The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-08 00:00:00

•. 830 •• 835
•• 392 N .• 395 50
•• 280 .• 283 75
•. 935 •• 935

Rouen to Havre.— . 700 702 50 • • 700
Means ••• • • • • • • •• • 905 ~ 912 50 •• 905
4trasburg to Bale • ....... 285 .. 292 50 • • 285
Avignon to Marseilles—. 765 .. 765 .. 760
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, R. 8..... ..... 402 50 402 50 • • 390 .. 390
•••• 292 50 •• 292 50 • • 290 290
935 .. 940 • 935 .. 935
tdiuen to Havre
905 .. 915 .• 905 •• 911 25
Strasburg to Bale •• 285 .. 292 AO .• 253 75 •• 292 50
Avignon to Marseilles• •... 760 50 762 50 •• 760 • • 760

•• 700
•• 912 5*
•• 292 50
•• 760

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 4.—The day before yesterday
was held the first general annual meeting of the
shareholders of the Belgian Colonisation Company.
The assembly was very numerous. The report of the
)perations of the Company since its institution was
read. The assembly having examined the balance,
unanimously approved the report, and passed, unani-
mously, a vote of thanks to the directors. It results,
from the report, that there can be no doubt of the
success Of tie colony.
The Senate, in its sitting of yesterday, adopted,
after some debate, the project of law relative to the
Polder of Lillo. It then proceeded to the discussion
of the project of law on the examining jury. The
general debate was closed, and that on the articles
fixed for to-day. M. de Houssy and Baron Macar
moved, as an amendment, that the original plans pro-
posed by. the Government should be adopted by the
St nate instead of that of the Central Section, approved
by the Chamber of Representatives. After a long
debate this amendment was rejected by 24 to 11, and
the clause agreed to by 23 to 12, M. Malon having
joined the minority.
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 3.—lt has been reported for
some days, and we have good reason for believing the
report to be true, that his Royal Highness the Prince
of Orange has converted the whole of his property in
the Three per Cent. Loan.
Tim HAGUE, APRIL 3.—His Majesty, by a resolu-
tion of the 2d inst., conferred the Grand Cross of the
Order of the Netherlands Lion on Mr. F. A. Van
Hall, the Minister of Finance.
APRIL S.—The directors of the iron railway have
published a comparative statement of the traffic in the
first three months of 1843 and of 1844, which shows
that the traffic and receipts are nearly doubled. The
number of travellers in the first three months of

1843 was
1844 .. 108,914
The receipt for travellers and goods in— -
1843
1844
TILE HELDER, APRIL Majesty's new
reamer the St. Vesuvius is to be ready on the 15th of
April, and is to go to the East Indies under the com-
mand of Lieut. Tullekin.
The Handelsblad contains three long articles on
completing the loan of 127 millions of florins (above
10 millions and a half pounds sterling), and most
warmly congratulates the country on the success of
this great financial measure. All the journals contain
accounts from several cities, stating the sums sub-
scribed by them respectively.

The following is the House List of Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing:—
FOR GOVERNORS.
William Cotton, Esq., Governor, , •
John Benjamin Heath, Esq., Deputy Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Edward Henry Chapman, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
g Arthur Edw. Campbell, Esq. Sheffield Neave, Esq.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq. Geore Warde Norman, E.
Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. James Pattison, Esq.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq. Sir John Henry Pelly, But.
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq. Henry James Preetett, Esq.
Henry_Lancelot Holland, Esq. Christopher Pearse, Esq.
Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart.
Charles Fredk. Huth, Esq. William R. Robinson, Ecq.
Alfred Latham, Esq. William Thompson, Esq., and
Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Alderman
Esq. Thomas Tooke, jun., Esq.
The Election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will to
held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 9th, and for Dire2tors en
Wednesday, the 10th inst., from ten o'clock in the forenoon
till four in the afternoon.

