The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL

THE HAGUE, MARCH 7.—The Minister of Finance
has published a notice, stating that the total amount of
the Treasury bonds issued by virtue of the laws of
Dec. 27, 1840, and June 19, 1843, still in circulation on
the first of this month, was 2,461,80011.
We observe, by the Amsterdam Stock list, that the
New Four per Cents. were sold on Saturday last at 100
for the first time since that stock was created.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 18.—The Government has pre-
sented to the Second Chamber a project of law for modi-
fying the budget of the national debate for 1844. This
budget, as modified, amounts to 35,790,941 florins 95
cents. The Government has given notice on this occa-
sion, that of the eighty millions of florins (in francs
169,312,000) of the Two-and a-Half per Cent. Debt
due by Belgium, only 6,420,000 florins had been
disposed of, and that consequently the rtmain-
ing sum of 155,765,800 francs had been negotiated
with Messrs. Rothschild at the rate of 60 per
cent., which, by the reduction into francs, may be 60-1.
So. that, with these 80 millions. a capital sum of
86,420,000 florins of the national debt at 2i per cent
has bet n paid off.
The accounts from the rivers say that the water is
het the ice is still quite firm, the frost being very
severe. .

HAMBURG'', MARCH 14.—The ice in the tibe is still
very firm in some places—two fret thick.. Thermometer
to-day is at two degrees above zero.
. _ . .

A weafner was seen off Cuxhaven on the 13th, but
was obliged by the ice to put to sea again.—Hum-
bursh Bo,sen4alle, March 14.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MARC!! 18.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •. • .... • .... 63% 64,i
laiitto, 3 per Cent •• •• •• • •• • • 74,4 794
Ditto, 4 per Cent...
Ditto, 5 per Cent. .
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent— •• •• •• • • 99% 93%
Ditto, 3% per Cent•
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 150% 1513,
—Dutch rapers, March 19. '

THE PREMIER'S DREAM.
(From Punch.)
Scene, Downing- street, the PREMIER, in the ga, b of
RICHARD THE THIRD, on a sofa, wth a tapestried
window et t.'w back.
(Six figures are seen tr pass ct the back, each of which in
turn addresses the PREMIER.)
FIRST FIG uRE"(a small Tradesman).
Let my approach your soul with anguish fill,
See my small profits, my exhausted till;
Feel thou the pain hich now my bosom racks,
A wretched victim to your income-tax.
SECOND FicunE ( a briejless Bairist3r).
_Another martyr, Peel, behold in me,
W'ithout a brief—almost without a fee ;
Britfiess I am, but so would not appear;
I pay the tax on what I do not. clear.
THIRD FIGURE (a lean curate.).
Alas! you've made me feel what I endure;
Mine is a wound, but not without a cure.
Out of that cure an income-tax I give;
If I've no living, how am I to live?
FOURTH FIGURE (a half-pay Captain).
Peel, my allowance could not be well shorter ;
To my half-pay why will you give no quarter ?
FIFTH FIGURE (a poor Widow).
::.Why dig your hands into poor widow's purses ?
But, with the widow's sevenpence, take her curses.
SIXTH FIGURE (a poor Artist).
E'en the poor artist is compelled to give
Out of the means on which he scarce can live.
. 'Tis hard the income-tax on him to lay,
Whom even princely patrons poorly pay.
[The figures all vanish, the PREMIER
• ' starts up, rushes to thefront of the 1139 e,
looks round, and sees nothing.
THE PREMIER.
'Twas but an idle vision fill'd my brain:
Shadows, avauutl ROBERT'S himself aggir.
[He begins making some calculations
about the Sugar Duties, and the scene
closes in.]