The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

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DUTCH MAIL.
AMSTERDAM, Fan. 4.—The number of passengers on the
Dutch railway in the month of January was 52,244 ; the
money received for passengers and goods was 54,640 florins.
The Second Chamber of the States General will meet the
day after to-tnorrow (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
ZWOLLE, 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 road. and
bridges in this province.
The river Yecht and Rigge have also risen to a level with
the crown 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
pasc. The inundation has reached the town, and a great
number of streets are under water, in sonic places to the
depth of two feet. Many houses, chiefly belonging to the
poorer classes, are completely overflowed. The communica-
tions are wholly interrupted in many places. There are
similar accounts of inundations from several other places
AMSTERDAM, FEB. 6.—We have received the Java journals
to the 11th 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 on
the valuation, according to the market price of the day, or on
the invoice price, with an addition of 30 per cent.
DRESDEN, JAN. 28.—We have unfortunately spin 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 Moldan 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
wholly recovered and no more bulletins will be issued.
HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, FEB. 3.
Bills. Money,
tustrian 5 per Cents
Bank Shares ........................ 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian 5 per Cent., 'lamb. Certificate. 1031,4
Ditto Ist series Inscription .. .. • • •• • • 1044
Ditto, Slope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99
Ditto, in Certificate • • ........ •••• .. • . 99
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ... •. • 91
Ditto Sticglitz .. . ........ .•••• • • • • 69%
Spanish New 5 per Cent.. .. . ....... .. 20 19yy
Ditto 3 per Cent .•••••••.. • • • • . • • • 31
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 24 per Cent••
Dutch Actual Debt, 2 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1644 53
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .. •• • -
National Bank Shares.. • ........ ....•
..--.....• ••• ~ DUTCH F UNDS.--.41.17.1fark am Vs•. ~..... . , '..0. - ..

ey.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.. Mon
•••• •• • 6IN 61E4
34
Hitt°, 3 per Cent 73
73%
Ditto, 4 per Cent.— •••• • • • • 94.1 i 95U
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent • • ••• • • • 99 99%
Ditto, 3% per Cent •••••••• • • • • • • • • SON 90
Commercial Company, 4 per Cent • • 164 165
East India Loan, 4 per Cent ••• • • 94 95
Exchange on London, at sight • ••• • • • 12 20
Two months. • • ..... • • • 12 10
On Ilamburgh, at sight • • 35 36
Two months. 31 25
—Dutch Papers, Feb. 7.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 30.
5 per Cent. Metalliques •
4 per Cent. ditt0........................ 10114,
3 per Cent. ditto ..... ••• • • ••••••• • • • • • • 77
Loan, 1634 . 160
Ditto, 1839 . • • • . • • • •• • • • . 111
Bank shares .. . • • .• • • • . 1564
Esterhazy's Loan . ...........
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand ...... jog
Gloggnitz • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • 146
Vienna—Milan .•••••••••• • • • • • • • • • . 125!{
Grosetto 981
Apenninen .............. ••• • • . • • • . •. • . 101 ki
—Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 2.

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN
TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK.
The trade in Wheat has, since our last, maintained a very
firm tone; and though the millers have acted with much cau-
tion, prices have tended upwards at several of th• leading
provincial markets.

