The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-16 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, MAY 13.—The Java papers to the 30th of
December last year, have been received. The following are
extracts :

" BATAVIA, DEC. 22.—0 n the 18th of this month, in the
afternoon, a fire broke out in a house at Tyangoer, which re-
duced 254 houses and warehouses to ashes. We have not
heard that any lives were lost.
" BATAVIA' DEC. 29.—We have received further accounts
of the Dutch ship the Anna and Eliza, Captain Drent, which,
on its voyage from Japan to this port, was obliged to put
into Hong-Kong damaged. We hear that the cargo had been
landed, and did not appear to have suffered any injury.
" BORNEO.—The Friend of China of the 2d of November,
announces that the Young, Queen schooner, Captain Hart,
and the brig Anne, Capt. Lewis, had sailed on the 28th of
October from Hong-Kong, bound to Borneo. The expedition
was fitted out at the expense of Mr. Erskine Murray, who has
the command, and is on board the Young Queen. The object
is to endeavour to open a communication with the chiefs in
hopes of obtaining some land to found a colony in one of the
most fertile parts of that great, island, which at present is
almost unknown to us."
KOLHORN, MAY 11.—The workmen employed in the dikes
struck for an increase of wages, and though no acts of violence
were committed, it was thought advisable to send some
troops to be employed in case of need. To-day they returned
to their work after the military had been called out, and they
were summoned either to return to their work at the wages
last agreed upon, or to take their discharge. All have pre-
ferred returning to work. Three of the ringleaders, however,
were arrested and sent under escort to Alkmaar.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AIIaTERDAM, MAY 13.
&lenes. Rills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent 6034 81
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.:
Amert Svndic,4% percent......
P.tto, ditto, 834 per cent B6 87
Commercial Comr any, 4%, per cent 1443 146
Exchange on Londe., Onemonth ll2 10
Hanaburgh, One m.nth "5 50
Two months :lb 1234
Dutch Papers, May 1C
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Banitn, MAY 10.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. _ ..... 101 1.12 101 7.12
Prussian English Bond,, 1830, 4 per cent.
Exchange on London
Prussian State Gazette. May 11.
A US't ItIA N FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY B.
Five par Cents. Metalliques ,. 11134
Four p.....r Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents. 77%
Bank Shares ........." ........ . ..... --„,„„.............. 1632
.411gemeine Zeitung, May 9.

BRIGHTON, MAY 14.—Admiral Duff and Sir E.
Deering left Brighton, for Dieppe, on Sunday, by the General
Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Magnet. The
same packet returned on Monday evening, from Dieppe, with
several persons of distinction on board, among whom were
Lady Beauchamp, Colonel Jordan, Captain Smith, &c. The
passage from Dieppe was a most delightful one, and occupied
little more than six hours.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT PUTNEY-BRIDGE.
—Tuesday afternoon Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., coroner, held
an inquest at the Swan public-house, Fulham, Middlesex,
on the body of Mr. Archer Croft Ryland, aged 20 years, who
was drowned in the river Thames on the evening of Wednes-
day last, the Bth inst., under the following distressing circum-
stances :—lt appeared that the deceased, who resided in
Cleave-lane, Ctunberwell, was the eldest son of Mr. Ryland,
the barrister, and held a situation in the Registrar-General's-
office, Somerset-house. On the evening of Wednesday last
he hired a boat for the purpose of having a row up the river.
He was alone, and, as he returned through Putney-bridge,
he found himself broadside on one of the piers of the bridge
before he was aware he was so near. He immediately put
out his hand to endeavour to clear the boat from the pier,
but his doing so upset the wherry, and he was immediately
immersed in the water, and, after holding up his hands for a
feW moments for assistance, he sank and never rose again.
Several boats were promptly upon the spot, and commenced
dragging for the unfortunate young gentleman; but, al-
though every effort Vas made to find the body that evening
and during the next day, it was not discovered until turned
up by one of the steamers on Monday last, about 200 yards
from the spot where the accident took place, and, being got
ashote, was conveyed to the above house. The jury, being
satisfied that no one was to blame in the sad affair, returned a
verdict of " Accidentally drowned."
Tun COLD WATER CURE.—The ordinary punish-
ment at the Boston House of Correction is a shower bath.
The offender is placed in a very narrow box, with a collar
round his neck, and three or four barrels of ice-cold water are
poured over him in succession; it as said that it cows and
subdues the most refractory.