The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, MAY 15.—A letter from Ostend says—
" From the 17th of this month a steam-boat, belonging
to the Antwerp Company will leave Ostend every Tues-
day for London, and, vice versa. The steamer to be
employed on this line is the Bruges, which will take pas-
sengers, &c. , on the same terms as the General Steam
Navigation Company.
" This latter Company has, however, given notice that
the passage-money on board its vessels, which will leave
this port for London on the 17th of this month, which
was in general fixed at 1/. 10s. in the first cabin and
1/. ss. in the second, is reduCed to ss. in the first and to
4s. in the second cabin.

BRUSSELS, MAY 12.—The Augsburg Gazette says, that
Count Velain has been appointed Envoy for Belgium to
the German Confederation, but this news requires con-
firmation. M. Kindt, who has hitherto attended the
commercial negotiations with the French Government
for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce, has returned,
from Paris without having obtained any result. The
appeal of General Vandermeers, and the other persons
condemned to death for the conspiracy, comes :before
the Court of Cassation this morning. On the applica-
tion of their counsel it was adjourned for three weeks,
because he had not had sufficient time to make himself
acquainted with the voluminous papers relating to the
affair.

DUTCH FUNDS.—Amerzarsam, MIN 15.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, C% per Cent 00000 52% 52%
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen t Svndic,4% percent ...... 93% 7 95%
Ditto, ditto, 3% per ..... 77% it%
Commercial Company, 4L, percent 154% 154%
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per
Exchange on London, One month l2 12%
Two months 12 024
Hamburgh, One month 35 43%
Two months 35 18%
Dutch Papers, May 16.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VnturrA, Mak 7.
fire per Ccuts.Metalliques ......" 109%
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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, MAY 18.—This being the first day of Tri-
nity, or Act Term, a congregation was holden, at which
the following degrees were conferred :
Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. John Foley, Fellow of
Wadham College.
Masters of Arts.—J. Fraser, Oriel College ; *R. T.
Kent, Wadham ditto ; *Rev. 1). Hunter, Exeter ditto ;
Rev. T. B. Adair, ditto ; Rev. J. B. Sweet, Balliol ditto ;
Rev. J. W. L. Schreiber, ditto ; Woolley, Lincoln
ditto ; Rev. Wilcocks, ditto ; Rev. W. L. Darell,
Christ Church ; W. Currer, ditto ; Rev. J. Fletcher,
St. Mary Hall ; Rev. R. Tomlins, ditto ; W. Knight,
Worcester College ; R. Joynes, Corpus Christi ditto •,
Foulkes, Jesus ditto ; W. C. Morland, Christ Church.
Bachelors of Arts.—C. J. Parke, Oriel College ; R.
G. Swayne, Wadham ditto ; G. W. Paul, ditto • G.
Meynell, Brasennose dit.o ; R. Stanton, ditto ; W. G.
Bradley, ditto ; W. Jackson, Queen's ditto ; J. Merry.
ditto ; 'l'. Lucas, ditto ; W. L. Collett, ditto ; F. Temple,
Balliol ditto ; J. Clapcott, Lincoln ditto ; *C. F. Wyatt,
Christ Church ' • H. Goodwin, ditto ; A. Barrett, Wor-
cester College ; A. A. Aylward, ditto ; T. C. B. Stretch,
ditto ; C. W. Gordon, Magdalen Hall ; F. W. Vaux,
ditto ; R. Watts, ditto ; J. Coventry, ditto : C. F. Cook,
ditto • C. E. Brewin, St. Mary ditto ; F. E. Cole, ditto ;
R. Weatherell, ditto ; H. Robinson, St. Alban, ditto ;
H. G. J. Parsons, Magdalen College.
*Grand Compounders.

