The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

HAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAILS.

1.-TitECI3T. .TFLY .29.—The Netherlands Govern-
mnt positively refused to admit Englih agents into
Java. The new English law on the sugar duties
allow the importation of sugar, the produce of free
labour, at a reduced duty ; but in order to enjoy this
privilege, an English agent residing on the spot
must sign, a certificate of origin. The Netherlands
will rather lose the advantage of this reduction than
admit English agents in its colonies.
THE HAGUE, AUG. I.—We have received Java
papers to the 17th April. The Java Courant of that
date says :—" According to an account received by
the Commander of the station on the west coast of
Sumatra, his M.tjesty's brig the Siewar, commanded
by Lieut. P. Lanvage, has ran aground on a reef to
the north of Poeloe, and is entirely gone to pieces.
The crew, however, and part of the tackling was
saved."
BONN, JULY 26.--There has lately been found in
the coal mine at Roth (from which our museums
have already received several yaluable acquisitions)
the jaw bones of a kind of pike now extinct. Com-
paring them with the lower jaw bones of the present
spec:linen of pike, the animal to which they belonged
must havd
been almost ten feet long.
THE HAGUE,
AuG. 2.—This being the twentieth
anniversary of the t.t. ff.% of Prince Alexander, their
Majesties' second son, has been observed with the
usual ceremonies.
The Staats Courant publishes a royta decree, by
which the Alinister of Finance is authorised to pro-
ceed by anticipation to the exchange of Lerrentin at
5 per cent., for bonds of 4 per cent., and to effect the
transfer of them to the National 4 per cent. debt.
M. de Jonge Van Campens Nieuwland has been ap-
pointed by his Majesty to the post of Minister of
Justice, which he had held for some time ad interim.
ELSINEUR, JULY 29.—The remaining part of the
Russian squadron, consisting of four ships of the line
and a frigate, left our road yesterday, with a north
wind, to pass the Sound, and was out of sight at
sunset.
HAMBURGH, AUG. 2.—The Universal Prussian
Gazette begins to publish accounts from various parts
of the kingdom of the horror excited by the attempt
to assassinate his Majesty, and the gratitude to Divine
Providence for his escape, which seems to have been
almost miraculous. A pamphlet, published on the
29th July, says that Tschech had stated that he had
been the more impelled to execute his design by
seeing that a woman, attempting to present a petition
to the King and Queen, had no notice taken of it by
either of them. "This statement," says the Prussian
Gazette, "is wholly unfounded. It appears, on inquiry,
that the petitioner (who was erroneously re-
ported to be the daughter of the assassin) is
the wife of a merchant, who is sentenced to
imprisontnent ; and, from the examination which
was deemed necessary, the following is found to be
the state of the case. On the evening before their
Majesties' departure, she stood at the palace-gate and
presented to the King a petition for a mitigation of
her husband's punishment. The King had spoken
very graciously to her, and on the same evening had
the matter discussed with other things, and gave an
order in compliance with the petition. The woman
fearing the King's departure might delay the fulfil-
ment of her request went to the palace gate on the
following morning and presented a similar petition to
the Queen just as her Majesty was stepping into the
carriage. Her Majesty received it kindly and gave
it to the King who recognising the woman, told her
very graciously to make herself easy, that her request
was granted, and the necessary orders given. The
woman relating the preceding particulars, says, that
being deeply affected, she was going to kneel and
express her wish that Providence would grant him a
happy journey, when the criminal fired the shot at
her benefactor."
This statement is signed by Baron Von Arnew,
Minister of the Interior.—Eamburgh Papers, Aug. 2

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 2.—The Precurseur of Antwerp has
the following article :
Thus, then, we h:vre entered directly on a system
of reprisals, with a war of tariffs. This is an unhappy
necessity on the part of Belgium ; and though we la-
ment, in an economical point of view, measures of
this nature, we must on this occasion applaud
the firmness of the Govermnent. We say frankly
that we did not expect that it would show so
much courage, and it was not without some surprise
that we learned from the Moniteur this m.mifestation of
energy:—' But since the Government has L'yitered on
this course of reprisals, which the dignity of the .'country
and numerous interests that were threatened pointed out
to it, it is our duty, and that of the whole truly national
press, to support it in its struggle with the Prussian
colossus."'

