duty.—Liverpool
Journal.

A RE-MARRIAGE.—" We are about," says a Frank-
fort letter of the 27th, "to witness a marriage of a very
singular description. Mdlle. de Reichenbach, daughter
of the late Grand Duke of llesse-Cassel by a morga-
natic marriage, was divorcid from her first husband,
Count de Luktner. She then married M. Wolzdorff, a
Councillor of State, who died two years ago. She is
now about to re-marry her first husband, the political
differences which led to their divorce no longer existing."
THE MONSTER MOTION.—Mr. Chisholm Anstey
has In ado the nearest approach to the discovery of per-
petual motion that has ever yet been arrived at. It oc-
cupies four pages of the Votes of the House of Com-
mons; extends through the whole history of England;
comprises the whole of the known, and three parts of
the unknown world ; and refers to every communica-
tion, " either secret or ostensible," that has ever passed
between any persons upon any subject whatever. To
comply with this motion we should require another
Raleigh, to write another History of the World; another
Cocker, to invent another system of arithmetic capable
of making the calculations and returns that Mr. Chis-
holm Alistev demands; and it would be necessary to
examine all-the chiefs of all the tribes with which this
lncountry,uch.h as ever communicated, by treaty or otherwise.

A peasant, in cultivating the ground at Bouaierea-
aux-Claus, in the department of the Meurthe, lately
found a seal of the Emperor Henry 111., called " the
Black." It is in massive silver, clumsily made, weighs
about twenty-five grammes (nearly an ounce), and has
3. 11. S., signifying " seal of Henry III." inscribed on
it. The Emperor was son of Conrad 11., and cousin
of Brunon, Bishop of Toul, whom he mailed to be
electe 1 Pope at the Diet of Worms, and who afterwards
became Saint Leon IX. Henry 111. was born in 1017,
succeeded his father in 1039, died in 1056, and was buried
at Spire.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The corporation of Swan-
sea, where the British Association are to assemble next
year, have most liberally voted five hundred pounds to-
wards their accommodation and entertainment. It is
expected that this sum will be doubled by private dGna-
tions, so that the local fund will be more than ample
to provide all the essential requirements, so ably ar-
ranged annually under the experienced guidance of the
assistant-general secretary. But the spirit evinced by
such a fund, conbined with well-known Welsh hospi-
tality, and with the attractions of Swansea and its neigh-
bourhood, afford good promise for the meeting of 1848.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY COURT, Dec. 1.
THE MARY.-COLLISION.

The Po, a schooner of 74 tons, belonging to Yar-
mouth, and the Mary, a brig of 161 tons, of Ipswich, the
latter in ballast, bound to Sunderland, came In collision
off Foulness, on the night of the Bth of June last. The
wind was W.N.W., blowing strong. The schooner was
closehauled on the starboard tack; the Mary was work-
ing to windward on the larboard tack. The vessels
being in such a position as to be likely to meet, it was
the duty of the Po to keep her conrse, and that of the
Mary to give way. The simple issue, therefore, was,
whether the Mary did bear up, and whether the Po kept
her course, the owners of the Mary alleging that the
schooner first starboarded her helm and then ported it.
The Court was assisted by Trinity Masters.
After hearing the Queen's Advocate and Dr. Bayford
for the Po, and Dr. Addams and Dr. Twisa for the brig,
Dr. LUSIINGTON said there were two questions for the
Trinity Masters to decide—namely, whether the Mary
did really give way, and whether she did so in due
time. The questions were purely nautical, and he left
them to the gentlemen who assisted him, without ex-
pressing any opinion of his own.
The Trinity Masters considered the blame to be attri-
butable solely to the Mary; and
The COURT pronounced for the damage claimed by
the Po, and dismissed the cross action by the Mary.