The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-28 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

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BRUSSELS' MAY 25.—The Government has just been
in-
formed, by the King's Legation at Madrid, that the blockade
of the ports of Galicia has been raised, by order of the
Government of her Catholic Majesty.
The Chamber of Representatives is to meet to-morrow-
On the 22d of this month there was a meeting at tht;
Town-hall at Philippville, with a view to form a provisi°ll d
committee for a liberal association, which is to corresPen
with the committee of the Alliances of Brussels.
The Journal Charleroi informs us, that a liberal committee
has just been formed at Tubise. for k
The Soho steamer left Antwerp yesterday morning
London with thirty-eight emigrants, who intend to ember
at London on board the Timolion for Galveston, in Teiss•
Two hundred emigrants for the same place will embark ell
Wednesday next, on board the Monarch steamer.
M. D'Hoffschmidt, formerly Minister of Public Work*
has just accepted the office of Director of the CI:
pany of the Railway from Louvain to the Sambre
is to be a general meeting of the sharellefflA:i.
to-day at London to give their assent to a negetthe
tion, the result of which will be highly advantageous te,,;41
Company, considering the more national character
the presence of M. D'Hoffschmidt at the head of the 01;3
c.
tion will give the enterprise. M. Hoffschrnidt takes
place of Mr. Sherman.
PreSs
TREUT, MAY 19.—You already know"that the Ein
of Russia has been able to prosecute her journey to-. 74
Count Brandis, the Governor of the province, was at 7;
critical spot to procure any assistance that might be
quired.
RIGA, APRIL 7.—The work of conversion to the areek
Church proceeds regularly. The following notice boc-ii.
published at the instance of the Governor-General 4).`
Baltic provinces, M. V. Golowin :
"By order of his Imperial Majesty, there shall be 3t
rishes of the Orthodox Greek Church in the province o,ho
vonia, 18 for the Livonians, and 16 for the Esthoniane%`ba
9 churches already existing in Riga, Dorpal, Sec., shall 25
reckoned among those of the 34 parishes. The other
churches shall be built without delay, with houses fertto
Greek clergy, the officers of the church, and parish OCI:Wv
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussms, May 26.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent •••.••• • • • .. -•—
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .. ••• • -•—
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. •• •
Ditto Three per Cent.. ........ —
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto . • • • • •
Ditto, ditto, 1840 .. .. •..•••• • .. • • 1001
Ditto, ditto, 1,842 • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • •
Ditto, 1844... ••••••• • .. • • .. .. •
Ditto, 1836... • • ....... ......
Ditto, 1838 7434
Ditto of the City, 1832
Ditto, 1843 ........ 10034
Bank ofßelgium.• .. • . . ...... 899
—Brussels Papers. May 27.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViWeA, MAT 20.
5 per Cent. Metalllques...• • • • ........... 111%
L4oprerttoCie,Bn3ltB4.3di9tt.o.......: :2001:
3 per Cent. ditto— •• •• •• •• •• •••••• •• •••• 74
• 153
Bank Shares •• •• • • •• •• •• ..
Esterhazy's Loan • • • • • • • • • • • •• •• •• •• ••

RAILWAYS.

The Northern, or Ferdinand 18651
Gloggnitz .• •• •• •• •• •• •.• •••• 137%
Vienna—Milan • • •• • .• •••• • • • • ...... .• 119%
Leghorn •• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1104
Pesth •••••••••• •• • • •• ..
Sienna •••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 92
Grosetto ............... .............. 95
Oldenburg ••••••••••..••• • • • .. • • •• • • • • --
Pestoja • •• ...... ............
Apenninen
Pesth Bridge .. • ............. ......
—Allgemehze Zeitung, May 23.

ESCAPE OF PRINCE LOUIS
13IJONAPARTE. 110
On Monday last the Prince succeeded in effecting eng
escape from the fortress of after a close imris°l3ll3oollo
of some years. Having assumed the disguise of a work aio
he contrived to elude the vigilance .'f the sentries • to ref of
his freedom without any molestation
infantry that formed de garrison of the costle; and to
..„t„
afely in London, where, we believe, he is izt this rnoin7o
It is well known that for some time past Prince L 00013050
from the battalio nie
earnestly desired once more to see his aged father, °will
prolonged. For this purpose he, rgi„e„tion
b o much precarious
further
rof health leaves little hope that his life 0,
rialised the King of the French for his temporary line A—bis
on parole, offering his word of honour as security for, 0
return to the chateau of Ham as soon as his filial attetliid
should cease to be required. The prayer of this mein the
was refused ; and no other course, therefore, remainedto isr
Prince than the one he has accomplished with such singor
good fortune. His object now, as we hear, is to obtain to
ports without delay, iu order that he may at once bote
share the retreat of his father at Florence.—Post.

