The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-14 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.

The King of the French received on Tuesday in
succession delegates from the Chambers of Commerce
and Consultive Chambers of Lille, Turcoing, Roubaix,
Armontieres, Sedan, and Valenciennes. His Majesty
listened with benevolent attention to their represq-
tations of the alarm excited in these manufacturing
towns by the announcement of the projected Customs
Union with Belgium, and assured the delegates that
his Government would take into due consideration the
interests of all who might be involved in a question so
important, giving its utmost solicitude to every branch
of the national industry.
The King has decided, says the Moniteur, upon
keeping up the stud of the late Duke of Orleans, at
Meudon, taking upon himself the entire expenses of
the establishment, which he places under the patron-
age and direction of his Royal Highness the Duke de
Nemours.

The arrivals from Algeria at the lonian Islands have
hitherto been subjected to a quarantine of ten days,
both for ships and passengers, and of twenty-one days
for such parts of their cargoes as were declared at the
lazaretto to be suspicious. It has, however, been lately
decided that vessels coming from French possessions in
the north of Africa, with clean bills of health, shall in
future be admitted to free pratique in the lonian ports.
A new kind of railroad is to be opened shortly near
Dax, in the department des Landes. It is one formed
altogether of wood, constructed over the sandy soil of
that part of the country, for the purpose of removing
the timber of the immense pine forests which exist
between Bourdeaux and Bayonne. The line .is now
nearly finished.
The Reparateur of Lyons states that there lives in
that town a woman 104 years of age, named Maria
Platre, in full possession of her faculties.
The Memorial de Rouen of Thursday, announces
the total destruction by fire of the cotton mills of M.
Vallee, at Maromme. The loss is stated to be enormous.

The temperature at Paris on Wednesday was con-
siderably lower than on Tuesday. At six in the
morning it was at 22i Fahrenheit; and, at mid-day,
27 2-3 Fahrenheit.

M. Lenormand, formerly Central Commissary of
Police at Nantes, and afterwards at Toulouse, was ar-
rested on Tuesday at Paris, and taken to the Prefec-
ture of Police. He was condemned by default, in
June last, to a fine of 400 f., and civic degradation,
for corruption in the exercise of his functions.
The Swabian Mercury states that a Commission,
appointed by the Comitat of Oldenberg, to discuss
and report upon the question, whether it would be
advantageous to Hungary to join the German Cus-
toms' Union, has delivered an opinion that the mea-
sure would be detrimental to the interests of the
country. The Commission further recommends that,
at the next sitting of the Diet, the States should peti-
tion the Emperor of Austria to suppress the line of
custom•houses between Hungary and Austria.

MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
The north-west of Ireland, especially Donegal, and
the northern parts of Mayo, are now the scenes of
illicit distillation, on a larger scale than at any time
during the last twenty years, and a number of licenses
have been withdrawn from distillers on the ground of
defrauding the revenue.

N/I.V.A.X. AND YU LXTATLY.
Lieut. J. R. Welisted, Indian Navy, and the author
of " Travels in Arabia and the Red Sea," has just
died in India at the age of 37. He was for some
time secretary to Sir John Malcolm, Governor of
Bombay. He became attached to the surveying ex-
pedition in the Red Sea, and explored the island of
Socotra. He subsequently made a tour in the inte-
rior of Oman.