The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

AMSTERDAM, APRIL 20.—This morning the Royal
Family made their proposed excursion to Utrecht by the
iron railway. They left the Palace with their suite at
eleven o'clock, ar.d returned about three. We are as-
sured that his Majesty expressed his entire satisfaction
with the handsome manner in which the carriages are
fined up, and with all the arrangements.
ZRODLE, APRIL 19.—The steam• boats between this
town and Amsterdam will be ;m to ply on Tuesday, the
23d, and arrangements will be made to correspond
with the arrivals of the trains, as well from Rotterdam
and the Hague to Amsterdam, as from Amsterdam to.
the Hague and Rotterdam. The facilities which these
new arrangements will afford to travellers, who will be
able to come in one day from Rotterdam, the Hague,
Leyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, and other places in
North and South Holland, to Zrodle and Tevente, in one
day, and, by means of didgences, to go with all speed
to Drenthe, Friesland, and Gronisr.am, we may hope
that trade and industry will derive great advantages
from the increased intercourse between the several places.
NwrEunAm, Aram 22.—We learn that their Majes-
tit-s will leave this capital to-morrow morning, at half-
past nine o'clock, to return to the Hague.
Ttraittm—The Constantinople mail of the 3d of
April brings accounts of a violent pressing of soldiers
which the Ports had executed in the Turkish capital, in
which the wives of the me!) pressed made a riot, at -
tacked Mohann.d. Ali and Hiza l'uchit, and tore the
(1411.1 off their Iliac

EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE.—The Port Hope'
(Canada) Gazette says :—" Mr. Peter Moffat, who has
for several y, ars been in the habit of teaming. between
Peterborough, this place, and Cobourg, states, thet a team
of horse-s, which cost him about 751, were missing on
the mornin4 of the 6th September, 1842. After fruit-
less 'search and inquiries in the neighbourhood, ima-
gining they were stolen, he started towards Toronto
in search of them, and from some account received
on the way, was induced to go on as far as 100 miles
beyond Buffalo, but in vain, and after spending six
weeks in the pursuit he returned to A day or two
afterwaris, observing that the crows and digs were
frequenting a thicket near his own barn, he searched
it, and there, in a stream, discovered both his horses
dead. AS there was but little water at the time, he
suspected they had been poisoned, and upon opening
them a substance was found which on examination
turned out to be arsenic. But the most singular
part of the story remains to be told. A person named
C—b, who died shortly afterwards, acknowledged
on his death bed that he, another person named
C—y, and ere M—y, (C—y and M—y
.n heir, ein4 also teamsters), had poisoned the team; and Mr.
PENNY POSTAGE.—Mr. Cowell, in his tract.on t
Moffat states that C—b, on returning home after the
Currency, points out one of the uncontemplated effects
act,
found one of his own horses hanging at the rack or
of the penny postage, and makes a just reflection on it:— ,
manger, arid soon after lost two of his cows, and that
" Previous to 1840 it cost several shillings to send a few
then he himself was taken ill and die;d and that C—y,
five-pound notes to London. from .the country. Since
the reduction of postage you can send four or five fora who is said to have lent himself to assist the others on
penny. In consequence of this bankers In the country this occasion, was subsequently shot dead, in a broil at
an inn in reterborou h. Thus does an inscrutable Pro-
are now in the daily habit of sending to London the g
vidence, sooner or later overtake the guilty, however
notes of competing bankers, in cases where they pre- secret or well-devised their schemes may be for a season.
piously retained them a week or ten days for inter-
change, at certain periods, in London. I paid attentive LATE HOURS OF BUSINESS.--Last evening, a
consideration at the time to the effects on the circula-
numerous meeting of booksellers' assistants was held at the
London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill,
tion of the alteration in the postage,. 'constantl- v watch-
Messrs. Swann and Ives, in the chair, to consider the expe-
ing them, and became convinced dud Mr. Hill's plan diency of petitioning the employers for an abridgment of the
enabled the country to dispense with. considerably more hours of business. The Chairman, the Rev. Mr. Cumming,
than 1,000,0001 circulation, and to Texport either that Messrs. Lawrence, Ottan, and other gentlemen, delivered
amount of gold, or some prOportion of it, obtaining in eloquent addresses, deprecatory of late hours of business, as
exchange commodittes that we shotildsiot otherwise have being equally injurious to the employers and the employed,
had. Mr. Hill did not probably anticipate such s splen- both in a physical and moral point of view. Mr. King stated
did consequence from his admirable plan. It is a proof that the booksellers of Liverpool had resolved to close busi-
of the importance of sound• principles in such matters; , nese at seven o'clock, P.M. He mentioned several instances
they produce good effects that are not expected, as well of employers being so engaged in business that they were
as the advantages at which they directly aim." . unable to discharge their duties as heads of families ;
in
conclusion, he read a on to master booksee rs
QUICK 'I'itAvELLING.-17%-re have to record • a re-
markable instance of the power of steam. On Wodnes- London, praying of thepmetiti to shortenthe the hours of businlless, in
order that their assistants may be enabled to improve their
day her Majesty's packet Princess Alice, having on board physical, moral, and intellectual condition. The petition was
1 Mr. Robins, an English messenger, arrived here from adopted.
Calais after a passage of one hour and 45 minutes. The A labourer named Trevis was killed on Thursd,ly
messenger was just in time fTr the 11 o'clock train, in morning, at Thn op, %ear Christchurch. by tbe
which he took his place, and arrived in London at three falling of a mud wall, which deceased end another man
' o'clock ; performing the whole distance from Calais to were engaged in removing, and imprulntly neglected
the Metropolis, via Dover, in the unprecedented short tiuml to prop up whilst picking Away. the-foundoloa. WWI
iof 51rours wig 4.1 ggisp.tto t—liatler Telegraph. taken out he wassuito tread

Arrival at St. Helena—Maid of Athens, Uting, March 6,
from West coast of Africa, and sailed 11th to Cork.

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—Mohican, of Greenock,
11th inst., lat. 41 N., len. 25 W. ; Bouvrieul
Nantes to Guadaloupe, lat. 49, lon. 8, by the Havre,
Poupard, arrived at Havre. Victoria, Hancock, Bristo,
to Calcutta, 20th inst., lat. 48, lon. 8, by the Tartar
Luce, arrived off Falmouth. Catherine (ship). 20th
ult., lat. 3 N., lon. 19 W., by the Joseph Porter, Wilson,
arrived at Liverpool. Amphitrite, of Nantes, 17th inst.,
by the Trent (steamer), arrived at Southampton.