The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-03 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubttr Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

POREIGN.
The King of the French will embark for England on
Saturday evening, or Sunday morning next. The
Prince de Joinvilie arrived in Paris on Tuesday.
Count Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, has left
Paris for Charente Infkieure to perform the last duties
to the remains of his father. He will return to Paris
on the 4th.
The Session of the Greek Chambers was opened on
the 19th ult., by the King in person. His Majesty's
speech will be found in another part of the paper.
The Moniker of Tuesday publishes a table of the
price of corn, which regulates the duty on importation
and exportation of English grain and flour. The highest
is 19f. 92e. the hectolitre, and the lowest 16f. 19c. The
hectolitre is equal to 22 imperial bushels.
The Berlin journals of the 25th ult. give a long account
of the public entry on that day of the King and Queen
of Prassia. They were escorted to the Palace by the
civil and military authorities, and the population
all they passed uttered enthusiastic shouts of wel-
,coame, Soon after their Majesties had entered the Pa-
they made their appearance on the balcony before
the assembled multitude, who sang the national hymn
in chorus, in token of their delight, and in testimony of
their loyalty.
The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Berlin, of
the 24th ult., which states that the King intended going
to
Oscar, cud
Stockholm, to be present at the coronation of
.Ding
M. A. de Humboldt was to accompany him.
The Warsaw papers contain an Edict by the Kmpercr
of Russia, by which the division of the kingdom of Po-
land is changed from its present number of governments
Po-
to five.
This neve division is to be effected by the union
under the government of Sandomir with that of Kielce,
the denomination of the Government of Radom,
and Poldachia with Warsaw, under the denomination
gitstowe
()fly
4rsawt the Governments of Plosk, Lublin, and Au-
I t
t
o remain in their present state.
Count
tberg left Tri on the 16th in the
eanaer Mahmondi fo; e Athens,este from whence be will
anPr%'eetd br Syria, Alexandria, and the Isthmus of Suer,
and the Ifed Sea, to the East ndies and China.
the 4 Pajis Academy of Fine Arts awarded, on Sunday,
;vasgrana prizes of painting of 1844. The first prize
obtained by M. Felix Barias, of Paris, aged twenty-
wo ;
twent the second by MJules Levepoe n, of Angers, aged
y-five. M. Barias was a conscript, and was obliged
to loin his regiment, but received leave of absence, in
order to become a candidate for the grand prize. As
this gives the right of exemption from the army, he will
now be free.
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A.
ul melancholy accident occurred at Munich, on the
—t. little About 100 young females had assembled at a
fele at one of the convents, when a bridge in the
garden, over the canal, on which they were standing,
being rotten with age, gave way, and nearly thirty of
them fell into the water. Assistance was immediately
rendered, but two of the females were drowned.
The Basle Gazette states that M. Bayer, agent of the
French Company charged in the Valais with the works
on the Rhone, has lodged a complaint before the French
Embassy, of the brutal manner in which he was expelled
from the Commune of Granges, where he resided. He
was assailed with cries of----" No more French 1 If we
hare Piedmontes given us, we shall receive them with
leasure, but we hall drive away the French 1" M.
Bayer first applied to an executive Council, but received
as answer that the Communes were sovereign, and that,
in this circumstance, they had acted according to their
right.

LAW AND POLICZI. Sir Charles Williams, in the Bankruptcy Court, granted a warrant for the apprehension of J. Hunter, an insol-
vent,
who, having obtained his discharge from prison,
neglected to appear in Court.
In the Insolvent Court a rule nisi was granted, calling
upon Thomas John Husband, the landlord of the Gerard
hotel, Basing-lane, to show cause why he should not pay
in full the debts from which he had been relieved by the
Court in the year 1817, he being now in a condition
to do so.
A long inquiry was gone into at the Mansion-house, before Sir Peter Laurie as to the conduct of Mr. Sam
the surgeon, in causing a Dr. Tapley to be incarcerated
Ina lunatic asylum, and in detaining certain docum en,tass,
the property of the Doctor. The result was that
its v I h e
admitted that Mr. Salmon was justified in acting as had done, for the Doctor was undoubtedly mad ; and
for the documents, they had been handed over by
mr.
Salmon to the Doctor's brother-in-law.
hayt,
At Queen-square, Charles Lowing, of
rear Hounslow, was charged with haakinfigat
of
without a license, whereby he had incurred a penaltyf ctl
101. Mr. Bond observed he should Lice to be perfectly
satisfied satisfied in his own mind before he convicted unlit e_m
highly penal Act, in which no power was givoessehoi,. to
mitigate the penalty. As this was the first_
_. I tu sort that had ever some before him, ho should adihournit
for a week, in order to refer to the law books on
hist e
own
sub-
ject. Defendant was liberated on entering into
recognizances to appear on Wednesday next.
a
t
Mr. John Goodwin Barnah residing
y, No. 4, Sey-
mour-place North, Euston-square,
and
himself as an " author," was charged before wii
o Ilr. describedlt a tv- -
linson, at Marylebone, on a warrant, with a
inde-
cently assaulted Hannah Snelgrove, a pricett‘yinalgot warokiiiggirl, his servant. The appearance of defendant singu ar
• 1 in the extreme ; his hair was of extraordinary
shot
length, and from his chin a sandy-coloured beard
_
forth, which reached nearly as low as the top button of
it is waistcoat; he wore a white hat, and a shirt collar a /et
Byron ; his wife was present during the delicate invea-
tigation. The defendant, who is a Socialist, denied the
charge. The proeecutrie, however, swore positively to
the assault, and as neither of the parties had any wit-
nesses to produce, Mr. Rawlinson ordered the defendant
to enter into his own recognisances in 201. to appear at
the sessions, in the event of complainant thinking fit to
indict him,
Alfred Edwards, the young man charged with having
administered poison to a young woman named Jane
Gregory, which caused her death, and against whom a
verdict of " Wilful Murder" had been returned at the
coroner's inquest, was iplaced at the bar at Worship-
street, before Mr. l3rotighton for final examination on
the charge, and fully committed.
