The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-25 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

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The Memorial de RoTte;;;TaTesiiiai the King and Royrl
Family are expected towrrds the end of next week at the
Chateau de Bisy, near Vernon. His Majesty intends (says
that journal) to visit- the numerous works which have been
executed during the last year in the chateau and its depen-
dencies. According to the Memorial,' the departure of the
King and Royal Family for Eu was to have taken place on
Friday or Sunday last, but the state of the weather pre-
vented t.
The majority of the Committee on the Budget has declared
itself in favour of keeping up the effective force of the army
at the number fixed by Marshal Soult.
The number of the four committees of the Chamber of De-
puties, on the Rail-road Bills, went together to Rouen on
Sunday last. Several of the directors and an engineer ac-
companied them, and explained to them the different parts of
the service. The journey was performed in ono hour and
fifty-five minutes.
The weather at Paris on Wednesday was uncommonly
fine, with a south-west wind. The quantity of rain that
had fallen within a few days was immense.
The Prefecture of Police of Paris has finished a statistic of
crimes within the capital and the Banlieu, which shows that
crimes and offences have considerably diminished in number
since 1831,- notwithstanding that the Banlieu in 1840 had
been enlarged by 135 pa,&ishes or hamlets, and the popula-
tion increased by 267,266 souls. The number of persons ar
rested in 1831 was 72,824, or about 200 a day. In the course
of last year it was no more than 62,477, or about 171 a day.
Of these, 31,670 were set at liberty by the magistrates, after
a short detention ; 26,171 were sentenced to imprisonment
for a few months or discharged on giving bail for their good
conduct. Out of 4,636 brought to trial before the jury, 2,455
were found guilty.
A letter from Nonancourt (Eure), May 9, states that for
the four or five preceding days a thick fog, resembling smoke,
and throwing out a disagreeable odour, had spread over the
country. The letter mentions that a potato crop is com-
pletely destroyed by it, and that fears are entertained for the

fruit trees. '• •
The Customs' duties at Marseilles, says a journal of that
city, in 1814, scarcely reached four millions ; in 1829, they
were twenty-one ; in 1837, twenty-seven ; and in 1842 they
exceeded thirty-one millions. - The number of vessels which
have arrived and departed has increased in the same propor-
tion ; in 1842 there were 15,771, the total tonnage of which
amounted to 1,620,000 tons, 520,000 only belonging to the
coasting trade.
We read in a Berlin letter of the 18th :—" Speculation in
railroads continues on the increase. The applications for
shares in the intended road from Potsdam to Magdeburg
amount to forty millions of crowns, whereas the capital re-
quired is only four millions."
A letter from Bologna of the 13th says :—" The Govern-
ment has just published the sentence pronounced by the mili-
tary commission against the second category, which com-
prises the persons imprisoned at St. Leo, and who are ac-
cused of having taken part in the expedition of Imola, on the
Bth of September last. By this sentence three persons are
condemned to perpetual imprisonment with labour, five to
twenty years, twenty-nine to fifteen, and one to ten.
LAW AND POLICE.
The case of Sir Augustus d'Este, the claimant of the Duke-
dom of SUssex, was opened on Thursday before the Committee
of the House of Peers by Sir Thomas Wilde. The further
hearing was postponed, without fixing a day for resuming it.
Thomas Callow, a young man lodging in King's Head-
square, Shoreditch, was charged at the Guildhall with being
engaged, with a person unknown, in smuggling a quantity.
of tobacco, whereby he had forfeited 100/. The officer seized
the prisoner in a cab in Swan-lane, with two sacks, one con-I
taining sixty, and the -other sixty-one packages of tobacco.
The value was 69/. 155., including the duty. The full penalty