THE ROMANCE OF LIFE.--Some short time ago,
in one of the villages on the Firth of Forth, lived a lady
whose husband had long before gone to sea, and never
having heard from him for some years, she believed him
to have been dead. At the time her husband went to
sea, Mrs. S. lived in a town in England ;, but, after
giving up hopes of his return, she removed, with her only
daughter, to her native country, Scotland. In the course
of years a probationer of the Church of Scotland came
to officiate as a missionary in the parish, and formed an
attachment for Miss S. Seeing no immediate prospect
of obtaining a church at home, he resolved on trans-
ferring himself to one of our American colonies, and re-
ceived an appointment there from a colonial Missionary
Society. Having been united to Miss S., he took his
departure, leaving his wifik and mother-in-law to follow
as soon as he should have prepared for their comfortable
reception. They accordingly left this country some time
afterwards for America. In the meantime, among the
settlers over whom the young divine's charge extended,
was a comfortable farmer, also named S., who made in-
quiries after the history of the minister's wife and
mother, and expressed an anxious desire to see them on
their arrival. They did arrive safe, and on reaching the
minister's habitation, Mr. S. was sent for to be intro-
duced. Judge of the surprise of all, when, on the entry
of Mr. S., the newly-arrived females found in him the
long-lost husband and father ! Having been unable to
trace his family in England, after a protracted absence,
he had returned to America, where, by a singular coin-
cidence, both he and they found those they had given up
as lost. The parties, we are glad to, say, are now living
comfortably and happily in the New World.—Edinburgh
Paper.

STEAM NAVIGATION. A beautiful new iron
steamer, called the Eagle, will leave the Thames in a
day or two for Marseilles, destined to navigate the
Rhone. She is built by Messrs. Ditchbtum and Mace,
and reflects great credit upon that respectable firm. Her
measurement is about 280 tons ; length 185 feet. She
is fitted with a pair of very superior engines of 110-horse
power, made by the eminent house of Miller, Ravenhill,
and Co., of Blackwall. Notwithstanding her size, and
the power of her machinery, her draught of water is only
one foot ten inches. This is an important point, as re-
spects the navigation of the Rhone, which is not only a
very rapid river, but is in many places not more than
three feet deep. To Mr. Miller belongs the merit of having
first overcome so formidable an obstacle to the navigation
of the Rhine by steam, and the engines in question are the
25th pair that his house have made for that purpose. In
order to put her exquisite machinery to the test of trial,
and prove its capability for the long and rather difficult
voyage she is about to venture upon, by the Bay of
Biscay, the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean,
to Marseilles, the Eagle made an experimental trip
down the river on Tuesday, with a numerous party on
board, including several scientific and nautical men, who
expressed their warm admiration of her performance in
every respect. During the excursion the company,
which also included several ladies, sat down in the splen-
did cabin to a very elegant collation, furnished by the
spirited engineers, and spent a most convirial afternoon.
The responsible duty of taking the Eagle to her desti-
nation has been confided to Captain Farmer, sen., whose
high reputation as an able, experienced, and careful
steam-commander, affords a sure guarantee for her safe
conveyance, even through seas with the storminess of
which she was never designed to combat.

Great difficulty is often experienced in calculating
the number of stamps which should be placed on heavy
letters. The best way to do this is to ascertain the
highest number of ounces aletter exceeds, and then dou-
ble the next higher figure above that number, which will
give the number of pence which is charged for the pre •
paid postage of that letter. Thus a letter weighing
above four ounces, and under five ounces ; by doubling
the five it gives the correct amount of postage, 10d.,
which is chargeable on such a letter. The postage on
letters not weighing more than a half-ounce is one
penny ; not weighingounce, mote than an 2d. The
postage on letters above an ounce advances 2d. in arith-
metical progression. No sum is charged for postao-e
that is expressed by an odd number above Id. Thus
there is no such postage as three, five, seven, or nine-
pe,'ny, &c , postage, as many suppose.
The Seguisian Mercury, of St. Etienne, says, it
has been assured that large orders for muskets have
been received by the manufacturers of that town from
the East India Company. This is, however, exceed-
ingly improbable. With so many hands unemployed at
Birmingham and elsewhere, the East India Company
needs not either as regards cheapness, expedition, or
good workmanship, send their orders out of the country.
A letter from Athens, of the 27th ult., states that
the shocks of earthquake, which were felt there on the
18th, were experienced also in various parts of Greece,
in some of which the effects were serious. At Kalamata
all the houses were more or less injured ; at Androusa
some churches were thrown down ; and in some villages
of the province of Maina many peasants were killed by
the falling of their houses. Another shock of earth-
quake was felt at Patras on the 25th, but it was not pro-
ductive of any serious injury.
GOOD NEWS FOR SPORTSMEN.—In a field a few
miles west from Edinburgh, a partridge was found on
the last day of April, sitting on 23 eggs ; a circum-
stance, we believe, unprecedented at that period of the
season,

