The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

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FORXIXGN.

The Ring of the French arrived at Dreux on Monday
evening at six o'clock, and was met at his entrance by the
great body of,the inhabitants, who accompanied him with
loyal acclamations to the Palace, where he was received by
the Prefect, the General commanding the district, the Sub-
Prefect, th fayor, and Municipal Council. His Majesty
reviewed thrislational Guards. In the evening there was a
grand dinner at the Palace. Next day he returned to Paris.
The Prince de Joinville arrived at Rochefort on the 19th
inst.' at four in the afternoon. On his landing from his ship
in a Royal barge, with sixteen rowers, he was received by
the Maritime Prefect and the Marine Staff, and attended
With all honours to the Prefecture, after being addressed by
the several constituted authorities. The next day the Prince
visited all the marine establishments and the hospital, ex-
pressing his satisfaction at the order in which he found them.
At five o'clock there was a grand dinner of 120 guests,
and in the evening a ball at the theatre.
Lady Marianne Erskine, daughter of John Francis Ers
trine, Earl of Mar, died lately in Paris, at the age of seventy.
The deceased, who was blind from her birth, had resided for
several years in France.
The marriage of the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke of
Tuscany with Prince Luitpold, of Bavaria, was celebrated on
the 15th inst. at Florence. It is said that the Duke of
Genoa, the second son of Charles Albert, and the Prince de
Carignan, are to marry the two daughters of the Duke of
Modena.
It is said that the Porte is about sending Fuad Effendi on
a special mission to Madrid, nominally to congratulate the
Young Queen on her majority, but really to treat of the ex-
ng differences between Spain and the Emperor of Morocco.
The Prussidn State Gazette publishes the budget for 1844.
The total of the receipts is 57,677,194 rix-dollars (the rix-
!foliar is worthabout 2s. 111) ; the expenditure is set down at
exactlythe same amount, being made to balance by an item
°'ll4ooo rix-dollars for unforeseen expenses. The War
'Part, !flea alone is down f0r'24,604,208 rix-dollars.
Accounts from Athens of the sth inst. announce the for-
Illation of the new Cabinet. M. G. Conduriotti had been ap-
tinted Minister of Marine and President of the Council ; M.
thatTcordato, Minister of Finance ; M. Coletti, Minister of
Soitancri°,..ri• M. Tricoupi, Minister for Foreign Affairs ; M.
The 3/hit,al, inistdr of Justice • M. Metexa, Minister of War.
had 'ger of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Public Instruction
not yet been named, but was to be chosen by M. Metaxa.
LAW AND POLICE.
n.Gore, the contractor for the cleansing of the streets of the
City of
London, appeared at the Mansion-house, upon a
summons issued by the Lord Mayor, upon his Lordship's
?Wn evidence, to answer for having neglecting to remove an
immense mass of filth from Puddle-dock. It was stated
that it was a public laystall, and that its state was most
horrible. The Lord Mayor said he should at once instruct
the City Solicitor to proceed against the contractor by in-
dictment.

