The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 3.—The King, accompanied by Mr.
Conway, set out this morning for his estate at Ardenne.
His Majesty will be absent about a week.
Baron d'Arnem had the honour, on the 2d of this
month at noon, to deliver to his Majesty, in a private
audience, the letters which put an end to his mission as
Envoy xtraordinary Minister Plenipotentiary of the
King of Russia. '
The Minister of Public Works gives notice that, in
order to facilitate the conveyance of passengers and
mails to England, the departure of the first train from
Ghent to Ostend; which at present takes place at forty-
five minutes past six in the:morning, will, from the sth
of January, take place at six in the morning.
In consequence, the passage of this train through the
intermediate stations between Ghent and Ostend will
be likewise forty-five minutes earlier.
The waters began to subside yesterday.
The Messager de Guard of yesterday, the 2d, says
—" The inundation in our city at this moment has
obliged twelve of our manufacturers to stop work.
This disaster throws a great number of workmen out of
employment, and deprives them of the means of gaining
their livelihood, for the number of days' work in a week
in these twelve manufactories is equivaient to more than
20,000 francs in wages.
BRUGES, JAN: 2.—We lately stated that a deputa-
tion of the Magistrates had gone to Brussels to ask for a
modification in the tariff of duties on German thread,
and that Mr. Bryaval, Director of the Customs, had
been summoned to the capital to confer with the Minister
of Finance on this important question.
We have now great pleasure in auouncing that Mr.
Bryaval was informed yesterday of the measures just
taken by the Minister of Finance. Henceforth the thread
of Westphalia will be admitted at reduced duties, con-
formably to the desire of the petitioners of Bruges.
We do not see from these lines on what basis the peti-
tioners ask for the admission of Westphalia thread into
Belgium.
We presume 'that they solicit the admission of a
quantity of thread for the manufacture of mattresses,
equal to that which is already admitted for the manu-
facture of ticking.
The receipts of the Custom-house of Antwerp in the
month of December was 495,060 f. The receipts for the
whole year 1845 was 6,145,557 f. That of the year 1844
was 6,289,307 f.=—Brusseis Papers, Jan. 4.
BERLIN, DEC. 26.—A great sensation has been caused
among the holders of shares in the iron railway, when
the want of money is already severely felt by an an-
nouncement of the directors of the Lower Silesian and
Marks Railway that, notwithstanding the addition :of 4
grant of money• already obtained, they have again
made a mistake tb the amount of no less than three
millions and a half of dollars, which are required to
complete the wOrk after all the shares have been paid
up. This amendment was quite unexpected by the public,
but some speculators appear to have been aware of it,
and to have speculated on a fall of the shares, which, in
fact, are now at their nominal worth, after rising in the
spring of 1844 to 128, which was the highest prices they
ever attained.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 31.

Viscount Melbourne, accompanied by Lord and
Lady Beauvale, returned to Brocket-hall yesterday, from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Hon. Robert Daly, married on Saturday, by
his uncle, the BiShop of Cashel, is fifth and youngest son of
Lord Dunsandle. The fair bride, Hon. Cecilia Maria A'Court,
is the only daughter of Lord Heytesbury,
and some years
senior to the gallant bridegroom.
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noon daily, or rather in half an hour after the arrival of the
London day mail, which is not always very punctual to time;
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PEEL.—Much has
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ANCESTRY
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been said of the lowliness of the Peel family, and no little
misconception indulged in with respect to the obscurity of
its descent. The following details, founded on unquestion-
able data, will show that, though devoid of all claims to the
pride and pomp of heraldry, it can be traced back for several
generations through a line of respectable progenitors; the
great granduncle of the late Baronet, the Rev. Nicholas
Peele, having held the curacy of Blackburn, in Lancashire,
so far back as 1650. The name we find originally written
with a final e, and a family of Peele was, as early as the
beginning of the fifteenth century, seised of lands in Sales-
bury and Wilpshire, districts in the lower division of Black-
burn, Lancashire.. About the close of the next century,
Robert Peele left the parish of East Marton, in Craven, and
settled at Rule Howe, in the hundred of Blackburn, with
which his desceMlant3 have ever since been connected. He
died in 1608, leaving at son, William Peale, of Hole House,
who died in 1651, leaving by Margaret Livesey his wife,
whom he married' in 1619, a son, Robert Peele, of Hole
House, whose twa sons were Robert Peele, of Peele Fold,
Oswaldtwistle, and the Rev. Nicholas Peele, curate of Black-
burn. The elder.; Robert Peele, of Peele Fold, married in
1681, Anne Warde, and died in 1733, leaving one son, 'Wil-
liam Peele, of Peele Fold, who married in 1712, Anne,
daughter of Laurence Walmesley, of Upper Darwent, and
was father of Robert Peel, of Peele Fold, who, by Mary his
wife, daughter of Edmund Haworth, of Blackburne, hail a
large family, theAird son of which was the late Sir Robert
Peel, Bart.—Patrician,