The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-18 00:00:00

MEISCZI.X.ATTZOI7O.

Edward Scott, the oldest Magistrate in the county of Merio-
neth, died the beginning of this week, aged 90.
A fall of upwards of 300 tons of earth occurred last Wednes-
day on the Eastern Counties Railway, at Witham, near Chelms-
ford, and killed two men on the spot.
By the Parliamentary returns, it appears that the number of
Polish refugees at present on the Government list is 445; which
is 179 less than in 1839.
umouns OP THE DAY.

It is stated that it is the intention of Lord John Russell to
secede from the Church of England, of which he has hitherto
professed to be an attached member, and to join the ranks of
I'resbyterianism. The Noble Lord and his Lady hare for
some weeks been in the habit of attending the scotch Church,
Crown-court, Corent-garden, and it is understood that they
will partake of the Holy Sacrament at its neat administration,
according to the rites of the Established Church of Scotland.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL,
BRUSSELS, APRIL I4.—The average prices of Wheat last
week was 22f. 75c., and that of Rye 12f. 19c.
MARCH 15. The Moniteur of this morning published the
five following Conventions :-
1. Convention of Navigation between Belgium and Austria.
2. Ditto between Belgium and Hanover.
3,4, and 5. Conventions between Belgium, on the one part,
and Hanover, Anhalt, Bernburg, and Saxony, on the other, to
secure to the subjects of the contracting parties the power of
inheriting and acquiring property on the same conditions as the
natives, subjects of the rt spective countries.
THE IlAnuz, APRIL 13.—The account received to-day
'tom Berlin give a more favourable account of his Majesty,
he Count of Nassau, than the- preceding statements.
DUTCH FUNDS.—Amirranuam, APRIL 15.
Money. BD's.
Actual Dabt, 234 per Cent
aittti, ditto 5 per cent.
A mort Sendie,4% percent...... 934 sisii
Ditto, ditto, 3% per writ ............. 77 77%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent ...... 151114 1t6%
Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cont.
Loan 1837, 5 per c0nt..... ............. 9%
Exchange on London, One month l2 12%
Twonionths
Hamburgh, One month 135 4.'S
Two ...... 35 18%
Dutch Papers, April 16.
BELGIAN le UNDS—Bansene, APRIL 1i
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothtchild's Loan, 5 per Cent 102%
Loan of Thirty Idillions, 4 per Cent 9B
• 3 per Cent.
72.?,
(1 R4O) IC4
Loan of City, N 32, 4 per Cent .........
Society et Commerce, 4 }per Cent ft2
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... .......... 78
Nctio lal Society
Exchang e on London (short) ......... -
-Brussels Papers, April 15.
AUSTRIAN FU 14 DS.—Visrema, APRIL 7.
fi re per Cents. Metalliques
boar per Cents. ..............»....«.« lOO
Throe pwr Cents.
Link Shares ...... ...... .............

Thirty-seven.

MURDER AT STOUR ITRIDGE.—A tinker, named
Simpson Shipstone, living with a woman who, by common re-
port, is the wife of another man, kept .
a lodging-house the
Lower-lane, Coventry-street. The woman had two children,
by her husband, the one about ten, and the other two years of
age. On Wednesday night, it be.ng, late, Shipstune was heard
by some lodgers as well as neighbours (the partitions of the
house being thin and cracked), to come to the bed where the
children slept, and violently shake and strike the younger one,
at the same time using the moat brutal language. The child
continued moaning, and, some time afterwards, the man was
heard to repeat the punishment. On the following mornin
the child was dead. The parties were taken into custody, and
an inquest was held before R. Docker, Esq., when much evi-
dence having been given as to the ill usage which the child had
received on this and other occasions, a ve: diet of " Wilful
Murder " was returned against Sampson Shipstone, and he was
at once committed to our county gaol. Worcester Journal.