The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

A vestry meeting of the rate-payers and inhabitants of the
parish of Lambeth was held yesterday evening, in the Boys'
School-room, Lambeth-green, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the provisions of the Bill introduced by Sir
James Graham into the House of Commons, and now before
that branch of the Legislature, " for the amendment of the
law relating to the relief of the poor in England and Wales."
The meeting was convened by the churchwardens in com-
pliance with a requisition presented to them for that pur-
pose, and signed by a numerous and respectable body of
rate-payers. Resolutions strongly condemnatory of the new
law were agreed to.
A copy of a very curious communication from M. Dedel,
the Dutch Minister, to Lord Aberdeen, appears in the Deme-
rara papers. It charges the colonial journals with applaud-
ing the absconding of the negroes of Surinam, and the British
authorities with countenancing their landing; but to this
Lord Aberdeen very properly replies to the effect, at least in
spirit, that colonial newspapers are not under censure laws,
and that any slave setting foot on British soil becomes free.
The greatest production from the pen of the immortal
Handel, his oratorio the " Messiah," was performed last night,
for the benefit of the Royal Society of Musicians, to a very
numerous audience.

The Emperor of Russia and the King of Saxony accom
pany the Queen to the Opera on Saturday next.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 2.—The King presided to-clay in a Coun-
cil of Ministers. A letter from Antwerp, of yesterday, says—
" The inundation of Lillo, which was effected on the 25th of
October, 1830, will cease to-day, as the new dyke will attain
this evening 'the level of high-water. Then this commune
will have been inundated for a period of thirteen years, seven
months; and six days."
A letter from Liege, of . the Ist June, gives a distressing
account of a great misfortune in the coal-mine of Horloz,
caused by an explosion of fire damp on the preceding after-
noon. Twenty-six persons were burned under the rubbish,
and four others were wounded or burnt.
Brtussms, JuNa 3.—The Chamber of Representatives was
engaged to-day with article 2 of the project of law on dif-
ferential duties. It is decided that the deduction of 10 per
cent. should no longer be granted to Belgian ships for the
importation of manufactured goods, but that those articles
imported by foreign ships should pay 10 per cent. in addition
to the duty to which they are liable.
A letter from Berlin says:—" Our Government has just
purchased a vast extent of land, in the peninsula of Malacca,
which Belonged to Dr. Iloefer, a Prussian missionary
and naturalist, who were assassinated some years
ago by banditti, in the environs of Calcutta.
This property liar been sold to the Government
by the widow of Dr. Iloefer, at a very high price, the amount
of which is not known, but of which 300,000 &Afars have al-
ready been paid on account.
The object of the Government in making this purchase is
not known, but the general report (which deserves a high.
degree of probability from the character of the persons through
whom the bargain has been concluded), is that those lands in
Malacca are intended to be the seat of the Society of Female
Missionaries, the formation of which was proposed some time
ago by Baroness Eicharn, lady of the Minister of Ecclesiasti-
cal Affairs and Public Instruction, the special object of which
is to be the conversion of females to the Christian religion.

BELGIAN FUNDS—BaussaLs, JUNE a
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ,

Rothschild's. Loan, Five per Cent ...
103 A
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 99%
.r...__________-- Three per Cent....
---Thirty-seven Millions, ditto 17%
(1840) lisX,
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent.... ............ - 102%
---- 184.3 104%
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 65
Lane of 1841 _
—Brussels Papers, Jurist 6
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 27.
Five per Cents. Mctalliques .. 1108
Four per Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents. 77%
Bank Shares ......... .... ...... ................... ..... ..... ........ 1622
Allgemeine Zeitung, June 1.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—NEW THEORY Or CONSUME-
nom—We are requested to notice that To-morrow Evening
(Friday), at Half-past Eight, Dr.- Cronin, physician to the
Strand Dispensary for Consumption, opposite Exeter Ball,
will give, at the Mechanics' Institution, Chancery-lane, a
Lecture, explanatory of his views as to the Cause of Con-
sumption, and the mode of Treatment which he has so suc-
cessfully introduced into practice in the treatment of this
distressing malady.
The Emperor of Russia manifested a singular trait
of recognition, on Monday evening last, at the banquet given
by her Majesty at Windsor Castle. During the dinner, one of
the state pages handed some refreshment to the Emperor,
when, on observing him, his Majesty exclaimed, " How are
you, Kinniard ? Do you remember me ?" " Yes, Sire ?" re-
plied the astonished page. The Emperor then turned towards
the Queen and remarked that he remembered the page well,
frdm having been appointed his confidential attendant, when
he visited England, for the first time, in 1817.
This day is the anniversary (June 6, 1814) of the
arrival of the King of Prussia, the late Emperor of Russia,
and other continental Princes, in London, after the termina-
tion of the war, wheh a ;MA of Itea took place.

