The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

excites a good deal of interest in the political circles

of Paris.
The usual time for opening the annual Session of
the French Chambers is the Ist November, but the
Commerce states that the Cabinet has resolved not
to prorogue them before the latter part of Decem-
ber. This determination on the part of the Cabi-
net is very loudly complained of by the Liberal press.
" VITTORIA, SEPT, 24.—The insurgents continued to
come by hundreds to this city to declare their submission.
There were still wanting some Members of the Junta of
Alava, they came on Saturday to make their submission,
and brought with them the papers. registers, &c. The
partisan chief, Basabe, has likewise made his submission
with his adherents, so that it may be said there does not
remain a single insurgent in the province of Alava. The
people are in full joy in consequence of the hope which
the liberals hold out to them, that their fueros will be pre-
served. This concession is absolutely necessary to satisfy
the people, and to obtain a solid and durable peace."—
Journal des Debats.
" We have received the ll'loniteur Algerien of the 28th
of September, which gives an account of the arrival of the
Duke of Orleans on board the Phare steam-boat. Repeated
salutes of the batteries announced the entrance of his
Royal Highness into the port, where all the vessels were
immediately dressed.
" The Marshal Governor-General, accompanied by the
Lieutenant-General commanding the Division, proceeded
to the Navy Office to receive the Prince. The African
Militia and the troops of the line were drawn up on both
sides of the way to the Hotel of the Government, where
apartments were prepared for the Prince. At noon his
Royal Highness received in succession the compliments of
the civil, judicial, and military authorities, and soon after-
wards gave audience to the Foreign Consuls. His Royal
Highness is in perfect health. On the 28th the city gave
a ball in his honour.
" A deplorable accident has occurred almost opposite
to St. Germain-sur- Ay, and in sight of the inhabitants.
Fifteen Englishmen from Jersey, who had come on busi-
ness to the fair of Lefray, reimbarked in the little harbour
of St. Germain to return to Jersey. They had got out
to sea in the small vessel which brought them, when the
wind suddenly arose with great violence. A few moments
afterwards an enormous wave broke over the boat and sunk
it. It was absolutely impossible to afford any assistance,
and all the fifteen persons perished with the crew, the
number of which is unknown. —Constitutionnel.

CARLOW ELECTION PETITION.—The minutes

of evidence, and the proceedings in this case, have been
printed by order of the House of Commons, and are
just published in two folio volumes, of more than a thou-
sand pages eaeh. The Committee sat for ten weeks—
examined above a hundred witnesses, and the questions
ar,d answers recorded amount to fifty-eight thousand
oue hundred and eight. What sense is there in making
the nation pay for the publication of such a mass of
rubbish ? _

We are assured there will be no opposition for
he Aldermanie gown in the ward of Dowgate, the

other candidates -having given way to the stronger
claims of John Johnson, Esq., who obtained so much
approbation when filling the office of Sheriff of the City
of London. He is a resident of the ward.

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We some time ago informed our readers that the
Queen had been graciously pleased to direct that the
debts of her late Royal father, the Duke of Kent,
should be liquidated from her Majesty's privy purse.
We have since learned that this payment has been
effected, and that the creditors of his late Royal High-
ness have presented an address to her Majesty, through
Sir Henry Wheatley, expressing their grateful sense of
this proof of her Majesty's spontaneous liberality.—

Times.
ARREST OF YOUNG MURAT.—M. Cass, the
American Envoy, has received from the American
States Consul at Florence the news of the arrest in
Tuscany, by order of the Austrian police, of M. Lucien
Murat, son of the ex-Queen of Naples, who had some
time ago crossed France in order to settle the affairs
of his mother's succession. The news has stopped
M. Achille Murat, his eldest brother, who had come
from London to Paris with the special permission of
the French Government. M. A. Murat is a naturalized
citizen of the United States, where he has married a
grand-niece of Washington, and is the owner of a fine
estate in Florida.—Paris Print.
CORN IN FRANCE.—The Moniteur states that
the reduction in wheat has been at from I franc .50c. to
Q francs the hectolitre and a half, at Brie, Pithiviers,
Melun, and Roye, and that a fall, or rather a tendency
towards a fall, has been manifested in the eastern, cen-
tral, and western departments. In the last direction the
diminution has been most marked at Nantes and Saumur.
The quotations remain at their height in the southern
markets, and particularly at Bordeaux.
THE VINTAGE IN FRANCE.—The accounts
of the vintage, which commenced several days ago, in dif-
ferent parts of France, are favourable, and it is said that
the wine will be of good quality. A letter from Cha-
teauroux states that, where the vines were not attacked
by cold, they yield abundantly. From Sancerre, we
learn that the grapes are fully ripe, and that the rains
which fell lately, instead of injuring have swelled them
out, and rendered them much more produc;ive than was
expected. In this part of the country the wine will, it
is said, be rather less in quantity, but equal are quality to
that of 1834. The accounts from Bordeaux is equally
favourable. Many of the growers of Medoc state that
the grapes have attained full maturity, and will yield very
fine wine.
SUPPLY OF MEN TO THE FRENCH ARMY...—.