The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-04 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, OCT. 30.—Among the petitions pre-
sented to the Second Chamber, respecting the tariff of
import and export duties, there is one from the
Chamber of Commerce at Tilburg, in which it is
affirmed that the woollen manufacturers are not in
general sufficiently protected ; that they require to
be powerfully supported; and that it is of the greatest
importance to the Netherlands that suitable measures
should be adopted to make them flourish. It is stated
that, in England, France, Germany, and Belgium,
manufacturers are infinitely more protected than with
us ; that in all those countries the importation of
woollen manufacturers, if not wholly prohibited, is
subject to such heavy duties that the importation is
impossible. The Chamber goes into the subject at
great length, and proposes an import duty of
34 florins for every 1001bs. of woollen manufacture.
THE HAGUE, OCT. 31.—1 n the sitting of th,:.
Second Chamber to-day, the debates on the address
ended with the adoption of that proposed by the Com-
mittee, but modified in some particulars, so that it
was sent to the First Chamber.

AMSTERDAM, OCT. 31.—We hear that his Majesty
the King may be expected in this city on Saturday
next, to see the exhibition.

We have received the following intelligence from
Curcao, Sept. 8 :
" We have had this year a very remarkable mete-
orological phenomenon in these countries. While in
Cuba and other places to the north there has been no
rain for several months, such heavy rains have fallen
on the Continent, that some parts present the appear-
ance of the deluge. The valleys are inundated, the tops
of the trees and the hills rise above the vast expanse of
waters ; the cattle attempt to fly to the higher land,
and perish in the flood ; the people are obliged to use
canoes in some villages, and the crops are partly de-
stroyed. These heavy rains seem to have prevailed very
far inland in the northeastern part of South America,
for we read in a Venezuela paper that the members
of the Congress have not been able to reach Bogota
in due time, because the roads had been rendered
impassable by the floods.
A letter from Maracaibo, of the 24th of May,
says—" The whole valley of the Rio Cacho, from
Cucuta to Maracaibo, a distance of snore than 600
miles, is entirely inundated ; the planters have been
obliged to leave their plantations and fly to the hills.
All the coffee plantations in this valley are under
water, and the cocoa is gathered by means of canoes.
The lanters are very unfortunate with respect to the
cocoa, for a few days before the rain set in, there was
a prospect of an extremely good crop. In consequence
of this disaster, the prices of coffee and cocoa have
risen at Maracaibo."
" The communication between Maracaibo and the
interior is wholly interrupted, and many vessels have
been long waiting for freight. The communication
with Valencia, Caraccas, La Guayra, and Porto Ca-
bello, has long since ceased."

ROMANTIC and AFFECTING TALE
The Constitutionnel of Tuesday contains the follow-
ing, the truth of which it guarantees. The facts,
divested of the embellishments of the narrator, are
as follow :—ln the early part of the month a work-
man and his wife, returning to their lodgings at
about ten o'clock at night, found a young female lying
insensible in the street, and having a baby in her arms.
Like good Samaritans they raised her up, and, after
obtaining some refreshments for her, had the satisfac-
tion of seeing her fully restored to life and conscious-
ness, but, on addressing her, discovered that she was
a foreigner, and unable to understand what they said.
They took her home, and treated her with great kind-
ness, and then set about the means of ascertaining
who she was, and what had brought her to the
state in which she was found. In a day or two,
amongst the friends of this kind couple, who, being
acquainted with foreign languages, visited their lodg-
ing in the hope of being able to converse with her,
came an old soldier who had been long in Spain, and
spoke Spanish well. On addressing the female in
that language, her eyes lighted up, and she told him
that she was a native of Valencia—that about two
years ago (she is now only twenty, and very beau-
tiful), she listened to the seductions of a young
foreigner, and, loving him, had at length committed
a fault which compelled her to quit her father's
house, and fly with him to Madrid to conceal her
shame. At Madrid she remained with her lover
several months, who one day told her he was
compelled to go to England on urgent business, but
would be in Paris on the Ist of the present month,
and, presenting to her a purse well filled with gold,
gave her the address of the hotel at which he was to
be found, and requested her to meet him there, She