The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-18 00:00:00

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HAMWURGH and FLANDERS

ScnwEnrer, MAY 7.—His Royal Highness the Grand Duke,
accompanied by Baron Von Sell, set out this morning for
Italy. His Highness will meet his mother at Vienna, and ,
after some stay at Milan, and on' the lake of ComQ, will
return home through the countries on the Irhine.
Haistaunotr, MAT 9.—We understand that the loan for nine
millions of marks, resolved on by the Senate and citilens in
July, last year, has been contracted for by the house of S.
Neine, of this city, and by the houses Sehickler Brothers and
E. M. Magnar, in Berlin, under the name of Hamburgische
Staats Premium.

ATILEIZE, STOCKHOLM, MAY s.—lt is said that a COM..
, mercial treaty between Sweden and Norway and tht,. King-
, dom of the Netherlands is in contemplation, and Baron
Wahrendorff, his Majestz's Chargé d'Affaires at the Courts
both of Belgium and the Netherlands, has gone from Brussels
to the Hague on this account.
COPENHAGEN, MAY 7.—His Royal Ilittness the" Crown
Prince went yesterday evening onboard the Aegir steamer, ,
and this morning on board the Gesion frigate. At eleven
o'clock this morning the King and suite went in the same
steamer to the frigate, which weighed anchor this 'afternoon,
and together with the stesuner proceeded northward.
COPENHAGEN, MAY 9.—We now learn that the dabs.
tion of the Gesion frigate is to cruise for ten months on the
Spanish coast, and to go as far as Madeira. The King re-
mained on board on the 7th till three o'clock in 'the sifter-
noon, when he left it off Vedbeck, and arrived here on board
the Aegir at half-past five o'clock.
RIGA, A.PRIL 29.—Our merchants are in the 'greatest
anxiety. Our harbour of Dunamunde is choked up .with
sand, by which above 100 ships richly laden are prevebted
entering Riga, and a great part of them have already' put
back, hoisting a black flag. This is a dreadful blow to our
commerce. 'fhe Emperor has assigned; a million of roables
to provide the means for remedying this misfortune.. • A
COPENHAGEN, MAY 7.—The expected visit of the Swedish
Royal Family to our Court, gives our politicians ample nat-
ter for conjectte. At first, only a visit of the young Mike
of Upland wa announced ; afterwards, however, in conse-
quence of special invitation, both the Crown Prince and the
King of Sweden have resolved to pay a visit to our Court.
Now, as the reigning Queen of Sweden, with the Princess
of Sweden, who is 16 years of age, will reside in Schonen,
hopes are entertained that we may see those august members
of the Royal Family of Sweden at Copenhagen, which of
course, gives full play to political conjectures, in which the
re-marriage of Prince Frederick of Hesse, nearly allied to the
Danish throne, is not to be overlooked. Immediately after
the visit of tbs. Swedish Royal Family their Majesties will
set out for the senchiee, the King will then go for the pur-
posetification from Verli .."-
of sea-bathing to Foltz., and the Queen to Augustunberg.
DEESIAICN, MAY 5 Our Government has received an•
„me the ceaer.en n, that it does not seem advisable te,re-
eg delay hThli
tilt 4bs question -carisPli3e respecting the
Z°"7"rsia
tided, and au unlocke Ts' lif in Eneland is nee.
place in Parliament,
meeting
Upper House before
and the Bill can hardly be teada in the taken
!poefeiatlilley
asDerwts can
the end of this month. The
hardly take place before the autumn,
been generally expressed not to meet in the heat of the:
summer.
HAMM:MGR, MA? 11.—The number of ships of all nation
that passed the Sound in April, 1846, was—
From the North Sea
From the Baltic

Total 1,817
Of which the English ships were—
From the North Sea
From the Baltic

Total
Brurssime, MAY I,2.—The average price of wheat in the
week ending the 9th of May, was 23f. 91c., and that of rye
17f. 44c. per hectolitre.
The Journal of Bruges every day inserts in some state-
ments respecting the distress of Thielt and the environs,
which we cannot pass over in silence. Scarcely a day passes
without poor little children arriving at Bruges, who wander
about the streets of the city, exhausted with fatigue and
hunger. They come from Thielt, their parents are dead, or
shut up in the Mendicity establishment, or have abandoned
them, being unable to support them. These are serious
facts let it be ascertained whether they are correct or not ;
we wish the latter, but we fear that they are too true.—Brus-
sels Paper, May 13.

