The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-18 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

AMSTERDAM. APRIL 13.—Last night we saw in the
horizon, to the south-south-west, the appearance of a
great fire, and this morning we hear that, in the village
of Aalstneer, 46 houses in the best part of the village
are reduced to ashes. Many of the inhabitants of these
houses, among whom is the burgomaster, have saved
nothing but the night-clothes which they had on. A
great number of cattle are burnt, and four persons are
_ It is suppossd Iht the fire commenced in a
barn, in which ,a knife-grinder slept ; this man, too,
has not since been seen.
UTRECHT, APRIL 12.—We learn, frcm a .respeet-
able source, that the attempt to found a Euro-
pean colony in Surinam, will probably fail, as it
seems to be attended with Insurmountable dif-
ficulties. The incredible fertility of the soil' is
'unquestionable ; but people are firmly convinced that no
European can endure the labours of agriculture in the-
burning climate of the tropics, which is rendered still
more insupportable by the marshy nature of the coun.
try. We inust;therefore, wait for detailed statements
respecting the undertaking before we can encourage
.our
countrymen to take part in it.
THE HAOVE, APRIL 16.—8 y a Royal resolutien of
13th April, conformably to the Ist article of tke 11th
tseereosft pittity isngpeorff
etehnet.
,staoncicd
it bonds at 4 per cent. interest, a tiego-
forbetkaerinpgurpino
March, 1837,
etivaabitlsieotdintuld°ftoirnsgragnflootiinn' is opened to the amount of 35 milli ins
of florins, divided into 55,000 shares of -1,000 florins
each. This loan, we doubt not, is the precursor of a
conversion on a larger scale of other descriptions of stock.
—Dutch Papers, April 16.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCIE 27.—1 n consequt nce of the
urgent representations made by the great Powers on
the late executions of renegades who had returned to the
Christian religion, the Porte has given a solemn promise
to take measures that a Christian %%Ito' although having
embraced Mahometanism, returns to his original faith,
shall in future not be executed, nor put our of the way in
any other manner. On the 23d of this mouth, the Bri-
tish Ambassador, Sir Stratford Canning, and- on the
following day Bourquency, the French Minister Pleni-
potentiary, had audience of the Sultan. who repeated to
them the above assurance.—Allgenteine Zeitung, April 11

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS
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A. B. Drummond; Esfromq., and Lady Elizabeth and family,
in Bryanston-square, Cadlands, near Southampton ;
Lady Adeliza Manners, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-
street, from Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire • Colonel. Reid, 2d
Life Guards, from Brighton ; Thorold,isq.,.in St. James's-
street; Lord and_Lady Cremorne, at the Coburg Hotel,
• Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, from Dawson's-grove ; Miss
llPTavish, at the )larchioness of Wellesley's, Rutland-gate;
Count Lowenstein, from a visit to - her Majesty, at Windsor
Castle ; Lady Charles and Miss Somerset, from Lord Beres-
ford's, Bedgebury, Kent ; Sir Richard and Lady Bulkeley
Phillipps, at Brown's Hotel, Dover-street, from the Royal
Hotel, Slough; Mr. Marton, M.P., Mrs. Marton, and family,
in Park-crescent, from Brighton. .
DEP.ARTUR ES. •
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' - The Right lion. Sir George Wariender; Bart., and Mr.
;john and the Hon. Mrs. Warrender, from the St. - George's
Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Cliefden Flouse Berks; the lion.
.11,,rifts Arden, from ditto, for ditto; Sir E. C. Dering, Bart.,
l, 'the
ba Cavendish Hotel, for his seat in Kent ; Lieutenant-
pet Fludyer, Grenadier Guards, from Feuton's Hotel, for
iob
itiOfs er Barracks.
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' CHANGES.
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:trail -of clancArty, at Dublin. from Garbally Park,
I A-4e ; Admiral and- Mrs. Edgell, at Bath, from a
hi,krj.,. Colonel Carmichael, at Leamington Spa, from a tour ;
Sif 'Sdamour Blanc, Bart.; at Leamington Spa, from his scat
in 'Derbyshire; Lord and Lady Ashburton and the Hon
Misses 'faring, at Naples, from a tour in the Papal States.

-14 LOYD'S.—At a special general meeting of the
members of Lloyd's,' held at the temporary establish-
ment, in the rooms' of the Smith Sea House, Thread-
"ikeedle-street, yesteiday, the following vote was proposed
and unanimously passed, viz. :—" 5/. to three coast-
guard men and pilot, for saving the survivors of the crew
of the sloop Ruby,. of. Aberdeen,. wrecked near Wick
during a gale on the 24th February.
It is, rumoured in official circles, that, on the arrival
of our late Plenipotentiary in China, Sir Henry Pottinger.
hart., who is expected .to return to this country early in the
' ensuing month; having been succeeded by Mr. Davis, he will
be elevated to the, dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom
MILITANT Movitsmirs.---Two troops of the Royal
Scots Greys marched from Ipswich, en route for Min-
burgh, on Thiirsday morning last, to be followed by the
staff and another troop en the 18th. The 4th Light
Dragoons, from Exeter, are expected to arrive about thi
3d or 4th of May: Ipswich will be the head-quarters.
• —lpswich Express.
EDINBURGII AND NEWHAVEN Since
Friday, workmen have been employed in opening the
ground in the front of Canal-street, to complete the drift
tunnel of this railway, already carried as far as Prince's-
street, and within a few yards of the proposed terminus.
A few days' work will thus open the bore through
and through, and the building of the tunnel may be ex-
pected to be proceeded with immediately. So soon as the
Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the. North British Railway
Bills are passed, wo.may expect to see the whole of the
area under the bridge speedily transformed in appear
ance, and its various buildings removed in order to its
conversion into a terminus of railway communication,
by, which the east and west coast of Scotland will be
connected with each other, and both again with the me-
tropolis of Britian.—Edinburgli Advertiser.
LEARNED DICTION:7—A contemporary speaks of a
lady who astonished a party, the other day, by asking for
the loan of a diminutive argenteous truncated.
cOne, convex
:on its summit, and semiperforated with symmetrical indenta4
tions ; or, in other words, a thimble,—The Que Let Gazette.