The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-02 00:00:00

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rOItEIGN.

M. Laugier, a young astronomer attached to the
observatory of Paris, discovered about seven o'clock
in the evening of the 28th ult. the existence in the
constellation Dragon of a comet, extremely weak, and
without the appearance of a tail. At about ten mi-
nutes past ten o'clock, Paris time, the right ascension
of this star was 16 hours 41 minutes, and the boreal
declension 68 degrees 44 minutes. The right ascen-
sion increased in six hours by 3 minutes 33 seconds
time, and the declension diminished 20 minutes in the
same interval.
Letters from Belgrade of the 17th state that all
doubt on the result of the late revolution in Servia
had ceased, the Sultan having issued his Hatti Scheriff
confirming Prince Alexander Georgewitsch as Oberk-
nes, or Governor of Servia.
A letter from Berlin confirms the report that the
Russians had ceased to act on the offensive in the
Caucasus. The pretended plan of surrounding the
Circassians in their valleys was said to be a mere
boast, by which the Russians were endeavouring to
I mask their retreat. _ _ _

The Augsburg Gazette of the 26th ult. announces
that the Russian Government, considering the Con-
vention made with Prussia for the surrender of
deserters to be no longer in force, has given orders
to the'authorities not to receive any deserters or re-
cruits surrendered by the Prussian Government.
Prince Galitzin, Captain of the Guards to the Em-
peror of Russia, died at Paris on Saturday in his
fiftieth year.
The railway from Berlin to Frankfort-on-the-Oder
was opened to the public on the 23d inst.
No less than eight of the most celebrated composers
of Paris arc competitors for the vacancy in the aca-
demy of fine arts, occasioned by the death of Cherubini.
It is stated that the Ipsariots have abandoned
Greece. A hundred families of these brave islanders
have embarked at Syra, and intend to settle at Ip-
sara, thus making themselves Moslem subjects instead
of continuing under the rule of King Otho.
After an animated debate of five hours, the Com-

mittees of the Prussian Estates have declared that
they consider it to be advisable that a great system of
iron railways should be undertaken by the State as
soon as possible. The several railways proposed to
their direction, and the manner in which the State
shall take part in them, will be the subject of future
discussion.

P 17111.40 OPINION.
We quote the following from the Times:—" Wre
should be glad to be informed of the precise terms on
which the British American Association undertakes
to remunerate the volunteer agents who conduct on
its behalf the department of speculative emigrant-
hunting. A fresh advertisement,' through the me-
dium of the Lord Mayor's Court, has, notwithstand-
ing the publicity attained by the last announcement
of the sort, been put forth by the Society on Saturday
last, the most striking feature of which appears to be,
that the aforesaid British American Association for
Colonization and Emigration' pays nobody—nobody
whomsoever. Agent, emigrant, seaman, tradesman,
all stand in the same predicament; however they may
differ in their claims, their services, or their expecta-
tions, they are all alike unpaid. Complaints were
made both on the first occasion on which this Com-
pany figured before the public, and also on Saturday,
by tradesmen who had furnished the Company with
goods, and by seamen engaged in its behalf, that sums
of money, to the applicants considerable, were due to
them from the Association, and that they were unable
to procure payment."
The Herald, alluding to the trial of Alice Lowe
yesterday at the Central Criminal Court, says—
" This trial originated in a charge of felony brought
by the Right Hon. Lodge Reymond de Montmorency-,
Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency, Baron Frank-
fort of Galmoye, in the county of Kilkenny, &c.,
against one Alice Lowe, a girl of nineteen years of
age described in the calendar as a spinster,' but in
reality a recent paramour of the Noble' Lord. It
was a trial which (in conjunction with some recorded
and other understood facts that have recently trans-
pired) will not greatly tend to exalt the character of
the order' to which his Lordship belongs, and we
rise from the perusal of the details as much astonished
at the fatuity as disgusted with the immorality of the
right honourable' prosecutor."
The Chronicle says :—" A paragraph is going the
round of the press, stating, as a rumour in legal circles,
that Lord Lyndhurst will retire from the woolsack,
and be succeeded by—of all men in the world—Lord
Abinger. From the quarters in which this paragraph
has appeared, it seems that there are Tories who
would not be ashamed of such an arrangement. Still
we cannot regard it as more than a feeler ; an ex-
periment upon what the public will bear. Or, to take
a yet more charitable construction, it may be thrown
out to elicit such an expression of opinion as will
strengthen Sir Robert Peel in declining to make an
appointment which would he of so little service to his
Government. If so, we heartily wish the purpose
may be answered. This is a case in which we would
Fladly contribute to strengthen the hands of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers. Lord Lyndhurst's appointment
was not altogether satisfactory, on moral grounds, to
the more decorous portion of the Tory press. But the
splendid talents of the Noble Lord, and his services
to the party in the House of Lords, enforced some
sort of acquiescence. Lord Abinger has not a like
redeeming power and service to be pleaded on his
behalf."