The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-07 00:00:00

DU cm MAIL.

THE HAGUE, Nov. I.—The First Chamber of the
States-General received the address in answer to the
King's speech, which was agreed to yesterday by the
Second Chamber. It was referred to the section,
which immediately proceeded to examine it. It will
probably be discussed by the Chamber to-morrow.
The Central section will meet to-morrow to exa-
mine the project of law on the redemption of the
Three-and-a-Half per Cent. debt, and that on the.
payment of the debt due to the Commercial Company.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 4.—ln the Second Chamber of
the States-General, a message was received from the
First Chamber announcing that it had not found suffi-
cient reason to present to the King the adddess in
answer to his Majesty's speech, which had been com-
municated to it by the Second Chamber. The Cham-
ber received likewise the following extract from the
journals of the First Chamber of Saturday, the 2d of
November :--" The First Chamber, considering that
in this particular case it may be useful that the
Second Chamber should be made acquainted
with the reason of its declining to agree to the
proposed address to the King, has thought proper
to authorise its President to acquaint the Presi-
dent of the Second Chamber, either verbally or in
writing, by an extract from the journa's, that the
first would have entirely agreed to the address, had
not a wish been expressed in it for a speedy revisal
and improvement
of our fundamental law, since,
without entering into an inquiry how far such revisal
and improvement in general might be desirable, the
First Chamber find in Article 227 of the fundamen-
tal law the positive enactment that the necessity of
. any change addition to it must be declared by a
law; and this Chamber not having the initiative of
such law, and, therefore, must wait for the eventual
presentation of them, and not anticipate the further
examination by agreeing to the wish expressed in the
proposed address of the Second Chamber."
After a short conversation the Second Chamber
rejected, by a majority of 43 to 3, the proposal merely
to receive these documents as a notice ; and, on the
contrary, decided by a majority of 44 to 2, to have
them printed and referred to the section.
The Minister of Finance has published, by a notice,
the result of the drawing, which took place on Satur-
day, of the second series of bonds of the national
debt, at five per cent., which are to be repaid, or
converted into four per cents. on the Ist of December
next, conformably to the royal decree of the 20th Sep-
tember last. The letters under which the bonds of
the five per cent. national debt, which are to be re-
paid or exchanged, are inscribed in the great book, are
V R, and of the letter S ; the Ist, 2d, and 3d parts,
to No. 856, inclusive, the whole forming a capital of
24,000,000 florins.

ELOPEMENT.—On Sunday morning last, the neigh-
bourhood of Exe Bridge was thrown into a state of ex-
citement, in consequence of the early and unexpected
departure from the home of his parents of a youth six-
teen years of age, of respectable connexions. Intelli-
gence soon reached the ears of his mother that he had
eloped with a lady, somewhat on the wrong side of thirty,
said to be domiciled not a hundred miles from St. Mar-
tin's-lane. But the course of_ true love never did run
smooth, and so it happened with poor Charlotte. The
friends of her " dear George" proceeded on the scent.,
and found that the lady had procured the means of a
speedy transit to Ottery, where they were to be united
in the bonds of wedlock. Thither, therefore, the youth's
friends proceeded, and arrived in time to prevent a boy
of sixteen being married to a lady of thirty-six ! whose
disappointment seems to have known no bounds, on
finding she was thus foiled in her attempt to get a hus-
band, for " dear George" turned a deaf ear to her en-
-1 treaties, and returned to his home, leaving Charlotte to
1 console herself with the re collection that " there's many
a slip between the cup and the lip."— Western Luminary-
LAUNCII OF AN INDIA RUBBER LIFE-BOAT.—A
new material for the build of life-boats has been sug-
gested, and the launch of one so formed took place this
morning at the Square Shot Tower, Waterloo-bridge.