A young woman, about twenty years of age, named, Susan
Doherty, was charged at Marylebone with having• stolen
Bank-notes and other property to a considerable amount, be-
longing to Miss Elizabeth Mary Hodgson, a dressmaker, re-
siding at 17, Old Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square. She
Was remanded till Thursday.
A case of a very novel and singular nature was brought bee.
fore Mr. Burrell, at Queen-square, by Skinner, an inspector of
hawkers' and pedlars' licenses, who charged Samuel Slater, a
man in the employ of Mr. Collins, at Paddington, with hawk-
ing hay for sale without a license, by which he had incurred
thet penalty of 101. The offence was proved, but it was alleged
part of the defendant, that hay came under the section
,„of the Act which allows victuals to be sold by hawking. The
Bench took time to consider the objection.
Thomas Cornell, a tall dark man, well dressed, was
man at Union-hall, with being concerned with another
"4411 not in custody, in robbing George Ford, a countryman,
of 1101. in Bank of England notes and sovereigns. The pri-
soner, who is well known as a frequenter of races and fairs,
end belongs to a gang of fellows named " magsmen," was
'<mtated for trial at the Central Criminal Court.
I George Ward, in the employ of Messrs. Cottam and Hal-
. en, the ironfounders, of the Cornwall-road, was charged at
• e same office with stealing some brass work belonging to an
iron lighthouse intended for the Island of Bermuda. The.pri-
loner was remanded.
action brought against Sir W. Gossett, Sergeant-At-
-178 of the House of Commons, was postponed till next term
"cmsequence of the Hines's' of the Attorney-General.
COURT—PAIIIIXONAB 36E.
stihe_ Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians and
..'e are not expected to leave Buckingham Palace for the
i‘ntihent until the close of next week. His Majesty's illus-
;tens sister, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, after
•htief visit to the Court of the Tuileries, proceeds, attended
• 14,...dY Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, to
CoCe, where her elder sister, the Duchess Julienne of axe
vurg. has been long resident.
k esterday was the anniversary of the natal day of her
4,,e_al Highness of the Duchess of Gloucester, aunt to the
cn who completed her 68th year.
three Earl and Countess of Erroll leaves Clarges-street, at
close of next week, for Slain'e Castle, Aberdeenshire,
Ire they intend to remain until the middle of September.
dhTrlee Dowager Lady Holland has recommenced her regular
r parties for the season, in Great Stanhope-street.
th.ct.- ..oerredband Lady Stuart de Rothsay are expected to arrive at
Ile mansion in Whitehall in about three weeks, from St.
urgh„ where the Hon. John A. D. Bloomfield, only
tia of:Lord Bloomfield, is accredited as Minister Plenipoten-
srir 1.!1. his Lordship's place.
t.; r Patrick Bellew, Bart., with his lady and family, Cap-
)11;:n Elphinstone, and other fashionables were amongst the
n:nlrkear:llys passengers who arrived yesterday morning, by the
nearner Antwerpen, Captain Jackson. The passage was re-
favourable, and was made in the short period of
e11,,,,!een hours.
pscount and Viscountess Milton, and the Hon. G. Fitz-
, yejarn, arrived in Grosvenor-square on. Monday, and left
• —erdaY for Milton, near Peterborough.

DIXSCELZAZTEOUS.
be 'he tradesmen of the Qucen celebrated the birth-day of
ie yby dining together, at the Freemasons' Tavern,
,"teat a-Qsuteen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, yesterday. The
-eeting was not comparatively numerous, and was presided
ilver by Mr. Dison, of Regent-street.
rpml'r°,ll a return, Presented to the House of Commons, of the
tber of criminal lunatics now under confinement, it
4V(Preear,a that there are 128 confined in Bethlem Hospital who
greeat eyuarged with various offences, the charge of murder
lard,ll l'reDonderating—there are 3 in the county of Bed-
bitrt,-4 cheater, 8 in Cornwall, 6 in Devon, 2 in Dorsel,.6
L4thet 411, 10 in Gloucester, 4 in Hants, 7 in Kent, 1i in
yl In-n. 4 in Leicester, 22 in the Metropolitan Licensed
khcf(:,/-".; in Norfolk, 2in Norwich, 4in Nottingham, 2in
1 in ‘s"' ') in Salop, 3 in Somerset, 2 in Stafford, 6 in Suffolk,
in y 1188 ex, 2 in Warwick, 8 in Wilts, 3 in Worcester, and 5
On T making in the aggregate 269 criminal lunatics.
tact, A uesday a numerous meeting of merchants and manu-
lit interested in the cotton manufacture took place in
repeatileille,ster, when a memorial to Sir R. Peel, praying for a
apto the tax on cotton, was adopted, and a deputation
lilted to wait on Sir R. Peel on the subject.
%J rareturn presented to the House of Commons, it appears
hZ are tell officers in the army receiving half-pay and
/Ailing besides Government appointments, for which they are
14:salaries. The receipt of the half-pay was .sanctioned
oke'r a recent Act, 6 and 7 Vic., c. 99, sec. 24. One of the
200t8 is a Judge in the Western District Court of Canada, at
o,thera.Year, and his half-pay is four shillings a day ; and ail-
-1144. is a Sub-Inspector of Factories, at 270/. a year, and his
fi.ll4Y is 581.105.
uesri
Der ,1-ew regulations respecting twelve post-office deliveries
for what was formerly called the Twopenny Post
(Neniet, ar co
which a
eto me into operation next monh in conse-
titlte4te oaf great number of extra hands have been
, On Thug and are now undergoing probati.on.
to4ti, day the annual general meeting of the London
ufliisb-iltiuti was held in the theatre of the Institution, in
iiiii,ttrY-circus, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., in the chair. Mr.
14.44,ttal Tite, F.R.S., read the report of the Committee of
pod tnent. The expenditure had been met by means de-
!.,r en:m/11 Previous savings, and there had been no necessity
;be ehrnents on the funded' property of the Institution.
I„eftvr'eirsts had been 3,6571. 4s. 3d. and the pay ments3,2B6/.,
he a balance in the treasurer's handsl9s. 3d.
funded property of the Institution amounted to 37,630/.

