The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-27 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF MEWS

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13 a '';.l tic Optiaton.

" Who runs may read."

PORLXGN.

The Levant Mail has brought the important intelli-
gence that the Porte has officially addressed the Govern-
meats of England, France, and Russia, on the subject of
the machinations of Greece. The Divan is eager for a
war with King Otho.
The Maronites and Druses are cutting each other's
throats in Syria. We fear it will be very long before
order can be established in that distracted country.
• The inundations of the Nile have done a great deal of
damage in Egypt. The European Consuls are still at
Cairo. Alexandria is very unhealthy, and reports were
afloat that the plague had re-appeared in Egypt and Syria.
The Paris Journals are exclusively occupied with the
trial of M. Ledru Rollin, Deputy for the department of
Le Mans, and M. Haureau, editor of the Courrier de la
Sarthe, for a seditious libel, consisting, however, merely
of the language held by M. Ledru Rollin at the late elec-
tion for the departmerit he represents. M. Ledru Rollin
was acquitted by the jury of having uttered the words
which constituted the libel, but convicted of publishing
them, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment, and
a fine of 3,000 f. (1201.) M. Haureau was also convicted,
and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a fine
of 2,000 f. (801.) The whole of the Liberal Press
denounce the prosecution as tyrannical and the verdict
as infamous, which it is. The defence was conducted by
the most eminent men in France, viz., MM. Berryer,
Odillon Barrot, Arago, and Marie.
The Frankfort Journal of the 23d speaks of the re-
ports current as to the formation of a European Con-
gress for the settlement of Spanish affairs, and mentions
Vienna, Frankfort, Paris, and London as the probable
places of meeting, but agrees as to the great chance of
Frankfort being selected. Count de Flahaut and M. de
Fontenay are parties designated as the representatives
of France; Lord Granville, Sir David Montague, and
Lord Erskine, for England; Counts Fiquelmont and de
Bombelles, for Austria; Baron de Bulow and Count de
Kuster, for Prussia; and for Russia, Baron de Brunow
and Count Paul de Medem. We are somewhat of opi-
nion that there will be no Congress upon the affairs of
Spain. The great Powers will think better of it, and
leave Spain to manage her own affairs.
A Correspondent from Hanover writes to the Consti-
tutionnel that the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge have
sent in a protest against the measure taken in organizing
a Council of Signature for the Crown Prince of Hanover,
as having been entered into without the consent of the
agnates of that Royal house. The protest has been for-
warded to the Germanic Diet, and communicated to the
Courts of Berlin and of Brunswick.

The number of students entered in the faculty of law
in Paris for the lectures of the academical year is 2,872,
viz.:—Candidates for certificates for capacity 120, stu-
dents of the first year 880, of the second year 961, of
the third year 785, of the fourth 126. Out of the 2,892
candidates for the baccalaureate in letters examined in
August last throughout France, 1,471, or 54 per cent.,
obtained their diplomas. The examinations in composi-
tion ended in the rejection of 657, or 23 per cent., and in
the oral examinations 764, or 34 per cent., were turned
back.