The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-22 00:00:00

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ANTwERP, JAN. 18.— sterday afters oon a
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were crushed, and the goods demolished, butt .happily
no other accident took place.
---seeseneeseeeesiasese, It is reported that the house of De Bruyn and Son,
refiners, at Btiosels, will continue business, notwith-
standing the stitgL;ation of its finances. That of M.
Russo and Son will speedily resume business. The
ppssive debt is 1,300,000 florins, and the active about
100,000 florins.
SOCIALISM IN BELGIU3Ii.--An association of the
followers of Fourrier has just been established at
Brussels, under the patronage of persons velio are
well known, and several of whom are invesied with
an official character. Lists of persons wishing' to
promote this plan are in circulation, and have alreaehr
been signed by hundreds of persons. The object it
to establish a regular Phalanstere in Flanders or La
Cutnpine this summer. About twenty French per-
sons, and as many Americans, intend to join our
ultra-progressionists, to form a nalansterienne com-
munity of 1,000 to 1,400 individuals of both sexes in
our provinces. The names of the leading- parties are
already made known. The most remarkable feature
in this movement is, that the names of several magis•
trates and public functionaries appear on the sub-
scription lists.
The following is the project of law laid before the
Senate, as the effective of the land army of Greece :-
Ist, Tetrarchies of the phalanx, 389 men; ,2d, in-
fantry, 3,489 ; 3d, cavalry, 224 ;;4th, artillery; and
arsenal, 482 ; sth, engineering, 51 ; Gth, mounted
gensdarmes, 165;, gensdarmes, 1,224; 7th, troops
of the frontier, 2,650 ; Bth, commandants, 80 ; 9th,
military school hospitals, 24; 10th, military schools,
41 ; 11th, commissioners of military economy; 12th,
tribunals of war, 9 ; 13th, companies of invalids,
157—total, 9,160.
GRAND Ducur or HESSE.—The subscritions for
the erection of a Hall of Commerce is going on most
encouragingly. Shares of five florins (to be repaid),
and voluntary donations and annual subscriptions,
in the course of twelve days only, amount to 7,500
florins.

[PRICE 3D.

HAMBURGEL—CUXHAVEN, JAN. 15.—This after-
noon six vessels appeared in sight, and the steamer
Harriet, has been dispatched to tow them into har-
bour, as the harbour is:now free from ice ;:the ice in:the
Channel is drifting northward, and these vessels will
be able to enter safely this evening. Wind S.
BREMERHAVEN, JAN. 15.—The galley which we
reported in sight, in our last number, is now blocked
up by the ice at Hohervreg, and aid was sent to her
yesterday. At Oelplate a ship without masts is
hemmed in by the ice. There is still a good deal of
ice in the channel. Wind S.W. The ice at Kohl-
, brand is so firm and strong, that a luggage waggon
belonging to the railway, laden with, goods, and drawn
by six horses, passed over the ice from Hamburgh to
Harhurgh a few days ago.
• ST. PETERSBURGII, JAN. 6.—The weather to-day
is only 9 degrees, although for several days it has
been at 20 degrees.
COPENHAGEN, JAN. 10.—The wind has beenlE. and
N. to-day. The thermometer is from 2 deg. and 4
deg. The ice covers the river from Lollbunde to
the Torheck Reef as far as we can see. The chan-
nel appears to be still navigable. No ships had ar-
rived here for some days, and sledges have com-
menced running from the interior to the battery of
Fesconer.
GOTIIENBURGII, JAN. 7.—The brig Humber, from
Hull, laden with cotton, has been wrecked off the
Orkneys, and the greater part of the cargo destroyed.
—Jan. 8. The channel between this place and Risen-
goen is completely covered with firm ice. The ves-
sels which were on the point of lading here have
sailed to the Zoll station cliffs. Nothing doing here
in freighting.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 18.—Since yesterday we have had
a slight; thaw, with the thermometer kdegs below
freezing.—Brussels Papers, Jan. 18.
DUTCH FUNDS.-13urrzanem, JAN. 19.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.............
Ditto, 3 per Cent ••••• • • • • • ........ 66 6634
Ditto, 4 per Cent. • • .... •• • • ........ 84 4 843 i
Amort Syndic, 33¢ per Cent ••••• • • • • •
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent 162 163
East India Loan, 4 per Cent. ••••• • • • •
Exchange on London, at sight •• • 12 80
Two months. •-•• • • • • •• • • 12
On Hamburgh, at sight .... 35
Two months..... ••••• • • - • • 34 62
A1:09651i, .
On Paris • •••-•• • • • • .. Sr; 62
Two moath2. 64 12
534
Loan,pppDeeerrritC:CoAlceeB: 11:3:1488.
Bank Shares .. ... • . • ..........1580
Esterhazy's Loan • • • • 57%
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • • • • •• 1411
Glogguitz , ........ ............. te
Vienna—Milan •• • ................ 8g
Pesth ... 8554
Pestreanage ..........................
3midd9'.ll t.tet q....

