The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

' BRUSSELS, °cr. 2.—The King presided yesterday in
the Council of Ministers.
It is certain that their Majesties will set out on Satur-
' day for St. Cloud, where part of the Royal Family of
France is now assembled. Their Majesties will sleep
at Compeigne.
On Monday, the 6th instant, his Majesty Louis Phil-
lippe will complete his seventy-second year.
The delegates of the Luxemburg Railway Company
have been to Luxemburg in order to open negotiations
with the Grand Ducal Government to obtain the con-
cession of a council which should traverse the territory
of Luxemburg, and then be continued to Treves.
The Courrier of the Grand Duchy says, that these ne-
gotiations have failed, and that the delegates of the Com-
pany have left Luxem burg without having concluded any-
thing with the line of the Government.
The quantity of coffee of the growth of the Dutch
possessions in the East Indies, imported at the duty of
9f. 9c. per kilogramme, amounted on the 30th of Sep-
tember, to 3,144,297 kilogrammes, to be deducted from
the 4,500,000 kilogrammes to be imported. There re-
mains 1,455,703 kilogrammes to be imported at Antwerp.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 3.—By a royal decree of 27th Sep-
tember, a sum of 55,000 francs is assigned to the Perma-
nent Deputation of the Provincial Council of East
Flanders, and an equal sum to the Permanent Deputa-
tiou of West Flanders, to be distributed and employed in
favour of the working classes who suffer by the stagna
tion of the branch of manufacture which they follow.
The Empress of Russia and the Grand Duchess Olga
arrived at Augsburg on the 29th of September, where
they were received by the Prince of Prussia and the
Prince Royal of Bavaria. The Prince of Prussia most
aff, ctionately embraced his sister the Empress. The
august travellers set out in the evening for Inspruck,
where they will stop two days.
The King of the Netherlands is expected at Berlin at
the beginning of October.
Her Majesty the Queen of England has made several
purchases at our exhibition.—Brussels Papers, Oct. 1.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 27.
5 per Cent. MetaUlques ..... ....... • • •• • • 112
4 per Cent. ditt0......... ...... • • .. 10114
3 per Cent. ditto • 771 A
Lean, 1834
Ditto, 1839 ................
Bank Shares .........
Esterhazy's Loan ........ .
—.Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 30.
DUTCH F UNDS.—AMSTEEDAM, SEPT. 29.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 21/4 per Cent.-- .• •. • 60% 6114
hitto, 3 per Cent ••.•.•••• • • • • • • • • • 73% 7414
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Amort Syndic, 414 per Cent. •• • • 99% 99%
Ditto, 3% per Cent .. •• • • 90% 9114
Commercia Company, 4% per Cent 161% 16214
East India Loan, 4 per Cent...... •• • • 9714 97%
Exchange on London, at sight •• • • 12 27
Two months .. .. •.• • . • 12 20
On Hamburgli, at sight ... • 36
Two months.
On Paris .• .. ••• • • .
Two months. .. .. • • • • • .
S 7 -
-Dutch Papers, Sept. 30.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Banssns, SEPT. 30.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Itothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent....
Ditto Three per Cent .......• • • .
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditto, ditto, 1840 .. .. • • • • • • •• • • 101%
Ditto, ditto, 1842 .
Ditto of the City, 1844 .
Ditto, 1843 •
Bank ofßelgium...... ....... ..... 736
-Brussels Papers, Sept. 30.

•• • • • ..

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand ••••••• • • • • • 22014
Vienna—Milan
Glogg,nitz . . 150%
Pesth..
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEaLIN, SEPT. 20.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 31/2 per Cent .•••• . • • • • 99%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent..
Exchange on London, 2 m0nth5........ 2514
•Unlversal Prussian Gazette, Sept. 21.

SCREW-AUXILIARY VESSEL,
MASSACHUSETTS.

The screw-auxiliary vessel, Massachusetts, Captain
White, arrived in the Mersey yesterday afternoon. She
left New York on the 15th ult., and, from wharf to
wharf, her passage may be put down at 17 days 11
hours. She had, the whole way, head winds and calms,
and her run may therefore be considered excellent. She
brought 10 passengers.