THE GERMAN DWARFS..
'We understand that the fortunate holder of General
Thumb has already realised a very pretty sum of money D):.
his speculation; and it is well for him that he has done so l"
time, for here are three wee-wee things come from Gering:lP
who bid fair to divert a smart share of the public attention
in respect of dwarfs, from the Transatlantic imperfection to
themselves. The General, who purports to be twelve years
old, is twenty-five inches high (though we have just seen a,announcement that he is now to be a little longer); one
old,
our new visitors, Christian Brocksted, is thirteen years
bona fide, " right up, straight down, and no mistake," to qtar
classic Jack Brag, as may be known unto all men Vat .6,
certificate of his baptism and birth, duly signed and se le"
by the local anthorities ; and yet he is only three iliah
taller than the abridged American, and weighs but one poull
more. Moreovzr, the German blows lustily on the born,
aft`:
smokes no end of cigars, and takes leading parts in a
ballet
of action, and does all sorts of things marvellous to behold al,
one so very small. Then, there's his sister, Maria Brockstea
18 years old, yet only 32 inches high, and of but 22 pound!
weight, a very nice little woman, indeed, chubby, c°s(iti
smiling, apparelled in a silk dress of mature form, with ago
head of hair, dressed a la mode, who sings a song, and dances.
a dance as %were a fair of the olden time, or an elfin sprite a
more modern Germany; and, indeed, we are by no 111e3113
clear that these soi-disant Brocksteds are not a party of thescl
charming little folks, to whom Grimm, and Masada.% all
other historians of faery, have introduced us, cive to th. a
e.
earth, as was their wont, at once for a bit of fun 00 le.
own account, and to do a good turn to some fortunate mortari
by letting these pass as their guardians and exhibitors.
all events they are something very much out of the coal" •
There's another brother, Henric Brocksted, 22 years of Ag'ei
36 inches high and weighing but 36 pounds, who takes P.
in the ballet. 'Not the least curious feature in the matter
_.1.4,0
that these three so small personages had for brothers, br,n
alternately with themselves, three persons rather above t 41,
under the ordinary proportions. The " Klaverbad,"
diminutive trio are designated when they are at home, ha
d
been exhibited before, and have received the patronage 8.1; ,
approbation of the King of the Netherlands, the ducal fatal
of Baden, the royal family of Saxony, Prince Albrecht o'
Prussia, the regal court of Anholt, the Duke of Altenburg:
the ducal court of Saxe-Coethen, of Saxe-Gratz, &C., as 3P
rears from certificates duly authenticated

