The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-02 00:00:00

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THE GENERAL ELECTION

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-THIS DAY.)
ORKNEY AND SHETLAND.
FIRST DAY.

Dundas ••• ••• •• ••• 153

Inglis ..• ••• •.• ••• ... 128

TATTERSALL'S.--THIS EVENING.

Six o'cr-ocs.

BRIGHTON STAKES.

The following horses are inquired after, but no prices
named:—lschia, Hesse Homburg, Phlegra, Hampton'
Sharavogue, and Snarry.

ST. LEGER.
300 to 100 agst Soagatress—taken
DERBY.
14 to 1 agst Orestes—taken
23 to 1 agst Cineas—taken

FRANCE.
We read in the Akhbar of Algiers :—" The Consul-
General of France at Tripoli has broken off all direct
relations with the Pacha of that regency, and is wait-
ing for the orders of his Government. This deter-
mination has been caused by the following grave
event. Two French deserters had been working for
some time past as farriers in the quarters of the
Turkish cavalry at Tripoli. The officer in command of
these troops, wishing to bind them permanently to the
Ottoman service, frequently, but without succeoss,
urged them to embrace the Mahometan religin.
He became still more urgent at the time of the
Ramadan, and compelled them to fast like the Turks.
The men, dreading that recourse would at length be
had to extreme violence, resolved to make their sub-
mission to the French consul-general, and to incur all
the consequences of their desertion rather than abjure
their religion. One of them only was able to accomplish
his object, and place himself under the protection of
the French flag. The other was arrested by the Turks
before he could find an asylum at the consulate,
and was horribly beaten and then thrown in prison.
to
M. Pelissier, our consul-general, claimed him in
vain ; the Turks refused to givi u. This was
not all ; his companion had theimprudence to leave
the consulate to take leave of a friend,
and at the
moment when our consul was about to send him to
Marseilles he was arrested by fifty Turks and
carried off, after being beaten so severely that
the Christians of the country believe that he is
dead. It may be well conceived that M. Pelissier,
whose firmness of character is well known, protested
against this second affair with even more energy
than against the first ; nevertheless he has not been
able to obtain any reparation. Our Government will
doubtless be able to obtain by force, if necessary, that
satisfaction which is refused to its agent. The affair
at bottom is more serious than that of Sal&
as thether Angel", aand the
indignation of the Christian population is the greater,
venerable
priest, admission to give the last rites of religion to
the pocr imprisoned and perhaps dying
Frenchman."
The production and consumption of beetroot sugar,
which for some months had fallen off, has acquired
fresh activity during the month of June. It appears
from the official returns in the Illoniteur that the
number of manufactories at work at the end of last
month was 329, or 25 more than at the. corresponding
,
period of last year. Tne amount manufactured
g
sauce the commencement of the season is 73,972,760
kilogrammes a einA 79 463,382 in 1850-51. The
quantity sent out was 61,704,527 kilcgrammes
against 70,003 616 in 1850 51. There remains
an the manufactories 89,268 233 kilog. against
33 630,574 in 1850-51, and there has
9,459,766 kilog. at the corresponding period
of last year. There has entered into the entrepOts
since the commencement of the season 30,334,487
kilog.against
left them 24.719,968 kilog. against 26,846,693.
There remained in entrep6t at the end of June
5,614,519 kilog. against 6,783,881 on the 30th June,
1851. It results from these returns that the decrease
on the quantity manufactured is much greater than
on the quantities remaining in stock, or in the en-
trepOts, from which it may be inferred that the dif-
ference
is made up to consumers by colonial or foreign
sugar.

WEST INDIES'
From Barbadoes our dates are to the 12th July.
The Legislature was in session, and the new Tariff
Bill, abolishing the Imperial Customs, and assimilat-
ing the Imperial and Colonial duties on imports
had passed the second reading, an amendment vest-
ing the appointment of the new staff of officers
in the Local Government, instead of in the Board of
Customs as at first intended, having been carried and
embodied in the Bill. The weather had been dry, and
except on two or three estates sugar making had
ceased for the season ; the yield had been unprece-
dented, surpassing the most sanguine anticipations ;
about 44,000 • hogsheads of sugar had been cleared,
and the total exports would probably reach 48,000
hogsheads. The garrison and island generally were
healthy.
In Antigua genial showers had fallen, but copious
rains were much required to establish the next crop.
A great deficiency of available labour was felt
throughout the island, and much distress prevailed
generally among the planters. Numerous commer-
cial failures bad occurred, and it was expected that
the Legislature would send delegates to represent the
present state of the island to her Majeity's Ministers,
it being evident that the island is fast descending
into a state of absolute ruin, unless that event be
averted by prompt relief and assistance from the
mother country.

