The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-25 00:00:00

A MILLION

FUND.

MANCHESTER, DEC. 23, Eight, p.m.
Total amount of subscription this day to the
League Fund of a Quarter of a Million :

£61,844 14s. 6D.

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRIJSSELS, DEC. 21.—The Chamber of Represen-
tatives ♦oted to-day the budget of Ways and Means
without any important discussion. All the sums
under the several heads proposed by the Government,
were agreed to. The amendments proposed by M.
Savart Martel and by M. Eloy-Burdine were re-
jected. M. Brabant moved an amendment to the
first article of the project of law cn the Budget.
This amendment will be discussed and voted on to-
morrow's sitting, as well as several votes of credit
for different departments, on each of which a report
has already been presented.
Large quantities of potatoes from other countries
continue to arrive at Brussels.

For :•ome days past the Seine has bean rising con-
siderably ; if the bad weather continues we shall soon
have an inundation, the consequences of which may
prove disastrous.

We receive pretty satisfactory accounts from the
province of Luxemburg respecting the potatoes.
A fire near Tobolsk, in Siberia, lately destroyed a
forest, 60 leagues in length, and 20 leagues in breadth.
Twenty-five persons perished in the flames, which
destroyed one village, 13 mills, 1,850 barns, 77,800
stack of hay, 600 horses, 815 horned cattle, &c.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 22.—The Chamber commenced its
sitting to-day by passing several projects of lsw
granting supplementary votes of credit. It then
resumed the discussion of the budget of Ways and
Means.

M. Brabant's amendment on the tolls in the
Sambre was rejected. The entire budget was the-. 1
agreed to, by 71 members-2 voted against ;:,,, and
2 declined voting.
After voting a project of law respectin7 The transit,
the Chamber formed itself into
to discuss its own budget, a):::, a ''',..-cret' Committee,
then adjourned to the
13th of January.
The Sena` met to-day, and appointed several
Comrl'fiiiees to examine the projects of law sent up
from the Chamber of Representatives.
' The almost incessant rains have caused an extra-
ordinary rise of the Seine and its tributary streams.
The meadows, and a great part of the arable land,
on the banks, are entirely overflowed. The hamlet
of Curaghem and the whole valley of the Seine are
threatened with a general submersion.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bansins, Dzc. 23.
Actual Debt, 23¢ per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Lean of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent
Ditto Three per Cent •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto —
Ditto, ditto, 1840 —.... .. . ....... .. .. 99x
Ditto,ditto, 1842 ....• ....... ..... .
Ditto, 1844 97%
Ditto, 1636.. .....................„,
Ditto, 1838 .......• •...... .......
Ditto of the City, 1833 ...... • • .. •••• • • 1023( .
Ditto, 1843 ............. •••.• • • • • •• • . 100
Rank otheigium...... ..... •••••• • • • • • . 758
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 'l2.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—SIENNA, Tire. 17.
5 per Cent. Meta11ique5........... ...... . 111%
4 per Cent. ditto.
3 per Cent. ditto ..
Loan, 1834 160
Ditto, 1839 122%
Bank shares 1605
Esterhazy's Loan
•••.
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand •. • • • . • • •• • • 182%
Gloggnitz •
133(
Vienna—Milan .. ..... • ........ ....... iia%
Perth— .........• • • .• • ....... ..... ... 106%
Pestoja • —
—Mize/mins Zeitung, Dec. 20. • •

ELEPHANTS ON THE FRENCH STAGE.—We learn
from the Paris papers that two well, trained elephants
are now performing at the Theatre National
, Cirque
with the greatest success. They are the property of
Mr. Hughes, an Englishman, who is also the proprietor
of the " Mammoth Circus," in this country. A piece
has been written expressly for the purpose of displaying
the wonderful sagacity of these remarkable animals. The
Siecle of December 15th, in a notice of their clever per-
formances, remarks, that at the fall of the curtain the
elephants were loudly called for by the audience, and
when they again appeared on the stage flowers and
bouquets were thrown at their feet, when these animals
introduced the very novel innovation of swallowing all
the flowers !

FOOT RACE.—Yesterday the race between the
well-known runners. Inwood and Berry, came off on Wands-
worth-common. The men were matched to run a quarter of
a mile for 10/. aside. At the start, the men got away well
together. At one hundred yards Inwood got ahead; Berry
made an ineffectual struggle as his opponent ran in the
winner by several yards. The quarter of a mile of road was
accomplished by the winner in sixty. one seconds.