LORD ABINGER.—We regret to .state that the ac-
counts from Bury St. Edmund's to-day .:re very unfavour-
able. Letters received this morning represent the state
of the Noble and Learned Lord as utterly hopeless ; he
is gradually sinking.
PUBLIC DEBT.—An account of all additions which
have been made to the annual charge of the public deht,
by the interest of any loan that has been made, or an-
nuities created, in the last ten years, has just been pre-
sented to Parliament. pursuant to the Act 27th
George 111., cap. 13. The following are some of the
particulat s of which this account puts us in possession:—
In the year 1834, an addition was made to the annual
charge of 123,6441., in respect of 4,080,0001. Three per
Cent. Reduced. Annuities; in 1835, the addition to the
annual charge altogether amounted to 618,361/, chiefly
owing to the raising of 15,000,0001 for the compensa-
tion to slave-owners; in 1836, the addition made to the
annual charge was altogether about 157,024/; in 1837,
it was altogether about 51,6001.; in 1838, it was only
19,6421.; in 1839. the addition to the annual charge
amounted to 180,4611; in 1840, to about 16,562/. only;
in the year 1841, it amounted altogether to 210,5761.; in
1842, to 36,092/.; and in the year 1843, the whole amount
of the annual addition in question was only about 1,3501
Want of space prevents us from giving the full parti-
culars of the description of capital. &c., by which the
above charges have been rendered necessary.
THE DINER•OUT.—The diner-out must have a
most passionate love for children. He must so comport
himself that when his name shall be announced every
child in the mansion shall set up a yell—a.. scream of
rapture—shall rush to him—pull his coat-tails-- climb on
his back—twist their Sngers in his hair—snatch his
watch from his pocket ; and, whilst they rend his super-
Saxony—load his shoulders—uncurl his wig—and
threaten instant destruction to his repeater, the ditier-
out must stifle the agony at his heart and his pocket,
and to the feebly-expressed fears of the mamma, that
the "children are troublesome," the diner-out must call
into every corner of his face a look of the most seraphic
delight, and with a very chuckle assure the anxious
parent that " the little rogues are charming!"—Kenny
Meddows' Heads of the People.
ARISTOCRATIC TasTE.—Sir Robert Peel, in a dis-
cussion in Parliament relative to. the admissibility of
the British public to cathedrals and -Other works of
art, oliserved, " he believed the damage which occurred
was generally "the work of the vulgar rich." In the
New Monthly of this 'month, a remarkable. instance of
the correctness of tka-Premier's dedu.ltion is. to_be found
at page 541, in " Lady Londonderry's Visit to the Courts
of Vienna,' &c., she say& 4‘ Lord L. wrote our nudes.
on one of the columns in front of the entrance of the
Parthenon, to be read, perhaps, in after 3-•ars by our
children sad children's children." What 4u,paortality l

SUMMARY OF NEWS!

AND

Stutatt Optnton.

" Wha runs may read."

WO&ZZUN.
On Tuesday the King of the Frewth, accompanied by
Generals Aymard and Friant, left the Tuileries at three
o'clock for St. Clud, returning at seven. In the even-
ing, their Majesties received the Ministers of the Marine
and Finances, the Prince and Princess de Wagram.
Baron and Baroness Langsdorff, Count and Countess de
Savandy, Mine. Lucave Laplagne, the Marquis de
Pange, Count Uraison, Generals Vi.count Bonneniains,
Foucher, Count Lalaing d'Armenarde, Barons Wolff,
Paixhans, and Valliant, Admirals llamklin. Lemarant,
and Dupont, Baron Dormant, and Lady Airey.
The Director-General of the Customs has addressed a
circular to thy different ports of France, announcing that
the Minister of Finance has decided that the priviloge
of exporting goods without payment of export duty,
which was conferred by a Ministerial order in July Ist
in favour of shipments to the Marquesas, is to be ux •
ended to the Society Islands, which are under the pro-
tection of France.

"I he National states that the Procureur-G,•neral has
order d a prwecutiitn to be co:imenced against the
At.b4 Maur, tte having published a pamphlet entitled
Le fate et l'Evanyile, or Encore des adieus a Rowe.
The Esperance, a Protestant journal, of Paris, adds,
that " the AbIAS Miturette has quitted France for Canada,
as a Protestant missionary, with dlr. intention of coo-
verting the French popuation of that colony.
The Universal Gazette, of Augsburg, has been stopp. d
on the Russian Iroutiers, on account of its containing
reviews of M. de Custine's work, and several other works
on Russia, which have given dissatisfaction. Apart-
ments are preparing at the Cuancellerie fur the rec:ption
of tly.. Emperor of Russia.
A letter from Trieste, March 22, in the Cologne Ga-
zette, says :—" We lave received letters from Corfu,
stating that the fermentation which has reigntd for
some time in the lonian islands has determined the
English Government to introduce certain ameliorations.
The Lord High Commissioner has presented to the Le-
gislature various Bills for the equal division of the taxes,
the fortiatiun of new roads, and the rights of commons.
To give work to the poor, the Government has ordered
several public buildings to be constructed."
It is said that the differences which have sprung up to
prevent the marriage of the Archduke Stephen, of
Austria, with the Russian Archduchess Olga, is a source
of groat annoyance and dhappointment to Prime Met-
ternich. The Austrian Prime Minister was inclined to
accede to the wishes of Russia, but a large party in the
Council voted against all concession, and left Prince
Metternich in the minority.

LAW AND POLICE.
At Gloucester an action was brought by 11. Holford,
Esq., against Mr. Liailey, M.P , 114 to the right of fishing
in the river Esk, county Of Brecon. Most of the wit-
nesses were Welib, and were examined through an in-
terpreter: The jary gave a verdict fur the plaintiff.
At Taunton, George Clark was charged with the man-
slaughter of Samuel Shepstone, at Yoborough, and John
Clark and Charles Milkins, as being the seconders of
the kilt. The evidence not supporting the indict-
ment, the prisone s were aoquitted.
At Chester, Sampson R,:e was ch'trged with uttering
a forged order for delivery of good.:, with intent to de-
fraud Thomas Brocklehurst, of Maulesfield. Be was
found guilty, and sentenced to two years' hard labour.
t the Rochester petty Sessions of the 3d instant. J.
Withers Powell, a person very respectably connected,
was committed for trial for stealing three silver tea-
spoons and a table-spocn from his lodgings.