The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF EWS

AND
Vitbltir Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

ro7E&Mitial.
The funeral of M. Laffitte took place on Thursday'
was regarded almost as a holiday at Paris.•
h COn'
The Patrie says, in allusion to the statement of t-e for
stitutionnel of a visit to the house of M. Latlitte to seare,avife,
state documents :—" The family of M. Laffitte, viz.. his ~,s,
brother, daughter, and sot-in-law, the Prince de la Moslo.lo”bo
whom we regret not having named amongst the persons bees
surrounded M. Laffitte in his last moments, have not _ll
disturbed in their pious grief by any step in the name °i-tte,
order of the Government. Asti) the memoirs of M. 001
and which are entirely in his own handwriting, it maY them
be conceived that no attempt would be made to car rY s;
off. We do ndt yet know what the family may decide
but what we can say, and as arising from the friendshiP,,iife.
which M. Laffitte nonoured us, is, that he read to us 21.`,,:30,
rent times some passages, principally on the events 01 lii,efe
and that there would be much cause for regret if they
not to be published." will be
Letters from Martinique state that the sugar croP - ottl
pretty good, but at Guadaloupe so much rain had fallen
it was feared that the crop wOuld be injured. atilt
The Lloyd Cettois states that tWo members of a tares to
house of Cette have absconded, leaving a defalcation I.°
amount of 300,000 f or 400,000 f. No„,
°
. .
Ancest, the ex-commissary of police at the Croix-
at Lyons, who had been condemned to hard labour `
ire,
posure on the pillory, by the Court of Assizes of the
befog't*
for fabricating forged notes, appeared a few days back ti
the Court of Assizes of the Rhone, the Court of Csssl
having broken the former judgment, the punishnlel
which he was condemned not being legally applicable Ocon,
offence. He has been sentenced to five years' solitarY
fin
Oement and exposure on the pillory.
fire bribe
last, at about nine in the evening, a „r
out in the workshop of a cabinet-maker at Lyons, ne'fitll
Rue Malesherbes. Notwithstanding the promptitude mot
which assistance was given, the flames spread With,%•s/'
rapidity, and reached the neighbouring houses and
shoot
yards. Before the fire could be got under, which was 00
three in the morning, from fifteen to twenty houses' scour
immense quantity of wood had been destroyed. T...,,116000f•
rier de Lyon estimates the total loss at more than sou, esiel
The Espectador, a Madrid journal, affirms that, in,„
tbi
to obtain 12,000,000 of rea!s, which were wanted t,:,(;befa
Royal family's journey, above 40,000,000 in paper lis eat"'
deposited at the San Fernando Bank in the way a sec e„i!
It appears that the deficit in the revenue amounts te,.!'
half a million sterling per month, and the Finance 0:0 t
is obliged to have recourse to the most desperate Ine„;011
raise even such small sums as are necessary for the 011."
expenses of the Government.
The Prussisn Gazette notices a report that a tresty°_,fl,b;
vigation has been concluded, and will be shortly ratio4o4
tween England and the Grand Duchy of Medd.% 01
Schwerin, nearly upon the same terms as that wincosll,
entered into last month between England and theiosis
Duchy of Oldenburg. In this new treaty England, lt„„
recognises the ports of the Elbe as ports of Meckleulstue•
741V1V AND POLICE. St
George Scott, apprentice to his father, appeareu„Aft-
Mansion-house to answer the complaint of James. r'"
Cutler, beadle of the Watermen's Company, 601,0!
with having in a skiff, on the river Thames, on Sune4
26th of May, at London-bridge, eight passengers,;7ool
skiff being licensed to carry six passengers only. "'r-
ot' 10s. and costs was inflicted. pert
John Williamson, the man in whose boat the childrefl2ol,i
drowned at London-bridge, on Sunday, the 19th•°foo.
was then charged. The Lord Mayor having been Ifibsti
that the inquest was still sitting, said that as in all P oft,,,
lity the.defendant would be a sufferer by the verdle
jury in the shape of a deodand, he should-limit the Pen
10s. and costs. • co!
Ellen Lindsay, Elizabeth Lindsay, and Jam Lin
Jaynes os`j
the parties concerned in the robbery at Buckingl.lo,-Vis.
of linen, counterpanes, blankets, &c. (the latter being.„o.li
I'l
with receiving the stolen property), were again broulA
fore Mr. Hall, in his private room, at Bow-street, „df
examination. The prisoners reserved their defence's' ,
committed for trial.
