The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-29 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 24.—The Mons Gazette says, " We
have just learned that Mr. George Rinnes, the engineer
to the Anglo-Belgian Company formed at London by
the name of ' Company of the Railway of the Dendre
and of the Canal frotn Jemappes to Alost,' arrived on
Wednesday morning at Mons, and immediately pro-
ceeded to the line, accompanied by Mr. Dubois Niboul,
plan, and by Messrs. Tercelin, Sigart,
tandhe authorßrunn eoaf the
Directors of the Company.
ih
as-
sured that this able engineer will also vi We aro
sit our coal
basin. It seems that the project of this canal will be
shortly carried into effect."
The following is the final result of the discussions of
the Central Section of the Chamber of Representatives,
appointed to examine the project of law relative to the
duty on corn.
No change is proposed with respect to barley, rye, and
oats. As for wheat, when the average prices are
tedtlit2yf.,4s.
between 15 and 20f, per hectolitre, the duty will be 37f.
50c. for the 1,000 kilogrammes (equal to 121 hectolitres).
When the prices are from 20f. to 22f. the import duty
The number of
2r4edf.uctehde
i°lle. be only 3thce prices are from
markets for delivering the average will be increased to
will22f to 24f.
22; the averages will be taken once in a fortnight.
TRIESTE, APRIL 17.—The Duke of Bordeaux and the
Duchess of Angouleme arrived here yesterday. The
Duchess proceeded $n the steamer to Ancona, whence
she means to go to Loretto. About the middle of next
month the whole of the French corps v.ill leave Goritz,
it is said, for ever.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUssEts, APRIL 25.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ..... ... • • • • •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • "
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent -• • . 98
Ditto Three per Cent ..... .. ........ .• .
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • • 77
Ditto, ditto, 1840 . • • • • . .. . • ,
Ditto, ditto, 1844 .
Ditto of the City, 1843 . • 102% •
Ditto, 1833
Bank of Belgium •
—Brussels Papers, April 26.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Argil. 19.
5 per Cent. Metalliclues • • • • • • • • • • ... ... 113%
4 per Cent. ditto ••• • • ..... 102%
3 per Cent. ditto• ••••••• • • • • • • .......... 7s i 4
Loan, 1834 ....... •• • • ...... • • • • • • • • • • • 155
Ditto, 1839 .. • • •• •• •• •• •• 132%
Bank Shares • • • • • • •••• • " • • • • •• • • • • • • 1652
Esterhazy's Loan •••• • • • • • •
.......... 58
IA
1 —Allgemeine Zeitung, April 22.

Passengers,
several emigrants to
One of the American line of packet-ships, the
Wellington, left the St. Katherine Docks yesterday for New York,
the United States from the agricultural districts, and a fair cargo of
British manufactured goods, la. The change of wind from the
with a large number of pawn including
adverse quarter, in which it was so long almost stationary, has had
the effect of bringing a large number of vessels of all descriptions
and from every part of the globe into the port, which had been de-
tained in the channel, and the docks and other places of commerce
on the shores of the river now present a very bustling appearance,
and full employ has been given to the large hod_
y of labourers con.
nected with these establishments who were deprived of work for a
very considerableperlod, and suffered a proportionate degree of
privation in consequence.
Tire BUDE LIGHTS IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—The
massive bronze lamps, constructed at Stevens and Son's, Darlington
Works, Southwark, under the direction of 111 r. Barry, are com.
pletcd, and will be erected without delay. They are four in num.
ber ; the two at the southern angle. to be mounted on granite
pillars; the others, which are to be placed on the terrace, are
wholly of gun metal. They are all plain and substantial, but the
lamps by which they are to be crowned are deserving of notice.
These are of great magnitude and ponderous weight; the glass
alone in them amounting to about 12 cwt. They are octagonal in
shape, the centre comprising square plates of cut tlint-glass of un.
usual clearness and solidity, the thickneat within the bevel amount.
ing to an inch ; and the crown and base consisting each of sixteen
triangular pieces of the same substance and density. The refrac-
tion of light occasioned by these numerous varieties of surface, all
highly polished, is likely to occasion a very brilliant effect ; and in
the event of another lamp being added, as proposed, to be placed
between the fountains, some very novel appearances may perhaps
be obtained, especially if the focus of either of the prisms should
fall on the jets of water.
THE MAILS.—On and after the Ist day of May
next an alteration will take place in the time of starting the mails
from London, by which nearly two hours will be gained between
the metropolis and Edinburgh. This wall mainly be accomplished
by the extra speed of the railway trains. It is proposed by the
General Post-office authorities that the mails going northwards
shall be dispatched somewhat earlier, and that the malls from Edin-
burgh for London will leave later, thus giving ample time to the
People of the not th to answer their letters by return of post. This
proposed alteration, when carried
into effect, will be another proof
of the anxiety and determlnatiou of the Postmaster.Cleneral to
afford the utmost dispatch and facility in the transit of letters and
parcels.