The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-03 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NE 'S

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

A meeting, at which about 2,000 persons were present,
Wa.s held on Sunday,' in the Great Hall of the Hotel de Ville,
at Paris, under the presidency of the Prefect of the Seine,
the Count de Rambuteau, 'to witness the distribution of the
prizes of the Gratuitous Drawing-schools of the 7th and Bth
arrondissemens. The business of the day was opened by an
impressive address from the President, on the advantages of
the institution ; and he was followed by M. Charles, the
director of the scools, who gave an interesting account of the
zeal of the pupils, and of the kind encouragement bestowed
upLn his labours by their Majesties and the whole of the
Royal Family.
The Committee charged by the Minister of War to present
the rough draft of an ordonnance on the questions which
affect the Jewish population in Africa, has reccommended
that all bye-laws and customs, changed into laws, which
have hitherto served as rules of conduct to the Jews of Alge-
ria, should be abolished and replaced by the 'common law, by
which the other inhabitants are governed.
The Council of Administration of the Left Bank Versailles
Railroad, on Saturday, presented to the Minister of Public
Works a tender for continuing that road to Chartres, and has
sent to the Chambers of Peers and Deputies a protest against
any other railroad between Paris and Chartres being allowed
to be formed.

The Paris journal, the Commerce, was sold on Monday for
317,000 f. (12,5001.), to MM. Farnissier, C. Didier, and Dela-
mann, bankers.
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The Jfoniteur publishes a return of the price of wheat in
the different departments of France, for the purpose of regu-
lating the duty on the importation and exportation of grain
and flour. The returns are divided into classes, according to
the departments, and the medium price in all of theth ranges
from 16f. 58c. to 22f. 83c. per hectolitre.
The price of bread at Paris for the first fortnight of the
present month is fixed at 35 centimes the kilogramme.
A letter from Stockholm, March 18, in the New Hamburgh
Gazette, says :—" It is stated that the Queen Dowager in-
tends taking a journey into Italy immediately after the ob-
sequies of the late King. Her Majesty will pay a visit to
her sister, the wife of the ex-King Joseph Buonaparte. The
report that the Swedish Diet is to be convoked in the month
of June is gaining strength. The reason of this measure is
that the King desires to open the Norwegian Diet in person
in 1845, •which could not be done if the Swedish Diet was
not convoked during the present year."
The mart convgyance by sea about to be established be-
tween Stettin and St. Petersburgh will commence in the
spring of next year. The iron steam-boats constructing in
England for that purpose are to be each of 700 tons, and
above 300-horse power.
It is stated in the Augqburph Gazette that the Prussian
Government has given the Polish emigrants permission to
prolong their stay in the province of Posen, until they have
terminated their affairs, those at least relating to their, pro-
perty. As the Government has not named the period at
which the emigrants must be ready to quit the province,
hopes are entertained that they will be allowed to remain in-
definitely, provided they be quiet and avoid all political mat-
ters. This happy result is in a great degree attributed to the
intervention of the Countess Kw iteika, who repaired to Berlin
to intercede with the King in favour of her unfortunate
countrymen.

MAW AND POLICE.
At the Liverpool assizes, William Taylor, a respectable-
looking elderly man, was indicted for uttering, at Oldham, on
the 20th of September, a bill of exchange for 2211. 145., drawn
on John Brown, and purported to be accepted by him, know-
ing that the said acceptance was forged. The prisoner, it
appeared, carried on business for some years at Saddleworth.
He had been unfortunate, and had twice failed, on the second
occasion for the sum of 20,000/. ; he was again, however, able
to establish himself in busineis. The charge was fully proved,
and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred.
The Chester assizes commenced on Monday. The calendar
is more than usually light, there being only forty-one cases,
and only one in which loss of life has been the consequence of
crime. Mr. Justice Maule did not take his seat till a late
hour, being seriously indispoied.
'At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a person of
respectable appearance, who gave his name and address as
Joseph White Simmons, living in the Vauxhall-road, was
brought up in the custody of Inspector Otway, A division,
before Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart., and Mr. T. Dagnall, the
sitting magistrates, on a charge of having knowingly uttered
a forged bill of exchange for the value of 2001. Two parties
proved the forgeries, and he was fully committed to Newgate.
At Worship -street two young girls, who gave their names
Amelia Walker and Rosa Abel, both of them wretchedly
ragged and dirty; were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham,
upon a charge of stripping a child, named Thomas Hillier
Dawson, of his clothes and boots. Mr. Bingham remanded
them for a week.

Three young men, named William and Robert Hurtaway,
brothers, and George Reeves, were brought up for final ex-
amination upon charges- of uttering counterfeit coin. Mr.
Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, recognised Wm. Hurtaway
as haying been recently charged with a similar offence. All
the Prisoners were now committed for trial.
John Smith and Edwai d Carter were placed at the felons'
bar, belore Mr. Henry, at Lambeth- street, on the double
charge of forgery and felony. The charge of felony was that
of stealing a time-piece and other property from a school in
which the prisoner Smith had been a teacher in September
last, and no moral doubt existed of his (Smith's) guilt. The
charge of forgery consisted in the fact of the pnsoner Smith
having written a note in the name of his sister, who had
been formerly known to that gentleman as a highly respect-
able person, to Mr. Barlow, inclosing a note of hand payable
at a short date, and requesting cash for it. The bill was a
forgery. The prisoner Carter had carried the note. Both
prisoners were remanded, but Carter was admitted to bail.
Thomas Holmes Gummer' Wm. Estell, Thomas Pritchard,
Wm. Wedge, and Eliza Burling, were finally examined, at
the same office, on a charge of being concerned in a burglary
and extensive robbery of cigars, from the premises of Mr.
Johnson, a cigar manufacturer, in Gloucester-street, Commer-
cial-road East. Gummer was fully committed for trial, and
the others discharged. -