The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-03 00:00:00

CHESTER CITY SESSIONS, SEPT. I.

These Sessions commenced this morning before
the MAYOR, RECORDER, and a full bench of Alder-
men. There were;l6 cases of felony on the calendar
for trial, none of which were of any particular in-
terest, except the following :
John Meads, a tall ill-looking fellow, aged about
47, was indicted for an assault, with intent to com-
mit a rape, upon the body of Augusta Monday, an
infant female child about five years old.
'The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common
assault only, and the Recorder sentenced him to
twelve months' imprisonment.

MANUFACTURES is TILE NETHERLANDS.

(From tl-e Morning Chronicle.)

We remember when it was urged in the
House of Commons that Corn Laws had a ten-
dency to injure our manuflictures, by destroying
our market abroad, encouraging the removal of
capital, fostering by the difference in the price of
food the establishing of manufactories in other
countries, it was triumphantly answered by Mr.
Bankes (who was cheered by the Agriculturists)
there were other things of more importance to a
nation than wealth. These men were told that
high prices could not be kept up without flou-
rishing manufactures ; but they were not to be
moved.

In the New Monthly Magazine for Sep.
tember there is an article, " Brussels in 1829,"
by a gentleman of experience (a brother of an
intimate friend of the former Editor of this Jour-
nal), who has lived in the Netherlands since the
peace. In this article he says—
" Manufactures are beizinning to thrive in various
parts of the kingdom, and roads and canals are form•
ing, so that Flanders is in a very flourishing state.
Above twenty thousand cotton spinners and
weavers are in full activity in the city of ('-gent; ma-
chinery is fabricated at Bruges; and perhaps the
largest iron foundry iu the world has been estab-
lished some years in the neighbourhood of Liege, in
which the King has a large share, and four thousand
hands are employed.
" The extraordinary number of Cabarets which
have been erected within the last ten years (all of
which are thriving) is a proof that the citizens can
afford to spend a great deal of money in refresh-
ments ; the lower orders are the best customers,
and, perhaps, no people of the same classes in Eu•
rope disburse so much for these luxuries out of the'*
gains as the mechanics and labourers of B.;--owls,
who have high wages and plenty of emp:Nyment,
Beer is their chief potation, althov,gb spirits are so
cheap. When I settled lwe about fourteen years
ago, I considerc..d :be Belgians a sober race, but
they he,ve sq much changed during that period that I
am now inclined to believe them us dissipated as the
inhabitants of St. Gilles's,

So much for the progress of manufactures in
Netherlands. Improvements in agriculture
will follow improvements in manufactures. Bur,
at present living is 50 per cent. cheaper at
sell than in London.

The linen weavers in Yotiksbir4 say they are
ruined by the kSeotch, whAhave cheaper food.—
Mt how much eheap,er does the Belgian live
than the SNtehttm

Thu courage and sagacity of the elephant;.
says Mr. CILAUFORD, have been much exagge;ate,i. Its
bulk, its strength, and its trunk, arr its great recom-
mendations, especially the laitc:. if man has been called
the wisest of animals because he possesses hands, t
e
phant may w ele:
with as much truth be called the w:.sest
dry,p.As because he possesses a trunk ;
this qua_
ent, and its great strength, I ;
for tru-
it would it doubtful whether
be ranked higher in intellectual endowments than
a despised animal o in
fßite same natural family—the hog.
PPWER STEAM.—ThO power of steam,
44 well 4s the utility of the Post-office steam-paeket
estahlishmeitt between this port and Dublin, were never
4PN .ik eotually proved than on the awful of Wed-
iisdry last, when the Post-office packet Thetis succeeded
in making her passage, after an arduous struggle with the
twenty-pine
hurricane of nearly hours ; and it will, no
doubt, be gratifyit“ to ;he friends of those on board, who
may not have received communications from them, to read
thia puhlie notice of the fact, --Liverpool Albion.