The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-14 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
On Saturday evening the King and Queen of the French
received the British Ambassador, Lady Cowley, and Miss
Wellesley, the Turkish and Neapolitan Ambassadors, Nafi
Effendi, the Duchess de Trevise, Countess de Barcellos,
Count and Countess de Tracey, Marquis and Marchioness of
Londonderry, Lady Elizabeth Peel, Viscountess de Beuret,
and other persons of rank.
The Duke de Montpensier left. Paris on Monday at eight
o'clock for Africa. His Royal Highness goes to join the ex-
pedition preparing at Constantina, under the direction of the
Duke d'Amnale, Commander-in-Chief of the province.
The Patrie mentions a rumour that MM. de Lamartine
and Lherbette intend to submitt to the Chamber of Deputies
a proposition declaring that the Government shall in no case,
and without a law, arm the forts near Paris, or place artillery
or engineer corps in them ; and, moreover, that there shall
be no materiel of siege kept within a distance of at least
sixty leagues of the capital.
The editor of the France is to take his trial before the
Court of Assizes on the 21st inst., on an indictment founded
on political articles published in that journal on the 10th,
12th, and 29th of December last.

M. Nadau des Islets, member of the Colonial Council at
Guadaloupe, died last week at Paris. In the dreadful earth-
quake he lost his wife, seven children, and a sister. A soup--
only three years old, is the sole surviving member of this.
untOrtunate family.
The great quantity of snow which has fallen lately in Upper
Bavaria and the Tyrol has greatly interrupted the communi-
cations in those parts, and the couriers have been considera-
bly retarded. Some thousands of labourers are employed in
cleating the roads. The ordinary depth of the snow on the
Inspruck road is six feet, but in many places it is from 15 to
30 feet.

The last accounts from Spain announce that at Valencia,
Seville, Saragossa, Grenada, and Malaga, the inhabitants are
ready to make their pronunciamientos.
We learn from Berlin, Feb. 5, that the increase of pauperism
in that city has excited the profound attention of the autho-
rities, and that measures are to be adopted for the diminution
of this evil.

The marriage of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhai-
lowna with the reigning Duke Adolphe of Nassau was cele-
brated on the 31st ult., in the Imperial Palace, at St. Peters-
burgh.

L.O.V.T AND POLICE.
In the case of Muntz, M,P., v. Foster and others, relative to
a patent, which was tried in the Common Pleas, the jury gave
a verdict for the plaintiff.
In the new Central Criminal Court Thomas Seargent, aged
86ovas indicted for embezzling and stealing various sums of
money to a considerable amount, the property of Messrs.
Thomas Tucker Modsell, Smith, and Co., his employers. There
were five indictments against the prisoner, on the first of
which he was acquitted, and convicted on the second. In
answer to a question from the judge, one of the prosecutors
said, that for some years they had lost from 1001. to 200/. a
year. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for seven
years. It appeared that between 700/. and 800/. passed
through his hands in the course of a month.
At Bow-street, Mr. Luke Winton, landlord of the Crooked
Billet,-corner of Wych-street,,, Strand, was summoned before
Mr. Jardine, charged with permitting persons of disorderly
and bad character knowingly to assemble in his house, against
the provisions of the Licensed Victuallers' Act, 9th Geo. IV.
An inspector named Logan gave evidence against the defen-
dant, but the Magistrate dismissed the charge on the ground
that there was no proof that the character of the parties
was known to the defendant or his waiter. The house from
all accounts was most respectably conducted.
At the Greenwich Police Court, John Roberts, master of
the schooner Waterford, of Weymouth, appeared to an in-
formation, at the instance of Richard Gowland, master of her
Majesty's Revenue cutter Vigilant, charged with having
on beard two boxes of foreign cigars, and ten packages of
manufactured tobacco, the duties upon which had not
been paid. On the evidence of the master of the Revenue
cutter, Mr. Jeremy convicted the prisoner under the 4th of
Geo. IV., sec. 48, by which he had incurred: no penalty, but
imprisonment in the county gaol, for ,six mouths. .
A young man, of respectable- appearance, named George
Wheldon, was charged at Worship-street, before Mr.
Broughton, with having attempted to defraud the Eastern
Counties Railway Company of seven shillings, being - the
amount of fare for travelling in a first-class carriage from
Bishop Stortford to London. After ap inspector on the rail-
way hacrgiVen evidence in support of the charge, the 4e-
fendant-said he had only come from Edmonton with a friend,
and they paid one shilling each, and on lea'vingthe station he
gave the ticket to an officer. . He was arrested, however,
conveyed like a felon to the station-house, immured in a
damp cell until nearly three o'clock .in the morning, when
some of his friends arrived and gave security for his appear-
ance. Mr. Broughton called on the inspector to show the
authority under which he had acted. He could show-none,
and t
henwent and consulted his superiors, -who were in the
same predicament, and the defendant was instantly dis-
charged.
_ _• _ COUP.T-FASHIONABLE.

