The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-09 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

ilttbltr Optatten.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The accounts from Spain arc very alarming. Alicante and
it is said several other places had revolted against the. Go-
vernment, arrested the civil and military authorities, iihd-1
formed juntas. The Gazette is full of the most severe
decrees directed against the insurgents. The provinces of
Alicante, Murcia, and Castellon de la Plana, are placed:
under martial-law.

The examination of the Budget continued in the bureanx
of the French Chamber of Deputies. The seventh -and
eighth bureaux terminated the discussion on the Estimates
of the War and Finance departments, and then commenced
the Budget of Receipts. The other seven bureaux would not
terminate their labours until Thursday, or perhaps later. In
the eighth, a strong opinion was given in favour of the con
version of the Five per Cents.
A late letter from Philippeville (Algeria) announces the
arrival there of 200 military convicts, who are to be em-
ployed on the projected works at Stora. It states that the
spring, which in ancient times supplied Stora with water,
has been diScovered, with parts of the Roman aqueducts and
conduits, many of which are still in remarkably fine preserva-
tion. The letter states that they are to be restored, and the
water brought down again to the village.
"Foreign commerce," says the Echo de la Frontiere, " be-
gins to take advantage-of the Valenciennes railroad. A por-
tipn of the merchandise sent to France, either for consumption
or transit, and which formerly was. sent by Forbacb, now
comes in by:Valenciennes, and the commission agents of this
town begin to enjoy the profit arising from the opening 'of
this new way of communication with Germany.
The Seine has risen in consequence of the snow which has
lately fallen. Its level is now upwards of three feet higher
than what it was a few days back.

A few days ago, as M. Ouichard, mayor of the commune
of Villediere in the Cote d'Or, owner of the mill of Beaulieu,
was seated ;bout eight in the evening by the kitehen fire-
side, surrounded by his wife 'and three servants, he was 'fired
at through the window, which had neither shutters nor cur-
tains,.and two bullets were lodged in his back, by which the,
spine was broken. He lingered several days in great agony,
and..then expired.
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The execution. of Poulmann, condemned a few days back
Tor the murder of. the innkeeper of Nangis, took place on
Tuesday morning, about eight .o'clock, at the Barriere St.
Jacques. From the time of his condemnation the prisoner
testified an anxious wish to have it all over.

Dr. Marel LavaHee, in a communication to the Presse, on
the state of anatotomy in China, says :- -" The Chinese fre-
quently boast, and with justice, of their great advancement
civilisation,-but their medical men scarcely know as much
of anatomy as every unprofessional man in Europe. They
never inspect the internal organs, but leave all to the imagi-
nation. - As a proof of this, they conceive that there is a long
vessel descending from the heart through the perineum,
which directs the moral functions of the heart."

LAW

AND POLICE.

The case of Mr. Charles Mathews, comedian, came before
the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday. He returns his pro-
perty as nil, and his debts at 8,111/. He proposes to set aside
half his income, for the benefit of his creditors. The case
was adjourned.
At the Central Criminal Court, Elizabeth Todd, 55, spin-
ster, and Sarah Trussler, 36, spinster, were indicted, the
former for forging and uttering a receipt for the sum of 116/.
9s. 7d., with intent to defraud the Rev. J. H. Spry and others,
thetrustees of the Marylebone Savings' Bank, and the latter
prisoner was charged with aiding and assisting in the com-
mission of the felony. They were found guilty, but recom-
mended to mercy, the act having been committed more from
ignorance than with a felonious intent. They were sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment.
At the Surrey adjourned Sessions, William Hortsman
Richardson, a chemist and druggist, Maria Richardson (wife
of defendant), and Sarah Lee, sister of Mrs. Richardson, sur-
rendered to take their trial, charged with cruelly ill-treating
an orphan child of three years of age, at St. Paul's, Dept-
ford. They, were convicted only of a common assault, and
Mr. Richardson was fined 5/. and discharged.
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Henry Bailey, a constable, No. 7, in the employ of the
London and Birmingham Railway Company, was charged at
Marylebone with having been drunk whilst upon duty. An
important office was assigned to the prisoner, which was-to
turn the " points " at the Camden station, to direct ;the en-
gines in their proper line. He was, however, found drunk in
his box, and had a train approached in the meantime it:is
-impossible to- calculate the disastrous consequences which
inlet have occurred. He was committed to hard labour for
two months.

John Stevens, a silversmith, of John-street, Islington,
was
.charged. at Union-Hall with fraudulently obtaining
money of Mr. Folkard, a pawnbroker, in the London-road,
by means -of spurious ingots of silver. The investigation
excited considerable interest. Prisoner was remanded.

William M'Gregor and Charles Lambert were charged, at
Thames-street, with piracy and attempting to, create a revolt
on board the whaling ship Hester, belonging to Mr. Thomas
Sturge, whilst on an outward-bound voyage from London to
Desolation Island, in the South Pacific. The offence was
alleged to have occurred on the 30th of September last, the
vessel being at that time in the latitude of Rio Janeiro. The
case was remanded.