Edward- Youngman Cotton and Henrietta Siletsg
had been twice before remanded, charged with rou'asa
Driver, Surveyor to the Commissioners of Wood! to
rests, 8, Parliament-street, and also with setting n,rieleirerse,
house, were brought up, at the same office, and in gste,",i
palsy a man named Stephen Chandler, who had hello?
for for some time by the police, and at last YPPsn lend
be
Guildford by Inspector Pearce, of the A division, e
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Thornton, of the same, was also brought up with to
„ft
were again remanded. .g c 1,92
A well-dressed young man name eorge Bott, ‘`ncle"ei
at Marylebone, with having, with a dinner knife,,s°
little brother, Arthur Bott, aged ten years, and wilisget)
dreadful injury inflicted upon him is in a most sl3r,l,ifes'
dition. In a-fit of passion he had thrown the
``'brother, and it stuck in his back. He was remantAsiv
At the Middlesex sessions, the appeal of John
,04
of the persons lately, convicted before Mr. Ilsrt:oleepo."
heard, he being one of the numerous gaining-1W „if ~5.4
into whose " places of business" the police I3`tio
forcible entry, was postponed to the 10th of Jul'', t ss11)!:
of Queen's Bench having decided that the Cones s
power to determine appeals, except in quarter sess'a tbar
Clarkson, who appeared for the defendant, intimatew
was ready to meet the question upon its merits-
business of the Court was unimportant.
COUIZT—PASHIO3III.I3I.3e. slss
The Duchess of Kent is expected to. return to En'
the 20th or 21st instant.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and a Isrg, pr
el'
nobility, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their '
last evening, to witness the performance of 10'"'
Thillon, in the Crown Diamonds.
Prince. George of Cambridge, at the date of
tors, was still- at Corfu, and we believe his RYY°'ssri,4
has given up his intention of coining to England :.•
present season.
On Thursday the Duke and Duchess of Richt,'
tamed at dinner the Dowager Lady Templeir.ole, 11J 'is,
Countess of March, Hon. Miss Chichester, Lora I's, ••/
Templemore, Marquis of Kildare, Lords Algernon, 1!1'
and Wm. Lennox, Lord'Alexander Gordon Lenin °"'
Cox, C. Goring, and Hare. - e$
Lord and Lady Stuart de Eothsay and suite s,',-ters fl
to arrive at the end of the ensuing week from St. I,,e,hea,
in the Sydenham, Government steamer, dis„l?3 d fert
Stockholm to Cronstadt, to convey the Noble -1-)°;t
late embassy. Preparations have commenced !eon's:
ship's marine villa, Highcliff House, near Chris",_ Ohs
reception, as lie is expected to land at that ses7.aly
come to town during the season, his Lordships oesm
ing been for some time rather delicate. .5 of ,Por
Lord Brownlow Cecil, second son of the 3lartinc!lieroi,:oli,
has entered the army as Ensiem in the Scots Fn•-• ,1
Mr. and Mrs. Washington Hibbert gave g
on Thursday last, at their residence, 10, Gros ;idler{
the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl of Belfast, Lord
Lady Elizabeth Browne, Lady John and l'iaiss.A;ell4
Viscount Strangford, Lord and Lady Lovat an, dy firfy
Sir John and Lady Gerard, Sir Richard and 141 hrs Se..:
Colonel Wyndham, Hon. Mr. Smythe, and Mr. friends
which Mrs. Hibbert had a select part of,
ft'
evening. 414,61
PsTISCELLANEOII°' •storf
To-day is the anniversary of Lord Howe'sv,,lo, 10
French fleet in 1794. He took six ships of "
several. tab
e
o ee e$
On Friday a public examination of the childre tbe
School took place at the school-house in Grill, 0, 4
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bangor, vv. ith be
aminer, expressed himself highly gratified , Cl, the
ciency- of the children in the several braneofisse..,,lsti,s.
and particularly their religious instruction. fliesbe"oes, ts
sitors were the Countess of Powis, Lady 1,1 best J°,llel
Charlotte Herbert, Lord Clive, the Rev.
Rev. Hugh Hughes, D. Rowland, Esq., - cr.?'
:nefactors to the institution. r 1,513- 10'./
• on •
On Thursday morning the High Sheriff
and f d "off
proceeded to the County Court at Newtown, be 0 q5..,,v
the numbers polled at the late election, te,
t iper
Mr. Entwisle, 7,571 ; Mr Brown, 6,973; wai(' tbe
Entwisle was then declared duly elected, an ,tei
dispersed. strt"'isio
On Friday there was a meeting of.the
consider the propriety of postponing thu F 011,7 wlie"
sequence of the visit of the Emperor of linssld
. decided that the ball should not be postpone,•oteret,V.?
