The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-14 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

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REFORM IN HOLLAND.—THE HAGUE, DEt. 11.—
The Dutch Journal of the Hague says, that among
the changes in the fundamental law proposed by the
project introduced by eight Members of the Second
Chamber of the States-General, are the following :-
1. A responsible Ministry.
2. The right of the Crown to dissolve the Second
Chamber.
3. Direct elections.
4. Modification to be made in the institution of the
First Chamber.

It is further affirmed, says the Journal, that en-
deavours hay. been made to strengthen the guarantee
given by the fundamental law to public instruction
to the freedom of religious worship, and the equality
of religious communions.

THE HAGUE, Disc. 12.—The Second Chamber, in
its sitting to-day, voted two projects of law, which
were rejected a few days ago, related to an ameliora-
tion in the Excise on the right of slaughtering
cattle. The rejection of the first project was owing
to the article which authorised the Excise officers
to visit between sunset and sunrise the houses of per-
sons suspected of fraud. This clause appears to the
Chambers to be contrary to article 126 of the funda-
mental law, which guarantees the inviolability of the
dwellings of the citizens.
The Government has attended to their objection by
proposing a new clause, by which no visit is to be
made between sunset and sunrise, except by order of
the Judge of the district, or the Burgomasters, who
must themselves be present, or delegate some public
functionary to accompany the Excise officer. The
Chamber agreed to the project thus modified by a
majority of 39 to 1.
The second project related to an augmentation of
the subsidy allowed in the budget of 1844 for civil
pensions.

The Minister of Finance said that everything rela-
tive to civil pensions would be regulated by law dur-
ing the present session ; that the present project was
only a provisional measure, which will not interfere
with what may hereafter be regulated by the Cham-
bers in a special law.
This project was voted, like the preceding, by a
majority of 39 to 1. After which the Chamber
adjourned for two months.

Since the navigation between Rotterdam and Lon-
dom is interrupted, the village of Scheveningen looks
like a little commercial town. The steam-boats from
England arrive there, and the dispatches for London
are forwarded by way of Scheveningen. Goods are
also sent to London by Dutch fishing-boats.
NIMIGUEN, DEC. 10.—Last night the mercury in
Fahrenheit thermometer was at 12f ; on Sunday
night it was at 13.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 13.—The accounts, received to-
day of the state of the rivers, announce that they are
for the most part entirely frozen over, and passable
on foot. The navigation in all is interrupted.
BERLIN, DEC. 7.—His Majesty returned on the
.sth 'from Quedlingburg. To-day his Majesty gave
a private audience to the Count of Inn and Knip-
hausen, who is appointed Hanoverian Ambassador
Extraordinary and Minister 'Plenipotentiary at this
Court, and received his credentials in that capacity.
ST. PETERSBURGII, Nov. 30.—" We were mis-
taken," says the Journal de St. Petersburgh, " in
stating that the Emperor was present at the funeral
of the poet Krylon, but his Majesty. was pleased -to
defray all the expenses of the funeral of a man who
was one of the greatest ornaments of Russian lite-
rature."

On the 10th of December, at Archangel, the glass
was at 30 deg.
llimnuaGn, DEC. 10.—The greatest degree of cold
to-day has been 9i.

FLANDERS -MAIL.
Baussisr.s, DEC. 11.—His Majesty's equipages set out
fur Paris to-day.
Father Walie, accompanied by eleven members of the
Society of Jesuits, embarked on the 3d instant at Ant-
'nap, for the republic of Guatemala. It is known that
their intention is to open a college in the capitsil of the
republic, .4nd to found the establishment of the compan%
:onlorma.bly to the authorisation vihieh Father IV4Ile
received before his visit to lime.
The gross receipts of our railroads in the mouth of
Novetubvr amounted to
In Novembtt 1843 to 716,820

Increase
The estimates for the whole par are i0,000,000t.; at
the end of November the receipts already amounted to
10,364,000 f.
The Kii,g and Queen will leave Laeken very early to-
morrow morning to take the special train to Valenciennes.
Their Majesties will return to Brussels in about a fort-
night.

Deffaudis left 13rus.els to-day ;he is gone to Lille.
It appears from the meteorological observations made
at the Royal Observatory of Brussels, that the c.ld ra-
ther abated in the night of the 10th, and was less intense
in the morning of the 12th.

