The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-22 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vttbitt ®pinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

On Sunday evening their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received Prince Paul of Wurtem-
berg, the Austrian Ambassador, the Minister of Justice,
General Sebastiani, and Colonel Marnier.

The Constitutionnel states that active preparations
were making in Paris for the intended journey of the
King to England. M. de Montalivet, the Intendant of
the Civil List, was said to have drawn a sum of 3,000,000 f.
out of the Caisse des Consignations to defray the ex-
penses of that visit.
The Duke de Montpensier has arrived at Metz.
M. Chaudordy, a Conservative candidate, has been
elected for Agen, in the place of M. Bonet, who had re-
signed. M. Chaudordy had 241 votes out of 255.
Lord and Lady Palmerston left Brussels on Sunday for
Prussia. On Saturday they dined with the King and
Queen of the Belgians, who paid marked attention to
them during the whole of their stay in Brussels.
The Observateur of Brussels states that there is still a
report that the King of the French will return to Paris
from England by way of Belgium.
M. Apiau, who in the lamentable accident of the Bth
May, 1842, on the Versailles Railroad (Left Bank), lost
one of his sons, had another horribly mutilated, and was
himself so much injured that he was compelled to have
one of his legs amputated, having appealed to the Cour
Royale against the judgment of the Tribunal de Premiere
Instance, which rejected a claim that he made upon the
Company for damages, the appeal, after several bearings
was decided upon on Monday. The Court confirmed the
decision of the lower tribunal, and ordered M. Apiau to
pay all the costs.
The general exhibition of the produce of national in-
dustry in the States of Germany was opened at Berlin
on the 15th inst. At the first the catalogue contained
only 1,913 members, but was expected to be shortly in-
creased to 3,000. In the 1,913 Prussia reckons 1,315,
but as yet only 21 of the States of the Confederation
have contributed.

A strange circumstance occurred recently to the Duke
of Genoa, second son of the King of Sardinia. He was
attacked and robbed near the Royal chateau of Raconigi,
where there are several thousand men in garrison.
An Englishman named Snow, accompanied by four
guides, effected the passage of the Col du GC:int on the
Gth. He left Montanvert at two in the morning, and,
after having crossed the Mer de Glace, the Glacier du
Tacul (which was found the most difficult part of the
undertaking), and the Genii:, arrived at Cormaveur at
six in the evening.
The closing of the different public libraries of Paris
for the vacation is fixed as follows :—The Royal Library
from Ist September to Ist October ; that of Sainte -Ge-
nevieve from Ist October to 15th November ; that of the
City from Ist September to 15th of October ; and that of
the Arsenal from 15th of September to 15th of October.
The Bibliotheque Mazarine NI as shut on the Ist inst.,
and will be re-opened on the 15th of September.

I.AW AND POLICE.
At Marylebone Police-court Charles Williams, Esq.,
a gentleman of property, residing in Park-square, at-
tended before Mr. Rawlinson, by virtue of a warrant,
to answer the charge of having committed a violent as-
sault upon Sarah Jacobs, housemaid, in his service. It
appeared that a violent altercation took place between
the defendant and his wife, and that the prosecutrix in-
terfered to save her mistress. The consequence was,
that the defendant struck her a desperate blow on the
breast, from which she suffered very much. Mr. Raw-
linson remarked that he could see no excuse whatever
for defendant's conduct, and inflicted on him the full
penalty of 5/. The defendant, by the advice of his so-
licitor, intends to appeal against the Magistrate's deci-
sion at the sessions.
At Union Hall, Thomas Wetherell and William
Edmonds, were charged with gambling at Camberwell
on the preceding day. Sergeant Kendall, P division,
saw the defendants with a table in the fair, on which
was spread a piece of oil cloth, with the apparatus called
a " Roundabout," and calculated to impose on the
unwary. That Edwards acted the part of a " decoy
duck," and as an inducement for the bystanders, princi-
pally youths, to " try their luck," he pretended to win
money at the game, which he was afterwards seen to pay
back to his fellow prisoner. Wetherell was committed
for a month, and the other for fourteen days.
cotirr—rASUlONA2ll6ll.
We are gratified in being enabled to state that her
Majesty is now sufficiently well to be enabled to dispense
with the further attendance of Dr. Locock, who took his
leave of the Queen on Tuesday evening, and left the
Castle for town, intending to proceed this morning upon
a tour on the Continent.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with the here-
ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Stre-
litz, accompanied by Baron Knesebeck and suite, passed
through Derby on Monday last, on their way to the
splendid seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, at Alton Abbey.
The Royal party arrived at the station at two o'clock,
and after partaking of luncheon at the Midland Hotel,
proceeded in three carriages and four to their desti-
nation.

Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Mary Sack-
ville 'West have arrived at Aberystwith, from Conway
and Bangor. The Noble Earl is expected to return to
town at the end of the month on official business.

The Duke of Wellington arrived in town on Wednes-
day afternoon, from Nuneham Park, the seat of his
Grace the Archbishop of York. His Grace has suffered
no inconvenience from the fatigues he has recently un-
dergone in accompanying his Royal Highness the
Prince of Prussia in his tour to Portsmouth, Oxford,
&c. His Grace attended at the Horse Guards in the
afternoon.

The Archbishop of York has fixed the following days
for his public dinners at Bishopsthorpe :—Thursday,
Sept. 5 ; Thursday, Sept.
Tuesday, Sept. 2c
The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas leave town
to-day for Scotland. l2 ; Thursday, Sept. 19 ; and
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn arrived in town
on Tuesday from Brighton, where they had been staying
during the last few days on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Argyll. Yesterday the Noble pair left Staf-
ford House for Trentham.
The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have left
Nuneham Park for Apethorpe, in order to prepare for
the reception of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Prus-
sia, who has signified his intention of honouring Lord
Westmoreland with a visit upon his return from Scot-
land on Tuesday next.
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The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left town on
Wednesday for his Lordship's seat, Bretby Park, Leices-
tershire. _

The Earl of Roden and Viscount Jocelyn have re-
turned to town from Ireland, where they have been at-
tending the obsequies of their lamented relative, the late
Viscount Powerseourt.
Lady Brougham left town on Wednesday for West-
moreland. Her Ladyship is, we regret to learn, in a
delicate state of health.
Lord and Lady Carrington have left Whitehall for the
season, and are staying at Grayhurst, his Lordship's
seat, near Newport Pagnell, where Lady Willoughby
D'Eresby is at present on a visit to her Noble daughter.
Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley have arrived in town
from Strathfieldsaye.

PaZSCEILLAN3I3OI76.
Plymouth regatta is appointed to come off on Monday,
the 28th instant, being the anniversary of Prince Albert's
birth-day. In the eveving there is to be a ball at the
Royal Hotel, under the patronage of the Noble Commo-
dore and members of the Royal Western Yacht Club.
The Right Hon. George R. Dawson, Commissioner of
Customs, is making a tour of inspection, in pursuance of
a recommendation of the Revenue Inquiry Commission
in their recent report, that the members of the Customs
Board should not only personally survey and inspect the
departments in London, but should, at certain periods, in-
spect the whole of the ports of the United Kingdom. Mr.
Dawson is at present inspecting the Irish ports.
"For some weeks past," says the Dublin Evening Post,
" there has been a gradual diminution of the military force
congregated in Ireland at the period of the State trials.
We mentioned, on Saturday, that two regiments, the 60th
Rifles, and the 61st Foot, were under orders at Cove,
awaiting the arrival of transports to embark for India.
Those transports have arrived ; but an order has been
forwarded from the Horse Guards suspending the de-
parture of both regiments."
Every debtor in the Liverpool gaol was released on
Saturday last, under the operation of the new Act for
the abolition of imprisonment for debt.
A letter from St. Petersburgh states that the Govern-
ment is about to send several professors of the Uni-
versity of Cason and St. Petersburgh, on a scientific
mission to Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, and
England.