The annual meeting of the New Leal: road'
place on Friday, at the Company's lioivisier,:cr;fs:oipeiis;i:e,
mgs, Mr. Ross Mangles, M.P., in the chair. 11
Sir J. Pirie, George Lyall, jun., Esq.,
In consequence of the non-attendance of sua to 1r
to form a Court, the meeting was adjotir° oioff?
14th of June. laivetal•
i•
Haydn's oratorio of the Creation was g Sta
Exeter Hall with great strength and effectsi vocs.ley
ham, and Madame Caradori Allan were t,
ployed ; and it may easily be imagined th3;eve „gi
solos with which the work abounds were. Yi 001-I,As
excellence as rare as it is matchless• f
executed with the usual fullness and PoWe'.
crowded. Of
aSteit's"
TILE Ecrrr'sE.—Owing to the haz" 00.070
ill t"
atmosphere last evening from eight t f the co
very little was seen in the metropolis olisosiV
the moon. About the period of the 00 the (IV
washowever,very thente
nseffectsintense.
The
eitstawerr.
ge
asziesribilev,vesinstsoid?;l4roi
pointed, and what rendered the disapP° doe „co
thevio r
provoking, shortly after midnight
peared, and the moon shone forth
e1.1,-
brightness. •_ see -
Meetings were held last night lu_rrogo
the metropolis for the purpose of making4.oo,oAosefro,
great general meeting, to be held in 04'40 01.,;•
to protest against the sentence passed 0
ec'tre, ;,1
AMOUNT Or " SALT" COLLECIT,,, c 011.5
salt . ~ice4cli‘
sy
MosrrEm.—The precise amount of .whica (vss
Eton Montem, on Tuesday last, 011`1 captsinr '4B
vested in the names of the father of thenisisnoreoeefeji..Vl4
and the Rev. Dr Hawtrey, the heads,,-
is 1,3381. Is. Bd., being upwards of luo ,rihatio.eptio4,l/V
lected in 1841. This is the largest cc,:.fl'the Word toe or
received at this triennial festival, largest h°° ,i9' 4,i;11
"salt" collected at the Montem which v" their
105
presence of the allied sovereigns uP.°,nea aln° sal'sY
country in 1814. The suns then recel_N,,,,oh, e%„11)?, to 00
derstood, to about 1,5001. After then i''.,"revioll.! 4r,
were incurred by the captain on eipt 11,e:
last have been defrayed, the clear re
ri , A
about 700/.
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DETENTION OF THE WEST INDIA „J
day (Friday) afternoon the followinge
the General Post-office, St. Martin?-1,-,ust
branch offices of the metropolis : r -4,, of
Letters in time on the morning of the
01;140 1,11,41°1•611
Post-office, 31st May, 1844." .0 ; 11,45 t
...NOP $- _Age
DETENTION OF THE HON— ive
been reoe yr• ovl!
—The following letter has 1,„ so e ses. 00 0
" Admiralty, May 29, 1844. In r P. 7 at
iolfotwhirseqdual?;:isnia, tase,sisrteapiriecesenintintghe_th::!;.
oth;edrenevrt.a_
iarye6s.yr
by my Lords Commissioners of the spar be, sllise
you that every 'small vessel that_
1:;_
ip
sent out; but their Lordships hi, ":00"parpo_Ss /
Secretary at Lloyd's."
„yrs 'vie/
your Majesty'smst sohbiepd 8i
en. tilsienrcveaYintti,usli gn. 11:d 17°11.1 13A;1911.Cre:Oroteff
SUPPLEMENT GRATIS NV.- •,h s•- tip? 'e'' oil
Tthhee. L f
O'Connell
Ts
rojafithcoom_Dpiie'sreatticn.ht.epw.l.l`
2se.llcoopot:litbsoll iijo
Supplement with the Divalco O. nob ,Coii pi
full account of the proceedings i° 01;010,y lit'
close, including the sentence 1119911 tipPlefe,lll,oeli
the rest of the Traversers. T 11.1,500 iil.,01.11"C"
presented uniformly with those i:i.nary
and may be bound with them,ii list
asyleetjt
thus rendering the work perfect
without the journal_ 139'

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