The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, OCT. 2.—The King presided yesterday in
the Council 3f Ministers.

It is certain that their Majesties will set out on Satur-
day for St. Cloud, where part of the Royal Family of
France is now assembled. Their Majesties will sleep
at Compeigne.
On Monday, the 6th instant, his Majesty Louis Phil-
lippe will complete his seventy-second year.
The delegates of the Luxemburg Railway Company
hate been to Luxemburg in order to open negotiations
with the Grand Ducal Government to obtain the con-
cession of a council which should traverse the territor;•
of Luxemburg, and then be continued to Treves.
The Courrier of the Grand Duchy says, that these ne-
gotiations have failed, end that the delegates of the Com-
pany have left Luxemburg without having concluded any-
thing with the line of the Government.

The quantity of coffee of the growth of the Dutch
possessions in the East Indies, imported at the duty of
9f. 9e. per kilogramme, amounted on the 30th of Sep-
tember, to 3,144,297 kilogrammes, to be deducted from
the 4,500,000 kilogrammes to be imported. There re-
mains 1,455,703 kilogrammes to be imported at Antwerp.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 3.—By a royal decree of 27th Sep-
tember, a sum of 55,000 francs is assigned to the Perma-
nent Deputation of the Provincial Council of East
Flanders, and an equal sum to the Permanent Deputa-
tion of West. Flanders, to be distributed and employed in
favour of the wot king classes who suffer by the stagna
tion of the branch of manufacture which they follow.
The Empress of Russia and the Grand Duchess Olga
arrived at Augsburg on the 29th of September, where
they were received by the Prince of Prussia and the
Prince Royal of Bavaria. The Prince of Prussia most
affectionately embraced his sister the Empress. The
august travellers set out in the evening for Inspruck,
where they will stop two days.
The King of the Netherlands is expected at Berlin at
the beginning of October.
Her Majesty the Queen of England has made several
purchases at our exhibition.—BrusAelq l'apers, Oct. 1.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 27.
5 per Cent. Metallinues • • • • •. • . •. • • •- • • • . 112
4 per Cent. ditto • • • • •••• • • • • • • ••• • • • •• • • 101 V,
3 per Cent. ditto •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 771,E
Loan, 1834
•
Ditto, 1839 ..........................
Batik Shares • • • • ••• • • • • • • • • • • ••• • • . 1605
Esterhazy's Loan • • • . • • • . . • • • ••• • • • ••
Zeitung, Sept. 30.
DLTTCIIFUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 29.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent... .. . 60% 611 A
itto, 3 per Cent • • • 73% 74%
Ditto, 4 per Cent.• •••• • • • ••• •••• • • • 974 98
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent ••••• • • • • • 99% 99%
Ditto, 2% per Cent.... •••••• .• • • • • 90% 911 A
Cornmereia Company, 4% per Cent • • 16116 16214
East India Loan, 4 per Cent ••••• • • • • • 97% 97%
Exchange on London, at sight •••• • • • . 12 27
Two months
On Ilamburgh, at sight •• • . 36
Two months.. •••• • • • .... 35 56%
On I'aris .••••••• • • • • • • • • 57 37
..............57• •• • 57
—Dutch Papers, Sept. 30.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussEts, SEPT. 30.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .....
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.. • .
Ditto Threo per Cent •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ....
Ditto,•• ditto, 1840. ••• • • ••• • • • • • •• • ..... 101%
Ditto, ditto, 1842
Ditto of the City, 1844
Bank oflielgium...... •• • .• • • •• • • • • •• • . 736
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 30.

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand •••••• • • • • • • 22014
Vienna--Milan
Ologgnitz .• • • .. ............. 1501,4
Leghorn •.••••• • . • . • • . • ••• • • • 120%
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEELIN, SEPT. 20.

__ _
. Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 34 per Cent .• • • ...... 99%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent • •
Exchange on London, 2 months •••• • • • . 25% -
-Universal Prussian Gazette, Sept. 21.

SCREW-AUXILIARY VESSEL,
MASSACHUSETTS.

