The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-28 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, APRIL 24.—According to accounts from
Berlin to the 20th received to-day-. little alteration hug
taken place in the state of the health of his Majesty
King William Frederick. The bulletin of the 205'
says :—" perceptible change took place in the I&
ternoon and evening of yesterday. The fever was
At the beginning of the night the august patient list"
some violent fits of coughing. Towards morning his giv
.jesty was calith:-, and slept for some hours without cough-
ing. On awaking he telt refreshed. - He was perfoctlf
sensible. and the fever had abated. No alarming sy air
toms have occurred in the course of the day."
Aram 25.—The accounts from Berlin of the 249,i
say that his Majesty had passed it very quiet night, AV,
the swelling of the legs had decreased since the prece;ir
in day. The illness, however, is still such as to nasAll
apprehensions.
T. PETERSIMICH, APRIL 15.—Exchange on. LonCir'
three months, 38 37 21-32.

DU l'Cit /11N133.—AMiTEROAN, Atpatt. 25.
Money. dills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cer t.
A man t Syndic, -I per cent 4/3 !+S4 •
Ditto, dlttc, 3 per (Tat 774 ;74
Commercial Company, -V, ?er cent 15514 1,,6,,..14
Ditto (MIS and 1837) 5 per cent....... 1t034 1,-'‘'.
Loan 18:17, 5 ver cent. 99 S9l/41
Exchange on London, One month l2 15
Two months ......
Hamburgh, One month 35 :41 it
Two months ...
.:
Dutch Papers, April 26.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—ViatiNs, APRIL :6. i
rivet= 0,9115. bletailiques
..... .... 1374 .•
14'oNi. per Cents
Tin eCrp4r Cents.
think Zharce .4... 1619 •

SOUTHWARK IMPROVEMENTi
. _ BILL. ,
-TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS: 41'
Sra,—Perhaps either you, or some one -of Ytfic
many correspondents, can give me and the Puck;some information respecting the fate of a
titled " The Southwark Improvement Bill, -Pi)tic
Three sessions back 30,0001. was granted 1160
liament towards forming a new line of street to
somewhere about the Town Hall in the Boroug,
run in as direct a line as possible into Statinitees°
street, Blackfriars •road, so making a quick an. Ole
route to the West End, from the terminus,_%ear.
several railways, likewise greatly releasing
side and the City from its superfluous carriage-'ocle,
Now it. is whispered about that, after all the 136t10-0
and expense of those endeavours, one in the la to be
one in the present Parliament, the public are
disappointed of this great improvement. It is
the
that this line of street, so much approved of ''-'coat"
Committee of selection, is abandoned in the I ask
mittee, after the second reading of the Bill; lint ose',a.
why—if the best line—why give it up, and els:Ng
worse ? Really I cannot understand this 5e,,,44P1
child's play, and.trifling it cannot be, because a..4offc
high Church dignitary refuses permission to tit,prie
Church property, without having an extravagluit the
fur permission so to do. I cannot -think titrioti-
fault rests with the liberal 'Messrs. P., who 5° Pthp line
tally said, they would give the ground, for fo 01‘,
of street through their estate. Then I sPseeoutl'
how is it that the Bill is in the shade for the to-see
time ? Surely it now remains for Governmentotrnacle $
to it, that-metropolitan improvements are
tti t certaif
mere matter of trade, or speculation ; so
parties, finding. that there is nothing 0 he n. 4 give
after leading t'}ie public to expect great thinr_
them up as .a child does a toy, and laugh 'n
sleeves in the bargain.
Stamford-street, 26th April, 1842. e Patill;
[Our Correspondent will see from tai efore the
mentary Report,. that the sub:ect came and Wa
House of Commons on Tuesday evening'
postponed for a week.]

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL S
was held o
Charles Malcolm, V. in
rotas meeting
particulars of a Short Sir
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' Mita,.
ver 1 - V
some parts of the western t•oGaas
. rl., Monday ev. aning.'ht:,:stmenudiic:
OCIETY.--A- . Aamiral i _
ately of
oft
le
'aline efrdoSni
floe! was athe chair. The lira
___Zning life
a line of sea-coast ftaatbeos'uet '1370Y
Nation Lakes ; after trip in Upper Egypt. and ;To aecouat 01
rtsdeonferANfirTiicl.ak,inasnodn,,.alcueoc".:ll, in the,
which Mr. Cresson gay 0 ituMei'
Cape Mesadura, o 'and 0(01e rive
Fri,m and contains several fine na - eir the
' in. of these, the river St. John, the distanc ,50. _
valley across the country delta of the Quorra i, buL l 1
to a
miles -
, ant, this would seem to present a much .---.•-
omf
iLleisherfriao.m
anon of
view to the lit
~
route for future expeditions •It .
, wit a• -- , k. by the 1% tger
Africa I-, , t-an by the late diaast rout route untterta cnauvautage
of
expedition. The eo:uny of Liberia pc.'es'e'
i the
could explore
having natives of int,lligence ar.d education who
• As to
the country which has proved so faral to Europeans_
ane
_,
instance of thin great mortality, it was stated that of
and
~,1.7
..
pedition from America, • f four white ir
consi.ting 0 Iwithin si*
Cape Paltn.vaesrato.
coloured perAon., whilst all the tintorer periehet. Thit •
we,,ks, but foitr of the taut'. died welve months.
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part of the coast is also extremely rich in the produifeee:-
aboriginal vegetation, particularly as regards p Itil Oil, CO .
hemp, and various other plants furnishing fibre s for makingje,so;
dage and other purposes. Ot palm oil alone upwards t•l3' ,ufti‘,,_
tints are annual!) exported, and this quatitity might be greß_,Tl,,,
increased if European modes of expression were adopted WO
of the simple p'an practised by the natives of boiling the palm.
nuts in their kettles. Mr. Cresson stab dhis deliberate op_
that it was only from this colony that future expeditions enn,_.nl
be successfully carried on in the interior, and suggested .5 tr,
most desirable point of approach. the agricultural town 01 ,
Bexley, containing thirty families, called after the venerable,
/
Peer of that name. .„, ,
The Toulonnais of the 21st instant informs us thfib
the statement of the four ships recently returned from SmYrn Of
having been ordered to take In three months' provisions, an ,•,'
to get ready for sea, was unfounded. 'f he order applied to th ,417
ships in the roadstead, under the command of Admiral Hugol42l
but this, says the Toulonnais, has, been suspe dijd by a.telers,e..l
graphic communication, and nothing has transpired to warra4,o
the belief that an expedition was on the point of being a'''',.:"*
against Morocco. . 1••: