The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Constitutionnel says :—"Already M. Bineau,
Minister of Finance, and M. de Persigny, Minister of
the Interior, are absent on leave. M. Fould, who has
been named president of the council-general of the
Nantes-Pyrenees, is about to leava for Tarbes. M.
Fortoul also is about to proceed to Digne, to preside
over the council-general of the Basses Alpes. Other
Ministers must also leave, if those appointed to preside
over councils-general are to perform that duty : M.
ABbatucci to Orleans, General de St. Arnaud to Bor-
deaux, M. Magne to Perigueux, and M. de Maupas
to Troyes. In that case there would only remain at
Faris M. Drouyn de Lhuys and M. Ducos. '
We read in the Constitutionnel—" The Union
says—' Since the return of M. Achille Fould to power,
the Minister of State takes the pas of his colleagues
on every occasion.' There is nothing in that calcu-
lated to excite surprise ; it is the result of the classi-
fication of the Ministerial departments as given in the
Almanach National and the budget."
Toe President of the Republic has conferred the
decoration of the order of the Legion of Honour on
Mme. Abicot de Regis, wife of the Mayor of the
commune of Olzin (Cner), for her courageous conduct
in December last, in preserving the archives of the
commune, when three insurgents entered her house to
burn them, and on which occasion she was seriously
wounded by a stab from a poignard.
The Archbishop of Paris arrived on the 18th at
Strasburg, and was received at the railway station
by the Bishop of Strasburg. He proceeded on his
journey the next day to visit Munich, Vienna, and
Berlin.

GERMANY.
The German Journal of Frankfort, under date of
Vienna, 13th, says :—" The general subject of con-
versation here is an episode in the journey of the Em-
peror in Hungary. His Majesty having entered the
Palace of the Bishop of. Gran, perceived the portrait
of the celebrated Cardinal Puzman. The Emperor
exclaimed He also was a Jesuit, it is from the
Jesuits that I principally expect the Catholic edu-
cation of the youth of the country. That is why
I have re-established the order.' The Primate of
Gran was surprised at hearing these words, for he
had for some time wished to establish a College of
Jesuits at Tym an. He;therefore, requested the Em-
peror to permit him to bring two other Jesuits to
that place. The Emperor replied :-4Two is not
enough, the Jesuits must direct two or three schools,
and they should undertake missions.' "
" The mission of Prince ilohenlobe," says a letter
from Vienna of the 16th, in the German
.Journal of
Frankfort, "may be considered as terminated, and
our Government has declared its opinion agreeably. to
the views of the Pontifical Government. The foreign
troops will evacuate the Papal States on the Ist Ja-
nuary next, and the French garrison will quit Rome.
The Pontifical Government expressed a wish that the
French troops should leave sooner, but as
it could not
refute the objection made by General Gemeau that
the organization of the Papal army was not suffi-
ciently advanced, the desire of the French
. Govern.
ment was acceded to.. The re-organization goes on
army is not
slowly, and the e. nthusiasm to enter the
hoped that it will be
very great. It is, however,
that the occupa-
completed French lst.January, and
tion by the will be then no longer necessary."

THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION
(IRELAND).
The following letter has; been very extensively circu-
ated among persons in the United Kingdom, who are
supposed to be favourable to this great national
undertaking:—'• Sir,—l an desired by the Com-
mittee of the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853,
to inform you that Mr. William Dargan being desirous
to give a more than usual prominence to the Triennial
Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures of the Royal
Dahlia Society, has placed the sum of 20,0001. in
the hands of a special committee, for the purpose
of carrying out this important object. The plan
of Mr. Joan Bmson, C.E , for the building has been
selected, and the exhibition will be opened on .Thurs-
day, the s:h of May next. I am also instructed to call
your attention to the practical advantages which are
likely to flaw from such an Exhibition being hold in Ire-
land. Cheap and facile transit in England afforded op-
portunities to her working classes to visit the Great
Exhibition of 1851, end profit by an examination of that
wondrous collection of human industry and human
skill. These advantages net having been available to
Irishmen of similar classes to the same extent, it
forms part of the design of Mr. Dargan to obtain pe-
culiar facilities for his humble countrymen to witness,
in the Irish metropolis, the products of the skill and inge-
nuity of th- United Kingdom and of other countries.
A letter soliciting articles for exhibition has been ad-
dressed to every exhibitor whose name appears in the
effiAal descriptive catalogue of the Great Exhibition of
1851, and the co. op9ration of the mayor or other chief
magistrate or each corporate town in the United King-
dom has also been invited. Numerous and most grati-
fying promises of support have been received in reply,
and I am now instructed to express the hope of the •
committee that you will be so good as to forward their
effarta to promote the success of Air. Dar4au's generous
proposal by giving it publicity, and also by enlisting
the sympathy of manufacturcra and exhibaors with
whom you have ihflavnee, in its favour. Permit me 'to
Lib, that c:mtributions in money are not sought for and
cannot be recyived, as it is Mr. D tr,gark's decistm that
the whole of the necessary funds for the Exhibition
be provided by hico,:ielf only. I shall be happy to reply
to *July quitiE;s, ru• t') sabalit to the cornuaittPe any susz-
gestions with whi-.3.-ou ray favour me.—l have the
hollow to he, ycur very faithltl servant, C. P.
Secretary."

