The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

HAMBURG AND

DERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, AUG. 21 and 22.—The Courrier Beige of
the two dates is chiefly occupied with the proceeding in
the Court of Assizes of the province of Brabant, in the
affair of' Messrs. de Redder and Berquef, engineers and
undertakers of public works, accusal of peculation and
corruption.
The Courrier Beige has ten closely printed columns,
giving an account of the first two days (Thursday and
Friday) proceedings, which were not concluded.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 20.—Last night about ten o'clock,
M. Londez, a rich proprietor, residing in the causeway
of Molenheck, St. Jean, had just got home from a club,
when hearing a noise in the cellar, he took a pistol and
went down to discover the cause. At the moment of
entering the cellar he received a wound from some fire-
arm in the breast. He had just strength enough left to
get up stairs, but on reaching his bedroom, fell down
and expired immediately after. On hearing the shot
fired, Mrs. Londoz rose, and saw a person escaping
through the garden.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 22.—1 t appears that M. Londoz,
when he heard the noise in the cellar, took two pistols,
one loaded, the other not, and when he got to the hist
step he was roughly attacked by a vigorous arm, and a
desperate struggle ensued, as is evident from the clothes
of the victim and various traces. The perpetrator pro-
bably wrested the pistol from M. Londoz, which was dis-
charged during the struggle, whether accidentally or
not is at present uncertain. M. Londoz, it seems, on
hearing the noise in the cellar, went up stairs to get his
pistols, and to inform his wife. The report of the pistol
awakened the servants and the neighbours. The ser-
vants immediately hastened down stairs and found their
unfortunate master lying on the ground, unable to say
any more than the word " wounded." They car-
ried him to the drawing-room and laid him on a sofa.
The physician and a priest, who had been instantly
sent for, arrived too late to see him alive. Only
one pistol (that which had been discharged) was
near the victim, so that it may he believed that the as-
sassin, not knowing that the second pistol was unloaded,
took it to defend himself, if necessary, in his flight. It
is singular that the event was scarcely known when it
was generally reported in the neighbourhood that Mr.
Londoz had committed suicide, which every circumstance
proves to have been impossible. Of course we have only
conjecture on this event; the murderer has not been dis-
covered, and every suspicion respecting the author of the
crime must be suppressed. M. Londez was a vigorous
man, of lofty stature, in the prime of life. He leaves a
widow and four young children: - Ills fortune is said to
have been 40 000 francs per annum.
The Countess of Napua, widow of the last King of
Holland, William 1., arrived at Brussels to-day at four
o'clock.

ST. PETERSIWRGH, AVG. 13.—Our newspapers pub-
lish the following Imperial Ukase to the Directing
Senate on the 18th of July :—" It appears that the ill-
disposed persons who, in the month of February last.
made attempts in the republic of Cracow, in Posen, and
in Galicia, to overturn the existing Government, had
accomplices in the Governments of Wilna, Kauen, and
Grodnos. We have to extend to the said Governments
the measures already prescribed for the maintenance of
the public security in the kingdom of Poland, and the
government of Podolia and Woihynis, and accordingly,
order the Governments of Wilna, Kauen, and Grodnos,
as in a state of war, and place them under the command
of the Prince of Warzaw, Prince Paskewitsch Erivanski,
Field-Marshal and Commander-in-Chief."

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KIEL, AUG. I.s.—(From the IVeser Gazette.)—Viro
believe that we may positively state that the Emperor of
Russia, on receiving a letter from the Grand Duke of
Holstein, respecting the succession of Sleswick-Hol-
stein, said he should not at present interfere in any
manner in this matter. As the several claims on Hol-
stein are expressly reserved to the Emperor by the
letters patent—(" It appears there are certain circum-
stances which hinder us from speaking with the same
precision of the hereditary right to Holstein")—this is
very intelligible, and the Emperor may quietly wait to
learn what offers may be made to him on the part of i
Denmark to consent to " recognise the ntegri
ty of the
Danish state in its totality." In his position it is cer-
tainly more correct to let the affair takes its course. On
the other hand, it becomes more and more probable that
England, and doubtless France also (especially to coun-
teract the pretensions of Russia), have declared for the
maintenance of the union of dominions now governed
by Christian VII.

The national policy of Germany has of course no ad-
vocates among foreign nations, and can be promoted
only by the powers of the German confederation. All
will depend upon the two great German powers acting
as their duty and interest prescribe.
BRESLAW, AUG. 15.—A convention is said to hare
been concluded between Austria and Prussia, by which
both parties are to exercise the strictest vigilance to pre-
serve the rights of Germany from being in the slightest
degree violated or infringed. The visit of his
Majesty the King of Prussia to Konigsw•arth,
though short, was decisive, and gave the final turn
to this affair. The approximation of Austria to
Prussia is more cordial than ever. Independently
of less important indications, there are two facts which
indisputably lead to this conclusion. The daily increas-
ing coolness in the relations with Itutzsia, and the dif-
ferences between Austria and the Papal See. At all
events this approximation is decisive in the affairs of the
Prussian constitution. So much is certain, that at the
beginning of the year 1847, all the deputies to the pro-
vincial estates of Prus>ia will meet at Berlin, and that
the official notices on the subject will appear in the
course of this month or the next.

FROM THE RHINE, AUG. 10.—It was reported some
time ago, that 11;5 Royal Highness the Duke of Nassau
had asked fur the hand of the Grand Duchess Cathe-
rine, younger sister of his deceased consort, daughter of
the Grand Duke Michael ; but that the permission for
this union had been refused by the Chief of the
Holy Send (1. e. the Emperor of Russia), as
contrary to the usages of the Greek Church. It is said
that the Emperor will now give his consent to this mar-
riage. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Catherine was born on the 28th of August, 1E27. In
her person and manners she is said to be a striking re-
semblance to her deceased sister, the Duchess Elizabeth.
—Hamburyli Papers, Aug. 22.