The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-24 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
On Tuesday afternoon the King of the Frelic,ol4
wn,
companied by General Athalin, the Duke d
and MM. Fontaine and Cailleux, paid a visit toy
Cloud. His Majesty returned to Neuilly at, lie'
o'clock. In the evening their Majesties received ••,0
Admiral Massieu de Clerva', Generals de Lap'
Monthion, Counts Dumas and d'Etchegoye ,n
Bussie i e, M. de Saint Marc Girardin, and M. PIO
The Duke de Nemours reviewed the garrison 01
and the • national guard of that town, on the 19thi
which he gave a grand dinner to the principal °
and one otticer of each grade. An immense assell
of the inhabitants witnessed the review, and
cheered the Royal Duke.
The Archbishop of Paris arrived 'at Havre on ito
day, and took a passage on board the steam-packet'
tei dun for Holland.
Ti,e trial of Meesrs. Toutain, Couchard, De 1'
and Charhonnier de Guesnerie, implicated in the CP,
of conspiracy, will be brought before the Coo'
Assizes on the 29th inst. It appears that their
d'Escars and the Prince de Robecq, who were al'°
culpated, will not be arraigned at the same tun,..o
ordonnance of the Chamber of Council of the Cra
Tribunal having declared that there was not sou7ol
evidence of their complicity in this case, and that
Prince de Robecq was also under another iodict '
tiol
before the Court of Assizes for the sale and distnbg
of emblems of a nature to disturb the public peace:, 0i
The tribunal of Premiere Instance of the Selni,
Wednesday pronounced a separation between
Taghoni, the well-known dancer, and Count GOP"
Voisins, her husband.
Count Bomfim, who took refuge in Spain, afterloyd
successful attempt at revolution in Portugal, has Or/
at Bayonne.
The Princess Royal of Prussia has arrived
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waters of Homburgh, near Frankfort-on-the-Pp
where the Prince Royal will join her on his retail'
England.
The Princess Lieven arrived in Paris from Bad?
Tuesday, and left on the following day for Dieppe,
she intends to remain a fortnight.
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Mr. Dyce Sombre, who has been six or eight
Boulogne, was expected in Paris.
The Revue de Paris states that a new branch has bed,„
organised in the Foreign Department, which isrtyli
exclusively occupied with American affairs, no`l,
M. L. de Lavergne, well known in the political
literary world, has been appointed director of that w"

LAW AND POLICE. 101
In the Bankruptcy Court, James Bradshaw, foi
woollen-draper in Marylebone-street, passed his
examination.
In the course of an insolvent case, which came
during the morning, Mr. Commissioner Fonblancic- 01
marked upon the impolicy of insolvents employilksl
agents, persons who hung about the various PrO,
This was bad enough; but he had seen advertisor,
purporting to be from attorneys, and he had 11_110
prospectus of one before him, by which it appen
their charges were most exorbitant—far beyoojd
charge made by any respectable attorney. lono,,
might rely that the employment of regular at P I ,
would be found to be much the cheapest in the e...°111
regarded the advertising attorneys, he (the J-Scjet
Commissioner) should watch their practice very
when they came before him. %./.;
A person named Comber, head-guard of t-,
train on the Eastern Counties Railway, recovereo.,..?
the Secondaries' Court, from the keeper of the A 7-0
Counties Railway Tavern, for the service of his OP-
barmaid in that establishment.
Thomas Wood and Samuel Poulson were convicts?!
Gloucester, on Thursday, of burglary, and se,Pies
each to fifteen years' transportation, upon which 00
impudently exclaimed, " Thank you, my Lord, rd
have that than a twelvemonth in this prison." fie
A man and his wife, named Sims, were also Caen" ti/
of burglary, at the same assizes, and sentenced
years' transportation.
An old man, sixty-seven years of age, named
was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation, for "
lar offence. He had been before convicted.
A young brute, named Thomas Goatman, v,„
only 17 years of age, was sentenced to twelve °to,
hard labour for having, on the 10th of April, feloore
wounded a mare, from which she died, the props forts
William Humpidge. The wretch had beat the 0001
nate animal unmercifully, and then poked her
stick, which penetrated her intestines.
In the case of Latham and others v. Oliver Clerk:, " ty
was an action directed by the Lord Chancellor, Ic!ri
purpose of ascertaining the right of the parishionvip,o
Barlaston, in Staffordshire, to certain exemptionn'to
tithes of a large tract of land, of about woe hu
acres, the jury returned a verdict for the parish
Mr. Godson held a Court in the Grand Jury-roir,,o
order that the business of these assizes taightteleva?
time to give the Chief Justice an opportunitY of
a day or two to the consideration of his judgment
important case " O'Connell v. Regina." v 0504
In Mr. Godson's Court, a respectable-looking J bit
man, named David Evans, was indicted for robbltes
master, Mr. Mills, shopkeeper and Methodist elinif
of Oldbury and Torrington. The prosecutor gage tY
testimony in such an unsatisfactory manner tni"or#
Judge stopped the case, and addressed the prosecotol
follows :—" Let me tell you, Mr. Mills, you bag,di
yourself no credit by your conduct here ; I shill'
do my duty if I allow your expenses ; go aviSyn",
S'erei
In the case of Smith v. Boucher, tried at
before Mr. Justice Cresswell, and which was an V
to recover a sum of money alleged to be due tothepur/
tiff, a broker, for his services in obtaining a charte.af
ship of the defendant's, the jury found for the r
tiff—Damages 351. „iirr
A verdict for the plaintiff, with 501. dair itgite?ef'

returned in the case of M'Clure v. France and of
which was an action of assault. The evidence 11
tY very contradictory character.