INAUGURATION' OF SIR R: PEEL'S

STATUE AT LEEDS.

The public insuguratioa ot the statue of the late
Sir Robert red took place on Friday last at noon,
in the presence of an immense assemblage of people,
numbering, probably, not less than forty thousand.
The site chosen for the erection ot this mo-
nument is at the junction of Park-row and Infir-
mary,-street, anfl in immediate proximity to the
Court House, the Coloured Cloth Hall, and the Corn-
mereiatliaildings. The figure is eight feet six inches
in height, and stands upon a pedestal of Scotch granites
eleven feet six inches high. The basement of the
pedestal cnnsiats nf blocks of gray. Aberdeen
granite, end the shaft, or upper part, and mould-
ing of red Aberdeen gralnitde,frall finely dressed and
finished. In the centre rand
graved simply the 'name "Pee ,-)n t of the shaft is en-
l., The granite used
in the formation of this •
moasures 275 cubic
fee
shaft e, aonrd p
rwi
at
igphast
blockrath er:ernieosrtealthan 274 tons; the
no
lessthan -or contains 86 cubic feet,
and weighs
ofthis
pules, tens 13 cwt. 2 qrs. 31bs.
At the top
that the entire ch,vstioh, from stands the statue, so
top is twenty feet. The szaturocm" the ground to the
known, has been sculptured by al is pretty generally
and is a work of
ordinary to hor lilajety tho 01 11‘thnes, sculptor in
grcat• excellence. It represents Sir Robert in his
usual attitude, when addressing
Com-
mons, with a scroll of paper in his 11°1139 of
the frock of his cow; thrown back bvigkt hand, and
ot is in bronz,
his hip. The • likeness is nyatrUiii- left, which
rests upon
reflects credit (WWI the artist. ,t,
'l'4 figura !oh" One, and
and was cast by Mr.. F. Robinson,
the Statue
Foundry, Pimlico, and prosents the novelty of h
heed cast nil together instead of in Parts, aving
usually the ease. The weight of it is tz,,, tons
is
that Lite entire weight of tho pedestal and stat-: tOO
gether is 29i tons. The cost of the statue and pedeate:l
is .1,500- guineas. Prior to tho ceremonial, the
chairman, eonsimitteo,' and secretaries, with the invhea
guests, the magistrates of the borough, and town_
council, assembled as the Court•h;Ase, from whence
they walked in procession to the railed area adjoin-
ing the statue. The procession included, besides
the mayor and the borough magistrates, the Earl
of Harewood, Lord-Lieutenant of the riding, Sir
George Goodman, M•l' Eimund Denison, M.P., Wil-
• •,
ham Beckett, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Hook, the officers of
the Leeds garrison, and a great number of the leading
inhabitants. The proceedings were commenced at a
given signal, when the statue was uncovered amid the
enthusiastic cheering of an immense multitude.

SCIENTIFIC BALLOON ASCENT,

(From the Athceneum.)
Your meteorological readers will doubtless be in-
terested to know the result of the experiments made
during the balloon ascent on Tuesday last, to which
yon. called
hat
t- their attention in your columns last week.
that crime has been necessarily so much occupied,
perfect.
'l°7 account I can yet give must be very im-
The main
object
these nero,taticioct contemplated by the projectors of
the laws of ehanexerditions is, the determination of
as we rise lh ta Jut the temperature and humidity
nraosphere. Other experiments
and observations lircarcs).t lost sight of ; but it is com-
posed to attempt at
be satisfactorily exemitterly what it is probable can
do one thing well than 'Tait being of more use to
Such subjects as atolospheaY things imperfectly.
pec tricity and (less
robably) magnetism may talec
l
s
be
servers shall have become fe .‘II,IIP when the ob=
T ulularised with their
the day
for
;for the first
The weather on Tuesday,
,#, good as could be ay fized
ascent, was as
of so much variety as, we have lately had, The midst
tion of Mr. Green's great Nassau balloon having JlB infla-
aceornplished from the Vauxhall Gasworks,c
osi2d
ebre:
the se
re
took place about ten minutes before four 1..1,1, with
wonderfully few instrumental casualties,
the great oscillation of the car previous to starting, from
the action of the wind on the balloon. We rose st.adjiy,
and continued rising until about thirteen minutes he,
fore five P.M., when the barometer indicated that we
were about 19,500 feet above the earth ; the tempera.
ture, which was about 72 deg. at Vauxhall, having
fallen to 7 deg., or through ,65 deg. of Fahrenheit's
scale. From the earth the sky seemed about three-quar-
ters covered with clouds • the lowest stratum being
composed of detached -
masses of cumulus—an inter-
mediate stratum of
and cirrocumuli above
higher cumuli—find cirrostratus
..
~ 0 :Tilt
m'afr..Teer.hefist
clouds we passed very
leaving the earth, at
stdratummeo.f
the height of about half a
railel
,high, the moon
about two an 4 a half
cirrostratus clouds were still above ; but the highests.
elevation, although apparently not
us at our greatest
elevation, far. Near;