The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOR.EIGN.

A letter from Athens, 30th ult., says :—" The
King and Queen set out to-day on a visit to some of
the islands of the Archipelago. They will be absent
ten or twelve days.
Letters from Constantinople of the 2Sth ult., an-
nounce that the Porte, in spite of the representations
of the European Powers, has established a purely
Turkish Government over the Maronites and Druses.
An ultimatum had been sent to Persia."

A new Governor is about to be sent out to the
French colony of Cayenne.
Ab-del-Kader, who a:short time ago was in so cri-
tical a position that he was wandering on the borders
of the desert with only SO followers, has now 800
cavalry and 2,000 infantry under his command.
Baron Fagel, the Minister of the Netherlands, had
a private audience of the King yesterday, to deliver to
his Majesty a letter from his Sovereign, announcing
the marriage of his daughter, the Princess Sophia,
with the hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar
Eisenach.

A small mosque is about to be erected in the Quar-
tier Beaujon, for the use of the Mahometans residing
in Paris.

During the week, from the 7th to the 13th inst.
inclusively, the number of passengers between France
and England, who embarked and landed at Boulogne,
was 1,239. At Calais the number during the same
period was 537.

On the sth of this month the English fleet was still
cruising between Malta and Sicily.
Rio de Janeiro papers to the 17th August had been
received at Pernambuco, previous to the sailing of the
packet. Everything there was going on well. Senhor
Beato Manoel, one of the rebel chiefs from Rio
Grande, had arrived at Rio, having made his submis-
sion. The elections at Pernambuco have terminated
in favour of the present Government, and as far as
they had proceeded at Bahia they were equally so.
Certain of the Paris journals, remarkable for their
hostility to England, appear willing at present to sup-
port a commercial treaty with this country, based
upon a concession in favour of the wine-growing in-
terest. The Constitutionnel, however, seems to con-
sider that the concessions should be all on one side,
and modestly proposes that it should be a treaty by
which the chief manufactures of France shall not be
injured, and that agriculture shall draw from it serious
advantages.

M. 11—affo, the Secretary to the Bey of Tunis, has
arrived at Marseilles on an important mission to the
French Court. It is affirmed in one of the French
papersthat this mission is relative to the intermin-
able question about Tunis, which is always on the
point of being decided, and to which the Ottoman
Porte continually returns with extraordinary obstinacy.
MONEY-TILADE-COMMERCE.

The shipping employed in the timber trade between
Liverpool and the North American colonies, and the
timber also in the same proportion, is expected to show
a decrease of nearly two-thirds before the termination
of the winter.

A party who has visited Cranborne, in Dorset,
during the last week, describes the parish as containing
2,444 inhabitants, chiefly farm-labourers, and all
dependent on agriculture. Wages are at present Bs.
a week, but that allowance is frequently reduced, and
all talk of a reduction. At these low wages Cranborne
has a redundancy of labourers, and many can find
no employment.
Large quantities of timber have, within these few
days been taken out of bond at Leith, by reason of
the new tariff, which came into operation last Mon-
day. Timber formerly paying 10s. per load, is now
cleared at ls.

ECCLESIASTICAL.
The Bishop of Jerusalem has been twice attacked
with fever, and his lady and household more or less
severely, since their arrival in the Holy Land. They
are now staying in an old convent, about two miles
from Jerusalem, for change of air.

MEDICAL.
The new Queen's Hospital at Birmingham has been
recognised by the College of Surgeons, and Frince
Albert has accepted the office of President.

LAW AND POLICE,
No less than 57 petitions from various parishes in
East Sussex were presented at the Quarter Sessions
at Lewes, held on Tuesday, for the abolition of the
rural police force. The new Parish Constables Act
is considered a sufficient protection.
Eleven men were brought up at Union-hall on
Tuesday, charged for refusing to break stones and chop
wood for four hours each, in return for a night's
lodging anti breakfast provided them in the Newing-
ton workhouse. They were committed for four days
each to the House of Correction.

James Andrews, formerly a policeman of the M
division, was charged at the Marylebone-office on
Tuesday with a daring street robbery, and fully com-
Mitted for trial.

LITERARY AND scuarrxric.
The poet Louis Tieck has been nominated by the
King of Prussia to the post of scenic director of the
Grand Opera of the capital.
COURT-TASIIXONAELE.
The Earl and Countess of Desart have been enter-
taining a select circle at Desart Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield are expected to
winter at Naples.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are among'
the numerous English fashionables who intend to
winter at Rome.

Lord Kelburne, M.P., left the Clarendon Hotel
on Tuesday for the north.
Lord and Lady Ponsonby have deferred their con-
templated visit to Brighton until the ensuing week.
Lord and Lady Mahon have been visiting the Duke
of Wellington during the past week at Walmer Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Cawclor have arrived on
a visit to the Earl and Countess of Harwood.
The Lord Great Chamberlain and Lady Willoughby
D'Eresby have arrived on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Buccleuch at Dalkeith Palace, from
Drummond Castle.

Lady Mary Leslie has taken a suite of apartments
at the Norfolk Hotel, Brighton.
Lord and Lady Evelyn are staying on a visit at
Balborne House, Fifeshire.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Count Rossi, the husband of Mdlle. Sontag, is about
to he named Minister Plenipotentiary from the King
of Sardinia to the Prussian Court.
A meeting of the members of the Voluntary
Church Association was held on Tuesday in Finsbury,
for the purpose of taking leave of Sir Culling E.
Smith, prior to his departure for the Continent.
Thomas Platt, Esq., whose death took place on the
Bth inst., and whose professional practice for more'
than sixty years has been of the highest order, was
admitted an attorney on the 26th of May, 1780. He
was successively principal clerk to Lords Mansfield,
Kenyon, and Ellenborough, Chief Justices of Eng-
land. He was engaged, among the literary efforts of
his life, in sharing part in the publication of the Flora
Grew Sibthorpiana, a work which has ultimately
reached ten folio volumes of great beauty.