The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-11 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

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AMSTERDAM, FED. 4.—The number of passen on the
Dutch railway iiittre-ffienth of _January 444 ; the
money received for passengers and goods was 51,640 florins.
The Second Chamber of the States General will meet the
day after to-morrow (Friday). Some projects of law will be
presented to the Chamber on that day, among which will be
one confirming the measure adopted by way of reprisal
against Belgium, and a number of proposals relative to the
first book of the penal code
Zwou.e, FEB. 2,—ln consequence of the extraordinary rise
of the Twen and the Dinkel, extensive inundations have
taken place, and much damage is done to the roads and
in this province.
The river Yecht and Rigge have also risen to a level with
the ctown of the dikes, so that it was necessary to take pre-
cautions against inundation.
Bois LE Due, FEB. 4.—What we expected has come to
pass. The inundation has reached the town, and a great
number of streets are under water, in some places to the
depth of two feet. Many houses, chiefly belonging to the
poorer classes, are completely oveiflowed. The communica-
tions are wholly interrupted in many places. There are
similar accounts of inundations from several other places.
AMSTERDAM, FED. 6.—We have received the Java journals
to the 1 Ith October, which contain a resolution of the Go-
vernor-General of India, to the effect that the import duties
which are to be charged ad 'valorem shall be levied either ott
the valuation, according to the market price of the day, or on.
the invoice price, with an addition of 30 per cent.
Deresnees, JAN. 28.—We have unfortunately again to an-
nounce a great and increasing inundation of the Elbe. The
flood is now 13 feet above the usual level and has overspread
the country far and wide. The snow in the Bohemian and
Saxon mountains has been melted in a few days by the con-
tinued rains ; the Widen has done immense _damage at
Prague. The tributaries of the Elbe have almost all risen to
an extraordinary height, so that we may expect greater
masses of water to come down. We have at present a sharp
frost, which we hope will prove some check on the;waters.
VIENNA, JAN. 29.—His Imperial Highness the Archduke
Charles having considerably gained in strength within these
few days, there is every reason to hope that he will soon be
wildly recovered and no more bulletins will be issued.
lIIMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Its. 3.
Bills. Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents • • • • • • • • • 113
Bank Shares • 1600
Anglo-Russtan Loan •••• • • • 108!4
Ruesian per Cent., !lamb. Certificate. 1034
Ditto Ist series Inscription— •• • • • • 1044
Ditto, Plops and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99
Ditto, in Certificate...• • • • • • • 99
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. • • •.. 91
• Ditto Stieglitz • • ••••• • • • • •• • • 89%
• Spanish-New 5 per Cent....
Ditto 3 per Cent ..... ........... 31
Polish
gti
Ntch _ktkioce
wrt
atuuap4tpDrt eecesriee,
et, T;e:to2n.
B_s-39
Au•glo-Danish L0a...F.„3 per Cent • • • • - 86%
National Bank Shares
DV. TCH FUN DS.—Assarxinast, FEB. 6.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 21., per Cent........... 66% GI%
ititto, 3 per Cent •••• • • • • .• ••• • • • 73 73!4
- Ditto, 4 per Cent ..... •••••• • • .• • • 944 954
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent.... . ..... 99 4 99%
Ditto, 35% per Cent • ...... 8014 90
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 164 155
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. 94% 95
Exchange on London, at sight •• • . .. 12 20
Two mouths.• • •• .• 12 10
36
On Hamburgh, at sight • • 35
31 25
Two months.• ••••••• • • • • • • -
-Dutch Papers, Feb. 7.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—YaNNa, JAN. 30.
5 per Cent. Metalliques— ...... ....... 1121
4 per Cent. ditto
3 per Cent. ditto• :...... .....
Loan, 1834 .....
Ditto, 1839
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • ...•... 1584
Esterhazy's Loan
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand 180
Gloggnitz • • • •• •• •• 1464
Vienna—Milan • • • • • • ••.•• • • • • • • • •• • • 125%
Leghorn •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• •• ••...... 1174
Perth .• .......... • ........... ••••• • • 1044
Sienna ..
Grosett o .
Oldenburg .. ••••••••••••••••••••••
Pestota •
...
..pennlnen
—Afigemelne Zeitung, Feb. 2.

