The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-24 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS,

" AMSTERDAM, Aug. 19.—A mercantile house in this
city has received the following letter from the Hague :
" We are now acquainted with the contents of the last
note of Lord Palmerston. It seems that he reproaches
our Government with the slow progress of the negotia-
tion, and threatens it, for every point that is in dispute
that is not yielded, with a suspension of the conference for
hundred d iys. However, neither our Government nor
the Foreign Legations know anything of such a resolution
of the Conference. It seems to have been subsequently
discovered that Lord Palmerston had taken this step of his
own head, and without the knowledge of the Conference,
in order to draw our Government into a snare, which,
however, it has known how to avoid for the interest of the
country. This is a fresh proof of the bad faith of the
English atatesman.
" ZEALAND, Auo. 17.—We expect that after the
grand reviews of His Majesty, the garrisons of the pro-
vince of Zealand will be re-inforced, they being much too
weak in some places, and the duty is very heavy, on
account of the numerous furloughs that have been grant-
ed, which makes it feared that there may be much sick-
ness in the autumn, when the soldier, if overfatigued, is
peculiarly liable to the fevers that prevail in that season.
At present the health both of the troops in garrison and of
the crews of the squadron in the Scheldt is very good.
" AMSTERDAM, Attn. 19.—0 n the 12th of this month
the Prussian ship the Hebe, Capt. J. C. Damonski, from
Topsham, bound to Dantzic, was lost on the third exte-
rior bank of the Texel. By the exertions of the crew of
the safety-boat, five of the crew were got on shore the
same day, and three others on the following, so that of the
whole only the lots of one sailor is to he lamented.
"AMSTERDAM, Aua. 20.—Actual Debt, 2i per cent.,
50, 51 ; Amort Syndic, 4i- per cent., 87, 881; ditto,
3i per cent., 714, 724 ; Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per
cent., 102, 102-/ ; ditto, 1832, 5 per cent., 94, 95 ;
ditto, 1833, 91, 95. Exchange in London, 12f. 05 ;
two months, 12f.

" BERLIN, Ana. 16.—His Excellency the Russian
Privy Councillor Von Novosiizoff has arrived here from
Dantzic.

" PRUSSIAN Fume.-St. Schuld. Sch., 9711- 96i ;
Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent., 1031, 103 i ;
ditto, 1822, 5 per cent., 1034 1034 ; ditto Bonds, 1830,
4 per cent., 93 921 ; Exchange on London, 3 months,
6 25g."

The decrease of crime throughout Somerset-
shire is matter of great gratification. Out of 28,000
persons, in 26 parishes, not a single prisoner was com-
mitted by the Justices at Taunton for that division, to be
tried at the late Bridgewater assizes.

The advices from Smyrna of the 7th ult. state
that the number of vessels entering that port, from the
Ist April to the 30th June, was 120. Of these 30 were
under the English flag, and 22 under that of France.
Thirty-one vessels had sailed during the same period under
the English flag. _ .

ROBBERIES AT RAMSGATE..—TiIe Captain
of the Royal William cautioned his passengers, pre-
viously to their landing on the jetty at Margate on
Saturday evening, to take care of their pockets, as there
were many suspicious persons on board his vessel. The
fact is, that about half a dozen of " the swell mob" were
pointed out on the Parade. The consequence was the
flight of theme "birds of passage" to Ramsgate. On
Sunday, on leaving the church after divine service, several
ladies were robbed of their watches, &c.

On Sunday forenoon, about eleven o'clock,
just as Mr. FARNHAM FLOWERS had returned home to
the Eel.pie House below Limehouse, with three of his
brother's children and the servant MARK ROGERS, in a
chaise cart, within a few yards of the stable door, the horse
(which was purchased only the day before) suddenly turned
round and went direct into the canal, when all the chil-
dren and the servant were thrown into the water. Rooxas
had the youngest child in his arms, and they went down
together; in about four minutes the cart turned up, and
the child floated. The three children were preserved by
the extraordinary exertions of a young man named Joux
MutisoN, a sailor, who rescued them from a watery grave.
Mr. FARNHAM FLOWERS was saved by leaping into the
canal at the moment the cart was going into it. Unfor-
tunately MARK ROGERS, the servant, was drowned, al-
though he was not longer than eight or ten minutes in the
water, having been taken out with the drag belonging to
the Humane Society, which is kept at the Eel-pie House.
Every method was used to restore animation, but was of
no avail, and three medical gentlemen were in attendance.
RoaEßs has left a wife and one child. The horse was
also drowned.

