The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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POSIMION.

On Thursday the King of the French visited Ver-
sailles, but returned to St. Cloud to dinner. In the
evening their Majesties received the Portuguese and
Danish Ministers, the Minister of Marine, General
Ilecquet, the Prefect of the Seine-et-Oise, Baron Boissy
d'Anglas, and M. Martineau de Chenetz.
The pupils of the Polytechnic School, who have been
excluded from it under the new organization, have
addressed a petition to the King, praying him to take
their case into consideration, and to grant them his royal
and paternal indulgence.
In the session of the Council-General of the Seine,
which has just closed, the Members again declared,
among other things, their wish to see the admission free
of duty of lean cattle into France, and the duty upon
other cattle at the frontiers levied by weight, and not
by head, as at present. It also passed resolutions in
favour of withdra 4.ing from circulation the six-liard
pieces, tile better regulation of the quotations of the
prices of corn and flour, the improvement of the Louvre
and Carrousel, the speedy opening of the Canal of Sois-
sons, and the reduction of the rates of postage.
Baron Charles Dupin will, on Sunday next, at half-
past one, commence a series of lectures on the compa-
rative commerce of France and England, at the Conser-
vatoire des Arts et Metiers.

Several of the journals announce the death of the
Cu: 6 Merino, at the age of seventy-seven, at Alencon.
His death, it will be remembered, was falsely announced
some months ago.
The Engineer-in-Chief of the department of the Jura
has received orders to prepare the necessary plans for
making a tunnel through the mountain of the Faucille,
in order to place Paris and Geneva in a more direct line
of communication.

The Moniteur publishes an account of the gum trade
of the river Senegal for 1844, as compared with the pre-
ceding year. In 1843 it amounted to 517,000 kilos., and
in 1844 to 1,028,000 kilos., or nearly double.
The Constitutionnel states, that the busts of the five
deputies who proceeded to London in the year 1843, for
the purpose of paying their homage to the Duke de Bor-
deaux, were seized a few days since at the shop of M.
Je.iune, passage Choiseul. M. Jeaune has received ano-
tice to appear before the Court of Correctional Police on
the 27th inst., to answer for having exhibited those busts
for sale.

A letter from Naples, of the 25th of November, in
Galignani, says .—" Tho famous volcano of the Valley
of Solfatara, near Puzzoli, in the kingdom of Naples,
of which the last eruption took place in 1198, but which
sent up in 1807 quantities of boiling water, has been for
some days exhibiting the last-mentioned phenomenon.
The water which it now emits is strongly charged with
sulphur. It issues from the eastern crater, in jets of
about fifteen to twenty feet high."
The King and Queen of Prussia have left the Palace
Sans Souri for the Chateau Charlottenburg, where their
Majesties intend to reside until Christmas, and then re-
pair to Berlin for the winter. The King, it is asserted,
will leave at the close of the month for Hanover, to join
the King of Hanover's hunting party.
The Princess Dorothe4 Czartoryska, related to the
princely family of Ligne, Lichtenstein, and Dietrichstein,
and to many of the great houses of Gallicia, has just died,
at a very advanced age, in the Ursuline Convent at
Rome, where she has resided for many years.
By a royal decree, signed by General Narvaez, Zur-
bano and his followers are declared outlaws, and as such
are to be shot " without any other delay than that is
necessary to enable them to die like Christians."
A letter from Munich, of the 15th, says :—" A dread-
ful crime was committed here yesterday. Whilst Capt.
N-- was attending his duties at the Ministry of War,
his wife, only twenty years of age, and the female ser-
vant of the house in which she resided, were murdered.
A razor, with which the crime was perpetrated, was
found near them, and all the closets and drawers had
been plundered of their most valuable contents. The
man servant of Captain N—, who is suspected of being
the murderer, has fled."