The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-28 00:00:00

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL

THE HAGUE, AUG. 24 —The following particulars
are sent us from Bois-le-Duc :—" We have received here
further details of the ravages caused at Zevenberger, by
the dreadful hurricane on the 19th of this month. The
roof of the new church fell in, and in its fall carried
away the ceiling. Eleven houses are wholly destroyed,
66 very much injured, and 60 others damaged, though in
a less degree. Three persons lost their lives ; the da-
mage done to effects and furniture, and to the front of
the Castle is very great.
GRONINGEN, AUG. 21.—We learn that orders have beeit
given by his Majesty's Governmentto purchase in foreign
countries large quantities of potatoes,and tc distribute them
for sale in the kingdom at a certain fixed price, in order
to alleviate as much as possible the distress arising from
the failure of that product.
BRUSSELS' Am. 24.—Colonel Fitch, and Mr. G. L.
Taylor, architect and civil engineer of London, have had
an audience of the Minister of Public Works, as repre-
sentatives of an English Company which proposes to
make a railway from Termonde to Chatelet.
We have much pleasure in stating that accounts from
different parts of the kingdom agree in announcing that,
in spite of the long continued rains, the appearance of the
crops is satiLfactory ; the corn has not suffered much, and
tine weather having set in, the farmers have hastened to
profit by it, and expect that the harvest will be fine and
abundant. Effectual remedies have been employed to
check the disorder in the potatoes, and they, too, pro-
mise to be abundant.

BRUSSELS, AUG. 25,—Our journals contains long ac-
counts of the fetes at Cobourg, in honour of Queen
Victoria, who, as some of them say, is expected to pro
long her visit to September 30.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEEDAM, Aco. 25.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.. • • • • • • 63% 64
kitto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent.... •
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent ••••• • • • • • 99% 10014
Ditto, 3% per Cent.... • •
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • . 167% 168%
East India Loan, 4 per Cent..........
Exchangeon London, at sight
Two m0nth5....... 12 15
On Hamburg!), at sight ....
Two months
On Paris
Tw0m0nth5...........

• ... 57 50
.... 57 12

—Dutch Papers, Aug. 26.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussnts, Atm. 26.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .• • •••••
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent-...
nitto rhirty-seven illllions, unto ......
Ditto, ditto, 1340. 101%
Ditto, ditto, 1842. 101%
Ditto of the City, 1832
Ditto, 1843 . ..... .......... • • • . • • 101%
Bank ofßelgium
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 26.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ana. 22.
5 per Cent. Metalliques •.. ........... 112%
4 per Cent. ditto. . . .
3 per Cent. ditto.. .............. 781 I
Loan, 1834 .............. • • • • ••• • • • • • • . 159%
Ditto, 1839
Bank Shares
Esterhazy's Loan •
—Allgemelne Zeitung, Aug. 23

