The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

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The King of the French will embark for England,r:
Saturday evening, or Sunday morning next.
Prince de Joinville arrived in Paris on' Tuesday. w
Count Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, hes-
Paris for Charente Infillieure to perform the last deti;%
to the remains of his father. He will return to pad
on the 4th.
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The Session of the Greek Chambers was .opened
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the 19th ult., by the King in person. His Majest)
speech will be found in another part of the paper. 1,4
The Moniteur of Tuesday publishes -a table of tP
price of corn, which regulates the duty on irnportal
high
is exportation of English grain and flour. The hicli
is 19f. 920. the hectolitre, and the lowest 19f. 19c. ym
hectolitre is equal to 21 imperial bushels.
The Berlin jouruals of the 25th ult. give a long nee°,
of the public entry on that day of the King and Queei tb
of Prussia. They were escorted to the Palace by :00
civil and military authorities, and the pop-2101A;
as they passed uttered enthusiastic shouts of t,
come. Soon after their Majesties had entered the 1";
lace, they made their appearance on the balcony hero;
the assembled multitude, who sang the national hrigi
in chorus, in token of their delight, and in testimoe/
their loyalty.
The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Berlin, ,d
the 24th ult., which states that the King intended g.,..4014
to Stockholm, to be present at the coronation of
Oscar, and M. A. de Humboldt was to accompany him'
The Warsaw papers contain an Edict by the EroPe
of Russia, by which the division of the kingdom of I„",
land is changed from its present number of governnie':;
to five. This new division is to be effected by the uni'
of the government of Sandomir with that of Fliel,c4
under the denomination of the Government of Rader,
and of Poldachia with Warsaw, under the denorninatv
of Warsaw; the Governments of Plosk, Lublin, and Aa
gustowo, are to remain in their present state.
Prince Waldemar of Prussia, travelling under the title,
of Count de Ravensberg, left Trieste on the 16th in 1.
steamer Mahmoudie for Athens, from whence he 116
proceed by Syria, Alexandria, and the Isthmus of See*
and the Red Sea, to the East Indies and China.
The Paris Academy of Fine Arts awarded, on SLOW
the grand prizes of painting of 1844. The first lois.
was obtained by M. Felix Barias, of Paris, aged twl
two ; the second by M. Jules Levepoen, of Angers, e ej
twenty-five. Al. Barias was a conscript, and was °Wig.°
to join his regiment, but received leave of absence, Ai,
order to become a candidate for the grand prize. lit
this gives the right of exemption from the army, he vi
now be free.
A melancholy accident occurred at Munich, 00 th:
23d ult. About 100 young females had assembled at
little fee at one of the convents, when a bridge in the
garden, over the canal, on which they were standil
being rotten with age, gave way, and nearly thirtf_ip
them tell into the water. Assistance was immediate',
rendered, but two of the females were drowned. ihe
The Basle Gazette states that M. Bayer, agent of 'is
French Company charged in the Valais with the word
on the Rhone, has lodged a complaint before the Fre° ej
Embassy, of the brutal manner in which he was expel
from the Commune of Granges, where he resided.
was assailed with cries of—" No more French 1 If
have Piedmontes given us, we shall receive them 110,
pleasure, but we shall drive away the French !"
Bayer first applied to an executive Council, but receli
as answer that the Communes were sovereign, and the
in this circumstance, they bad acted according to 01
right.

