The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-08 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

BRUSSELLS, MAY 6.—The iron rail-road was inaugurated
yesterday, according to the programme published some days
before. This new sight had attracted an immense concourse
of spectators along the whole line of the road. At a quarter
past twelve, the King being at the station near the Boulevard,
to witness the ceremony, the departure of the steam carriage
was announced by five cannot shot. Immediately three long
file of waggons, carrying nearly 1000 persons, began to move,
drawn by the Fleche, the Stephenson, and the Elephant.
This extraordinary convoy was hailed all along the road with
the loudest testimonies of surprise and astonishment. The
passage from Brussels to Malines took 53 minutes.
On arriving before Malines, the travellers assembled round
the Miliary column, the base of which was prepared to receive
the medal commemorative of the ceremony, various coins, and
the account of the proceedings. The Minister of the Interior
standing in the middle of the assembly, delivered the follow-
ing speech :
" The presence of an assembly so distinguished and so nu-
merous, attending to witness the ceremony which the King lAas
appointed me to perform, is a solemn testimony of theimport-
ance which Belgium and friendly nations attach to the estab-
lishment of the system of iron rail-roads decreed by the law.
" This vast enterprise, commenced in the fourth year of our
political regeneration, will for ever attest what may be ex-
pected of a people who love order and liberty, who, notwith-
standing the long protracted crisis which accompanied the
establishment of its independence, has continued to preserve
with the same zeal, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce,
which give splendour and strength to civilized nations ; it
equally testifies the solicitude of the Government which con-
ceived the idea of it, at the very commencement of its
existence.
" I shall not attempt to describe here all the advantages
of iron rail-roads : they may be summed up in two principal
points, saving of time and money. By giving prodigious fa-
cility to communication and commercial intercourse, they
increase the means of civilization and the sources of property
and revenue. We may already expect, at no very distant
period, the connection of our rail-roads with those projected
in Germany and France. It will be then that Belgium, being
able to favour the commercial relations between several nations,
will itself obtain great advantages, and acquire new claims to
their sympathy. Commerce and manufactures, which received
a shock from the political commotions, have recovered their
activity. The past no longer inspires any regret—the future
appears under the happiest auspices.
" Our iron rail-road insures to them a constantly increasing
prosperity. Agriculture, the interests of which is united with
the true interest of manufactures and commerce, will likewise
share in these advantages. May the column which we arc
going to erect in commemoration of the opening of the iron
rail-road, be at the same time the symbol of a constantly in-
creasing moral union, between all the Belgians."
This speech was followed by cries of Long live the King.
The Minister of the Interior, assisted by his colleagues, then
proceeded to erect the first miliary column (or milestone) in
the base, of which the medals, &c., were deposited and
sealed up.
On their return the Elephant took in tow all the thirty car-
riages that had been drawn by the three machines, and would
probably have reached Brussels in half an hour, had not it been
obliged to stop at Vilvord for a fresh supply of water, the
stock having been too much exhausted by the long delay at
Malines.

At seven o'clock, there was a dinner at Vauxhall, given in
the name of the Minister of the Interior to two hundred of the
principal persons, both natives and foreigners, who had been
present at the ceremony.—Brussels Papers, May 8.
VIENNA, APRIL 25.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 102 ;
Four per Cents., 964 ; Bank Shares, 1,346. —Allgemeine
Zeitung, May 3.`

The new green-house at Chatsworth is so con-
structed that scarcely any more light is obstructed than in a
metal-roofed house, but it possesses at the same time all the
advantages of wood.

TRADE BETWEEN LONDON AND THE EAST
COAST OF SCOTLAND.—The extensive trade carried on for a
number of years between London and the cast coast of Scot-
land has always employed a great many smacks, fitted up in a
very expensive style for the accommodation of passengers, but
since the introduction of steam, these craft seem to be wholly
superseded, as steam vessels now run to nearly all the ports
of Scotland ; this must certainly cause a great influx of trade,
as one of those steamers will carry about three smacks' car-
goes, and they generally make as many voyages as the smacks,
and have always large cargoes. Is not this then a public
good ? We understand that there are steam-vessels now
building for the Scotch trade, to run in addition to those al-
ready going.

SUICIDE BY A FORElGNER.—Yesterday afternoon
the inmates of the Bell and Crown Tavern, Holborn, were
thrown into consternation, in consequence of a foreign gentle-
man who occupied the best apartments, having destroyed his life
by cutting his throat with a razor. The deceased gentleman
only arrived at the Inn yesterday as an inside passenger in the
Exeter " Traveller " post-coach, accompanied by another fo-
reigner, and an immense quantity of luggage. The travelling
name of the deceased was " Don Miguel Gadello," and he
appeared to be about 34 years of age, five feet nine or ten inches
in height, his complexion swarthy and his nose rather aquiline ;
and although his companion is at present mute as to his style
and title, there is no doubt, from certain insignia and other
circumstances, that he is a person of consideration. After
his arrival, he partook of some coffee, egryc. &0., and then re-
tired to his chamber for the purpose, as it was supposed, of
changing his apparel ; the last time he was seen alive was after
he had shaved himself, when he appeared to be in excellent
spirits. As he did not return to the drawing-room so soon as
was expected, it was supposed he had gone to bed ; but at
length his chamber was entered by a servant, who was horror
struck at beholding the deceased weltering in blood, his throat
frightfully cut with a razor, and life quite extinct.—An inquest
will be held.