SIR CHARLES BELL.
The death of Sir Charles Bell, eminent as a scholar
and first-rate anatomist and lecturer, 111:3
blank in the literary world which will no: readi4 be
supplied.
Of the preliminary education, upon the founded?n
of which Sir Charles started on his career into n
world., we have the evidence of his own words.
have been educated to anatomy," says he, in hi'
cellent work upon Operative Surgery, " with a strie ,
gratefil.
ness and severity for which I am now
United in study with a brother
whom the general sense of the profession ranks,celii
high—longh is assistant, and then his partner-140
still dissatisfied, until I had .a wider knowledge 01
profession."
The literary labours of Sir Charles Bell were lItc:
less voluminous than recondite, and no less accur.3_
than remarkable for their clear and excellent 'nil:
(Mr. John Bell),
vention in all matters that regarded his peculiar fri•
of science. These labours spread over many
The first works of any note which we have hefbre. ii
were two, published as early as 1802, at Edinburgh;
they.consist chiefly of descriptions of illustrative_,,
gravmgs upon the great nervous system of the
frame, and brought at once their author into re Pll,
In 1806 Sir Charles produced his excellent P
says on the Anatomy of Expression in Paiiitin,go.f
Engaged, by his professional duties, in the stud and
the anatomical structure, as regarded the practice
thor
inquiries of the physician and the surgeon, the al! et
now attempted to deduce from this study the Oro,
and most pleasing results. Standing, as al4,t,°r of
does, related to the arts of design, as the gramt-
that language in which they address Ili, Sir Cl'a
now took into consideration the expressions, et° the
and movements of the human figure, which are
05 of
characters of this language, and show the wurb-11):11ii
human passion in its infinitude of shapes. 00
series of lectures abounded in amusing, no less ter
instructive topics. Among some of his (1'13"
criticisms, wherein he strays into classic
find him noticing the acuteness of the satiric Pen,tly
Persius, and his confrere, Horace, who frettril*
strike off the expressive characteristic of thell"'d--
as indicative of emotion, in the slight touelLess,"---
" Rides, ait, et nimis uncis, naribus indwntion,
" Minus aptis acutis naribus," &c. His invert the
too, attempts to find a new denomination '°„"rigili
snarling muscles of animals, which take thethe
from the margin of the orbit of the eye, and for other
upper jaw ;—these he called "ringentes”--tnlitel
long muscles, employed at feeding-time, he design
" depascent ft, in
Sir Charles's work on the " Anatomy of the ft,
has been pronounced to be the best adapted to illlisto
quarterso,
the anatomy of the ercaphalon since the
same
Vicq D'Azyr's splendid work on the same sor,-;0'
In the year 1813 Sir Charles delivered 0,
cellent course of lectures at Kensington, mai,ll`43 be°
then strenuously the principles of the English '-cf tY
of Physiology, and exposing the futilities °f Tine
French philosophers and physiologists, wh°se,lto
trines, representing life as the .mere physical res-thell
certain combinations and actions of parts, bY', $Ol
termed organization, did so much to demoraliz-ted
injure the minds of thousands. Sir Charles e,11,,,iel
the lists against these writers, and stoutly de'e.
both religion and science.
Sir
His sedulous attention to anatomy alone, ,side
Bell almost in after years regretted, as he eon 51,00,
that it had made him negligent of those acquire';"
which he thought might have more highly ben-heefl
him. This regret, however, must surely 11"vexo'
but transient, when it is considered that it was, 'a
solely his anatomical acquirements which 'tie, a'Bridgewater Committee to nominate him to t--a
tJ
charge of one of the chief of their treatises, g?,thio
form part of those engaged in working 011,,t
oo
great argument" of the " Power, Wisdom, allu 00"
ness of God," according to the will and testaule
'the noble and high-minded Peer. 0101
It is almost surplusage to mention Sir ip•
Bell's Essay on Animal Mechanics, which lite;
Brougham, then Chancellor, requested him t°,l:l,
nor his further labouring, in conjunction lv","0'
Lordship, in illustrating the " Natural TheologitiO
Dr. Paley, an important work, in which thesewof
powerful and masculine minds threw new 'LW
around the labours of their solid-thinking predeec-1#
Sir Charles Bell was elected to the Surgical -00°
iu the University of Edinburgh, in 1835, in the
' of Dr. Turner.

