The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 2.—The average price of wheat in the
week ending Saturday the 28th November, was 26f. 60e.,
that of rye, 20f. Bc. These prices are a trifle lower than
those of the preceding week, viz., 26c. on wheat, and
27c. on rye.
An experiment has been made at Grammont to make
bread by an admixture of beetroot, viz., itilbs. of wheat
flour, 3ilbs. of rasped beetroot, mixing a little more salt
than usual. The experiment has proved perfectly suc-
cessful ; the result being 91bs. of excellent bread.
The Chamber of Representatives, in the sitting to• day,
received the reports presented by Messrs. Lowde and
David in the name of the Committee of Petitions. It
afterwards formed a secret committee for the discussion
of its budget.
The trial of persons implicated in the disturbances at
Nieuport during the files will be shortly terminated.
According to the information received twenty-three
soldiers and two citizens are to be tried. The wounds
which have been legally proved are very serious, and
extremely numerous. They were inflicted with the
butt-end of muskets, with sabres and bayonets.
A letter from Alost, relative to the linen market of
Saturday, says, " The additional duties with which our
linens are threatened in the states of the Zollverein,
after the Ist January next, cause all the pieces that come
to market to be eagerly bought up in orde; that they may
be sent to Prussia before the new year. This produces a
temporary advantage, which will be followed by an in-
crease of distress, unless the Government adopts the
necessary measures to prevent the fatal effects which must
result from the new blow with which our linen manufac-
tures are threatened.

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COLOONE.—Reports from the' manufacturers of the
circle of Gladlack addressed to the President of the
Chamber of Commerce, upon the melancholy prospects
of thousands of workmen during the ensuing winter and
spring ; 6,000 looms are standing still, and from 12,000
to 15,000 persons are utterly destitute of work or of the
means of obtaining any. Added to this, the work now
in the hands of the manufacturers will not last longer
than the end of December or the beginning of January.
"It is manifest," says the Cologne Journal, " what must
be the pitiable condition of the poor people, when this
is the state of the manufacturers. The masters are be-
sieged by crowds of suppliants entreating for work,
which they are compelled to refuse them with bleeding
hearts, because they have none to give them. The
effect of the misery upon the well-being and morality of
the district is but too apparent, and all must look for-
ward with apprehension to the effects upon a manufac-
turing population. The obvious necessity of doing
something to meet this crisis are most painfully felt,
and doubtless efforts will be made ; but it is next to im-
possible that individual benevolence should meet the
wants of so large a body of sufferers."

ALARMING COLLISION ON THE

BOLTON RAILWAY.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.—A collision of a frightful
character took place yesterday upon the Bolton division
of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, whereby a bal-
last-train, in which were 29 labourers, in the employ of
the company, was run against by a luggage-train tra-
velling on the same line of rails, but in an opposite
direction. The engine of the ballast-train was seriously
damaged, and th% carriage containing the work-people
thrown off the rails and turned over.

The engineer and foreman of the luggage- train, seeing
the opposite train approaching, shut off the steam and
had time to jump off and escape uninjured. Assistance
was procured as soon as possible, and the men, all of
whom were more or less injured, were sent to their
homes, where some of them at present remain in a very
bad state.