FIRE AT DEPTFORD.—Yesterday afternoon a fire
broke out in the private dwelling-house of Mr. Naylor,
No. 8, Union .street, High-street, Deptford. It origi-
nated in one of the back rooms in the upper floor, and
when first perceived had obtained a firm hold of the
apartment. The necessary alarm being raised, with all
possible expedition an engine from her Majesty's Dock-
yard was on the spot, with one from the General Steam
Navigation Company's
Wharf, and also the Southwark-
bridge-road brigade engine,
with that of the West of
England Company. The inhabitants having lent their
assistance, by means of plenty of water, got the mastery
of the fire before the engines came down, but not until
considerable damage was done, more especially by
water. The cause of the fire is supposed to have been
through a spark falling from a lighted candle, used in
sealing some charts a few minutes before. Mr. Naylor
is insured in the Licensed Victualler's Office.
Goon LANDLORDS.—Sir Henry Winston Barron,
Bart., M.P., Lady Barron, and family, have arrived at
their beautiful marine residence at Ballinacart, near
Ardmore, in the county of Waterford. Sir Henry has
commenced draining for all his tenants on his extensive
estates, at his own
expense and under the superinten-
dence of a professed drainer. He is a most excellent
and indulgent landlord. He pays the rent-charge and
poor-rates for his tenants, and has built slated houses for
them. Edward Galwey, of Duckspool, Es q., J.P., is
draining extensively on his estates.—Cork Examiner.
GREAT QUOIT MATCH FOR TIIE CHAMPIONSHIP
OF SCOTLAND.-0° Saturday a great quoit match took
place in Mr. D.
Weir's green, Tradeston, Glasgow, be-
twixt the parishes of Mauchline and Lesmahago, to
settle the point as to which of them was entitled to claim
the championship of Scotland in regard to this great
national game. There were twelve players on each side,
all of course picked men, and the game was played in
six rinks. The Mauchline men came off the victors by
a majority of 52 shots.—Ayr Observer.
THE FAMILY OF SMITHS.—There are no less than
762 names of the large and interesting family of Smiths,
in the " New York Directory for 1844-5.

LITERAT URE.

RAMBLES IN GERMANY AND ITALY, 2 Vols.
Mo.ron. London, 184-I.
These rambles were, it seems, undertaken during
the three last years, and extended over a considerable
portion of Italy, and those districts of Germany which
lie along the banks of the Rhine. Mrs. Shelley, to
whose pen we are indebted for the present record of
them, visited few spots but such as are well known to
the generality of English tourists; but what her
volumes want in the novelty of matter, they make
up for in the vivacity of their manner. On every
subject which she discusses, the authoress writes with
an eloquence and animation that lure the reader on,
in spite of himself; there is a charm even in her
veriest common places; and when she describes a
scene characterised by any particular features of
beauty or grandeur, she throws her whole soul into
the description, and makes the reader a partaker in
her enjoyment. With the sublime scenery of the
Tyrol she appears to have been particularly struck ;
she traversed the greater portion of the ground where
the great struggle took place, in 1809, between the
French and the brave peasant chief, Hofer • and gives,
ere passant, brief but graphic details of this desperate
contest, which ended—as those who are acquainted
with that eventful period well know—in the subjuga-
tion of the Tyrol, and the murder—for-murder to all
intents and purposes it was—of the heroic Hofer, by
order of the French Emperor. With the Italians,
speaking of them generally as a people, and without
reference to particular classes or individuals, Mrs.
Shelley appears to have been much pleased. " I be•
lieve," she remarks in her preface, " that no traveller
can mingle much with them, without becoming at-
tached to them. Their faults injure each other—
their good qualities make them agreeable to strangers.
Their courtesy, their simplicity of manner, their
evident desire to serve, their rare and exceeding in-
telligence, give to the better specimens among the
higher asses, and to many among the lower, a
charm all their own." The authoress adds that,
despite present appearances, she thinks it highly pro-
bable that Italy will, ere many years have elapsed,
succeed in regaining her long-lost independence.
While Mrs. Shelley and her party were residing on
the banks of the Lake of Como, the following singu-
lar incident eccurred, which we give in the lady's
own words :

