The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-02 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 28.—The port of Antwerp has pre-
sented a very animated appearance since the day before
yesterday. The first basin is crowded with ships. In
less than 24 hours, 26 vessels have arrived, most of them
returning from long voyages. The Courier d'Anvers
says, " If we are well informed, the financial results of
the new sugar law are very satisfactory. The receipts
have increased considerably. A few days ago the total
amounted to more than three millions; thus the antici•
pations of the framers of the law are completely
verified.

The Rubens, a fine Belgian vessel, was to sail on
Friday from Antwerp, bound to Valparaiso, in Chili.
Part of her cargo consists of 1,143 barrels of refined
sugar.

The Minister of the Interior has just sent a new
circular to the governors of the provinces, recom-
mending them to assure the makers of the exact execu-
tion of the important measure of the census. Ile de-
sires them to take particular care to make it under-
stood:—

1. That the census of the inhabitants, being founded
on the principle of the actual populwion, all the indivi-
duals, natives or foreigners, who shall be in the Bel-
gian territory, shall be counted in the locality where
each of them has passed the night of the 14th of Octo-
ber, so that the number of persons present on a fixed
day, in each commune, may be exactly known, with all
the distinction indicated in the bulletin.
2. That the persons who, on the day of taking the
census, shall be absent from their home, are, neverthe-
less, to be inscribed in the bulletin of the family to
which they belong. It is expressly recommended that
the absence be mentioned in the column of abreviation.

3 and 4, Contain particular directions relative to far-
mers, and to manufacturers, artizans, and shopkeepers.
STUTTGART, SEPT. 23.—The Crown Prince and
Princess, who had already been most unexpectedly
webomed on their arrival at Heillroum, by their Ma-
jesties, arrived about twelve o'clock this morning at the
royal country seat of Rasensteim, where they were re•
ceived with the most heartfelt joy by their Mak sties and
several members of the royal family, who are at pre-
sent staying there. After breakfast they made their
public entry into the capital, conducted by the royal
family and the Court, amidst the ringing of the church
bells and the firing of cannon. The royal bride and
bridegroom were met at the Neckar-street, where a
triumphal arch was erected by the magistrates and chief
civil authorities, and various companies with their ban
ners. The Princess then proceeded to the royal Palace,
Konigsstrasse, all the streets through which they passed
being lined with military, and decorated with branches,
flow era, carpets, and banners, and various tasteful de-
signs and ornaments. The Prince and Princess were
attended by an escort of the ro) al body guard, a nnather
of young men of the class of citizens, and the city guard
on horsehack, and the civic companies, as far as the
court of the royal residence, when the Stuttgard Philhar-
monic Society awaited their arrival, and executed a con-
gratulatory ode. On their arrival at Wilhelms Plats, a
company- of yoarg ladies presented to her Imperial
H ghness the Crown Princess baskets of grapes and
other fruits, the produce of our vineyards and gardens.

WHAT TO DO WITH BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—By
Mr. Hume and others it has been suggested to convert
Buckingham Palace into a Museum and National Gal-
lery. Now that the Rnyal Family, like the Spectre of
Otranto, is becoming too large for its habitation, it is
certain that the palace, somehow, must be applied to
another than its present purpose. It may be a very
good plan to render that building, which can no longer
furnish a nursery to royalty, a nursery of art and
science ; but we think we can suggest a better. Why
should not the royal lodging, when vacated, be made
to contribute to the payment of the expenses of
building another ? Let the different apartments in the
palace out to the different metropolitan exhibitionists.
The Industrious Fleas might be established in the Green
Drawing-room; Miss Linwood's Exhibition might be
transferred to the Picture Gallery; the Banqueting-
room might be tenanted by the Speaking Automaton;
the Throne-room might receive Madame Tussaud's
Collection, and the Fourth George, resuming his scat,
would look, in his robes, as large and natural as life.
The Hall of Buckingham might be converted into the
Hall of Rome, whilst the private apartments might be
appropriately taken possession of by Tom Thumb.
Thus might this edifice, which is at present neither
ornamental nor useful, at all events acquire a title to
the latter epithet. So much for Buckingham—Palace I
—Punch.

