The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-19 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 13.—The Hereditary Prince of Saxe
Meiningen left Brussels yesterday, for Paris.
A carriage is now building for the iron railway, which is
to convey eighty-four passengers. It is to rest on two plat-
forms, each on one pair of wheels. Every precaution has
been taken to facilitate the motion of this leviathan even on
the sharpest turning of the railway.
The centigrade thermometer of the Royal Observatory of
Brussels indicated in the night of the 12th nearly as great
a degree of cold as at any time during this winter. At mid-
night the mercury was at 8 deg. below zero ; at six in the
morning of the 13th, it was at 10 deg. 9 min., (12 of Fah.),
which was the lowest point; at ten o'clock, at 8 deg. 4 min.,
and at five o'clock in the afternoon, it was at 6 d g. 5 min.
It seems that the total length of the railways decreed by
the laws of the Ist of May, 1834, and the 26th of May, 1837,
is 111 leagues and 8-10ths, of which 47 leagues are double,
and 67 8 -10ths have got •nly four single lines. The
entire expense, up to the 31st of December, 1844, was
144,746,774 florins.

MAR IT 14.—The Senate has opened the general discus-
sion of the project of law modifying the existing legislation
relative to corn.

The Chamber of Representatives adopted the Articles of
the Budget of Public Works relative to public buildings.
The whole Budget was then agreed to.
The average price of wheat in the week ending the 22d
of February was 16f. 30c., and that of Rye, 101. 28c. per hec-
tolitre.

Two Roman Catholic priests of Dresden, and another of
Leipsic, declare in the Universal Government Gazette, that
the conversation alleged to have taken place between the
King of Saxony and the Catholic clergy of Leipsic in an
audience granted by his Majesty, and of which several Saxon
Journals have spoken, is a mere fiction.—Brussels Papers,
March 15.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 15.—The cold continues to be very
intense. On the 15th the mercury in the centrigrade ther-
mometer, at the observatory, at six o'clock in the morning,
was at 10 deg. 2 min.
A commission has just been formed by the Minister of Jus-
tice and of Foreign Affairs jointly to draw up a penal code,
for the use of the mercantile navy. The Commission consists
of seven members. .

The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day, re-
solved to refer to the Minister of Finance the report of the
Committee appointed to examine the petition of the sugar
refiners, and their workmen, and also the petitions of the
workmen at Ghent, proposing the adoption of certain mea-
sures for the protection of that business. The President stated
that he had just received from the President of the Senate a
project of law, modifying the corn-law which the Senate had
adopted. It was referred to the Sections. The Chamber ad-
journed till the 2d of April.—Blussels Papers, March 16.

GALLOPPING MATCH AGAINST TIME.-EXTRA-
ORDINARY PERFORMANCE.—An event, which created consi-
derable interest in sporting circles, many persons being pre-
sent from the metropolis, came off yesterday afternoon on the
Bath road, between Slough and Colnbrook, a match having
been made by the proprietor of one of the principal hotels
at Windsor, to ride his horse, an animal not more than 14
hands and one inch in height, 24 miles in one hour and a
half. Time was backed by Mr. Brown, stationer to her
Majesty, and several other of his sporting friends, to a con-
siderable amount. In consequence of the unfavourable
state of the road from the snow which fell during Sunday
afternoon, and the frost during the night, the odds, at
starting, were 4to 3 and 3to 2 against the horse. At the
start, which took place between two and three o'clock, the
horse went away in beautiful style, and won the match,
with upwards of eight minutes to spare, without showing
symptoms of the least distress. The horse bad just 15
minutes to perform the last mile and a half in. It was
most admirably ridden ; and there is no doubt with a lighter
weight on its back (its rider weighing nearly 14 stone) it
would get over 26 miles of ground in the same time with the
greatest ease. Considerable sums of money changed hands
upon tlio OVCAOiOII.