The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-20 00:00:00

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POREIGN.
The news received from the United States will disap-
point public expectation. The Caledonia steamer and
packet ship South America, which arrived at Liverpool
last night, bring New York papers of the 2d instant,
whereas the trial of Mr. M'Leod was fixed for the 4th.
From the absence of several important witnesses, it is
probable that a further postponement was granted. The
trial was expected to occupy ten_ or twelve days at the
very least.
rom Spain the news is tolerably satisfactory. No
movement of any consequence has taken place in.,Na-
varre, and in Gutpuscoa the Christinos are rather losing
than gaining ground. O'Donnell has failed to take
Pampeluna.
The extensive worsted - mills of M. Guiraud, on the
Aude, near Limoux, were entirely destroyed by fire a
few days since, with all the stock and machinery, -occa-
sioning a loss of 200,000 francs, and throwing upwards
of 100 hands out of einployment. The property was
insured.

Letters frond Genoa state that two failures, amounting
together to three millions of francs, have just been de-
clared in that city.
According to a table published by the Univers, the
population of Rome, reckoned up to Easter last, was
158,868. In 1832 it was 148,455.
There has just bees published at Berlin a statistical
account of the criminal justice for the last twenty-thi.:6
years in the whole of the kingdom of Prussia, under
the German system of legislation, that is, with the ex-
ception only of the Rhenish provinces, in which the
French code is still in force. From this work it ap-
pears that during the period mentioned there have been
312 criminals condemned to death ; namely, 234 men,
and 78 women, making on an average about 13 capital
sentences per annum, or 4 in every 3,000,000 inhabitants,
the population of this part of Prussia being reckoned at
10,000,000. Of the 312 capital convicts, 145 only were
executed, of whom 130 were men and 15 women. Among
the 7S women condemned to death, 33 were for infanti-
cide, all of whom obtained full pardons or commutations
of their sentences.

Between three and four o'clock on Thursday last a
meteor of unusual size, being as big as a tun, according
to some accounts, fell near the Arras gate at Bethune, in
the Pas de Calais, making a rushing noise like the
passage of a hurricane. We do not learn that it did any
damage-.
The Carlsruhe Gazette gives an account of the new
Constitution granted to the inhabitants of the princi-
pality of Schwartkbouro.P. Sondushausen, by its Sovereign
Prince Gunther. The Protestant religion is declared
the religion of the State, but freedom of religious worship
is proclaimed, and the Jews are equally protected, reli-
giously and civilly. The representation is confided to 13 De-
puties, whose qualifications are, their being Christians, and
of unblemished reputation, and in the possession of cer-
tain property in land as regards the rural districts, or
the rights of citizenship in towns. The electoral fran-
chise is very extensive, for all medical men, clergymen,
lawyers, teachers, bankers, and merchants. and every
man who has been for three years in trade on his own
account are electors. The Deputies are elected for eight
years, but nearly all public functionaries are ineligible.