The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-19 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

The Prince President of the Republic on Thursday
received a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce of
Saint Pierre les Calais, who presented a petition against
the Bill at present submitted to the Council of State,
for admitting foreign machine made silk lace on pay-
ment of a duty of 15 per cent. M. d'ilerambault
and M. Lefebvre-Hermant, deputies of the depart-
ment of the Pas-de-Calais in the Legislative Body,
and M. Lievin Delhaye, member of the Council-
General of Manufactures, also presented petitions to
the same effect. The Prince President listened with
great attention to the observations made to him, and
said he would attentively examine the demands of the
manufacturers.

By accounts received from Lyons, it appears that
the strike among the colliers of the Rive-de-Gier is
gradually diminishing. A considerable number of the
men have already resumed their work.
Accounts from the province of Constantina state
that the expeditionary column, which is operating in
the circle of Collo, arrived near that town on 10th
inst., having since the 21st ult. engaged in several
combats in that mountainous region against the Ka-
byles, led on by the pretended Cherif Bou Sebs.
That part of the country had not before been visited
by our troops. A number of the tribes have made
their submission, but others still remain faithful to
Bon Seba.

GERMAN Y.
The chief provisions of the Marriage Bill, presented
on the 12th to the Chamber of Deputies, at Turin,
by the Minister of Grace and Justice, are as follow :
No marriage shall be valid, unless the male be above
eighteen, and the female above fifteen. The impedi-
ments of marriage among relations are limited to
those between ascendants and descendants, brothers
and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews,
and between relations by affinity in the same
degree; so that cousins may marry, which
they could not hitherto without a dispen-
sation from the PorE. By the present Bill no dis-
pensation is admitted for the prohibited degrees of
affinity. Banns are n°
longer to be published by the
curates, but by the civil authorities. Opposition to
the banns may be made by the public prosecutor, or
by the members of the families interested in the mat-
ter. Marriages are henceforward to be celebrated
before the civil authorities; there is, nevertheless, a
provi,don by which a subsequent ecclesiastical bene-
diction is rendered obligatory as a general rule,
though the marriage is valid without. This provi-
sion is intended as a step towards reconciliation with
the Court of Rome.
A letter from Genoa of the 13th says—" The
Vesuvio steamer broughtbere yesterday 91 passengers,
amonsst whom are the Countess DE LIGNY, widow of
the king of Ihaussie, and 21. 'TRIERS, who leaves
this place to-night for Turin. He is to sojourn fcur
days there, and then to proceed to Geneva, in the
Deighbourheod of which, at Clarens or Vevey, be in•
tends to pass the serneter. M. TILLERS' valet fell
overboard from the Vesuvio last evening, as the pas-
sengers were coming on shore, but was immediately
rescued, and escaped with a complete ducking."
Letters from Darmstadt describe a general alarm
caused by the apparition of the traditional "Waite
Lady" in the palace a few nights ago, an incident
that turns out to be as well founded as most of the
many stories of the same kind. The " Lady" is
said to haunt, not only the Schloss of Berlin (her
head-quarter=), but all the residences of the fami-
lies which have contracted alliances with the
line of Brandenburg, and her appearance al-
ways portends the death of one of the race.
Two sentries on duty on the present occasion
both saw something, and spoke so decidedly of the
vision that the Grand Duke ordered a minute inquiry.
It turned out that a Captain of the regiment of In-
fantry In Darmstadt, who has apartments in one of
the wings of the Palace, came to his rooms late,
" heated with wine," and, to cool himself, threw off
his uniform and took an airy walk up and down the
remote corridors in the lightest possible garment.
Sentinels are great ghost-seers, and though their ac-
count of the appearance was a little exaggerated, it
had some foundation. The captain had to confess to
the midnight walk, which has proved a dear one, for
he his been dismissed the service.