The screw-auxiliary vessel, Massachusetts, Captain
White, arrived in the Mersey yesterday afternoon. She
left New York on the 15th ult., and, from wharf to
wharf, her passage may be put down at 17 days 11
hours. She had, the whole way, head winds and calms,
and her run may therefore be considered excellent. She
brought 10 passengers.
She is, without doubt, the most extraordinary vessel,
as a specimen of consummate engineering skill,
that ever crossed the Atlantic, and will, we think, ex-
cite more attention and admiration than any craft
that ever left the Am:rican shore. She is the
first of a screw-auxiliary line to sail between this port
and New York ; built at Boston, by Mr. Samuel Hall,
for Messrs. B. Forbes and Co., f Boston; and has al-
rtady made one voyage from that port to New York.
She is 800 tons burden, American measurement,
155 feet on deck, 178 feet from billet-head to
taffrail, 33 feet beam, has engines of 280 horse
powtr, and is sliiprigged, with a few exceptions,
the most striking being, that her topmasts are fidded
abaft the mast. The lower masts are also unusually
tall, and the funnel of unusual lowness, even in
screw-steamers. Her cabins are capacious, well fitted
up, and ventilated in a new, most ingenious, and
strikingly effective manner ; and she can accom-
molato forty passengers. Her screw is of a novel con-
struction ; it can be drawn completely out of the water at
pleasure, by a most simple process, and placed in
a perpendicular position against the stern; and, in such
circumstances the " Massachus:tts" is to all intents and
purposes, a sail-vessel. The screw works most power-
fully, and ensures a speed, with sail, of twelve knots
an hour. The sails and rigging abound in the most cu-
rious contrivances to ease the labour of reefing, short-
ening sail, &c.—p:Thaps the first instance in which
modern machinery has been carried aloft. All sail
has been repeatedly set in twenty five minutes.
She has four life-boats ; and, what will be found
the most extraordinary proof of American inge-
nuity yct known in ships, every bench, seat,
stool, &c., is a life boat, made of iron, with air-tight
compartments, and adapted to swim, even with the
weight of a man. So many contrivances for safety were
never yet brought together. Between quarter-deck and
forecastle, both of which are raised to an unusual height,
there are, frigate fashion, between the deck itself and
the tip of the bulwarks, a kind of stages—found to be
vast improvements on the plan in general use.
For all these particulars we are indebted to the chief
mate, Mr. J. H. Gordon ; but it would be an impossi-
bility to enumerate the various novelties and
wonders to be found in the Massachusetts,
and it is an inspection alone which can teach
an appreciation. On the water she is a beautiful
looking craft, with sharp bows, and an unexceptionable
run fore and aft. She is consigned to Messrs. Harnden
and Co., and goes into Waterloo Dock this morning.—
L verpoolJournal of Saturday.

The bridge which spans the turnpike-road, about
the middle of the village of Clifton, on the Lancaster and
Carlisle RAlway, has given way, and will shortly be rebuilt
in a more substantial manner.
A MAGISTERIAL PEEL—A certain noble vis-
count, passing through a village in Wales the other day,
was requested to sit as a magistrate of a petty sessions, in-
tended to be held at that village, (his lordship being in the
commission of the peace for the county wherein the village
is situated,) but, upon finding that a certain rev. magistrate
was then and there present, ready to act with him, his lord-
ship abruptly refused, adding, " that no power could com-
pel him to act with one whose sentiments he disapproved
of!" The consequence was that the local business of the
neighbourhood could not be transacted that day, and the
parties having business there were obliged to travel some 14
miles to Denbigh to deliver in th it jury lists, &c, on Fri-
(lay. We regret to state that that this is not the only case
in which the public interest has been similarly neglected
by the same party.—Carnarron Herald.
The number of bills of entry sold or subscribed
for in Liverpool, from 1834 to 1844, averaged about 600 an-
nually, nearly 100 above the amount in London. The sums
receives for bills of entry in Liverpool, amounted last year
; in 18-li and 1343, the atn:alt,lt was th.(3
largest, n ant , :;;(.6ol.—Live,•pool Mereueg
The parishioners of Axminster have entered into a
subscription, for the purpose of purchasing a piece of plate
to be presented to the Rev. W. Hunt, M.A., who has WU-
dated as assistant minister during the long absence of the
TiCttre-- Western Luminary,