The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-27 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

FRANKFORT, Nov. 22.—We receive from different
quarters accounts of the impression made all over Ger-
many by the resolution of the three Powers for the in-
corporation of the republic of Cracow with the Austrian
empire. Letters from the Russian capital say that the
news had caused a panic on ChangC, and that all the
funds, which had latterly risen a little, had fallen con-
siderably. Accounts from Vienna of the 18th are of the
same tenor. This state of uncertainty has had an un-
favourable effect on various branches of commerce.
There is a letter from Hanover which says :—" The un-
certain state of things at present has, we are sorry to
say, a very unfavourable influence on our manufacture,;
and especially the jewellers complain that their commis-
sions are much inferior to what they usually are at
this season of the year. There is, unfortunately, but
little prospect that matters will be better in the succeed-
ing years.
STUTTGARD, Nov. 19.—The Chamber of Commerce
in this city, in a report to the Minister of Finance, has
stated the disadvantages of the commercial convention
between Holland and Belgium to the manufactures of
the States of the Zollverein, and requesting that mea-
sures may be taken to put an end to those disadvantages,
particularly by imposing differential duties on Dutch co-
lonial produce.
FRANKFORT, Nov. 21.—We learn that the Prussian
General Post-office, has the plan of forming a general
German postal convention, for the purpose of bringing
about an agreement to impose one uniform rate of
postage in all the German States. For this purpose it is
proposed to place all the German post-offices under a
central administration.

THE HAGUE, Nov. 24.—The Netherland's Staats
Courant publishes officially the treaty of Commerce and
Navigation concluded at St. Petersburg on the 13th of
September last, between the Netherlands and Russia. It
fIIIS eleven columns of the journal.
The Grand Duke of Schwerin has just addressed the
following rescript to the heads of the Israelite congrega-
tions :—" In answer to the petition of the heads of the
Israelite community, which was presented to us on the
25th of March, this year, we inform him by these pre-
sents, that we shall in future be, as we have hitherto been,
always ready to favour with the greatest good will every
thing that may contribute to the amelioration of the con-
dition of the Israelites in our country, and that we shall
invite the confirmation of the States on this subject. The
head of the Israelite community may judge how much
we have at heart the welfare of our Israelite subjects by
the annexed copy of this edict, by which we have jnst
suppressed, after midsummer, 1847, the annual tax
hitherto paid by the Israelites.
K FRANCIS."
" Given at Schwerin,NFoßv.E9D,
FREDERICK
—Dutch Papers, Nov. 25.

ACQUITTAL OF M. JEUNE.
The trial of M. Jeune or Yung, of the Rue Mont-
martre, for the murder of M. Jay, took place on Satur-
day, before the Court of Assizes. On the witnesses'
bench was Madame Jay, covered with a black veil, and
holding a handkerchief to her face, in order to conceal
it and stifle her sobs. The prisoner, on being brought
in, was at first calm and sell-possessed, but on seeing his
wife, who was in a retired part of the court, burst into
tears. The indictment stated all the circumstances of
the case, with the greater part of which the public are
fully acquainted. It appeared from it that Jeune had
for some time suspected Jay of having improper inten-
tions towards Mme. Jeune; be hesitated, at first, to
forbid him his house, on account of the advantage he
gained from him as a customer, but, at length, provoked
by his too flagrant conduct, desired that he would never
enter the door again, and told him that if he did, he
would find him, Jeune, armed to receive him. Jay re-
plied that he too carried arms. Notwithstanding this,
Jenne soon afterwards was informed that Jay came to
his house while he was absent, and he thereupon deter-
mined, on August 17, to pretend to go to Senlis on
business, butt emain at home concealed with a pistol.
Jay, about eight o'clock, came, and was heard by Jeune
conversing with his wife, who seemed to resist his ad-
vances, but was at length induced to go into the bed-
room. Upon this Jenne came from his hiding-place,
and finding the two parties in an unequivocal position,
fired at Jay, but though the powder singed his left eye-
brow, he was not wounded, and it was doubtful whether
the bullet, if Jenne put one in the barrel, had not
dropped out. Jay turned upon him, and struck him
with a knife, and at the same time kicked him. Upon
this Jenne drew his own knife, and stabbed Jay through
the heart and lungs, and killed him. The indictment
notices the rumour of Jay having been entrapped to the
house by Madame Jeune, in concert with her husband,
but declares that there was no evidence to give proof or
credence to this supposition. After the indictment was
read, and the witnesses had been called and sworn, the
court was cleared of the audience, and the doors closed.
The details of the evidence, therefore, cannot be given.
At half-past five, the doors were re-opened and the
public admitted. It had been expected that the widow
and son of Jay would come forward and sue for da-
mages, but no such claim was made. The jury, who
remained in deliberation only a very few minutes, came
into court, and pronounced a verdict of not guilty, and
the prisoner was thereupon immediately discharged. On
hearing the result, the wife of the prisoner, who had
agai❑ entered the court, fainted. She was removed into
the open air, where she recovered, and was taken to
her husband, who was then at the Conciergerie, but at
liberty.—Paris Paper.

THE PCST OFFICE.—We have heard, on what we
believe to be good authority, that Colonel Maberley is
about to retire, on his full salary, from the office of
Secretary to the' Postmaster-General; and that he will
be succeeded by Mr. Rowland Hill, whose claims to the
office are, in case of a vacancy, perfectly irresistible.—
Manchester Guardian.
DON COLON, THE PRESENT CORREGIDOR (LORD
MAYOR) OF MADRID.—It may not be generally known
that the present chief magistrate of the Spanish capital,
Don Colon Portugal Duke de Verazua, is a descei.dant
of a Geneose sailor, we mean Christopher Colon. The
erratic, adventurous, nay, indigent life of the great dis-
coverer, up to an advanced age, are generally known.
But scarcely was the deed done than a whole host of
Dukes, Counts, and all sorts of Hidalgos (nobles),
crowded around the family of the once neglected. Co-
lumbus made three wills, in 1497, 1502, and 1506, which
have produced a number of lawsuiti, one of which took
place as late as 1792, end the acts of which are printed,
and to be found in the library of the British Museum,
under the title, "Hecho del Pleyto." The present Don
Colon, however, got clear of all that, and is a nobleman
in affluent circumstances.
SUDDEN DEATH.-11r. Alderman Banister, Pur-
veyor to her Majesty at Windsor, an old and highly re-
spected inhabitant of that town, who had served the
office cf mayor three times, was found, yesterday morn-
Lig, dead in his bed, upon one of his daughters entering
his room, between seven and eight o'clock. The de-
ceased, who had been ill for some time previously, ap-
peared in better health than he had been for some days,
and in excellent spirits, on his retiring to rest the even-
, ing before. Ile was in his 68th year.