The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-23 00:00:00

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The news from the Continent possess very little in-
terest. The weather, we learn, from all quarters, is'
beautiful in the extreme, with a certainty of a good
harvest, excellent crops, and a vintage unrivalled for
the last sixteen years.
The intelligence from the United States, brought
by the Belgian steamer last night, is highly satisfac-
tory. All the questions in dispute between the Bri-
tish and American Governments, _ we have every reason
to believe, are amicably arranged.
At Philadelphia, on the 2d instant, a serious riot
took place, in consequence of a collision between some
of the townspeople and negroes at a temperance festi-
val. A Presbyterian church was burnt down, many
persons seriously wounded, and some killed.
The French Session, which was opened on the
26th of July. has lasted only twenty-six days. In
this time the Chamber has lnid fifteen public sittings,
in some of which M. Laffitte presided, and in the other
six M. Sanzet, the President. The examination of
the validity of the elections occupied six sittings—two
were devoted to the contested elections, and to the de-
bates on the inquiry. The organisation was made in
these sittings. Lastly, the Regency Bills occupied
four sittings.
The Minziteur, of the 2lst, has no official part.
" The Duke of NeirlOUrS set Out, on the 18th, for
Strasburg, to inspect and review the troops assembled
•in that quarter. his ROyal Highness will go succes-
sively to the camps at Luneyille, Rocroi, St. Omer,
and Compiegne, to review the troops, which were to
form part. * the camp on the Marne, which was
countermanded after the death of the Prince Royal,
who was to have taken the cethmand-in-chief. ;The
Duke of: Nemqurs will arrive at Compiegne, on the
3d of September, and is expected at Paris on the 6th
or ith.

The Frogres, a Republican paper of the north of
France, 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
toits." M. Jules Favre, of the Paris. bar; defended
the Progres.
A, German journal, called the LatSenbat, gives
the following account of what it. designates as one of
thotie wonders .in which electrical chemistry is so fer-
tile :—" A. pupil of Berzelius, who was occupying
himself in Sweden with galvanic gilding, having used.
in 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 followel 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.
neighbours ; but the fanatical and ignorant peasants,
regarding him as a practiser of the black art, called
his laboratory the devil's workshop, and compelled
him 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
discovery to the manufacture of woollen cloth. We
may therefore expect to have shortly cloths of gold,
silver, and platina (for this mode of gilding is very
• durable), which will entirely supersede our present
gold lace and embroidery.