The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-09 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.

Lucy George, a girl of 16, only acquitted at the Surrey
Sessions last week for felony, was charged with robbing
her aunt of several articlec of dress and a half-sovereign.
The complainant took the prisoner home after her ac-
quittal at• the above sessiors,' and the former being
obliged to leave home for a short time, when she re-
turned she found the prisoner had decamped with the
above property. She was taken shortly afterwards, and
it, was found she had pledged the olothes at a pawn-
broker's shop.
The MAGISTRATE committed the prisoner for trial, ob-
serving that the lenity extended to her at the sessions
appeared to have had no effect in correcting her pro-
pensity for theft.

• CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Two bricklayer's labourers, named Boleyn and Bandey,
were charged with assaulting and threatening a publican
named Roccliffe.

The assault, which was of a very trifling nature, was
proved against Boleyn, and it appeared that the landlord
struck Boleyn a very severe blow on the eye. As both
prisoners, however, threatened the complainant's life,
they were bound over to keep the peace.
• The case drew from Mr. GREENWOOD, the sitting ma-
gistrate, the following important observations :—lt was
clear that the present case sprung from a system the most
pernicious and destructive of the comfort of the families of
the poor, The payment of labourers by their masters at
public-houses. It was managed in this way—the master
gave six or seven men a five• pound note to be divided
of liquor. The prac-
tice them and the publican refused to change it un-
entint.tyrth of England, where
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FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, DSc. s.—Count Maurice Dietrichstein,
who is appointed Ambassador of Austria to the Court
cf St. James's, has already left Vienna, to repair to his
new post, passing through Brussels, to deliver to our
King his letters of recal.
The price of corn again fell in Wednesday's market at
Brussels. This tendency to decline, which has lately
talen place in the markets of the country, is.attributed
to the large importation of corn from abroad.
The steam=boat between Antwerp and Hull will cease
to run after the sth of December.
The French post-office received last year 114,200,000
le'tters, of which 3,200,00 remained as dead letters.
The 111 millions delivered produced a gross receipt of
41,569,200 francs.
The Post-office distributed also above sixty millions
of printed papers, &c., which yielded a receipt of
2,400,000 franca.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 6.—We learn from Waterloo that
the house of the keeper of the Monument has been de-
stroyed by fire; it was the property of the Government,
and was worth 6,000 francs. The furniture, &c., de-
stroyed was worth 1,200 francs.
The debates on the budgets almost always produce,
from the chiefs of the several departments, premises of
amelioration, which it is as. well to notice, in order to
call to mind when opportunity offers. In the discussion
of the budget of the finance department, a great deal was
said of the necessity of organising, in a definitive manner,
the services of the several ministerial departments.
The central section had already expressed its wishes on
this point. The Minister of Finance said, that he
should shortly present to the King. a plan for the general
organisation of his department. To a question of M.
Osy, M. Mercier replied that he was persuaded that
his colleagues intended likewise to submit similar plans
for their respective departments to the King.
1111SLGIAN FUNDS.—Bavams, Dr.c. O.
Aetna Debt, 9% per Cent., .......
Itothschild'a Loan Five per bent
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.
Three per Cent...........
Militias, ditto .............. 77
(1840..»........... Ifs
1544.•.. •••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••• 102
-Loan of City, 1843, Four per
102., .... ...
Society of Commerce, Four and a ..... per Celt —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent.... .......... ...-
Issue of 1841.. •,•••••••••• ,••••••,..01.1.611116.1.14.611• JV
—Briested Papers, Dee.
AUSTKIAN FUNDS,—VIRIuta, Nov 30
rive per Cents. Motalliques .. ... ....... 110%
• Four per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ISO
Three per Cents...» ....... ........ 75
Bank mares •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• .••••••
1896
Lean, .......... .......... .....
Ditto, 1839
FAterhasy's Loan .. . ... .....

RAILWAYS.
The Narthern, or Ferdinand 168%
• Gloggnita ............ ......... 119%
Milan lll4
allgeeneine &Ming, Dec. a

FIRES IN CAMBRIDRE Attila-8
NRIGHBOURROOD.-
Os Friday evening, at about seven o'clock, the town and
University of Cambridge were thrown into a state of
alarmuniiirsbiytyaperrioytinogf.°Fr
o‘ftieiee; fromfrom theh
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Pmmir: s:f the
tower of which a considerable volume of flame was seen
to issue. Prompt and efficacious means, however, having
been resorted to, the fire was got under before any but a
trifling damage had been done. The accident steins
to have occurred owing to some boards hating been
placed on the top of the chininey.to prevent it from
smoking, and the collected soot thereon became ignited.
The greatest anxiety was evirced for the safety of the
splendid collection of paintings in the rooms immediately
underneath the conflagration. The gownsmen) as htta
ever buen their wont on such occasions, afforded the Most
merited and powerful assistance. On Thursday morning
last the premises of Mr. Peachy, of Beck-row, Milden•
hall, were discovered to be on fire, and, in spite of every
posiible assistance which could be rendered, the home-
stall, barn, stables, outhouses, stacks of corn, &c., were
reduced to ashes. One hundred pounds' reward has
been offered for the discovery of the incendiary. Mr.
Peachy is fortunately insured in the Norwich 'Union.
Another fire of a similar character took place on Friday,
at Oakington, on the premises of Mr. Doggert, by which
a great quantity of barley, wheat, and straw were con.
sumed, and a large barn and an adjoiniatiiiwgehyloildeugeh.pubnu.rtinf:ed; to the ground.
We regret twoithheaarsetriheavts
,Maeer.ideßn Bailey
Worcester, met
with Lord Fitzhardinge's hounds last Tuesday. We are,
however, happy to find the Hon. Member is going on fa-
vourably under medical attendants, at the Plough Hotel,
Cheltenham.
Lady Henniker, whose accouchement took place at
Thornham-hall, Shffolk, on the 4th inst., is, with her
infant daughter, going on very favourably,