The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-26 00:00:00

;SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Ott t~ Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The King of the French went on Monday to St. Cloud, to
inspect the works going on at that residence. 11i5 Majesty
will in a few days come to the Tuileries, where the Royal
Family will stay during the, fetes of July. An excursion of
some days to the Chateau of Bizv is spokcu of; and it is said
that afterwards will take place the journey to Eu.
The Chamber of Peers have adopted the Central Railroad
Bill, by 69 rotes to 25. The Deputies on Monday were occupied
with reports on petitions, which were generally without in-
terest. As the hon. members adjourned without any day
being fixed fur their next sitting, their labours for the session
ma-v be looked on as terminated.
The electoral College of Besancon has just returned M.
Magnoucourt, the Conservative candidate, to the Chamber of
Deputies. M. Magnoncourt had 175 votes ; his opponent, M.
Couvers, had 14-S.
31. Didelot, Procureur-General at Amiens, a Conservative,
has been elected for the college of Epinal, in place of the late
31. Con`-.

Letters from Bologna of the 16th of July mention that an-
other of the political prisoners, named Joseph Gardengbi,
who was condemned to death by the Military Commission for
the part they took in the insurrection of last year, has been
executed. A landed proprietor of the name of Mivelli has
been sentenced for ten years to the galleys, for granting an
asylum to one of the principal conspirators. This is the
seventh of the political prisoners who has been shot in the
back, that being the death of a traitor according to the Ita-
lian laws.

" The squadrons of all the Powers of Europe," exclaims
the Eco dcl Commercio, " are hastening to the coast of Mo-
rocco, and Tangiers is about to resemble a port of Palestine
in the times of the Crusades. God grant that we may not
act a most ridiculous figure there :"
General San Miguel and his brother have been imprisoned
(without accusation or trial), the one in Bilbao, the other
in Majorca.
A dreadful fire took place on the Ist inst. at Drontheim, in
Norway. Several streets and 12 public edifices are stated to
have been burnt to the ground. A similar disaster occurred
at Cronstadt, in Transylvania, on the night of the 30th ult.;
more than 90 buildings were destroyed. It is stated also, in
a German paper, that the fine market-place of Marienburg
has been burnt down.

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During the last month the consumption of meat in Paris
was 5,295 oxen, 1,023 cows, 6,773 calves, and 31,930 sheep,
being 747 oxen, 352 cows, and 3,710 sheep less than during
the month of June, 1843. The consumption of the first six
months of the present vear was 39,293 oxen, 7,049 cows,
38,511 calves, and 224,099 sheep, being 616 oxen and 3,740
calves more, and 1,452 cows and 9,526 sheep less than in the
first six months of 1843. In weight, upon the aggregate,
there was a reduction of 78,320 kilogrammes, or 174,7501 b.
English.

An explosion of gas, the consequences of which were
frightful, took place on Monday evening, at the porter's
lodge of No. 25, Rue Neuve St. Jean, Faubourg St. Denis.
A vent having opened in the pipe supplying the wine-shop
in the same house, the porter, whose lodge is very dark, took
a lighted candle too near to it, and the gas caught iire. Two
children of the unfortunate man were killed, and his wife so
severely wounded in the leg that she was necessarily carried
to the hospital.