The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 4.—The average price of wheat
last v, e2lc was 18f. 69c., arid that of Rye, 11 f. 41c. per
hectolitre.

We are happy to learn that investigations of the
Commission of Inquiry into the Linen Manufacture
are proceeding rapidly. Past of the report is ready.
The printing of the portion relative to England is
finished ; that of the interrogatories is begun.
TLe Precursor of Antwerp announces the dissolution
of the society for the navigation between London and
Antwerp. It is hoped that the Government will take
up for its own account an enterprise which is indispen-
sably necessary to our intercourse with England.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 5.—A letter from the Danube,
dated the 23d day of February, in the Gazette of
Ca►lsrulte, says there is no truth in the reports of the
movement of Russian troops towards the weitern
frontiers of Poland. There is no idea of any such
movement. The same may be said of the extraordi-
nary levies rep( rted to be ordered in Russia. If the
bffairs of Egypt are once settled, all other questions will
be arranged amicably.
AUGSI3URG, f ER. t2.B.—THE HANOVERIAN CUS-
TOMS UNlON.—Hanover, Brunswick, and Olden.
burg, has announced the termination of the conien•
Lion concluded in 1839, for three years with the Ger-
man Customs Union, with the inteLtion of renewing
it with some alterations, especially to facilitate, by ex-
changing some detached portions of territory, the
guarding of the frontiers. A union with the great
German Union is not to be thought of, the King of
Hanover being averse to it on account of his connexion
with England.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 2.—We are glad to learn
ilia her loyal Highness the Princess of Orange, who
has l2e!n for some days past indisposed, is now re-
covering.

DUTCH:FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Matteis 5
Money. Bllls.
ictual Debt, '-'.4 per Cent
Jilin, ditto 5 per cent.
Alnel t SvriclicMii per cent 7l 71%
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent —
Commercial Company, 41, per cent 1C,0% 181 tj
Ditto (18.35 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cont.
.. 1,5% 96
Exchange on London, One month l2 oN
Two months
Dutch Papers, March 6.
IsEL(.I lAN I.I.INDS—BRUSSELd, MAllteti 5.
actual Del,t, 21, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant II9N
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9
3 per Cent. —

Thirty.sevei

11:1y4
Loan of Citv, 153.2,4 per Cent. SS
Society of Commerce, 4 },;, per Cent lto
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent-- ....... 8731
National Society .
Exchange on LondoK (short)
—Brussels Papers, March h.
A USTRIAN FUNDS.—VirmNA, Fnir, 24.
Fire per Cents. Metalliques
For per Cents.
Three pqr Cents.
Bank shares 1637
dltetmeine Zeitung, March 1.
H A MBU RG 13URSENHALLE, DLuecu 2,

Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Hank Shares l62i 1615
Angto-Russian Loan lO6 li 10(4.6
Itu,sian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cf:rtificate „ 10235 t
Inscription, Ist Seli,s lOl ICO%
ItusLian 5 per Cent. llopc and Co. I.ki and 4th
Seri, 9C%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, t21,-;) he- Cent 4l 49
Ditto 5 per Cent --
Poli,h Bond.; -
A nglu-f,anish Loan, 3 per Ceo' l3li 75%
N. t wegian I.r)an, 182-1, 4 per C‘sat... . 11
Sp.,nish, New 5 per Cents. 1834
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Macir 2.

P. • oney.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4ly per cent. lohis i% 1 M 03%
Prussian English Loan, 183 n, 4 per cent 10U 100
h; xcha rt g c on I.cridon, three months 6 oh
—Prassian State Gazette, March 3

HEATING BUILDINGS WITH

HOT WATER.

TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE SUN.
Stit,--In your Evening Edition of the 27th ult.
there appears a later from Mr. Thomas Fuller, of
Beth, in answer to an article inserted in your Paper
of the 15th, on the danger by fire from the Ise of Mr.
Perkins's pats:nt apparatus.
To the question, " Flow, if at all, can the danger be
Avoided, and this cheap and convenient mode of heating
buildings by means of hot water be practised without
risk ?" he " endeavours to answer by explaining tl e
plan adopted in their own manufactory." It appears,
Mr. Editor, to me essential that the public should
fully understand that the plan desbribed by Mr. Ful-
ler is not Mr. Perkins's bliudtd to by your Correspon-
dent, but is on an entiiely different principle, and there-
fore cannot," as he presumes, satisfactorily meet your
Correspondent's inquiry." Mr. Fuller describes the
plan adopted at their manufactory, "as at once, simple,
safe, and effective." Any mode possessing such re-
commendations for heating buildings, cannot, I think,
be too generally known, nor too clearly described ; but
unfortunately illr. Fuller has either formed wrong
conclusion, and thereby erroneously described their ap-
paratus, or he has omitted t) descriLe fully some por-
tion of it ; for his "ascending pipe" appears to be much
longer than the "descending pipe ;" still he adds, " the
ccluainal pressure of the water in the descending pipe
Ling greater than in the ascending, the whole is set in
motion, passing through the cistern at the top down one
pipe. through- the boiler, and up the other pipe, until the
whole body is heated to one uniform degree, never
rowtnitig tne boiling point, consequently producing no
steam." In this explanation Mr. Fuller does not ap-
, pear to make sufficient alhwance for the temperature,
especially with the disparity, according to his descrip-
tion, in the lengths of the pipes.
Lastly, Mr. Fuller suggeAs that if it has been the
practice to work the apparatus in question, at a higher
temperature than boiling water, and an interval of dis-
use has occurred during the late severe frosts, the
contents of the pipes most remote from the fire have
no doubt become solid ice, end by obstructing the flow
of water occasioned an excess of heat near the boiler, so
as to cause the mischief which has happened." Hero
again Mr. Fuller has strangely overlooked this impor-
tant fact, that the mischief alluded to by your Corress
pondent, in your paper of the 13th ult., did not happen
near the furnace, (Jor boiler, as I have before said,
Mere is none,) but in d:ffetent stories, and at distances
from the fire varying up to twenty or thirty yards, and
even more.

It is very generally admitted that in the case of the
disastrous fire at Messrs. Crafts and Stab's warehouse,
the pipes might have been in some places frozen up,
and here the cell within the furnace burst soon after the
fire had been lighted, scattering the burning cinders
arcongst the good:, and caused the conflagration which
followed.

sevt ral fires which were discovered in Alei:srs.
Barbour's warehouse all occurred in a different ;tory
from that in which the furnace is fixed, and the wt.ter
is t.aid to have travelled upwards of thirty yards from
the fire, before reaching that part of the premises where
these ighitions occurred. The floor and the matting of
one of the lobbies in the top story of the Museum was
charge f, at a distance of about eighty feet from the
furnace, which is in the cellar, and this took place after
the pipea had been emptied and refilled with fresh
water by Mr. Walker's men, who had pronounced the
apparatus to be in perfect working condition.
I could produce many similar instances, but deem it
unnecessary. _

It is now three weeks since I first called the -atten-
tion of your Correspondent and the public to this danger,
and being yet, with the professional assistance of Mr.
John ll.tvies, of this town, engaged in investigating this
subject, we are anxious to obtain every information that
fe lily bears upon the question.

I am, Sir, yours very respectfully,
Manchester Assurance Office, G. V. RYDER.
Manchester, March 4, 1841.

PROGRESS OF VACCINATION.

On Thursday the following official return was pre-
ented to the House of Lords :

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT,
FEBRUARY, 1841.
To the Right Ilonourabie the Marytus of Istorrnanby, her
Nlajesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department.
My Lord—The small-pox has prevailed epidemically
with considerable scve,i-y since our list report ; but we
lo not abate an iota of our confidence in vaccination as the
best protecti,e ag,tinst its malignant influence.
We have vaccinated from this station alone 15,588 per.
sons within the last year; which exceds the number in
any former year by 2,444, and base rent out to our Corte-
;pondents at home and the colonies 165,395 charges ef
vaccine lymph ; and we feel consideraeile satisfaction in
being able to state that the matter we employ is obtained
by succession from the original virus communicated by
Dr, Jenner himself, and that we find it as effectual as
ever. We may be excused, therefore, we hope, if we
;ii.courago an incautious dissemination of matter, obtained
from new sources, which has not stood the test of ample
experience.

