The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubitt Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The funeral of General faTortool7llace on Saturday. At
an early hour of the forenoon the house of the deceased
General was filled with his friends and followers. Three
battalions of infantry, a squadron of dragoons, and one of
hussars, were stationed in the vicinity to form the escort,
and groups of people began to form by ten o'clock in the
streets in the neighbourhood. At a quarter past eleven
o'clock the body was removed to the church of St. Louis
(d'Antin), where mass was celebrated. At about half-past
twelve, the religious ceremony being over, the coffin was
placed on the hearse, and the procession proceeded to the
cemetery of Pere la Chaise, following the Boulevards from
that of the Madeleine to the Place de la Bastille. A con-
siderable number of Peers, Deputies, and general officers,
followed in their carriages, and a battalion of the 71st In-
fantry closed the procession.
The Bulletin del Exercito, a Madrid paper, contains the
following :—" The plan of the authors of the conspiracy,
recently discovered at Valencia, was to obtain by intrigue
some regiments of cavalry, and when the whole population
should have left the town to meet Queen Christina, to raise
the cry of alarm, and seize her as a hostage. This project
was discovered before it could be carried into execution.
Some of the conspirators are arrested, and, from the zeal of
the authorities of Valencia, we have no doubt that their
accomplices will also be secured."
The Journal des Chemins de Fer, alluding to the statement
of an offer having been made to the French Government to
provide capital for the execution of all the intended lines of
railroad, says :—" Several journals have mentioned an offer
made to the French Government by several banking-houses,
of an advance of 500,000,000 f., for the execution of the rail-
roads. This proposition, of which the Journal des Chemins de
Fer spoke first about a month ago, is made on the following
conditions :-3 per cent. interest, a centime per kilometre for
each ton of goods and each passenger, for 25 years, or half a
centime for the circulation when above a thousand tons and
1,000 passengers. The reimbursement at par in 25 years from
1860."

A letter from St. Valery-sur-Somme gives an account of
the loss of a foreign three-masted vessel, name Finella, but
of what nation has not been learned. She was driven on
shore off St. Quentin (Somme), and soon went to pieces. She
was of 400 tons, and entirely in ballast. All the crew are
believed to have been lost, as none have been heard of alive,
and the bodies of two white men and a black, in sailors'
clothes, have been found on the shore.

The King of Sardinia, on the 4th inst., assisted by the
Prince Royal and Duke Eugene de Carignan, laid the first
foundation-stone of the intended colossal bridge over the
Sesia at Vercelli. The Archbishop of Vercelli pronounced a
benediction OR the work, and in the evening the town was
generally illuminated.
The Toulonnais states that Vice-Admiral Baudin, the
Maritime Prefect of Toulon, left that place on the 20th for
Paris, and that a telegraphic dispatch had been received,
ordering the Minerve frigate to be immediately got ready for
sea. It is announced she is to receive an Admiral on board.

For some days back a correspondence has been going on
between M. V. Grandin and M. C. Laffitte, on the subject of
electoral manoeuvres with which the latter is accused by M.
Grandin, but denied by the other party. They have at last
agreed to refer the matter to a jury of arbitration. The gen-
tlemen chosen by M. Grandin are MM. Odillon Barrot,
Vivien, and d'Haussonville ; M. C. Laffitte has chosen MM.
Duprat, d'Haubersaert, and de Morny.