GnENADA, JULY 10.—The sugar crop (about
8,000 hogsheads) was nearly brought to a close.
The planters complain (and with great cause, it is
said) of the want of an ample and regular supply of
agricultural labourers. On some good estates the
managers cou►d not muster more than from ten to
fifteen effective people in their fields, and the canes
were consequently getting filled with weeds. The
Africans are, without doubt, found to be the most
effective and suitable labourers for sugar plantations.
Mercantile matters are dull and unpromising, owing
greatly to the depressed and uncertain state of the
produce market.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.

Traffic—Week ending July 31, 1852 ... £17,765 17 1
Traffic—Week ending Aug. 2, 1851 ... 19,1t,7 14 7
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 71,031 9 2
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 72,752 7 9
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
July 31, 1852 ... 99.992 •
Passengers ...£15,185 2 7
Goods ... 2,180 14 6

Total... £17,7€5 17 1
Total miles open, 1852, 17314; ditto, 1851, 173%.
London Terminus, Aug. 2, 1852.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

JULY 31.—The following companies have
been placed under orders to hold themselves in readiness
to embark for service at foreign stations:—
Captain W. Henderson's company, 10th battaliou,
first on the roster, for St. Helens, to relieve Captain G.
A. F. de Ritny's company, 3d battalion, serving at that
station since Jane, 1844.

Captain C. L. Fitzgerald's company, sth battalion,
second on the roster, for Gibraltar, to relieve Captain
l'hillpott's company, 9th battalion, serving at that station
since September, 1846.
Captain George Innes's company, 9th battalion, third
on the roster, for Barbadoes, to relieve Captain Thomas
Elwyn's company, 9th battalion, serving at that station
since December, 1847.
Captain M. C. Marston's company, sth battalion,
fourth on the roster, for Barbadoes, to relieve Major the
Hon. R. Spencer's company, 9th battalion, serving at
that station since December, 1847.

The company for St. Helena will embark for their
destination in a freight-ship, not yet named.
Captain Fitzgerald's company for Gibraltar, and
Major Mirkland's company for Malta, will embark at
Woolwich in the Resistance troop-ship, Master Com-
mander Bradshaw, at present making ready at Deptford.
Captain Inties's and Captain Marston's companies, for
Barbadoes, will embark in the T 3 ne store and troop-
ship, Master Commander Peter Wellington, at Wool-
wich.

the largest merchantman SHIPBUILDING IN LIVERPOOL.—In a yard on the
West
osfh2eos!inetoeonfd:uunosrwtihcekDock, the keel of a vessel of upwards
ehrcahs
anbeen a
nl aeivde.r
builtW h e
inn England. completed sheih willeg rebaet
features in thern construction of this vessel are that she will
above half of
be built of
Liverpool Advertiser,
soft w
ood—pitch pine, with American oak floors.
carry an immense Australian trade, and is expected to
tb,itcargo. Her cost is expected to be a little
twelve and one o'cloeirl.tY.'
wore
charged for an oak-built vesel.—
Mr. Howard, a superannuated NEAR LIVERPOOL.—
DAuIN BURGLA
on Saturday morning, the house of
Bet ween
poo7nnuated naval officer, residing at
Walton, near Liver
forcibly broken into by three
caTnhueoyt walk withoutfirtehanne as:sistanca of crutches,
cwdreeisprpepelarear:maoened: with
to
prevent
the old
which he always places by his bieedtseide when he retires to rest.
Mr. Howard is a
man's chamber,
The burglars made their way
and taking away his crutches, vert him from eudea-
, Youring to escape or defend himself,
side of the bed where Mrs. Howard wasely.then went to the
fright, and demanded where the money hb!iljddeenad with
pointed to a box, saying that all the mosey they had'inStllee
house was there. They soon broke it open, and succeeded in-
finding nothing more than half-a-sovereign, six or eight
shillings in silver, and four shillings in copper. They re-
turnee' to the bedside, and asked where the other was.
Howard replied that he had no more in the house, and that
all the neighbours knew that he never kept more than a
sovereign by him. One of the thieves, apparently having a
little more sympathy than his feilows, exclaimed, "Well, I
believe you ;" and induced his companions to withdraw.
They have not yet been apprehended.
Cows.—Wind F aria ble.—Arrd. Promethus :and Pio
Nono, Havanna. . i
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