The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

SLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 21.—The committee for the im-
provement of the condition of the working classess held
a meeting to-day. Mr. Charles de Brourkere commu-
nicated his report on the questions put by the Minister
of Justice, relative to the measures to be taken in favour
of the population of Flanders, who are left without
work by the crisis in the linen trade. In the discussion
which took place, the utility of a society for exportation
was generally recognised. But, at the same time, the
meeting agreed on the necessity of immediately, and by
all possible means, procuring work for the population.
Neither the Minister for Foreign Affairs nor the Minister
of Justice were present at this meeting; but M. Stephins,
of the Department of the Interior, and M. Sarlet, of the
Department of Foreign Affairs, took part in it. There
will be another meeting on Monday.
Great preparations are making for the September
fetes. Since yesterday, workmen havelbeen engaged in
the erection of a vast platform on the Place Royale,
where the great vocal concert is to take place. It is in
the middle of the Place Royale, and is surrounded with
candelabra, which are to light it up. The Tree of
Liberty is on the centre of the platform so that this
most important part of our national fete will take place
under the shadow of this symbol of liberty. There is
every appearance that the musical solemnity, organised
by the Belgian and German Association, will
have a very grand effect. Seventy-five societies,
of which twenty-five are German, will have
their representatives at Brussels, and the numbers
of performers, vocal and instrumental, will be 1,200.
It is affirmed that Meyerbeer has just finished the score
of an opera, to be called Struenvee. The celebrated
composer is expected in a few days at Spa, where he in-
tends spending three weeks before going to Paris.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, who is now in
Switzerland, • has been ordered to drink goat's milk, for
which he will remain in the canton of Appenzel till the
end of September.
While the prices of corn, butter, eggs, and other arti-
cles of food are rising in the markets of Brussels, we
are happy to announce that potatoes continue to fall.
On Monday white potatoes were sold at the rate of
five francs per hundred killograms.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 22.—0 n the 15th, in the evening,
the Queen of Denmark passed near Keil ; the municipal
authorities, a deputation of the university, and a great
number of the inhabitants, went to meet her Majesty.
The burgomaster addressed a short harangue to her
Majesty, begging her to intervene as mediator with the
King, in order to terminate as soon as possible the un-
happy difference between the King and his people. The
Queen replied in a few gracious and affable words, that
this difference would be shortly terminated in a sa-
tisfactory manner. The Queen was greeted with the
warmest acclamations, and continued her journey with-
out entering Keil.
The same evening it was reported that the people in-
tended to repair to the residence of the chief of the po-
lice, but the troops and the police prevented the execu-
tion of this project, and the evening passed without any,
actual disturbance.

THE BITER BIT.—A well-dressed man, passenger
by the third-class train leaving the Euston station at
seven o'cicck yesterday morning, took Punch from out
of the hands of Mr. John Gibbs, the station newspaper
vendor, just as the train was in motion; and when it had
left the platform at journeying speed had the bravado to
shake the copy at him. Mr. Gibbs, feeling that he was
impudently tricked, followed him by the next train, at
half-past seven, to Watford, at which station he over-
took the trickster, and demanded the money for Punch,
also his fare to Watford and back, on pain of being
handed over to the police. He, to his chagrin, paid the
money, viz., threepence for Punch, and 2s. 6d. the fare,
to the amusement of the passengers ridinc, in the same
carriage, who had been much annoyed by him up to the
time of being overtaken by his determined and adroit
pursuer. . . _

