The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-26 00:00:00

HAMBURGH, FLANDERS; AND
DUTCH MAIL.

SWEDEN AND NORWAY.
STOCKHOLM, FEB. 13.—According to the AftenUad
the King had a very restless night, fr.m the I.lth to the
12th, with great pain in the leg. Notwithstanding his
weakness, his Majesty had sufficient strength of mind, in
the latter days of last week, to listen to the articles in
the journals, and to have the bulletins read to hiyabefore
they were published.
In the proclamation of the Norwegian. Government,
announcing the transfer of the administration' to the
Crown Prince, reference is made to a resolution of the
Diet of May 4, 1818, so that the doubts which were en-
tertained here, whether the transfer would be legal in
that kingdom, are removed. The cold increased here
from the 9th to the 10th inst., from 18 to 25 degrees
(about 32 to 45 Fahrenheit below freezing). •
We learn from Gothenburg that M. Axel Malmlen,
merchant in the city, has failed for 137,000 dollars.
COPENHAGEN, FEB. 17.—The Fadreland announces
that its number of the day before yesterday has been
seized, and that it contained an article, copied from the
Augsbuyg Allgerneine Zeitung, which defends the right of
Denmark to levy the Sound duties.
CASSEL, FEB. 11.—Some surprise was caused here by
the circumstance that in the genealogy of the Electoral
House of Hesse, which is always annexed to the official
calendar for the Electorate of Heise, the Elector Wil-
liam 11. is stated this year to be " a widower since 13th
February, 1843," and that no notice is taken of his third
marriage. We learn that this omission has given occa-
sion to a complaint on the part of the Elector, which
Privy Councillor Wohler, who has arrived atpassel from
Frankfort, was commissioned to support.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 21.—The average price of wheat last
week was 16f. 83c., and that of rye 10f. 34c. The duties
on importation and exportation, therefore, remained as
before.

The Dusseldorf Gazette has stated that the subscrip-
tion for the construction of a railway from that town to
the Belgian railway, had been filled up, as it were, by
enchantment. We now learn from the ETherfeld Gazette,
that the persons desirous of partaking in the enterprise
were so numerous, that it was necessary to fix 10,000
dollars as the maximum, and to reduce to that sum those
which exceeded it. Soon after the deed was sivied, the
share were sold at 1 per cent. premium; and the town-
hall seemed to be transferred into a stock exchange.
Tux HAGUE, FED. 23.—The Central Section brought
up its report on the law for regulating the claims of the
late King, the discussion of which was fixed by the
Chamber to follow that on the income-tax and the vo-
luntary loan, and that on the law for completing the
ways and means for 1844 and 1845, and for discharging
the debt to the Commercial Company. The debate on
the tax on property then commenced.
PIRACY IN THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO.—We extract
the following particulars from the latest journals received
from Java:—

The Resident at Riouw states that news had been
received from Sekana, a noted retreat of the pirates, that
several vessels had been equipped to exercise piracy,
from the coast of Malacca to Pailoc Pinang. In an ac-
tion between these pirates and the English steamer
Diana, one of the chief of these banditti was killed, two
others taken prisoners, and the vessel captured. The
others retreated into the river Tjaeny, near Tjambi, on
the east coast of Sumatra.

An attempt by the Dutch authorities to seize the
pirates was at first unsuccessful, but his Majesty's brig
the Windhond, the Janas schooner, and six cruisers
have been sent after them. They are to blockade the
river, and punish this nest of thieves as it merits.
The master of a native vessel of Serawak in Borneo,
who has arrived at Pontianak, relates that at the begin-
ning of July three English men-of-war had anchored off'
the river ; they were to undertake an expedition against
the pirates of I)ayak. Accounts had been received that
the result of this expedition was that several Kampongs
in the district of Seribas had been taken; about 100 ha-
bitations of Malays and 30 of Dyaks, each 150 feet in
length, and several of these vessels were destroyed.
This news, however, needs confirmation.
The Malays and Dyaks, it is said, made a vigorous
resistance, but suffered very severely from the well-di-
rected fire of the English, who lost only two men.

