The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-28 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, MARcn 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.
BRussulas, 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 compassion, and in-
terest in their fate, which was just beginning to be exerted
both in Russia and in Europe.—Allgemeine Zeitung, March 22.

MILITARY FLOGGING AT CHATHAM.-011 Monday
morning, the 25th inst., one of those disgusting exhibitions
of corporal punishment in the army, was inflicted on private
Martin Webber, of the 57th Regiment of Foot, on Chatham-
lines, in the presence of 3,000 men, belonging to the Provi-
sional Battalion. The whole of these troops assembled on
regimental parade in the square in front of the barracks,
when the sentegoe of the district court-martial, held on the
above prisoner last week, for threatening to shoot Captain
Jackson, captain of the prisoner's depot, was promulgated.
The troops were afterwards marched oft' to the Spa battery,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel T. Edwin Kelly,
when the prisoner was to undergo the sentence of receiving
150 lashes. The prisoner, after being pinioned to the triangle,
and receiving the first stroke of the lash, cried out "murder"
most lustily ; and at every other infliction of the lash his cries
increased in force, and were heard at a considerable distance
from the spot, and owing to- the desperate struggling of the
prisoner, the ropes that bound his arms to the triangle became
loosened, and at the eleventh stroke, it was found necessary
to tighten them ; the prisoner faintly begged "for mercy,
and would be a good soldier, if his further punish-
ment was remitted." The prisoner again received twelve
more stripes with the cat, wheii it was ascertained to be
necessary, by Dr. Freich, of the Ist West India Regiment,
to stop all further punishment. The prisoner having gone
off into a convulsive fit, his pulse having ceased to beat, and
his face had turned quite black,- he was immediately relepsed
from his bondage by four soldiers who laid him on his back
on the grass, and it wag several minutes before any anima-
tion could be observed ; he was afterwards removed to the
hospital: out of 150 lashes the prisoner only received 23.
He bears a most depraved character, and has been five years
in the service. The prisoner has also threatened to murder
Sergeant Phillips of the same regiment.
PROPOSED NATIONAL MONUMENT TO NEWTON.—
Mr. Steele is reviving his long cherished project of the erec-
tion of a magnificent National Monument to Newton, which
lie originated eighteen years ago, by a letter from his own
college at Cambridge, and in promoting which he has had,
within the last seven years, two petitions presented from him
to Parliament. The first was presented by Lord Monteagle,
when Chancellor of the Exchequer, the second by Mr. Hume.
He revives the subject by a public letter to Lord Lincoln, the
Chairman of the Committee for the.lmprovement of the Me-
tropolis.
VISIT 01' THE DUCHESS OP KENT TO TILE CON-
TINENT.-It is the intention of her Royal Highness the
Duchcss of Kent shortly to proceed to Paris, where she will
sojourn a few days, en route for Switzerland, on a visit to her
sister, who will pass some months there. The departure of
her Royal Highness is postponed until the return of Prince
Albert.—Post.

THE THAMES THNNEL.—Yesterday, the Fancy
Fair, which was Commenced on Monday, in the Thames
Tunnel, was continued, but there was not so numerous an
attendance as on the two Previous days, The Tunnel was
illuminated, and the shops decorated with evergreens and
ribands, and all remained in the same state as on the first day.
On Monday 10,178 persons visited the Tunnel, on Tuesday
35,440, and on Wedneiday 20,740, making altogether 66,367
persons, producing 2764 10s. 7d. for the three days.
• PRICE or .BREAD.--According to the average
price of wheat in the Edinburgh market, the 41b. loaf will
now be sold• at sevenpence-halfpenny ready money or if
paid within. :a month, and eightpeuce credit.--Edinburgh
Advertiser. •

