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London, England, 1844-08-14 00:00:00

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The Duke de Nemours, attended by his staff, visited
the citadel of Besancon on the Bth. After remaining
there some hours, inspecting the building in all its parts,
his Royal Highness returned to the Prefecture to a
dejeuner, to which all the officer.; who had accompanied
him were invited. The Prince afterwardslproceeded to
the Cathedral, where divine service was performed by
the Archbishop. His Royal Highness gave a grand
dinner in the evening to the authorities and principal
inhabitants of the place, and after dinner proceeded to a
ball, given in honour of his visit, at the theatre. He was
received at the entrance by the Mayor and the Municipal
Council. Upards of 3,000 tickets had been issued, and
the evening passed off with great eclat.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer states that the shares
in the line of railroad in the Centre are subscribed for.
Out of the capital of thirty-two millions sixteen have
been taken in England, ten in France, and six in
Germany.
A letter from Boulogne-seer-Mer says:—" The affair
of our railway is at length brought to a successful ter-
mination. The Company for the execution of the line
from Amiens to Boulogne is definitively constituted. At
its head is M. C. Laffitte, and with him are associated
MM. Baxendale, L. Cubitt, and Tyndale, Mr. T. Devaux,
of London, M. Calley de St. Paul, of Paris, and MM. A.
Adam and Louis Fontaine, of Boulogne."
The paragraph stating that the eldest sister of the
Duke de Bordeaux had contracted a morganatic mar-
riage with one of the sons of the Duke de Blacas, has
been contradicted in the most positive manner by the
Quotidienne, the Legitimist journal.
M. de Lamartine embarked at Marseilles on the 7th
instant Tor Naples, whence he proceeds to the baths of
Ischia.
The Augsburg Gazette says that the Emperor of
Russia has addressed an energetic note to the Porte,
complaining that the Turkish Government allowed the
sale of arms to the Circassians, through agents esta-
blished at Constantinople.
The general junta of the Basque Provinces, in its
sittings of the 2d instant, unanimously claimed the full
and entire re-establishment of the Pueros. It decided
that a committee composed of seven members out of
every district, making forty-two in all, shall be charged
to examine the question and give its advice to the junta.
The Company formed for working the line of railroad
from Paris to Strasburgh, the Council of Administra-
tion of which had become incomplete by the resignation
of Count Molg and M. Ganneron, has just been re-or-
ganised, and Gen. Cubikes has accepted the office of
Presiden t.
The Baroness de Pignol lost her life a few nights ago
in a melancholy manner. Her dress caught fire from
coming in contact with a candle, and though prompt as-
sis' ance was given, she shortly after expired.
A frightful accid,,nt occurred on Thursday at Mont-
martre, by the falling in of one of the quarries. One
man was killed on the spot,inother died before reaching
the hospital, and three others were seriously injured,
amongst a hom is M. Richer, the proprietor of the quarry.
A man named Anselme Perrin, who was condemned
about five months since for the murder of an individual
named Simod Devaux, was executed at Lyons on Thurs-
day. He showed great firmness to the last.
A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 27th ult., given
in the Journal de Francfort, states that the rains nhich
have fallen almost incessantly during the last month have
done considerable damage to the harvest. The crops
throughout the whole empire had been very promising,
but since the month of May there appeared in some dis-
tricts of the Transcaucasian provinces, and in the Cri-
mea, swarms of locusts, which did much injury both to
the meadows and to the corn-fields.
Upon twenty-four railroads in Germany, there were
carried, during June last, 1,150,550 passengers, and the
receipts amounted to 2,723,129 f.
LAW AND PDX.XCEI.

At the Wells assizes a man of the name of Fisher was
convicted of the murder of his wife, and ordered for
execution. We remember no other assizes when so
many persons were found guilty of murder.
The Lancaster assizes commenced on the 12th. There
are 15 causes entered for trial. The calendar contains
the names of 19 prisoners, of whom one stands charged
with murder, one *ith rape, two with manslaughter,
three with burglary, one with feloniously shooting, and
one with bigamy.
At Monmouth assizes, which commenced on the same
day, there are 31 prisoners for trial, two of whom are
charged with the widely-extending crime of arson, and
five with a most horrible outrage on a married woman.
On the civil side there aro eight causes for trial, but none
of them are likely to possess any interest, except to the
parties concerned.
At o_,e Thames Police-court, William Tipler, the cap-
tain of a Nc...re barge of sixty tons burden, was charged
before Mr. Bro:lerip with committing an assault on
James Richard Wo6:I.• watorman, employed as col-
lector on board the Wate7man No. 12, a steam-vessel
running between the Adelphi-per and Woolwich. The
charge was proved, when Mr. Brdderip said he should
be wanting in his duty to the public if ho did not mark
this case with a severe fine, and he sentenced the defen-
dant, to pay a fine of 5L for the assault, or be imprisoned
for two months. _ _ _

A man named Dixie, the owner and driver of a hack-
ney carriage, plying opposite the Greenwich railway ter-
minus, appeared at Greenwich police-court, to a sum-
mons at the instance of Mr. Flinch, chief clerk at this
office, for refusing to take a fare, and ordered to pay a
fine of .40s. and costs, and in default to fourteen days'
imprisonment. Mr. Ffinch prayed the magistrate to
remit the fine in the present instance, his object being to
convince the defendant of the illegality of his conduct,
a well as for the guidance of other drivers, who, he un-
derstood, had resolved upon pursuing a similar course.
Mr. Traill said he would respite the fine during six
months, if the defendant did not offend during that time,
and would not call for its enforcement afterwards.

