The National Register. — London, England, 1815-06-25 00:00:00

JUNE 25. Brussels Papers arrived on Friday, bringing . further in tere,ting particulars of the late battle. It appears from them thai the defeat of the enemy has been more complete than the Doke of Wellington has repreamted it. Nearly three hundred pieces of cannon have been captured. The less of the enemy in mottriel has been. as great as in the retreat from Busch; whole corps threw away their arms in order to faci litate their flight. The military chest ; bales of revolutionary preelatratir ns, dived from the palace of Lacken, near Brus sels; carriages, valuables of every description, were con• staetly falling into the hands of the victors; numerous ca valry continued to pursue the fugitives, who had already re crossed the Sambre, and were ftying, in indescribable con• fo , ien, towards their own frontiers The Duke of Wellington, to whese personal exec tions, as well as to his incomparable s kill, the victory of the 18th is chiefly atttibuted, arrived on Monday at Brussels, on a visit to the wounded. A first column of 2500 prisoners arrived at Brussels on Monday. General Compans, of the Guards, is among them. Sixteen regiments of cavalry are said to continue in pursuit of the fugitives. One of the Bressells Papers winds up The business in these words :—There are 40,000 'hors de combat on both sides; 250 pieces of cannon, and 12,000 or 14,000 prisoners taken from the enemy—the whole of Buonaparte's Guard destroyer!—Vandamme hors de. combat—one of Buonaparte's brothers killed—in short, we are all besides ourselves with joy ! The brave Bulow has made a dreadful carnage with 12,000 choice cavalry. God be praised ! Buonaparte had promised his troops three hours pillage at Brussels.—The Pm bsians are said to 'nave already passed the Sambre, and entered Charlet or. • An Austrian army of 135.000 wen is said to have entered France on the side of Switzerland. There is no adequate force to oppose them. The nomination of Sheriffs for the County of Middlesex, and City of London, took place 3esterday l when Messrs rJof chine and Severn were nominated. New Yolk Papers to the 17th, and Halifax to the 25th ult. have been received. The following is an important ex tract from the New York Paper of the 16th, relating to the trade lately carried on between the United States and our West India Colonies :—Extract of a Letter from M. Hyslop mid Co. commission merchants, dated Kingston (Jamaica) April IT, 1815. "By an Order in Council dated 1 9th Dec. last, the American flag cunnot he admitte4 here after the 16th inst. hut we trust this step will only be continued until a definitive Treaty of Commerce is agreed to between the two ccuntries." The parade in St. James's Park on Thursday morning was uncommonly numerous and splendid. The household hiig,ades, consisting of the life-guards and Oxford blues, and the foot-guards, were drawn up at half past nine o'clock, and occupied the space from Carlton Douse to the Bird-cage walk. At ten the guns fired a double salute, in celebration of the elorious victory achieved by the Duke of Wellington over Bunnaparte l after which, the cavalry flourishing their sword,. the infantry waving their caps with sprigs of oak in them, gave trate hearty cheers, in which the military were joined by the acclamations or an immense concourse of people, %% ho had assembled at an eat!y hour from all parts of the mettop,lis. The cavalry then went through various evolutio ns with incredible celerity, and the binds continued play tut; national aims , flourishes of t, umpets, &e. at inter va's) fin three quavers of an hour. At eleven a general lAvvelnent of the troops - took pace : the foot-guard!, who THE NATIONAL REGISTER. occupied the centre, advanced to the rails of park, form. ing double line,, three deep, the life-guards on the right, and the blues on the lift. The Duke of York, nn foot,, and. surrounded by an immense crowd, who had ac. companied him from York House, appeared fro n t of the line, and was received by the military *kb th e usual honours, and by the company with Juud and reiterated acclamations. A fru-de-joie was now'filed from the extreme right of the line to the h fr, the effect ef which was greatly enhanced by the cavalry iiischarging their car. !rifles. The foot guards then fell back to their usual pe f t. Lion; the cavalry closed from tight and left. The Duke of York, accompanied by a number of Field Officers, read The • London Gazelle, containing the glorious news from the theatre of the war ; at the conelusinn of which the military and the spectators united in three mote loud cheers, after which the military filed off, some to their quarto s, and others to relieve the different guards. A rumour prevailed nn the parade, that the eagles whi c h had been taken would be exhibited as proud trophies of the victory; but this exhibition is postponed till the solemn ceremonial of depositing them in Whitehall Chapel shalt take place ; when, we doubt not, many others will be added to the number. The captive eagles are now at Carhoe (louse. They are quite new, and are two of those that were presented by Buonaparte to his household troop s at th e memorable assembly of the Champ de Mai, aud have under them a magnificently embroidered colour, about the size of the vandard used by the cavalry. EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMINON IN TUE SUN.—The newspapers, both in America and England, have noticed the remakable circumstance of an extraordinary phewsmat non in the Sun. The following is an authentic and correct account, for the truth of which Captain Hayes, of his Ma jesty's ship Majestic, now lying in Plymouth harbour, and, the whole of his officers and ship's company. may be ap pealed to :—On the morning of the 27th of August, 1 .813, the Majestic being then Mr Boston, the men on board ob served at the rising of the Sun, the complete figure of a man. in the centre of that luminary, with a flag divided by three lines in his hand. Ile was at first on his back, but as day advanced he gradually assumed an erect posture, and at mid day stood upright : towards evening he as gradually. de clined, descending with his flag head-foremost.--On the 28th it retained the same outline, but had become a skele ton.—On the 29th the figure was disjointed, and its parts gradually assumed the appearance of six separate flags, united in a circle by an apparent cord or line. Mier this, nothing more was observed on the sun's disc but a few small sports.---The American papers notice only the extraordinary' appearance of the sun on the above-mentioned d Is. Per haps the observers on that Continent were not in a position to catch the precise appearance which the particles of mat ter presented to the ship's company of the Majestic. There could be no optical delusion on the occasion as the pheno menon was observed by so many different eyes, and for sp long a time, The fist figure was seen during the whole of the 27th, the skeleton the whole of the 28th, and the Raga during a great part of the 29111.—The above is an occur rence which may merit the attention of the philosophic. it is singular, we conceive, but nothing miraculous or spoten tous, Indeed, as the Sun is the centre of a system of plan ets, several of which are much larger and probably more important than ours, no reason can be assigned why this. common luminary should shape his face, or have it shaped ; for him, SO as to indicate the particular occurrences of thit eartb. A . -