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
is about to Inv() for Tarbes. M.
Houtes-Pyre Dees,
Fortoul also is about to proceed to Digne, to preside
over the council-general of the Basses Alpes. Other
Blinisters must also leave, if those appointed to preside
over councils-general are to perform that duty : M.
Aebatucci to Orleans, General de St. Arnaud to Bor-
deaux, N. Magne to Perigueux, and M. de Maupas
to Troyes. In that case there would only remain at
Faris M. Drouyn de L'nuys and M. Ducos.'
We read in the Constitutionnel—"Tke 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
illinanach National and the budget."
The President of the Republic has conferred the
decoration of the order of the Legion of Honour on
Mme. Abicot de wife of the Mayor of the
commune of Oizin (C,ler;, for her courageous conduct
in December last, tu 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 Majeaty having entered the
Palace of the Bishop of Gran, perceived the portrait
of the celebrated Cardinal Pitman. The Emperor
exclaimed :_g 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 Tyman. He, therefore, requested the Em-
peror to permit him to bring two other Jesuits to
*hat place. The Emperor replied Two is not
enough, the Jesuits must direct two or three schools,
And they should undertake missions.
" The mission of Prince llohenlohe," says a letter
from Vienna of the 16th, in the German Journal of
Frankfort,
opinion aghreeably to
" may be considered as terminated, and
our Government has declared its
the views of the Pontifical Government. Te foreign
troops will evacuate the Papal States onill the. Ist Ja-
nuary next, and the Frencla garrison will quit Rome.
The Pontifical Government expressed a a wish that the
French troops should. leave sooner, but could not
Gemeau that
refute the objection madeb
arm
the organization of the Papal , y_was not suffi.
the desire of the French Govern.
ciently advanced,
ment was acceded to.. The reorganization goes on
slowly, and the enthusiasm to enter the army is not
neat. It is, however, hoped that it will be
very g
by by the lat January, and that the occupa-
tion by the French wilt be then no longer necessary."

THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION

(IRELAND).
The following leter has; been very extensively circa-
ated among -p,
g rions in the Uoited Kingdom, who are
„ppoSed to be fovourab:e to this went national-
undertaking,:—" desirld by the Com-
mittees of the Great. Inrimtrii Exhibition of 1853,
to inform you that Mr. 17illiam Dorganbeing desirous
to give a more than weal promi%enc3 to the Triennial
Exhibition of Arts arid • Manufactures of the Royal
Dublin Scoieiy, has placed the sum of 20,0001. is
the hands of a special committee, for the purpose
of carrying out Uiis important object. The plan
of Mr. John Esnson, C.E , for the building has been
selected, and the exhibition will be opened on Thurs-
day, the sth of .Ilay next. I am also instructed to call
your attention to the praetical advantages which are
likely to flow from such an Exhibition being held in Ire-
land. Cheap and facile transit in England afforded op-
portunities to her working classes to visit the Great
Exhibition of 1851, and profit by an examination of that
wondrous collection of human industry and human
skill. These advantages not having been available to
Irishmen of similar claises to the same extent, it
forms part of the design of Mr. Dargau to obta'm pe-
culiar facilities for his humble countrymen to witness,
in the Irish metr;poli the products of the skill and inge-
f,,
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
official descriptive catalogue of the Great Exhibition of
1851, and the co-operation of the mayor or other chief
magistrate of 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
efforts to promote the success of Mr. Dargan's generous
proposal by giving it publicity, and also by enlisting
the sympathy of manufacturers and exhibitors with
whom 3on have influence, in its favour. Permit me to
add, that c)ntributions in money are not sought for and
cannot be received, as it is Mr. Dsrgan's &eision that
the wholo (It the necessary funds for the Exhibiqon shall
ba provided by himself °ivy. I shaa he nappy to reply
to Lai„ cr to submit to the committee any tug-
with which you risy favour me.—l have the
hooour to he, your very faithful servant, C. P.IZONEY,
Secretary."

INAUGURATION OF SIR 11, PEEL'S
STATUE AT LEEDS.