P'
EARL GREY.—We are happy in being able
municate to our readers, that the venerable Earl has
ol„,
nued improving in health for the last five days. Our c
~e)r'
re-
spondent at Alnwick had the pleasure of learning this fill
of
able intelligence on the 3d instant, from one of the sons 01 u
Lordship.— Tyne Mercury. ening
REGISTRATION Or VOTERS.—OH Monday ev „t
lepun"
a meeting of electors of East Surrey was held at the}, ,
and Castle Tavern, for the purpose of forming a distriT,_fr
to ecoor.i:
ciety, to be a branch of the New East Surrey Reform elibfor
tration Society, of which A. W. Roberts, Esq., has beeafied
some years the President. Mr. Palmer, having beenec toe
to the chair, strongly urged that the present was th It
for vigorous efforts to increase the Liberal constituenT.. of
was a great fallacy, and a ba excuse for supineness,..t':„eet
that Reformers must wait fora period of public exca_,e`ls rat
before any good could be done for the cause. The OWOO
tion was a machinery which must be constructed by c°,„ll feel-
attention in days of calm, and thus only could porn -of real
ing, whenever it was aroused, be rendered productive
u,,,,i5,
success. Mr. Donkin and other gentlemen moved resol tcrsey,
and a branch Society for the polling districts of Berme:loog
Lambeth, and Camberwell, was then formed, with vice"
and efficient list of leading and influential Reformers as
Presidente and Committee.
We are happy to have it in our power to set at rest
all doubt as to the Polish Ball. It will positively takettfeeo/
on Monday next, the 10th inst. At a very full C°lllllloo. re tir
Lady Patronesses, which met again yesterday aftera, jobs
Willis's Rooms (the Marchioness of Ailesbury, as 00', to ii;
chair) it was stated that there was nothing whateverects
terfere with the ball on that day ; and that the prosP ossf
its success were the most brilliant. Three times a, s, cor
tickets have already been sold as were disposed of r_. beet
responding period last year. Every arrangement r ferf
made to prevent' confusion, in consequence of tlijakiag
large number expected to attend. We rejoice in Ihe Ott
that this entertainment will be attended with all "':,,vee 0.
and all the success which the cause in which it is bn
well deserves. esePt.
The Opera, on Saturday night next, will pr vol.
scene of extraordinary brilliancy—three croWtledhod 11
The gratifying sight of the most powerful Einperor, 0 der
hand with the moat constitutional Monarch of the In ,
lised and powerful nation in the-world. IS."
the ts
THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.--During o„inen
two days the process of raising the sculptural em he grattr
executed by Mr. Westmacott for the pediment of t'r coil
façade, has been proceeded with. The principal colossB.A.,
figure, the whole being seventeen in number, is;chieeiw-
pereonation of Commerce, ten feet in height, allu
out of solid stone. „cX c S, ffat
THE PORTUGUESE FEMALE UNDER 53621.-The IN, 'Ol
DEATH FOR EMBRACING THE PROTESTANT PAlTlf.'"ter tre_.,
Provost of Edinburgh has received the following le', reiF
Lord Canning, Under -Secretary of State for their°Dott
Department :—" Foreign-office, May 31, 1844.--Ige t'l'
I am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acknoWle weinict:
receipt of your letter of the 28th instant, enclosing
rial from the Magistrates and Town. Council of 11, waelf
respecting the sentence of death lately passed at 00 A
be 0 bar-
upon Maria Joaquina, a Portuguese subject, for t ,to 0
having embraced the Protestant faith, or, as app the erits,
been stated in the judgment passed upon her, for to to )°