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN
TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK.
The trade in Wheat has, since our last, maintained a very
firth toile ; and though the millers have acted with much cau-
tion, prices hare tended upwards at several of the leading
provincial markets.
In the agricultural di-tricte the rise has been somewhat
greater than at the chief consuming markets, farmers having
generally brought forward moderate supplies. This has been
particularly the case at the shipping ports on the east coast,
from whence the produce of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire,
and Norfolk is dispatched to the south and north. This cer-.
tainly does not look like an intention on the part of the
growers to force sales at depreciated prices.
The arrivals of Wheat coastwise into London have been
only moderate during the week; nor has much been exhi-
bited at Mark-lane, by land-carriage samples, from the
neighbouring counties. Ile purchases made by the millers
on Monday appear to have sufficed far their immediate
wants, and the demand has since then been extremely slow.
•• On Wednesday the transactions were of so little importance
as scarcely to afford the means of judging of the real value
of the article; nor was much inure done on Friday, though
factors manifested a disposition to facilitate business, and
woula probably have accepted rates a trifle below those cur-
rent in the beginning of the week if they could thereby have
succeeded in clearing off the rew parcels on sale. Foreign
free Wheat has also been difficult of disposal, particularly
the inferior descriptions, comprising the bulk of what re-
mains in granary. Realty good qualities have not been sold
cheaper than on Monday at any period of the week; and
such is the scarcity, of really serviceable parcels, that small
lots have, from time to time, been released from under lock
by bonded certhicates. Bonded \Vheat has met with very
little attention. A few orders have been received from Bel-
gium for Polish Odessa, but the limits have been too low to
admit of their c.xecution. The cpeNdative demand appear
for the present, to have entirely ceased ; end though fair
Dautzic has been offered et 565., and good Lower Baltic,
red, at 525. to 535. per quarter, scarcely a bargain has been
closed. So general is the expectation that Sir Robert Peel
will succeed iu carrying his new measure, that very little at-
tention is being paid to the averages; hence the rise in the
duty to 17s. per quarter on Thursday last had no influence
one way or the other on bonded Wheat.

REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
The latest advises from New York inform us that the de-
mand for flour for export to England had rather slackened
in the early part of January, but about the middle of the
month a renewed inquiry had sprung up, which had enabled
holders of Genessee to realise 53/:1 dolls. per barrel for good
brands. Further riews from Great Britain was anxiously
looked for, and it was expected that the tone of the English
letters would have considerable influence on the market.
From the north of Europe the accounts are of much the
same character as those previously received. Though the
demand for wheat appears generally to have been languid at,
most of the continental ports, the smallness of the stock, and
the prevailing opinion that great scarcity is likely to be felt
before another harvest can be secured, seem to have pre-
vented any decline occurring in prices; indeed quotations
have rather moved upward, as well in Germany as in Hol-
land and Belgium.
The latest accounts from Dantzic state that holders of
really fine old wheat bad manifested no inclination to lower
their pretensions, and that few were willing to enter into
contracts to ship the best samples (the produce of 1842) in
spring below 555. per quarter. New wheat might have beer
bought at from 48s. to 525. per quarter, according to quality,
but the actual transactions had not been of much im-
portance.
A letter from Y.lbine., dated 27th ult , furnishes us with
a statement of the stocks of grain there at the commence-
ment of January, from which it appears that the entire
quantity of wheat in granary consisted on the first of that
month of only 2,360 lasts. Little or nothing had been done
there in wheat for shipment, prices being relatively higher
than at the neighbouring port of Dantzic.
At Stettin holders of wheat appear to have remained
firm, and by the latest reports from thence we learn that:
there were no sellers below 475. to 48s. per quarter, free era •
board in spring.
The reports from Hamburgh state that the navigation of
the Elbe had again become impeded by floating ice, the
weather having been frosty :during the latter part of Ja-
nuary. The corn market had In some -degree recovered
from the previous depression, and wheat, as well as moot
kinds of spring corn, had been held at enhanced rates.
At Rotterdam, on Tuesday, all sorts of grain ere held at
enhanced terms, in consequence of an anticipated demand
from the Rhenish provinces.
At Antwerp a material
een
ian wheat
caused by the proposed alterations
in
rise bad, we woueracorernlnflaows.rmedtasbo
lish
asrstsic,laensdhla'odmrieslll
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quoted, on the 3d
psOriop. Odessa Lad
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beingtse
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instant, 448. 60 .t
and barley from 295. to 325. per quarter.
The accounts from the Mediterranean are still without in-
terest, prices of wheat being much too high in that quarter
to admit of business being done with a view to the Englislt
markets. Letters from Marseilles, of the 31st of January,
quote Polish Odessa wheat 455., and Danube 41s. per quarter
free on board, being nearly as much as those qualities are at
present worth in the London market.
From Odessa the advices of the 16th of January state that
vessels had become very scarce ; consequently little had been
dune, for want of shipping. Ordinary wheat was then held
at 28s. to 325., good secondary sorts at 345., and fine at
85s. Gd. to fitt.s. 6d. per quarter, free on board.—Mark-lanit
Eapress.

