The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-31 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE HUMBOLDT.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 31.

By the arrival of the Humboldt steamer off Cowes
this morning, we have advices from New York
to the 18th instant. The markets were dull. Cot-
ton had fallen 4 of a cent; sales small, in favour
of buyers. Flour brisk ; corn rather higher. Ex-
change on England at 110 to 1101. The panic had
subsided considerably. A democratic candidate for
Government has been elected in Pennsylvania; as
also in Ohio. The revolution in Northern Mexico
was rapidly progressing. The town of Reynosa had
been captured by the rebels. Several persons
were in custody at Syracuse, New York, on a
charge of rescuing fugitive slaves. Cholera had
broken out among the Indians on the Upper Mis-
sissippi. The steam-ship Illinois had been tele-
graphed at Staten Island, with nine days' later news
from California. Several overland emigrants had
been massacred by the Indians in the vicinity of
Salt Lake. The steam-ships Atlantic and America
have arrived out. The Washington having had her
repairs completed, sailed from New York on the
same day as the Humboldt.—Herald.

MANsioN-HousE.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress entertained a party of private friends at
dinner. Covers were laid in the long parlour for seventy.
Amongst the guests present were Mr. Justice and Lady
Talfourd, Alderman Watson, Alderman and Mrs. Hooper,
M. and Madame Kossuth, the Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land and Mrs. Thompson Hankey, Lord Dudley Stuart.
M.P., Alderman Salomons, M.P., Alderman Moon, Alder-
man and Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Sheriff Cotterill, Mr. Sheriff
Swift, M. and Madame Pulskv, Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. and
Mrs. Chaplin, Mr. and Mrs. belane, Mr. and Mrs. Garford,
Mr. Gilpin, &c.

SOCIALIST ANTICIPATIONS FOIL 1852.,—The Liberte
of Lille states that in a neighbouring commune there are a
number of violent men whoonly.talk of doing justice to the
Whites and hanging them in 1852. The person more pro•
minently pointed out to the vengeance of the people is natu-
rallo a worthy landowner, who every year expends in the
commune from 5,000 f. to 6,000 f. in charities of all kinds.
This gentleman, who had been informed of the threats which
had been made against him, went to one of the most violent
of these " hangers," who was at the time out of employ.
" Well," said he to the man, " why are you not at work ?"
" Oh, Sir," replied he, " I could have plenty of employ-
ment, but I have no shovel to work with—l cannot work
without tools. "What will a shovel cost you ?" " Three
francs ten sous." Well, then, here are five francs, with
which you can buy the shovel, and the remaining thirty
sous will serve to buy the rope with which you talk of hang-
ing me in 1852."

PREPAYMENT or LETTER% BY STAMPS.—On and
after to-morrow, all letters, except unpaid foreign letters,
must be prepaid by stamps. We take this opportunity of
cautioning the public against removing too much of the gum
with the tongue. One way to obviate this is, to wet the
corner of the letter, instead of the stamp. We believe that
the postmasters are not compelled to weigh letters ; but it is
probable that this will not always be rigidly observed, unless
too great a tax be laid upon the time of the officials by fre-
quent applications. To avoid the taxation of letters intended
to be prepaid, offices and counting-houses should be provided
with scales or apparatus for weighing the larger description
of letters. With respect to the ordinary letters, the evil of
the stamp coming off, or being taken off before posting, will
be best provided against by using the stamp envelopes. It
is not generally known that the ordinary red, blue, brown,
and green stamps can be used for foreign, as well as inland
letters.

THE LATE LORD LIVERPOOL.—This earldom is
extinct, by failure of the direct line; but the baronetcy,
being an older creation, descends to Mr., now Sir Charles
Jenkinson, late Member for Dover, together wiih the en-
tailed estates, which, we understand, amount to over eleven
thousand pounds per annum. Sir Charles has three daughters,
but no son. The eldest daughter is married to Walter Nu-
gent, Esq., late of Merrion-square, Dublin ; the second is
married to Richard Samuel Guinness, Esq., of Deepwell,
Blackrock, late M.P. for Kinsale; and the youngest to the
Duke de Montebello, late Minister of Marine of France
under Louis Philippe.

BEETROOT SUGAR.—The question as to the prac-
ticability of a profitable manufacture of beetroot sugar in
Ireland is likely to be brought to a test within a very short
time. It appears that about 500 statute acres of beetroot
have been grown in the Queen's County, which has been
contracted for at 15s. per ton, to be delivered at a sugar fac-
tory constructed at Mountmellick, to go into operation
about the middle of next montb. The sugar beet has not
hitherto been much grown in Ireland, but the result of the
season's experience is, that it yields fully as large a crop as
the common cattle beet, and that it will be a profitable cul-
tivation at from 103. to 12s. per ton. The return as regards
quantity is more favourable than on the continent, and the
relative proportion of saccharine matter i❑ the root is also
alleged to be greater.---Times.

WALKING ON A CEILING.—Some interest has been
excited in Pittsburg by the performance of Mr. M`Cormick,
who walks head downwards, on (or rather under) a blab of
polished marble, to which his feet attach themselves, as he
asserts, by atmospheric pressure. He made some six or
seven steps, the slab beingonly under nine feet long. This ex-
periment is said to be the result of many years of research
and labour, and involving philosophical principles, though
shoes are used, it is stated, with mechanical contrivances in
imitation of the feet of flies, which insects have heretofore
been the sole performers of this kind of gymnastics. A large
number of prominent citizens witnessed this and other expe-
riments of his upon discoveries of others. They resolved
that Mr. Dl`Cormick bei requested ;1s:0e:el
prosecution
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hair, publicscient coursescientific
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parches.—
of lectures in Pittsburgh, and that the meeting pledge them-
selves to assist him
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Ifroutreel Courier, Oct. 2.