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Patrick Larkin, a letter-carrier, was convicted, 41
Central Criminal Court of stealing a letter 031).0,1
valuable securities, and sentenced to transport° 1
Di
life.
James Carroll was charged with the wilful Ore
Elizabeth Hobbs. The jury found him guiltY °
slaughter, but recommended him to mercy ; snoetifi
Justice Wightman sentenced him to be imPrih°
one month. noosif
Sarah Hyland, the late house-maid at the Savoy L„'"7
house, the particulars of whose case have been rerroot
before the public, was indicted for the wilful yed
her male illegitimate child. The jury wer%;jcirpos
nearly eight hours, and at length returned a
saa
ing the prisoner guilty of concealing the birth,
guilty of murder. of
Faith Bowerman, indicted for the murder
female illegitimate child, by casting it upon the „ frry.H
and thereby giving it divers mortal wounds -a ff,tlir
tures, of which it then and there died, was fours
or
of manslaughter.
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Amelia Alfrey, 26, was indicted for fel°-n intoof
saulting Mary Anne French, and casting her Tbis
water, with intent to drown and murder her wob,,
the unfortunate woman who had attempted to r°009;0
self and her children in a pond at Wandsworth-c, of
in consequence of being deserted by the fatile„,l 11;d
children, with whom she had cohabited six Yet-o
be remembered that the mother and chit ifreP
rescued by the courage of her brother, Wrra'vbere:ol
little boy. The jury, after a very short de,,,„,'"
acquitted the prisoner on the ground of ins•ifisiellf
she was ordered to be detained during her is a
pleasure. The prisoner's brother was then re-tiersge.;
Mr. Baron Gurney, who told him that the ei:),.di?Ar
had shown, and the manner he acted at the ante
great credit.
noisO,,,ho
Mary Page, a genteel looking young
ay s
convicted in the New Court of enticing svi"
named Maud, and robbing it of its clothes. ,terf,
Five men, farmers' servants,were indicted ferssfre
oats from their respective masters ; and iliono.so feh-to
a respectable-looking old man, was charged °olo'
ously receiving the same, well knowing the Pr.e";
have been stolen. There were no less than nlidi ve
ments against Harvey (who is said to be
„rost 00
for guiltily receiving stolen property from cis"ce
vants. All the prisoners pleaded guilty. Pe-„teo -,
not passed. woe ore
George Abbott, a respectable looking roan; tlae
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victed of stealing two gold watches, value 28,1,,riceer0
party of Mr. Singleton, a manufacturer, in TA,' rosy "
and a watch, value 121, the property of J.
sent ence dto be transported for seven year the 40k
Several Mint cases were disposed of duringreoo,,t
and Henry Turner, charged with unlawfallYsoctiee
fixtures from a dwelling-house without the II- fel
the landlord, was acquitted.
entest
Mr.Walesby, at the Westminster Sessions/v.oo'o
Thomas Meadows, a master baker, in. the, or, for
road, to a fine of 51. and two months,' hard lab it;
assault upon the police.
young
gentle:3ol
At Guildhall, Mr. Fredert-ck Last, a Yetl-4' iistinuier
studying for the bars was charged with I!, cripoe
police appointed to keep order at the Central' iote fer
Court. He had attempted to force his lotTeupd e
Court during the trial of Belaney. Ile was
to keep the peace. cb4,7
George Smith alias Samuel Bevingtor3tstiney
with having, on two occasions, fraudulentlYnecealliyiie
enlistment money as a recruit, he having cilie 2' 00
fact of his being a discharged soldier from ti 00
Guards, was committed from Queen-square ter
tqtr'
as a rogue and vagabond. tering,'
At Marylebone, Mr. Henry Dawes, a " nuare'
John otie'l
eon, residing in Stephen's-mews, Fitzrors'elre cb
John Underwood, a man in his service, Stko
before Mr. Rawlinson with an assault on Tal,l:
toll-collector at the Hampstead-road turnP'"e.
were bound over to appear at the Sessions. porno
John Hunt and James Waterloo, the former a 1
man lock-smith, and the latter a weaver,,,r-riti`irstqiif
the bar before Mr. Broughton, at clust*
charged on suspicion of having stolen a largo, of or
profLan pa
of jewellery and other articles, the
Joseph Barnes, landlord of the Black " was 1r
Wadrlo° d
house, School-house-lane, Mile-end.
r_A to dud
charged and the other prisoner was ordeese,u_.
s t
abma i
l Augusta Townsend with intent to I
his c)vi 54f
Pfoosrtlheitshawpapietea,racnhcaergoendWweitidhoulsltilj borngkjj°°'
was ordered, at Union-hall, to enter into
__h to of
nisance in 1001., and two sureties of 501-
xe.s%titrasok
minal Court session, in order to give
t now-
at that court the day previously to. tehethneecot;'o„,_-;n
opportunity of preferring a bill against big 00:
A tall, gaudily-dressed person, who
_two), 0a_,,,0
John Batista Sommers, appeared at time", most It' p
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vated assault on the person of Mr.
mons, charging him with the committal 01
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