CHARING-CROSS lIRIDGE COM-
PANY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Half-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders
in this Company was held this day, at their office, 9,
Villiers-street, Hungerford-market. ildr. 'William Hawes,
Chairman of the Company, presided.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read, the Secretary read the report, of which the follow-
ing is an abstract :
The Directors propose the payment of a dividend, for the
last three months, of nine shillings per share, being at the rate
of seven per cent. per annum on the capital of the Company,
and also to retain a surplus of 435/. 4s. I Id, to be carried for-
ward to assist the next or winter half-year.
The Directors desire to call the attention of the Share.
holders to the loan of 26,0007., which was obtained in 1842, by
the mortgage of all the Company's property to the Exchequer
Loan Commissioners, and a portion of which (7701.) by the
condition of the agreement is to be paid off next year; but as
there can be no doubt that a loan may now be raised at a
much lower rate of interest than five per cent. per annum,
they propose to advertise for loans on debentures, to be issued
under the provisions of the new Act, for five, seven, or ten
years, the interest thereon to be secured on the tolls of the
bridge; and resolutions authorising the issue of such deben-
tures will be submitted to the meeting.
Your Directors were anxious to have closed the capital ac-
count by this meeting, but not having been able to accomplish
this, they can now only repeat that which they have stated on
farmer occasions, that the estimate published in the prospectus
of 1838, will be as nearly as possible correct. On the other
hand, it is also very satisfactory to your Directors to find the
traffic far exceeds the expectations of the original projectors of
this beautiful structure ; for in the prospectus above referred
to, the daily traffic was estimated at td,ooo persons, whereas,
during the period the bridge has been opened, nearly 14,000
persons daily have used the bridge.
Your Directors cannot conclude this report without calling
the attention of the shareholders to the increasing desire of the
public to concentrate the railway traffic of the metropolis in the
neighbourhood of this bridge.
It is also stated in the report that the purchase of property
for making approaches is deferred until something certain shall
be known about the proposed railway schemes, and that the
directors have not been able to come to any agreement with the
Hungerford Market Company.
The CHAIRMAN, in a short address, adverted to the state-
ments embodied in the report, and added that he had that
morning had an interview with the Provisional Committee of
the Central Terminus Railway Company, and they offered for
the consideration of the shareholders in the Charing-cross Sus-
pension-bridge to lease it for a number of years at 160,0001.,
being double the amount originally subscribed, and also
to advance 26,000/. for the liquidation of the debt due
to the Exchequer Loan Commissioners, reserving the
rights of the market, and also allowing the bridge
shareholders to take in the proposed arrangement a moiety
in shares and a moiety in money. This arrangement was,
however, contingent upon the Central Terminus Railway
Company receiving their Bill, and the approval of the present
meeting. He should not detain them further, but proceed at
once to move that the report be received.
The motion being seconded, was unanimously carried.
Resolutions were then read and agreed to—" That a dividend
of 9s. a share for the last three months be declared, being at the
rate of 7 per cent. on the capital of the company, and that the
same be paid on the 11th of September next."
6' That the Directors be authorised, when they see proper,
to raise an additional capital of 10,00 a, in 3,200 shares of
3/. 2s. 6d. each, to form approaches to the bridge ; and also
that the Directors be authorised and empowered to take such
steps as they might think necessary to complete the arrange-
ments with the Central Terminus Railway Company for the
lease of the bridge for a number of years, reserving the rights
of the market and of the Shareholders."
Thanks were then voted to the Directors, and the meeting
adjourned.

CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—lhe driver and conductor
of an omnibus were on Wednesday fined 40s. each, at Marl-
borough-street Police-court, for cruelly treating a horse in
their omnibus. They beat the horse over the legs and knees
with the head of the whip to make it go on. A witness whom
they called, an outside passenger, who said he " knew all about
horses," declared that they beat the animal no more than was
necessary to make it go on, for the horse was unwell!
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGH-
TER.—During the whole of yesterday a feeling of regret pre-
vailed in the neighbourhood of Clapham at a fatal accident
which happened to a daughter of the Rev: Benjamin Hoe, of
Cure-lane. It appears that at the back of the house is a small
fish-pond, and after dinner the children were usually taken to
play in the garden, and the deceased among them. On this
occasion the deceased child got away from the servant, and
whilst running on the bank of the pond, unfortunately stepped
into it. The servant used every means to get the child out,
which she succeeded in doing in a tew minutes, and conveyed it
to the house, when a surgeon was sent for, who promptly at-
tended. Every means were used to restore animation, but, as
the child had been in a sickly state of health, all his efforts were
useless. The Rev. Mr. Hoe was at York at the time, but was
expected home last night.

AN ALDERMAW.FINED FOR BEING DRUNK.—The
Liverpool Mercury says—" Yesterday Mr. Alderman R. S.
Crook, a member of the Town Council and of the Et!ticatiou
Committee, was charged with being drunk on Wednesday
evening, and assaulting police-officer No. 271. He was fined
10s. and costs."