The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-04 00:00:00

GERMANY.

HANOVER, Nov. 24.—Nothing certain can yet be said
of the result of the election struggle which is now at its
height. The Government has directed its efforts chiefly
to the farmers. Accordingly those of the principalities
of Calenberg and Helderheim have been decidedly favour-
able to the Government. Each of those provinces sends
three deputies for the class of farmers (or peasants), all
these were in June, of the opposition party ; now they
will vote with the Government. This makes a difference
of six votes (or twelve in a division). But
it is probable that in the other provinces the elections of
this class will be much in the same proportion as last
year ; perhaps the Government may prevail in one or
two elections in Limburg.
BERLIN, Nov. 23.—Letters from Livonia state that
the peasants of the German province of Russia have re-
quested the abolition of vasalage, and that they may be
placed in the same condition as the Prussian peasant.
BERLIN, Nov. 27.—His Majesty the King has re-
turned to Sans Souci from his visit to Munich. Kin,/
William Frederick, Count of Nassau, arrived here yester!
day, from the Netherlands.—Hamburgh Papers, Nov. 30.
HA AIBURG BOBSENHALLB, N0v.30.
Austrian 5 per Cents. Bills. Money
107 107
Bank shares
1610
Anglo-Russian Loan..

108 108
Raglan 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Russian 5 per Cont. Hope and Co. and 4th
SeriCS .......................M. •••••••••••••.......•• 98% •••••
Ditto in Certificates
04 og 97% 97%
New 4 per Cent. (1840),,,,, • ; 96% 86%
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per
..... 50% 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent .....
Polish Bonds
New Picket _ 161

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent.... ....... 754 f 76
Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per .... . . 1021, y 102}
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l5
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.

HAMBURG, Nov. 30.-13 6%.—Two months, 13 5.
&rocLimos, Nov. 23.—Seventy-five days, 12, 7.
ritussiAN FUNDS.—Bsuusi, Nov, 27.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4;9 per cent. ...« 116 k 16711
Prussian English Loan, IMO, 4 per cent 102 101)6
Exchange on London, three months 6 19*
—Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 28

THE HIGH TlDES.—Yesterday morning, at
high water the tide rose again in the river Thames, inun-
dating the warehouses and houses on the banks of the
river to a considerable depth. The dam on the north
side of Hungerford-market, for the erection of the sus-
pension bridge, was overflowed, as also that at Westmin-
ster-bridge, which will cause considerable delay in the
works.

HA TTING batting business at
Denton, Oldham, Ashton, and Stockport, is dull ; and
the hands are only partially employed, at very low
wages.—Leeds Mercury.
THREE LIVES LOST BY THE BREAKING
OF Ice.—A melancholy accident happened at Graham-
stone, Falkirk, on Friday, on one of the Carron dams.
A number of children were sliding, when the ice gave
way, and two of them were drowned. Some say a third
went down,' and, to add to the catastrophe, two men
(father and son) went to their rescue, when, lamentable
to relate, the son sunk and was drowned.—Scottish
Guardian.
BURTON.--We are glad to be able to confirm
the report that the cotton mills at Burton are to be oc-
cupied as mills for the manufacture of tape and screws.
This will find employment for many who were thrown
out of work by the closing of the mills as calico manu-
factories.—Derby Reporter.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY. A black
woman, named Phillis Ashward, was buried recently at
St. Mary's Chapel, who had reached the advanced age of
120 ! And another woman, named Nancy Jane, died at
the Belle estate, who had reached 110 years.—Barbadian.
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THREADNEEDLE..
STREET.—The building, which is now in the course of
erection on the site of the old French Protestant church,
in Threadneedle-street, has, for some time past, at-
tracted the attention of all passers-by, although it is not
yet completed, nor likely to be so for some months
to come, on account of the nature of the
ornamental designs, which require the strictest
attention on the part of the artists employed.
The basso-relievo is intended to occupy the
whole extent of the front of the building. The
skill and taste displayed in the erection of this
new edifice are well worthy of the attention of all lovers
of the fine arts, wh9 will do well to take an opportunity
of visiting it. The proprietor, who bought the ground
from the City authorities, after it had been determined
to pull down the old French Church. very handsomely
conceded to the latter, without receiving any considera-
tion whatever, ten feet of the entire frontage, for the
express purpose of giving that additional width to

the street, the narrowness—of which has always been
fouud so excessively inconvenient. This disinterested
conduct on the part of an individual should, and doubt-
less will, call foeth a corresponding feeling on the part of
the City authorities, who with this example before them,
are, as it were, bound to proceed with the improvements, and
to continue the additional width throughout the whole
extent of Threadneedle street.:: If the 'Whole of the
northern side of the street, from Old Broad-street to the
Old South Sea House, were taken doWn, and thrown
back a space of ten feet, in order to correspond with the
building in question, a noble street would be formed,
well calculated to make a fine .approach to the new
Royal Exchange. In fact, We know of no part of London
where a greater display of elegant architecture will be
found, than that which will be exhibited in the course of
next year in the immediate vicinity of Cornhill and Old
Broad-street, &c.

