The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-03 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 30.—The Marquis de Ricce had the
honour of an audience of his Majesty yesterday to de-
liver his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Sardinia.
Tlie King also gave audience to Count Colombe, the
Minister of Spain.
Conflicting reports have been in circulation for some
days, relative to difficulties which are supposed to have
been suspended for some days, viz.rthe ratification of the
treaty of the first of September by Prussia.
The Magdeburg Gazette says, " That a person has been
sent from Berlin with the ratification, but that it is only
conditional respecting some points, which, however, are
of minor importance.
"If we are rightly informed, the ratification of the
treaty by Prussia is not subject to any difficulty, but it
must be also ratified by all the other States of the Zoll-
verein, so that some days may pass before this last for-
futility is completed.
" We cannot yet estimate with certainty the effects of
the treaty as regards the interests of Belgium and the
Zollverein. Some think that the advantage is on the
side of Germany ; others that it is more in our favour.
On one point all are agreed, namely, that in a political
point of view Prussia has acted with ability in obtaining
this treaty. This is acknowledged in France, as every-
where else."

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 11.—On the sth of this month
Prince Handschery, the first dragoman of the Russian
Legation, in his full official costume, waited on Rifaat
Pacha. He showed to the Minister the insignia of a
Turkish colonel, and said they belonged to a colonel who
had been taken on board a Turkish steamer laden with
ammunition, which attempted to land on the Circassian
coast. Rifaat Pacha replied that that was no proof either
that the bearer of the insignia was really a Turkish
colonel (if he were so), acting with the authority
of the Turkish Government. To this the dragoman
answered, that the Russian officers had examined the
ammunition found in the vessel ; that the powder had
been found to be of Turkish manufacture ; and that the
muskets had the marks of those used in the Turkish
army. To this Rifaat Pacha could only answer in ge-
neral terms, that neither he nor his colleagues had the
slightest knowledge of the matter. The Prince then
declared that the colonel who had been taken would be
sent to the terrible mines of Silesia, but that the Porte,
if it pleased, might claim him.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussus, Surr. 28.
Actua Debt, per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98%
Three per Cent........."
Thirty-seven Millions, ditto 76
(1840) lO3
1E44 lOl
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent lO2
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60%
Issue of 1841

—Brussels Papers. Sept. 30
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vittrols, Sere 24.
Five per Cents. Metalltques • llO4
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents. 76
Bank Shares ............... .......
Zeitung, Sept. 27.

LYMINGTON.—On Monday evening, soon after
nine o'clock, an alarm was given twat a fire was raging,
at Pilly, about two miles from this town. Upon arriv-
ing at the scene of devastation, we discovered that two
cottages, a barn containing a quantity of wheat, hay-
ricks, cart-houses, &c., belonging to Mr. Gosling, were
completely enveloped in flames, and that any attempt
to save a portion of the property was useless, and in
a short time the whole was levelled to the ground.
The fire was so rapid in its progress, that the in-
mates of the cottages had only time to escape from being
burnt to death: When the fire was first discovered it

was burning at throe places to Windward, and there
being a strong breeze, the work of destruction was al-

most: instantaneous. We hope the wretch—for it is
supposed to be the work of an incendiary—whose hand
could thus be guilty of the most horrid of crimes, will 1.,e
discovered. A reward of 100 guineas is offered f 0,., the
conviction of the offender. The property is insured._
Hampshire Independent.
One of those fatal accidents arising cirom the cul-
pable conduct of chemists in leaving nr.,onvetent persons
to serve in their shops during thei.i• absence happened a
few days ago at Limoges. A :nhysician of the town
having prescribed for a youn!, Woman who was slightly
indisposed a small dose of a gentle aperient medi-
cine, his prescription w:a taken to the shop of a chemist
to be made up. According to the inscription on the
packet delivered at the shop, the whole of its contents
were at once Edministered to the patient, who was imme-
diately seized with tho most violent pains, followed by
vomiting, which could not be stopped, although the pre-
scribing physician and two others who were called in
used all their science and skill, and in the end the suf
ferer expired in the most frightful agonies. On investi-
gation, it turned out that the chemist's assistant, instead
of giving thirty grammes of cream of tartar, which, ac-
cording to the doctor's prescription, was to be divided
into small doses, delivered thirty grammes of tartar
emetic, without any indication as to the manner in
which it was to be administered. The chemist and his
man are both under prosecution.—French Paper.
ELECTRICITY AND LocKen-JAW.—The following
account of the efficacy of this extraordinary remedy we
should do wrong in withholding, though it should never
again prove effective. We have the account from some
friends who chanced to be present, and saw the patient eat-
ing the first meal she had taken in five days a few minutes
after the spasm had ceased. She had been previously
nourished by drawn milk through the apertures of the
closed teeth, through which the edge of a
knife could be passed with the greatest diffi-
culty. The young woman was thus affected in
consequence of exposure to cold and fatigue, and
was completely recovered by the electro-galvanic appa-
rates applied to both angles of the jaw. The machine
had not made forty revolutions when the jaw opened
to its full and natural width. We learn that it
has been successfully applied for many nervous
diseases of the eye ; also in a case of poisoning by
laudanum, where two entire ounees had been swal-
lowed. In this case, the patient was revived by the ma-
chine, and collapsed alternately during five hours, the
intervals becoming shorter, till speech was re-established.
Curvature of the spine has also yielded to its power.
Indeed, its proper application is as varied as diseases of
general debility and irregular nervous action. It was
applied by Dr. E. 11. Discon, of 5, Mercer-street.
New York Journal of Commerce.