AN AMERICAN SENTINEL.—A New Orleans letter
relates the manner of the death of Captain Pope, which
was caused by his neglect to give the guard the counter-
sign. The sentinel was a boy of sixteen, who, hailing
and receiving no answer, fired and killed him. The
sentry is reported as saying, f' I challenged somebody
twice—'in him fair warnin'—he didn't answer, and I
jest plugged him." The men sprang into the bushes,
and to a short time dragged into the clearing the dead
body. Just then thp moon, which had risen behind a
heavy bank of clouds, emkrised from behind them, and
shed a pale light upon the group, displDsiny the uni-
form of a volunteer officer. " Why, what 'Lave ypu
done ? This is one of us," said the corporal, and,
ttp head of the dead man, he gazed for a moment on biz:
fer 41414;; p claimed, "My God ! bop, its Captain
Pope f' pope ephoed the lad, " well,
who'd a‘thought it rig iiiigbdtyporry, twt toy
fault. If it had been the Colonel,•to• flactOral''Taylor,
'twould bin jest the same." " They took me igtO
arrest," said the boy, relating the occurrence to my in-
pyj.ed me by court-martial, and acquitted me.
I'd only done my 41 4: y they went and discharged
me under pretence that r was under Fie."-4nterican
Paper.

HAYMARKET THEATRE,

NE WRY AND ENNISKILLEN

RAILWAY.

A meeting of shareholders in this company was held
yesterday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of
considering the conduct of the directors, and adopting
the means necessary to protect their interests.
Mr. CONQUEST, who was called to the chair, said that,
like themselves, he was an unfortunate shareholder. He

had purchased shares, not certainly with a view of re-
taining, but before :obtaining them three months had
elapsed, and he could not sell them.—([fear, hear.)
He took upon himself to write to Enniskillen, to procure
some information with reference to this lire, and from
the answers he had received it appeared that there was
not a single shareholder in Enniskillen, though the line
was from Newry to Enniskillon.—(Hear.) He had also
received information to the effect that the line would
never be made.—(Hear.) He called on Mr. Spack-
man to take the steps which would be necessary to pro-
tect themselves in the matter, and he was glad to be able
to state, that that gentleman's efforts had been in part
successful. He was very well satisfied with the conduct
of the gentlemen at Blackburn.—(Hear.) A meeting
of the shareholders had also been held at Liverpool, on
the 28th instant. A report of the proceedings was in
Mr. Spackman's possession, and would be submitted to
the meeting.
_ _

Mr. SPACKMAN read the report in question, which
stated that the meeting was large and respectable, re-
presenting personally, or by proxy, nearly 6,000 shares.
Resolutions approving the relinquishment of the line
were passed, and much distrust of the directors was ex-
pressed, as well as a determination not to pay any
more calls till the affairs of the company were better
conducted. lie then read his own report, which consisted
chiefly of a correspondence that had taken place between
him and the secretary of the company, and from which it
appeared that the directors refused to comply with
a requisition of shareholders to call a general meeting
to be held in London. It further appeared that they
had refused to comply with another requisition, request-
ing the directors to call an extraordinary meeting of the
shareholders for the purpose of considering the measures
to be adopted in the present state of their affairs, and to
suspend further calls.

Some discussion ensued, after which it was agreed
that a deputation of shareholders should wait on the di-
rectors to endeavour to make arrangements, which Mr.
Spackman stated he believed might now be effected.
Thanks were voted to the Chairman, after which the
meeting separated.