•
THE FLOODS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF
WINDSOR.—WINDSOR, FRIDAY NIGHT.—The waters
are now out in all directions, and in many places in this
immediate neighbourhood to a most frightful extent.
The view from the North-terrace presents, north,
east, and west, one continued sheet of water for miles.
The Mead, at Egham, has been overflowed for upwards
of a week, and the lower road from that town to Windsor
is now several feet under water. The flood has
extended two feet over the embankment leading
from Windsor across the Home-park to Datchet, and at
this time the water is rapidly rising. Between those
places, where there is considerable traffic, punts have
been in requisition during the whole day in conveying
passengers across the park, upwards of half a mile.
The water now reaches to within a very short distance
of Adelaide-lodge. A great portion of the embankment
in the Home-park has been completely washed away,
and also a large portion of the raised road made
last summer for the purpose of enabling her Majesty
to drive across the park from the Castle to Datchet,
when proceeding to London. At Eton the whole of the
cellars contain several feet in depth of water, and should
the Thames continue rising throughout the night, the
whole town will be inundated. The water now extends to
several parts of the High-street, and the whole of the
lanes and alleys on each side are overflowed. The inha-
bitants are now busily engaged in removing their furni-
ture to the upper floors of their houses. The flood has
reached to within two feet of the roadway across Barnes-
pool-bridge, close to Eton College. Indeed, the flood is
now higher than it has been known during the last 25 years.
NEW TELEGRAPH TO THE DowNs.—This
new telegraph being now completed, preliminary experi-
ments as to its working have been tried throughout the
whole line for the last two or three days, which have
been found to answer the most sanguine expectations.
During the experiments crowds of persons have been
attracted on London-bridge, to witness the working
of the telegraph at its terminus, on the sum-
mit of the tower at Topping's Wharf, Tooley-street, a
height of upwards of 150 feet. It will be opened on the
Ist of January, 1842. The intermediate stations are on
elevated spots at Forest Hill (Peckham Rye), Knock-
holt Beeches, Wrotham, Blue Bell Hill, Chatham,
Isle of Sheppy, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Minster,
Broadstairs, and Deal. The code of signal§ to be
used are the invention of Lieutenant Barnard 'Watson,
Royal Navy, and will be similar to those established
between Holyhead and Liverpool. The arrival of
a ship off the Downs can be communicated to the
terminus, at London-bridge, in the short space of five
minutes. Other lines are also at the present moment in
active preparation, and telegraphs have been erected at
Skerza Head, Peterhead, Pentland Firth, Flamborough
Head, Yarmouth, Orfordncss, North Foreland, St.
Catherine's Point, and the Needles (Isle of Wight), Old
Head of Kinsale; all of which will be in communication
with the London line.

On Tuesday afternoon last a lighted lucifer
match was introduced into the letter-box of the Bir-
mingham Post-office, and one letter was destroyed before
the fire was discovered by the clerk in attendance. No
clue has yet been obtained to the perpetrator of the dia-
bolical attempt, but the authorities are not without hope
that the miscreant may be apprehended.—Birmingham
Advertiser.

' At the Court of Common Council on Thursday,
Mr. Wells made a speech which caused a great deal oi
laughter. A motion was made that theoenotuhret
groundshould
grat the sum of 1,0001, to the poor widows of freemen,
instead of the usual annual vote of 500 L, on
widow widows of
that a Prince of Wales was born.inasm
Mr. Anderton and others, that to the'
ase knowledgethe
ene or two
as objected by
charity was grossly abused,
women, whom they believed not to b
inasmuch as
freemen at all, sometimes receivedo the amount of 15
there would be or 17 tickets in the
year,Chamberlain's thaatgirfealt,oocOry/.
diminution at any subsequent period, and
againstr tannetedthis
that the probable demands upon the Corporate funds for
d
the relief of the general 'stress, rendered it necessary
that the Court should be
theeconomical of the property of
their fellow-citizens on
patification
(sown, by
pHreeisrsetdo -
them ucch occasion. Mr. Wells ex-
esevtetnletdb,
by an
he thought at the birth of an
which. the regular succession was
would be rauninouunsive- it was too much to celebrate the
must giveuniversal application for favours which it
Prince of Wales is born."
me
this,
to confer. Every one said, " Oh, you
or lend me that, for you know the
Cor-
poration very modestly
requeA'siteandythmatem theb Lord Mayor
would give themdinner,
for his ersof the
and their wives and families a grand
Lordship knew the Prince of Wales was
born; and not a few persons called upon himself, and said,
" Mr. Wells, I hope you intend to pay us what you owe
us, because you know the Prince of Wales is born."—
(Great laughter). Now it would be just as reasonable to
expect the performance of either of the two great im-
probabilities to which he had particularly referred, as to
expect that the Court would vote away an additional
5001. to increase the abuses of charity.—The proposition
I was negatived.
This afternoon, a little after one o'clock, as a
gas-fitter named Charles Lowen was employed repairing
the gas-pipes in the interior of Drury-lane Theatre, his
foot slipped from a beam upon which he was standing,
and he was precipitated from a height of thirty feet. We
regret to state the unfortunate man had his leg broken
by the fall ; he was immediately conveyed by;his fellow- 1
workmen to Charing-cross Hospital.
FRENCH LAW OF IMPRISONMENT FOR
DEBT.—By the Code of Napoleon, no person can be
incarcerated for debt after the age of 60—a law which is
still in force.

EVENING SUN