The Journal du Commerce of Antwerp, and the Organ
des Flanders, have likewise long articles commending
the conduct of the Government.

llis Highness Prince Michael Olrenovich, with his
suite, has arrived at Brussels, and lodges in the Hotel
de Saxe, where apartments were bespoke for his reception.
The organisation of the new line of steamers between
Ostend and Dover, which was said to have been com-
pleted on Monday last, is deferred for a week, at the re-
quest of the English Company, which was not ready to
deliver the three steamers required for this service.
Yesterday a destructive fire broke out in the cellars of
M. Denville, grocer and oil merchant. It was discovered
by some persons in the street, who had great diffi-
culty in rousing the family and the lodgers. The
progress of the flames was so rapid, that the inmates
were obliged to escape by the roof. Besides the total de-
struction of the house and its contents, we have to state
the deplorable fact, that a daughter of M. Denville, aged
19, and a son, aged 11, perished in the flames.
By the new convention between the British and Bel-
gian post-office;, the postage of letters between England
and Belgium is reduced to Is. for the whole distance, of
which sum Belgium will take 5d., and England 7d. This
is a reduction of more than half of the present rate.
The prepayment will be optional. The journals, of what-
ever size, will be charged and continued.
Since we shall never receive the English journals in
Belgium without extraordinary expense, the Govern-
ment should consent to suppress the extraordinary stamp
duty. We ask it for the sake of the English families re-
siding in this country.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
ARRIVAL OF COUNT NESSELRODE.
This distinguished diplomatist, whose arrival at the
Court of London has been daily expected for some time,
and whose near approach to England was announced by
M. Gregoire de Kandriaffy on Saturday last, arrived in
London yesterday by the General Steam Navigation
Company's fine snail steam-packet Columbine, Captain
Norwood, from Rotterdam. This vessel upon leaving
the Brielle observed a ship upon her beam ends to the
eastward of the inner buoy of the Brielle Bar, upon
which Captain Norwood immediately sent his boat to
the wreck, and succeeded in rescuing the captain, crew,
and pilot, in a very exhausted state, from their perilous
situation. The vessel proved to be the Brama of Pap-
penbury, from Windau, bound to Rotterdam with grain.
The intrepidity of Captain Norwood upon the occasion
produced the following testimony in his favour from
Count Nesselrode and the rest of the passengers of the
Columbine: —" The passengers on board the General
Steam Navigation Company's steamer Columbine, Capt.
W. Norwood, on her voyage from Rotterdam to London,
have great pleasure in expressing their satisfaction of
his coolness, intrepidity and judgment, by which he was
enabled, under the blessing of Providence, to save the
lives of five individuals clinging to the wreck of the
Brama, a Pappenbury vessel, wrecked in the inner bay
of the Brielle Bar, on her voyage from Windau to Rot-
terdam, on the evening of Saturday, the 3d August, and
at the same time acknowledge his great kindness and
attention to the undersigned.

(Signed) " COUNT NESSELRODE,
"COUNT D. NESSELRODE,
and several other passengers."

CROPS IN SOUTH WALES.—The farmers them-
selves, proverbially disposed to croak about crops, admit
that things look fairish. In some parts of Wales reap-
ing has begun, but it is by no means general, nor has the
grain yet that golden hue which shows that it is ready
for the sickle. The wheat harvest is sure to be good ;
but that is of comparatively little consequence in South
Wales, but even barley (our chief crop) is likely to be
better than was expected, though deficient and very
little good malting barley will be on offer, we are
sorry to say, by the farmers of this country. Pota-
toes look very well, and the pastures are in a rich state
of verdure, contrasting most beautifully with the arid ap-
pearance which they presented a few weeks ago. The
harvest has commenced in Pembrokeshire. Since last
week several fields of wheat, barley, and oats, being cut,
the quality of wheat and barley, together with the quan-
tity is very good ; oats being deficient in quantity, but
of good quality. We have had some fine refreshing
showers of late, but still there is a great scarcity of hay
and grass, the former being burnt up.— Welshman.
Another Cabinet Council, which was attended by
all the Ministers, was held at the Foreign-office yester-
day at two. The summonses for holding this Coun-
cil were issued, by the direction of the Earl of Aberdeen,
on Saturday evening.
FLOATING DOCK AT HAVRE.—We read in the
Journal du Havre that the floating careening dock of M.
Frederick de Conninck was launched on the 31st. :ult.
The operation, which was confided to the management
of that able shipbuilder, M. A. Normand—was perfectly
successful, and the gigantic structure, which is large
enough to receive a vessel of 2,400 tons, glided majesti-
cally into the water. It is to be immediately fitted with
its pumps and machinery and will be shortly ready
for use.
The Earl of Lonsdaie, Postmaster-General, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yes-
terday, in Downing-street.