DEPARTURE OF THE FOREIGN
MAILS FOR OCTOBER.
The following notice was issued on Wednesday at the
General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, giving the
dates on which the foreign mails will be made up at the
chief office, London, and the dates on which the retina
packets are due at Southampton, Liverpool, and Fal-
mouth.
INDIA, &c.—The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta,
Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon,
India, Ilong-Rong, and China, will be made up on the
mornings of the 3d and 20th. The mails of the 3d will
be forwarded by the Tagus steamer via Southampton ;
by the fortnightly closed mail to the Mediterranean,
Egypt. India, &c., on the evenings of the 7th and 24th,
via Marseilles.
WEST INDIES, MADEIRA, &c.--. The mails for the Bri-
tish and foreign colonies in the West Indies (except
Honduras, Bermuda, and Havannah), Venezuela, and '
Madeira, will be made up on the mornings of the 2d and
:7th; Mexico, Honduras. and Havannah, on the morn-
ing of the 2d only; and Bermuda, San Juan de Nica-
ragua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, on the morning of
the 17th instant. The mails of the morning of the 2d
(to-morrow) will be forwarded by the Teviot steamer,
via Southampton. Next packet due from the West
Indies, Mexico, Havannah, &e., the Forth steamer, on
the 7th, at Southampton.
PENINSULAR.—The mails for Corunna, Vigo, Oporto,
Lisbon, Maderie (via Lisbon), Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will
be made up on the mornings of the 7th, 17th, and 27th.
to be forwarded via Southampton. Next packet due, the
Madrid steamer, on the 6th, at Soutliatnpton. [The
Peninsula steam packets will not call at Corunna, either
on their outward or homeward ye) age, during the winter
months of November, December, January, February
next, commencing from the 7th of November.]
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, &c.—The mails for Bri-
tish North America, Bermuda, and the United States
will be made up on the evenings of the 3d and 17th.
The mails of the evening of the 3d will be conveyed by
the Caledonian steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax, and
Boston. The Britannia steamer arrived on the 30th of
September.
BRAZILS, &c.—The mails for Madeira, Brazils, and
Buenos Ayres will be made up on the evening of the
sth, and forwarded vid Falmouth. Her Majesty's brig
Peterel over due since the 28th of September. [From
Angust to January, inclusive, the packet touctres at
Pernambuco and Bahia on her ontward paisage to Rio
Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward.]
SYDNEY, &c.—The next mails for Sydney, New South
Wales, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New
Zealand, will be made up on the evening of the 31st
October, to be forwarded via Gravesend.

Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
LANDSMEN ADRIFT.—The pilot cutter Nettle, Win-
ter, master, of this port, returning from a cruise off
Spurn, during the late hazy weather, picked up a boat
which, on the first discovery, having a shirt raised on
an oar as a signal of distress, was supposed to contain
the crew of some vessel that had been probably ran
down in the fog. On bringing the craft alongside, how-
ever, the anxiety of the pilots to assist the shipwrecked
crew was enlivened by au admixture of mirth, while
they beard and relieved the miseries of two tailors and
two shoemakers, from Saltfleet, who had a most melan-
choly tale to tell—
" Of bow they had been cast away,
Far, far from love and home ;
And how they wailed by night and day,
O'er the briny ocean s foam."
The parties, it appsared, after having stuck like bricks
to their lasts and shopboards all the previous week to
adorn the bodies and understandings of the lieges at
Saltfleet, start, d too early after their Saturday night's
cup, on probably a piscatory enterprise within reach of
the shore, but being caught in a fog, the boat taking ad-
vantage of the would-be ultra marines, turned her
stem seawards, while they, pulling, as they thought,
homewards, finally found themselves spending Sunday
night at sea. Luckily they Were not teetotallers,
and endured their fate as best they could,
under a signal of distress, but another sun set
on the sufferers, when, grubless and bubless, they
sank exhausted in the bottom of their treacherous
barque, now playing the slippery. trick of castieg
herself away on a shoal, which,
.tor aught the unhappy
'mailers knew to the contrary, might be some fatal knoll
in the German Qcean. By the way it was subsequently-
scertained to have been gi4ndll-41el, at the entrance of the
Humber, wh-re the victims might nava Pn shore,
at the mere risk of immersion to th!waist; they, however,
fay snug in theirsimplieity, up uldrifting to:ea again their
sing luel„-_ify brought the Nettle to their relief. One
of the sons Of ISt. C'rigPiTh on iaeir!T landed at Spurn
Point, said he would never trust taro vet aioroz—tliore
was nothing like leather, and he would walk. home, even ,
if he went round by Selby Bridge, sooner than cross the
wr.:kir in a ?Nat, 'fljn. other worthy of the last, and the
1:006. aclineidergins yeutuFed acomparli.. rho ilos
to null, rind to ehititaa' by 4catis p
(31404 'ereiir
whence they reached joy ortriliny'4 •
solial and domestic circle, who hur la:,gun to think of
" full fathoms live" in the " deep, deep sea,"--Null 1
Parkpt