—rASEVCO AM LE.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Carlton
House-terrace on Tuesday afternoon, and proceeded by
railway to Dover, where the Noble Viscount and Vis-
countess were to sleep last night and embark there for
Ostend. They purpose visiting
the spas in the lower
part of Germany, and then repair to Ischl, after which
they go to Vienna for a month.
The Duke of Buccleuch arrived at Montagu House on
Tuesday from Leamington, where, in company with his
Duchess, he has been attending the last moments of his
sister, Lady Anne Scott. The Duchess will leave
Leamington this day fur Scotland.
The Duke of Rutland was expected to leave Belvoir
Castle on Tuesday for his shooting box at Longshawe,
where a small party of his Grace's friends were invited
to shoot during the present week.
The Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Bolton Abbey,
Yorkshire, where his Grace has gone for the grouse
shooting. His Grace has a party of friends staying
with him. _

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have arrived at
Chesterfield House, from Brighton.
The Marquis Conyngharn, as Commodore of the Royal
Southern Yacht Club, will preside at the annual dinner
of the club at the close of the regatta at Southampton,
on rr:;day next.
MIS 0 ELLANEOI7B.
The Earl or Haddington, Admiral Sir George Cock-
burn, G.C.8., First Naval Lord, and Vice Admiral Sir
William Hall Gage, G. 0.11., one of the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, are expected to embark in the
Black Eagle this day, and proceed to visit the dockyards
at Sheerness, Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Pembroke.
Between one and two o'clock on Tuesday Colonel Sir
R. Sale, G.C.8., the hero of Jellalabad and Affghan, ar-
rived at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on a visit to Lord
Bloomfield; and his Lordship, with the Chevalier Bun-
sen and Captain Meynell, proceeded to the residence of
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, to welcome the
brave Colonel of the 13th Regiment of Foot.
Most of the provincial papers complain of the continued
heavy falls of rain. It does not appear, however, that
it has injured the crops much.
Some returns on the subject of ecclesiastical courts
hare just been printed. It appears from an annexed
summary of the particulars therein contained, that the
gross total receipts of the judges and officers of the
ecclesiastical courts amount, in the dioceses of England,
to 101,1711. ; is those of Wales, to 4,882/. ; and in those
of Ireland, to 14,4591; making a grand total amounting
to 120,5131. The nett receipts are 101,219/.
On Tuesday the sale of books forming the third por-
tion of the library of the late Duke of Sussex was re-
sumed. The number of lots disposed of were 253. A
considerable portion of these were books relative to
Charles I. and 11., which sold at remarkably low prices.
The proceeds of the two days' sale exceed 5101.

THE GREAT FIGHT BETWEEN SMITH AND SIM-
MONDS.—This exciting match, between Smith (the
Chequer Lad) and Simmonds (of Birmingham), which
has for a long time been pending, was fixed to come off
yesterday. The men were matched for 1001. a side, and
from the heavy stakes pending, and the well-known
merit of the men, the greatest anxiety was created.
Arrrangements were made for the fight to come off half
way between Leeds and London, for the convenience of
the pugilists' respective friends. Melton Mowbray was
the locality fixed; and on Monday evening an immense
number of the fancy left London by railway, and crowds
of persons from Birmingham and Leeds were, early
yesterday, near the supposed scene of action ; and on no
occasion were so many spectators ever known at a
pugilistic contest. The preliminaries were arranged, and
the contest was about to be opened, when the local
magistrates, with a strong body of police, interfered, and
the parties who were to take. the most prominent part
on this occasion were compelled to make their escape w
speedily as psssible; and the great multitude of persons
assembled were compelled to retire to their respective
homes, much disappointed and discomfited, all of whom
had travelled a great distance, and many having very
heavy bets on the fight.
Cumous FACT.—The best moral testimony can be
given for the truth of the following statement, if re-
quired :—During the early part of -last spring, a lady
detected a common garden pea in a hen egg which she
was eating at her breakfast. It occurred to a gentle-
man who was present at the time, to ascertain whether
or not this pea was capable of vegetating, after having
been thus subjected to the process of digestion, and "
sub-
sequently carried into the egg-bag or oviduct of the
fowl ; and, strange to say, the trial was successful, for
the pea in question, after having been planted in a com-
mon flower-pot, in due time presented the accustomed
verdure and foliage, and fruit itself would have probably
followed, were it not for an accident, by which the
flower-pot, containing the pea, Ives broken, and conse-
quently the conclusion of this interesting experiment was
unhappily prevented.—Glasgow Argus.