The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-25 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL, ALTO. 23.—Arrived the Perceval, Foster, from
Port Wallace ; Maria, Ford, from Quebec; and President,
Rathbone, from Dantzic. Off port the Freierick, Pomerish,
from Pillau.

HULL, AUG. 23.—His Majesty's ship Cove, Captain Ross,
passed up the Humber this morning about six o'clock, with a
fair wind, for the River. Captain Ross sent his dispatches up
by a pilot, and they will be forwarded by to-morrow's post.
I understand that Captain Ross has been up the Straits to or
near Melville Bay, but owing to the immense masses of ice,
could not get across to the westward, and consequently can
give no information as to the William Tod. The fishing ships
were left by his Majesty's ship Cove about the middle of last
month. Only ten whales had been caught, as per annexed
account ; viz., William, Lee, of Hull, 1 ; Norfolk, Harrisson,
of Berwick, 1 ; Clarendon, Keir, of Leith, 1 ; Advice, Deu-
chars, of Dundee, 1 ; Princess Charlotte, Adamson, of Dun-
dee, 1 ; St. Andrew, Bruce, of Aberdeen, 1 ' • Eclipse, of
Peterhead, 3; and Superior, Manson, of Peterhead, 1. In
all, 10 fish.

A letter from Berlin observes—" It seems a very
erroneous notion is entertained at Brussels that M. Baird,
Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, is here
for the purpose of negotiating the accession of Belgium to
the German Commercial Union. The fact is, that none but
States, members •of the German Commercial Union (and
consequently neither Switzerland nor Belgium) can be re-
ceived into it. All that Belgium can expect from the Ger-
man Commercial Union would, perhaps, be a more advan-
tageous treaty of commerce and .navigation than that with
H olland. " German Paper.

PRESS URG, JULY 20.—The counties of Bihar and
Szathmar are filled with consternation from the present fires.
The town of Belenycs, near Great Waradin, has been de-
stroyed in this mariner. Many villages near Nagy Karoly
have shared the same fate. And the great forest of Debrecgin
would have been also totally destroyed but for the exertions of
neighbouring people in stopping the flames. There is no
doubt that these disasters arise from malevolence. Guards
patrol Great Waradin and Nagy Karoly night and day, and
divers other districts are in terror. Individuals have been
found with incendiary balls.— Verona Paper.

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The Courrier Francais says Strange reports
were in circulation yesterday relating to the nature of the
death of M. de Rayneval. It was very gonerally stated that
the Government had not given the true cause of this sudden
event; and that, having become the victim of popular fury, M.
de Rayneval suffered the fate of Messrs. Berthier de Sanvigy
and de Flesselles after the taking of the Bastille. This state-
ment, however, is very improbable. For a long time the
friends of M. de Rayneval have been under great apprehen-
sions from the state of his health, and it will be recollected
that, in the bulletin by which the Government announced the
occurrences of St. Ildefonso, it was stated that M. de Ray-
neval being ill, it was M. Bois le Comte who, with Mr. Vil-
liers, endeavoured to get access to the Queen."
ANTWERP, AUG. 22.—We are assured that the
Jesuits have raised the camp which they had established at
at Dewsne ; that is to say, that they have suddenly abandoned
the boarding-school which they directed in that place. The
relations of the pupils who are absent for the holidays had re-
ceived no notice of this sudden flight. The reverend fathers
have taken the road to France, and that with such precipita-
tion, that they seem to have forgotten to pay some professors
of the agreeable arts. We wish the gentlemen a pleasant
journey.—Journal du Commerce d'Anvers.

M. Ancillon, Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs,
has arrived with all his family, at Brussels, whence he intends
to go to Paris.

BERLIN, AUGUST 15.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cumberland has arrived here from London.

BRUSSELS, AUG. 21.—The Moniteur Beige of
to-day announces officially that the resignation of General
Evain, as Minister of War, is accepted; and that General
Wilmer is appointed to succeed him. Likewise, that to re-
compense the services rendered by General Evain, he is ap-
pointed Minister of State.
HUNGARY, AUG. I.—The Archbishop of Erlan
during the six years that he was Patriarch of the Venetian
Church, formed a collection of 150 or 160 very fine original
paintings, chiefly of the Venetian school, which he placed in
a Gallery at Erlan, erected expressly for their reception.
When the Diet of Hungary in its last sittings in May resolved
on the building of a National Museum at Pesth, for which it
voted a sum of 500,000 florins, the Archbishop rose, and of-
fered his collection of pictures to the Museum. This was
accepted with acclamations, and the notice incorporated in a
separate article of the law.—Frankfort Paper.
THE HAGUE, AUGUST 22.—Her Royal Highness
Princess Frederica was safely delivered of a son this evening.
—Dutch Papers, Aug. 24.

Dowton's American expedition is said not to have
been so successful as he anticipated. He is on his return home.
A person in the neighbourhood of Bradford, sup-
posing he bad found the exacting quadraturc of the circle,
solicited an examination of his method by the scientific world.
Accordingly a few gentlemen met him at the Saving's Bank
on Tuesday evening last, when he developed his plan. Per-
haps it is needless to state, that his exhibition was a failure.
In th,l year 1761, Lambert first demonstiated that the circum-
ference of a circle is incommensuable with its diameter.
Since that time the vain hope of solving this once celebrated
problem has been rapidly dying away ; and we are astonished
to find that there are yet even some who spend their time in
quest of an object which mathematical demonstrations have
taught us it is impossible to find.—Hull Express.