UNCLAIMED
u DIVIDENDS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Prom your observations on the Unclaimed Dividends
11,toontii aPpear, that you consider the list of parties whose
4a to unclaimed to be a sealed list, as regards the public.
lkZtr to undeceive you and the public, I forward you an
that 1, from 56 Geo. 111., C. 60, sec. 1, by which you will find
tk arliament has secured a right to the public to deinand
,`,le Directors of the Bank of England an inspectiori of
eu list d •
ate
thew rd during the
the usual hours of transfer. The following
sof Act ill :
.thrtnnediately, and from and after the sth of July, 1816,
itit,„%te Capital stock, in respect of which any annuities con-
_any part of the National Debt, are payable at the
kon; oAr -England, and also the annuities for years called
Itleis'lnnuities, and other terminable annuities, and upon
i;" no dividends shall have been demanded for ten years
de4Pwards, preceding the last day upon which any dill-
-14,4 null have become due (except where payment shall
shall restrained by the injunction of a Court of Equity),
14 a ue transferred in the books of the Bank of England,
the plAilela and separate account, to be raised in the names of
asd . rornissioners for the reduction of the National Debt ;
h
Neillnnediately after such transfer, the names in which
tpte.k stood previous to such transfer, and the residence
the dZeriPtion of the parties, the amount transferred, and
l'ept—'B of such transfer shall be entered upon a list to be the ahe Bank, which list shall be open for insection at
Usual hours of transfer." p p
Ilh- I am, Sir, yours, &c.
e°lllhe, April 25, 1844. R. W. D.
ostictittiCTlON OF AN INDIAMAN BY FIRE.—At
1
iti,..l.haif-past twelve in the afternoon of yesterday, a large
,4.4,,Which was being towed down the river from the
h°ll4)°clce, on arriving opposite Gravesend was discovered
teNin 00, fire, and an alarm being given, the tug steamer
41ile berge, made for the Essex shore, about a quarter of a
the Arel 9%, Tilbury Fort, where, from the rapid increase of
In the tit was found necessary, for the safety of the shipping
Slso4`tv'er off Gravesend, to scuttle the vessel as soon as the
ith- :18 °TI hoard were taken off. Various reports as to the
gita,„and destination of the ill-fated vessel were prevalent
ay a coa;?4Sidetable time before we could procure anything like'
Latent, not to say authentic, account of either. As far
tottiti_kei`uld ascertain upon the most diligent inquiry that
vin,,,°e in the name of the now sunken ship is the
f •
ape , 0 Liverpool, with an outward-bound cargo for the
' Good Hope, Calcutta, and Sydney, having several
cN4itt-e;gers for the two former places, and emigrants for the
it‘, Place. on board, all of whom were safely landed at
e,c,.tleed,nd and the opposite shore, soon after the fire was dis-
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et.. 4 and but a short period previous to the vessel being
444 • , Prom the conflicting accounts we heard of the
,40ere, ti.‘e lire, we deem it more prudent at present to con-
notic 'to the mere fact of the loss from such acknow-
ked •
admitted
41nceident and we a—oconfine ourselves to the
et the cargo ;ei one of considerable value, being a gene-
4, end to be in pert recoyered, as there is every
tle„,l4l4lit
it►itetssehaitlttilaile
to the
b.e, raised in a few days ; in-
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to he E
ht_iltred"to raeiseealsigeerox,. safety of the navigation of the
inadideep'entidlenT.t.i):o rompt measures should he
the partial preserve
ilaud
—RNA% M.P.—We have heard,
th niuei -11 N ooD,
pare t• regret
• line in that this gentlemsuf, iwho has been for
to „ indifferent health, has been ~ately attacked by
of s fri?,°lll4B.,°. serious_ a, character as
.to occasion much anxiety
he rt,°othwitrl. ood has sat since 1840 fur the borough
E -- Tunes.
iloett
art eufton OF RUSSIA.—We have reason to
the'l his Imperial Majesty the Emperor Pf_-'ll, the.
4,L7 to„._ arrive in this country on a visit to her Ito)e,sty.
'vat the'rae of a few weeks. The Emperor is expecttd
"e 9114 Week in May.—Tirnes.