The Sun. — 1854-03-04 (London, England)

TRADE AND NAVIGATION RETURNS.  The official trade and navigation returns for the month ending Feb. 5, have been issued. The declared value of some of the principal exports, compared with that for the same articles during the corresponding month of last year, was as follows : 1853. 1854. Beer and Ale £106,066 Coals and culm 90,566 Cotton manufactures' 2,105,924 Cotton yarn 482,865 Earthenware 101,282 ...... 76,34 T Haberdashery and millinery 234,978 Hardware and cutlery Linen manufactures Linen yarn Machinery 124,894 Metals 858,216 ..... 772,817 Silk manufactures Woollen martufAdtures , Woollen jritfn , 88,344 The:c6inparison of imports for the month is as under-::  1853.  1854. 847  Oxen  1,008  Sheep Wheat  no. qrs.  4,586 4,253 440,902  Bar) oy Oats ..  ~...qrs.  73,690 80,862 " 26,393  Flour  Coffee Cocoa Flax Currants Guano  ..cwt.  305,620 „lbs. 1,554,092 .lbs. 221,598 .cwt. 69,348 36,824 ..cwt. 9,265 -* 9,859 ..tons 1,584 2,766  Hemp cwt. 21,417 Oil, palm cwt. 28,928 Potatoes cwt. 115,073 Bacon, pork, and beef.... cwt. 19,705 Silk, raw lbs. 818,638 Rum proof gallons 174,097 ...... Brandy proof gallons 185,330 Geneva proof gallons 10,000 ...... Timber loads 61,562  Tobacco .  lbs. 790;652  Wine  gallons. 170,993  8,280 54,601 3,534 9,836 815,577 405,434 41,379 1,642 805  98,,_ 437,374  ....,,. 442,744  ~.,._ -,..Cotton _ cwt. 398,,301 Sheep's wool lbs. 3,349,052 The total declared value of all the exports amounted to 6,692,5421., which, as compared with the like month i'., 1853, shows an increase of 460,7011.  THE BELGIAN GIRL'S 'CASE:  Mr. Simonds, an inspector of the B division, accompaut,a 4j- QM. lacruy, the unfortunate Belgian girl, whose case has excited so much sensation in the public mind, waited upon Mr. Arnold on her behalf, at the Westminster Police-court yesterday. The Inspector said that his application was for a warrant to procure the restoration of the girl's clothing, which was detained at the house in Denbigh-terrace, to which she had been brought from Brussels by Fiestel, alias Harrison. It will be remembered that on the occasion of her escape, on the morning of the 17th ult., she had nothing on her but a woollen dress, and was indebted to the kindness of strangers for the clothes in which she had subsequently appeared. Mr. Arnold observed that he should have no hesitation in granting a summons to compel their restoration. Mr. Simonds begged to inform the magistrate of the result of some further inquiries respecting the case. He found that Fiestel's mother had kept a house for the reception of girls for infamous purposes at, he believed, 192,Waterloo-road, where Elizabeth Grimwood had previously been murdered. Fiestel's father had left his wife in consequence of her disgraceful conduct. Mr. Arnold inquired what sort of house it was in Denbigh-terrace to which the girl had been brought '? Mr. Simonds observed that it was a very fine house, magnificently furnished. He knew a gentleman who had offered 1,0001. for the house, and, no doubt, would have had it, but that the M. Denis, who professed to be un extensive wine merchant, became the occupant. Mr. Arnold inquired whether Mr. Simonds was aware of the circumstance of its being a brothel before the present case was brought forward ? _ _  Mr. Simonds replied that he was not, and the business was conducted so privately that many of the neighbours did not, although they suspected it was. He had felt it his duty to make inquiries respecting 116, Taohbrookstreet, where Fiestel alias Harrison resided, and found it was a highly respectable house, and that there was not the least imputation upon the character of the landlord. Fiestel's mother had taken the apartments for herself, and, as she represented, a son, a mathematicalinstrument-maker, and referred the landlord to a builder in the Vauxhall-bridge-road, who gave her an excellent character. Since the examination of Fiestel, itinerant newsmongers had been selling halfpenny and penny accounts of the transaction opposite the house, pointing to it, and of course causing great annoyance to the respectable inmates.  Mr. Arnold said that the police would of course interfere to prevent anything of that sort being carried on. Mr. Fenwick observed that it would of course meet with proper attention. The girl, who appears less dejected than before, then left in care of the police. Madame Denis s name is stated to be "Laura Laboucher."