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—On
Tuesday afternoon, the wife of a shipwright named Lego, re-
siding in High-street, Woolwich, came by her death under the
following melancholy circumstances :—Her eldest daughtar
was nursing an infant sister, when by some accident she let
the child fall over her shoulder on the ground in sight of the
mother, who screamed out violently, " Oh, my child l" The
neighbours hearing her cries, ran into the house, and found her
lying senseless on the floor. Medical aid was instantly sent
for, and Doctor Butler, accompanied by his two sons, were
immediately in attendance, and rendered every possible assist-
ancs, but all exertions proved unsuccessful, and as she died
shortly after their arrival. The unfortunate woman was far
advanced in pregnancy, and has left a family of nine children
to lament her untimely death. What renders the case still
more distressing is that the husband has not yet recovered
the effects of an accident some time since in the dock-yard,
by which his skull *as fractured. The child had not sustained
the slightest injury from the fall.

INTERVIEW OF THE BRISTOL SHOEMAKERS
WITH THE QUEEN.—In consequence of the depressed state of
the trade, occasioned by the importation of foreign goods,
deputation of the Bristol and Clifton boot and shoemakers,
consisting of Mr. Johm Kempster, Mr. Joshua Freeman,
and Mr. William Carter, their Secretary, recently waited upon
her most gracious Majesty, with an address, and a dozen pair
of boots and shoes, as specimens of the trade, and a pair
of slippers for the King. The pattern shoes by which they
were made had been procured some time previously at the
request of the trade. The deputation was received most
affably, and conversed with most condescendingly as to the
object of their interview. Her Majesty expressed her asto-
nishment that English ladies should prefer shoes of foreign
make, for foreign ladies always gave the preference to shoes of
British manufacture—they fitted better, and were altogether
superior. Her Majesty bestowed the most flattering enco-
miums on the workmanship of the articles presented, and re-
quested that the pattern shoes, which were also tendered,
might be kept, as they would do for another time. The ob-
ject of the deputation was to make an effort, through this ex-
alted channel, to counteract the increasing importation of
boots and shoes of foreign manufacture, to the great depres-
sion of our own trade ; and her Majesty begged the deputa-
tion to feel assured that she would do her utmost to recommend
the use of British articles in preference to foreign, and that
she sincerely wished prosperity to the trade of her loyal sub-
jects the boot and shoemakers of Bristol and Clifton. In the
course of the interview her Majesty spoke of the beauties of
Clifton and its neighburhood, and expressed the gratification
she had experienced on visiting that interesting spot.
Bristol Mirror.

CASE OF AIR. FORBES.—The efforts made in
favour of this unfortunate man, in whose behalf a petition was
presented by J. Phillpotts, Esq., to the Secretary of State,
signed by 4,000 persons, have succeeded. Official commu-
nications have been received by Lord Segrave and Mr. Phill-
potts, intimating that the sentence of transportation for life
bad been commuted to two years' imprisonment. So strongly
were the jurors impressed with the consciousness that the
sentence of extreme punishment which their verdict had ren-
dered it imperative on the Learned Judge to pronounce was
more than proportioned to the offence committed, that they ac-
tually addressed to Mr. Justice Coleridge a protest against
their own verdict I The document expressly states that they
" were, and still are, of opinion that the prisoner was guilty
of uttering the bill for 251., which was the subject of the pro-
secution, but not with any intention to defraud any one ; and
that he signed the name of William Prosser as acceptor of
the bill, he, the said J. Forbes, believing that he had the
authority of the said William Prosser so to do." The pro-
test concludes in these remarkable terms:—" We further beg
to add, that we make these statements of our free will and
accord, as an act of justice to the prisoner, deeply regretting
that he should suffer through our inadvertence."—Gloucester-
shire Chronicle.
SINGULAR WlLL.—Yesterday evening an immense
crowd of persons were congregated at Whitechapel Church
to witness the funeral of the late Mr. Hancock, of the firm of
Stubbs and Hancock, extensive coach-builders in the White-
chapel-road, who had died on Saturday evening last. The
deceased, who with his partner, has for several years past had
the contract for building the carriages of the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs for London, requested by his will that his funeral
should be what is called a walking funeral, and that after both
his brothers and his partner, as chief mourners, his coffin
should be followed to the grave by all the workmen in his
factopry (nearly 40 in number), who wore to be provided with
gke loves and hatbands for the occasion. The deceased
e:,,,,/ also en cd by his will that after the interment of the body
._ - the workmen shod* return to the factory in procession, and
then to be provi 'with abundance of roast beef and plum-
- pudding, and that after- dinner they should be supplied with
r abundance of' ale; *ith pipes and tobacco, all of which was
CI
- - strictly complied with 1

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