The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-26 00:00:00

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POILEIGW.

On Sunday evening their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received the Neapolitan Ambassa-
dor and the Minister of Public Instruction.
The Marquis of Lansdowne and family have arrived at
the IL t:-1 Meurice.
General Bustamente, the President of the Mexican re-
public before General Santa Anna, has arrived in Paris.
The Presse gives the following as the official state of
the French navy :—lt consists of 23 ships of the line, 29
frigates, 379-24ths of ships of the line on the stocks, and
277.24ths of frigates, 43 steam-vessels, representing
a force of 7,340 horse power ; 16 or 17 of these are
ready for sea at the shortest notice ; 18 steam-boats in
course of construction, 18 trans-Atlantic steam-packets,
24 steam-packets of from 220 to 250 horse power, em-
ployed by the Poet-office in carrying mails in the Levant,
to Alexandria, Corsica, and England.—(These vessels
are not calculated to carry heavy guns.) The class of
seamen for 1844 amounts to 122,025 men, but of this
number only 62,000 may be regarded as able seamen.
The French Government is making great improve-
ments in the post-office. Since the Ist of the present
month letters of value or importance can be placed under
the more immediate care of the post-office functionaries,
with the privilege of paying the postage before hand or
not, as nsay be convenient. The towns on the line of the
Rouen and Orleans railway have two, and in some places
three deliveries of letters a day. The mile poste goes
from Paris to Genera in thirty-four hours, and with all
this, by a careful and wise economy, the expenses have
been reduced more than 320,000 f. within the last six
months, without impairing the efficiency of any depart-
ment. In the interior arrangement of the General
Post-office in Paris some very salutary changes have
also been made to insure regular attendance and
despatch.
The following promotions on the occasion of the
battle of Illy are, says one of the Paris journals, re-
garded as certain. General Bedeau is to be made a
Lieutenant-General, and is to succeed H. R. H. the
-Duke d'Aumale as Commandant of the province of Con-
stantine. Colonel Cavaignac, of the 32d, and Colonel
Tusuf, of the Spahis, are to be Major-Generals.
The Swiss Vorort has just made a communication to
the States of a note from the French Ambassador, stating
that a great number of Swiss who are utterly without the
Means of subsistence are continually arriving in Algeria.
The, French Government again desires to make known
that it does not assign lands to any persons who have not
the means of cultivating them.
A severe storm of thunder, accompanied with hail, has
visited Marseilles, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Bayonne, and
several other places in the south of France, where it has
done immense damage to the vintage. The vintage this
yeas- is very plentiful, and it is said that the wine pro-
mises to be of excellent quality.
The first annual grand prize in architectural design
bits been awarded by the Academie des Beaux Arts to
Desbussons, a pupil of M. Leclerc, and the two
second prizes to M. Ledru, pupil of Messrs. Huyot and
Lebas, and to M. Laisn 6, pupil of Messrs. lluv and
Lenormand.
Count Cancrin, former Minister of Finance of Russia,
had arrived at Paris, where he is to spend the winter.

The French Government is about to erect a statue of
Col Left at Rheims, his native city.

The German papers announce the accession of Bohemia
to the German Customs' Union for a period limited to
five years, and attach great importance to the event, as
completing the Zollverein on the east.
The sixth scientific congress of Italy is now going on
at Wan, and appears to be a very brilliant one. At the
first general meeting of the society at the Palace of
Brera, which has been set aside by the Austrian Go-
vernment for its use, the statue of the celebrated Cava-
lieri, the Galileo of Milan, was inaugurated. The Vice-
roy of Italy was present, Count Borromeo presided, and
11. Piola pronounced the introductory discourse. The
Meeting then divided itself into seven sections, which are
Presided over respectively by the Chevalier Moris, Count
/iambuy, M. Hasini, Prince Charles Bonaparte, M.
Taddei, and M. Puccinotti. The celebrated
Professor Orioli, against whom the Pontifical Govern-
ment shut the gates of Padua, has been allowed to attend
the meeting at Milan.
A letter from Jassy, Sept. 4, says:—" Our country
also is about to have its railroads. Prince Stourdza,
'who has invested capital in almost all the great rail-
3'oads of Germany, intends getting one constructed
from Zurin, on the frontier of Austrian Gallicia, to Gal-
lux, situated at the conflux of the Pruth and the Danube,
so as to pass through the whole of Moldavia, and to
form the prolongation of that which the States of Gal-
lola are getting executed from Oswieczyn (where one of
the branches of the northern line of the Emperor Ferdi-
nand is to end) to the frontier of Moldavia."
The Cologne Gazette states that the grand deputation
appointed by the Senate and burghers of Hamburgh to
decide on the question of the treaties for the navigation
of the Elbe has recommended their ratification.
The Grand Council of the Valais, in its last sitting,
adapted the new constitution by a majority of 53 votes ;
but tie first vote is reserved for the declaration of the
Primary assemblies, which are convoked for the 20th of
lieu month.

„yhe celebrated Professor Hugo, of Gottingen, died
w 4 the 16th inst., in the 79th year of his age.

