The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-31 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Independance speaks of another candidate
for the throne of Greece in the person of the
brother of the reigning Grand• Duke of Baden,
who recently married a Princess of Leuchtenberg.

Election of the Archbishop of York.

The cove delire, empowering the Dean and
Chapter of York to elect an Archbishop of that see,
having been received, and her Majesty having re-
commended the Right Rev. Dr. W. Thomson,
Bishop of Glocester and Bristol, to be elected, the
Dean and Chapter proceeded with the election on.
Monday in York Cathedral. There was only a small
number of the clergy and general public present.
the service commenced with the chanting of the
Litany and the singing of the anthem " Veni Crea-
tor," from the ordination service. The clergy and
others then proceeded to the Chapter-house, where
the apparitor of the chapter exhibited the original
citations, and made oath of their duo execution.
The persons cited to appear were next called at the
inner door of the Chapter-house by the apparitor,
those not appearing being pronounced contumacious
according to the tenour of a schedule then read and
subscribed by the Very Rev. the Dean (President);
Afterwards the conge dehre and letters permissive
were read by the Registrar; after which the canons
present, by show of hands, agreed upon the prelate
named in the letters missive (the Rev. Dr. W.
Thomson), and a schedule expressive of such con-
sent was read and subscribed by the President. The
procession then reformed, and after leaving the
Chapter-house the election of Dr. Thomson as Arch-
bishop of York was published by the President in the
nave of the Minster. On returning to the Chapter-
house it was decreed that the election so made was to
be signified and certified to her Majesty and the Arch-
bishop elect, according to the tenour of the letters
missive. Proctors were then appointed to exhibit the
letters certifying the election. After which the clergy,
&c., proceeded to the choir, and the President, while
standing under the west of the choir with his face
towards the nave, again published the election.
They again entered the choir, when the 7e Deum
(Hopkins in F) was sung, and the prayers for the
Queen and clergy were read. The members of
the chapter again entered the chapter-house, where
two special instruments upon the election were read
or decreed to be sealed; and having adjourned to
the vestry for that purpose they were accordingly
sealed with the common seal.

The service and election occupied about at hour
and a half. It is not known when the enthronisa-
tion of the new Archbishop will take place.

THE OTTOMAN NATIONAL EXHlBlTlON.—Not-
withstanding the severe weather which has pre-
vailed during the greater part of the past week, the build-
ing in the Hippodrome has been actively proceeded with
by crowds of workmen. By tho end of the month the
entire shell of the structure will, it is expected, l e complete
and ready to receive the roof, which it has now been decided
shall be of glass. Azmi Bey has been named Imperiat
Commissioner—whatever that may: mean—for the enter-
prize, and is already at work with Mustapha Pasha on tha
details of the allotment of space, the classification of the
expected contents, and other executive duties of the under-
taking. The week's news from the provinces reports
favourably for the progress of preparations amongst intend-
ing exhibitors. From Bagdad the telegraph states Ole
goods to be ready for transmission. Similar intellirzenee
comes from Aleppo, Adrianople, and Upper Albania, from
the last of which an extensive display of native arms is
promised. These will be arranged as a trophy near the
entrance of the building, as vis-a-vis to another to be
formed of cannon and small arms manufactured at Zeitoun-
burnou. Splendid specimens of embroidery are promised
from some of the chief harems of the capital, where the fair
candidates for medals and "honourable mention" are now
busy with this object. A special day in the week, by the
way, is to be set apart for the admission of ladies to the
building, on which the unfair sex will be rigorously ex-
cluded—as will be the houris themselves on the other six.
As intending English exhibitors have yet ample time to
obtain the requisite space for their goods, it may be worth.
while to express our conviction that agricultural implement
makers will especially find the experiment a paying one, as
their articles, above all others, are sure to find ready and
liberal purchasers at the close of the exhibition..—Levant
Herald, Dec. 17.
The Indipendente of Naples announces the
arrest at the Villa Falcone, Sorrento, of two
Swiss gentlemen, named De la Fiela, who have protested
against their arrest, effected, it is said, in consequence of
information received from the Swiss Consul.
FREDERlCESBURG.—Fredericksburg is the chief
town of Spottsylvania, County Virginia, and is
situated on the right bank of the Rappahannock river at
the head of tidewater. It is between 50 and 60 wiles front
Richmond by railroad, and 65 miles by the turnpike, in ai
northerly direction. The town is pleasantly situated in,
fertile valley, and has advantages for commerce and manu-
factures. The railroad from 'Washington, via Aquia Creek,
passes through ic, and as the through trains generally
stopped at Fredericksburg station for about an hour each,
trip a not inconsiderable chance trade wag caused thereby
in the immediate locality of the depot, A good canal has
been constructed from the town to a point on the Rapp
hannsck river about 40 miles above, by which large quasi-
tities of wheat, flour, and. tobacco were formerly received
for exportation. The river affords extensive water power,
which, however, has not been much used. The hills in the
neighbourhood, varying in height from 40ft, to 100fts
abound in fine granite and freestone. About 30 years sine°
thelprospect of Fredericksburg being a rapidly rising tows
was very great, but it suddenly stopped in ifs prosperity,
and after, as it were, standing still for about 20 years it
gradually retrograded in its importance. In 1840 its popu-
lation numbered nearly 4,000 souls, and in 1850, ten years
after, it had only increased 88 persons—.less than nine 00'
year, and being about two per cent, in a decade—a remark
ably small increase. Before the war it contained five
churches, one orphan asylum, two seminaries, four news-
paper offices, and two banks. Such was Fredericksbuji,:t.
The correspondent of the New York Times reports :
is ' living' Fredericksburg no more. A city, soulless, rent'
by the wreck of war, and shooting up in flames athvirar'
night's sky, :is the pretty little spot by the RaPPa;
hannoo, erewhile the peculiar scene of dignified ease and
retirement."

