The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

DUTCH, FLANDERS, AND HAJ.II
BURGH MAIL.
THE DANUBE, DEC. 21.—Our late statement le."
specting the neglect of the Sulina mouth of the Da"
nube has been confirmed in a melancholy man'
ner, for the violent storm which raged in the Black
Sea at the end of October and the beginning of No-
vember, and in which above twelve merchantmen and
many lives were lost, several ships which were
in great danger attempted to anchor at Sulina, but on
account of the shallowness of the channel were forced
to put out to sea, when two of them perished in the
storm, and others, with great losses of cargoes and da-
mage to the tackling, with much difficulty reached
distant parts. At Sulina there were lying at anchor,
for weeks together, a great number of ships with full
cargoes (on one day above 100) waiting till there
should be a sufficient depth of water in the channel to
enable them to go to sea. The numerous complaints
of the Austrian shipowners, to which those of the Da'
nube Steam Navigation Company aye now added,•will
certainly induce the Austrian Government to take
some decided steps (if it has not already done so) to
obtain from Russia the adoption of measures to make
the channel in the Sulina mouth passable, without d 5
mage, for large vessels.—Cologne Gazette.
The Gazette delle hole lonie contains the following
article :—" A ship under Turkish colours, coming
from Bengasi, and bound to Candia, arrived on the
14th of Nov. in the harbour of Zante. On board
there were three Afahometan merchants, who, having
purchased slaves in the market of Bengasi, intended
to convey them to other places, in hopes of great profit
by this inhuman traffic. The Government, being
informed of this fact, has, by virtue of the power given
it by the 11th Act of the second Parliament, declared
the slaves to be free, and has given up the ships to the
Turkish Vice-Consul."
BRUSSELS, JAN. 4.—The average price of wheat
during the week ending Dec. 30, 1843, was 17f. 60C.,
and that of rye 1 lf. 14c. The import duty there'
fore on wheat is 37f. 50c., and on rye 21f. 50c., and
the export duty n both 25 centimes per 1,000-kilo..
grammes.
The duties received at Antwerp during the month
of Dec. amounted to 481,917 f. The total receipts of
the year was 5,852,359 f., above I,ooof. more that
in 1842.
The Monitenr Beige publishes to-day the law which
fixes 1,068,000 f. the budget of the Marine for 1844.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bitussets, Jaw. 5.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. 104%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent....
---------- Three per Cent
Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto
(1840) l(6
Loan of City, 1832, Four per:Cent 102%
184'3 lO4
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 69%
Isue of 1841... ....................«..«..........».«.. 107%
National Society .
Exchange on London (short) ...
—Brussels Papers, Jan. S
DUTCH FUN Ds..—.AterrEnne 24, JAN. 5.
None, Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per CentCS
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
AmattSvndic,4% percent......
Ditto, ditto, 2% per cent 79 9.•
Commercial Company, 4!(, per cent 154 195
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 99 9,i
Exchange on London, 0nem0nth.......
Two months IC 10
Hamburgh, One menth 37 43%
Two months :37 18
Dutch Papers, Jan. 6.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JAN. 2.
Bills, Money'.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 16:15 —.
Anglo-Russian Loan 112% 112
Russians per Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO5
Inscription, Ist series lO5 --
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 99i
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) £6% PO
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. . ........ 54% 54 '
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds
--
New Tickets
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 4 AS%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dac.23.
Fiveper Cents. Metalliques
Four par Cents
Three per Cents
Bank Shares

411gemeine Zeitung, Dec. 2T.
PRUSSIAN:FUNDS.—BaamiN, JAN. 2.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. 103% 102%
Prussian English Bonds, 1830, I per cent. 101%
Exchange on London 6 24% --
Prussian State Gazette, Jon. 3.

EXPERIMENTAL MANURES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I am an experimental farmer on a small scale (abet
25 large Cheshire acres); during the three years I have bees
farming I have used almost all kinds of real and artificial Ina:
nures—guano amongst the rest. The result of one experirneav
was as follows :—A meadow of four large Cheshire acres, stroll;
brown loam of about 12 inches in depth, with a clay sub-sot'
very good herbage, and in good condition, on one-third (1
which I sowed 5 cwt. of guano, costing 605.; on another third
I spread 15 tons of stable-dung, at the expense of 5/, ss. ; tb_ei
remaining third I covered with 10 tons of privy soil, O:
with 20 cart-loads of road scrapings, which, together with dlo
expense of mixing, cost 50s. (the scrapings being. made ne,,,
to the land): I mowed on the 30th of July, and in order w
carry out my experiment I stacked each separately. The Pars
manured with guano produced 4 tons of long coarse soft haif;
such as the land had never before yielded. That on whiebij
stable-dung had been put produced 51/2 tons of fine hay, 111":4
all the choice kinds of grapes. From the remainder, manor
with the privy, &c., I procured 54 tons, similar in every re•
spect to that produced from stable-dung. L„, •
On the 7th of September I again mowed the same field ;.
guano part yielded 21 tons ; that manured with stable-d'
produced 4 tons ; and from the land on which I spread Of
privy and scrapings I obtained 4 tons, of the three kinds °
similar quality to the first crop.
Intending to write you the result of the experiment on thee
30th of the last month, I went to view the field, and found t;
parts which had been manured with the stable-dung and Priv
green as Midsummer, white clover, rib-grass, con-grass, a?,
many other kinds of choice grapes ; strong, and from four
six inches in length. The guano part was brown and as bag
as a wilderness ; not a herb upon it, except couch-grass, n'''"
that scarcely alive ; I shall be compelled to plough it for pO4;
toes. On the 20th of October I commenced giving the A,r'"
crap to six of my coos, each two from a separate stack (turror,
and ground oats were given in equal quantities to each cosc)ci
they yielded at that time five quarts of milk each. night en
morning ; at the end of three weeks those two fed with the bat
produced by guano yielded only two quarts each per meat
whilst the others had not lessened in the least ; seeing that,
gave up the use of the inferior hay, and although good lieLdi
selling here at 4/. per ton, I could only obtain 2/, lOs. per
for it. The value of the crop stands thus :
GUANO. 4€ S. 11.
- 6

