The Sun. — 1846-10-31 (London, England)

FLANDERS MAIL.  BRUSSELS, OCT. 27.—The average price of wheat during the week ending 24th Oct. was 25E 24c., and that of rye, 19f. 59c. This is a further rise since the preceding week of 61 centimes in rye per hectolitre. We cannot but applaud the resolution taken by the Municipal Council, on Saturday, to form a committee to inquire into the causes of the high prices of the most necessary provisions, and propose means to remedy the evil. Full of confidence in the zeal and judgment of the members of this committee, we.have reason to believe that its investigations will give rise to measures with which everybody, especially the working classes, will have reason to be satisfied. We have mentioned experiments on the manufacture of bread which hare been made at Verviers. We shall not say any more of them. ' They cannot fail to attract the attention of the committee. But there is one point which, on account of its importance, we would recommend to its most serious consideration. We mean visits to inspect the stock of the bakers, which are authorised by the law, but which seem to have fallen into disuse. A report made this year to the provincial authorities by M. Van de Weyer, proves that the examination of the weights and measures is wholly illusory. The unhappy workman, whose chief article of food is bread, is not only very frequently cheated in the weight, but still more in the quality. There is probably no place where the adulteration of bread is-so general as in the districts of Brussels. The faet has become almost proverbial. A book on the adulteration of food has lately appeared in France, which, speakinc, of the adulteration of bread by sulphate of copper,' says that it originated in Belgium, and that it is still chiefly practised in that country. If we are not mistaken in believing that this scandalous fraud, and some others have become notorious, it becomes the honest bakers, of whom we do not doubt there are great numbers at Brussels, to give the magistrates every information which may enable them to suppress this scandalous abuse. The Journal du Commerce d'Anvers confirms, from a letter from Cologne, the disagreeable news which we have mentioned respecting the measures adopted by the Zollverein. I think I can assure you that the resolutions modifying the present tariff of the Zollverein will be published in November next. They will affect several articies, especially thread mid manufactures of linen and cotton. Belgium will not be exempted from the measure. notwithstanding all the remonstrances of our diplomacy, which is justly alarmed. Nothing less is constemplated in the higher circles than the establishment of the system of differential duties, which is considered the first step towards constituting the marine of the Zollverein. The author of tho pamphlet, which is called " Testament Politique," which lately appeared, is spoken of as one of the principal promoters of the kstitution ; the idea is said to have been suggested to him during the long residence which he made at Brussels as Ambassador from the Cabinet at Berlin.  SUICIDE FRONI DlSEASE.—Thursday an inquest was held before Mr. Bedford, at the White Swan, Vaux hall Bridge-road, on the body of John Burton, aged 40. The deceased, a carpenter, living at 4, Gulston Cottages, had led a very intemperate life, producing disease of the brain and chest, which of late had left him in such a state of debility as to render him unaccountable for his actions. On Tuesday morning last his wife had occasion to leave the room, and on returning, in less thnn three minutes, she found him on the floor in a sitting position, bleed ing from a wound in the throat, which he had inflicted with a razor. Mr. Atkinson, surgeon, was called in, and sewed up the wound, but he expired the same night from the effects of- the injury. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." HURRICANE IN THE NORTH CHANNEL, a.-sn7Loss or