TILL SALMON FrsuiNcs.—The first two days' returns
which have reached us from our own district are favourable. In tho
Cehon, three fish were got; in the Beanly about the same number:
in the Ness, five fish ; while at Fortrose Point sad other parts of :In
coast about fifty were got. The want of ice is much felt. There
none nerth of the Findhorn, where about one-fourth of the usual.
quantity has beets collected; at the Spey one-half; but at Aberdeen
there has been about the usual quantity.—Roes-shire Advertiser.
Fistinnir PIERS AND HARBOURS (IRELAND).—MOR..
day the third measure on the part of the Government for the im-
provement of Ireland was printed, entitled " A Bill to encourage tho
Sea Fisheries of Ireland, :by promoting and aiding with grants of
public money the construction of piers, harbours, and other works...,
It is appointed to be read a second time to night (Tuesday). Undo:.
each of the three measures—Public Works, Drainage, and Fishery
Piers —lt is proposed to advance 50,0001. There are as many as 57
sections in the bill. The preamble states the objects to be conic,'
out, and provisions have been framed under the following heads :
Commissioners, grants, loans, preliminary proceedings, works, per-
chase of lands, security for loans and repayment, maintenance cd
works, and miscellaneous matters.
The Exeter petition for the immediate repeal of Oa
corn-laws has received In three days upwards of 5,000 signatures.,
DISTRESS IN DlTNGlRVAN.—Notwithstanding allttbhies
representations of the great distress prevailing
locality, and the unmistakeable fact of a suhbesejarriputiltoil
t
being entered into, to partially relieve it, _
of this country are looking as listlessly en
if thee
t
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appalling facts detailed had no realityo.f.
remind them that there are upwards 51,V000" persons a
present in a starving condition in
this distress. Were it nut
no prospect whatever or reliefdriovridusi,
Ihnigarvan, and there is
who generously an 2
for the humanity of a
to record many deaths,
we would before
benevolently came forwreawrjhaavaand -subscribed a large sum,
now
vTpe poor-house is full, the. Fever.
contagious°'ni disease spreading tapullv
of relief to the sufferers. We fear mar., fioomspiatacltuafulils,taarnvdati
to the present distress, and are we to
the Government to
wsatiillllll fall
Ip,varioicnistpime:sit
in render some relict?
colt
are the donations of the wealthy absenteeS hi& l-
ing property in that neighbourhood, to aid the struggling
man of business, who is compelled to witness the sufferius
of his starving neighbours? We have not heard of a sin; le
one coming forward as yet, though when the rent becom
due they will not fail to demand it from all, and then it 4
brought to a foreign land, where the possessor may enjoy
himself without witnessing the appalling scenes of misery
which he could not avoid observing at home.— Il'oterfo4;%-,
Freeman.

HARWICH, FEB. 6.—A brig, supposed to be a collie;
is sunk, between the Shiparaall and Orlordues6—lpswic'&,
&Arch.