The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-29 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

AMSTERDAM, MARCH 27.—The Handlesblad, in
an article headed, " Make haste while it is yet
time!" again strongly recommends the public to
take part in the Three per Cent. Loan, and
showing the evil consequences that will ensue if the
loan shall not be filled up. The Staats Courant ob-
serves that " it is absolutely impossible further to pro-
long the time for subscribing, and that after the 28th
of March no person will have an opportunity to sub-
scribe. What then ? Entering your name is not
paying. The first may be done in two days, as well
as in a week or more. No payment is to be made
before the 15th of April, and this only for one-
eighth part of the sum subscribed. Can any one be
so foolish or prejudiced as to bear the share in the
property-tax, with all its inconveniences—to pay on
the Ist of May, with the loss of 25 per cent. more
than he would have to contribute to the loan." It is
justly observed, on the part of the Government, in the
Staats Courant," that everything possible has been
done on its part to save the people, from
the necessity of laying open this affair and paying
the tax. Nobody, we suppose, is so foolish as to
flatter himself that the property-tax, if necessary,
will not be rigorously enforced. A greater public
interest depends on it than the mere financial neces-
sity. The State must be ruined, society would be
broken, either if it falls into a state of lawlessness, or if
laws passed by the competent authority remains inef-
fective. We learn with pleasure that many of our fel-
low citizens, having heard the explanations given in
the town-hall by the committee of lawyers which
daily meet there, have hastened to subscribe to the
loan. May their example be generally imitated."
THE HAGUE, MARCH 26.—The Dutch navy con-
sisted, on the Ist of January, 1844, of the following
ships :—Two of 84 guns, five of 74, two of 60, one
of 54, eleven of 44, three of 32, nine of 28, one of
26, two of twenty, eleven of 18, one of 16, ten of
14, one of 12, two of 8, five of 5, and four of 4 guns
—in all, seventy-two vessels, with 2,087 guns. Be.
sides these, there are one ship for exercise, one war-
, steamer iur transports, and seventy-seven gun-
boats, c various sizes. The corps of officers con-
sisted of one admiral, two vice-admirals, three
rear-admirals, twenty-one captains, thirty-one cap-
tain-lieutenants, two hundred and seventy-two lieu-
tenants, and sixty-six midshipmen.

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FLANDERS. MAIL.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 23.—The King has put off for a few
days his intended visit to England.
The accounts which we receive of the effects of the late
inundation are very distressing. The damage done by the
overflowing at the Dyle is very great.
The hurricane of the 10th and 11th of this month did
much damage in several parts of the province of Brabant.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 25.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert
is expected at Ostend on Thursday. He will pass through
Belgium on his way to Coburg, but will not come to Brussels.
AUGSBURG, MARCH 21.—Letters from Gallicia and Mora-
via mention the discovery made by the Russian Custom-house
officers of immense quantities of smuggled goods in several
houses occupied by Jews, respecting which the most alarming
accounts are said to have been sent to St. Petersburgh. It
must be certified that this discovery comes very malapropos,
and that the Russian Jews on the frontier run the risk of
losing by this circumstance the feeling of conipassion, and in-
terest in their fate, which was just beginning to be exerted
both in Russia and in Europe.—Allgemeine Zeitung, March 22.