The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-16 00:00:00

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PORMIGN.

The Royal Family of France will not leave St.
Cloud before the 6th of December for the Tuileries,
and the mourning of four months, which expired on
Sunday last, for the Duke of Orleans, is ordered to be
continued till the sth of December.

The Constitutionnel publishes a private letter from
Russia, mentioning that a number of officers, belong-
ing to the first corps of the army quartered at Moscow,
and to the division of Orenburg, had been arrested,
in consequence of the discovery of a conspiracy to
overturn the existing Government, and emancipate
the serfs.

The Cameleon, French war-steamer, arrived at
Toulon on the Bth, bringing, it was reported, dis-
patches from Alexandria relative to the rising of the
.ruses and Maronites in Syria.
The Chevalier Ratio, Secretary and Envoy of the
Bey of Tunis, was received by the King, on Thurs-
day, and presented to his Majesty a letter of condo-
lence from the Bey on the death of the Duke o
Orleans.

• Lord Brougham was received by their Majesties on
Thursday evening
The Monitcur Universal of Sunday publishes a
Royal ordonnance, dated St. Cloud, the 12th instant,
and countersigned by Marshal Soult, allowing the
opening of a subscription in the French army for the
purpose of erecting a bronze statue to the Duke of
Orleans in Algiers.
The receipts of the Strasburg and Basle railroad
during the month of October were as follow :-
153,040 f. for 66,698 passengers, 5,653 f. for luggage,
35,000 f. for goods, and 6,367 f. taken from the receipt
of Mulhausen and Thann line, making in all 200,000 f.
We learn from the Marseilles journals that on Mon-
day last there was a heavy fall of snow in that town
and neighbourhood.
It appears that 23,739 foreigners visited the waters
of Baden Baden this year, and that they spent about
300,000/. The majority were English and Russians
The Paris Presse contains a long article on the
commercial position of France, recommending com-
mercial treaties to the attention of the Government,
but excluding England and Belgium, as nations with
which treaties should not be made,

The Baron de Gerando, member of the Chamber
of Peers, and author of several works on education,
social economy, &c., has just died in Paris.
We learn from iga that the trade of that port is
daily on the increase, and that as regards the number
c, of vessels enterinc, and sailing from it, it may this year
be regarded as the first port of the Russian empire.
It is stated in a letter, by a Frankfort journal, from
Sweden, that all the brandy distilleries in that coun-
try have been abolished, and that a law has been
passed, ordering that the names of all persons who
get intoxicated shall be posted on the door of the
parish church, and that the clergyman shall put up
prayers for his reformation.
A letter from Vienna states that the postal treaty
agreed on between the Austrian Government and that
of the Grand Duchy of Baden is to come into opera-
tion next month. The negotiations on the same sub-
ject with Saxony also promise happy results. As
regards the commercial changes, it is certain that the
diminution of entrance duties on colonial produce will
profit consumers as well as the treasury.
MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.

The expenditure of the three British Mission Socie-
ties, viz. the Home, the Irish Evangelical, and Colo-
nial Missionary, amounts at present to 3,0001. over
the receipts, which are estimated at 11,0001. The
united Societies employ 227 missionaries abroad, and a
considerable number in the rural districts.