Signt.d) HENRY HALFORD. JOHN P. VINCENT.
JOHN BRIGHT, M. D. CLEMENT HUE, M. D.

CONVICTS FROM THE NORTII.--On Thurs-
day afternoon thirty-six convicts, under sentence ( f trans-
portation, arrived at the St. Katharine's steam-packet
wharf, in the Royal William steam-ship, from Le.th. They
were principally from Glasgow, and a majority were young
men. They were all heavily ironed and chained in couples
to each other. They were in the dia(ge of two turnkey,
and soon after the vessel was mo,ra.d alonfo 'e the wharf
wi r.! transferred to the Fi wh:ca conveyed
them to the hulks at Woolwich. The manacles round
their legs had caused them to be swollen, and several of
the convicts were evidently suffer;ng much pair. They
are all natives of Scotland, and had been convicted of va-
rious offences of an aggravated character, and sentenced
to transportation for seven and fourteen 3ears and for life.
The sum of 100/. was paid for their passage from Sc )t-
-land to London, and the fore peak of the steamer was ap-
propriated for their reception on the voyage.
LOAN SOCIETIES.—On Friday Mr. Bing' am,
the Sitting Magistrate at Worship-street, was
occupi, d
until an unusually late hour, the business consisting
chiefly of warrants and summonses, of which no less than
22 were at the instance of diffcient loan societies.
THE GREEN PARK.—The so-calledimprove-
ments in the Green Park proceed rapidly, and in the
course of a month it is expected that the whole w ill be
Planted with evergreens and shrubs similar to theinclosed
picasure-garden of St. James's Park.

MR. BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES,

Mr. Buckingham delivered his second Lec-
ture on the history and institutions of the United
States, at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, on
Saturday evening. The audience was by no
means so numerous as the high reputation of the
Lecturer, and the very important nature of the
infbrmation which he proposed to communicate,
had led us to expect. Still the attendance was
greaterthan at the delivery of the first Lecture,
and the Lecture itself possessed considerably
more interest. In his first Lecture, Mr. Buck-
ingham confined himself to descriptions of the
foundation, area, boundaries, scenery, and gross
population of the Northern States, interspersed
with instructive historical and biographical
anecdotes—information imperfectly, but still
pretty generally, diffused among the English
people ; but on Saturday evening, the Learned
Lecturer commenced a tour of the cities and chief
towns of the Union, and here nearly every spot was
new to the bulk of those who have not crossed the
Atlantic. Mr. Buckingham commenced his in-
teresting tour of civic observation at Bangor, and
continued his audience through Augusta, Port-
land, Concord, Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter,
Montpelier, Burlington, Boston, Worcester,
Springfield, Salem, Plymouth, Hartford, and
Newhaven. His descriptions were luminous,
vivid, and abounding in anecdote illustrative of
the habits, feelings, and tastes of the inhabitants.
Mr. Buck ingham frequently intimated to the
audience that it was not his intention to provoke
political discussions, that his business there, in
accordance with the wish of the Directors of the
Institution, was to state facts not to express opi-
nions, but among the facts which it was his duty
to state there were many, which could lead only
to the conclusion that unless England repealed
the Corn-laws, and accepted American wheat
in exchange for the manufactures of Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire. we must prepare to
see ourselves very soon unable to compete
with Americans in the manufacture of cotton,
broad-cloth, hosiery, and hardware. The tena-
city with which England had clung to the Corn-
laws had obliged the Americans in self-defence
to'bring over from England not only the machi-
nery of the most extensive cotton-mills, but an
abundance of artisans to instruct the American
people, and he had himself visited one cotton
mill, established within a few years, which gave
employment to one thousand persons. He was
convinced that had England opened her ports to
American grain, neither this mill nor any of
those which are rapidly springing up in every
part of the States would have ever been thought
of. The Lecture occupied about an hour and a
half in the delivery, and elicited frequent marks
of applause from the audience. When it was
concluded Mr. Buckingham was very cordially
cheered. We believe he is destined to remove
many prejudices against the Americans still lin-
gering in the bosom of the mother country.