The Assemblie National, which is one of the most
earnest of the defenders of the electoral law, has a
long article attacking the PRESIDENT of the Republic
for his change of policy, and attributing it to the
alarm and anxiety which are manifested.
There is another attack in the Constitutionnel on the
jury of the Great Exhibition, for what that journal
calls its refusal of justice to French exhibitors. The
Constitutionnel expresses a hope that the French Go-
vernment will reward by distinctions the deserving
exhibitors who have not obtained them at the hands
of the English jury.
The Journal des Debuts states, on authority of a
letter from London of the 28th, thatt Queen MARIE
AMELIE had summoned the Abbe MAILLY, director of
the French Chapel at London, to Claremont, to cele-
brate a solemn mass for the repose of the sonl of
the Duchess D'ANGOULEME, and that her MAJESTY
and all the Royal Family have taken mourning for
three weeks. It adds that the QUEEN has written a
letter of condolence, in her own name and that of all
the family, to the Count DE CHAMBORD.
The following is the last will and testament of the
Duchess D'ANGOULEME, writtten with her own
hand :

" In the name of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost !
" I submit myself in all things to the will of Provi-
dence; I do not fear death, and notwithstanding my
little merit, I trust entirely to the mercy of God, at the
same time beseeching Him for time and grace to receive
the last sacraments of the church with the most fervent
piety.
" I die in the Roman Catholic and Apostolic religion,
in which I have lived as faithfully as it was possible for
me to do, and to wbich I owe all the consolations of my
life.
" After the example of my parents, I pardon, with all
my soul, and without exception, all those who have in-
jured or offended me, sincerely praying to God to extend
them his mercy as well as to myself, and beseeching Him
to pardon all my faults.
" I thank all Frenchmen who have remained faithful
to my family and to myself for the proofs of devotedness
which they have given us, and for th© sufferings and
afflictions to which they have been subjected on our
account.

" I pray God to spread his blessings on France, which
I have always loved in the
_midst of my most bitter
afflictions.

" I thank the Emperor of Austria for th© asylum
which be has given in his states to my family and myself.
I am grateful for the proofs of interest and of friend-
ship which I have received from the Imperial family,
particularly under the most painful circumstances. I
am also sensible of the sentiments which a great number
of his subjects, particularly the inhabitants of Goritz,
have manifested towards me.

" Having always considered my nephew Henri and
my niece Louise as my children, I give them my maternal
benediction; they have bad the happiness of being
brought up in our holy religion. May they always re-
main faithful to it—may they always be worthy descend-
ants of St. Louis! May my nephew devote his faculties
to the accomplishment of the great duties which his po-
sition imposes on him! May ho never depart from the
paths of moderation, of justice, and of truth.
" I constitute my nephew Henri, Count de Chambord,
my universal legatee.
" I wish my remains to be deposited at Goritz, in the
femb of the Franciscans, between my husband and his
father. I do not wish any solemn service to be per-
formed for me, but only masses for the repose of my
soul."
The above will is followed by legacies to several
old servants, to the poor, and other souvenirs of
affection.

The Bourse was more firm than on Wednesday, with
little business doing. The Five per Cents. opened at 89f.
90c., and closed at 901. sc. for the end of the month; the
Three per Cents. closed at 55f. 60c.; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 8551.; Rouen, 560 f.; Havre, 2031. 75c.; Great
Northern, 4561. 25c.; Avignon, 2111. 25c.; Vierzon,
4211. 25c.; Bale, 150 f.; Bordeaux, 377 f. 50e.; Paris and
Strasburgh, 3481. 750.; Tours and Nantes, 2531. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Our. 30.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 16%.

GERMANY.
A new civil and military governor is to be ap-
pointed at Styria. The actual retirement of Field-
Marshal Count Vox TuuNN has caused general sur-
prise. The Count himself had not the slightest inti-
mation of it.
The Duke of BRUNSWICK has arrived at Vienna.
Field, Marshal HAYNAU has lost his wife, which
event gave rise to the sudden report of his death.
The Duchess DIANCIOULEME was to be buried on the
26th inst., at Goritz, by the side of her deceased
husband.
The Diet of Oldenburgh, which has been four times
dissolved by the GRAND DUKE since 1848, as too de-
mocratic, has just been renewed.
The elections took place on the 22d, and it was
generally supposed that the democratic party would,
for th.? fifth time, have the majority, The electors,
however, brought in a Conservative majority. The
GRAND DUKE will probably, therefore, obtain the
sanction of the new Diet to the modifications which
he is anxious to introduce into the Constitution of 1848,
and which the four previous Diets had steadily refused
to grant.
At Stutgardt there were sharp contentions in the
Chamber on the Budget. In the debate on the civil
list the members of the Left insisted that the revenue
of the Crown, and the royal appanages and pensions
to royal widows were too great, and requested to
know how much his MAJESTY considered it would
be possible for him to give up of his yearly revenue.
The Minister of Finance replied that the KING had
already in former years given up so large a portion of
his income that any further addition was out of the
question.
It was next proposed that the expenditure of the
KING'S household should undergo a revision. To this
the Councillor of State objected that since the sum
total was not too high there was no need to investi-
gate the individual items, especially for so long a time
back as the year 1828, which was the date proposed
by the Left. The following amendment was put
and carried :—" That the expenditure of the house-
held, as fixed in 1828, be submitted to the revision of
the Chamber."
The Austrian Lloyds, which is generally considered
a semi-official journal, has a long article on the state
of things in France, which concludes as follows :
"As for us, we have a firm conviction that amonsgt
all the pretenders to the chief magistracy of the Re-
public, princes, generals, or statesmen, none could
offer to Europe such good guarantees of order and
security as LOUIS NAPOLEON."