The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1862,

THE QUEENS VISIT TO GERMANY.

- BRUSSELS, SEPT. 2.
The royal family of Belgium has left for Antwerp,
to receive her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Her Majesty is expected to arrive here this after-
noon, and will proceed direct to Lacken, without
stopping at Brussels.
The preparations which were commenced for her
Majesty's reception at the Northern Railway Sta-
tion have been countermanded.

It is expected that the Queen will set out for
Germany to-morrow.

Her Majesty Queen Victoria arrived at Antwerp
at four p.m., after a rough passage, and reached
Lacken at six o'clock.

His Majesty was received with the um;

honours.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and Prince
Leopold alighted at the Brussels station with the
Count de Flandre and the English Minister, and
were conveyed to the Royal Palace in Court car-
riages.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales visited
on Monday Mr. John Leech's Gallery of Sketches in Oil, ai
the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
The military tribunal of Mabant tried, on Satur-

day, two private soldiers named Vanderplanche and Burgi-
net for insubordination and striking their superior officer,
Both prisoners were found guilty and condemned to death,

The tunnelling of Mount Cenis by the system of
compressed air is progressing satisfactorily on the Savoy
side. On the Italian side the machines are still employed,
and the tunnel advances from 1 metre 60 to 2 metres 20
each day. On the Itadan side the distance reached is 1,200
mitres, and on the Savoy aide 720 metres.

The Toulonnais says that the Government steamer

Utile left Toulon two days since to assist a vessel in dis-
tress off the Isles of Hyeres. The vessel proved to be the
Borysthenes, belonging to the Messageries Imperiales,
which, while trying a new screw, had grounded on a rock,
and, to avoid sinking, had been run ashore off the peninsula
of Gien.

The number of convicts in the bagne of Toulon
has lately so much increased that there is now a difficulty
in finding sufficient space to lodge them. During the last
month 120 have arrived, raising the total number to 3,190.
Our readers will doubtless remember the famous
sale which lately took place in the Champs-Elysées of the
magnificent jewelry and other effects of a demi-monde ce-

lebrity, Mlle. Anna Deslions. That lady has just figured
before a court of law as defendant against an opposition
placed in the hands of the auctioneer by a butcher, named
Josse, claiming payment of a sum of 406 f. for meat sup-
plied. The defendant having produced the cook's book,
which proved that she had every week paid over to that
functionary the amount due to the butcher, the court de-
cided that the plaintiff was alone to blame in giving undue
credit to the cook without authority, and nonsuited him
with costs.

ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.-14,813 claims have
been received, and 13,105 volunteers enrolled in this re-
serve. Of these 45 hold certificates of competency as
masters, and 260 certificates of competency as mates; 19
hold certificates of service as masters, and 46 certificates :of
service as mates—total holding certificates, 380. And the
force embraces 2,015 petty officers in the merchant service.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The great autumn show of
flowers and fruit will be held this day and to-morrow. The
entries aro more than usually extensive, requiring nearly
4,000 feet of tables ; they have 'been placed all round the
great transept and naves, and consequently are quite inde-
pendent of bad weather. The fruit comprises kinds from
nearly all the principal growers. The flowers will be far
more varied than on similar occasions. Among them will
be found a large collection, nearly 400 specimens of gla-
diolus, which have been sent from Paris expressly for this
show. The palace will open as usual at nine o'clock at the
ordinary rate of admission. It is expected the judges will
conclude their awards, and the flowers and fruit will be
en view, by 12 o'clock.

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BOSTON.—The Harbiet Rail, from Marseilles,
which :was seized by the Federals, at New Orleans and
afterwards taken to New York, has been released by the
Government.

The Canada papers say that an extensive fur
trade will centre this fall in Montreal, in consequence of
the troubles in the United States preventing traders from
going to New York and Boston. The season's supply of
robes from the Hudson Bay Company, will, it is expected,
be over 12,000.
A fire occurred at Lagny (Oise) two nights since,
by which two farm-houses, with their outbuildings full of
il
corn, were - totally destroyed. The loss amounts to nearly
78 000 f,, and the whole of the insurance on the property
pdto Agr2cole says:_" The more numerous
The -- r informationhave become, the •
of
the sources
correctness of the opinion on the result of the
are we of the co,
forth
by us, namely, that the yield for 1862
wheat crop, Pl'
acoinadatehciel:nacniesa, A that of a good average year. At Paris,
was only 10,500 f.
would not exceeLL
the greater part of the past week,
rain has fallen during
general prevailed elsewhere.
That circumstance
has not,me points the carrying of the
however, produced any M-
delayed under the influence of
-ast
few sheaves has been .
d rapidly, the lands have
the. rain., the beets have advance
first tillage which precedes
been prepared to receive the . rmented by the
c being a I
the autumn sowing, and the riven., .
Ils to resume their
pluvial waters, have allowed the
mills
the produce of wheat
wfoera tihf eornh assoh
activity. A great inequality exists in
1 after threshing, according as it was harvested previous or
subsequent to the wet season."