The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-18 00:00:00

MISS IttARTINEA.IN ANSWER.

" Tynemouth, Nov. 11, 1842.
" Dear Colonel Thompson,—l believe -I was more
surprised then any one to see, iu the newspapers my
correspondence with certain friends of mine, on the
subject of a pension from the late
.Government. After
receiving your. packet, I can never regret that this
private transaction, in which I acted merely with re-
gard to my own feelings, has bec.tome known. I ac-
cept, with thankfulness, the expressed sympathy of
the parties of whom you are the representative to me ;
and I need not say r consider their acknowledgment
of my sincere desire to'promote their interests a high
honour. Nothing in the whble transaction pleases me
sl much as the diversity of opinion, through which
all the parties concerned have penetratad, by means
of earnestness on a moral question, to a point of heart-
felt agreement. However we may mutually differ in
regard to the great political queitions of the time, we
all agree that there can be no peace in benefiting by
the proceeds of an unjust system of taxation. In de-
clining so to benefit, I acted, as I have said, for the
comfort of my own feelings only, and
.in privacy. . As
to the other matter touched upon at the meeting—lny
writings on social subjects—my chief deSire'has ever
been to stir up the minds of the unprivileged classes
to the patient and thoughtful consideration of their
own interests. That my aim has been understood, and
'my sympathy in their worldly difficulties appreciated,
is, and ever will be, a high gratification, renewing
much of the pleasure of such labours, after sickness
has brought them to a close.
"Allow me, dear Sir, to thank you for the kind-
nesi of Ale letter which accompanies the resolutions,
and believe very truly 3,ours,
• , • " HARRIET MARTINEAU.

1‘ Colonel T. Perronet Thompson, Blackheath,
v% Green ich."

DUTCH MAIL. ,

THE HAGUE, Nov. 15.—Accounts from Arnheim
mention that the Rhine is so low that the navigation
of the river meets with obstacles, which are very pre-
judicial to commerce. There are places among others,
one near Arnheim, where a vessel with only one-
third of its usual cargo can with difficulty pass.
Every day it is necessary to have recourse to trans-
shipments, which are exceedingly troublesome and
cause great delay.
ST. PrrEasnuucur, Nov. 4.—On the proposal of
M. Alfesovsky, Mayor of the city of SL Petersburgh,
the merchants here subscribed the sum of fifteen
thousand silver rubles for the benefit of the sufferers
by the fire at Kasan, which has been sent free of ex-
pense to that city.
The Northern Bee announces that a very impor-
tant improvement has just been introduced at St.
Petersburgh in the manufacture of lamp gas. Thii
improvement consists in simplying the apparatus, by
means of which this manufacture, which was a very '
complex and dangerous operation, is rendered so ,
simple that a man of ordinary understanding may
learn it in six hours. It is not necessary to compress
the gas, nor is there any steam-engine required to
manufacture it. The work of four men on the new
plan is equal to that of forty on the old one—lastl3:,
the quantity of lime necessary to purify the gas is
very inconsiderable.
Exchange on London, Nov. 4, at three months' date,
37 21-32d.—Journal de St. Petersbourg.

- - --DUTCkfibN 6:;...:4111;13T511DAD1, Nov. l5.
Money. Rive.
Actual 1)el t, 234 per Cent !..2% 59.%
Ditto, ditto 5 pet cent. lOl% li 1%
Am** t Syndie, 4 ti; per cent.... ......... ... 94 94
Ditto, ditto, 3!6 per cent. .... 7l 77'4
Commercial Company, 4% per cent...., 135% 1353(
Loan 1&17, 5 per cent. ............... 1934 101
Exchange on London, One month 12 20
Two months l2 15
Hamburgh, One month 35 07%
Two months
Dutch Papers, Nov. 16.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussa4s, Nev. 16.
Actual Debt, 214 per, Cent, 53
Rothschild's Loan, ive per Cent lO2
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent
-- Three per Cent...........
----.-Thitty.seven Milli ns, ditto
—.-------. (1840)..».»._ lO4
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 9B
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ..... 75
National Society .
Exchargc on Landon (short)
—Brussels Papers. Nov 16.
AIiSIKInN t. ONDS.—Artietsi, No's. 8.
Five per Cents. Meta11ique5:„.......... ..;.• 118 15.16
Four per Cents
Three per Cents ..» ICO
-- '6%
Bank Shares
.......... ..... ....... 1619
Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov, 12.
HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Noy. 15.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares - 110
nDet:erri.ti2trtyst series, Certificate 1635
Anglo. Russian Loan
illnussec
riiaapnnti
:5
Hope and Co., 3d and 4th 11°3(33
----
Russi
Series
Ditto in Certificates —
90
New 4 per Cent. (1640). ...
Dutch Actual Debt, 2}Cper...Cent. .... .1% 51%
Ditto .....
5 per Cent. -
Polish 80nd5........
New
Ticket.... ••••• ..... ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ... ‘.'"
.... .....
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent..........--
Spanish, New 5 p:r Cents —
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BAnt4N, Nov. 12.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. 10316 1(31%'
Prussian English. Bonds, 1830, i percent 12% I"I
23h
Exchange on London --.. 6
Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 12.

Paris is in some respects, rapidly improving. One
example of its beneficial effects is familiar to most
English persons who know Paris. A street, called
the Rue du Dauphin, runs frOm the Rue St. Ho-
nore, nearly facing the church of St. ROChe, to the
Rue de Rivoli. This street was, until lately, not
fifteen feet wide, a circumstance which enabled him,
by whose decree it was long afterwards widened, to
pave the way to that pinnacle on which he stood for
many years, for it was up this street that "the. Sec-
tion," in 1797, having been. defeated on the Pont
Royal, were approaching en masse to attack the Tuile-
ries, where the Convention was sitting, when Napoleon,
who had been only tWelve hours previously entrusted
with the military command of Paris, opened upon
them a fire of grape, which, notwithstanding the im-
pediments offered by the bodies of thousands of the un-
happy wretches, made those marks on the wall of the
church of St. oche, yet visible, though fined up, by
order of King Louis Philippe,.with the utmost. ni-
cety and art. • The operation ofNapoleon's wide street
decree is nowhere more striking than in this *Rue du
Dauphin, which is now of the regulated width (af-
fording space, for three carriages abreast with pave-
ments), all the houses being, moreover, in a direct V
Tin; SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.--Last night the
Jury re•-assembled at the Savoy Tavern, Sayoy-street,
Strand, to investigate the cause of (kith Of an infant,
the second
about two days old, whiCh was found
recess of IVaterloo-bridge, on • Saturday7inorning
born medical the inquiry
maninqauilsa rstti
by Brown, the bridge-road keeper.
was adjourned' fur the opinion of
i.
whetherlhe child had been
Itsi-strf•Jet, Strand, ,
Mr. John Simon, of Wellingto aIIVF: or not; when
posed that he had examined the de!.
6f a healthy male child ; that 'F 'ay'
its death had been causedwhich was that
I ;had be!en born' alive, and
while living;.but Whethei'•
stone of the bridge by- a fracture of the skull
from the fall on the coping
Wilful blow, he -(0 i ere it was found, or from a
e- surgeon) way unable to deter-
leavitig the case in
deter-
mine. ~.The:Jury: ,r‘
uniakntumrnoethdear.verdiet accordingly, thusi -
the hands of the police to true, f
possible, the hill