The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-20 00:00:00

GERMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS.

VIENNA, JUNE 10.—The Imperial Court has gone into
mourning for six weeks, for the late King of Saxony. All
the preparations for the departure of the French Princes are
made. They were to be accompanied to the Austrian frontier
by the Chamberlains who were appointed to wait upon them
here, but they have declined this honour. Yesterday the
Princes viewed the military establishments in this city, and in
afternoon visited the Prater. A few days ago they visited the
Imperial family vault, where they put up a prayer over the
grave of their grandmother, the Queen of the Two Sicilies,
and gave to the Guardian of the Capucins a considerable sum,
for a mass to be said for her. The Princcs have also paid a
visit to Prince Rasumorosk, formerly Prussian Ambassador at
Vienna and Naples, who was on terms of friendship with the
King of the French, during his residence at Palermo.
ST. PETERSBURGH, MAY 28.—Very energetic measures are
now carrying into effect in order to simplify as much as possi-
ble the mode of proceeding in all civil offices, and in other
things. An attempt is made to reduce the extremely tedious
and diffuse Russian office style into shorter and more precise
forms. This reform will render the present great number of
subalterns unnecessary, and the vacancies will be filled up by a
smaller number of more able persons with larger salaries.
VIENNA, JUNE 10.—Five per Cents. 104 ; Four per Cents.
991. ; Three" per Cents. 751 ; Bank Stock, I,376.—Allge-
mine Zeitung, June 15.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 18.—A deplorable duel took place yesterday
morning between two gentlemen employed in the department
of the interior, one of whom was killed on the spot by a
pistol shot fired at the distance of 40 paces; the other was
slightly wounded in the breast. The military tribunal of
Brabant yesterday acquitted Lieut. Williams of the Guides, for
having killed in a duel Lieut. Smit of the same Regiment.
The Court acquitted him on the ground, that duelling is not
punished by our laws, especially in the case of officers of the
army.

BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, JUNE 17.
Actual Debt, 2!i, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. IOIN
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 9834
Society of Commerce, 4M per Cent. 1344
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 119,A
--Brussels Papers, June 18.

