The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-15 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Mancn 9.—The Chamber of Representatives in
its sitting to-day agreed to the project of law for the conver-
sion of 100,800,000 f.
Count F. de Hanel, lately attached to the Belgian Lega-
tion at Copenhagen, set out this morning for Madrid, to act
in the same capacity to the Belgian Legation in Spain.
M. Mans, the engineer, has returned from his visit to Ire•
land, whither he was sent by the Government to inquire
into the advantages that might result from the adoption of
the system of atmospheric railways. Mr. Stephenson, the
celebrated English engineer, was requested to be present at
the experiment to be made at Dalkey, in order to enable M.
Mans to examine the advantages and inconveniences of this
system. The Belgian engineer has been furnished with ev
information, and his report, which will shortly be published.ery
will be extremely interesting.
Some time ago two of our most important establishments
for the manufactory of machines were in negotiation with
the Russian Government for the supply of 150 locomotives.
The whole of the sum required was about _6 millions of
francs. An American house likewise made proposals which
have been accepted.
BRUSSELS, DIARCR 10.—The King and Queen came to tha
palace at Brussels to-day.
The municipal taxes of the city of Brussels produced in
the month of February 224,132 f., which is 12,232 f. more than
in February, last tear.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 11.—The King and Queen set out this
morning far Ghent, where they will arrive at five this after-
noon. The object of their Majesties is to view the splendid
annual exhibition of the Horticultural Society, which is one
of the most distinguished for the beauty and variety of the
flowers exhibited that has been known for many years.
Many of the most eminent botanists of Holland, France,
Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, have come to Ghent,
to form a jury- to award the prizes.
BATAVIA, Nov. 10.—On the 2d and 3d of September, there
arrived in the road of Timor Koepang, the Englith corvette
the Fly, Captain Blackwood, and the schooner the Bramble,
Lieutenant Yale, and, after taking in refreshment, sailed on
the sth of September for Swan River. These vessels are
commissioned to make a survey of Torres Straits, an opera
tion which, according to Captain Blackwood, will take three
years to complete. They will come again to Timor Koepang
in January.
AMSTERDAM, MARCh 12.—We are" happy to learn that his
Majesty will visit this city on Friday next, and :that the
Royal family will, as usual, visit us after Easter.
The papers are filled with articles respecting the income-
tax, and some detailed reports of. the speeches delivered in
the Second Chamber for and against the measure.

CONVICTS TOR VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—The Lon-
don hired convict-ship, at present moored off the Dockyard,
Woolwich, has already on board 244 convicts from the Mill-
bank Penitentiary, the Model Prison, Pentonville, and from
several country gaols, and is expected to take out in all about
300 of that unfortunate class, who will be guarded by de-
tachments of the 58th and 80th Regiments. One of the
men of the latter corps has become so ill that he was taken
on shore on Wednesday forenoon and placed in the hospital.
Amongst the convict-prisoners on board the London is the
well-known character in Plumstead and Woolwich named
John Bodle, who was found guilty at the last Central
Criminal Court sessions, and sentenced to twenty years'
transportation, for endeavouring to extort money from Lord
Abingdon's butler, under a threat, if he did not comply with
his demands, of charging; him with an unnatural crime. Since
the prisoner's conviction for this offence he has confessed
having poisoned his grandfather, although-he was tried at
Maidstone on that charge, but acquitted. Several of his re-
lations applied yesterday at the Woolwich Dockyard for per-
mission to visit the prisoner previous to his leaving the
country for the long period named in hie aeutciace.