Lady Brougham has a soirée this evening at the residence
of the 11Toble and Learned Lord in Grafton-street. Invita-
tions for about 150 have gone out.
Sir Robert Peel's dinner party on Saturday next is to be a
very numerous circle of the Ministerial Members of the
-House of Commons.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons has
appointed the 9th, 16th, and 23d of the ensuing month for
his Parliamentary levees.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, and Lady
Alexandrina Vane, who has recovered from the effects of
her recent severe illness, are expected at Holderpess House,
from the French capital, soon after the Easter recess
The Dowager Countess of Leicester and Mr. Ellice, M.P.,
are expected at the Right Hon. Gentleman's mansion, in Ar-
lington-street, early in April, from Italy, for the season.
Earl and Countess Craven propose to prolong their resi-
dence at Coombe Abbey till the close of the hunting season.
There was another meet of the Atherstone hounds, at the
Abbey, on Saturday.
Mr. Watts Russell gave an elegant dejeuner at the Claren-
don Hotel, on Monday, on the occasion of the marriage of
Miss Watts Russell to the Hon. Captain Denman, R.N., to
Lord and Lady Denman and the Hon. Misses Denman, the
Dowager Lady Arundel, and a family circle.
The accounts received from Richmond yesterday, of the
health of Viscount Sidmouth, represent that venerable noble-
man to be going on as favourably as his medical attendants
could expect.

MISCELLANEOUS.
It was generally believed in Dublin, on Monday, that Mr.
O'Connell, with his two sons, the Members for Kilkenny and
Tralee, was about to start for London, in order to attend the
debate on Lord John Russell's motion on the state of Ireland.
Dr. Gray, one of the traversers, has resigned his seat in the
Repeal Association.
Among the multitude of advertisements of sales which
at this season of the year solicit the public notice, we regret
to see announced that of the library of Mr. Black, late editor
of the Morning Chronicle.
On Saturday about 40,000 mackerel were landed on the
beach at Brighton, and sold at 16s. per 100.
A new opera, entitled Riguigui, was last week produced at
Hanover. The plot related to the period of the French Revo-
lution of 1830, and contained passages arid allusions in rather
free terms concerning the ancient regime, as well as reflections
on the French Nobility in general. The King, who was pre-
sent, left immediately at the conclusion of the first scene, and
signified his displeasure at the production of the work.

ILL OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.—The
Judicial Committee of the Queen's Privy Council sat
this morning to hear an appeal respecting the will of the
late Marquis of Hertford, being an appeal by the Right
Hon. J. Croker against a decision of the Prerogative
Court, affecting a codicil for 100,000 dollars left to the
Right Hon. Gentleman. Lords Brougham, Denman,
Abinger, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and other
Judges, were present.
The Navy Estimates for the'years 1844-45, laid upon
the table of the House on the Bth instant, have just been
printed. As compared with the last vote for the finan-
cial years 1843-44, they result in an aggregate unusually
approximate. The "grand total "to be voted for the
current year, is 6,250,120/. ; the grand total for the last
year, was 6,382,990/. ; so that there is a reduction in
the present estimate for the navy, from their amount for
1843-44, of 132,8701. For the current year the total
for the Effective Service is estimated at 4,004,7581.; for
the Non-Effective, 1,398,6511. ; total for the Naval Ser-
vice, 5,403,409/. For the services of other departments,
846,711/. ; together, 6,250,1201. The chief items of

these estimates are—Wages, 1,170,476/. (Service afloat,
23,500 seamen, 2,000 boys, 4,500 Royal Marines ; ser-
vice on shore, 6,000 Royal Marines); Victuals, 544,9601.;
Admiralty Office, 126,8261. ; Registry of Merchant
Seamen, 2,980/. ; Scientific Branch, 38,076/ ; her Ma-
jesty's Establishments at Home, 127,9271., and Abroad,
22,4261. ; Wages to Artificers at Home, 649,1041. e". Ditto
Abroad, 42,080/. ; Naval Stores for Building and Re-
pairs of Ships, Docks, &c., 1,053,965/. ; New Works,
293,866/. ; Medicines and Medical Stores, 20,165/. ;
Miscellaneous Services, 61,630/. Half-pay ; namely,
to Officers of the Navy and Royal Marines, 742,296/. •,
Military Pensions and Allowances, 4.95,6261. ; Civil
Pensions and Allowances, 162,959/. The Estimates for
" Services of other Departments of the Government"
comprise, Army and Ordnance Departments (per Con-
veyance of Troops), 160,890/ ; Home Department
(Convict Service), 96,5271. ; and Post Office Depart-
ment (Contract Packet Service), 432,541/.

FATAL OCCURRENCE AT L
incautiously
Tues-
day several young persons having ventured upon
the ice on the Kirk Loch, for the purpose of skating and
amusement, it unfortunately gave way, when no less than
five of them were precipitated int 6 the water, three of whom,
melancholy to relate, were drowned, the other two having
with great difficulty succeeded in getting out. The unfortu-
nate youths that have perished are, a son of Mr. Paterson, of
Locherbriggs, a boarder at the public school here, a son of
William Gibson, slater,- and the other a son of Mr. William
Harkness, and a brother of the two lads who were saved.—
Dumfries Standard.
THE FRENCH ACADEMY.—Since its foundation,
the French Academy has reckoned 373 members, amongst
whom there were 1 prince of the blood, 13 cardinals, 4 arch-
bishops, 6 marshals of France, 20 Ministers of State, 15 pre-
ceptors of Princes, and a multitude of other dignitaries. Of
these 373, 30 were distinguished men, such as Corneille,
Racine, La Fontaine, Bossuet, Boileau, Fenelon, Voltaire,
Montesquieu, Labruyere, Buffon, d'Alembert, Cuvier, Casimir,
Delavigne. The others were authors of the second order.
Descartes, Pascal, Rotron, Moliere, Larochefoucault, Menage,
St. Real, Bayle, Regnard, Bourdaloue, Chanlieu, J. J. Rous-
seau, J. B. Rousseau did not belong to the Academy, neither
did Piron.