SIIMESPEARE'S JUG AND CANE.—During the week
of the Gloucester musical festival there have been ex-
hibited the jug and cane of the immortal bard of
Avon. Subjoined is a desetiption of both of them,
obtained by an actual inspection of the articles, with
their history up to the possession of the person, in
whose hands they are now placed :—Shakspeare's jug
is worthy of the great genius himself. From a variety
of inquiries it appears that no question need be raised
as to the fact that the design of tkis vessel had its
origin with Shakspeare himself. It is of cream-coloured
earthenware, and in shape it resembles a modern coffee-
pot. The height of it is nine inches and a half, and in
the widest part, or belly, it measures 15 inches. Longi-
tudinally it is divided into eight compartments, in e.;.eh
of which is represented the principal deities of
the Grecian mythology, beautifully executed, and
quite perfect. These are Jupiter, Juno, Bacchus,
Diana, Mars, Mercury, Apollo, and others attended
by their train, and their characteristic insignia is
plainly distinguished in the chariots and animal attend-
ants. Forty-four years ago, the possessor of this an-
tique and most interesting English relic had a silver
top, or cover, placed upon it, to preserve the rim from
injury, and to keep the interior free from dust. Upon
the top of this covering is a medallion bust, most ex-
quisitely executed, and the inscription, " William Shak-
speare at the age of 40." The history of the descent
of this jug from Shakspeare, in 1616, to the present
time, is very interesting. Until 1841 this relic was
kept in the family. The present possesssor of it, Mrs.
Fletcher, a descendant of the immortal bard, then tried
to prevent it going from the family. She was outbid,
and Mrs. Mary Tuberville, of Charlton House, bought
it for 30/. At the second day's sale of her effects,
however, at a cost of nineteen guineas, Mrs. Fletcher
re-bought the jug, and, during the week of the fes-
tival, hundreds of persons availed themselves of the oppor-
tunity of inspecting it. The cane is of the Malacca spe-
cies, in beautiful preservation, the enamel being untouched
In length it is 4 feet inches, 4 inches in cirroutifie-
ference at the thickest part, and at the set off' for Ihand of 10 inches, it is inches round. It 101
had a ferrule 5 inches long, but these mounting 1
evi-
dently, at some time or other, been mounted, anild.lhavaes
been removed. There is no doubt of the genuineness of
both these articles, as Sir Richard Phillips has spoken
of them years ago as being in the family
ago
t heii
(Thursdayo Forts
s of
Tewkesbury, and it is only a few days
last) that the stick was purchased by Mrs. Fletcher, one
of the few surviving descendants of the venerated owner,
A POINTED BLOW.—An invalid sent for a physician,
the late Dr. Wheelman, and after detaining him for
4dohcitsorp, ayionus,
hacahvees,hBzumc..,
he thus summed up:
some time with a description of
--"
bugged me long enough with your good.for-nothin
pills and worthless syrups Ig
they don't touch the real
difficulty,
yoTurwpisohwyeor to utoresatreih it
strike the c“alut shallif it is in soofm ybeaidlmoneent4
saiddem otlhisehidnog a decanterctor,atthe of
same time ;lifting this cane, an'd
gin that stood upon the side-
board.
Mr. G. Alexander Macfarren, the composer, was
married on Fridily morning to Miss Andrae, the vocalist,
Marylebooe Church. The young lady is a German

COURT CIRCULAR.
Wisnsou, IVEDNESD IY.—Their Royal Highnesses
the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess
Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
and attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Ikon. Charles
Grey, Equerry to her Majesty, arrived at the Castle
at half-past five o'clock this afternoon, from the Pavi-
lion at Brighton.