Centregrade. Therm.
Midnight lodeg.
Four A. M.
Six
E ght
Nine lo.ltg.
Ten Eideg.
Noon
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussete, Die. 11,
Actua Debt, 2}/ per Cent, ..... ..........................
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent _
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent...
Three per Cent..........
-- - Thirty-seven Milli. ns, ditto
---- (18.40) 1.34,
103
.. VII of eity, 1843, Four per Cont. lO3
M. • 102
,:ocfety of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
/Sank of Belgium, Five per Cent.... .......... .......... 5414

1A44.,

neigit
►sue of 1841.

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—3russels Papers. Dec 18.
_____ _______ ........••••••••••••••••
A.3.,:,1141 A t 4 moil., Dec. 6.
Five-per Cents. Matalliques
Four per Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents. ........ ..... '76
sank Shares ....... ........ ..... 1640
Loan. 183.1
••
Ditto, 18:3••
Ebterhazy's Loan ...
RAIL WAYS.
The Northern, or
........ 1 o
Gtlgnits ..... ...... ................
11134
Allen:atm Zestung. Dec. 11.

BANK CIIARTER ACT.—Another portion of the
Bank Charter Act will come into operation in a few days.
By the 23d section it is provided, that the several
bankers mentioned in one .of the schedules (consisting ot
forty-three establishments), who have ceased to issue
their own notes under certain agreements with the Bank
of England, should have their agreements determined on
the 31st instant, and that such bankers should receive
by way of compensation a composition mentioned in the
saint provision of the Act. A list of such bankers and
a statement of the maximum sums in respect of which
each such banker is to receive compensation having been
delivered, it is enacted that the several agreements shall
cea a and determine ou the 31st instant, and from and
after that day the Bank shall pay and allow to the
bankers, so long as they shall be willing to receive the
same, a composition after the rate of 1 per cent.: on the
average amount of the Bank of England notes issued by
them and actually remaining in circulation, to be ascer-
tained on Some day in April, 1845, to be determined
upon by the Bank of England. The mode to be adopted
for ascertaining the notes in circulation is set forth. As:
account is to ht: tukt,ll of tank • f Evg!iiiid notes del,.
vered to such bankers re,peerively by said bank
within three months next preceding, and of such of the
said notes as shall hare been returned to the Bank of
England, and the balance shall be deemed to be
the amount of notes issued by such bankers,
and kept in circulation ; . and a similar ac-
count shall be taken at intervals of three calendar
months, and the averag,s of the balances ascertained on
takiog tour such accounts shall he deemed to be the -
average amount of Bank of England notes issued by
such bankers respectively, and kept in circulation during
the year 1845 ; and on such amount such bankers are
respectively to receive the composition of 1 per cent. It.
is purther provided by the same section that similar ac-
counts shall be taken at different- months in succeeding
years, to be fixed by the Bank of England, and that the
composition shall be paid by the Bank of England out of
their own funds. In case any difference shall arise be-
tween any of the bankers and the Bunk in respect of the
composition, the same is to be determined by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, or by some person to be
named by him, whose decision is to be final and con-
clusive. The bankers set forth may discontinue to re-
ceive the composition, but no such banker is by such
discontinuance to acquire any right or title to issue
bank-notes. By the 24th clause the Bank may agree
with other bankers who are entitled to issue bank-notes,
on the same terms with those who have ceased to issue
them. The following clause determines the period of
the compositions :—Section 25—" And be it enacted, that
all the compositions payable to the several bankers men-
tioned in the schedule hereto, and such other bankers
as shall agree with the said Governor and Company to
discontinue the issue of their own bank-notes as afore-
said, shall, if not previously determined by the act of
such banker as hereinbefore provided, cease and deter-
mine on the Ist day of August, 1856, er on any earlier
day on which Parliament may prohibit the issue of
bank-notes."
TUE WhIATHER.—The winter has set in most
severely, with an intense ground-frost, and the wind at
East. The navigation of the rivers between this city
and Yarmouth, and from that port to •fleocles, Bungay,
and Aylsham, has been stopped by the ice. The at-
mosphere has been very thick for several days, threat-
ening snow. but none has fallen, except a very trifling
descent on Sunday evening. A covering of that season.
able clothing for the ground would be very acceptable.
In some parts of the country snow has fallen, though not
to any considerable extent.-IVorfolh Chrenicic