The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-23 00:00:00

“ NOTE.

" The undersigned had the honour on the 17th of
July to inform his Excell. M. Guizot that a convcntiou
upon the affairs of Turkey had been signed, on thQ 15th
of that month, by the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Great
Britain, Prussia, and Russia, on the one hand, and by
the Plenipotentiary of the Porte on the other. The
ratifications of that Convention having now been ex-
changed, the undersigned has the honour of transmitting
to his Excell. M. Guizot, for the information of the
French Government, a copy of that Convention, and of
its annexes.

" The undersigned cannot make this communication
to his Excel'. M. Guizot without again expressing to
him the very sincere regrets of her Majesty's Govern-
ment that the objections which the French Govern-
ment has felt to taking any share in the measures
for the execution of which this Convention
provides, have created an obstacle which has
prevented France from being a contracting party to
this compact. But her 'Majesty's Government feel
confident that the Cabinet of the Tuileries will see in
the provisions of this convention indisputable proofs that
the Four Powers, in undertaking the engagements
which it contains, have been animated by a disinterested
desire to maintain those principles of policy with regard
to Turkey which France has, on more than one occa-
sion, distinctly and emphatically declared to be her own,
that they do not seek to obtain, by the arrangements
which they have in view, any exclusive advantage for
themselves, and that the great object of their aim is to
uphold the existing balance of power in Europe, and to
avert events which would disturb the general peace.
(Signed) " PALMERSTON.
" Foreign•office, Sept. 16, 1840."

ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART IN

FRANCE.

A grant has been made for the preservation of the
interesting church of Veze!ay ; the porch, which is of
the 11th century, is to be one of the first restorations.
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Active operations are in progress for completing the
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machine arewhich
those at the Palace of Justice in progress ; ;the
shops
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station
point
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completed. M. Dutel has presented to the Academy
ine and which prepares a statue as well in a week
as is done by the ordinary process in five or six.
M. Sauvage has also presented a modelling appara-
tus, or apparatus for taking copies of statues in a
plastic material. 4,0001. has been voted in aid of the
subscription for a monument to Moliere. What will
our Government give to the Nelson memorial? Exten.
sive ruins, presumed to be Roman, have been opened in
the forest of Voivres, near Vittel, in the Vosges. In
the same district a subterrancous entrance has been
discovered, end a mass of Roman tiles, and a great num-
ber of tumuli in the forest of DattleY• A barbarous
iron grating, out of style, has been put up in the C.
thedral of Atniens. The church of St. Valpon is being
restored under the direction of M. de Bellew!, an ama-
teur. A suspension bridge is contracted for over the
Seine, at Suresne. Several interesting statues have
been discovered during the works at St. Jacques-
aux-Pelerins ; they are said to be fifteen in number, and
painted. A great number of statues are in progress in
France this year ; besides that of Aloliere, already men-
tioned, there are those of Napaleon in the Invalides;
Gutenberg and Kieber, at Strasburg ; Travot, in La
Vendee ; Jouqert, at Valence ; Brune, at Brines ; Cor-
neille, at Rouen ; Riquet, in Languedoc. In other
countries the sync activity is visible :—in Denmark,
Thorwaldten has a statue to Christian VI.; in Russia, at
Tumhow and Tobolsk, to Peter the Great ; in Holland,
to De Ruyter at Flushing ; in (Germany, to Frede-
rick the Great at Berlin ; t) Albert Purer at
Nuremberg ; to Utzhneider at Munich ; to Gutenberg
at Mentz, and to Richter at Bayreuth; at Schaff-
hausen, in Switzerland, to Muller ; and in Belgium to
Rubens and Gretry. Some painted glass windows
have been ordered for the Louvre. iI. Clanceau ex-
hibited at the exposition of the Academy of Industry a
metallic paper for preserving rooms from damp. It is
formed of thin sheets of an alloy of lead and pewter, or
tin, stuck on the walls by means of white lead and lin-
seed oil. It is said to be cheap and effective.—Railway
Magazine.

TIIE COMBINATION OF WO.RKING MEN IN
PM-in.—Twenty
of these men wet, brvugbt before the
Police C, rrectionelle on Saturday, when nineteen of them
were sentenced to eight days' iilivri„arn eet, and the twen-
tieth to six days in addition.