The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-15 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSEL% MARCH 12.—The average price of wheat last
week was 17f. 40c., and that of rye 10f. 67c. per hectolitre;
the import duty, therefore, remains as it has been for some
weeks past, 37f. 50c. on wheat, and 21f. 50c. on rye, per
1,000 kilogrammes ; the export duty on both 25 centimes
per 1,000 kilogrammes.
The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day, ter-
minated the examination .of the articles of the project of law
relative to the loan of 84,656,000 francs, destined for the re •
demption of a portion of the debt contracted with Holland ;
it then proceeded to the vote on the whole of the laws. Of
the sixty members present, fifty-two voted for the law, three
against it, and five declined voting.
The King and Queen returned yesterday evening at half-
past six o'clock from Ghent.
. We have stated that the financial plans of the Dutch Ca—
binet had been approved by the first Chamber of the States
General, by a majority of 12 to 6. The Nederlandisch Avond-
Mad informs us that the Ministry had nearly received a
check which would have caused its dissolution. The suf-
frages at first were equal, nine for and nine against the law
by which the project should have been rejected, if the Mi-
nister of Finance had not, by a speech, in which he entered
into new developments," detached" three votes from the Op-
position, and so gained the majority, which voted for the law.

AN ENGLISHMAN AND HIS PASSPORT.—We find
the following in the Boulogne Guardian of the 7th :—" An
English gentleman has been tried by the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police of that town, for having insulted Messrs. Ber-
geret and Loisel, the commissioners of police at the pass-
port-office at the port, in execution of their duty. The
defendant, when called upon to state what he had to
say in his defence, said that on the night in question
he landed at Boulogne, via Folkestone ; that on pre-
senting himself at the Custom-house he was asked for
bia passport; that having been informed at the Secretary
of State's office, where he had obtained it, that no one had a
right to dispossess him of it, he had refused to have it ex-
changed for another ; that from hence arose the altercation
with which he was charged, which had given rise to it, and
for which he was marched off to prison. The Court, after
retiring for a short time to deliberate, sentenced the defendant
to pay a fine of 100 f. and costs. The case excited consider-
able interest amongst the English residents here. • The
British Consul was in attendance during the whole trial."
EMBANKMENT OF THE RIVER THAMES.—Her
Majesty's Commissioners of Sewers for the limits extending
from East Moulsey, in Surrey, to Ravensborne, in Kent, have
issued their warrant to the several occupiers of wharfs and
premises on the southern, shore of the river Thames, to the
following effect :—" That, whereas the wall or bank of the
river Thautes.within the parish of St. Saviour, in the borough
of Southwark, in the county of Surrey, is by reason of the
high tides become defective, and of insufficient height to
resist the waters front overflowing the dwellings of the inha-
bitants, and the low grounds and places thereto adjoining
'within the said parish, to the great detriment and loss of the
owners and occupiers thereof," &c. It is then ordered that
the several resident tenants on Bankside shall raise the em-
tankment. 18 inches eastward and westward, It is much to
be regretted that the embankment as proposed long since
was so precipitately abandoned, particularly as the expense
will fall very heavily on those wharfingers who hold their
premises on lease only. A public meeting will shortly be
advertised on the subject.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—A poor fellow named Hil-
lier, of Bishops Cannings, narrowly escaped cutting his
throat, a few days since, in a rather singular manner. He
was cutting hay in a field at Spitalcroft, when his foot
slipped, and he fell to the ground with the hay-knife in his
hand, the blade of which completely laid open his neck from
the jaw to•the•ear, exposing the principal arteries _ He was
immediately attended by. Mr. ti. Waylen, and is, under .his
care, going on Iva—Dams Gazette.