HAIILBURGU 80.

MAY 12.
Austrian 5 per Cents Bilis. Money.
.• • ..... ••••• • • • 113
Bank Shares .... •.. ..... -• • 1590
Anglo-Russian Loan ........ ••..•. • • 107 Russian 5 per Cent., Banat,. Certificate. 101% 101%
Ditto Ist seriesinscription- -.•-• • .• 102%
Ditto,Hope and Co., 3,1 and 4th series- 90 —,
Ditto, in Certificate- -•• • • ••••••• 06 liew 4 per Cent., Hops and Co. •
.... • • 89u 89 Ditto Stieglitz ---••••••,• • • •• • • • • 88% SI%
Spanish New 5 per Cent •.••.•••• • • • • • 18% 18%
Ditto 3 per Cent .... - ••• 29%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent.. --
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • ..... 59 0.4*
Ditto 3 per Cent. •• •• - - • • • • ' • • '
A.—
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844. •• • 81
. ~....
ngl6-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •• •••• .. . 86 '"
National Bank Shares.. ••.••.•• • • • " •

..... .
GOVERNESSES'BENEVOLENT INBTITITTION.--Th•
third annual meeting of the Subscribers to this institution was held
On Thursday at the Hanover-square Rooms. His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge in the chair, supported by Viscount Ingestre,
ALP, B. B. Cabbell, Esq., E.R:S., Mr. Vaughan Richards, Q.C.,
Hon. H. Ashley, Sec. &c. &c. His Royal Highness opened the buil-
ness by observing, that he bad much gratification in being in a con-
dition to acquaint the subscribers that the continued prosperity which
had crowned the operations of the society had placed it amongst the
leading institutions of the country. Although but in existence throe
years, upwards of 900 cases had been considered by the ladies' com-
mittee, and nearly 20,0001. was invested for the benefit of those who
wished to purchase annuities. A considerable sum had also
been received towards the establishment of a home for dis-
engaged governesses. The report read by the honurary secre-
tary, the Rev. David Laing, stated that during tbe past
year twelve donations, of the amount of iel. and up-
wards, had been received; nearly 300 cases had come be-
fore the ladies' committee,. of which 253 were favourably en-
tertained, and pecuniary grants to the amount of 4911. had been
made to 159. An annuity had been founded, through the benevolent
suggestion of the Bishop of Durham, who offered to give 50/. towards
the said object, if nine others would do the same, thus making alto-
: rether eight permanent annaities. Towards the provident fiend the
amount received and invested now reaches 20,0001. An Act of Incor-
poration would be applied for during the present cession of Parlia-
ment, to enable the society to hold freehold property, and thus to
carry out fully its design. The report added that his Royal Highnetst
Prince Albert had become a patron of the institution. According to
the financial statement the total receipts towards the provident fund
amounted to 11,65Z1. 3s. 10d., and deducting the expenditure, a
balance of 9601, 10s. 10d. remained. After addresses from Lord
Ingestrie and Mr. Bond Cabhell the report was agreed to. A vote of
thanks was passed to his Royal Highness, who, having acknowledged
the compliment, the meeting dissolved. An election of annuitant*
next took place, when out of 65 candidates three were chosen.
"M 2 SIIIP IS IIY WlFE.",—While. the St. Nicholas
was on her way down the North River, on Saturday, the officers
discovered a man far out in the bay, nearly opposite Peekskill, float-
ing on what subsequently proved to be a boat which had been cap-
sized. As soon as the report that a man in distress was in sight,
the captain ordered the pilot to make for him. The St. Nicholas was
soon alongside, and a line was thrown to the ferryman (for such the
man proved to be), but instead of seizing the only means of escape,
our hero of the-boat-bottom began to parley, somewhat as follows :
" Etilloa." said the Captain, "dont you want to come a'board r
. I "Will ye right my boat and pump her out ?" asked the man in dis-
tress. " Why no, my man, we have not time ; but if you will take
1
that line we will haul you a'board." "No ye don't. II I could only
get this boat righted, that's all I'd care for." So throwing back
the line indignantly, the boatman squatted himself quietly upon his
precarious perch and awaited another tarn of the xdieel of fortune.
