The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-11 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1846.

HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL

BRUSSELS, JULY 7.—The average price of wheat in
the week ending on Saturday, the 4th of July, was
99f. 99c., and of Rye 15f. 69c. per hectolitre.
Mademoiselle Rachel, who has had so sudden and
violent an attack of sporadic cholera, is much better to-
day, and there is every reason to hope that her conva-
lescence will be speedy if no accident intervenes.
The Chamber of Representatives heard to-day some
explanation of the Government respecting the treaty
concluded between Belgium and Holland.
The Chamber passed supplementary votes of credit
for the departments of the interior, foreign affairs, and
finance, then the project of law relative to the iron rail-
way from Havre to Manage, which, after some remarks
from M. Rogier, to which the Minister of Foreign
Affairs replied, was unanimously agreed to by the 51
members present.
The Chamber then adjourned till the President sum-
mons the Members, which he will du when the Government
is ready to lay before the Chamber the treaty with Hol-
land. M. Mercier arrived from the Hague this morning,
but he has not brought the treaty with the Netherlands
which was confidently expected. The treaty is so far
complete, that the three Dutch and two Belgian nego-
tiators have signed it. The King of the Netherlands
has been informed day by day of the process of the ne-
gotiators. It must not be supposed, that the want of
the Royal signature can leave the work long incomplete.
Our correspondent at the Hague informs us, not only
that our negotiators have signed it, but that the King.
who intended to spend a fortnight in visiting two of his
provinces, wrote to the governor of the province of
Gronningen, before he left the Hague, that being ob-
liged to return to the Hague by Thursday next, he must
put off his journey to that province for some clays. Thus
on Thursday the King of the Netherlands will be back
at the Hague ; he will preside in the council of Minis-
ters, and there is every reason to believe that the for-
mality of signing the treaty will immediately follow.
The King, who was expected yesterday evening, will
stop some days longer at Ardenne.
CRACOW, JUNE 25.—Mr. Wenda, a landowner, who
was given up by the Russian authorities, and who, in
the late insurrection at Cracow, had the rank of lieu-
tenant, was given up to the Russians. A few days ago
his sentence was carried into execution, viz. to stand for
two hours in the pillory at Radon, and then to be ban-
ished to Silesia.
BREMER, JULY 4.—The Rhenish Observer has a no-
tice from Berlin, dated June 18, that the Bremen and
Weser Gazette are prohibited in the whole of the Rus-
sian monarchy.
WARSAW, JUNE 28.—Our journals contain to-day
the names of those persons (eighteen in number), all
whose real and personal property is confiscated, accord.
ing to the sentence of a court-martial, confirmed by the
Prince Governor, for having taken a part in the late
insurrection. They are chiefly young, between twenty
and thirty years of age ; the oldest of them is the
priest Sciegiennes, who is forty-five years old.
The list dues not contain the names of all those on
whom sentence has been passed. There are, besides,
many others in the citadel whose sentence will be pub-
lished in the sequel. It is not to be supposed that the
confiscation of the property of these persons is the whole
of their punishment. They are all banished—partly to
the mines of Ural, partly to Siberia.
COPENHAGEN, JULY 3.—On the 2d his Majesty pre-
sided in an extraordinary Council of States, in which it
is affirmed a matter of great importance was di-cussed.
JULY 4.—For many years past we have not seen so
many ships of war in our road as at this moment. Be-
sides the Gesion and Flora, we have the Swedish and
Norwegian squadron of twelve ships, of various sizes,
which have fired salutes in honour of the King's birth-
day. The two Russian men-of-war which were in our
road sailed to-day.
BERLIN, JULY 4.—The last accounts from the pro-
vinces of Posen, say that the consequences of the late
attempted insurrection begin to be severely felt in that
province. Among those consequences are the sales by
auction, and the sequestration of so many' estates, and
the very unfavourable result of the Midsuinm-r fair.
This evening we expect our monarch, etho King of
Saxony, and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, from
their excursion to the Isle of Rugen.
The friends and proclaimers of the Constitution now
announce another day for the proclamation of a Consti-
tution for the Russian Monarchy, namely, the 3d of
August, the birth-day of the late King—according to
them, the birth-day of the new order of things. We
shall see how far these professions will be fulfilled.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY IN
AI A DA GASCAIt.

The Democratic Pacifigue publishes a long extract
from a letter, giving a horrible account of the atrocities
committed at Madagascar by thr Hovas upon an English
soldier, whom they had captured. After describing a
feast by the Hovas' chiefs at the establMiment of a
French traiteur, who, with another traiteur of the same na-
tion, aro stated to have exulted in the victory of the Hovas
over the British and French expedition against Madagas-
car, and giving an account of the disgusting mutilations
of the bodies of the slain, the writer says: —" Whilst
this debauch was going on (two days after our defeat)
word was brought that an Englishman had just come
out of the brushwood, imploring that his life might
be spared. It appears that during the fi,ht an
unfortunate wounded English soldier had crept into
the bushes, and remained concealed, a melancholy
witness of the mutilations inflicted upon his com-
rades. For forty-eight hours he bore the pangs of his
wound and of hunger and thirst, but, being unable to
bear up longer, he came from his hiding-place, and,
advancing towards the Ilovas, showed his wound,
delivered up his musket, and entreated them to give him
a little water. The chief, Massouma, without derang-
ing himself from the banquet, sent t'.) the governor
for orders. Razakafidy, the governor, desired that
the man might be put to death. There were at his
table several Frenchmen, who did not even open their
mouths to ask for the life of this poor Englishman, who
had bravely fought by the side of our countrymen. You
will, think, perhaps, that this unfortunate man was killed
with a stroke of the sagaye. The Hovas have a different
mode of taking vengeance on a disarmed enemy. They
stripped him naked, and then five or six officers, with their
knives, and in the midst of the circle which had be,n
formed, began pricking him in the tenderest parts of
his body. The soldier, who was extended on the
ground, rose, as by an effort of heroism, and received
their thrusts standing. At this time there were not
less than five or six bleeding wounds of the sagaye
which he had received in battle, and the blood streamed
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triumph. Seeing that the Englishman defied their
blows, the monsters laid hold of him and
began to tear out the nails of his hands and feet. Ho
bore even this bravely for a time, but at length sunk to
the ground exhausted and closed his eyes. The Hovas
then cut off his, fingers and different portions of his flesh,
after...which they proceeded to the last and most cruel
operation. Havtng_.dOrt© this they stabbed him in the
heart and cut. off his head. .Finally, they put into their
mouths portions of the flesh, removed by the horrible
operation which preceded the coup de grace, and went
off triumphantly to fix the head on a stake."
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