A Montpellier journal, the Courrier dufur
mentions the arrest of five Spanish refugees, Ic'd 0,1
them officers of rank, on a charge of having ilteGp3ifr,
junta to raise r ecruits for a counter-revolution gcl
They were removed from Montpellier on the 3i
Calais, which is to be their residence, unless tileo
vernment should think its necessary to compel th
proceed to
TENACITY England.
A
OF SCOTCH IRON.--Aaxe., very 0117
proof of the great tenacity of Scotch made bar yo 113,
this week, been exhibited in the
.Abercorn founn:,o
iron under operation was the produce of Mr. 4111e4)
works, Glasgow, and formed the tire of a railsof oic
In turninn, the wheel, Messrs. Barr and M‘Nob Wa,
a ribbon of' iron about a quarter of an inch hreager
about the thickness of thin pasteboard, which 113,S fort!
in length 67 feet. This was its length in the sPir7,ol,ol"
If stretched to its full-length, it would measure
300 feet.—Leeds Journal.
zal
The Messagor announces that the Naiio) reao
seized on Monday at the Post-office, and in the bun co 0;
of that journal, and that a prosecution has hee 000er
menced against the responsible editor, for soloed dr,
rited imputations upon the Procureur du Rei
Magistrates, with reference to the late railwaY covf
These proceedings have been instituted on lilac! t'
plaint of two of the public functionaries attack
the National.
FAIL AccmENT.—On Friday last, Cap
new, of the sloop Friends, James Agnew, a Ylog
one of the hands in the same vessel, Captain P. '• of
of the sloop Rob Roy, and James M•Creadie,ocee'3`
sloop Catherine, all belonging to Stranraer, pr„w,
in a boat to Larne (from which place their vessethel):"4
moored at a distance of about three miles), for ea 6
poie of getting their sails repaired, and were rool::,6
about seven o'clock in the evening, when the bj J
upset off Isle Magee. Captain Torrance 01144
Agnew not having been able to reach the boat,
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fortunately drowned. Captain Agnew 4111110 P
M'Creadie clung to the boat, and were saved NO ra
difficulty, by a man from Isle Magee, who ilea
.ttt d
cries, and hastened to their assistance with a
bodies were found on Wednesday evening.--
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Register.
,„d°
A PATERNAL MAGISTRATE.--A Fren‘~h—elluo'
publishes the following police regulations, issb reV,fo
Mayor of Lorris, near Montargis Police f yro,
tions relative to public balls.—We, Mayor O?
having considered the improprieties which prel:u.
public ball-room, have ordained, and do ordain .
lows :—Art. 1. Having considered the accideelav
have occurred from the manner in which dobcolfi
been conducted for some time past, it is ezPre„,th
bidden from this day forward to dance the ga,„"lion4,
a penalty of from 5E to 10f., to be paid by the •-ye4);`)
who shall play such a dance. 2. Having reraarre c
many young females fall whilst dancing the figopf„
partourelle, and not having it in our power te,elV
the aforesaid figure, it is forbidden to turn so VP, ir
jump, or to strike with the two feet.—Bou TAP 1,6