This steamer was obliged to pass on her course; the captain, how-
ever, soon spoke a schooner which was on her way, and requested
the master to go to the aid of the boatman, whose situation was
really one of danger. The river was very rough, and the sea in the
bay was running a great deal too high for comfort or safety. The
schooner soon hove-to alongside the beat, but I 1 S passengers from the
St. N. could see them, the captain of the schooner and the wrecked
boatman were, to all appearances, negotiating. The latter, in all
Probability, demanding that in return for the privilege of rescuing
him, the master of the schooner should pump out, his boat.—Areto
York Harper.
BLACK AND WRITE TWINS.—Dr. Cunningham re-
cords, is the Philadelphia Examiner, the case of a negress, who was,
delivered of twins, one black and the ether white. He says, a negro
woman, aged about forty-five, after having giving birth to thirteen
children during her life, none of which were twins, was, during the
last spring, safely delivered of two at one birth, one being black and
the other white. He saw them when they were a few weeks old,
and the contrast in colour, hair, &c., was, indeed, striking; so much
so, that four-fifths of those who examined them were of opinion that
the negress was not the mother of both, but that some deception was
being played ; the mother persisted and still deletes them to be her
own. Dr. Cunningham remarks on this singular fact, that a black
woman may give birth, at one time, to a black chlld and a mulatto,
but the occurrence is extremely rare. A case like that under notice,
he considered to be a phenomenon as inexplicable as it is interestinE
DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOS. BARKER DEVON, K.C.H.
—We have to notice thp decease of this Gallant Navalin
theOttleeread.
_,ear
died on Tuesday last, at his residence in Devonshire,. _
mit
fir
action
of his age. The deceased had been in the navy more
Calder'stb r_7
years. He was Lieutenant of the Dragonuf
be
pext_olid.767.
While in the command of the Brardragere ,
In the German rivers. /11
lant services on the coast of Noma?:
andwith three Danish brigs of the
two minfah gun-boats while com-
-1811 he mu
nifirs.td
jnclar
thgeahnlal7:ll.B
fsi t
the a gallant
01.rpewarrerda ragoren and Blazer. He commanded
the seamen landed to tdaocwith the Russian army for the re-
eliyiezeaern, and Bremer-Lehe, at the mouth
Subsequently, in 1814, he co.in the river Ems. In 1838 be was
noi:lfcti:ertiatedni:atecli'vif--71„„„ge flit"::1:-..7-.:a-o.-Infa..—xer of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic
(
Order.
THE OREGON NOTICE.—At length the vote has been
taken on the Oregon question, and Mr. Crittenlen's resolution has
passed the Senate by a vote of 40 to 14—all the 54 deg. 40 in. men
voting in the negative. This resolution, as amended and passed,
advises the President to settle the Oregon question amicably, and
also authorises him to give the year's notice at his own discretion.
The intelligence was received here yesterday, by the magnetic tele-
graph, about twelve o'clock, and It was immediately sent by the.
British Consul, by a special steamboat express, to reach the packet
sailing to Liverpool, and then lying in the lower harbour at that
hour, .The vote of the Senate is of the utmost importance. Some
suppose it will be rejected by the House; but whether rejected or
not, it settles the Oregon question during the present Congress. It
place* in the hands of the President the entire control of the negoti-
ation, to be used according to his own discretion. It is the greatest
and most potent element of a re-election that any President ever re-
ceived ; and the probability now is, that all negotiations, looking to
a final settlement of this question, will be postponed or protracted
for the next three years. The 54 deg. 40 no. men will be perfectly
satisfied with the result. Mr. Polk, with the peculiar influences
surrounding him, can now spring the Oregon question upon the
country whenever he chooses, and thus seieureEtnhgedned for
dr
the ch
nextanees
of a re-election. We shall have a peace with la
refottsurltytehiamst b a
A.uut
nteesririle waramong
dbent-maki h
ng d tiinemfabentgieons .....3leit
chlowntke.
22,_
,Graeault.