MAW AND POLICE.
grime.
Sir Charles Williams, in the Bankruptcy Court, el
a warrant for the apprehension of J. Hunter, an iss
vent, who, having obtained his discharge from prigs
neglected to appear in Court.
In the Insolvent Court a rule nisi was granted, cab
upon Thomas John Husband, the landlord of the Ge-
Hotel, Basing-lane, to show cause why he should not 11%
in full the debts from which he had been relieved by' !'O,l
Court in the year 1817, lie being now in a condip
to do so.
A long inquiry was gone into at the Mansion-bons:
before Sir Peter Laurie as to the conduct of Mr. So°9o'
the surgeon, in causing a Dr. Tapley to be incarcers
in a lunatic asylum, and in detaining certain documeno
the property of the Doctor. The result was that it am
admitted that Mr. Salmon was justified in acting as 0
had done, for the Doctor was undoubtedly mad ; Ando.
for the documents, they had been handed over by
Salmon to the Doctor's brother-in-law.
At Queen-square, Charles Lowing, of iistri'
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near Hounslow, was charged with hawking mt;l'
without a license, whereby he had incurred a penalty 4E,
10/. Mr. Bond observed he should like to be perfe°4
satisfied in his own mind before he convicted under 00'
highly penal Act, in which no power was given him e,
mitigate the penalty. As this was the first case of
sort that had ever come before him, he should adjournar
for a week, in order to refer to the law books on the soil
ject. Defendant was liberated on entering into Ma °
recognizances to appear on Wednesday next. • sof.
Mr. John Goodwin Barnaby, residing at No. 4e see
mour place North, Euston-square, and who dese„,ll
hisuself as an " author," was charged before Mr. onae,
linson, at Marylebone, on a warrant, with having itn:-„e
cently assaulted Hannah Suelgrove, a pretty locw;
girl, his servant. The appearance of defendant 'v
singular in the extreme •, his hair was of extraordiss
length, and from his chin a sandy-coloured beard su ,
forth, which reached nearly as low as the top button `l,,
his waistcoat; he wore a white hat, and a shirt collar a;
Byron ; his wife was present during the delicate inve
tigation. The defendant, who is a Socialist, denied tom;
charge. The prosecutrix, however, swore positivelY.t,
the assault, and as neither of the parties had any Irg I
nesses to produce, Mr. Rawlinson ordered the defendant •
to enter into his own recognisances in 201. to appear gin
the sessions, in the event of complainant thinking &S..
indict him,
Alfred Edwards, the young man charged with Wilt
administered poison to a young woman named Jsno
Gregory, which caused her death, and against whet% ,
verdict of Wilful Murder" had been returned at Lb.
coroner's inquest, was ,placed at the bar at Worship'
street, before Mr. Broughton for final examination oD
the charge, and fully committed.
William Johnson, a well-dressed man, was charged sge '
Union-hall with stealing two silver table-spoons, he
property of Mrs. Jane Hubbard, a confectioner, LA
Queen's Head-row, Newington. He had been serf
with a bason of soup in the refreshment-room, and vv l.°
he left the spoons were missed. The waiter, on VI
into a pawnbroker's in the neighbourhood, caught wo •
prisoner in the act of pledging tke spoons. A policeret,ti
stated that the prisoner had shaved off his whiskers
disguise himself; that he was tried some time since, Oh
robberies of a similar description, convicted, and On;
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tented to imprisonment. That since he had come ol!,
of gaol he had commenced his old practices, and that
he was now remanded, he (the policeman) had no doubt
he should be enabled to bring forward other charge°
against him. He was remanded accordingly. Ann Smith, alias Watson, alias Mary Anne Stow, ,
dressmaker, carrying on business in Brand-street
Greenwich, was fully committed from the poliee-cour",
of that place, on six different charges of shoplifting.
A man named Thomas Wood, about forty years ni
age, who was formerly a foreman in the docks, an:
latterly a labourer in the employ of Messrs. Ditchbur"
and Mare, at Blackwell, was fully committed from Oa
Thames-office, on a charge of highway robbery. gie
had knocked down an old man in Bow-lane, and robbed
him of a bundle and other articles.
COITILT—PABECCOI .8.131.12.
The Duchess of Kent arrived at Frogmore House on •
Wednesday evening, from Witley Court, at a fegt.
minutes before seven o'clock. Her Royal Highness to'
veiled by the Birmingham Railway to the Watford
station, and posted thence to Uxbridge, where die •
Duchess's horses and carriage were in waiting to convef
her Royal Highness and suite to Frogmore. Her Royal
highness was accompanied by the Countess Josepld°l
Wratislaw, and attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas an '
Colonel Sir George Cowper.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Edinburgh on
Monday.
The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by the Right
Hon. C. Arbuthnot, arrived at Apsley House, on Wed;
nesday, from Weimer Castle. His Grace is not expected
to return to the Castle until after his Majesty the Kia
of the French shall have closed his approaching visit W
the Queen. Lady Charles Wellesley also arrived at
Apsley House, on Wednesday, from the Right Hon. -t"L'
Pierrepont's, Conhalt Park, Hants, to meet Lord Charles,
who was expected to arrive yesterday in her Majesty's
suite, in the Royal Victoria and Albert yacht, fro"'.
Dundee.

The Duke and Duchess of Leinster, and Lady Joe
Fitzgerald have arrived at Carton House, near Diaynooth•
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans have arrived at
Brighton from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Dior'
ley, in Devonshire.

His Excellency Baron Brunnow entertained at dinner
on Wednesday evening, the Prince and Princess Radii"
viii, Baron and Baroness Gersdorff, Baron Talleyrandt
Count Jarnac, and M. Loganoff, to meet Count Ness°.
rode. The Baroness Seebach and Count Dmitry Ness!
rode were also included in the circle. Last evening hie'
Excellency gave a farewell entertainment in honour of
Count Nesselrode, which was honoured with the pre"
sence of several of the Cabinet Ministers.
His Excellency the Count de St. Aulaire, with the
Countess and suite, were expected to 'arrive in Man"
Chester-square, from the Continent, yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose have arrived a!
Selby Hall, Northamptonshire, where their Graces will
receive a succession of visitants during the:hunting seasoh*
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton and the Misses Eger"
ton are expected to arrive in Belgrave-square on We
nesday next, from Woraley Hall, near Manchester.
Professor Liebig is expected in Scotland soon, and the
magistrates of Edinburgh have resolved to confer the
freedom of the metropolis on that eminent chemist, in
consideration of his important discoveries in science._

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The accounts from Dublin of the state of Lady Ilec,
tesbury'd health are very unfavourable, and but Jill
hope is entertained of her recovery. •
On Wednesday a special meeting of the commissione f
of pavement was held at Gravesend; for.the purpose °
memorialising the Home office to remove certain Per,
sons from the commission of the peace for this boroug,,
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on the ground that they notoriously •d'f,secrated.the .95%
bath by employing touters'in, the Star l'acket-afic)
(they being themselves directors of the Star Compol.
on the Sundays during divine service. After an-sill~
mated discussion a Committee was 'appointed to dravt,
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up a memorial to Sir James,Graham‘ for the remove •
from the commission Of the itntlemen in question. p. •
Between Oxford-street and Holborn, tiwneW