of heresy and blasphemy. In reply, lam to sl3 eiod
that her Majesty's Government have not as yet rect that tie,s
official account of the occurrence in question ; bu majest..„,'
earliest opportunity will be taken of instructing hei.re eire.,,''
Minister at Lisbon to ascertain the truth of bi.',., 001'14
stances described in your memorial, and to make 'la beuo.
per quarter such a representation as may be fittingtisigae i
of Maria Joaquina.—l have the honour to be, Sce•
CA,temNG. The Lord Provost of Edinburh." ert‘
recent r Pr".Csl
IMPORTATION OF BUTTER.--On a - e rocu 4
tation to the Board of Customs by the princiea.l Puce to all°
officers, stating that it has hitherto been the practiiseetter if;
a tare of 141bs. each for each cask containing 'tog to
ported from Rotterdam, and commonly known a',lol Os,
trade as " Black Jacks," whereas the weight et. ~",.t of
~,,"
varies to a considerable extent, and after the rep bad cy;
Surveyor-General on the subject, stating that theY by ce,e,
ferred with the wholesale importers of the article,
ell by tPO.I,
cured in the recommendation, it has been deeit 31104
Board that in future an uniform tare of 1011 is. "s',. preSe:O
for the casks in question, instead of 14Ibs. as s'otitia;
This order is of much importance, as immense 'ivy It°
of the article are daily brought over to this coup #
Holland. : „ the :1115;i
THE WEEK AT BOULOGNE.--DUTillb c„ceselio
week our streets have been enlivened by a vast fasts ess
visitors from England. The cold, nay bitter h ode °,,.c
early part of the week, with the anything but foulab,est,,
prevented many more coming that we otherwise, °ma tiri;lia!,
seen. On Saturday week upwards, 1143 hear, of 1,71; of ft of
for an excursion to Boulogne, were sold in Lon eater
Pestle
number only 300 arrived, and certainly the greaepatooe
those whom we saw land on Sunday
arced
iiii f.,A.
have been far better pleased to have remains' "e Pvtle
ae
stone than have been shaken on the chat' .nreill A•i t
of them had evidently only come fora forr theta •
fame of our brandy had peculiar delights„e,ited . the
but when glorious, they were certainly usiept la 01 .t
indulgence by the police. Only twenty one
ere theltbe 1
street all night, from total forgetfulness of 'I a- woe ° ify
taken up their abode; they declared, so fatiertleLsocili,, the
by the railroad and the sea voyage, that theY!"0040,08
couvenience from their hard beds, indeed th,?rd they pied
stones of Boulogne must be very soft. We are gu'eaeh # tbe
found so. On the next day the Sunday batch, varinecot
with a bottle, melted quietly from our shore fag, od swat
rest of the week the weather became more genalu'_,....,flote''
increase of travellers from England took pi cv ,of
to
Gazette. d bug' h°.
The marriage of Miss Murray, third
~, Of the
the Bishop of Rochester and Lady Sarah gurrclapel,°"; ;
Pakington, M.P., took place yesterday in the__,., Peed
113 e
Episcopal Palace at Bromley. The cereinonY,7s,rideleacl,
at two o'clock by the-Right Rev. Father of its prilt°oo'
bridesmaids were the Lady Sarah Hay, N' "of tbe ll
Miss Egerton, and the three younger sistersta.eir der -70 0 4
Shortly after, the bride and bridegroom took ,U. blare;osioa
for Bayham Abbey, in Kent, the seat of Of the oc_tiel4
Camden. Au elegant dejeuner was given tiP,`.Tte eons,;-, ig,
by the Bisho and Lady Sarah to the innueatstricteei Jo
and friends (to whom the invitations were 'tee Earrgisii.
eluding the Marquis and Marchioness Carade'L'ady Ge°,41311"
Countess of Kinnoul and Lady Sarah HaY• Ile Stra,,° Ile
Pratt, the Earl of Ilchester and Lady Cart:l'3oot, 01300
Lord Stavordale, Sir John and Lad,' 31,?,.' Ws 1:e era