We begin to feel settled, but to-day a strange and
disagreeable incident occurrtd. Peppina came in with
wild looks, to say that a madman—an Englishman—had
arrived by the steamer, and was frightening everybody
with a pistol. It seems that two gentlemen had landed
from the steamer, and had proceeded, as was the'wont of
visitors, to the Villa Sommariva, to look over it. One
was an Italian, the other an Englishman, who spoke
Italian perfectly. Suddenly, as they reached the gate of
the villa which opened on the road, the Englishman
said to the Italian, " Are you not afraid of being set
upon ? Are you not afraid of being assassinated ?" ;The
other, who had come from Milan with him, and was not
otherwise acquainted, and had no idea of his malady, re-
plied, " No, why should he ?" "Do you not know that
we are watched, and there is treachery everywhere
about us ?" " No," said the other, " and if there were,
you have as much cause to be frightened as I." " But I
am armed," said the madman, " this is loaded," and he
drew a pistol from his pocket, and still more excited by
the sight of the weapon. began to shriek " Tradimento!
Tradimento ! Alla Villa Sommariva ! Tradimento !"
His companion, frightened enough, ran off and alarmed
the inn and village, and as Englishmen, my companions
were summoned to see if they could do anything with
their countryman.
There he stood on the steps before the gate of the villa
leading down to the lake, shrieking " Tradimento ;" he
kept every one at bay with his pistol, which was cocked,
capped, and ready. Some people from across the lake
tried to land at the steps to visit the villa, but he soon
made them row away ; the inhabitants around allflocked,
hiding behind trees and peeping from coverts. Be was
well content to talk or to be spoken to in Italian or Eng-
lish, but no one must approach ; and his position, stand-
ing on a semicircular flight of steps leading down to the
lake, was sufficiently impregnable: it gave him the whole
command of the road in front, and no one could outflank,
or come behind him. After three or four hours, how-
ever, he grew less watchful. As the people talked to
him, he allowed them insensibly to approach nearer, till
one fellow getting behind, threw up his arm with the
pistol, and then-throwing his arms round him, took him
prisoner. His pistol was double-loaded. But with all
his madness he was aware, that if he had fired it, his
power was at an end ; and this latent sanity saved, per-

haps, a life.
He was brought to the hotel, and a dismal day my
friends have passed watching over him. Poor fellow !
he is quite mad. He had given English lessons at Milan
for some years, and earned a sufficient livelihood. His
insanity has taken the turn of believing that the Aus-
trian police want to poison him. He said he never
went to the theatre but a police-officer was behind, who
scattered a poisonous powder over him. He will not
take any food in consequence ; neither touch bread nor
water. My maid took him a cup of tea made by herself,
and, to her great indignation, he refued it, as poisoned.
He tried to escape several times. First, he made friends
with his countrymen ; but when he found that they
watched him, he turned to the Italians, calling us, ac-
cording to the phrase of the country, " non Cristiani,"
and begging them to nave him. He had sixteen napo-
leons with him. It seems that the doctor who attended
him (he was without relations or English friends) had
advised him to go to England, had put him into the
diligence for Como, introducing him to a Milanese in the
vehicle, without mentioning his malady, and thus he was
delivered over to the miserable wanderings of his mind.
A doctor had been sent for from Menaggio at the first
moment ; of course, he could do nothing. With diffi-
culty he was induced to go to bed ; he was thoroughly
persuaded he should be murdered in the night, and his
expostulations on the subject were shocking and ghastly
enough. The next morning, having taken an aversion
to all those with whom he had been friendly the preced-
ing day, he consented to go back to Milan, under the
escort of a police-officer. I saw him as he got into the
boat ; he was a spare man, with an adust, withered face
and unquiet eye ; but not otherwise remarkable.

THE YOUNG TVIDOTV. 3 Vols.
, Newby London, 1844.
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The principal recommendations of this story are its
numerous descriptions, more particularly of Scottish
scenery. There are no features of novelty in the plot,
and the incidents, which are by no means remarkable
for freshness or fertility, are put very loosely together,
as if the author were wholly indifferent to the con-
struction of his narrative. But his descriptions are
uniformly excellent; he combines the eye of the
painter with the fancy and feeling of the poet ; and
his sketch of a Highland mountain landscape seen in
the freshness of the morning, and more particularly
his account of a snow-storm at night among the
Grampian hills, are imbued with a vigorous and pie
turesque spirit worthy of Scott.