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. •
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,509 bales,
1,000 of which were on speculation. The market was very
dull, and prices were id. per lb. lower than on Saturday. An
,average business was done in Railways, at steady prices.
Eastern Counties were 11 a, Edinburgh and Glasgow 64,
Grand Junction 232, Dublin and Cashel 5-14, South Western
Eights 4g, Manchester and Birmingham 47, Manchester and
Leeds, 114, Paris and Lyons 2*, South Eastern 37.
Again we are without any colonial advices. The
Continental advices do not possess the least interest, if we
except a -statement that a ' treaty of commerce had been
completed between the Zoll Irerein and the United States,
limited, however to certain specified articles. The informa-
tion upon this topic—important, if true, most unquestionably
—is very limited, and it is much questioned in well-informed
circles. But, admitting that the news is only partially
correct, how assiduous ought our Government to be
in counteracting the injuries that must be inflicted on our
commercial and manufacturing interests, by quietly allowing
other and rival States to fraternise, through the medium of
reciprocal treaties, and how much will Ministers have to
answer for by upholding the corn-laws, the master-grievance
and preventative, as respects an extension of demandfor British
fabrics in foreign markets. This is a subject thought deeply
upon in the City among mercantile men, and is one which, if
the policy of Sir Robert Peel as to the corn-laws, be much
longer continued, will have the sure effect of making his past
and warm adherents, determined and lasting opponents. One
reason for discrediting the report of the treaty alleged to
have been concluded is, that it is supposed to be contrary to
the engagements the United States have towards
England, to admit us to , equal privileges with other
countries. We are not prepared to • say how far
a special treaty might be construed as an exception to the
engagement with us, as we shall still be on a footing with all
the States, but those in the Zoilverein.
The Commissioners bought about 2.,0001. Consols this
morning at 98k. Not a single bargain has been made to-day
in Consols for the Account. The New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been quoted at 1021 R. Bank Stock at 2001, and
the premium upon Exchequer Bills is given at 68s. to 70s.
In the Foreign Stock Market the principal movement has
been in Spanish Bonds, the ActiVes having advanced from
25i to 26, and the Three per Cents. from 36-1 to 361. The
rig is progressing, to induce by the attainment of advanced
prices, the public to take portions of the new loan now in
embryo. Portuguese Converted Bonds have fallen to 45};
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted at
57i ; and the Five per Cents. 101 i to 104 ; Meiican
Stock is rather firmer at 36 ; and Colombiau-ex-Venezue-
lian at 144.

The variations in the Railway Share Market have been but
slight to-day, nor has there been much business transacted.
The Cobre Copper Mine Shares have been sold at 9 dis-
count; and the St. John Del Rey Mining Shares at I# dis.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Firm.the Official List.)

,
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities OB% %
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102%%
Bank Stock for Account WO%
Exchequer Bills, I%cl. I%d
1,0001. ..... . ....... .... 68 pm.
5004 —
68 pm.
Ditto Small ----, 701 Pal•
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account. 104%
Columbian Bonds - 14%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ........ -
Ditto for the Account 3614
Ditto Deferred Stock
=
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 45%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 25% %
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Deferred 15%
~: ii, Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account,_ 36% 37
Venezuela Bonds, 211.4€fent —
Ditto Deferred ..... ............ ............ 11% %
Dutch 2% per Cents 5754% %%
Dutch 5 per Cents. 1023% 101%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SMARR
_./
, Birmingham and Derby„......... 100 ... 62 61... to 82 g
Birmingham and Gloucester.... 100 -86 86 .. to 87%
Ditto New
Chester and Holyhead 5 7%% ... to •
•.• Dublin and Cashel
Eastern Counties ..... .. .. - ........ 23
Ditto New Registered Si. 6s. Bd.
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Brighton 5O 44 to i
London and South Western ..... 41%
Ditto Eighths
1 4 to
1
Midland Counties 9l -
Northern and Eastern
North Midland
Ditto Thirds 2l'. 13s. 4d 3O to 1
Paris and Orleans .................... :10
Paris and Rouen ..... ............... 20 35% .... to '
Rouen and Havre,
South Eastern and Dover 5O 36% ... to
Ditto Scrip 25 .... ..... 36%
Struburg and Basle .....,........ 14
York and North Midland ......... 50 ..„ ..... 1223/...... to
Ditto New Shares... .... .. ... ....... 20 . .... .... 553
Ditto Scarboro' Branch 2% ..... 20.. to i
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, ALtrimr 27.—There ap •
pears rather more disposition to bring. stock to market to-day,
but still sellers are not inclined to give much way in price
and there has been a fair business done in the following
stocks :—Bolton and Preston, 31 ; Lancaster and Preston, 384 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 4 ; Midland Counties, Fifths,
3 1-16; Scarborough Extension, 204; South Western,
Eighths, 4 11-16 m 1444 ; Harrogate and Knaresborough, 4i ;
North Bristish, 3 ; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 06