The Haymarket opened last night, after a very short
recefs, during which. however, the house has been
thoroughly cleaned and redecorated. The company
(the best -,•omedy company in England) have all been
se-_-mgaged, and, in addition to the old favourites, we
cr.. to haue Mr. Lester, the sin of James Wallack, the
Wallack, who has been case-hardening in the provinces,
and who, if provincial report speaks true. will not dis-
grace the name of Wall: ek ; and, therefore, we can see
no reason why he should not at once assuine it, Miss
Reynolds, an American actress, and Mr. Rogers, who
last night made a most successful debalt, in the cha-
racter of Humphrey Dobbins, in Colman's admirable
comedy of the Poor Gent?eman. There was a (inlet
power, an honest bluntness. approaching to a saucy
roughness, about Mr. Rogers's clelitration f Humphrey
Dobbins which showed that he hart "stuff" about Mtn.
It was in every way worthy of the Haymarket comraly,
and we congratulate Mr. Webster on having secure d in
Mr. Rogers a sterling actor. Farren's Sir Robert
Pramble is so well known that it is needless
.to dilate
upon it. Webster's 011apod was exceedingly quaint
and amusing ; and Buckstane, as Stephen llarrov..by,
" made fun," which told well upon the audienee.
Stuart's Worthington was full of pvwer and pathos; and
Miss Fortescue made more of Emily than we have ever
yet seen made of the part. In charac'ers of this class
no one on the stage can approach her. Mrs. Glover, as
Miss Lucretia M'Tab was superb ; but Tilbury, as Cor-
poral Foss, was scorcely equal to the part. He laboured
hard, but he laboured in vain. He was harsh, hard, and
angular. After the National Anthem had be n sang by
the whole company, a new farce, entitled The Fortune
Hunter, was produced. It is from tie pen o`" Mr. Boyle
Bernard, and the scene is laid at Margate. The hero is
Captain Mountgarret, a fortune-hunting Irishman.
Other captains are of her Majesty's service, or in
her Majesty's service, but Captain Mountgarret
is A. 11. M. S., at her Majesty's service, and also
at the service of any other lady who can afford
to find him in dinners, clothes, andipocket money. Other
fortune hunters are content with two strings to their
bow, but the gallant captain has three—a widow, with
four houses, an old maid, with divers canal shares, and
an ancient gentlewoman ip a dropsy, whose perigrina-
tiaras on the sands he assinously follows. He is in doubt
which to choose, therefore employs an appraiser to sur-
vey the property of each and help him out of his dilemma.
Mr. Griffin (Tilbury), a London wholesale dealer,
arrives, accompanied by his daughter and his sister.
The daughter has 30,000/. in her own right, and
the Captain leaves his other innamorataz to secure Miss
Griffin and 30,0001.; but, unfortunately, he makes love
to the wrong Miss Griffin, and finds himself at last on
the point of eloping with the elder Miss Griffin (Mrs.
W. Clifford), an elderly maiden lady, without a sous,
when he is discovered by the brother, and after receiving
a good shaking from the disappointed elderly damsel,
decamps, with old Griffin's " I knew it was a
swindle" ringing in his cars. Buckstone, as a
cockney out for a week, who pays a fly driver
five shillings for upsetting a party in the mud.
just to keep up the fun, was quaint and
amusing; and Clark, who is a clerk in London, and comes
to Margate to occupy a back bed-room for seven nights,
to be a swell on the beach, pier, and jetty, for seven
days, made, according to his wont, a great deal of a very
little part. The piece was given out for repetition by
Hudson, amidst the unanimous applause of a house
crowded to the ceiling.