The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-10 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

13e.tissetoi, JUNE s.—The fears that have been excited by
the ,:,tentions announced by the French Cabinet in the Chain-
bee at deputies, to augment the import duty on thread and
i,„„ immediately after the session, are at this moment the
subject of Examination by several Members of the two Cham-
bers belongi' to the province of Fast and West Flanders.
They have had oi:e meeting, at which they discussed the ques-
tion whether measures of reprisal should De 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.
13a uses`, JUNE 6.—The King of Bavaria has written a
letter from Home, dated, May 22, to Mr. Abel, Minister of
the Interior, in which his Majesty says, that having learned
f; out the journals the immense mistortune that had befallen
llamburgh, he would, therefore, have a general collection
.threughoui the kingdom.
The celebrated Wicheking, author of numerous important
works, and member of many academies, died at Munich, on
the •27tli of May.
'llre Moniteur publishes a Royal decree, which contains a
Yost valuable concession. It grants to foreigners permission
to try on our railways all kinds of machines intended to he
osed on railways which they may bespeak of Belgian engineers.
Neither England or France can offer such strung 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 'fajore), 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
with the latest improvement in the physical sciences. They
'nave visited Palmyra, Balbish, Pompeii, and Munich.
We are this moment informed that a man had just thrown
birnself into the canal when, the English Ambassador who aas
passing by saw him, and pulling off his coat, jumped from his
cartiage, and plunging into the canal, saved him. Sir Henry
Seymour had lost his hat, and as may well be supposed, was
•tvet to the skin. He retired 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.
AMEKSIOOKT, JUNE 6.—This morning, about half-past
el: ven 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 Lao to Soetsrlyk. 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.

CRUELTY TO AN DIALS.--The Sixteenth Annual
MeeC.ng of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animay, eras held on Wednesday in Hanover-square. Auxiliary
Sticiet,ei:, it was stated, had been farmed at Liverpool, Ply..
mouth, Leads, Bath, Belfast, and Dublin. The magnificent
donatio nof 1,0001. by a lady had enabled the Society to do
away with bull-baiting at Stamford. Two prizes of 5/. were
presented to Mr. W. H. Brown and Mr. W. Romanis, pupils
of Christ's Hospital, for the two best essays against cruelty to
animals.
Tr', General Steam NavitAration Company's British
steams-ship Wilberforce, which 'left Antwerp on 'Wednesday
at one o'clock, landed her passengers yesterday mornmg at
seven o'vit,ek at Brunsi, irk Wharf, Blackwail, after a delight-
tat passage of only 16 hours —The same Company's steam ship
. (Aural:int, landed her pas•ierig,rs arid mail from Rotterdam at
a quarter past eight yesterday mori.Mg, 2.1 hours after they had
embarked at Rotrer.iam.

I.ZAr.-13etween eleven and twelve o'clock
~j Tuesday night, a fine young man, named William Gunner-
sailor, nineteen years of age, was killed on the spot, by
jumping ft orn a second floor window. He had been residing at
the, Lord Nelson, Ratcliffe-highway, since his ship was paid off,
and leading a very dissipated de. 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 upon 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 Fyenvoord, near that town.
it is intended for a 500-horse power engine, to be placed in the
Yrench steamer Vauban.
The German Journals announce the death of M. de
Wiebeking, a Privy Councellor 6f the King of Bavaria, at the
age of 80, leaving a widow aged only 22, and two sons, one 51.
ears of age by a former marriage, acid the other by his last mar-
iit,ge,only 11 mentha old.