In the agricultural districts 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,
front 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 \Yheat 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. The purchases made by the millers
on Monday appear to have sufficed for 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 more done on Friday, though
factors manifested a disposition to facilitate business, and
would probably have accepted rates a trifle below those cur-
rent in the beginning of the week it' they could thereby have
succeeded in clearing oil' the few 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. Really 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 certificates. Bonded Wheat has met with very
little attention. A few orders have been received from Bel-
gium for Polish Odesse, but the limits have been too low to
admit of their execution. The speculative demand appears,
for the present, to have entirely ceased; end though fair
Dantzic has been offered at 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 in earning his new measure, that very little at-
tention is being paid to the averages; hence the rise in the
duty to I7s. per quarter on Thursday last had no influence
one way or the other on bonded Wheat.
RIiVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
The latest advices front New York inform us that the de-
mand for flour for export to England had rather slackened
in the early part if January, but about the middle of the
month a renewed inquiry had sprung up, which had enabled
holders of Genessee to realise 514 dolls. per barrel for good
brands. Further news 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 front Dantzic state that holders of
really tine old wheat had 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 quaff ter. New wheat might have been
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 Vlbing, 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. tittle 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 on
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 most
kinds of spring corn, had been held at enhanced rates.
At Rotterdam, on Tuesday, all sorts of grain were held
at
enhanced terms, in consequence of an anticipateddemand
from the Rhenish provinces.
edr,oblisheen
caused by the proposed alterationss
At Antwerp a material rise had,.
5 in
Pomeranian wheat at
Odessa had been sold at over s we
er
are informed,
e being quoted, onthe 3d
instant, 445. 60.,
575. 7d per quarter. Other articles had risen in the same
32s.per quarter.
and barley from 295. to
proportion : ry
The accounts from the Mediterranean are still without in-
terest, prices of wheat Wing much too high in that quarter
to admit of business being done with a view to the English
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
done, for want of shipping. Ordinary wheat was then held
at 28s. to 325., good secondary sorts at 345., and fine at
ass. 6d. to 38s. 6d. per quarter, free en board.—Mark-lane
Express.

SALMON kISHINGS.—The first two clays' returns
which have reached us from our own distriet are favourable. In the
Caraoll, three fish were got; in the Beauly about the same number ;
in the Ness, five fish ; while at Yortrose Point and other parts of the
coast about fitly were got. The want et' ice is much felt. There is
none north of the Findhorn, where about one-fourth of the usual
quantity has been collected; at the Spey one-half; but at Aberdeen
there has been about the usual quantity.—Ross-shire Acirerliser.

FISHERY PIERS ♦ND HARBOURS (IRELAND).—Yester-
day the third measure on the part of the Government for the im-
provement of Ireland was printed, entitled " A Bill to encourage the
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). Under
each of the three measures—Public Works, Drainage, and Fishery
Viers— it is proposed to advance 50,0001. There are as many as 87
sections in the bill. The preamble states the objects to he carried
out, and provisions have been framed under the following heads ;
Commissioners, greats, loans, preliminary proceedings, works, pur-
chase of lands, security for loans and repayment, maintenance of
works, and miscellaneous matters.

The Exeter petition for the immediate repeal of the
corn-laws has received three days upwards of JACO signatures.

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DISTRESS IN DITNGARV AN.—Notwithstanding all the
representations of the great distress prevailing in this
locality, and the unmistakeable fact of a subscription
being entered icto, to partially relieve it, the rulers
of this country are looking as listlessly on as if the
appalling facts detailed had no reality. We must again
remind them that there are upwards of 5,000 persons at
present in a starving condition in Dungarvan, and there is
no prospect whatever or relief for this distress. Were it not
for the humanity of a few individuals, who generously and
benevolently came forward, and subscribed a large suns,
we would before now have to record many deaths
sufferers. We
from actual starvation. The poor-house is full, the Fever
Hospital full, and contagious
still no prospect of relief . many
will fall victims to the present distress, and are we to
to thed i sseuafls 'ee
the some
s t r u relief?
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call in vain on the GoNerunient to ren.daer
who is compelledNv We
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Where are the doi,ations of the wealthy absentees hold-
ing property in that neighbourhood, to at_
though when the rent becomes
demand it from all, and them it is
do:,nu;'aeohntichsooefmsytbai neighbours?n:rlgvsiiilnnlfegonssrow't.afra(iilat so
yet, though
brought to a foreign land, where the possessor ms v enjoy
himself without witnessing the appal ling scenes of misery
which he could not avoid observing at home...-. Waterford
Freeman.
HARWICH, FEB. 6.—A brig, supposed to be. a collier,
is sunk between the Shipwash and Orforduessv—lpswich
Eapress.