Mrs. Henry Murray, Lady Sykes, the tel''and afrti., tit
Mr. Henry and the Misses Drummond, 31r- der Or°7 Pit'
ton, of Tatton, and Miss Egerton; Sir Alex.. ptelya ler, "
Rev. Edward and Mrs. Murray, Mr. and 3fr. stl, 0
ley, Colonel Gore, Major Eardley Wilmot:tr. pow i
ji
Lechmere, Mr. Temple, miss Scott, 0'
nsigiitt 0,
Berens, he.
The Hon. Spencer Cowper has tahn:bitlerea-thfcit,'l6
the vicinity of Windsor, for the Ascot Weels9.
Icruisile°
•bijteti ,
Gentleman has every evening received a dlsLit be
antri. .'
to dinner.
Levasser, the French comic singer,..%:_psecas-ouhl:0 116
so largely to the amusement of the public'
.5 ,„5t.,,1.
_are
pected to arrive in this country on the 15tta....":
will again make his appearance at the St. Jai'''.
__.,.
_..-------- _ see-
BIRTff S. f th°
On the 26th ult., in Portland-place,
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilbraham, of a datiligel;Cier:. ;1' CA4118f0;
Oa the 28th ult., in Alfred-place, the law
Est'
Esq., of a daughter. gager's'
_,,, fl•
On the 29th ult., the lady of James Pt. .
Cambridge-place, Hyde-park, of a daugh_fr.„flark, IP- 0
On the 29th ult., at Oxford-terrace, 1”" 5 , °OS°
C. Edwards, of a son. the 14w of
On the Ist inst., at Dangstein, in Sussex,
the lady
Lyon, Esq., of a daughter. 1 nark, ' gild'
On the 2d inst., in Albion-street, llYue-' of 0..
Nowell Stowers, Esq., of a son.
WOronugtliiiteon2,
On the 2d inst., at Wimbledon, the lac y All'
dEsicins,to.,f
aatdalubgshtoterne. }lou.se,i thoefisrligiailisoro;
t Esq,,
Esq., of a son.
On the 3d inst., the wife of Richard ' , woe
street, Hyde-park, of a son. Bac"- v.,00,
the Rev. gee'ter. go •'-'-
f a daug r_idil ,
0,
teHenirynstß.,
eaatoWQoulavretriyto,noVicara
Little 1 ' 0 1
041 •
On the 3d inst., at the Rectory, ther.
Mrs. J. Gaselee, of a son. gots, .
On the 3d inst., at Wonston Brvb:nrYst'on, of $ d 9"
the Rev. Alfred B. Hill, Curate of
ae, Aiffe4f
MARRIED. ex. stlt'Slietilior ,
lunar . tia
On the 6th inst., at St. Georges,_ e_oince, of la
:elalitrAir' rliches' 1101#51%
ycoaruonlgineest,
sseocnonofd Dir. Thatyerloro,fotfht
sqesl`.l)av-;
Eaton-street. • Hanover . of sober
On the Ist inst., at St. Georgeos, „„ uutint,,4o
JoP
street,Cook, IBateerkeofeyll(zufoarrde,,
only daughter the late
Hulme, Esq.
Ralph ' f Sir John T s
to Sarah, youngest delight:: o
a t
Ormsbyhe 4t h i Gore,iut
Chelrellls4lll
,aEtsgS.t.GGroeooringein's,wllaani:Ljyu_oieeto:
,ryherret too
' ilington• sq 000.
°l2:)rebam forth
Egsexaaro, sot I'l°'
ms Barron, ei the
'ow
Lieutenant-Colonel Then
I Establishment. . ;
ivi
of
On the 25th of May, at IN e - cribs
Company's Service, Bags w_ate, Elizabenondon.b,
On the 29th ult., at Harro 6
rr t ck-square' as Ateliers t'
Esq-, of .avis o ~.0001 co
late John Butler,
~,, near A
Godaiming, Esq., aged 2
i.l
Cottage, GI e,
Tin "I"w' f el-
°
On the Ist inst., at l'Ni e
__. relict t,
On the Ist inst., Georg., fourth s
hasomn,
Bart. of °eat t
lie
late Sir George Shiffner, .
INtlhre.Mlsitchinaeslt.A, agedautstcino,onCoombe,
mop
oyes
Commercial-road, Stery.
I . -1- ce, lerini .:(1 1 .
.0, f
On the 4th inst., at rince a
_p,i,a
_wan, ag 0
.1,
0,
ter, Esq., of "r" X 1-i, l
On the 2d inst, Captain William Ostle,etoroooope, rv.
of the late 11. Buns , coo
240. Q
Printer, at 4e Su"in
No. 112, Strand,
f the Welt r-
Strand, in the Precincto 1
..
London: Printed and Published by M 0i:6640,00
Middlesex, Thursday June , B+4

cool,'
cootl-
corre-
favol::
is of ht'

,pant
bd.
110
Lost 6

he 154
nt2'
le gro3iire
r cfo,ol

94'
e
,f rolif

avoico,
Albi°ll'
le I°lci

itel dol
14 I°
of tha
f
o cot"
of aje

et,
13-stre
r
djCt
13
q
.011'i