The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-09 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, JUNE b.—The fears that have been excited by
the intentions announced by the French Cabinet in the Clam-
ber of Deputies, to augment the import duty on thread and
linen immediately after the session, are at this moment the
subject of examination by several Members of the two Chant-
hers belonging to the province of East and West Flanders.
They have had one meeting, at which they discussed the ques-
tion whether measures of reprisal should he immediately pro-
posed. We are assured that the only difference of opinion was
with regard to the time at which it would be advisable to bring
such a proposal before the Chamber.
Something extraordinary is at this moment passing in the
sun. A sort of crater is perceived in it, which emits clouds of
smoke, which spread over a portion of its surface like an
enormous moveable spot.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 6.—The King of Bavaria has written a
letter from Rome, dated, May 22, to Mr. Abel, Minister of
the Interior, in which his Majesty says, that having learned
from the journals the immense misfortune that had befallen
Hamburgh, he would, therefore, have a general collection
throughout the kingdom.
The celebrated Wicheking, author of numerous important
works, and member of many academies, died at Munich, on
the 27th of May.
The Moniteur publishes a Royal decree, which contains a
most valuable concession. It grants to foreigners permission
to try on our railways all kinds of machines intended to be
used on railways which they may bespeak of Belgian engineers.
Neither England or France can offer such strong pledges for
the safety of the engines, since their railways are the property
of companies which would not allow such trials to be made.
An Indian Prince who has come by land from Calcutta
(Dwarkanauth Tajore), has visited the Museum of Arts to-
day, accompanied by an Aid-de-Camp of the same nation.
Both of them speak English perfectly, and are well acquainted
wiih the latest improvement in the physical sciences. They
have visited Palmyra, Balbish, Pompeii, and Munich.
We are this moment informed that a man bad ju,t thrown
himself into the canal when, the English Ambassador who was
rmsing by saw him, and pulling off his coat, jumped from his
carriage, and plunging into the canal, saved him. Sir Henry
Seymour had lost his hat, and as may well be supposed, was
wet to the skin. He t etired on foot, taking the arm of the
Spanish Charge d'Affairs. On the Boulevard some children,
ignorant of the cause of the singular plight in which the Minis-
ter appeared, began to hoot after him. Sir H. Seymour
laughed heartily at this recompense fur his humanity.
AMERSFOORT, JUNE 6.—This morning, about half-past
eltven o'clock, his Majesty King William, Count of Nassau,
accompanied by the Countess and by Prince and Princess
Albert and suite, passed through this town on their way from
the Loo to Soetsdyk. They returned at four in the afternoon.
His Majesty appeared to be in good health and in very good
spirits, and was as usual extremely affable.

LILLIPUTIAN PADLOCK.—A sample of skill in
lock-making which may compete with any recorded by the
veteran historian of the county, Plot, or with any of the ingenious
stieguards of the day, has recently excited considerable admi-
ration among the cognoscenti in the art. It is an uncommonly
small silver padlock, on the principle of Chubb's patent de-
tector lock, weighing only one pennyweight, and measuring
only three-eighths of an inch across : the interior of this mi-
nute piece of workmanship contains all the requisite tumblers
and springs ; it readily locks and unlocks, and, as its name indi-
cates, detects any furtive attempt made to bpen it with a false
key. This singular specimen of mechanical skill was con-
structed by Mr. James Hunter, a young man employed in
Messrs. Chubb's manufactory, in this town. The key to this
Lilliput;an curiosity is also of silver, and weighs one grain.—
Wolverhampton Chronicle.
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The General Steam Navigation Company's British
steam-ship Wilberforce, which left Antwerp yesterday after-
noon at one o'clock, landed her passengers this morning at
seven o'clock at Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, after a delight-
ful passage of only 18 hours—The same Company's steam ship
Columbine landed her passengers and mail from Rotterdam at
a quarter past eight this morning, 22 hours after they had em-
barked at Rotterdam.

FATAL LEAP.—Between eleven and twelve o'clock
on Tuesday night, a fine young man, named William Gunner..
son, a sailor, nineteen years of age, was killed on the spot, by
jumping from a second floor window. He bad been residing at
the Lor Nelson, Ratcliffe-highway, since his ship was paid off,
and leading a very dissipated life. On Tuesday he had been
drinking very deeply. He wanted to go out again on Tuesday
night, and in order to prevent him his friends locked the door of
his room, on which he threw up the window and jumped into
the street, a depth of forty feet. He fell uron his head, frac-
turing his skull in a shocking manner. He was removed to the
hospital, but life was quite extinct.
A letter from Rotterdam states that the largest
steam. engine• cylinder ever made in Europe, England included,
has just been cast at the foundry of Fyenvocrd, near that town.
It is intended for a 500-horse power engine, to be placed in the
Freugh steamer Vauban.