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BAussus, JAN. 18.
Actual Debt, 2N per Cent • • • • • • • • ..
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• • •
Ditto Three per Cent
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••. • • •
Ditt0,ditt0,1848............„ „ „ 93
98%
Ditto, 1844. • • • • • • • • • • .. • • ........ 91%
Ditto, 1836.. •• .. ••• • • . ........ ....
Ditto, 1838 ••..••••••• • • • • • • • • • • •• .. 67k
Ditto of the City, 1832 .•••. • • • . • •
Ditto, 1843 •• • ••• • • • ................ 93%
Bank of Belgium.. ....... . • 97
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 19.

THE MODEL MAID-OF-ALL-WORK
Her age is fourteen. Her arms are bare, and her
feet slipshod. Her curls are rarely out of paper]
She sports a clean apron on the Sunday, about tea-
time. It is a mystery where she sleeps ; some say
the kitchen, in one of the large drawers ; and others
declare she has a turn-up bed in the hall-clock ; but
it is not known, for positive whether she ever goes to
bed at all. She has a wonderful affection for the cat.
Everything that is missed, or lost, or broken, or not
eaten, she gives unhesitatingly to him. She is not
fond of the drawing-room, but has a good-natured
partiality of the garret, who sings funny songs, and
gives her occasionally an order for the play. She
takes her dinner whilst washing the dishes, and never
gets her breakfast till all the floors have done with
the one teapot. She tries very hard to answer five
' bells at once, and in despair answers none. She
always forgets the mustard, and prefers blowing the
fire with her mouth instead of the bellows. Her
hands will not bear minute inspection ; and no
wonder, for she is cleaning boots, or washing, or
cooking dinners, all day long. She carries coals in a.
dustpan, hands bread on a fork, and wipes plates with
her apron. She is abused by everybody, and never
gets a holiday. She only knows it is Sunday by the
lodgers stopping in bed later than usual, and having
twice as many dinners to cook. She is never allowed
to go out, excepting to fetch beer or tobacco. She
hears complaints without a murmur, and listens_
is
to
jokes without a smile. She gets 61. year, n
expected to wait on about twenty persons, d
.o the
to d
work of five servants, to love all the children n the
house, and to be honest for the money. It is not
known' what becomes of the model maid-of-all-work
in her old age. It is believed, however, that she sinks
into the charwoman at the age of twenty. Land-
ladies, be gentle to her !—Punch.

MARINE SOCIETY .—A general quarterly meeting
of this society, established for the equipment, main-
tenance, and instruction of distressed boys for the Royal
Navy, Indian navy, merchant service, and the fisheries,
was held yesterday, at the office of the institution,
Bishopagate-street; Sir C. Malcolm in the chair. There
were present, Lord 11. Cholmondeley, General Caulfield,
Admiral Hope, Mr. Ricardo, &c. By lithe Secretary's
1 report it appeared that the income for the quarter ending
Dec. 31, 1847, was 2,2331. The expenditure less by a
balance of 921. During the past quarter 84 boys had
been sent to sea in the Royal Naval, merchant, and East
India services, making, with the number sent out in the
previous quarter, a total of 183. The Secretary begged
to read a letter rom Lord Auckland, First Lord of the
Admiralty, stating that though he avoided as much as
possible presiding at public dinners, still, approving as
he did of the objects of that society, ho would willingly
take the chair at the annual dinner which was to bo
given for the augmentation of its funds. Thanks haying
been voted to the Gallant Chairman, the meeting
separated.
The Suisse of Berne, of the 15th, has the follow-
ing :—" According to a letter from Friburg, th
Council has adopted the proposition of3l. Glaae Grand
son, by
which the authors and abettors of the Sonderbund,
embers of the
o
amongst whom are the bishop and t
thorn °another forced
clergy, are to have imposed upon
hoThem convents which
loan of 1,600,000 Swiss firms.
have not a fixed mission are to be secularized. The
clergy are to be placed under the of
Tthhee
their
State, which is to administer pep) .
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tenforced
The p ear
rot
which the State will pay 3 p
the convents is to be devoted to the support of schools,
hospitals, and other objects of public utility. It is
added that, according to M. Glasson's proposition, the
principal authors of the separate league are to be exiled
tor two years, after which they will bo permitted to
return on applying for pardon." From a postscript to
this letter, however, it would appear that the Grand
Council had not adopted the whole of M. Glasson's
proposition. The Suisse promises to give the details of
the division which had been come to.
THE LAST AND THE BEST.—A correspondent of
the New York Spirit of the Times has the following:—
A chap, walking out, came across " Old Mose" sitting
in the broiling sun, fishing. " Well, Mose," says he,
" what in the world are you doing there?" " Puffin."
" What?" " Fiffin." " Fishing! well, what's the rea-
soa you can't talk ? what's in your month ?" " Oh,
nuffin but wums for bait!"
Mr. T. CooKE.—We regret to state that this emi-
nent musician has been a long time ill, but rejoice to
hear that he is much better, and pronounced by his me;
dical attendants out of danger.