ATTEMPT AT POISON.—On Monday night last, the
neighbourhood of Brampton Moor was thrown into great alarm by
the report that a man had poisoned himself. It appears that John
Bond, a collier, was not on the best of terms at home with his.
spouse, so he determined to try her affections. He went to Ches-
terfield, pledged his handkerchief, and bought some arsenic, anti
then returned home. Listening at the door, he heardhis wife ask
a neighbour who the child was like ? The neighbour pronounced
its eyes like its father's, on hearing which he " bounced" in, and
exclaimed, " Yes, you will see how my eyes will be In the morn-
ing." He wont into the kitchen, got a cup and mixed the poison ;
after which he threw the paper on the house floor, and pretended to
drink the contents, and then went to bed. His wife took up the
paper, and seeing " poison" printed upon the label, immediately
gave the alarm, and messengers were despatched for a doctor, who,
immediately returned with Mr. Jones, surgeon, his assistant, and
Mr. • Sallimore. The poisoned man, perceiving expenses incur.
ring, protested against the operation of the stomach.pump. Mr.
Jones informed him that it was useless to make resistance, and
called in four stout men, who held him while two others forced
open his mouth, and as soon as they introduced the tube he bit cilf
the end; but they effectually:went through the operation, and to
their great surprise not one particle of poison could be fouad oft
the stomach. The fact is, he had merely pretended to swallow the
ingredients, but left them in the cup I—Derby Reporter.
VESSELS SPOKEN WlTft.—Eleanor, Chapman, of Liver,
pool, bound to Valparaiso, lat. 7, lon. 40; Islander, of Lon-
don, lat. 22, lon 34, by the Netherlands barque, Pollux —,
Hector (ship), of New Bedford, 25th ult., lat 4 N., lon. 22 W. ;
Tanjore, Calcutta to London, Ist inst., lat. 15, lon. 28 W.,
by the Orion, arrd. at Falmouth. Mertoun, Bombay to Li-
verpool, Nov. 22, lat. 24 S., lon. 6E. ; Lady Mary, Mau-
ritius, London, lat. 36 S., lon. 23 E. ; Margaret, of Bristol,
for Algoa Bay, Dec. 15, lat. 34 S., lon. 26 F.. ; Nestor, Mau-
ritius, to Liverpool, 16th ult., lat. 2 N., lon. 25 W.; John
Campbell, Liverpool to Africa, 19th inst., lat. 52 N.,
lon. 10 W., by the Montrose, arrived at Liverpool. Ganges,
Bordeaux to Calcutta, Oct. 20, lat. 17 N., lon. 87 E. ;
Cambrian, Calcutta to London, Dec. 21, lat. 35 S., lon. 17 E. ;
Pollux, Batavia to Amsterdam, Bth ult., lat. 8 S., lon. 14 W.,
by the Brooke, arrived at Liverpool. Neptune, of Bristol, 9th
ult. lat. 44, lon. 10, with loss of foretopmast and maintop-
gallantniast, by the Boyne, arrived at Liverpool. Johanna
Maria, Rotterdam to Batavia, Oct. 24, near the latter port ;
Jenne Edmond, Bourbon to Nantes, Dec. 23, lat. 18 S., lon.
3 Zenlivan „ Allude,
Amsterdam to
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lat. 32 N., lon. 26 W., by the Admiral Van Hemakirk, atrived
in the Texel.

SINGULAR CIRCUAISTANCIL—The quiet little town
of %Vantage has been in commotion for the past week, owing
to a very interesting and lady-like girl, about 14 yes.rs of
age, having been brought there by Old Harrod (who travels
about with besoms), and given up to the constable. It seems
that Harrod took up the young lady in his cart at Buck land,
seeing that she was nearly exhausted, and her clothes very
dirty, and finding she gave an odd account of herself, he very
properly handed her over to the custody of Jones, wive pro-
vided her with a bed and supper at a small public-home, and
the next morning mentioned the matter to his sistier, the
kind-hearted good-natured landlady of the Bear, who, sent for
the girl to her house, and had her provided with clean
clothes and every necessary. She was soon visited by the
Rev. Mr. Hewlett, Mr. Ormond, and several gentlemen, who
from her ingenuous manner, her evident good brctedine,-, and
education, with her intelligent replies to their questkins, soon
took a great interest in her behalf. It appeared that the young
lady had from some cause run away from her friends in the
neighbourhood of Bath, whose names she would not enention,
and had been walking for two days last week in the cold and
severe weather, without going into a house, and veAli only a
short supply of biscuits in a bag, and had actually slept
under the hedges for two nights ; mid when she arrived at
Wantarre her dress bore evident marks of what she had gone
through, and her little feet were dreadfully kerollen, and it
is only a wonder that one of such tender years did not die.
Mr. Ansell took the young lady to his own house, and under
the kind treatment of his wife she soon recovered the effects
of her trying journey. It seems she made a disclosure of the
name of her near relations and friends to Mr. Ansell, and on
Tuesday a clergyman arrived from Lincolnshire, whose name
a few years since came very prominently before the public,
in consequence of a melancholy event which occurred it
Middlesex, and claimed her as his daughter, and it turned
out that she had been adopted by another clergyman resident
in Bath, and from some fancied cause of ill-treatment by his
housekeeper, started off on a wild-goose chase to London, and
it is fortunate that she fell into such good hands, and was
restored, after a week's wonder and excitement, to her friends..
—Berks Chronicle.
A notice has been posted up at Boulogne, stating
that the Commissary of Maritime Inscription has been
in-
formed by the consular agent of France at Brighton, that
eight fishing-boats, from various parts of France, had been
arrested for being found within the English fishing-lines,
without: either blue flag or streamer, and contrary to the
treaty of 1839; and that with great difficulty the comelier
agent had prevailed on the English authorities to let them
to tine or imprisonment, as th 6,
g ththatemhereafter no such indulgence was
case
e withoutwarr warranted;
nsteur cbtiunt
to be shown to any vessels taken in similar circumstances,
ptieutirsL, bm.• had
afoinllohwiisnglonstotticreeas:_uLe,Lohset,
NOVEL REWARD.—Mr. James Pollard lost, on
Monday last, two half-sovereigns, which, on in
reason to believe had been found by a certain
ttolieg enthgiasged
=the.
order to
ing,. near the Town Hall, two half-sovereigns. Any person
cur?evrn.to announce
having found the same, and Will bring the person
having it to crier, shall
receive one pound five shillings reward. The same, in saro-
portion, will be pail to any person who has found one or the
half-sovereigns."Suflice it to say that the money wa.a loon
produced,' and the fortunate finder received 11b. ;e:410 and
56. illlllolleyow4forthampton Mercury.