The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-06 00:00:00

FLANDERS-MAIL

BRUSSELq, Nov. 3.—His Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, with a numerous suite, arrived at Ghent on the
Ist of Nov. A letter in the Gazette of Mons says, "the
society of Bois-du-Luc in its meeting, on the 20th of last
month, passed a resolution to secure the workmen against
the loss of the sums deposited in the savings' banks, which
were entrusted to M. Brouet, banker at Favt, who has become
bankrupt." A letter from Antwerp of the 2d says, this
morning a cargo of 1,000 sacks of potatoes, of good quality
and in excellent condition, arrived from Dundee ;
,a cargo of
potatoes also arrived from Londonderry. The police have
caused several cart-loads of potatoes from Ireland to be
thrown into the river. The Congress of the Customs-Union,
at Carlsruhe, is terminated; all the members haie left the
city, and it is affirmed that nothing has been done in favour
of German manufactures. The next Congress is to be held
at Cassel, but it is affirmed that in the interval there will be
an extraordinary- Congress at Berlin during the -winter.
Some persons hope that protective measured wilt be adopted
at this extraordinary meeting, but this hope is ill founded."
What has distinguished the Congress which is just closed
in a very remarkable manner from that which was held at /
Stuttgard, three years ago, is the great indifference,or rather
the complete despondency manifested by the manufacturers in
refraining from addressing any petitions to the Congress,
whereas three years ago it was overwhelmed with them.
This scheme, observes the Augsburg Gazette, must have
had a fearful signification in the eyes of the statesmen assem-
bled at Carlsruhe. They must have seen that the manufac-
turers do not expect any useful measure from the Govern-
ment, and were prepared to help themselves.
The German Courier of Nuremb-rg announces that the
new tariff of the Zoilverein, as determined in the Congress at
Carlsruhe, is now before the several Governments for their
ratification, and that it will probably be published before the
middle of November.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bars:rzs, Nov. 4.
- Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .. ....... ....
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent - •
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
Ditto,ditte, •• •• •• .• •• 101%
Ditto, ditto, 1842 . 102% • .
Ditto, 1836 . • .
Ditto, 1838 . . . .. 74%
Ditto of the City, 1832 ........
Ditto, 1843
Bank of Belgium , 765
—Brussels Papers. Vov. 5.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vmora. OCT. 29.
5 per Cent. Metalliques ...........• .. • ... 111 3-16
4 per Cent. ditto •• • • • .. •• • • 100%
3 per Cent. ditto .............. •••• • • .• 76}2
Ditto, 1839 ........... ..... .......... 129
Esterhazy's Loan ........ 58
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand ...... •• • 193
Gloggnitz ..
Vienna—Milan .• • • ••• • • • .... 116
Leghorn l t 51y
Grosetto 98%
Pestoja ....... ..... ..
Zeltung, Nov. 1.
DUTCH FUNDS.—ABISTERDAM, Nov. 4.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 23 per Cent.. . • 60 GO%
Ditto, 3 per Cent •••• • • • • 72% 73%
Ditto, 4 per Cent.............. ..... 96 96
Amort Syndic, 43 per Cent •• • • 99% 100
Ditto, 3 per Cent •••• • • • . 91% 92'
Commercial Company, 43 per Cent .. 158% 159%
East India Loan, 4 per Cent ...... •• • • 95% 96%
Exchangeon London, at sight .....• • • 12 30
Two months ••• - •• 12 20
On Hamburgh, at sight ...• 36 37
Two months.— ••• • .. 35 75
Two months. .• • • • ••• • • •
—Dutch Papers, Nov. 5.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Nov. 1.

St. Schuld Sch., 3 Bills. Money.
% per Cent •• • • 98% 97%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent..
Exchange on London, 2 months.. ...• • • 6 23% 6 23%
•Universal Prussian Gazette, Nov. 2.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Nov. 1.
Bills. Money.

