The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-31 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, OCT. 26.—The Second Chamber of the
States-General had a public meeting to-day in which
M. Bruce presided. The President announced that the
committee for drawing up an answer to the speech from
the Throne had considered the objections made in the
Sections, and had in consequence re-examined the draft
of the treaty. The President added, that the document
was or would be distributed among the members, and
that the discussion of it might be put upon the order of
the day for to-morrow (Tuesday) at ten o' clerk in the
forenoon, which was agreed to.
In the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-
General on Saturday,. a Royal Message was brought in
accompanying a project of law for the purpose of in-
demnifying persons who have lost bonds upon the
Treasury.
A message from his Excellency the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs transmitted to the Chamber a copy of
the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation concluded on
the 29th of July between the Netherlands and Bel-
gium.
AMSTERDAM, OCT. 24.—We are happy to announce
that the number of patients that have been brought into
the two hospitals of this city begins to be on the de-
crease. From the 10th to the 16th Oct., 425 patients
were admitted ; and, in the last week, from the 17th to
the 25th inclusive, only 386, being a decrease of 39.
Letters from Rome, of the 12th instant, state that her
Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands had been com-
plimented, in the name of the Pope, by Cardinal Gizzi,
the Secretary of State ; and on that day his Royal High-
ness Prince Alexander, her Majesty's son, had paid a
visit to his Holiness.

Bois LE Duc, OCT. 23.—Here, too, people begin to
speak of emigrating to America, so that several artisans
of various crafts have already made preparation, but
hitherto none of the better classes have applied to the
magistrates for permission to emigrate, as being obliged
to leave the country for want of means of support.
OCT. 19.—For three days past we have had
in our vicinity a great degree of heat, most extraordinary
for the month of October, which appeared to forebode
the approach of an atmospheric phenomenon. In fact,
we have received from the mountains the news that a
terrible hurricane visited the valley of Schledorf ; the
roofs of the houses were carried off, the church and the
houses razed to their foundation. A panic seized the
inhabitants, who sought refuge in the cellars, when sud-
denly a fire broke out in every part of the village, and
in a short time there was not a single house, or even a
cottage, that was not consumed by the fury of the ele-
ments. The village is entirely razed to the ground, the
neighbouring forest is on fire, and the flames can be seen
from the gates of the capital. We have not received the
particulars, but there is every reason to suppose that the
calamity is not confined to the village of Schledorf, but
that others have experienced a similar fate.
PESTH, Oct 18.—The health of the Archduke Pala-
tine is very fluctuating, and the accounts, even on one
and the same day, are most conflicting and contradic-
tory. At all events, the state of his Imperial Highness
is such as to excite the greatest apprehensions. The
bulletin which has just been issued is as follows:—" The
more calm state of his Imperial Highness on the night of
the 17th, continued throughout the whole of yesterday,
when the usual symptoms abated, and the patient was
comparatively well and cheerful, till late in the evening.
The prostration of strength, however, still continues. In
the night of the 18th his sleep, which otherwise was
quiet, was frequently interrupted by the effects of the
medicine. On the morning of the 18th his Imperial
Highness was nearly in the same state as yesterday
morning.—Signed, OPEN. Oct. 18, nine o'clock, A M."-
Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 23.