The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-14 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 12.—M. Ch. de Brouckere arrived
yesterday from Paris.

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The cholera having again appeared in some parts of
Hainault, the Governor of the province has recommended
to the Magistrates various sanatory precautions prescribed
by preceding ordinances.

SITTINGS OF THE CHAMBER,
THE SENATE, NOV. 11.
Immediately after the Royal Sitting, the senators assem-
bled in their hall, and proceeded to choose their President.
There were 31 members present. Baron de Stassart was
chosen President by a majority of 30.
Having taken the chair, M. de Stassart said—
" Gentlemen,--I wish I could find terms adequate to
express my gratitude for the constant and indulgent kind-
ness which you have every year manifested towards me in
so flattering a manner. I want words, but my emotion is
too lively for you to doubt my sentiments."
The Chamber then proceeded to nominate the Vice-
President, Secretaries, &c.

The Chamber then appointed the Committee of Peti-
tions, and a Committee to draw up an Address in answer
to the King's Speech.

CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES, Nov. 11.

M. Pirson, presiding as Senior Member, observed, that
the first thing the Chamber had to do was to ballot for a
Committee of seven Members, to examine the qualifications
of the newly-elected Members, which was immediately done.
Nov. 12.—The above Committee made its report, in
consequence of which all the Members lately re-elected were
admitted.

M. Raikem was again chosen President by a majority
of 47 votes. The Envoy of Portugal to our Court has just
addressed the following important notification to the Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs :

" Her Most Faithful Majesty having learnt, with asto-
nishment and regret, that doubts had arisen respecting the
clear and precise tenor of the Decree of the 18th of April
this year, equalizing the import duties on all foreign mer-
chandize imported into Portugal, and that, deceived by false
reports, the Belgian merchants had believed that her Ma-
jesty had revoked or modified the relations of the said
Decree, by increasing the import duties,—she has,
therefore, instructed the undersigned to notify to the
Government of his Majesty, the King of the Belgians, that
nothing is farther from the intentions of her Government
than such an augmentation of the duties.
" By the promulgation of the above decree, the Govern-
ment of the Queen inviting to its ports and markets all
commercial nations has in a manner bound itself to them
by its own promises.
" To withdraw it in a manner so strange and so unex-
pected, would be a breach of the proverbial good faith,
which has never yet failed, and which, even in moments of
the greatest distress, has procured it the unlimited credit
which it enjoys, and the unbounded confidence with which
it is everywhere honoured.
" The undersigned communicating to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs this frank and sincere declaration of his
Government, by order of the Queen, his august mistress, by
him to communicate it to his Majesty the King of the Bel-
gians, that all errors in so important a subject may be re-
moved. " Accept, &c.,
" (Signed) DE ALMEIDA GARRETT."
—Brussells Papers, Nov. 13.

CURIOUS COINCIDENCES.—There is now living
in the next house to Tookhole's Church, in this county ( Lan--
cashire), an old couple, named Brindle, who, in their married
state, have had born to them twenty children, a moiety of whom
were lads and the other half lasses. There have been in the
family two births in one day, two christenings in one day, and
two burials in one day. Mrs. Brindle, who is in apparent
good health and vigour, now stumps about on a wooden leg,
made from an apple tree, which she raised from two kernels
of an apple that in 1816 she planted in a flower-pot, and which
was subsequently removed into the garden. —Bolton Chronide.

A NEW DRESS.—An ingenious individual of Lis-
keard, named Trethake, has for some time past been exhibiting
himself to families in that town and neighbourhood, in a dress
composed from top to toe of rat's skins, which he has been col-
lecting for three years and a half. The dress was made en-
tirely by himself, and consists of hat, neckerchief, coat, waist-
coat, trowsers, tippet, gaiters, and shoes, all of the skins of an
animal that has heretofore been considered, whether dead or
alive, quite useless. The number of rats whose skins he has
thus appropriated is 670. The tippet or boa (but not round
like that worn by the ladies) is composed of the pieces of skin
immediately around the tails, and is a very curious part of the
dress, containing about 600 tails.—Falmouth Packet.
BARBAROUS MODE OF PUNISHMENT.—In the
various uses to which they (the inhabitants of Monte Video)
apply the hides of bullocks, that of punishment is not left out.
It is related of them that they sew up their prisoners in a wet
bide, leaving out the head and neck only, and in this condi-
tion lay them on the ground in the sun to dry. In the pro-
aess of drying, which the hide soon does by the powerful
effects of the sun, it becomes contracted, and produces the
most excruciating torments on the unfortunate prisoner by
the increase of peltiure ; but if night arrives before he dies
from its effects, the hide relaxes again with the moisture from
the air, only to prolong his suffering on the next day' which
generally is Lis last.—Webster's Voyage to the South Seas.

NEW WORK BY CAPTAIN CHAMIER.
Just ready, in 3 vols. post Svo.,
THE UNFORTUNATE MAN.
By Captain FREDERIC CHAMIER, R.N.,
Author of " The Life of a Sailor."
44 By Heavens ! I'll hate him everlastingly,
That bids me be of comfort any more."
Richard Bentley, 8, slew Burlington-street.