The royal party travelled from Brighton by a spe-
cial train to the New-cross station this afternoon, and
from the station proceeded in three carriages and four
to the Paddington terminus of the Great West,rn
Railway, where the royal party arrived at twenty-
five minutes before five o'clock, leaving by a special
train for Slough, and from Slough proceeding in three
carriages and four to the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is ex-
pected to arrive at her residence, Frogmore Lodge,
near Windsor this evening, from the residence of her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, Witley Court, Worces-
tershire.

A deputation on the Cornwall Railway, consisting
of the Earl of Falmouth ; Mr. Turner, M.P. for
Truro; Captain Moorsotn, Engineer; and Mr. W. H.
Bond, Secretary to the Company, transacted business
yesterday, at the Admiralty. The members of the
deputation had also an interview with the Earl of
Dalhousie, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Captain Fitzgerald had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

A deputation, including Mr. W. Ormsby Gore,
M.P., the Hon. R. 11. Clive, .M.P., Mr. W. R. Col-
lett, M.P., and several other gentlemen, accompanie:l
by Sir John Rennie, Capt. Moorsom, and Mr. Ray,
had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yes-
terday, at the Board of Trade, upon the plan for
making a railway from Shrewsbury to Birmingham,
by Wellington, Shiffnal, Wolverhampton, and Dudley.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from
the Colonial-office; for the Governor of South Aus-
tralia. Dispatches were also sent off fur the Governor
of Gibraltar.

HER MAJESTY AT BLAIR ATHOL.

]LAIR ATIIOL, MONDAY.
The disappointment yesterday throughout the village
of Blair Athol was unbounded. It was impossible to
shake the i nplicit belief which had firmly fixed itself in
the minds f the people that they would see their Sove-
reign once more amongst them at the village kirk. All
the villagers in the neighbourhood, and even the people
about the Castle, were under the impression that her
Majesty would go to the church; but we were yestertlay
enabled to inform our readers that the Queen woul4 not
again expose herself to the annoyance which she was
compelled to submit to during Divine service on the pre-
ceding Sunday, and the result has provca the authen-
ticity of our information. The church was again in-
vaded at an early hour, but the object or a portion of the
congregation or rather audience, in attending Divine
service, was most palbably obvious, for, when the car-
riage drove up to the church, with Lady Glenlyon, Mrs.
Drummond, and the Hon. Miss Murray, several persona
left the church. Some, however, who came to stare, re-
mained to pray, and the newly-married minister, Mr.
Irvine, delivered an excellent sermon. His bride was
also present, and came in for a large share of the staring
which had been intended for her Majesty.
Lord Glenlyon's pew was also occupied by Lord
Aberdeen. Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Liverpool,
Sir James Clark, Lady Canning, and Lady Carolina
Cocks, remained at the Castle in attendance upon her
Majesty.
The Queen did not leave the precincts of the Castle
daring the whole afternoon.

The Princess Royal did not accompany her Majesty
in her promenade. The service of the Church was read
before her Majesty in her private apartments.
Groat preparations are going on for the departure of
the Court, which will take place at nine o'clock to-
morrow morning. Several baggage waggons, guarded
by Athol Highlanders, with bright claymores and tar-
gets, left Blair Athol this morning for Dundee. The
third division of the Highland guard, consisting of
twenty-four Hice;hlanders, preceded by their piper, have
marched morning for Dunkeld, and r the command
of Mr.‘tiswald, of Dunnikier, and Mr. Small Kier, of
Kjindroggan ; they were also accompanied by Captain
the lion. James Murray, on horseback.
Her Majesty will stop at Dunkeld, and go over the
beautiful grounds around the unfinished mansion, which
was commenced by the Duke of Athol. Those grounds
are of immense extent, and of unrivalled beauty, and
form one of the principal objects of attraction in the
neighbourhood of the picturesque town of Dunkeld.
The Highlanders who have marched to that town this
morning, will form a guard of honour for her Majesty
during her brief stay there. 7inich, it is expected, will
not exceed an hour. Th-, detachments of Scots Greys
have already arrived at their respective quarters along
the road to Dundee. _ _

Prince Albert left the Castle shortly after breakfast
this morning., with Lord Glenlyon, for deer-stalking in
the glen near to the Castle. His Royal Highness has
become a complete venator—but unlike the venator of
HorPice, who was tenerce conjugis inimemor, his Royal
H:oghness invariably returns at an early hour in the af-
ternoon to drive her Majesty along the high road ; ex-
cepting on those occasions when he has been accompanied
by her Majesty during these sporting expeditions. The
Prince will return to the Castle at two o'clock, at which
hour the royal carriages are ordered to be in readiness.
Her Majesty continues in the enjoyment of excellent
health.—Post.