We understand that Lord Palmerston, after a mos
careful examination of the nature of the duties performed by
the British Superintendents in China, and of the objects for
which they were sent to that country, has come to the conclu-
sion that a very considerable reduction may advantageously
be effected in our establishment in that quarter of the globe.
Despatches have already been forwarded to China, announcing
the abolition of the office and salary of Chief Superintendent.
The office is at present held by Sir George Robinson, and
the salary is 6,0001. a year.
A very general impression prevails that should the
House of Lords on Friday next adhere to Lord Lyndhurst's
Bill, Parliament will be prorogued with as little delay as pos-
sible, and will be called on to re-assemble at a period not
later than the month of November.
Mrs. O'Connell is in a very precarious state of
health. The complaint under which she labours is the dropsy,
and little hopes are entertained of her recovery.
GRAND. ENTERTAINMENT BY THE OFFICERS
OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.—His Royal Highness the Prince
of Orange, accompanied by the Hereditary Prince and Prince
Alexandr and suite, paid a second visit on Friday to Wool-
wich, and in the evening dined with the officers of this distin-
guished corps, in the mess-room at the barracks. There were
present to meet his Royal Highness the Marquis of Anglesey,
Lord Hill, General Lord Strafford, Lord Fitzroy Somerset,
Lord Edward Somerset, the Duke of Beaufort, Sir Henry
Hardinge, Sir James Kemp, Sir William Clinton, Sir John
Elley, Sir Samuel Warren, R.N. ; Sir Willoughby Gordon,
Sir Frederick Mulcaster, Sir John Macdonald, Sir Edward
Disbrowe, Sir John Smith, Sir Joseph Maclean, Master-Ge-
neral of the Ordnance ; Gens. Millar and Salmon ; Cols. Sir
Alexander Dickson, Sir Robert Gardner, Sir John May,
Drummond, Anson, Munro, M'Cleverty, Sir A. Leith Hay,
&c., &c. The Royal visitors arrived at the Academy shortly
after 11 o'clock. and were received by the Gentlemen Cadets,
commanded by Colonel Parker. A Royal salute was fired,
and the cadets passed in review before his Royal Highness in
slow and quick time. The Prince of Orange expressed in
warm terms his satisfaction at this interesting ceremony. The
Cadets afterwards went through what is termed the Repository
exercise in mounting and dismounting cannon. The celerity
and precision of movement excited general admiration. About
two o'clock the Princes proceeded to Greenwich, to lunch
with the Governor of the Hospital, Sir Thomas Hardy, and
again returned to Woolwich in the evening. At 7 o'clock the
Royal party entered the Mess-room, where a sumptuous din-
ner was provided. The Master-General of the Ordnance, Sir
Hussey Vivian, presided.
On Tuesday last a fine specimen of the rare and
remarkable fish, popularly known by the expressive name of
the " Sea Devil," was caught in the Severn, near Newnham,
in a net with several ether fish. The creature, whose enor-
mous and formidable mouth could have engulfed a shoal of
small fry, weighed 1221b5.
The attention of our readers has no doubt been
directed to a case which recently occurred at one of the po-
lice-oqices, in which the ladies of a family, resident in Spring-
gardens, had been perseveringly annoyed and insulted in the
gardens of St. James's Park. Subsequent inquiries, we regret
to say, have led to the discovery of many similar cases, which
the delicacy of parties had prevented them from noticing at
the time of their occurrence, and which have consequently had
the effect of excluding from these gardens the majority of the
respectable families of the neighbourhood. Measures, how-
ever, we understand, have been adopted by the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, with the Commissioners of Police,
which have already Jed to the apprehension of a second delin-
quent, and if cautiously and properly conducted, as they have
bitherto been, will infallibly lead to the exposure of some of
these vagabonds (no matter how respectable their appearance)
by whom these beautiful grounds appear to have been so long
infested. Observer.
As one of the railway trains was crossing Chat
Moss last Thursday, at the rate of 20 miles an hour, convey-
ing a loan of Irish pigs to Manchester, one of the swinish
multitude, possessed of rather more vigour or more forethought
than his companions, suddenly made a flying leap over the
side of the carriage, and came down on the railway with a
fearful squelch. Fortunately for the interesting quadruped,
his fat protected his bones. After lying in a kind of swoon
for some moments, he rose and made an attempt to cross the
5110.5.5 ; but, by this time, one of the station-keepers had come
up, by whom he was apprehended, and once more restored to
his afflicted companions.
ROYAL \VIT.—At the late dinner to the Jockey
Club, given by his Majesty, Lord Westminster was boasting
of Touchstone, and offering to back him for a large sum against
anything that could' be named in the field. " I accept the
challenge, said the King, " and will name to heat him by a
neck." The match was concluded, and his Majesty, called
upon to name his favourite, amidst a roar of laughter, named
" The Giraffe !"—Literary Gazette.
CURIOUS PLANT.—In the island of Cuba is a
plant which emits such an intense perfume as to be perceived
at the distance of two or three miles. It is of the species
Tetracera, and remarkable for bearing leaves so hard that they
are used by the native cabinet-makers, and other mechanics,
for various kinds of work. It is a climbing plant, which
reaches the tops of the loftiest trees of the forests, then spreads
far around, and in the rainy season is covered with innumerable
bunches of sweet smelling flowers, which, however, dispense
their perfume during the night only, and are almost without
scent in the daytime.
HERNE BAY, JUNE 18.—The packets to this de-
lightful watering-place, in consequence of their improved
machinery, now make the passage from the metropolis in the
space of four hours and a half, and bring with them each day
an increasing number of passenger. Should the present fine
weather continue, the season will be an active one. Among
the recent arrivals are Orby Hunter, Esq., Mr. G. Womb-
well, Sir John Rennie, Lieutenant-Colonel Hardy, Captain
Robinson, R. N., and family, Colonel Clitherow, Sir Peter
Laurie, and Sir Henry Oxendon, and family.
ADULTERATION OF BEER.—At the Excise Court,
on Saturday, the landlord of a gin-palace in the Walworth
road, was fined in the full penalty of 4001., for adulterating his
beer with forty gallons of water to each butt, with a compound
of salt, sugar, and Spanish liquorice.
An inhabitant of Marseilles has lately discovered
that there is a violent poison contained in olive oil. He has
also found the means of extracting from the olive all its dele-
terious quality, and in future it will be easy to distinguish the
oil which retains the unhealthy ingredients from that from
which it has been withdrawn.
The projected railroad from Brighton to the metro-
polis entirely engrosses the attention of the town. A very
large majority of the inhabitants are vociferous for the direct
line, and the decisions of the committee on the Brighton
Bills have amazed them. On Monday a town meeting takes
place, and there is every prospect at present of its being a very
stormy one.
A few days since a boy named Rossiter, the son of
a respectable cooper in Wapping, while playing with some
other children in Epping Forest, near Wanstead, met with a
common adder, which they commenced beating with small
stick until they supposed it was disabled, when the boy Ros-
siter, who is only eight years of age, picked it up and was
holding it up for the inspection of his young companions,
when the reptile bit him on the wrist, inflicting apparently only
a slight wound. The boy dropped the adder which made its
escape, and in a few minutes the boy's arm began to increase
in size to so great an extent, accompanied with violent inflam-
mation and pain, that his friends became alarmed, and he was
immediately removed to the London Hospital. The arm be-
came swollen in a few hours to more than four times its usual
size, and the boy has since remained in the hospital in a most
precarious condition. The case has received every attention
from the medical officers of the institution, but it is 'feared that
he will not recover from the effects of the injury, and on Sa-
turday morning he was pronounced to be in great danger.
About three weeks ago an infant, about four months old, the
daughter of a dock labourer, named Dixon, residing in Step-
ney, was bitten by an adder in another part of the same forest,
and- ived the wound three days. The mother had
irnp'l4l4eriVy id the child on the grass, when the venomous
septileatt74
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