The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-22 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 18.—M. Van de Weyer, Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Belgium at
London, accompanied by his lady, arrived yesterday at
Brussels.
Count Duval de Beaulieu, one of the most distin-
guished members of the Senate, died yesterday.
A letter from Cologne, of the 14th, announces that
the railway from that city to Bonne was opened on
that day.
The general debate on the budget of the department
of public works was closed yesterday.
The King, who was expected at the Palace of Lacken
to-day, will not return till some day next week. His
Majesty is induced by the fine weather to prolong his
visit to St. Hubert.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 19.—Sir W. floss, painter to her
Majesty the Queen of England, arrived here from Lon-
don. This celebrated artist went the day before yester-
day to the Palace of Lacken, where he obtained the
honour of a first sitting of the Queen, whose portrait in
miniature, and that of the young Princess Charlotte, he
is to paint for the Queen of England.
There is to be a general exhibition of the productions
of the arts and manufactures of the States composing
the Customs' Union, this year, at Berlin. It is to open
on the 15th of August, and to continue eight weeks.
FEB. 20.—There are now four ships in lading in our
ports for the Belgian Colonization Company, viz., two at
Antwerp, one at Bruges, and one at Ostend. All these
vessels will shortly sail for the Belgian colony at St.
Thomas's, in Guatamala.
We find in the Gazette of Aix-la-Chapelle a new
symptom of those germs of distrust and uneasiness which
appears from time to time in Prussia, especially in'those
' towns in which there are universities. The above-men-
tioned journal contains the following letter :
"HALLE,FEB. 12.—Our town is in the greatest alarm ;
for reasons which are unknown, and which we can only
guess at from recent events, the most rigorous domici-
liary visits have been made since six o'clock this morn-
ing in the lodgings of many students, all of whose papers
have been seized. Some have already been arrested.
It is reported that nothing important has yet been dis-
covered."

DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—The in-
vestigation into the circumstances attending the death of
Helen Goodlad, some particulars relative to which have be-
fore appeared in this journal, was resumed and concluded
yesterday, at the Red Lion, Batty-street, Commercial-road
East. Mr. Chadwick Jones appeared to watch the case on
behalf of the persona charged as instrumental in causing
the death of the deceased, who wore themselves present in
the custody of an inspector of the H division of the police.
The evidence of the young woman Papworth, the only
witness examined on Monday last, having been read over
by the Coroner, she was subjected to a severe cross-exami-
nation by Mr. Jones. Her statement varied in no important
particular from that made on the last occasion ; but she ad-
mitted deceased was often the worse for liquor. The Coroner
said he had been informed that the parties in custody had
given wrong names when before him on Monday last,
and he thought it would be desirable to amend the error at
once. Mr.:Jones thought the matter immaterial in the present
stage of the inquiry; but the jurors were unanimous in re-
quiring that the proper names should be given. It was then
stated that the name of one was Hands, and that of the other
person Ascii. Mr. Dillon, a comedian, attached to the Gar-
rick Theatre, was next examined. His evidence went to show
that the parties charged were not so much to blame as the
first witness alleged, and that every attention had been paid
to the deceased and her companion after they had taken the
spirits. Mr. Mark Garrett, surgeon, stated that on making a
post mortem examination of the deceased, he found no marks
or bruises externally. On dividing the scalp he found a small
quantity of coagulated blood effused, probably caused by a
blow PiPall. The brain was much congested throughout, and
at its base about hull an ounce of serum or bloody fluid had
collected. The stomach was empty, with the exception of
about a pint of liquid, which smelt strongly of spirits. He at-
tributed death to the concussion caused by the fall, accele-
rated no doubt by the state of the system from having swallowed
so:large a quantity of spirits. There was no appearance to in-
dicate the deceased'shaving been a person addicted to drink -
ing. Other witnesses having been examined, the Coroner
summed up at great length, pointing out the law as it applied
to cases of manslaughter generally, and quoting an opinion
laid down by Mr. Justice Park in the case of the Queen v.
Packard (where the defendant was indicted for having ad-
Ministered a quantity of spirits t• a sheriff's officer, and
afterwards driven him about in a cab until he died), to this
effect—" The simple facts of persons getting together to
drink, or the one pressing another to do so, is not an unlaw-
ful act, or if death ensues an event that can be construed
into manslaughter." The Court was then cleared, mid after
a short deliberation the jury found that the deceased died a
natural death, accelerated by drinking an excessive quan-
tity of spirits called Geneva, and that she had suffered no
violence from any person. The jury refrained from com-
menting on the conduct of the parties who had been privy
to her taking it, inasmuch as they felt that the publicity
which the facts had obtained would be a sufficient punish-
ment and a warning to them as to their future conduct The
parties were then taken to Lambeth-street police-office.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.—
The next concert of this Society takes place to-morrow
(Friday) evening. With the exception of Handel's Occa-
sional Overture, the programme consists entirely of works to
be performed for the first time by the Society, viz., Handel's
Third Organ Concerto, and one of his Coronation Anthems ;
Mendelssohn's Forty-Second Psalm, and Haydn's Sixteenth
Mass.

A LEGACY TO PRINCE ALBERT.—The Leipsic
Gazette states that the late Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg and
Gotha has left personal property to the amount of twelve
millions of florins, and has not disposed, by any will or testa -
ment, of this large fortune. According to the laws of inheri
tance in Saxony, personal property left by a father is. equally
divided between the children, and there only being the now
reigning Duke Ernest and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the latter's share will be about six hundred thousand pounds,
if the statement proves correct.
The word " Napists" frequently appears in the po-
litical correspondence from Greece. It is applied to the
Russian party, and has the following origin :—When Count
Capo d'lstrias was at the head of the Greek Government,
there was at Napoli di Romania a madman, or idiot, named
Napas, constantly followed by the children of the town. This
appellation was therefore given in derision to Capo d'lstrias
and his party.