The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 15.—The average prices of wheat
last week WAS ME 46c., and that of rye 10E 280. per
hectolitre. The duties are the same as they have
been for several we4,ks past.

The Clamber of Representatives met yesterday.
It was d in the discussion of the budget of the
navy, which ,‘,ls adopted by a majority of 46 to 3.
In the bank' Sitting the Minister of .the Interior
presented a project of law relative to the measures to
be taken in case that contagions diseases among
cattle should break out, or be introduced into the
country,

The Moniteur Belge of the 15th quotes from the
Independent and Eclair of the preceding day the re-
port of the death of the Emperor of Russia, adding that
the Cologne Gazette and the Frankfort journal, which
has later news from Berlin (of the 9th), do not ever►
mention the indisposition of the Emperor, which was
first announced in the Dusseldorf Gazette under the
head of Berlin, 6th January. The Courier Belge
makes no mention of the reports.
The Prince of Saxe-Coburg, being slightly indis-
posed, could not attend yesterday evening the brilliant
ball of the Society of Nobles at Vauxhall. Their
Majesties of course refrained from going on the spina
account.

AUSTRIAN IPUNDS.—VIENN.L. J. IL
5 per Cent. Metalliques
4 per Cent. Ditto lO2
3 per Cent. Ditto 7B""'
' Bank Shares 1622
Esterhazy's Loan 57
RAILWAYS.
• The Northern, or Ferdinand
Gloggnitz l27i
Milan . .... ... 11RA
-Ailgeweine Zeitung, Jan. 12.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BatTssms, JAL 14.
Actual Debt, 2i per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. . -- I
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Ceni
Ditto Three per Cent
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto — ..,
Ditto, ditto 1844)
Ditto, ditto 1844
Ditto of the City, 1843 lO3
Ditto, 1832
Bank of Belgium 615
-Brussels Papers, Jan. 14.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AxgrEkrum, 3A-v, 10.
MoT. Bills.
Actual Debt, 214 per Cent. 641 65
,
74, 1:107939 44
Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, 5 per Cent.
Amort Svndic.44l,,; per Cent 99ai' 1004
Ditto, -314 per Cent.
CommercialCompany,4l4 perCt 19486331 194971
East India Loan, 4 per Cent
Exchange on London, one month 12 12
Two months l2 17
At sight —
On Hamburg
Two months 35 50
On Paris
Two months —
•Dutch Papers, Jar. 11.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEnuir, JAN. 7.
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St. Schuld Sch., 31,4 per Cent Bills. M
99% 991 A oney..
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Ct —
Exchange on London, 2 months
Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 8.

THE SHAPWICK MURDERS.
BRIDGEWATER, THURSDAY MORNING.—Last evening
the inquiry into the cause of Mary Dimond's death was
gone iuto. The inquiry terminated in the committal of
the prisoner to take her trial at the next assizes for the
wilful murder of her mother. She evinced the utmost
nonchalance throughout the whole proceedings, and ap-
peared to be as little affected as the moat careless ob
server. Once or twice during the day little miners oc-
curred which caused a titter in the Court, and no one
seemed to enjoy the smile more than the wifortunata
woman against whom such serious charges Ore made.
To-morrow inquests will be held at Shapsick on tke
body of her husband, who died in 1843, and on the body-
of her child. It will be recollected that both bodies
were exhumed, and the stomachs and intestines handed
over to Mr. Herapath, who is of opinion that arsenic is
to be found in both.

