The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-03 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BItUSSELS, SEPT. 27.—The, average price of Wheat
last week was 22f. 47c., and that of Rye 13f. (19c.
Wheat is therefore exempt from import duty while
the duty on Rye remains at 21f. 50f. per 1,000
killo-
grammes, and the export duty on each is only 25
centimes per 1,000 kilogrammes.
Yesterday the King gave an audience to M. Olo-
zaga, the Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain at Paris,
who has come on a special mission to Belgium.
Several days ago the King granted permission to
General Vandermeere, who is condemned to 20 years'
imprisonment, to have himself removed from the pri-
son of the Petits Carmes to his :own house, to be
there attended by the physicians till the complete re-
storation of his health. But the physicians having
judged at the time the patient could not be removed
with safety, thought it prudent to wait till the fever
had left him. The day before yesterday the General
was taken to his own house, accompanied by two
gendarmes in civil clothing, who are to remain with
him.
The Minister of the Interior has just transmitted
erthe Governors of the provinces of Hainault, Liege,
and Namur, and to the Commissioners of the arron-
dissement of Charleroi, copies of the notices of the
condition of the supply of 38,800,000 kilogrammes of
coal, for the use of the French steam-boats in 1643.
On Sunday morning last the Minister of Public
Works, the Inspector of Bridges and Highways, the
Burgomaster of Mons, and several engineers, arrived
at the railway station at Quievrain, and met at the
frontier the Sub. Prefect, the Mayor, and the Director
of Customs of Valenciennes. They then got into a
waggon which was prepared for them, and which,
brilliantly ornamented, passed the frontier for the first
time.
A letter from Oudenarde of the 27th-of September,
says—" The new sluice built on the Scheldt at
Autrive, was opened yesterday for the first time,
one • hundred and twenty boats, which had for some
weeks been stationed between Oudenarde and
Autrive, first ascended the river. Above eighty.
boats were near the sluices, ranged two and two, near
the new cut, adorned with the colours of Belgium and
France, according to the country to which they be-
longed. A salute of artillery announced the passage
of the first boat, which was soon followed by all the
others. Towards the end of the week, about 130
boats with cargoes from Tournay are expected, so
that on the first week of its opening, 250 boats,
measuring above 50,000tons,,will have passed through
the sluice of Autrive.

STEAM-BOAT COLLISION ON THE RlVER.—Ye3ter
day morning, about half-past nine o'clock, a serious
accident occurred to the Sons of the Thames, Graves-
end steamer, and the Prince of Wales, Greenwich
steam-packet, during a dense fog which prevailed on
the river during the morning. It appears that the
latter boat was making her first trip from Greenwich,
and when at the top of the Pool, near London-bridge,
the sons of the Thames on its passage down, came in
contact with her, and carried away her figure-head,
stanchions, and paddle-box on the larboard side, and
broke the wheel, the .man at the helm narrowly escap-
ing
being crushed to death by jumping on board the 1
Sons of the Thames, whose figure-head was left on
board the Prince. The Prince was also much damaged
on the starboard side by coming in contact with some-
-1 tping in front, and appeared a complete wreck—the
passengers were landed and she dropped down to
Blackwall, where she was docked for repairs at Messrs.
Ditchburn and Sons. The Sons of the Thames,
minus her figure-head, proceeded on her Passage to
Gravesend. The damage done is estimated et several
hundred pounds. An accident occurred near about
the same time to No. 3, Watermen's boat, which came
in contact with a sailing vessel in the Pool, and had
considerable damage done to her—a great deal of alarm
existed amongst the passengers, but fortunately no
personal injury was sustained. The Fly, another
Greenwich steamer, slipped her moorings and ran
against the Dreadnought hospital ship, and was also
much damaged. A coal barge was lying along side,
putting coal into the Fly at the time, and the
" coalies," as they are termed, were also carried away
to their great dismay.
INSPECTORSHIP OF ANATOMY.—Dr. Somerville has
ceased to hold the appointment of Inspector of Ana-
tomy, and is to be replaced by Mr. Bacot and Mr.
Rutherford Alcock. We understand that considerable
alterations are to be made in this department. The
mere procuring of bodies, and their removal, are to be
entrusted to subordinate officers, while the inspectors
are to see that proper objects are procured—that the
business of dissection is conducted with propriety—
and that the remains are interred.—Medical Gazette.
Tuesday morning, a police-officer from Hull, aided
by one of our Edinburgh criminal officers, succeeded
in apprehending, in Portobello, a young man, accused
of having embezzled 1,2001., the property of a bank-
ing company connected with Yorkshire.—Edinburgh
Observer. •
RAILWAY IMPROVEMENTS.--We are told, upon
highly respectable authority, that "an entirely new
description of railway carriage has been invented, by
a professional gentleman at Hammersmith, which)
may be propelled without the aid of steam at an ex-
traordinary speed, exceeding sixty miles per hour,
with comparative safety, without oscillation, or the
possibility of turning over by the loss of a wheel or an
axletree breaking, and worked upon a most simple
principle, and which will, no doubt, eventually become
the ordinary mode of railway travelling for short dis-
tances, from. the circumstance that the railroad and
carriages may
be constructed and kept in repair at less
than a fourth of the usual eirfense.'
EMIGRATION OF DR. MWOUALL.—This Chartist
patriot has "saved his own bacon" by emigrating to
America, and leaving his dupes to get out of the
scrapes in which his violence and folly have involved
them in the best way they are able.—Leeds Mercury.
KINGSBRIDGE POOR-LAW UNION.—The guardians
of this Union have again rejected a motion for the
appointment of a paid Chaplain, by a majority of four.