The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-09 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Ocr. 5.—A letter from Verviers, of the
20th of September, published in the Universal German
Gazette, has the following account of the attempted
suicide of the celebrated Polish General, Uminski

All the inhabitants of the town are afflicted by the
misfortune which has befallen General Uminski, who is
so well known for the part which he acted in the Polish
revolution. The General resided at Spa, at which place
the Cotnmissary of Police caused him to be arrested, and
conducted on foot, and under escort, to the prison at
Verviers, for a trifling debt contracted at Brussels.
General Liminski, who is seventy yearn of age, could not
endure to live after this disgrace. He first attempted to
hang himself with his cravat, but was cut down by the
keeper ; he then opened a vein in both arms, and though
he has received all poftsible assistance he in not yet out
of danger. While the old General is on the point of
expiring on a bed of straw,
and in prison, his daughter
and his son-in-late are living in opulence, and all his
former friends have abandoned him.
The rale .of the British Queen has not been con-
firmed by the Government, as we said would probably
be the case. The stun Of 170,Gdd fraticsi f,,-14 which it
was knocked down to M. Vande Leemput, was indeed
below the estimate which was made by order of the
Government, to ascertain the intrinsic value of the
vessel;.lt is presumed that it will be shortly put up to
sale ak,aiu:

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BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussins, Orr.
Aetna Debt, 2% per Cent., -•
Rothschild's Loan, Fire per Cent lO2,
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9B 1
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Society of Comr'nerce, Four and a Half per Cent —,..
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent III
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ihirty-sevela

Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 3.

Some remarks bare beerlriladlon the fact that the
Bank of England have changed tacit' iiitete!lt "n. Joan,
' four times within a month, the rates being respectively,
11, 2,2 i, and 3 per cent. per annum during the period,
!Nile they have been discounting bills at 2i per cent.
per Inntlm , The present rate on loans, which is, 'ac-
cording to the la,it ticitiCbi 8 Pai. attributed by
some to a desire to check the speculatiOn
ender. the quarterly notice,
shares. All these remarks seem to proceed from a mis-
understanding of the transactions to which the different
Ir‘a,hteasterreece.rt.o
o:T9hwoistehltoll7,ire,g 3 per cent. have nothing
but merely refer to advances. mule
.fc'r specific time,
generall) a very short one, in anticipation of the divi-
dends, while the loans under the quarterly notice are for
periods that must exceed 10 days. In fact, these ad-
vances at low rates precisely answer to what in discount
houses wodid be lerniel le:ding tot "c. 11," except-
ing that here a day for making the ";call" is fixed. The
notion that the Bank are endeavouring to check specu-
lation in railways, or in anything else, can scarcely be
correct, nnw the present „charter has entirely deprived
them of their character of nianag6rA of the e!,,rrency, and
left them, as far as the employment of their ineang Is
concerned, only in the condition of private bankers.
Their object is probably. no other than to employ their
resources, at tide best profit; and it appears vain, under the
present circumstances, to aierioe to the& tiittrict motives,

GLOUCESTER BARTON FAlR.—Saturday last being
the great annual fair fur the sale of cattle of all descrip-
tions, was if enything, more plentifully supplied than it
has been for some years past, but the sale very dull.
Th 4 elief;se fair *?Eis vat so full as on former occa-
sions, the average price for best making being about
545. to 565. per hundred. Onions, of *high there
were great samples, le. 6d. a peck. The number of
shows and gambling-tables, from the highest to the
lowest description, were ont of number ; the latter of
which seemed to have had their share of gain from
the weak and unguarded. And, according to a very
long-standing custom, this celebrated fair has not lost its
character by the annual visit of the light-fingered gentry
who were in attendance to a very great extent ; and
their harvest, though not so abundant as in former
seasons, was extensive, and would have been more so,
but for the vigilance of the police. The statute fair, or
mop, was held on Monday, and never was it more fully
attended, from the highest situation in agricultural pur-
suits, to the cart and plough-boy ; but hiring, on the
whole, was remarkably flat, and good and tried servants
retained their situations. Several trains arrived from
Bristol and Birmingham, so that the streets of the old
city was one animated scone.—Cheltenham Examiner.