The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-24 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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The news from the Continent possess very little in-
terest. ihe weather,. we leant, from all:quarters, is
beautiful in die extreme, with a certainty or a good
hiiriest, excellent crops,' and a vintage unrivalled for
the last sixteen years.
the intelligence from -.the United States, brought
by the,ilelgian steamer. last night, is highly satistae-
All the questions in dispute between the Bri-
tish and American Governments, we have every reason
to relieve, are amicably arranged.
- • At PhilaiAelphia, on the 2d instant, a sericus riot
.tOok place, in .consequence of a collislon between >.ome
of the townspeople and negroes at a tenapei iffice
fish-
Va'• A Preshytei:ian church was burnt down, many,
seriously wounded, and some killed.
the French Session, which was opened on the
2,611 i of. July. has lasted only twenty-six days. In
tail glue the Chamber has had fifteen public sittings,
in some of which M. Laifittepresided, and in the other
aix ail, Sauzet. -the President. The examination of
the validity of the elections occupied six sittings—two
were devot:,d to the contested elections, and to the de-
bates on the inquiry. The, organisation was made in
' thee sittings. Lastly, the Regency. Bills occupied
four sittings.
The Mohiteur, of the 21st, has no official part.
" The Duke ofNemours set out, on the 18th, for
Sttusburg, to inspect and review the troops' assembled
.in that quarter. His Royal Ilighiress will go succes-
'4elto the camps at Luneville, Roeroi,' St. Omer,
and Compiegne, to review the troops, which were to
Lorin part of the camp on the Marne, Which was
countermanded after the death of the Prince Royal,
Who was. to haute taken the command7in-chief. The,.
buke, of Nernours will arrive at Compiegne, on the
8d of September, and is expected at Paris on the 6th
91' 7th. -

, 'the Progres, a Republican paper of. the . north of
ranee, was acquitted for the 28th time by the St.
Omer . Court of Assizes, for a seditious article, in
which it made -use. of the term " our Republican
"'Qs." M. Jules Favre, of the Paris bar, defended
- the Progres.
A German journal, called 'the Laliffenbat, gives
the following account of what it designates as one of
ttibie :_ „
those wonders in which electrical chemistry is so fer-
pupil. of. Berzelius, who was occupying
himself in Sweden with galvanic gilding, having used
to his apparatus the skin of a sheep, on which there
was some of the wool remaining, perceived that they
became partially covered with the gold, Struck
with the incident, he followed up the idea it suggested,
and in time produced an entire golden fleece, pre-
serving the wool in its original and natural state as
to its texture and flexibility. -Living in a. village, the
Young
.savant showed the wonderful production to his
t'eighl)oars • but the-fanatical and ignorant peasants,
;'!garding him as a practiser of the black art, .called
hl5 laboratory the devil's workshop, and compelled
''„itti to fly with his fleece to Upsal, where, however,
the members of the University established a new
laboratory for him, and aided him in applying his new
41seovery to the manufacture of woollen cloth. We
iay therefore expect to have shortly cloths of gold,
Bilver, and platina (foi this mode of gilding is very
durable), NV hi eh will entirely supersede our present.
gold lace and embroidery.

MONEY -TRADE—COMMERCE.
The Earl of Kingston has purchased several, packs
of wool, which he has presented to the poor on his
Mate : he has also sent to market potatoes every day,
ja order to reduce the high prices of provisions.

ELLCTIoNERING.

The nomination7d7tyTortiijT4
Hants Election
4 Tuesday the 23d, and the polling is fixed for Friday
Itlld Saturday.

• NAVAL AND isurarraitY.
The Ilords of the. Admiralty made last week a visit
,
('hatham
Dockyard to witness a series of electrical
qperiments under the superintendence of Mr. Harris,
Ufhibiting his method of defending vessels by means
lightning-conductors fixed to the masthead..
`evertd fine experiments were performed, and it ap-
Pears that almost every ship that has used them
abroad has been preserved from destruction by their
'Otiption.