The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

Tfig stN, LONDON. TUES OA'', AUGUST 3,

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

We have received news from Paris of Sunday's date.
The French journals of Sunday are for the most part oc-
cupied with Sir R. PEEL's speech at the Tamworth
dinner. The Journal des Debais is the only paper of
a Liberal stamp in which the oration of the Right Hon.
Baronet is not turned into complete ridicule.
M. Arzac, the ex-Mayor of Toulouse, has, it is said,
been arrested by order of the new Commissioner, but
the Government papers do not confirm this news.

Our Madrid letters announce the reception of Queen
Christina's protest at Madrid. It excited great sensa-
tion, and Mr. Aston was sent for to the Palace.

The Constitutionnel states that M. HULIANN has pro-
posed in the Council to reduce the Budget of 1843 to the
level of the estimated revenue for that year. This would
enable the French Government to reduce considerably
its army and nivy..

A German paper of the 29th contains a protest drawn
up by the Second Chamber of the Hanoverian States
against the late Royal decree, proclaiming their disso-
lution.

The Paris funds are dull. Three per Cents., liquida-
tion, 76f. 90c. ; end of August, 77f. 10c.
The weather very fine.

THE CROPS.—THE AVERAGES.—We understand from
a gentleman who has just traversed a considerable dis-
trict of the south of England, that the' crops of grain
never looked better than at present. They need only a
few days' sun thoroughly to ripen them, when, they will
yield a harvest beyond an average. Hops and fruit are
also abundant, and it the weather should now become
fine we shall have, in respect to the bounties of Provi-
dence, little to wish fur. Sunday, and the greater part
of yesterday, were warm and auspicious days, which
must have had a most beneficial effect. The averages,
though worked upon by speculators (and we know not
why they should not be worked upon, for the speculators
only wish to bring in corn at as low a duty as possible,
and thereby benefit the people), are no index to the ac-
tual price, and fictitious sales will not, we believe, have
any effect on the price demanded by the miller and the
baker. We do not look, therefore, on the rise in the
averages as an indication of a short crop sufficiently
strong to counteract the evidence of abundance which
seems to overspread our fields.

FELTED CLOTH FILTER.—A person at Brus-
sels has invented a filter, which appears to surpass, in
the simplicity of its construction, and in its reported
effects, most of, those hitherto brought under public
notice. The filter consists of two pieces of felted cloth,
several inches thick, between which a layer of powdered
charcoal is placed. This is the first application of thick
felted cloth for the purpose of filtration, and it is pro-
bable that it will be thus extensively used. Filters of
this kind can be cleaned with the greatest cam—Amu-
tars' Advocate.

THE WILL OF THE LATE LUKE HANSARD,
EsO.—The will and codicils of- Luke Graves Han-
sard, Esq., late of Bedford-square, in the county of
Middlesex, has just been proved in the Prerogative
C9lrt, Doctors' Comrnens, by the exccutors, lliclard
"gle, Frani:is Rivit;too, antl. ThOrilit!) Vorden. The
per,;ol.a.lpropn.ty ei the deecevsed has bet ii .:worn under
time value of 80,000/. which is principally bequeathed to
his children. lair. :Hansard was for many years printer
to the House of Commons.
NEW RAILWAY TRAIN CONTROLLER.—
Vienna letters describe a useful invention by an Infan-
try Captain, Herr Ferdinand Freissauff de Neudegg, of
a simple and completely successful apparatus,
enabling
the conductor of a steam train by pressure on a spring,
immediately to detach the carriages from the engine, and
instantly stop the former. The 'apparatus is said to be
further so contrived as to act of itself in the event of the
locomotive quitting the line of rails, spontaneously, and
at once, effecting its separation from the rest of the train