The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-31 00:00:00

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The extraordinary demand for shares in this railway fYom all parts
of the country obliges the Provisional Committee to announce that,
after FRIDAY, the 31st inst., the lists must close, and that applications
after that date will be too late.
Dundee, Oct. 24, 1845. WILLIAM HAY, Interim Secretary .

FLANDERS ANI.) DUTCH MAIL.
Batissace. Om 21.—M. Van de Weyer, the Minister of the
Interior, has returned to Brussels from his short visit to London.
The Governor of the province of Namur has addressed a cir-
cular to the chief magistrates of the communes, in which he says:
—" If the reports which I have received are correct it seems to be
generally believed in the country that the Government will be able
to procure a supply of potatoes necessary for planting foe the year
1846. Now, this is a thing absolutely impossible; and it is of
the utmost importance to warn farmers against such a notion,
which might have the effect of inducing them to part with, for
consumption, the produce of this year. I therefore request you to
induce the inhabitants of your district, by all the means in your
power, to preserve with care the potatoes which they have for
planting next year."

We have a letter from Ostend, of the 28th, which mays, " As I
have written to you, the Herne has just entered our port, to take
the Overland India mail. It is thought that a courier may arrive
here on Tuesday next; in that cue he will have gained three
days in his ordinary journey. This service is net definitely settled]
it is only by way of trial."

The English schooner, Ann Mitchel, arrived at Antwerp on the
21Ith from rerth, in Scotland, with a cargo of potatoes.

AN HOTEL OUT OF JOINT.—A gentleman wbc
had been stopping at an hotel within a hundred miles of Birkenhead,
where, during the ten days of his sojourn, the invariable reply to
" Joins, what can I have for dinner ?" was "very nice chops and
steaks, sir," at length sent for his landlord, and quietly told him that
"his was the stiffest hotel he had ever stopped at." " Indeed, sir I the
stiffest, sir—how so,'sir ?" " Why, I have been here for ten days, and
can bear witness that there's never a joint in it." The landlord va-
nished. —Liverpool Courier.
DEATH ACCELERATED BY FOUL AlR.—Wednesday
Mr. Bedferd held an adjourned inquest at the King's Head, Crown-
street, Soho, on the body of Daniel Harrington, aged fifty-four,mason's labourer, who inhabited one of the miserable cellars in Fat.
conbridge-court, Crown-street. It appeared from the evidence that
about a week since the deceased fell down a flight of stairs In a state
of intoxication, and was confined to his bed. He never rallied, and
died rather suddenly on Sunday morning last, Dr. Henry said, frost
disease of the lungs, no doubt consequent upon the mephitic atinos•
phere. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medics:
testimony.
EXTRAORDINARY CAB ACClDENT.—Wednesday, be-
tween one and two o'clock, James Forbes, six years of age, residing
in Great Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, was playing with another
boy in high Holborn, fronting the cab-stand. Forbes, to get away
from his companion, attempted to run ander the stomach of a cab.
horse on the stand, in doing which his foot slipped, and he fell against
the legs of the horse. The animal became alarmed, and kicked and
plunged violently, and trampled in a dreadful manner on the cheat
and stomach of the unfortunate lad. Several cabmen and others ran
to his assistance, and dragged him from under the horse. He was
Immediately conveyed to Mr. Powell, a surgeon, in High Holborn,
who found the breast bone and several ribs fractured. The boy was
removed to King's College Hospital, where he lies In a precarious
state.

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY or BLUES.—Wednesday the
half-yearly general meeting of the above society took place at the
London Tavern, for the purpose of balloting for pensioners, to re-
ceive the report of the directors, and for the dispatch of general
business. Joseph Beloley, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents, was
unanimously called to the chair. From a list of candidates, consist-
ing of four males and four females, the eldest of whom was seventy-
seven, and the youngest sixty-seven years of age, one was selected.
The report, which was unanimously approved and adopted, showed
that the affairs of the society had considerably improved during the
past year, and the general business having been gone through, thanks
were awarded to the chairman and other ofticere, and the meeting
broke up.