LAW AND POLICE.
A man named Chanceller had his petition dismissed
from the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, because he
kod not accounted in his schedule for 121. which he had
!eeeived just before filing his petition. It appeared that
Ile had paid his attorney 51. of the money. An adjourn-
Inent was asked to enable him to sell his excepted arti-
cles and pay the 12/. into Court. The application was
refused by Mr. Commissioner Evans, who observed these
eases are a shameful robbery, sought to be committed
under the new Act, which I believe very few people can
exactly comprehend, but, such as it is, its operation would
,ne still worse if I granted your application.
Mr. William Thompson, a brush-manufacturer, re-
-4614;ng at Kentish Town, was indicted at the Middlesex
Sessions for a certain nuisance, caused by erecting a
sulphur-house for bleaching bristles and dying wood on
his premises, at Kentish Town, in the parish of St. Pan-
cl'as; and also for manufacturing varnish, fancy soap,
and other chemical combinations, thereby endangering
the lives of the inhabitants of that part of the neighbour
'hood, by inhaling the noxious vapours proceeding from
tthe said premises. The trial lasted several hours, and
at: half-past eleven o'clock the jury returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
kt Guildhall yesterday, a boy, twelve years old,
&naiad James Smith, was brought before Sir Peter
liaurie, charged with stealing a rabbit. Mrs. Berkley,
from whom the rabbit had been stolen, said that the pri-
soner was s poor neglected boy, and that she charged
tim with the offence not to get him punished, but to
gave him, because he was a clever, industrious, civil boy,
;bout to be lost because he was neglected. If there was
an asylum to which poor neglected orphan children
could be sent, she was sure no fitter object could be
found. There being a vacancy in the House of Occupa-
tion near Bedlam, Sir Peter signed an order for his ad-
raission, avd the boy was discharged, and taken to his
future home by his benefactress.
Maria Bayliss was fully committed from Clerkenwell
Charged with stealing a silver spoon and a silver fork, the
Proper of Mr. Augustus Ironmonger, a clerk in the house
of Messrs. Rothschild, St. Swithin's-lane.
At Marlborough-street Abraham Myers, of Off-
% urt, in the Strand, was charged with having deliberately
stak'ibed with a large butcher's knife Robert Clayard, the
trop,ietor of the White .Bear livery-stables, Lisle-street,
Leieesster-square. The wounded man being unable to
attend to give evidence, the prisoner was remanded
until Sztn.rday. The affray originated in a public-house
VUarrel.
Mr. George Beck, a solicitor of Lincoln's Inn-fields,
told whose privute residence is at No. 19, Elm-tree-road,
,r,
John's-wood, appeared before Mr. Rawlinson, at
foar, ylebone, upon a warrant, which had been placed in
Sarin
hands of Whipp, the officer, charging him with
'',..Yring committed a violent assault upon Mr. Josiah
vlowes, a painter and glazier, residing at No. 28, Tho-
Inas.-street, Oxford-street. The defendant had, it ap-
Peered, broken his umbrella over the complainant's
head, being thereunto provoked by the complainant
having Nicked his little boy. The complainant de-
nied the kicking, but admitted that he had pushed the
boy away because he had daubed some paint, at which
the complain .ant was at work. It also appeared that
complainant bad. while defendant was plying his um-
'scene, returned the compliment with his paint brush, and
IPointed defendant's whiskers white. As there was much
conflicting testimony the magistrate left the complainant
top to the session if he thought fit.
James Lewis, a journeyman shoemaker, and Sarah
staytoan, alias Lewis, a young woman with whom he
out cohabited charged with having deserted their male
infant, six weeks old, which had since died in the
'workhouse attached to the Stepney union, at Wapping,
were fully committed for trial.
Several men belonging to the British Legion, late in
the service of the Queen of Spain, applied at Lambeth-
street for assistance. They had large sums due from the
Spanish Government, but could not get their claims liqui-
dated, and were starving. Mr. Henry observed that
something must be done in the case, and requested Mr.
liughes to relieve them in his parish, and he would send
on officer with the others to their respective parishes to
`do something for their future relief.

00171111r-rAsinowanmz.
.The Duke of Wellington is expected to leave Walmer
Cita,tle early in the week after next for Apsley House,
et.* route to participate in the approaching splendid fes-
tivities at Windsor Castle, in honour of the visit of his
Majesty the King of the French. The Marquis and
Marchioness of Douro have arrived at the Castle from
Is tour of six weeks in Germany, and shortly come to
town to attend the nuptials of her Ladyship's cousin,
Miss Hope Yore, with Lord Loftus, eldest son of the
Marquis of Ely, which are fixed to take place the week
after next.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Au-
gusta Somerset arc expected to return to Arlington-
street from Badminton on Tuesday next, for a day or
two. The alliance between Lady Augusta Somerset and
Baron Nieumann is expected to take place in the course
iof the ensuing month.
The Dow agar Countess of Pembroke and the Earl
QUO Countess of Clanwilliam, who are making a tour in
tiern:any, are not expected to return home until early in
Novell:oer.
The Countess of Glengall and family are prolonging
their sojourn at Brighton. The Noble Earl is in Ireland.
The Earl axid Countess of Eldon, and the youthful
l'adiee Scott, who are on a visit to the Dowager Lady
Faversham. on the West Cliff, at Scarborough, are not
41.1Peeted to return to Ilamilton-place until the end of the