A second list of bankers, merchants, and etiliergit;f4;
scribing to the relief of the sufferers at liate`pree
been published. Amongst the names are those ° 607,
Jacques Lafitte, and Co., for 2,000 f. ; Me-stiestrr
Odier, Janes Odier, J. Lefevre and Co., P4V;
J. E. Larrieu, A. Dassier, Allege, H.Luttel?`;:ro6:
mann and Son, F. Hartmann, P. A. Selliere ,I°;f4 5
each ; and many others for smaller sums of 3,rif.,,,orir
down to 2f. The amount of this list is 19,5°5017,0,
ing the total already subscribed 81,521 f. Thisateo;li`
tion is independent of one opened by a eoniel',l-
- of Marshal Gerard, Duke de Vainly, s"dt
persons of high rank.
140e`'
The Governor-General of Algeria has Vl' froiV
order, dated Oran, April 28, announcing tot!otio
Ist inst., a regular Post-office communication :001
place weekly between Oran and Tlemcen, )-1 co
Mostaganem. Mostaganem. The mail is to be under the
detachment of of the neighbouring tribes. 11 laf /It
COPY OF AN OLD RECEIPT .—"ffeb : th Uio -grj
and Eighty two Received of Will: Knight they be
shillings in full for hake a years duty tbr two f'cr i
in his house in Kentisborw due and end *if :
last past. I say received by —Fol 71 L. flu_-. ~.,05re
Collector." In the original the words in 'Pipe of
writing, the rest in print. It appears that v, fire is
they were obliged to pay a tax for lighting, u ""
houses.— Western Luminary.
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BIRTHS. tbe
On the 14th inst., at Over-court, Glr,ucestershire, ell
of R. Cann Lippincott, Esq., of a daughter. AVAller'
Jb
On the 18th inst., at Tavistock-square, Mrs. • kJ'
daughter.
eot64' P'
On the 18th inst., at England's-lane, vs'c tt
Hampstead, Mt s. Jackson, of a daughter. ( Sal
On the 18th inst., at Norwood, the lady V
Colvin, Esq., of a son. a
,
MARRIED. tif ,40 0)
On the 19th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsba,2*„;seq,,,l''
fourth son of the late George Trower, Esq., of R.:6 1.1
to Helen, the eldest daughter of William SeY''-and jlr
Montague-place.
On the 19th inst., at St. Mary's. Maryleboye the we(
Vidal, of Cornborough, near Bideford, and
.°? tls°'
o
Temple, Esq., barristar.at-law, to Emma Harriet° rvjte
Walpole Eyre, Esq., of Bryanston-square.' I>rltiter
On the 19th inst., at Trinity Church, io
Forster, of Halborn-hill, to Matilda, youngest ust
late Thomas Wilson, Esq., of Rickmanswortb, tier g.

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On the Bth of March, at Sholapore. Cornet '.lc Wilt
of the Ist Regiment of Madras Light Cavalry_,- aiellf,,,oo,i
On the 13th inst., at Heigham, sr Por ' Aegfr
Courtenay Cruttenden, Esq. former) ylioef the I's 'l'4
Wsr
Foot
sth
inst., aged
nasgt.eB:ls.M2rs.. f 11r.
On the 18th inst., Mary Ann, daughter o* ' f
t'lle°
Finsbury.o n t
e circus,l
On the 19th inst., erey-st reet, Bedford'eldest "'to'
the son of Dr. M'Lean, 11th Hussars. be eldeoP" On the 19th inst., Edmund St. George, t- west
James St. George Burke,E P k street,
sq.„ of el -
in pW. Thomson, ofiter:q6utoreree,,l,lidi

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