William Johnson, a well-dressed man, was charged at
Union-hall with stealing two silver table-spoons, the
property of Mrs. Jane Hubbard, a confectioner, in
Queen's Head-row, Newington. 13e had been served
with a bason of soup in the refreshment-room, and when
he left the Spoons were missed. The waiter, on going
into a pawnbroker's in the neighbourhood, caught the
prisoner in the act of pledging poons. A policeman
stated that the prisoner hadshaved off his whiskers to
disguise himself; that he was tried some time since, for
robberies of a similar description, convicted, and sen-
tenced to imprisonment. That since he had come out
of gaol he had commenced his old practices, and that if
he was now remanded, he (the policeman) had no doubt
he should he enabled to bring forward other charges
against him. He was remanded accordingly.
Ann Smith, alias Watson, alias Mary Anne Stow, a
dressmaker, carrying on business in Brand-street,
Greenwich, was fully committed from the police-court
A. man
of that place, on six different charges of shoplifting.
named Thomas Wood, about forty years of
ae, who was formerly a foreman in the docks, and
latterly a labourer in the employ of Messrs. Ditchburn
and Mare, at Blackr:all was fully committed from the
Thames-office ~on a charge of highway robbery. He had knocked down an old man in Bow-lane, and robbed
him of a bundle
and other articles.
001:7n1,---ZezasixioaaAlersaa.
The Duchess of Rent arrived at Frogmore House on
Wednesday evening, from Witley Court, at a few
minutes before seven o'clock. Her Royal Highness tra-
velled by the Birmingham Railway to the Watford
etatiun, and posted thence to Uxbridge, where the
Duchess's horses and carriage were in waiting to convey
her Royal Highness and suite to Frogmore. Her Royal
Dghness was accompanied by the Countess Josephine
Colonel Sir George Cowpe r
wratislaw, and attend by Lady Charlotte Dundas and
The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Edinburgh on
Monday.
The Duke of Wellington,
non. Cherie Arbuthnot, accompanied by the Right
s arrived at Apsley House, yes-
terday, from Walmer Castle, His Grace is not expected
to return to the Castle until after his Majesty the King
of the French shall have closed his approaching visit to
Apslethe Queen. Lady Charles Wellesley also arrived at
y House, yesterday, from the Right Hon. H.
Pierrepont's, Conhalt Park, Hants, to meet Lord Charles,
who 's expected to arrive to-day in her Majesty's suite,
in the Royal Victoria and Albert yacht, from Dundee.
.The Duke and Duchess of yacht,
and Lady Jano
l'i!r4emld have arrived at Caston House, near Maynooth.
rite Duke and Duchess of St. Albans' have arrived at
Brighton from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Mor-
ley, in Devonshire.
onHvvisedEoxecsdelalyency Baron Brunnow entertained at dinner
evening, the Prince and Princess Bashi-
vill, Baron and Baroness Gersdorff, Baron Talleyrand,
Count Jarnac, and M. Loganoff, to meet Count Nessel-
rode. The Baroness Scebach and Count Dmitry Nessel-
rode were also included in the circle.
This evening his
Excellency gives a farewell entertaiment in honour of
Count Nesselrode, which it is expected will be honoured
with the presence of several of the Cabinet Ministers.
Ma Excellency the Count do St. Aulaire, with the
Countess and suite, were expected to arrive in Man-
chester-square, from the Continent, to-day.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose have arrived at
Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, where their Graces will
receive a succession of visitants during the hunting season.
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton and the Misses Eger-
ton are expected to arrive in Belgrave-square on Wed-
nes
Pday nesorxt, from Worsley Hall, near Manchester.
rofes
magistrates Liebig is expected in Scotland soon, and the
of Edinburgh have resolved to confer the
freedom of the metropolis on that eminent chemist, in
consideration of his important discoveries in science.
rams c 3C2.31.21.211301/8.
The accounts from Dublin of the state of Lady Hey-
tetbury's health are very unfavourable, and but little
hoi e is entertained of her recovery.
On Wednesday a special meeting of the commissioners
of pavement was held at Gravesend, for the purpose of
memorialising the Home office to remove certain per-
sons from the commission of the peace for this borough,
ou the ground that they notoriously desecrated the Sab-
bath by employing touters in the Star Packet-office
(they being themselves directors of the Star Company)
on the Sundays during divine service. After an ani
m a
memori
end discussion a Committee aas appointed to draw
Cora the
bP
al to Sir James Graham for the removal
commission of Between Oxford-streetth e gentlemen in question.
and Holborn, the new line of