The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-09 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubltr Optitton.

" Who runs may rend."

POREIGN.
The accounts from Spain are very alarming. Alicante and
it is said several other places had revolted against the Go-
vernment, arrested the civil and military authorities, and
formed juntas. The , Gazette is fall of the most severe
decrees directed against the insurgents. The provinces of
Alicante, Murcia, and Castellon de la Plana, are placed
under martial-law,
The examination of the Budget continued in the bureaux
of the French Chamber of Deputies. The seventh and
eighth bureaux terminated the discussion on the Estimates
of the War and Finance departments, and then commenced
the Budget of Receipts. The other seven bureaux would not
terminate their labours until Thursday, or perhaps later. In
the eighth, a strong opinion was given in favour of the con-
version of the Five per Cents.
A late letter from Philippeville (Algeria) announces the
arrival there of 200 military convicts, who are to be em-
ployed on the projected works at Stora. It states that the
spring, which in ancient times supplied Stora with water,
has been discovered, with parts of the Roman aqueducts and
conduits, many of which are still in remarkably fine preserva-
tion. The letter states that they are to be restored, and the
water brought down again to the village.
" Foreign commerce," says the Echo de la Frontiere, " be-
gins to take advantage of the Valenciennes railroad. A por-
tion of the merchandise sent to France, either for consumption
or transit, and which formerly was sent by Forbach, now
comes in by Valenciennes, and thp commission agents-of this
town begin to enjoy the profit arising from the opening of
this new way of communication with Germany.
The Seine has risen in consequence of the snow which has
lately fallen. Its level is now upwards of three feet higher
than what it was a few days back.
A few days ago, as M. Guichard, mayor of the commune
of Villediere, in the Cote d'Or, owner of the mill of Beaulieu,
was seated about eight in the evening .by the kitchen fire-
side, surrounded by his wife and three servants, he was fired
-at through the window, which had neither shutters nor cur-
tains, and two bullets were lodged in his back, by which the
spine was broken. He lingered several days in great agony,
and then expired.
The execution of Poulmann, condemned a few days back
for the murder of the innkeeper of Nangis, took place, on,
Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock, at the Barriere St.
Jacques. From the time of his condemnation the pris-ohel•
testified an anxious wish to have it all over.
Dr. Marel Lavalleei in a communication to the Presse, on
the atatc of iiiiaioionty in China, says :—" The Chineie fre-
quently boast, and with justice, of their great advancement
in civilisation, but their medical men scarcely know as much
of anatomy as every unprofessional man in Europe. They
never inspect the internal organs, but leave all to the imagi-
nation. As a proof of this, they conceive that there is a long
vessel descending from the heart through the perineum,
which directs the moral functions of the heart."
LAW AND POLICE.

The case of Mr. Charles Mathews, comedian, came before
the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday. He returns his pro-
perty as nit; and his debts at 8,111/. He proposes to set aside
half his income, for the benefit of his creditors. The case
was adjourned.
At the Central Criminal Court, Elizabeth Todd, 55, spin-
ster, and Sarah Trussler, 36, spinster, were indicted, the
former for forging and uttering a receipt for the sum of 116/.
9s. 7d., with intent to defraud the Rev. J. H. Spry and others,
the trustees of the Marylebone Savings' Bank, and the latter
prisoner was charged with aiding and assisting in the com-
mission of the felony. They were found guilty, but recom-
mended to mercy, the act having been committed more from
ignorance than with a felonious intent. They were sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment.
At the Surrey adjourned Sessions, William Hortsman
Richardson, a chemist and druggist, Maria Richardson (wife
of defendant), and Sarah Lee, sister of Mrs. Richardson, sur-
rendered to take their trial, charged with cruelly ill-treating
an orphan child of three years of age, at §t. Paul's, Dept-
ford. They were convicted only of a comition assault, and
Mr. Richardson was fined 51. and discharged.
Henry Bailey, a constable, No. 7, in the employ of the
London and Birmingham Railway Company, was charged at
Marylebone with having been drunk whilst upon duty. An
important office was assigned to the prisoner, which was to
turn the " points " at the Camden station, to direct' the en-
gines in their proper line. He was, however, found drunk in
his box, and had a train approached in the meantime itis
impossible to calculate the disastrous consequences which
might have occurred. He was committed to hard labour for
two months. _ _

John Stevens, ,a silversmith, of John-street, Islington,
was charged at Union-Hall with fraudulently obtaining
money of Mr. Folkard, a pawnbroker, in the London-road,
by means of spurious ingots of silver. The investigation
excited considerable interest. Prisoner was remanded.
William M'Gregor and Charles Lambert were charged, at
Thames-street, with piracy and attempting to create a revolt
on board the whaling ship Hester, belonging to Mr. Thomas
Sturge, whilst on an outward-bound voyage from London to
Desolation Island, in the South Pacific. The offence was
alleged to have occurred on the 30th of September last, the
vessel being at that time in the latitude of Rio Janeiro. The
case was remanded.