The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-26 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

Brtussms, FRB. 22.—The cold continues to be very severe.
The thermometer at Brussels is at 12 deg. of Reaumer, or
more than 15 centigrade (30 deg. Farenheit) below freezin4
point. We have not had such severe weather since January,
1839, when the thermometer of the Royal Observatory at
Brussels was at 19% degrees of the centrigade; but we must
go farther back to find such a temperature at the end of
February.
CAUCASIA.—.FROM Tilt BLACK SEA.--AVe have received,
from an authentic source, news from the Caucasia, coming
down to the beginning of this year. The severe cold, which
set in extremely early, and the heavy snow, which covered
the .mountains, impeded all operations on both sides. The
Russians remained in their forts, over their fires, and
Schamyl, with his warriors, did not stir frova his Auls. It is
thought that there will be no fighting till March, when the
Terek and the Kuban are generally frozen, or have very little

water. All the reports of great losses sustained by the Rus-
sians, in 1844, and of the capture of the fortresses of Chumak
and Ternir-Hautshura, by the Circassians, which were spread
in Russia and Turkey, were false. In this campaign, which
was opened by the Russians with such a powerful force,
there were but few engagements, and only two of them of
much importance; but the Russians had the advantage, and
their loss in killed and wounded was only 300 men. The
Russians, however, look on the campaign as a complete failure,
because no great blow has been struck. Schamyl, who had
retreated to the strongly fortified Aul Buternao, situated on
a steep eminence, would have been interrupted in his retreat,
and probably ruined, if the Russians had made a rapid ad-
vance ; but the order to attack him caine from the Com-
mander-in. Chief eighteen hours too late. Schamyl seemed
to perceive all at once his danger, and retired from his moun-
tain retreat by a defile, which the Russians occupied too late.
This led to the recal o/General Neidhardt, who had no great
talent for carrying on the war, but showed extraordinary
activity in the government of the Caucasian provinces.
Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 19.

BELGIAX FUNDS.—Bansszts, FEB. 22
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ..
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • • •
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Ccut
Ditto Three per Cent • . • • • • • • • - • •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
Ditto, ditto, 1840.. • • • • • • .
Ditto, ditto, 1844.............
Ditto of the City, 1843 .....• •
Ditto, 1832 . • • • •
Bank of Belgium
Brussels Papers. Feb. 23.

) 78%
.. .
103%
103V2
....... 101%
.. . 628

GLASS DUTIES
TO THE ED1T01? OF THE SUN.
Mn. EDITOR,—You will greatly oblige me by inserting
the following few lines in your valuable paper:—
Being a commercial traveller in the flint-glass trade,
and now on my journey, I have, since the proposed
alteration on duties by Sir Robert Peel, met with great
difficulties to convince my customers, and other parties,
that there is any difference between the present duty ou
flint and sheet glass, in consequence of Sir Robert Peel
stating, in the House of Commons, that the present duty
about to be taken off glass would reduce the price 300
per cent.; but the present duty on flint glass being only
three farthings per pound, it is my wish that the public
may be shown that the great reduction Sir Robert Peel
named can only be upon sheet glass, and that it is un-
fortunate for the trade I am connected with, that Sir
Robert Peel did not name the difference of duties
between the two articles. I am, Sir, very respectfully,
W. H. PARISH,
Of Stourbridge, Worcestershire.
Lincoln, Feb. 23, 1845.

Runs, FEB. 20.—1 t was erroneously stated by one
of the Paris journals that the two Englishmen, Parker
and Williams, who were taken up here on suspicion of
passing stolen Bank of England notes, had been re-
leased from custody. They are still in prison, and it
has been proved that some of the notes which they
changed were the produce of three distinct robberies, viz,
one at Bethnal-green in 1843, and two in Manchester last
year. Mr. Gude, solicitor, from London, and Mr. Beswick,
chief superintendent of police at Manchester, arrived in
Paris yesterday, and had an interview with Lord Cowley
and the French authorities. It is a curious fact that
the man who was tried for the Bethnal-green robbery,
and sentenced to transportation, but kept in England for
a year in the hope that he would make disclosures, had
not left for New South Wales a month before notes derived
from that robbery were in circulation here. The
amount of money found upon Parker and Williams is not
considerable; it amounts altogether to less than 7001. The
money changers here, with whom these men had transac-
tions, are quarrelling as to who was really the cause of their
arrest. They are as anxious for the reward as a Bow-street
runner of the olden days could be. It is still hoped that some
information will be obtained, through these arrests, of the
parties concerned in the late bank robbery in England.—
Correspondent of an Evening Paper.
The Earl of Devon had an interview with Sir Robert Peel
yesterday.