The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-25 00:00:00

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Yesterday morning barometrical pressure, though lower over Great
Britain than on Saturday, was recovering from the depression then
noticed, and readings were very uniform, tkough lowest In the west
of France. Since then, however, a decrease of thr.2e-tenths has
occurred in the north of these ialands, (sada slight recovery on the
'W. coast of France. The reading at Nairn is nearly 0 In. lower than
hat at Cape Grin Nez. Temperature ye*rday had somewhat re-
overed over France, but decreased in the west : this morning a con-
siderable rise in the north and west is enticed, though readings
gd— S.W.,gene ra
andli are blowing fresh in the Irish Channel. easterly in the smth. To-day they have
continue low in the S.E. and E. Winds mere light and variable on
veeredSunda to ymS°.rniann
Rain has fallen in Ireland. The sky is geneully cloudy.

LAST HOURS OF THE DUK OF BRABANT.

Belgium is in mourning for her los; heir. The interest
excited by his six months' illness and the wonderful
patience with which he bore his sufferings was not con-
fined only to the land of his birth. The Belgian nation
deplore the loss of a Prince vhich promised it
a king worthy of his father, and this regret will be shared
by all Europe, and especially in Engand. Several days
before his death the poor child, gifted with remarkable
firmness and intelligence, felt his end approaching. On
the I.4th he asked one of his d)ctors, "Have I
still some days to live?" Tin physician endea-
voured to reassure him. "Your Highness is much
better." " No," was the respoise of the child ;
"I feel sure that lam about to die.? On New Year's-
day, as we have already mentioned, in asked and obtained
a sum of 1240, which he divided between the two
nurses who had watched over him from the first.
For the last three days the Queen never left his
bed-side, nor removed her el:the& When the
hopelessness of the case was announied to the King he
fell back into a chair, uttering the m(st distressing cries.
He was carried away in an insensible c►ndition. The child
became delirious about four days ago,at five o'clock. On
Thursday evening the last agony comnenced, and at mid•
night he died.

Lady Clarendon will arrive in laris this evening
en route for Rome, to attend the accouchenent of her daughter,
the wife of Mr. Odo Russell.

It is rumoured that Mr. C. S. Parter, the member
of Parliament for Perthshire, is about temarry a daughter
of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.

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In the course of the ensuing week Mr. Childers
and the other members of the Boatd of Admiralty will pay
their first official visit of inspection to Chatham dockyard

and port.

A local papers states that the conservative and
Liberal Parliamentary agents at Stockport have lodged at
the Master's office notice of application to withdraw the peti-
tions against Messrs. Tipping and Smii), on the ground that
in counsels' opinion the evidence obtaired would be insuffi-
cient. Mr. Justice Blackburn has fuel Saturday, the 30th
instant, for the hearing of the applicator to withdraw the
petition against Mr. Tipping.
On Friday afternoon a seriousaccident occurred
at the mill of Martin and Johnson, Thlton, by which 700
workpeop:e will bo thrown out of empl/mhut for about six
months. The mill engine "run awa," and the massive
fly-wheel, weighing thirty tons, strucc against something
near it, crushing the weaving engine and breaking it up
into fragments. The whole of the machinery in the en-
gine-house is destroyed, and the Image is estimated at
£6,000.

Among the clerical appointmetts it is announced
that the Bishop of Lichfield has collatd the Rev. J. Erskine
Clarke, M.A., of Wadharn College, Oxford, vicar of St.
Andrew's, Derby, to the prebendal tall of Hansacre, in
Lichfield Cathedral, vacant by the rsignation of the Rev.
/I. J. Pye, M.A., the son-in-law of he Bishop of Oxford
whose secession to Rome caused so melt " sensation" lately.
Mr. Clarke is the editor of the Parishllagazine, and is other-
wise well known as a magazinl write.
The Dublin _Nation writes strolgly on the Church
question on the text of "No Compronse." It contends that
"it is not consistent with religious emality that th,4 clergy
of a small section of the rich people, itrlnling nearly all the
landowners, should bo supplied by the State gratuitously
with gcod dwelling-houses and nice fa'n, v, bile the clergy
of the masses of the people were oliged to procure these
things for themselves, and pay for thea as best they could."
in that case we should have survivng amongst us," adds
the writer, "a State-pampered sect, s a root of the 941 (4-
Clllatlittl_U:44Aing Ole nation.