The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-27 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND DUTCH PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 23.—The Queen of the French will re-
turn to Paris on Tuesday. We believe that we may announce
that, by a Ministerial decision, the land-tax will be levied this
year on the same footing as in 1834, with the addition of one-
tenth for the war contribution.
Yesterday there was a meeting of the shareholders of the
Territorial Bank, at Vauxhall. The majority resolved on the
dissolution of the company.
The Moniteur publishes the official returns of the prices of
wheat and rye for the 3d week of April. The averages are—
Wheat 15, 48, and rye 9, 15 per hectolitre. Importation is
consequently permitted at the duty of from 37, 50 on wheat,
and of from 21, 50 on rye per 1,000 kilogrammes.
From the official list of the promotions in the order of Leo-
pold, from Ist of February, 1833, to 31st of December, 1834
(nearly two years), we see that 547 crosses of ordinary knights
have been given to Belgians, but that not a single cross of
Officer Commander or Grand Cross has been conferred on
them. On the other hand it appears that the Grand Cross
has been given to 14 Frenchmen and 1 Englishman (Lord
Durham); the Ribbon of Commander to 20 Frenchmen and
1 Englishman (Lord W. Russell). The Officers' Cross to
73 Frenchmen and 1 Englishman (Colonel Caradoc) ; that of
Knight to 272 Frenchmen and 3 Englishmen.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 24.—The Moniteur announces that the
iron railroad is to be opened on the sth of May.
The report on public instruction, so far from being printed,
as has been erroneously stated, is not yet completed.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussEts, APRIL 2t.
Actual Debt, 23G per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOl%
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 99
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent I2ON
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cen• 120;4
—Brussels Papers, April 25. _ _

THE HAGUE, Aram 24.—We hear that a plan for an iron
railroad from Amsterdam through the Hague to Rotterdam is
drawn up, and has been sent by the proprietors to the Com-
mercial Company (the Handel Maatschappy), and nothing is
waited for but the Royal approbation to open a loan for the
purpose.
TIIE HAGUE, APRIL 23.—1 n the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General to-day, the proposal of M.
Van Dem Van Isselt, to present an address to the King for
the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the state of
agriculture, was adopted after a long debate by a majority of
37 to 15. It was therefore sent to the First Chamber.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 22.—A letter from Terschilling says
" that it was discovered last week that the hull of the Leipsic
frigate, having drifted from the place where it was before, rose
above the surface of the sea, at a depth of four or four-and-a-
half fathoms at low water. A boat keeps guard near it, and
the English are expected with their new machines for the pur-
pose of recovering the treasures which are on board this
wrecked vessel.—Journal de la Haye, April 22.
DUTCH FUNDS—AsisTpuosm, APRIL 24.
Money Bills.
Actual Debt, 2!,4 per Cent.
A wort Syndic, 4!.4 per cent..
Ditto, ditto, 31,2 per cent il*) 80
Loan (1-30) 5 per cent.
Ditto (1,32 and 1833) 5 pc..r cent.
Commercial Company, 4 per cnt lO4l 106
Exchange on London, One month ...12 1*44 tb 12 10.
Two months _l2 07%.
Dutch Papers, Al ril
VIENNA., APRIL 16.—Five per Cent. 1021 ; Four per Cent.
951 ; Bank Shares, I,33s.—Allgemeine Zeitung, April 21.

During the night of Tuesday last, most probably
between seven and eleven o'clock, as the yard door was se-
cured about eleven, and it was found fast in the morning, a
robbery of cash and notes to a considerable amount was com-
mitted in the counting-house of Messrs. Smith, Hill, and Co.,
drapers, &c., old Millgate. The robbery was not discovered
till about nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, when it was
found, on opening the cash drawer within the iron safe, that
cash and bills; to the amount of 1,500/., about 500/. of which
was in gold, and the remainder in bills and bank-notes, had
been abstracted. Information was immediately given to the
police, and from an examination of the premises, the locks,
&c., the officers were of opinion that the robbery had been
effected with great skill. It would appear that, between the
hours named, the thieves had proceeded up a passage, opened
by means of a false key the door of the sale-room in the ware-
house, and thence went into the counting-house, the door of
which was merely on the latch. With another false key they
had opened the safe, and having- got possession of proprrty to
the amount of 1,500/., relocked the safe, and the outer door
of the warehouse, and left all close as they found it. To hate
obtained the false key of the safe, it is supposed the thieves
must have let themselves into the warehouse on a former night,
and obtained a wax impression of the lock on the safe ; for on
examining the lock, which was taken off for the purpose, there
was not even the slightest mark or scratch upon those parts of
it which would have been marked if the lock had been picked.
Messrs Smith, Hill, and Co. have offered a reward of 2001.
for the apprehension and conviction of the offenders.—Man-
cheater Guardian,.
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.-011 Wednesday
last a man of respectable appearance, named Thomas Isher-
wood, who for the last three years has been in the employ of
Mr. T. A. Crompton, paper-manufacturer, Church-street,
Manchester, was brought up at the New Bailey, under a war-
rant, charged with having embezzled sums of money paid to
him on account of his employer. It appeared that about a
month ago Mr. Crompton, in consequence of some suspicions
which he entertained respecting the prisoner, caused the led-
ger to be examined, and there found several fictitious entries
a:: from the cash-book, in consequence of which an investiga-
tion took place, when it was found that the deficiencies in the
accounts collected by the prisoner, which had all been con
cealed by false entries in the ledger, exceeded 4001. A war-
rant was accordingly obtained, and Isherwood was apprehendee.
A Mr. Harding stated, that on the 26th of April, last year, he
paid to the prisoner by a check the amount of 32/. 95., due
from him to Mr. Crompton, and that the prisoner gave him a
written receipt. Mr. Crompton stated, that the prisoner had
never accounted to him for this sum, nor to Mr. James Robin-
son, the cash-keeper at the works; that en referring to Mr.
Harding's account on the ledger, it appeared to be balanced
on the 10th of May, 1834, the cash received being referred to
folio 44 in the cash-book, as if posted from that folio ; but no
such entry could be found, either there or anywhere else, in
the cash-hook. On the prisoner being apprehended, he ac-
knowledged being deficient in his accounts to the extent of
150/., and said that he had a very sickly family, and was very
uneasy in his mind. He afterwards confessed that he had
carried on this practice ever since he entered the employ of
Mr. Crompton. He was committed for trial.—Manchester
Guardian.
A TALE OF A TUB.—At the brewery of Messrs.
Roper two singular entertainments were given last week.
Having launched a new mash-tub of dimensions which may be
conceived from the purposes it was on these ()miens applied
to, the Messrs. Roper, on Tuesday evening, gave to their
brewers and maltsters a substantial entertainment, consisting
of a round of beef, with appropriate accompaniments, the table
being set out in the mash-tub. On Wednesday, the wives,
daughters, &c., of the men engaged in the concern, were
treated by the same liberal entertainers with tea ; after which
the party enjoyed the sprightly dance to the music of a couple
of fiddles, their ball-room being no other than the mash-tub
itself. This is one way of seasoning a mash-tub.—York
Chronicle.

According to accounts from Alexandria, the intro-
duction of the plague into that country was owing to a Maltese
dealer in silk, who smuggled from Syria a bale of that article
in a state of infection. The house in which the plague first
appeared was burnt down, and the Maltese shot, according to
the law in that case provided.