STATE OF TRADE.
OWirl
MANCHESTER, MAY 2g.—ln some degree, probably ed
ods a
to the approaching holidaivs., the transactions in go 01 , cloth
yarn have been exceedingly limited. The prices _,
be the
generally remain firm. In yarn: a slight reduction La.
higher counts has been submitted to. better deci
ROCHDALE, MAY 25.—We have ,``ad a rather 0 gull
mand for flannels to-day, and more pieces have beetral3a-
than last Monday. In the wool market, the business
acted has been limited, but prices firm. ulaca
HUDDERSFIELD, MAY 26.—N0 change has :01"11,,,„ yibiell
our market : there has been the same dulness ti,"‘"vd Gel'
we had to report last week. We have had London a:1:1....40V
man buyers, but their transactions have been Oa'
limited. re- ttf fair
LEEDS, MAT 26.—Although for some articles a P Aar
demand existe, the general character of our market . is_ ii`jo,
and by no means an average business has been doing !Ater
The uncertainty of the fate of the Corn Bill evidentlY K
rates injuriously on our trade.—Manchester Guardian.
........... we
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. SAMUEL DARBISISIII.,. "Inan oh
regret we have to announce the sudden deceaSe of this son 31_,°'
Monday evening last. Mr. Darbishire was the eldest .he DV.4
James Darbishire, of Greenheys ; and, having
he was called thereto in May, 1842, at the Kirkdale Seelilodre.
tudied Or ~, WWI
which period he had practised at the Borough and Se-fvt`l norther°
Sessions here, and also gone circuit, being a member of th....__ooe'
bar. On Monday last, the first day of the Salford Hundred thr,or
diate Sessions, he attended that Courts in the last case trie., ..,0
tion against a prisoner charged with felonn
edided to the °trice 01 ',";
day. At the rising of the Court he bout
merchant, RiclinEl
uncle, Mr. Charles Roberts, wine to,"t about twenty minutes
...,10:,e,f
court, St. Mary's-gate. Ho reaelleatl,e bad been at the ~`Aya
five o'clock, and there stated %aligned- He sat down, ha-I''
and conducted the p7Tiov
Bailey all day, and was ratherobe
glass of bitter ale with Mr• l' and entered le;to c,....0h1e0
mer, presem , ago in the paw.Loa
sation with several Seatll7,i he had been confined Pa $
trot
conversation me:Alfred
and
bad had a tooth t eted -ft
time with hearrned in the office till eX ra
...t p,
rts,
~
about half 4"11,,,1tet
morning. Ht. -- , and after remainli
o'clock' when le
said he would go h 11.-~ os
Ig at the door a few lag
in conversation,
and before he got to the bo home, and was proeeendeoff
hie waY ' discharged amo ttom of the steps he a".„,011;
“°Pl'ed. muchuthful of blood. Mr. Roberts, s',-,-1.04
this, became very alarmed, and called his men to l' Dr
a glass of water. In the meantime the some of
trim if
vomiting of blood r v kDa
creased; but Mr. Darbishire seized
theglass,and rlydra° er
the water. His stack was immediately
...,,d De
eut
claimed, "I am choking," or " I taken off hi.i neck. 7; uPt) ra
him till an arm chair was brought,am dying." Mr. ItwbeAr and
reed back into the office, where lace.,
in which he was 1,- , in the °'---„,, 0
of his uncle. Mr. Stephen he immediately e-xplle. '''', had en
sent for, arrived shortly aft s, surgon, of Bridge-street, ivh`-bil,Air,.,te' ti-
said that vitality had beenerwards, but on seeing Mr. Da.rbe irliv- tO
nate gentleman went • some time extinct. When ',petite':
be In better Spirits into the office, Mr. Roberts said be app
than ..nCi
CONVEYANCE usual.—Manchester Guardian. ue-
dOn
Birmingham, OF NEWSPAPERS —The Lon c. Cota..
Ingham, Grand Junction •RatiWa' sta‘"
patties have made , Midland, and Northern ,„vef ai to
arrangements in conjunction, for the
of newspapers rge ell' OA
by the ordinary passenger trains, at a chit oafs
one-half the • • ~, o Spa
charge existing rate for parcels, provided that ..40 DO,- sr-
char e
and
g . for a single package be less than one shilling- ' of th;eria
Birmingham Railway Company, in giving notice
tops e _
rangement, require that the packages shall contain ne,., th :
only," and that they shall have authority and ex don ia ift
to open tioll
whenever
they have reason to believe that this rag'-- ~d.
DV'
fringed. , ~ WO „al
FALL OF A LARGE CHIMNEY.--Yesteroaj beat. ~
t the c reP
at a quarter before one o'clock, the large chimney a ~ ,verpoe ~,,er
works of Sir. Muspratt, at the top of Vauxhall-road, ."
to h°•••. or
to the ground, but fortunately, witifout doing any inf"'' ed threi,act
life, and very trilling to property, it only having destrocynitaaa
to
the sheds used in the proce,a of the manufacture. The,,,,, riolva'yro-
been in a dilapidated state, and was about being tang co. • ise
preparations for which had weakened it, and so caused .;, otherWeo-
videntially the occurrence took place in the night Whoa otenniaa
the sacrifice ot human life might have been great, as
..,,i; veAr ear
gaged in taking the chimney down were at work ht" a the Y.tna
o'clock on the previous night. The chimney was buil i
inept
. tie
erect he _
1828, was thirty feet diameter at the base, nine feet fife vote
231 feet In height from the foundation, being at oog brick's' tho
erected the tallest in England. It contained 260, ~, oat
_4
weight of which was 1,400 tons ; it is worthy of rehrweeks a"
chimney was built by six men, in the short space of t''
TOW
three days.—Liverpool Courier. .., —To-In°r OA
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY APTERNOO,• „,,,,cO3 ~
we look for the American and Canadian mails to arrive; t,,,,,,, day
'
steamer is the bearer of this mail, and will have been t"''
WIIS
out from Boston. information f tbe
ROBBING CHURCHES.—Yesterday
several of
ire,
received by the police, that during the last few days
_s_. sarn.e.c,
churches in and around the metropolis have, during 19_ 11,; carlt:t
been visited by some respectably-dressed thieves, who ArdZia..
off Bibles, Prayer-books, Church Services, Psalters,
~B.6cA•tartifi's,
the churches robbed are St. James's, riecadilly; ... •
bledon and Tottenham,

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