The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-27 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, JAN. 20.—Tlie official journal contains all
the laws relative to the budget of the years 1844 and 1845.
The total expenditure for 1844 is estimated at 70,264,971
florins and 26 cents., and for 1845 at 69,901.143 florins and
87 cents. But the ways and means voted for the two years are
not sufficient to cover the expenditure. The deficiency for
1844 is 5,193,707 ; and for 1845, 4,825,880 ; total, 10,023,587
florins, which has yet to be provided for. In the second Cham-
ber of the States General yesterday, five petitions were pre-
sented against the proposed law for a tax on property. The
Committee on Petitions brought up its report on several ad-
dresses and petitions. There are two financial plans and six-
teen petitions against a tax on property.
THE HAGUE, JAN. 22. —The report of the central sec-
tion on the project of law for providing for the defi-
ciency of the budget of 1844 and 1845 has just been
distributed among the members. Forty-five members took
part in the examination of the project of law in the
section. The first question was, " Whether the proposed
measures would attain the object of regulating our finances on
a durable footing, to provide for the deficiency of former years,
and to equalise the revenue and expenditure, so as to prevent
further deficiency." This is the most important question in
the opinion of the majority of the members, since it will depend
on the solution of it whether they vote against or for the
measure, the principal justification of which must be its pro-
viding, an effectual remedy for the embarrassed state of the
finances. It was generally feared that it would not prove so,
and many members could not conceal their apprehensions that,
even allowing the correctness of the calculations furnished by
the Government, and supposing that all the estimates should
be realised, there will nevertheless he a deficiency for 1846,
which will call for new burdens. This deficiency is estimated
by the Chambers fur 1846 and the following ears at 100,000
florins per annum. But in addition to this it is feared that
certain brancher, of revenue are estimated too highly, and
that some incalculable expenses have not been included. The
Chamber, therefore, thinks a voluntary loan extremely desirable.
The Chamber, we observe, asked whether the Government
thought it could impose a moderate duty on tea and coffee.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING .
LONDON, JAN. 26.—Wind light northerly breeze, hazy.
DEAL, JAN. 25.—Wind, W.S.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Tuscany, New York, and railed for liulL Sld. Medura,
America.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind W.—Acrd. Prince
Albert, London, for New York.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 25.—S1d. Montrose steamer,
Gibraltar.

DART3touni, JAN. 25.—Skl. Pomona, St. Helena.
MILFORD, JAN. 24.—A box, iron-hooped and tinned
inside, marked [l]] § 12, and the upper part of another,
marked AB § 22, also several deck planks, have been
picked up at a short distance from this harbour. Seve-
ral iron-hooped bales have been passed near Skokam
Island.

OFF DUNGENESS, JAN. 24.—Sun, Miner, New York
for Antwerp.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 25.—Wind A.M., variable; P.M. W.,
fresh.—Arrd. Bahamian, China; Victoria, Still, Paraiba
(12th Mt.) ; Amazon, Batchelder, New Orleans. Off,
Currency, Calcutta; Ellen, Princess Royal, Esther, and
Reis Effendi.

YARMOUTH, JAN. 25.—The Anna, Keay, of Dundee
for London, is on shore on the Scroby Sand, and is dis-
charging her cargo.
11 ULL, JAN;2s.—Wind W., moderate.—Sld. Magunti-
cook, New Orleans.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Ellen, Rodger, from Singapore at Liverpool,
sailed Oct. 4, St. Helena, Dec. 13 ; Bahamian, Pearson,
from China at Liverpool, sailed Sept. 2 ; Currency,
Brudrick, from Bengal at Liverpool, sailed Sept. 11, St.
Helena, Dec. 2.

Arrivals at St. Helena—Foxhound, Simmons, Dec. 12,
from whaling ; Georgiana, Richardson, 2d, from the
Car- to London ; Arabella, Jordan, from Sumatra to
Genoa ; Union, Allen, from Mauritius, and sailed 211 to
London ; Isabel, Quesada, Dec. 8, from Valparaiso, and
sailed 13th to Malaga ; Adriana Dodds, 9th, from Mau-
ritius, and sailed 10th to Cork ; Siam, Willmot, 9th,
from China, and sailed 12th to London ; Java Kocher,
Dorrnyck, 10th, from Batavia, and sailed 12th to Am-
sterdam ; Mary Ann, Medhurst, from Algoa Bay, and
sailed 13th to London ; Mary Ann Locke, 11th, from
the Cape, and sailed 13th to London ; Galatea, Owen,
11th, from the Cape, and sailed 13th to London ; James
Moran, Walker, 12th, from Bombay, and sailed 12th to
Liverpool ; Frances Whitney, 13th, from Sumatra to
Genoa ; Ellen, Rogers, 13th, from Singapore, and sailed
to Liverpool.

Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—True
Briton, Consitt, from Portsmouth, and sailed Nov. 4 to
Madras; Mary Ann, Jaques, from Portsmouth, and
sailed Nov. 7 to Madras; Fanchon, Pyk, to Batavia;
William, Taylor, Nov. 2 from Calcutta and Mauritius,
and sailed 3d to Demerara; Union, Allen, 4th from
Mauritius, and sailed 9th to London; Colchester,
Withers, 9th from Liverpool; Corcyra, Hazlewood, from
Portsmouth and Madeira; Science, Rees, 10th from
Liverpool ; Persia, Stevens, from London; Port Fleet-
wood, Vidler, from London.

Departures from Table Bay—Maid of Mona, Nov, 5
to Algoa Bay; City of London, to Mauritius ; Olivia,
Roome, 9th to Calcutta; Curraghmore, Ball, to Algoa
Bay and Mauritius.
Arrivals in Algoa Bay—Oscar and Jim Crow, from
London.

Arrivals in Simon's Bay—Planet, Nov. 6 from Table
Bay; her Majesty's ship Bittern, Bth from St. Helena.
Departure from Simon's Bay—Her Majesty's ship
Conway, Nov. 6, on a cruise.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
YACHT INTELLIGENCE.

Cowrs, JAN. 25.—The cutter Amulet, built a few years
hack by Mr. Joseph White, of East Cowes, for Mr. John
Meiklam, of the R. Y. S., but since disposed of by Inin to one
of the Western Clubs, was yesterday hauled up in Mr. White's
building-yard, for the purpose of being lengthened six feet by
the stern.

The Nautilus, late belonging to the Earl de Grety, has been
re-masted and rigged as a yawl ; she sailed o'd Thursday for
Weymouth, where her present owner is resid;.ng.
The Royal Yacht Squadron schooner Harriet, and the
schooner Menai, are fast progressing at Mr. White's yard; the
former vessel has had new wales, and the whole of her bottom
( which is clenker-built) has been filled up with sheathing
plank, for the purpose of preventing the rustling noise of the
water which such kind of vessels are subject to when under
weigh.
Tho Menal, formerly a brigantine, will be converted into a
schooner. Her !mars are daily expected from the Thames.
The Royal Yaiiht: Squadron cutter, Flower of Yarrow, be-
longing to the Marquis of Conyngham, and' reported to be one
of the fastest yachts in the squadron, has been hauled np on
Mr. Alichael Ratsey's yard, for the purpose of being converted
into a schooner. On Tuesday last she was drawn asunder, her
bolts and treenails amidships baying been taken out. She is to
be le.ngthened twenty feet in the middle, for the purpose of af-
fording. greater accommodation, &c.
Her INlajcsty's brig Waterwitch, under repair by her talented
builder, Joseph White, of East Cowes, is almost planked
up; she is in a very forward state, and will, froNl
all appear-
ance, be ready for launching long before her apps toted time,
which, we understand, to be May next.