She is, without doubt, the most extraordinary vessel,
as a specimen of consummate engineering skill,
that ever crossed the Atlantic, and will, we think, ex-
cite more attention and admiration than any craft
that ever left the American shore. She is the
first of a screw-auxiliary line to sail between this port
and New York ; built at Boston, by Mr. Samuel Hall,
for Messrs. B. Forbes and Co., of Boston; and has ai-
r( ady made one voyage from that port to New York.
She is 800 tons burden, American measurement,
155 feet on deck, 173 feet from billet-head to
taffrail, 33 feet beam, has engines of 280 horse
power, and is shiprigged, with a few exceptions,
the most striking being, that her topmasts are fidded
abaft the mast. The lower masts are also unusually
tall, and the funnel of unusual lowness, even in
screw-steamers. Her cabins are capacious, well fitted
up, and ventilated in a new, most ingenious, and
strikingly effective manner ; and she can accom-
mortate forty passengers. Her screw is of a novel con-
struction ; it can be drawn completely out of the water at
pleasure, by a must simple process, and placed in
a perpendicular position against the stern; and, in such
circumstances the " Massachusetts" is to all intents and
purposes, a sail-vessel. The screw works most power-
fully, and ensures a speed, with sail, of twelve knots
an hour. The sails and rigging abound in the most cu-
rious contrivances to ease the labour of reefing, short-
ening sail, &c.—perhaps the first instance in which
modern machinery has been carried aloft. All sail
has been repeatedly set in twenty five minutes.
She has four life-boats ; and, what will be found
the most extraordinary proof of American inge-
nuity yet known in ships, every bench, seat,
stool, &c., is a life-boat, made of iron, with air-tight
compartments, and adapted to swim, even with the
weight of a man. So many contrivances for safety were
never yet brought together. Between quarter-deck and
forecastle, both of which are raised to an unusual height,
there are, frigate fashion, between the deck itself and
the top of the bulwarks, a kind of stages—found to be
vast improvements on the plan in general use.
For all these particulars we are indebted to the chief
mate, Mr. J. H. Gordon ; but it would be an impossi-
bility to enumerate the various novelties and
wonders to be found in the Massachusetts,
and it is an inspection alone which can teach
an appreciation. On the water she is a beautiful
looking craft, with sharp bows, and an unexceptionable
run fore and aft. She is consigned to Messrs. Hamden
and Co., and goes into Waterloo Dock this morning.—
L verpoolJournal of Saturday.

The bridge which spans the turnpike-road, about
the middle of the village of Clifton, on the Lancaster and
Carlisle Railway, has given way, and will shortly be rebuilt
in a more substantial manner.
A MAGISTERIAL PEER.—A certain noble vis-
count, passing through a village in Wales the other day,
was requested to sit as a magistrate of a petty sessions, in-
tended to be held at that village, (his lordship being in the
commission of the peace for the county wherein the village
is situated,) but, upon finding that a certain rev. magistrate
was then and there present, ready to act with him, his lord-
ship abruptly refused, adding, " that no power could com-
pel him to act with one whose sentiments he disapproved
of!" The consequence was that the local business of the
neighbourhood could not be transacted that day, and the
parties having business there were obliged to travel some 14
miles to Denbigh to deliver in th it jury lists, &c., on Fri-
day. We regret to state that that this is not the only case
in which the public interest has been similarly neglected
by the same party.—Carnarron Herald.
The number of bills of entry sold or subscribed
for in Liverpool, from 1834 to 1844, averaged about 600 an-
nually, nearly 100 above the amount in London. The sums
receiver for bills of entry in Liverpool, amounted last year
to 3,0621. 14s. 9d. ; in 1841 and 1843, the amount was the
largest, namely, 3,o9ol.—Liverpool Mercury
The parishioners of Axminster have entered into a
subscription, for the purpose of purchasing a piece of plate
to be presented to the Rev. W. Hunt, N.A., who has offi-
ciated as assistant minister during the long absence of the
vicar.— Western Luminary,