The public inauguration of the statue of the late
Sir Rebut- Peel tech: place on Friday last at noon,
in the presence of an immense assemblage of people,
numbering, probably, not leas than forty thousand.
The site chosen for the election of this mo-
nument is at the junction of Park-row and Infir-
mary-street, anti in immediate- 'proximity to the
Court House, the Coloured Cloth Hall, and the Com-
mercial Baddings. The figure is eight feet six inches
in height, and stands upon a pedestal of. Scotch granite
eleven feet six inches high. The basement of the
Pedestal consists of blocks cf gray Aberdeen
granite, and the shaft, or upper part, and mould-
ing of red Aberdeen granite, finely'
dressed and
finished. In the centre acid front allfron tcf the drat is en-
graved simply the name "Peel." The granite used
ikettl:eafeanoa ation of this pedestal measures 275 cubic
weighs rather more than 274 tons; the
eallnadttweoirg
hs Lo l
pa l bloek atone contains 8.6 cubic feet,
lea then toes 13 cwt. 2 qrs. 31bs.
At the top this
pedestal stands the statue, so
that the entire eipy
top is twenty feet. The Ati3nofrom the ground to the
knorgr, has been sculptusrt,: ylo:asßiesimperse,ttyscupglenteorr i
generally
ordinary to her Majesty the Queen,u and is a work of
great excellence. It repres
usual attitude, whenThaecipdairp:riliglas:th::Stals
eitiary:Hutßhr:iiokudhistle3ogritotzfniwenc,hoihmeihs.
tlnhrfsl';oevvkithefa hscisr?cllosotf thrown' hack
sof ti hand,b on9'aztn:d,
Treefistese:UvvsPaFedhciait:tutihbpn;
Robiason,
and
Foundry, Pimlico' and Pre4eatn the novGll'ef Statue
been cast nll together instead of in parts having
usually the case. The weight of it is twc,ns " i 6
ile to-
that the entire weight of the pedestal and Statse
Thu cost of the statue and pedetal
gether is 29/ tons.
Prior to the ceremonisi,-
is 1,500 guineas.
.with the the
end secretaries, with the invited
chairman, coninlit;ce,
guests, the magistrates of the- borough, and ln,m_
council, assembled at the Courthouse, from wlaenn,
they walked in procession to the railed area adjoin_
in the statue. Tea procession included, besides
the mayor and the borOcgh magistrates, the Earl
of Herewood, Lord-Lieutenant of the riding, Sr
George Goodman, M.P., Elmund Denison, M.
Wii-
liam Beckett, YEW., 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 Athaneutn.)
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
you called their attention in • last
e has
sb your columns week.
M um
perfect. been necessarily so much occupied,
that easy account I can yet give must be very
j im-
The mainboaiLect contemplated by the projectors of
th
theese laws of henexp
as we rise ieditions is, the determination of
n thßee in the temperature and humidity
and observations
_ etmosphere. Other experiments
posed to attempe.:tre fin_ot lost sight of ; but it is pro-
tetrlY what it is probable can
be satisfactorily
exe :
—it being of more use to
do one thing well tbaa
Such subjects as
r atenes,2l2lY things imperfectly.
probably)
magnetism ~,,,,,—'l;Bri° electricity and (less
J
sorvei take
s shall have b2come ll up when the ob-
works familiarised with their
The weather on Tuesday, the clay 6.
was as good as could be hoped for the first
eaten`,of so much variety as we have lately had. The the midst
considering
The infla-
tion of 4.. Green's gre4t Nassau balloon eavizacoomplished from the Vauxhall Gasworks, te ig teen
took place about ten hanate,s before fou;;"Zweeintht
wonlerfully
en minutes be.
few instrumental casualties,
the great to ciliation of the car previous to starting, frote
the action of the wind on the balloon. We rose steadily,
.and continued rising until about thirte
Tore five leer., when the berm:deter indicated that w,
were about 19,500 feet above the earth.; the tempera.,
tore, which was about 72
deft, at Vauxhall, havingfallen to 7 deg., or through 65 deg.
of Fahrenheit's
scale. Frooa tbe earth the sk y seemed about t hree-quar-
ters covered with clouds the lowest stratum being
composed of detached masses of cauiLOus—an inter-
mediate stratum of higher cumuli--anti cirrostratus
and cirrocumuli above all. ' first stratum of
clouds we passed very
re--The labourers now being daily
the height of about hasl°f°all after leaving the earth, at itorAL Ssaiii----..,
~ _ seCon
hi
i fore
.left
Met
the hands of
rniirifaue • the d seethed
list,"en ier entered arethe soeiredentaeuee.otfice .
from the Master-General's "private
about two and a half
3 hilt •
; but the higees I, ea London, and not as hereto-
cirrostratus clouds were still above
us at our greatest i tesh Mercur the official authorities here.—
elevati9n, although apparently
• not very far. Near 4

A CHILD KILL'i.D BY FALLING yltom A WINDOW--
On Saturday Mr. Longhorn held an inquest at the Charing-
cross Hospital, on the body of Sarah Cope, aged 6. The
deceased lived with her par at , Du-street and
on Wednesday afternoon wasents looking6l out ofdl aey second-, floor
landing -
the da
one 'when she fell over and pitched on her
head on
death." st pavement beneath. Verdict, " Accidental