EFFECT OF ROCLETS ON THE.ABYSSINIANS .--"\ a
soon as it became dark, rockets, which had been brougL't
by the Embassy, were to be 'discharged. from the tents,
by
.the King's express desire With fire-arms the Abys-
soians were previously acq:ucahiontaed ; and the brass gal-
ivieup6w.erLScwanitnhon4nwdheireflui
was still the only engine,
ihraedspect echoed so recently, although
.1133:111 . 4-,i'LsiDe°6sal weres scale,
at
hlee, fltros t v‘rhociekile rockets they
wwheirceh fhaims it aarjies
Majesty
had viewed t;;,9 flight ; and the impression they pro-
ducedupon his mind, as he gazed from his watch. tower,
6.4,.:1 that worked upon his assembled
with
was sea. velY le"
subjects. Night had ibrown her sable
themantle around,
and the novel principle of ascent,
all specta,tors. When g
dgrandeur of
the brilliant rush into the skies, afforded
amazemi nit to "'lager
.of
started, with a loud roar from its bed, meenprojec tile
and chilr:/ en, fell flat upon their faces.,
mules in.( ,ke loose from their tethers, andw. arTrihor
who ha d any heart remaining shouted aloud
Galls h..' .bes, who witnessed the meteor-like explosion
e
from the , vicinity, ascribed the phenomena to the use of
potent rr .edicines ; and declared,
.that, since the Cyptzis
could at pleasure produce comets in the sky and rain fire
from he aven, there was nought for them left, save abject
submiss ion to the King's coramands.—Harries Highlands
of fEth lop ia
Aft( •r the present engagement of Mr. and Mrs.
Horses
the women,
a.n
Wood 2 A the Princess's theatre, Madame Thiellon, who has
caused such great-sensation in Paris, will make her first ap-
peared ce in this country, in Amber's celebrated opera of the
1 Diam ens de la Couronne;

FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S

THEATRE.

Achard is certainly one of the most accomplished
artists that has ever appeared in this country, and he
bids fair to rival even Bouffe in popularity. lie appeared
in the vaudeville of _Farinelli last evening, as the hero
of the piece, and his Farinelli is a master-piece both of
acting and of singing. There are few of our readers
who are not already aware of the marvellous power which
Farinelli acquired by his exquisite singing over the
mind of the gloomy Ferdinand VI., King of
Spain, and of the manner in which he for a
time dissipated the illusions of the moody mo-
narch. Barnett some years since produced an opera
on this subject, and the anecdote, for it is really nothing
more, is treated in very nearly a similar manner in the
present piece. We find Farinelli in the first act wan-
dering with his Preciosa (Mademoiselle Marie Beauch6ne)
about the streets 4f Madrid, gay, joyous, and penniless.
By a lucky chance he rescues a lady from some danger,
and obtains her glove as a remembrance. lie then tunes
his guitar and commences singing to the crowd, having
deposited his hat on the ground to receive the con-
tributions of the patrons of " music for the million."
Suddenly he is seized by the Royal Guards, and
hurried into the palace. The King, who is in a state
of religious madness, has heard his singing, is fasci-
nated by it, and Farinelli is established in the palace,
where he finds his Preciosa also established through the 1
interest of her uncle, Gil Perez (M. Barqui), the
Court physician. He also discovers that the lady he had
rescued from danger is noless a personage than the Queen.
Reports have been circulated in Madrid that the King is
dead, and the people demand to see him ; he refuses to
appear, but is at length lured into the balcony by Fari-
nelli's singing. This scene was exquisitely acted by
Achard and Lemadre, who acted the part of Ferdinand
with excellent judgment and effect. Farinelli, by the
mere shrewdness of his mother wit, discovers and cir-
cumvents the plots of the Ring's brothers, who, aided
by the monks, having succeeded in causing the King to
hate his Queen, endeavour, by means of the prescriptions
of Gil Perez, and the sermons of his confessor, to reduce
him to such a state of feebleness, mental and bodily, as
,t 4 render a Regency necessary. Their plots, however,
are rendered nugatory by Farinelli, who induces the
King to eat, drink, and be merry, to be reconciled to
his Queen, and to discard his monkish counsellors, and
thus does the singer save Spain. But it is not as an
actor only that M. Achard is great; his singing is ex-
quisite; and were he not one of the first of actors, he
would be one of the greatest of tenor singers. He
was rapturously applauded, and was encored in the greater
number of his songs. Madame Couturier acted the
Queen with ease, grace, and dignity, and the other cha-
racters were all admirably supported. Achard was of
course called fur at the fall of the curtain. He after-
wards appeared in La Permission de Dix Mures, as Larose
Ponpon, a soldier, in the French Guards, who is out on
a furlough of ten hours, and never was the French
soldier better represented than by M. Achard. The
first piece was a one act vaudeville, entitled Quand
t Amour s'en ye, in which M. Gaston made his debut as
a French sailor. This gentleman is a very good actor,
and is certainly an acquisition to the company. The
house was exceedingly well attended.