The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-03 00:00:00

FLANDERS MA IL.

ANTWERP AUG. 29.—We learn that several car-
goes of wheat are expected from England. All kinds
of flour and bread are rather dearer at Brussels than
fixed by 14th of August.
Among the passengers by the Wilberforce steamer
are—General Sir F. W. French, the Mexican Ge-
neral, Anastasia Bustamente, and Captain Jose Maria
de Caldoran.

--Thereigning Duke of
.Saxe Gotha, the King's
brother, accompanied by his Aides-de-Camp, arrived
yesterday from Ostend by a special train. his
Royal Highness will pass some days at Lacken.
Prince Esterhazy did not leave Brussels till yesterday.
The Government has received notice from its
Charge d'Affaires at Copenhagen, that a Royal
Rescript has been published, which abolishes the
charter granted in 1792 to the Danish Asiatic Com-
pany. Previous to this ordinance the Asiatic Com-
pany had balanced its accounts, and convoked the
proprietors, who did not attend at the meet-
ing. It is said that on the settlement the pro-
prietors will receive 40 per cent. It appears
that though the ground is prepared for the iron rail-
way from Lille to Roubaix, so that the engineers
agree that the rails might be laid down, and the way
opened in October next, this cannot be done till May
next year, because the rails are not ready. Where-
fore ? These rails are manufactured at Aveyron, in
the south of France, and as the carriage by land
would be too expensive, they must be sent to a port
in the Mediterranean, and brought to sea through
the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bay of Biscay, &c., to
Dunkirk, whence they will be conveyed by land to
Lille, while there are heaps of rails close at hand, on
the other side of the invisible line called the frontier.
Perhaps these rails of Alais are cheaper than the
Belgian rails ? Not at all ; the latter cost 200 francs
the ton, and the French rails 450 francs, exclusive of
the expense of the voyage; so that this vast additional
expense is to be borne by France for the benefit of
the great proprietors of iron works in the south.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Auo. SI.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent, 52%
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9l
--- Three per Cent.
- Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto
(1840' - 11(th

Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 86
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 74
National Society ...„
Exchargc on London (short) ... -
-Brussels Papers, Aug. 31.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Auu. .
Five per Cents. Metalliques. , 1i
Four per Cents. lOO%
'1 hree per Cents .. 16%
Bank Shares ... ... 1062
Allgemeine Zeitung, August 27.

AFFGHANISTAN.
(From Colburn's United Service Magazine.)

In our last, a general view was given of the position
of affairs in Affghanistan, and little has subsequently
appeared to better our prospects. All that we have
to show for the expenditure since incurred by the
feeble attempt to increase our military establishment,
is the mere safety of Sale's and Notes divisions—
not another step to any ulterior object. Our two
corps are moving from the base of a triangle which is
800 miles in extent, and marching respectively on the
other two sides ; they can give each other not the
least support till they meet at the apex (Cabul).
While our countrymen in India are calling loudly
for satisfaction and the punishment of the perpetrators
of the Cabul tragedy, and every soldier's breast
swelling with indignation, we see the two divisions of
the army stationary in the mountains, wanting the
means of carriage for their supplies ; and how are they
to procure them ? With every thing urging us on
to redeem the national credit, and restore the national
lustre of our arms, we are stopped on the high road
by the commonest of physical impediments ; and while
we ought to have in India the head of a Wellington
to direct affairs, and remedy the complicated blunders,
there is no one in high authority who seems to 'know
his right hand from his left; and all the subordinates
exercise their own discretion or folly, as the case
may be.

Reports have been published that the insurrection
at Cabul arose from the discovery of a plan laid by
Sir Wm. M'Naghten to secure the person of Shah
Shooja as a guarantee ; and that the worthy Emperor
of Dooranee, our very dear ally, only anticipated this
measure by turning the tables on the British Envoy.
'Whether this story is true or not, the letters of Gen.
Elphinstone (if they are ever allowed to see the light)
will prove; but so far it appears possible enough.
The Residents in India are so much accustomed to
have Princes under their thumbs, and use them as
puppets, that they might consider it quite a matter of
business to lock up an Emperor as long as it might be
thought requisite.
We have had, in common with most of our country-
men, an ardent desire to see the honour of our arms
restored, and proper punishment inflicted on the barba-
rians who had perpetrated the wholesale massacre on
our division retreating from Cabul under the faith of
a treaty, without being at all aware that any under-
hand proceedings on our part could have given a pre-
text for such an act. Should the reports just alluded
to prove correct, the merits of the case will be mate-
rially altered, especially when we consider the cha-
racter of the enemy we have had to deal with : even
should these reports prove unfounded, we much fear
that the hopes we had entertained are not likely to be
realized. The difficulties of the country, the 'nature
of our force, and the total failure of the means of
transport, leave scarce a chance that the army will be
again able to occupy Cahill.; and consequently that,
having no further object in view beyond the release
of the divisions of Nott and Sale, already accom-
plished, the army will return within the Indus before
the winter sets in. We have, indeed, on full consi-.
deration of the circurnStancei,` little doubt that orders
to that effect have been already issued. Our reasons
are these :—From the vast expenditure of animals of
burden on the former advance, the whole of the North
of India has been drained of its stock of camels, and
is no longer able to provide the means of carriage for
conveying the provisions, forage, and ammunition of
the army ;—that, without these means, it would be
madness again to commit the troops in such a coun-
try. The divisions of Pollock and Sale having
remained inactive a whole precious month, shows evi-
dently that they are stuck fait from this cause alone-,
or they would have been, at the time the accounts left
India, already in possession of Cabul.
Although most painful to our feelings, we have
thought it our duty to prepare the minds of our
readers for the evacuation of Affghanistan. We shall
look with much anxiety for the next accounts, and
endeavour to find out such circumstances as may serve
in any way to counterbalance this possible conclusion
of one of the most unjust, unnecessary, and foolish
wars, in which this or any other country ever was
en

gaged.

FATAL OCCURRENCE.—Last evening, shortly after
six o'clock, the following dreadful occurrence took place
in the Walworth-road, by which one person was killed,
and another so seriously injured, that little hopes are
entertained of his recovery :—lt appears that two per-
sons, of the names of Thomas Grey and -- Stringer,
the former an assistant in the employ of his brother, Mr.
Grey, linen-draper, of the 'Waterloo-road, the other a
carman in the same gentleman's employ, were proceed-
ing in a light cart along Trafalgar. street, Walworth-
road, when they accidently came in contact with a post
at the corner of the street, by which they were both
thrown from their seats into the road, and a heavy waggon,
passing at the same moment, the wheels went over the
chest of Mr. Thomas Grey, and left thigh of Stringer.
Several persons on the spot hurried to render assistance,
but it was of no avail in the case of Grey, as he was
quite dead. The other was immediately removed to the
nearest surgeon's, where it was found that the leg above
the knee was so crushed, that it is feared amputation
must be resorted to, as the only means by which his life
can be preserved.