UNHEARD OF BARBARITY.
(From the New York Herald.)
One of the most deliberate and barbarous
outrages ever perpetrated in a eivilised com-
munity was committed yesterday morning. in
the upper part of the city, by a wretch who
claims
to be of the human species. Of all the terrible
crimes that were ever attempted in this city, this
one is the most shocking, and one can scarcely think
of it without shuddering.
On Sunday morning a woman, named Catherine
Hanlin, wife of Edward, who lives in a little shanty
on the north side of Fifteenth-street, was 'tea-
ing at her door, when a man, named Andrew
Klem, who occupies a shanty adjoining, threw
several stones at her, which struck her side, and
bruised her considerably. She could only attri-
bute his conduct to a trifling squabble they hitl
a few days previous. On Monday morning,
half-put amen o'clock, a short time her
husband had left the house to go to his work,
Mrs. Hanlin, who was lying asleep in her bed with
her infant child and a boy named Lawrence, was
awakened by a hammering at the door, and on look-
ing up, heard the blows of an axe, and soon saw
a portion of the door burst in, and fire and smoke
pour through the aperture. Dreadfully alarmed,
she sprang from the bed, with the child in
her arms, and rushed to the door, which was the
only means of exit from. the house, except the
window. In her terror she saw Klem in front of the
door, piling up burning straw, wood, and shavings
against the door, and on attempting to go oat, he
took a long pole, which he held, and thrust it at
her with both hands. She immediately felt a sharp
instrument pierce her thigh. Seeing that Iflem was
sober, she became suddenly convinced thathis intention
was to burn her and her children to death, and in this
awful situation, with the prospect of a terrible
death before her, she frantically screamed murder,
and, rushing to the window, endeavoured to
escape there. Klem, however, perceived her in-
tention, and, jumping upon a barrel that was iu
front of the window, with a large piece of board in
his hand, brandished It in such a manner that
she dared not attempt to get out. The smoke
by this time had tilled the room so that she
could scarcely breathe, and the child was scream-
ing in agony and gasping as if in the last struggle.
With the strong feeling of a mother for its
offspring, and as a last hope of saving its life, she
covered it up in a feather-bed, and immediately after
fell down insensible. Thus much of this tale of hor-
ror she relates herself. The residue of the frightful
narrative is told by other persons.
Mr. Archibald Brown, of. Sixteenth-street, beard
the alarm of fire about half-past seven o'clock,
and on looking towards the house of Hanlin,
saw a man in front of it piling up straw
and wood, which was in flames ; he ran towards
the spot, and there saw a manoeuvre that he could
not understand, and just before he reached the spot
the man went into the adjoining house, and a
person named Lee came up, accompanied by
others, and smashed in the window. The boy
Lawrence sprang out and gasped forth that his
'wither and her child were dead inside. Some of
ttie party went to the back of the shanty, and
with an axe burst it in, and brought out the
inanimate bodies of the mother and child,
who soon after breathed again. The other
party burst into the adjoining house, and there cap-
tured Klem. In one corner of the room they
found an instrument with which he must have
stabbed Mrs. Hanlin. It. consisted of &large file or
rasp, about a foot long, which had been ground down
*idh ni.sus
expressly for the purpose to which was applied.
Mrs. Hanlin and her chid were conveyed to the City
wtas stuckhave
been
o e inn a pole
eusd
as or
a siiclk ,
e, about fourfourand made
Hospital, and Klem to the Upper Police. He was,
fteoeat plooningt, am
sented as the most stolid, brutal-looking person ever
perfectly sober. He ism Irudiman, and ts repre'
seen there. Apparently he is about ferty years of age.
The unfortunate woman is burned considerably in
the face and right arm, and the stab in hat thigh is of
a serious character, and may produce death. In all
human probability the child will die. The punish-
ment for arson in the first degree, which consists of
setting fire to an inhabited dwelling, is death.
Justice Taylor, of the Upper Police, took the ex-
amination of Mrs. Hanlin at the hospital, and corct-
mitted Klem to a cell at the Upper Police, to await
the examination.

ycAstuornEy, ALaOt chinte, OR11;T11;---C11111E5----B RANSOM.—
o'clock, a special train arrived at
Nine Elms, from Gosport, conveying that portion
of the Chinese raIIS"PJ money brought over to this
country from nong-liorg by the Pelican sloop. The
train con :isted of live waggons and two carriages ;
the forint-r contained the foxes holding the syeee
silvers each waggon carrying about thre tons and
a I,ail weight. A gentleman from the Treasury
ar d a detachment of the 59th regiment accompanied d/si
f.cei.sure from Gosport, and the latter mounted guard in
the railway company's premises during the removal of
the silver from the baggage vans to some waggoilo bu-
lon!,ing to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the carriers aE
the Company. In the course of the afternoon the trea-
sure was conveyed in nine waggons to the Royal Mint,
Tower-hill, the detachment of the 59th accompanying
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND'S MISSION TO THE JEWS.—
-
A very crowded meeting of the friends of this branch pf
the Church of Scotland's missionary labours was held in
Swallow-street, yesterday evening. Truly interesting and
r
impressive addresses were delivered .by the Rev._ 11
sightili‘G l a
was
sn
ndestsheed,
Messiah
hh
to
enf tbjnrn.:eeC-rarly tilled up all ita Vac/tilde&
n;a,asTiC)lilitut•lesiey lentiirthM4t.efr
anN'ith men
u,as nof real Christian
way to Tunis, in Barbary, parjnoec:lvaoifm_
itihne trueee
createdd
Scotland,th eir fel fellow t
wase,
eo countrymen
worth. A very handsome collection lade at the door
edmstated,eßoe"
in behalf of these missions.