&ustrian 5 per Cents •.............
Bank Shares . . .
Anglo-Russian Loan .
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 103 102
Ditto Ist series Inscription.... .. • • • • • • 103 102
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th aeries— 96 -
Ditto, in Certificate— •••• • • • • 96
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •••• • • 90
Ditto Stieglitz • . • • ••• • • ••••• • • • • 88 —
Spanish New 5 per Cent.........• • . 19% IN
Ditto 3 per Cent • •• • • • •• • • • • 30 29%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent. •
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent . 5B
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844....
dngio-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent
National Bank Shares..

THE IRON STEAM-PACKETS.
Lieutenant H. ;Hanby Tylden (1836), late first lieutenant
of the Lily, 18, sloop, has been appointed to recommission
the Lizard, iron steam-vessel, at Woolwich. This -is the
first of the six iron vessels built for dispatch-boats, and was
commissioned at Woolwich about six months since ; but
before she had taken on board the whole of her stores she
was found to be so deeply immersed that she was put out of
commission, and her officers and crew were turned over to
the Spitfire. She is now to have the same complement, ar-
mament, and stores as the Locust, built in 1840, as it is con-
tended by the Navy Office that the . Lizard was designed to
carry no heavier weights, and that it is the fault of the Ad-
miralty that the Lizard swam so deeply, for they increased
the armament and the complement of men. This, however,
is not the fact. The Lizard is not of the same dimensions
as the Locust. She and the other five are at least 20 feet
longer, and the increased tonnage which the larger dimen-
sions gave may have naturally and judiciously determined
the Admiralty to increase the complement, and make the
steamers more effective. But even with this greater capacity,
and with the same number of men, less stores, and three
days' coals only, the new iron steam-vessels, the Jackall end
Bloodhound, finished in 1845, are inferior in point of speed
even to the old wooden vessels, and are no more fit to be em-
ployed as packets in the Mediterranean than a coach and four
horses at the present day are eligible to carry the mails to
Brighton. Why will the Admiralty allow the country
to be served worse than private companies? The
directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company,
or the directors of the General Steam Navigation
Company, would not consider that they were doing their
duty to the shareholders, if they accepted a halt dozen
vessels from the builders in 1845, the speed of which was .
not equel to vessels built in 1840, notwithstanding such great
improvements have been annually made to increase the
power and reduce the weight of marine engines. Private
companies have vessels built for them every year that, exceed
each other in stowage and speed in succession as they are
brought out; but the Admiralty, at the greatest cost, have
vessels built in 1845 that are not half a mile an hour faster
than those built in 1840, and even if stored and stowed as
they ought to be, they would be inferior to the old 10-gun
brigs, converted- into steamers 20 years ago, and now em-
ployed as tugs. How long will the Admiralty suffer a
subordinate department thus to waste the public money, and
thus invite reflection on themselves, who have done so much
for the navy and the country since their accession to office
in August, 1841.

DEATH OF THE DOWAGER BARONESS NAIRNE.-..
We have to record the demise of Caroline Baroness Nairne, wbo
expired on Monday, the 27th ult., at her seat in Perthshire, at
the advanced age of eighty-one years. The deceased Baroness was
third daughter of Mr. Lawrence Oliphant, and married in June,
180 d, William, fifth Lord Nairne, by whom her Ladyship had an
only son, William, the sixth Lord Nairne, on whose death, in 1837,
the barony devolved on Margaret, Countess Flahault, married to
his Vxcellericy Count Flahault, French Ambassador at the Coitri
of Austria.

ARUNDEL CASTLE.—The Duke and Duchess of
Norfolk are receiving a select circle, this week, at the Castle.
Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy, the
Earl and Countess of Jersey, and Lady Clementina Villiers, arrived
on a visit to the Noble Duke and Duchess on Tuesday, from
Brighton.

The Duke Torlonia has left Alivart's Hotel for
Rome, after a sojourn of several weeks in this country.
According to the last census taken of the Austriln
empire, its population, including the army, amounted to
38,000,000 of souls, being an increase within a period of 25
years of 21 per cent.

