The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-18 00:00:00

DEATH FROM DROWNING.

Two young men, brothers, named Linton, aged 18 and
21 respectively, were drowned at Upnor, near Rochester,
on Friday afternoon. They were, with their father, at
work at Upnor, and during their dinner hour went t•
bathe in the Medway, when they were both carried away
by the stream. One body has ben recovered.

ANTICIPATED RESIGNATION OF THE
BELGIAN MINISTRY.

It is stated by a Belgian paper of last evening that at a
Cabinet Council held yesterday the members of the Cabi-
net resolved to resign immediately. This decision has of
course been arrived at in consequence of the untavourable
turn which the late elections have taken, by which the
Liberal party have been put, for the first time during
some twentX years, in a minority in the Chamber.

Prince Adalbert of Prussia has arrived in Eng-
land.

Prince Orloff will succeed Baron Brunnow as
Russian Minister at the English Court.

Colonel the Hon. W. J. Colville will be the camp
commandant at Wimbledon this year.
The deaths in London from scarlet fever have
risen gradually during the last seven weeks from 68 to
103. The increased fatality of last week was almost ex-
clusively in the western district of Kensington.

H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, Commanding-
in-Chief, will preside this morning at the half-yearly
examination and distribution of prizes to the gentlemen
sadets at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

The subscriptions towards the fund for erecting a
statue to Sir Titus Salt in Bradford hsve already reached
the sum of £l,lOO.

The Journal des Debate is delighted that its old
contributor, M. Prdvost Paradol has accepted the United
States mission. He is, says the Debats, what English call
" the right man in the right place."

The English schooner yacht Cambria and the
American schooner yacht Dauntless start from off the
Head of Kinsale on the morning of the 4th prox., for New
York, in their match across the Atlantic.
The Duke de Sesto has arrived in Paris from
Madrid charged, it is asserted, with the mission of laying
before Queen Isabella the general wish of her party that
she should abdicate in favour of her son, the Prince of
Asturias.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
have resumed their sittings, having before them a long list
of appeals. The case of the Rev. C. Voysey is in the list,
but there is very little probability of its being heard dur-
ing the present sittings.

The officers of several steam-ship companies have
waited upon Collector Grinnell, expecting that he would
restore the general order business to their warehouses in
Jersey City and Hoboken. They were not prepared to
comply with the suggestions of the Secretary of the
Treasury and place their store-houses under the exclusive
control of Customs officers, and, therefore no conclusion
was arrived at.

WILLS AND BEQTJESTS.--The will of the Very
Rev. Thomas Dale, D.D., Dean of Rochester, many years
Canon of St. Paul's, was proved in London, on the 27th
ult., nnder £lB,OOO personalty. He has left his numerous
presentations of plate and other memorials amongst his
children, to whom he has left his books, as well as pecu-
niary legacies; the furniture he has left to his daughters
Rose and Clara, whom he has appointed residuary
egatees.

The conductor of the train on the Watertown,
Rome and Ogdensburg Railroad, who called in the aid of
the United States troops, at Williamstown, to suppress
disorder among passengers, consisting chiefly of Fenians
gives an account of the affair, from which it appears that
the soldiers did not fire upon the Fenians, but that the
firing was the work of New York roughs on the train
during a riot between them and the Fenians. The soldiers
charged with the bayonet.
BOILER EXPLOSION.—Between the hours of six and
seven o'clock on Friday morning an explosion occurred
through the bursting of a pipe within the boiler of an
engine on the premises of Messrs. Cotten and Slater's,
Blackburn. The wall in front of the boiler-house was
blown away, and parts of several tenaments adjamit to
the mill were destroyed. The engine tenter was killed,
and another man severely scalded. A young woman in
one of the neighbouring houses was also killed.
Two journeymen tailors were on Friday charged
at Marlborough-street with having threatened and as-
saulted a workwoman named Marion Davis. As the
operative tailors of Cork are on strike, the master trades-
men of that city endeavour to get their orders executed in
London. During the past few days one of the shops in
which this class of work has been carried on has been
watched by the emissaries of the strike committee, work-
people bad been threatened, and one woman was the vic-
tim of an assault. Evidence was called on Friday to prove
, these facts, and the defendants were remanded,