The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland, Now _ 3,663,500
Last time

Increase
Private and Joint-Stock Banks, Last time
Now

37,575
2,357,446
2,241,722

Decrease .

115,724

Bullion in Bank of England, Last time 15,844,000
Now 15,572,000

Decrease

£274,000

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 6.—Her Majesty Queen Adelaide
had, indeed, given up the plan of coming to Antwerp, as
we have stated, but not her visit to Germany. Her Ma-
jesty left London on the 3d, went by way of Dover to
Calais and Lille, and arrived at Courtray on the 4th,
whence she came by a special train to Ghent, where she
arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon. She was re-
ceived at the station by the civil andmilitary authorities,
and a company of Grenadiers paid her the honours due
to her rank.
Her Majesty entering the city, alighted at the hotel
de la Port, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, and a numerous suite. In the evening she
visited the Cathedral of St. Baron, and some other re-
markable monuments in the city ; and, on the sth, in the
morning, set out with a special train to Cologne.
A letter from Cologne, of the sth, says that her
y, and put up at the Hotel
had been engaged for her and
was to proceed- the following
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morning to Mayence. in the Victoria steamer, belonging
to the Dusseldorf Steam Nav;gation Company, which
the Queen had caused to be engaged, some days ago,
through the London Company,
On the 25th of May, the little town of Medeback, in
Westphalia, was half destroyed by a terrible contlagra-
gs, and above two hundred
houses,
ses,Aalrl tele public
rieducedtobuinaislhdes._

THE HAGUE, JUNE s.—The States General received
yesterday the communication of a project of law for re-
gulating, for the advantage of the mother country, the
excess of the colonial revenue of the year 1843. The
total receipt for 'the year 15343 was 27,517,645 florins.
The expenditure, including 9,800,000 florins for the an-
nual interest of the debt of the colonies, was 24,462,311,
the surplus to be disposed of for the mother country is,
therefore, 3,005,333 ; to which must be added the pro-
ceeds of the sale of coffee, which on account of the fall
in prices, was not sold in the autumn of 1843, and the
sale of which in 1844, was effected at a price exceeding
the original estimate by 157,092 florins. The total is,
therefore, 3,212,405 florins.
THE HAGUE, JUNE 4.—Their Royal Highnesses
Prince and Princess Frederick of the Netherlands will
set out to-morrow for Berlin, where they intend to make
a considerable stay.
We learn that our Government is fully resolved to em-
ploy reprisals against Belgium.
THE HAGUE, JUNE 6.—His Majesty's steamers, the
Cyclops, Cerberus, and Merope, which attended the Em-
peror of Russia to England, returned to the Meuse the
day before yesterday.
This short voyage will be always remembered with
pleasure by those who had the honour of accompanying
the Emperor. Without being in the least affected by
sea-sicknesss, his Majesty spent most of his
titre on deck, conversed in the most affable manner with
every officer, spoke of his own country, his people, and
his family, so that in these moments he seemed not to
be an Emperor, but more like a father talking with the
children of another family, e'pecially when he spoke of his
wife and children. His Imperial M9jesty gave the
insignia of different Russian orders to several of the
officers, and a present of a thousand ducats to be
distributed among the crews of the several vessels.
We learn that the Emperor will leave London on Sun-
day, arrive here on Monday, and stop at the Hague only
two days.

ROYAL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN.—Yesterday the
anniversary festival of the Royal Infirmary in Waterloo-
bridge-road, established in 1816;for the purpose of affording
gratuitous medical aid to the poor of the metropolis, took
place at the London Tavern. Soon after six o'clock about 80
of the leading patrons and supporters of the institution sat
down to a plentiful dinner—the Right Hon. the Earl of
Arundel and Surrey, M.P. in the chair; we also observed
Lord Lyttelton. Mr. E. Antrobus, M.P., Mr. H. Kemble,
M.P., Major Brereton, Mr. A. K. Barclay, &c., at the
head table. After the remov. of the cloth, the customary
routine of loyal and appropriate toasts were given, and,
in the course of the evening, subscriptions and donations
amounting to 2851. were handed over to the treasurer,
Mr. A. K. Barclay. The annual subscription of 21/. from
IT. Majesty, and 10/. from the Queen Dowager, were like- I
wise announced by the secretary, who made a gratifying
statement relative to the funds of the Society, which it ap-
peared had been sufficiently extended to enable the Com-
mittee to liquidate a heavy building debt, exceeding 2,000/.,
although the necessity of increased support was strongly
urged upon the meeting, the period having arrived for carry-.
ing out the proposition of the founders of the charity, by
opening the wards for in-patients, and by the delivery of
clinical lectures on the most important infantile disorder.
Mr. W. C. Dendy, one of the medical staff, in acknowledging
the compliment paid that body, alluded to the circumstance
of medical aid being now afforded, by means of this institu-
tion, to the sick parent of the suckling child, whereby organic
disease in the latter, in many instances, is obviated. _He
trusted the importance of this new feature in their operations
would not be underrated, although it may have been the
cause of additional expenditure. Mr. Dendy also drew their
attention to the increased benefits now atforded the infant
patients by their removal from the unwholesome atmospherewhich surrounded the wretched homes of the poor, and which
originated much of Ale disease prevalent amongst them. The
Noble Chairman did not get through the duties of his office
till a late hour ; the ordinary intervals occurring in the pro-
ceedings of the evening having been agreeably extended by
the glee and solo singing of Messrs. H. Phillips, Hawkins,
T. Cooke, and Hatton, under, the direction of Mr. Hawes,
whose arrangements gave general satisfaction.