The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-21 00:00:00

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,The provisions of the late Duke of Orleans' will
are beginning to be knawn bit by bit. In one of the
codicils he wrote a most handsome eulogium on Count
Mole, and bequeathed to him an excellent painting by
Henry Scheffer, the subject from one of Goethe's
stories. Count lole has had the picture framed, with
the copy of the codicil in question.
Since the beginning of the year the duties paid on
beet-root sugar in:France amounted to 6,159,687 f. ;
la!st year, in the corresponding interval, they amounted
to 4,683,260 f.

The Constitutional of Barcelona of the 10th inst.,
states that the stage-coach in which the Catalonian
Deputies, Prim and Villaregut, were travelling to
Madrid, had been stopped at Pedragosa, between
Lerida and Fraga, by an armed band, who spared
the lives of the passengers, but robbed them of every-
thing they possessed.
A letter from Algiers of the 10th inst. states, that
during the preceding thirty-six hours more rain fell
in that city than during the entire month of Novem-
ber in any of the last five years.
Another Royal daughter was born to the Sultan on
the 18th ult. She received the name of Alige, which
means " Sublime."

The Journal de St. Etienne mentions the arrest of
the Mayor and secretary of one of the communes near
St. Etienne, on a charge of having delivered false
certificates, in order to exempt two young men from
military service. The young men have have also been
arrested.

The' Sentinelle des Pyrenees states, that on the night
of the 29th ult., 275 dozen of larks, which were on
their way to escape from the cold, and seek in Africa
a more congenial temperature, precipitated themselves
on the open fire of the lighthouse at Biarrite, and
perished.

The tribunal of Aquila, in the kingdom of Naples,
which had previously passed sentence upon about one
hundred persons involved in the insurrection of last
year, has recently condemned seven more who had
been subsequently arrested. One •of them, M.
Ruffini, of Rome, has received sentence of death but
hopes are entertained that it will be commuted by
the King.
The Cologne Gazette has Trieste letters of the Ist,
stating that the negotiations between Great Britain
and the Austrian Government, relative to the trans-
mission of the overland India mail by Trieste and
Venice, were going on so actively, that it was expec-
ted the first arrival from Bombay would take place in
January next.
The solemn promulgation of the berat of investiture
of the new Prince took place at Belgrade on the 4th
with great pomp. Emir Effendi was the bearer.
Prince Ghika quitted Bucharest on the anniversary
of his installation, namely, the 26th of October. The
new Hospodar will be the Russian General Kisseleff,
w'ho hal been naturalised.

A powerful party of Greeks and Catholics, it is
said, has been formed at Wallachia, with a view of
bringing about a junction of the three principalities
of the Danube, under the guarantee of the great
powers of Europe, and with a Prince of one of the
Royal houses at their head. The majority of the Ca-
tholics are stated to be desirous of having for Sove
reign an Austrian Archduke, but the Greeks and mi-
nority of the Catholics wish to have the Duke of
Leucht enberg.