DISEASES OF THE SUGAR-CANE.--Oa this sub-
ect we find an interesting article by Dr. Bergs is
lie Bulletin de la Societe el' Acclimatation. The author
confines his observations to the cultivation of the sugar-
cane in the island of Reunion, and begins with the deserir
tion of a cryptogamous plant which, to the naked eye, 1135
the appearance of a cobweb spread over the leaves of the
young cane. Wherever this parasite has spread, little
spots are perceived, first yellowish, then brown, and °C
length of a bright red, a certain sign that the epidermis
has been attacked. The parasite sucks all the sap
from the plant, which, being still very young, ea/311°j
bear this loss, and dies away. Dr. Berg atlff;
butes this disease, first, to the immoderate use el"
guano, which over-excites the functions of the plant ; and
then, to the custom of never allowing the soil to lie fallocr,
or at least substituting at intervals some other plant for the
cane. Another enemy to the sugar-cane is what is called
in the country the white pocket-louse, a hemipterous insect,
and therefore provided with four wings and a horny beak
for suction. The female, however, has no wings ; the
lower part of its body is flattened ; the upper part globulous.
Its eggs are round, adherent, yellowish, and are about 500
in number for each insect. The gestation is long, but the'
hatching is rapid The female's first care is to select a Once
on the leaves or stem ; there it implants its beak, and never
moves from that place after. Its voluminous abdomen is the'
protecting envelope of a progeny which devours its entrain.
As the gestation proceeds, the mother is exhausted, told
dies as soon as it has laid its eggs. But while the inoffen-
sive male only sucks the nectar of the flowers, the female;
in dying, leaves the fatal marks of its presence, in the shapt
of dark spots, which denote the destruction of the plan.
The borer is another insect, having the appearance of the
larva of a coleopterous insect. It has two strong and sharp
horny mandibles, two lateral jaws, and a lower lip, which-
is also sharp and thin. This insect, is extremely destruc.-
tive, and remarkable for its surprising voracity; it pease''
trates into the heart of the cane, after boring through tho
bark. It does not, however, attack canes the knots of
which are three or four inches apart.
'.IHE PROPOSED NEW METROPOLTTAN BRIDGES,
—The precise sites of the proposed new metropolitan
bridges across the Thames are defined by the plans an?'
sections just deposited with both houses of Parliament an
clerks of the peace. They are five in number—namely, the
Tower-bridge, St. Paul's. bridge, the Temple-bridge, New
Chelsea and Battersea bridge, and Wandsworth-bridge
the first three for foot passengers only, and the other two
for both carriages and horses. The Tower-bridge CO':
mences at Irongate-stairs, near the Tower, and terminate'-
at Horsley-down Old-stairs. The St. Paul's-bridge scheruf'
comprises a bridge and approaches from St. Paul's steara7
boat-pit-r, and terminating in the Thames at a point W
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hundred yards north of the j 3
unction of Love-lane 11,
Bankside on the Surrey side ;also a bridge commencing a,
the southern terminus of the foregoing, and terminating
Bankside, at a point nearly opi,osite Love-lane, tcgethira:
with a third approach or work ending at Mason's- sta,
Bankside. The Temple bridge starts from the Thames era
bankment, 100 yards in a south -easterly direction from
the
Temple Steam -boat pier, near Essex street, and terminate
e
90 yards in a nort h-easterly direction from the river ent a (-7
to the draw dock of Messrs. Dawson and Co. with the CO_uo
mercial railway on the Surrey side,
Duke-street and Old Barge-house-stairs, Southwark.
Walla
Chelsea and Battersea-bridge, commencing in CheYne. eady
opposite Oakley-street, Chelsea, an.; end at the Albertr-rri,s_.
Ba.t terse& park, near to the Albert Tavern ; and the Wia_ ;50,
worth-bridge beginning in the York-road, Wandsworth,
feet to the east of the Jews'-road, will terminate in
St peels'
road, Fulham, at the junction of Land's End .lane, opP",h,
the Lord Palmerston Tavern. The time specified tor the'
the bg
completion of the bridges is six years, and the toll t
with approaches I_o,_o,
tak9n le one halfpenny.