The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-07 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

John Edward Jones, who has been several times re-
manded on a charge of obtaining money under false
pretences, was brought up for final examination this
morning.
On one of the former examinations ➢lr. Henry
had said that if the Mendicity Society would prose-
cute the prisoner, he would not commit him for trial,
but deal summarily with the case.
It having been intimated this morning that the
Mendicity Society were unwilling to go to the
expense,
Mr. HENRY ordered him to be imprisoned for two
months. He hoped that on being liberated the pri-
soner would turn to some more honest mode of
getting a living.
The prisoner said he hoped something would be
done to enable him to do so.

Mr. HENRY had little doubt tbat if the prisoner
conducted himself properly in prison something would
be done for him.

The Mendicity Society are daily receiving com-
munications from different quarters respecting the
prisoner, and their officers expect to substantiate
other charges against him at the expiration of his
term of imprisonment.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
George Stewart, a young fellow with a very wo-
begone cast of countenance, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Hardwick, charged with robbing his
ready-furnished lodgings.
Mr. Charles Tomlin, 25, John-street, Fitzroy-
square, said about three months ago the prisoner and
his wife, accompanied by their mother-in-law, took
furnished apartments in his house. After they had
been there some little time his suspicions became
excited that all was not right, and he determined to
keep a sharp watch upon them. He subsequently
demanded the key of the rooms, which the prisoner
declined to give up, and in a few days after the
whole of them absconded. As they did not return,
or send the key, he broke open the door of the bed-
room, and on looking over the things, discovered that
various articles of bedding and furniture, worth
about 2/., had been taken away. He gave informa-
tion to the police, who succeeded in apprehending the
prisoner last night.
The prisoner, in defence, admitted pledging the
goods, but pleaded in mitigation that he was literally
starving.
Mr. HARDWICK remanded him, for the purpose of
allowing the constable time to find out where the
property was pledged.
BENEVOLENCE.—A sovereign was sent for the use
of the poor-box at this court, by a member of the
Travellers' Club, who stated that he had found the
.ime some time back in one of the rooms, the owner
of which has never been discovered.

SPEECH OF THE QUEEN OF
PORTUGAL.

The following is a translation of the Royal Speech
upon opening the Cortes :
" Worthy Peers of the Realm, and Gentlemen
Deputies of the Portuguese N ation—

" With the greatest satisfaction I see you today
re-united around my throne, to occupy yourselves
with the important measures which the interests of
our country claim from the legislative body.
" After the violent political troubles which for the
last two years had shaken the country, your re•union
in this place is a secure proof that Divine Provi-
dence deigns still to think of this brave and faithful
nation.

" Public and private calamities, a necessary effect
of civil wars, have for a long period afflicted all classes
of the State, and have injured or ruined establish.
ments of every kind. I confide in your wisdom and
patriotism that you will at onse occupy yourselves with
the necessary steps for ameliorating such evils.

" The Governments of Spain, England, and
France, concluded with my Government a conven-
tion, which was signed in London on the 21st of May
last year, for the purpose of putting an end to the
civil war.

" As all Parliamentary labours were interrupted
for a time, extraordinary measures were necessarily
adopted by the several Ministries. My Government
will give a full account of all those measures, in order
that they may be duly examined by the legislative
corps.

" During the critical situation in which the king-
dom was placed, the guarantees secured by Article
145 of the Constitutional Charter were necessarily
suspended ; my Ministers will explain to you the use
that was made of that suspension, in order that you
may deliberate upon it in such manner most conve-
nient and just to you, as you may desire.

" I have much satisfaction in announcing that the
Most Iligh has deigned to favour my family, and
blessed me with two Princes—the Infantes Dom
Fernando and Dom Augusto.

"I continue to receive from the allied Sovereigns
the most positive assurances of friendship. Espe-
cially it is fitting that I should mention to you,
that, in consequence of the late unhappy events, I
received from the Sovereigns of Spain, England, and
France, such powerful assistance as aided in the
more speedy termination of the war which desolated
the country.

"By the respective Ministers will be presented
the state of the public revenue and a budget of the
receipts and expenses for the coming economic year,
with the estimates necessary to provide for the
ordinary and extraordinary expenses of the State.
" I trust you will examine this important subject
with the care which it demands, and that you will
enable my Government to comply with the obliga.
tions which weigh upon it.
" Most cordially do I congratulate you on the ter•
mination of the public disturbances which for so long
a time have so profoundly afflicted the country. I
entertain the most lively desire that the horizon of
our country will announce the splendour of a new
era, and that we shall again have peace, order, and
the union of the Portuguese family. May your
lights, your zeal, and your patriotism, provide wise.
and useful measures. This is the important object
which the nation confides to you, and such are the
inmost and warmest wishes of my soul."

DIVIDEND DAY AT THE BANY.—The January
dividends will be in the course of payment to the public
on next Saturday morning, the Bth inst. The dividends
at the South Sea House and East India House will also
be payable on the same day. The undermentioned
transfer books will open as follows at the Bank :—Con.
sols, Three per Cents., on Tuesday, the 18th inst.;
Three-and-a•llalf per Cent. Annuities, 1726, on Tues-
day, the 11th inst. ; New Five per Cent. Annuities, ditto;
Annuities for Terms of Years, on Friday, the 14th.
The transfer books of East India Stock will be opened
ou Thursday, the 13th inst., and South Sea Annuities
on Friday, the 14th inst.
Marie Taglioni, who created so great a sensation
last season at her Majesty's Theatre, is turning the
heads of the German amateurs. Her success, say the
German papers, is unprecedented, and her improvement:;
quite extraordinary.
ART LOTTERIES.—It appears, from a statement,
the Art- Union Journal, that legal proceedings have teem
instituted to arrest the progress of art-lotteries,„ vitt,
having been issued for penalties in the form of actions.
for debt and costs.

CHRISTMAS BOUNTIES.—We understand Viscount.:
and Viscountess Cosnbermere have, according to their
annual custom, distributed beef, bread, rice, blankets...
and clothing, among at least 300 of the cottage tenantry
on his Lordship's estates at Wenbury, Newhill, Astons.,
Firth, Dodcot, Wilkesley, Burleydown, Combermere, ,
Audlem, &c., in Cheshire; and in the Woodhouses,,
parish of Whitchurch, in Shropshire.