We find the following in the Constitntionnel :—" A
friend, travelling in Persia, communicates to us in a
letter the following fact, as showing the state of the
country. To go from Khorassan to Daghar, on the road
to Teheran, the Aras, the Araxes of the ancients, must
be crossed, but as there are neither bridges nor ferry-
boats, it must be forded at a place called Klisseh, where
the river is both deep and broad, and the current variable
and uncertain. At this place is posted a detachment of
Persian cavalry, whose duties are thus defined. When
a ,traveller arrives with a firman, or passport, from the
Government, the officer in command orders one of his
men to ride into the river, and if he reaches the opposite
bank, the current is considered to be fordable, and the
traveller is allowed to cross with his suite. It frequently
happens that the soldier is carried away by the current,
and is no more seen or heard of, and the officer obliges
the traveller to wait till the river becomes lower, and
then the experiment is renewed. Although the favour
of these trials is granted to none but personages of dis-
tinction, they are sufficiently frequent to cost the lives
of nearly one-third of the detachment every year."
We find the following in the Gazette des Tribu-
nauz. It is a good story, but we know.nothing of its'
authenticity:—" M. Mousseau, a wine dealer from the
Yonne, came to Paris on business, and during his stay
had given him as curiosities fifteen addresses of M.
Fortier, the dyer, which are engraved from a plate so
designed as to be close imitations of the notes of the
bank of France for 500 f. each. When he had finished
all his transactions in Paris, he took a place in the mail
coach to return home, but having to visit a customer at
Brunoy, he arranged at the coach office for his being
taken up at a certain point beyond that town, on the
forest of Senart. A little before the time at which the
coach was to pass, and which was just in the dusk of the
evening, M. Mousseau was at the appointed spot, waiting
for the arrival of the coach. While in this expectation,
five men came out of the thicket and demanded his
money or his life. He at once saw that resistance would
be in vain, and retaining his presence of mind as well as
his courage, parleyed with the robbers, told them that
they would ruin him, as he had in his pocket-book
fifteen bank notes for 500 f. each, which he would imme-
diately surrender to them if they did not ill treat him.
They assured him of their forbearance, and then, at his
earnest request, restored to him one of the notes to
pay the expenses of his journey. This arrangement
was scarcely concluded, when the noise pf the coach
coming up was heard, and the robbers made off. M.
Mousseau got into the mail, rejoicing at the presence
of mind which had enabled him thus to cheat the thieves,
and save the real cash he had in his pockets."
A person of fashionable exterior, calling herself the
Hon. Mrs. W—, who had been staying several days at
one of the principal hotels in this town, took her depar-
ture somewhat abruptly on Friday last, without paying
her tavern bill. She had wormed herself into the con-
fidence of some of our tradesmen (one of whom, a
stable-keeper at the eastern part of the town is minus
about 501. by her patronage!) by a free use of the name
of a distinguished pianists who has recently returned
from the continent to resume her professional avocations
in Brighton. The Hon. Mrs. W— has aLio recently
returned from Paris, where she went by the name of
Mrs. It was there she accidentally met with the
lady in question; but we are informed that her conduct
was so unbecoming that she was ejected sans ceremonie
from the hotel. She then came to England, selecting
Brighton as her next place of abode, and having male
herself acquainted with the tradesmen of Madame —,
succeeded in incurring some bills, which afterwards she
forgot to pay. She assumed all the manners of a lady
of fashion, and acted her part admirably. She went off
very euddenly last Friday, by one of the trains, and e
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—On Tuesday afternoon a ma, named Smith, one of
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the crew of the Emerald Gravesend steamer, observed
a brown paper parcel in the cabin, and as no one applied
for, or claimed it, he took it to the booking office imme-
diately after the vessel reached Gravesend. There being
no name or address upon the parcel, after a short delay
it was considered advisable to open it and see what it
contained, when, to the utter surprise of all, the body
of a newly- born female infant presented itself. It was
shortly removed to the custody of the police at the
Town-hall, and a letter was forwarded to Mr. Carttar,
the coroner, informing him of the circumstances. ' It. is
about two years since a similar parcel was left on the
seat of a Gravesend steamer, containing an infant in a
state of decomposition.

The Copenhagen journals publish the postal con-
vention between the Governments of D.•nmark and Eng-
land. By this treaty the postage between the two coun-
tries is fixed at one penny for each single letter not
exceeding half an ounce in weight, and for every letter
exceeding that weight the charge is to be increased
according to the English rate of charges. No postage is
to be charged for newspapers sent by the packets of the
respective Governments, but such as are conveyed by
private vessels are to pay one penny a sheet.