The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

DUTCH AND GERMAN MAIL.

TIIE HAGUE, MAY 25.—Though the Belgian
journals deny the fact, we know for certain that the
Cabinet of London has sent an energetic' note to that
of Brussels respecting the system of differential duties
contemplated at Brussels.
The Government has presented to the Chamber a
project of law for the repayment in the exchange of a
part of the national debt. The principal object in the
amelioration of the finance of the State is at the time
to regulate the employment of the sums due to Hol-
land by Belgium. The capital of 80 millions of flo-
rins at 21. per cent., invested to the credit of Holland
in the great book of the national debt of Belgium,
will be exchanged, either wholly or in part, for a capi-
tal of the same amount in the public debt of Holland
at' 2I per cent., or this capital will be invested, either
wholly or in part, at a price which cannot exceed 59
per cent. of the nominal capital.
We learn that the ex-Regent of Spain, General
Espartero, and General Van Halen arrived at Rot-
terdam yesterday, by a steamer from Cologne.
We learn by a private letter from Paris that the
Governments of France and Austria have resolved
not to interfere in the affairs of Switzerland.—liutch
Papers, May 28.
TURKISH FRONTIERS, MAY 13.—We have received
to-day letters from Constantinople of the Bth of May.
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin and
the Hereditary Prince Lippe arrived there on the 4th.
The most dreadful persecution of the Christians was
again going on at Konich.
Letters from Alexandria of the 6th of May, state
that the Viceroy had arrived there, but have no other
news of importance.—Allgemeine Zeitung, May 23.

DETBNMINED SUICIDE, By AN AMERICAN.—At an
early. hour on Tuesday morning, a most determined act
of suicide was committed at the house of Mr. Huens,
Prince's street, Spitalfields, by a man of colour, a na-
tive of America,.named John Moore, 28 years of age.

It appears that he had lately arrived in this country,
and having squandered away the whole of his money, he
had made application to the American Consul to
be sent back to his own country. He was
accordingly placed by the Consul in the establishment of
Mr. Huens, where persons in his situation are boarded
and lodged at the expense of the American Government,
until an opportunity offers to be sent out by the first ship.
He had been in the house but three days. After being
out the whole of the day, he returned home on the previous
night, about ten o'clock, and went up to his sleeping
apartment, which was on the third floor, at the back of
the house. He had not been up stairs above three hours,
when a heavy fall was heard in the back yard, and upon
Mr. Huens going out to ascertain the cause, he found
the deceased lying on the flag-stolies, surrounded by a
pool of blood, and quite insensible.• He was immediately
taken in doors, and Mr. Meeres, a surgeon sent for, who,
upon examinition, pronounced him to be quite dead. He
had pitched upon his head, and had dislocated the verte-
brie of the neck. Death must have been instantaneous.
The window of the bed-room was, found wide open, and
the unfortunate man had evidently precipitated himself
therefrom. Not the slightest reason can be assigned for
the committal of the rash act.
DESERTION FROM THE FIFTY-EIGHTH FOOT.—A
great number of cases of desertion are reported to have
lately occurred in this regiment, the heard-quarters
of which embarked last week for New South Wales,
whither the remainder is soon to follow. On Mon-
day morning, a young man, named George Duke was
brought before the bench of magistrates at Roches-
ter, in the custody of a constable and a sergeant of
, the 58th, charged with being a deserter under the
following circumstances:—The constable stated that on
Friday afternoon, the 24th instant, he went into a low
• public-house, on the Brook, at Chatham, and saw
the prisoner there, dressed in sailor's clothes. Sus-
pected he was a soldier, and asked him the question,

but he denied it. However, he took the prisoner into
custody, and conveyed him to the barracks, where he
was recognised. Although only nineteen, this is his
third attempt at desertion. he prisoner denied he
had any intention to desert, and asserted that he
had at once told the constable what regiment he be-
longed to. The sergeant said that the prisoner had
only been absent that morning, and was under punish-
ment at the time. The magistrates asked whether the
colonel would not take the prisoner back, as a straggler,
as he had only been absent a few hours, and was found
within a mile of the barracks ; but the sergeant said,
" No, he was found in plain clothes, and the colonel
would try him as a deserter." The magistrates convicted
the prisoner, and gave him up to his depot.
HAYDN'S "CREATIox:'—The Sacred Harmonic
Society will perform this work at Exeter Hall en Friday
next. The vocal performers are Madame Caradori Al-
lan, Braham, snd Herr Staudigl, a combination of talent

rarely presenh3d on the same occasion.
ERECTION OF AN INN AT ALDERLEY.—The Man-
chester and Bi rmingham Railway Company have deter-
mined upon binllding a splendid inn on their line at. the
sAlderley station . The building is to be commenced forth-
with, at a cost nearly 4,000/.--11faccleifiekl Chronicle.