THE HUDSON BAT COMPANY'STERRITORY.---Two
sergeants, two corporals, two bombardiers, and twenty gunners and
drivers of the Royal Artillery volunteers, were selected yesterday
afternoon and medically inspected at the Ordnance Hospital, of
Woolwich, for special service on the borders of the Oregon territory, '
and will proceed about the latter end of the present month or begin.._
ning of June for their destination, under the command of Captain
Blackwood, promoted last month from the Royal Horse Artillery.
The Terrible war steamer is expected to take them to America, with,'
a supply of guns Wand stores. 3,000 excavators are also to proceed
from various parts in this country, and gamble at a certain place
on the Hudson Bay Company's territory.
THE NEW MONEY-ORDER OFFICE.—On Thursday the
workmen employed at the extensive building intended for the new
Money-order Office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, commenced
completed. The removing
the scaffold poles, the whole of the side walls being
building from the base to the summit is
75 feet high. This establish-
ment, when completed, will furnish accommodation for upwards of
h e
200 officers In the Money-order department, and then th
the room et the General Post-office, now occupied by this important
--s
s oOe 11 la
t to n Wednesday
was 14 e l tahteExanneteir:
Mackworth, Bart.,
bburanthinchenoft.the service, will be taken into the London district este-
tvheersPva PROTESTANT
meetingef
Dean
heSaciSnOoCfr
ProtestantAA
r T
dmONhA.,
Sir
Digby
the Rev. Hugh Stowell, the Rev. W. Al'ilwaine, the Rev. Dr. Beak
Marsh. the
Campbell, the
theei;i•Titeenfil.
B.
hall. J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P. presided,.7arirsdw,
iesi'snideellfe9allethriees Rev.were In' es:
Thomas, the Rev. W. Shirley, the Rev. W. A e t Dalton,ev. 11" H.
Major Hanley, and other genti----
TwhaeyANt-ahlel,Rtleiev.RDevr:.
General Latter,
with ladles. The usual resolutions were adopted,
petition to the House • of Commons together with a
grant. for the repeal of the Maynootlft
L'EPoQUE-44
. ROMAN PEITILLETON."—On the 6th
instant this journal announced a new roman fanilleton, in
four volumes, to
raisons de convenan "
cey says the modest redaction, ~ nous
decident i ne faire •
connattre le nom de l'auteur qua lorsque le
roman aura etc entierement publid." Nevertheless they feel
convinced that the first chapters, by their originality,
variety, and delicate observation of character, will satisfy
their readers that the unknown author is " de cells clue Pon
aPpelle en France les marechaux de la litterature." We
have no disposition to deny that the title is well deserved,
but he is no marshal of the -French literary army, for in the
first chapter of "The I 9th of March," we And a French,
translation of an old friend—Barnaby Budge. Long us to
lield•Kirgi4l itfaiter llumphrey I was supported
ue
l r te by.

THE VETERAN BLANcHARD's BENEFIT.—The veteran
T. Blanchard, who for nearly half a century has been a ser-
vant of the public—who, as Pantaloon, was the contempo-
rary and rival of Barnes—and whose broadsword combats
with Bradley are still " freshly remembered" by the admirers
of that manly sport—takes a benefit on Tueidav, at the
Victoria. I'he bill of fare is most attractive; and II all those
who, as children, have been delighted with the performances
of T. Blanchard, take their children, to be in their turn de-
lighted by the acting of this admirable pantomimist of the
olden time, the house will be a bumber. That such will be
the cue we do not doubt, for it is seldom indeed that a
veteran actor appeals to his former patrons without having
his appeal responded to.
CAPTAIN O'SULLIVAN ; or, Adventures, Civil, 31:',1i.
tarn and Matrimonial, of a Gentleman on Half-pay, By
W. H. Maxwell, Esq., author of "Stories of Waterloo," 3
vols. The above work is published this day, b;),,. !dr. Col-
barn, and may now be had at all the libraries.. ihe follow-
ing Popularew works of faction,antare also r.st published :-
2. Marston nor, The Soldi.
of "Salathiel." 3. ErrAilia Wyndham:t Sn-In.
By
the Author
" Mount &-ril ~,Buye.thecAucothonrfeso..f
Two Old Men's Tal
~,
toilarotdeo.eH.
lions of a Pretty ';iroman. By lii
mule on their 'i'ravels. By Mrs.
6.. Peers and
5 The Ro-
Parvenus. By Mrs. Gore. , .Pomfret.
Esq. 8. The Citizen of Prague. Edited ey. MaryF.
Chorley,
Howitt.
Second edition. Also, just ready, Leontme, a novel. By
Mrs. Maberly.
PRINTING MACHINE INDEX.—We understand that
Mr. Edward Strong has contrived, by a small addition to the print-
of
hag-macie to register every copy that is thrown on', to the extent
100,000. As tech a means of registration 111 MIA 114001%1 the
Wri7l/2"4 II UV 19PP genffM' iltsV2 .