The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-27 00:00:00

Y 27, 1839.

Government moved in the Chamber of Deputies
for a grant of 10,000,000 f. (400,000/.) to increase
the French squadron in the Mediterranean. But
this circumstance is of less amount than many might
suppose. The French Government wants the
money, and we suspect gladly seized upon so po-
pular a pretext for demanding it.

We received last night Brussels and Dutch papers
to the 25th inst.. We subjoin the following
extracts from them :
BRUSSELS, MAY 23 —His Serene Highness Duke Fer-
dinand of Saxe Coburg, the King's brother, Lieutenant
Field Marshal in the service of Austria, arrived at Brussels
yesterday. His Highness is accompansed by his two sons,
Princess Victoria, his daughter, and a numerous suite.
Their Highnesses will go from Brussels to London, the
Duke with his two sons will proceed to Lisbon, to see the
King of Portugal, his son ; the young Princess will remain
at London till their return.
Count Le Horn, who has been here for some weeks on
leave of absence, set out yesterday evening to return to
his post at Paris.
His Royal Highness Duke Alexander, of Wurtemberg,
set out for Germany this morning.
We learn that the Dutch begun on Saturday last to
dismantle the forts of Lillo and Liefkenshock.
BRUSSELLS, MAY 24 —Yesterday the English Ambas-
sador gave a grand dinner to honour of the birth of Queen
Wier, ria, who completed her 20th year. The reduction of
the military foree proceeds rapidly in Holland ; the
journals are full of accounts of the discharge of soldiers to
return to their homes.
It is said that a great portion of the horses lately
purchased for the Belgian Government will be made over
to France as soon as the trea•y of peace is ratified.
We learn with pleasure the Government has relaxed the
measures prescribed with respect to the inhabitants of Hol-
land, who come to Belgium. The Chambers are engaged
in the discut:.sion of some projcc's of law respecting
Limburg and Luxemburg, rendered necessary by the
transfer of part of these provinces to Holland.
The trial of Messrs. Barthels and Katts, is going on.
The Java papers, from the 26th of December to 19th of
January have come to hand. They contain a decree of
the Governor General of the Ist January, which orders that
no duties on importation or exportation, shall be levied in
the Lampong districts. The importation of copper coin
is prohibited. The importation of gunpowder, fire arms,
salt (not manufactured in Java), opium, woollen and cotton
manufactures from countries to the west of the Cape of
Good Hope (unless provided with a certificate of their
having been imported and re exported in a port of Java,
and that the duties are paid) is prohibited.
THE HAGUE. MAP 23 —The Royal Family is again
plunged into affliction. His Highness Prince William, '
eldest son of Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar, died yes-
terday morning, after a few days' illnes.
(From the Avondbode.)
NIMEGUEN, MARCH 22.—A few days ago I mentioned
the dangerous state of the eldest son of the Duke of
Saxe Weimar, that there was a faint hope of his recovery,
perhaps founded rather on the sincere wishes of those
who knew him, than on any good foundation.
Last night his Highness desired his brother in the army
to be summoned to his bed side, with manly courage the
dying Prince took leave of his comrades and friends. It
was a most affecting scene, for all who witnessed it, but
especially for the parents who never quitted for a moment
the sick-bed of a son so tenderly beloved. His Highness
awaited with calmness and resignation the stroke of death,
which put an end, at half-past eight this morning to the
brilliant career that seemed to be before him.
His Highness was born at Ghent, in June 1817, so that
he was not quite twenty-two years of age. The regret for
the death of the young prince is general. All who knew
him praise his noble and kind character.—Amsterdam,
May 24

V:ENNA, MAY 15.--The accounts from Constantinople
oi May 1, say that Hafed Pasha, in consequence of the
total want of provisions for his army, had on the 15th of
April, left the camp of Malattia, and marched to Samisat
on the Euphrates, 15 German (70 English) miles from
the frontiers of Syria, in order to take up an advantageous
poition, that is, as far as the subsistence of the troops is
concerned. The latest movement is not indeed a formal
retreat, but neither is it a hostile demonstration, and cer-
tainly more of the first than of the second. There the
most recent accounts state that there is every reason to
hope that peace will be preserved.

With the exception of the news of the commence-
ment of hostilities between the Pacha of EGYPT
and the Porte, and rumours of the discovery
of Buonapartist plots in the South of France,
there is no intelligence of interest in the French
Journals of Friday and Saturday. They all
indulge in severe animadversions upon the re-
ception givin to the Grand Duke ALEX-
ANDER of Russia by the English Court, from
which they infer that England dreads nothing so
much as a war with the AUTOCRAT. The faithless-
ness of the Cabinet of the Tuileries) has, they as-
sert, thrown England into the arms of Russia.
French politicians evidently know very little about
England.
The latest arrivals from Madrid are of the 18th
inst. General ALAIX had prevailed upon M.
CARAMOLINA, Deputy for Avila, and an obscure