of 1001. was inflicted.
Ellen Lindsay, a housemaid employed in Buckingham Pa-
lace, and Elizabeth Lindsay, a linen-woman, her sister, were
charged at Bow-street with stealing a quantity of blankets,
counterpanes, linen, and other articles of a similar descrip-
tion, valued at about 401., the property of her Majesty; and
James Lindsay, their brother, a surgeon, residing at No.
28, Upper Eaton-street, Pimlico, was charged with re-
ceiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen.
After a very long examination the prisoners were remanded.
Harriet Eleanor Pelham, and her natural son, Wilson Pel-
ham, were again brought up at Queen-square, to answer a
charge of cruelty and neglect to a lunatic named Brent
Spencer, who was under their care. The evidence given as
to the state in which the wretched man was found was most
revolting. Both_ the prisoners were required to renew their
bail, and further inquiries will be made. The lunatic is now
in.the workhouse. It is said that the Magistrate has received
a letter stating that Sir Brent Spencer left 6,000/. and some
valuable furniture to the present lunatie,which the anonymous
writer expresses his willingness, if necessary, to come forward
and prove.
Three fashionably-dressed young men, named Harris, Phil
lips, and Cummings, were fined 40s. each at Union-hall, for
assaulting a policeman, and causing an obstruction at Ken-
nington-gate, on the way home from the Derby.
Two men, named Margeson and Elliott, were charged with
breaking into the Lord Nelson public-house, in Gill-street,
Limehouse, where they wasted a large quantity of liquer, and
stole the contents of the till, and other property to a consider-
able amount. The evidence being conclusive, they were com-
mitted for trial.
COVET—TASTIXONABLZ.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert received
a distinguished circle to dinner at Claremont last night.
The invitations were issued from the Lord Chamberlain's-
office on Wednesday.
The Duke and Duchess of Montroie will give a grand
banquet in Bel-square, on Friday next.
The Earl of WiltonlV will give a grand entertainment to his
Majesty the King of Saxony, in Grosvenor-square, at the
close of the ensuing week. The Noble Lord was selected by
her Majesty as Special Minister to proceed to Dresden, to in-
vest the King with the order of the Garter.
Lord Cottenham entertained Lord Melbourne, the Dowager
Lady Holland, and a select party at dinner, on Wednesday
evening, in Belgrave-square.
Lord and Lady Newport arrived at the Hon. Col. Anson's,
in Hill-street, on Wednesday, from Castle Bromwich, Staf-
fordshire, on their way to the Dowager Marchioness Conyng-
ham's seat, Bifrons, near Canterbury, where Lord Albert
Conyngham and his youthful family are staying.
The Archbishop of Canterbury gave his annual entertain-
ment to the stewards of the Sons of the Clergy, at the
archiepiscopal residence at Lambeth, on Thursday. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge dined with his
Grace. The banquet was served up in the noble dining hall,
formerly the grand chamber of the ancient palace. In ad-
dition to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge (who
was attended by Baron Knesebeck), the Marquis of Camden,
Earl of Harewood, Lord Feversham, Ste., were the guests of
his Grace. _
The Duke of Buecleuch had a dinner party on Thursday
evening, at Montagu House, Whitehall-gardens.

MAUSCELLANEOI7O.
• Chief Justice Penefather announced, in the. Court of
Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, that judgment in the case of
the,Queen v. O'Connell and others, would be given on Fri-
day (yesterday).
A meeting of the printsellers and publishers of London was
held at the British hotel, Cockspur-street, on Wednesday
last, to take into consideration the very pernicious effects of
the various Art-Unions
:on. their trade. Resolutions were
proposed and carried unanimously, expressive of the evils
which, in their estimation, would probably result to the
best interests of art by the operation of such societies.
On Tuesday last the second meeting of the Committee of
Lady Patronesses of the Polish Ball took place at Willis's-
rooms; and the full attendance indicated very clearly the
great interest excited in the fashionable world by that enter-
tainment: Among the Lady Patronesses present, were her
Grace the Duchess of Leinster, the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Countess of Tankexville, Vis-
countess Palmerston, &c. •
Some further particulars of the late extraordinary take of
whales at Bantry are given in the Cork Constitution of Thurs-
. day. . Mr. Thomas Eccles,., writing from Glengarritf,
(18th inst.), says, the " capture consisted of about one hun-
dred monstrous fishes of the whale tribe, varying in size from
fifteen to thirty feet in length. As early as five o'clock on
Tuesday morning they made their appearance in this har-
bour." , The editor of. the, Constitution adds :--" Another
correspondent calculates, the number at 170. The hills were
covered with spectators, multitudes flocking from all part of
the surrounding country to, witness the sport."