THE LATH ACCIDENT AT YARMOUTH SUSPENSION..
BUDGE.—A question was recently raised as to the validity of the
inquest on the bodies of the persons who were drowned by the
tailing •f the suspension-bridge at Yarmouth. A notice of the
grounds of objection appeared in this paper about three weeks
since. The whole matter was referred, under the charter, to the
adjourned quarter sessions, when the case was argued. It will
contended, on the authority of the case " Queen v. West " (1 Gall
and Davis, p. 451), that one inquisition would be sufficient where
several persons were killed at the same time and by the same acd-
dent. Therefore, that the Coroner had no right to charge fee
seventy.nine inquests. In the next place, it was contended that
some inquests were net proper in form, as they did not set •ut tbi
precise cause of death, whether by drowning or by the falling it
the bridge; and in the next place, the inquests had been adjourned
sine die. It had been held in Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown,
that the adjournment must be to some particular day and place.
No adjournment appeared on the face of the inquisition.
Mr. Baron Alderson had laid it down in the Queen
v. Connor," who was tried at the Central Critninsd
Court for murder, that after an adjournment sine die, the Con,
ner's jurisdiction ceased ; and lastly, that they were invalid, as tbs,
jurors had not been sworn on view of the bodies. To the two last
points the Coroner replied, that he could not fix a day, because he
could not tell when the Governmetat engineer would arrive; and
that the jurors were sworn at the church.hall and proeeeded to
♦iew the bodies—that the form of the oath was, " You shall di&
gently inquire touching the death of --, of whose body you Omit
have a view." The Recorder said the form was incorrect. ILr.
Evans, a magistrate, said Use proper form was, You shall diii-
gently inquire and true presentment make touching the death at
A. 8., here lying dead, The Recorder agreed, and on that ground
and on the ground that the adjournment sine die was illegal, and
that the jury ought to have been sworn whilst viewing the body.
pronounced the inquests to have been illegally holden ; and, thews
fore, that he could not allow costs. He, however, thought that an
inquest theuld be held on each person. This important decides
has been elicited in consequence of the heavy charges of the Coro.
ner, who claimed If. 6s. Bd, for each inquest, besides fees to the
jury and rewards for finding the bodies, Ac. The Town-Cound
offered to pay whatever turn the Recorder thought fair. The
Recorder suggested 50 guineas, exclusive of fees and rewards,
This was agreed to.

WORCESTER.—There was a good attendance of
buyers at our fair on Monday, but a short supply of cows and
sheep, considering the average of November fairs. Best beef sold
readily at 6d. per lb.; in-call cows and fresh barrens sold at yell
good prices. Mutton fetched from 61d. to 7d., with a ready sale.
There was a short supply of pigs, but they sold at an exceedingly
high figure. Prices were altogether much on the increase.
Worcestershire Chronicle.
GLASGOW PIG-IRON TRADE.—There seems to be
no cash buyers In this market at present prices. Large !tamale
are offering at 87s. 6d., but no buyers. We quote the price tor
cash, 85s. net. Altogether, the market is quite inanimate.—Gless.
gow :National.
KILMARNOCK.—STATE OF TRADE.—Trade is now
rather improving in the print.works, and is expected gradually to
get better. All kinds of labourers readily find employment
good wages ; fifteen shillings a-week is paid them by some of Unit
employers. Provisions are already beginning to fall as railway
shares advance.—Ayr Observer.
A letter from Hamburgh, of the 28th ult., says :
" A steamer arrived here yesterday from London with a large
quantity of specie. One well-known banking-houie received two
n expect to see the rate of slis-
n
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BRUSSELS, Nov. 4.---The Antwerp and Bruges
millions
reduced."
of mares Banco. We daily s
police seized the other day a large quantity of potatoes which had
arrived from Ireland in a damaged condition. It is probable that
they were sound when shipped, but in many cases the voyage Is
prejudicial to that vegetable.
Punch, this week, relieves us and rescues himself
from some peril, by giving Mrs. Caudle's " last Lecture," AR.
n.ouneing that the lady trek cold, the fatal result of which II tlst
inputted " the tragedy of thin phoes.".