A meeting of the house of Fairlie and Co.,
which recently suspended payment, took place yesterday,
Sir Charles Forbes in the chair. From the statements
then produced, it appeared that the total assets amounted
to 1,003,0001., of which were considered doubtful
541,0001., leaving a balace of 462,0001. in good or sup-
posed to be available assets. The debts of the firm,
exclusive of bills returned to India, were stated at 863,000/.
and the amount of bills so returned at 181,000/., making
the total of debt 1,044,000/. In the debts is included a
sum of 60,006/. tlue from Messrs. Fairlie and Co. to the
house of Ferguismsnd Co., of Calcutta, on a supposition
that the bills will be honoured by the latter. It is proposed
to pay to th, creditors 12i per cent. before Christmas
next on the 863,000/. debts; and a hope was expressed at
the meeting that 37i per cent. in addition, making in the
whole 50 per cent., will ultimately be forthcoming, pro-
vided the bills do not come back from Calcutta.

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A MISER.
—On Friday night last JAMES SMITH, an old man
between 60 and 70 years of age, who resided in Paradise-
street, Manchester-square, known in the neighbourhood
from his penurious habits and supposed extreme poverty,
and principally supported by the benevolence of the
neighbours and a small weekly pittance which he received
from the parish, expired at his lodgings after a few days'
illness. Ihe apartment occupied by this miserable being
corresponded with his general habits of wretchedness, its
whole furniture consisting of a filthy flock bed. During
the period of his illness he continued to sleep with his
smallclothes on, and though frequently requested by the
persons who out of pure charity attended on him to have
them taken off for his own comfort, no persuasions could
induce him to have them removed. On Saturday morn-
ing the fema►e employed to lay the deceased out, on remov-
ing his sinallclothes, discovered a pocket, sewed all round
the waistband, and in it, to the surprise of all persons
present, Bank of England notes, some of very old date,
to the amount of 300/., besides ninety sovereigns, and a
few half-sovereigns. This truly miserable being, we un-
derstand, has not a single relation to benefit from his long-
boarded treasure.

A short time ago a Mr. Davis, newsman,
Broad-street, Bloomsbury, discovered that a man in his
employ, named Bevan, had forged a check in his name
for the sum of 3001., which was cashed at his bankers by
a man named Karesley, his brother-in-law. They both
immediately absconded. Mr. Davis gave information to
the Middlesex magistrates and the different police stations,
describing both men. On Monday last he received a letter
from the magistrates of Cork, informing him that a vessel
had just sailed for New Brunswick, and that whilst out
at sea she took up two men in a boat, who bad been
cruizing about for three days, waiting for her; but in con-
sequence of contrary winds she was obliged to put back
into the Cove of Cork. A policeman was sent on
board to search for another party, when one of the sailors
mentioned the circumstance of picking up the two men at
sea, and that they had given the boatman 10/. for his
trouble. Suspecting all was not right, he took them
both into custody. On the person of Karesley he found
132/. and some silver; on Bevan there was no property.
They were both brought before the magistrates, but no
one appearing against them, they were discharged. They
passed as two brothers, under the name of Smith. The
day after they were discharged, information was received
by the magistrates of Cork of the forgery, with a descrip-
tion of the men. The police were immediately on the
alert, and after much trouble, succeeded in taking Bevan,
who is now in custody, and Mr. Davis has proceeded to
Cork to indentify him.

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, we hear, has a new
edition and a new life of BURNS irf hand. Hitherto the
works of the illustrious peasant have been ill-arranged ;
the natural order of composition has been neglected.; poems
which he never wrote have been printed as his ; much
which bears the stamp of his own peculiar genius is still
in manuscript ; while his letters have been compelled to
carry the dead weight of others from various correspon-
dents. To arrange the works of the poet in a 'Laura' and
intelligible order—to illustrate and explain them with in-
troductions and notes—and to add to the whole such a full
and ample Memoir, as shall display his character as a
man, and his merits as .a poet—and relate the story of his
brief, but eventful career in a manner at once faithful and
bold, is the task to which Mr. CUNNINCILA3I has ad-
dressed himself. Ile has obtained, and is still obtaining,
new matter, poems, letters, and anecdotes, from many
sources. The work will extend to six volumes ; the first
to contain the life, the other five the poems, letters, songs,
remarks, and memoranda ; and each volume will be illus-
trated with two landscape vignettes, from drawings on
which artists are at this moment employed, in the coun-
ties of Ayr and Dumfries."... Pc iithencium, Aug. 17.