The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

FROM TILE FRENCH PAPERS.

A curious action is pending before the Juge-de-Paix
of Bourbon Vendee. An aerolite fell in the commune

of Rocheserviers a few weeks ago, and as it was of con-
siderable size became an object of high curiosity. The
Mayor of the place claims it for his brother, on whose
land it fell, and the actual possessor maintains his right
to it from having purchased it of the peasants who
saw it fall.

On Sunday last, as the Presse de Seine et Oise states,
the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours went to shoot in the
plain of Chevreloup, near Versailles. Their Royal High-
nesses, on coming out of the Grand Trianon, met a wed-
ding party assembled at the keeper's lodge, in the Avenue
St. Antoine, and, after conversing with some of the per-
sons composing it, kindly promised that they would send
some game for the dinner. A few hours after, some of
the Royal game-keepers brought in an abundant supply
sent by the Princes. It is needless to add that their
healths were drank in bumpers._ . _ _

Several journals having stated that the uniform of the
whole of the French infantry was about to undergo a
total change, the Moniteur Parisien says that the report
is incorrect ; that the experiment will be made with five
battalions from the Ist January, and that it will require
several months' test of the new system before any general
measure on the subject can be decided on.
The Court of Cassation was yesterday engaged in
hearing an appeal arising out of a suit instituted by the
State against the Duchess de Berri as the guardian of
her children, the Duke de Bordeaux and Mlle. de Rosny,
for one-fourth of the value of forest lands inherited by
them from their father the Duke de Berri, and their
grandfather, Charles X. The claim of the State, which
it is said amounts to several millions, is founded upon a
law of 14 Ventose, An. VII., 4th March, 1799. Origi_
nally, five suits were instituted—viz., in the tribunals of
the Cher, Marne, Haute Marne, Vosges, and Ardennes,
the departments in which the forests are situated. By
interlocutory proceedings the suit in the Cher was main-
tained at Bourges, and is still in progress, but the four
other suits were consolidated, and referred to the Tribu-
nal of Vassy, in the Marne. This partition was, it ap-
pears, founded on the fact of the title of the Duke de
Bordeaux and his sister being derived from different
sources. The Duchess de Berri pleaded against the
competency of the Tribunal of Vassy to decide upon the
rights of property lying in other departments, and having
gained her cause before the Tribunal of Vassy, and
assy,
afterwards before the Cour Royale of Dijon, the Advo-
cate-General lodged an appeal before the Court of Cas-
sation, which at the hearing of yesterday annulled the
decisions of the Courts below, Consequently the merits
of the case remain to be tried in a process of first in-
stance before the Tribunal of Bourges and Vassy.
The English residents at Wiesbaden had a grand din-
ner there on the 12th inst in honour of the birth of the
Prince of Wales.
The inhabitants of Guingssill:', the Cotes du Nord,
were last week astonished at the exhibition of a remark-
ably fine sheep, black as ebony, with five horns on the
hid, three on one side, one on the other, and one in
the middle. It had been purchased by a butcher at Pe-
dernec.
The Chromq* ue de Fougeres, in the Ille-et-Vilaine, re-
lates the follo-win, instance of fidelity and sagacity of a
dog. A miller
Javene was returning
toomuch wine, when,
in attempting to pass home a few
evenings ago rather unsteady from
over a plank across the mill stream,
ca
he fell in, and was
ed down the current. His dog
plunged in after biro, Taught him by the hair, and landed
him safe, but senseless,
.on the bank. The animal then
went into the water again, and brought out his master's
hat which had fallen off. Finding that he did not stir
the animal ran off to the mill, and by his scratching and
barking at the door, called out the family and guided
them to where he had left his master in time to restore
him to animation.
A company has been formed in Russia for the manu-
facture of wine and brandy from whortle-berries, accord-
ing to the process introduced by General Count de
Chassenon at St. Hubert, in Luxembourg, in 1837. The
Russian Government is said to have granted the gratuit-
ous use of premises in Lithuania, and to have ordered that
all the utensils, which are now making in Paris, shall be
imported free of duty. As the whortle-berry plant
grows abundantly in northern countries, it is supposed
that the cultivation of it in Russia will materially injure
the French trade there in brandy and wines. It is ex.
pected by the Company that they will make 10,000 hec-
tolitres of wine and a proportionate quantity of brandy
every year. A Report on this discovery will, it is said,
be made at one of the early sittings of the Academy of
Sciences.
A letter from Bamberg, in B Lvaria, announces that
the Jeanne d'Arc steamboat. arrived there on the 15th
inst., being the first that leas ever navigated the Maine
and the Regnitz. She came to an anchor at the mouth
of the Louis Canal, which is nearly completed, and will
join the Maine with the Danube, amidst salvos of artil-
lery and the shouts of the assembled multitude. A gratid
public dihner was given on the occasion., and in the even-
ing there were fireworks and a general illumination.
The Rhine, the Maine, the Regnitz, and the Moselle are
now regularly traversed by steamboats, concentrating in
the Louis Canal, at the point of junction of the Bavarian
and Saxon Railroads.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 23.—The
business during the past week has been so trifling that it
is impossible to give quotations—in fact both buyers and
sellers are waiting till after the Christmas holidays. The
offices will be closed to-morrow and remain so until
Tuesday, the 4th of Jahuary.— Western Times