6i tons of hay, at 50s
Deduct cost of guano
£l2 12
STABLE-DUNG.
n
9i tons of hay, at 80.
Deduct cost of dung
£32 15
_,,,„,
PRIVY AND SOIL.
• 0
9 tons of hay, at 80s.
Deduct cost of manure
.------- 0
£34 10 6
Deduct guano hay..
• 6
£2l IL' 0
Leaving out the injury to my land, loss of milk, &c., I ".,/110
experienced a clear loss of 211. 17s. 6d. from the use of erit •
upon one part of my year's crop. Should you conceite..o,
worthy of your notice, please to insert it in your Evening o%b
of which lam a constant reader. In a few days I will fur°
you the particulars of other experiments.—Yours truly,
' AN EXPERIMENTAL FARMER'
Cheadle, near Stockport, Jan. 2, 1844.
Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the CaPe_
Good Hope, is expected to embark on Monday, to enter Orno
his official duties.
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DRURY-LANE THEATRE.---Balfe's new opera of
Bohemian Girl has already been performed twenty-eig
nights, and still continues to increase in attraction. The r-et
tomime of Harlequin King Pepiw is also received by roar
,sej
laughter. Among the list of persons who have lately
this theatre, we have seen the following : —His Royal DIV
ness the Duke of Cambridge, his Highness Prince Edwar",he ,
Saxe Weimer, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Brunswick,
a.
Russian Ambassador, the Turkish Ambassador, the Bavar;f,
and Dutch Ministers, Baron Knesebeck, Baron Gerae';ii •
Marchioness of Conyngham, Countesses of Westmoreland .40,-
Harrington! Earls of Chesterfield, Craven, Cardigan, I:ctos,
rington ; Essex, and Errol ; Ladies Templemore, De
Ponsonby, Seymour, W. Russell, Jersey, Fitzroy Some
Sn
Villiers, Gage; the Countess of Essex ; Lords Castlereagh,
nox, Macdonald, Seymour, W. Russell, Gage, A. Paget, it
Templemore, Seaham, Lowther, Torrington, Fitzgerald, tr
Lennox ; Sir Frederick Trench, Bart. ; Sir Edward Aga° ,
bus, Bart., Sir Charles Shakerley, Bart. • Sir Thoraaa.",; ▪
e;
Bart. ; Sir Thomas Gage, Bart. ; SirH. Fleetwood, 17'
Hon. Colonel Cavendish ; Hon. Colonel Lowther ; Hon.
Ino.
Forester ; Hon. Sydney Herbert ; Hon. Mr. Jocelyn '
Mr. Coke ; Hon. Mr. Grant ; Sir W. Parish ; Colonel DP—
mond ; Captain Blayne, &c. &c. the
NN 'e copy the following capital jeu (1' esprit froU
playbill of the Haymarket pantomime :—" The publio 15 01
spectfully informed that the little dog mentioned in the or,ll.labs
story, has been omitted, for fear the animal's attraction oof
render the manager liable to the penalties of the 2d and 3d
00
Victoria, cap. 47, sec. 56, by which it is enacted, that n°Perani
within the districts of the Metropolitan police, shall "
dog for the purpose of drawing or helping to draw," Sre';'lllo
ANTI-ROOK LEAGUE.—A meeting was held in rto
Council Chamber, Dumfries, on Wednesday, to declare tva
~,e
the knife against the poor crows of Nithsdale. The attend
iO4
is said to have been great. Some farmers said it cost therntb'epi
yearly to herd their crops ; others, that the crows did, foto
101. of damage ; others computed the damage at 10,000,.. 000
crow depredations I A Committee was appointed to watt
the proprietors of rookeries, requesting them to check t. of
crease of crows—a request which, we doubt not, the
rds
Dumfries-shire will at once accede to after the recent lic7ir
nanimous anti-rabbit speech of Sir Robert Peel. A subs 00
tion in aid of the object of the meeting was entered intnk .ry
the subscribers generally gave 2s. 6d. each.--Gallop
Register.
LIEUTENANT MUNRO AND MR. WASLET,
visrdi
CORONER. —lt appears that the conduct of the police 0.
Mrs. Munro, on Tuesday night, has attracted the attenott,'",,s to ,
the Commissioners, and an investigation has been set 0 1_":100.
discover by whose authority the officers acted on that 001:1,0
Th? sale of the furniture, &c., was resumed, and cone'
on Thursday without interruption.
UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE • clock'
FORD, JAN. 3. HAMPDEN, APPELLANT, V. MAC)(ll,cloci‘'
—The delegates in congregation met this day at one e_iroam
when the Master of University College, the Cite deti
pronounced the judgment of the Court.—That the a'-f nor
libel was wrongly admitted, the delegates being °‘ the
nion that there were no allegations en the face of
each
libel on which any legal duty was grounded, for the id lie ;
of which an action on the case for damages vi°u' in the
they, therefore, reversed the judgment of the assess" issd'
Court below, and ordered the amended libel to be distilcary,
Mr. Macmullen paying the costs of both parties: Mr'
pro.
on the part of Mr. Macmullen, gave notice of further
ceedings, by an appeal to ahi her Court—that wtionitl
gates in convocation. The decision of the Court has __,.ty.
the highest satisfaction here, except to the TraCtirialt 11*—