The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-23 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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The procession of the Bceuf Gras was repeated on Tuesday,
at Paris, and the weather being very fine, although rather
cold, the Boulevards were crowded with persons assembled
to see the lines of carriages, and in expectation of beholding
groups of maskers. As far as numbers went they were not
disappointed as to the carriages, but the maskers were by no
means numerous. Those who did make a display were evi-
dently for the most part composed of the working classes.
The weather on Wednesday was excessively cold, with a fall

of snow.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the produce and con-
sumption of domestic sugar down to the close of January,
1844. On the Ist of February there were still 324 manu-
factories in activity, which, as compared with the number
existing on the same day in 1843, shows a decrease of 58.
The quantity manufactured during the whole season was
20,186,622 kilogrammes, or 2,279,259 less than in 1843, and
that sold for consumption 15,952,102. The duties levied on
that article in January last amounted to 1,125,605 f.
The Chambers of Commerce have received a circular offi-
cial dispatch from the Minister of Commerce to the following
purport :—Merchant vessels bound for ports in the Mediter-
ranean, on being obliged to put into Gibraltar from stress of
weather, have been used, in order to escape the payment of
anchorage-dues, to take a mooring at a distance from the bat-
teries, in unsafe ground, and at the same time do not gain
their object of saving the exacted payment. French ships
driven to take shelter in the Bay of Gibraltar are therefore
recommended to wait for favourable weather, by coming to
an anchor at the west of Mala Point, at the mouth of the
small river the Majorgo, to the south of the town of St. Roch,
where they will be in Spanish water, better sheltered, and
very nearly free from all dues. '
The Ai gsburg Gazette of the 17th states, on the authority
of a letter from Naples, that some regret is alreacly mani-
fested by the Neapolitan Court at having, under theinfluence
of deceptive promises, so promptly recognised the Spanish
Government. It is again stated that the Courts of -Sardinia
and Rome persist in their refusal to follow the example of that

of Naples. -
The accident which -has happened to M. Gay Lussac will
not be attended with any serious consequences. His sur-
geons have made a most favourable report on the subject to

s friends and acquaintances.
A subscription has been set on foot to defray the expense of
a marble statue of Rossini, which is to be placedin the saloon
of the Academie Royal de Musique.
Madame Persiani, Correlli, and Fornasari, will leave Paris
for -London at the end of this, month. Fornasari continues
seriously indisposed. Rubini, on quitting St. Petersburgh,
proceeds to Moscow, after which he will visit London, where
the prinzo tenure is expected to arrive during the ensuing
season. _

The Weser Gazette states, from Copenhagen, that the
Emperor and Empress of Russia are expected to arrive in
that city early in the spring.

LAW AND POLIO*.

In the case of Fraser r. Bagley, which occupied the Court
of Common Pleas for three days, the jury, at ten o'clock at
night, after consulting for three minutes, returned a verdict
for the defendant.

At Marylebone Police-court, James Gatsell, an oft-con-
victed member of the swell mob, was brought up for re-
examination, charged on suspicion of having stolen a purse,
containing a 5/. note, from the person of Mrs. Allen, wife of
the clerk of the peace for Westminster. The case was not
fully made out, but the prisoner was, as a suspected person
loitering about with the view of committing a felony, com-
mitted for two months.
William Bennett, a man of respectable appearance, was
brought before Mr. Cottingham, at Union Hall, charged
with committing various robberies. It was his practice to
drive up to the door of a tradesman's shop, enter, and order
a variety of goods which he desired to be placed in his
vehicle, and drove off with speed. Five distinct charges
having been preferred, the prisoner was committed.
At the same Court, John Stevens, the silversmith, charged
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silver, the particulars of whose examination have already
appeared, was again brought up, and the depositions having
been taken, he was committed.
Sarah Evans was charged at Clerkenwell with having in
her possession 81bs. of foreign tobacco, &c., which subjected
her to a penalty of 1001. The prisoner said the tobacco was
handed to her by a man to carry. She did not know him.
Mr. Greenwood convicted her in the penalty of 1001., and
told her if there were any mitigating circumstances attached
to her case, she might petition the Commissioners of Customs.
At Lambeth-street, Norman Proctor, a smartly-dressed
young man was charged with defrauding a poor man named
'Wright out of a horse, cart, and harness, of the value of 12/.
It appeared that on the sth of July last, the prisoner called
upon the prosecutor and said his master, who was a lime-
merchant, wanted such a horse and cart as he had for sale,
and took him to a person whom he represented to be his mas-
ter, but who turned out to be his brother. The person pur-
chased the property, and prevailed upon the poor man to take
a bill for the amount, payable in seven days. The bill was
presented, when the person in the house said the drawer of
the bill had merely taken lodgings there on that morning,
that he left upon the same day, and that he knew nothing
whatever of him. The prisoner was remanded, Mr. Norton
remarking that he belonged to a gang who had obtained pro-
perty from very poor persons, amounting to near 5001.
Yesterday the Windsor bench of Magistrates proceeded
with the investigation of the charges against John Downes,
Robert Tucker, Charles Wansell, William Large, Richard
Woodhouse, James Thomas, and George Dawson, of riot, and
Of assault and robbery committed upon three men, named
Garnham, Varney, and Baker, the former of whom had been
a witness to sustain five informations against certain beer-
shop-keepers in the parish of Horton for permitting gambling
on their respective premises. Downes and Wansell were
committed-to Abingdon gaol to take their trial for highway
robbery. Tucker, Large, and Thomas were admitted to bail,
and the other two were discharged.
CIOUNT—WASHIONABTII.

To-morrow is the birth-clay of the Duke of Cambridge, who
will complete his 70th year.
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar has been visiting the
Queen Dowager at Witley Court, since Wednesday last.
The Duke of Devonshire has returned to Chatsworth from
visiting Sir W. Boothby, at Ashbourn-hall.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have been entertaining,
at Badminton, his Excellency Count Kiehnansegge, Countess
of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, his Excellency the
Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, Lord Alfred Paget,
Hon. Mr. Bagot, Mr. Lovell, &c. The Countess of Jersey
and Lady Clementina Villiers, and Baron and Baroness
Brunnow, came to town on Wednesday night.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have come to
town from Brighton for the season. The Noble Marquis is
in the possession of better health than for some years past.
The Countess of Cardigan has arrived in town from Deene
Park, Northamptonshire, but returns early next week, and
her Ladyship intends to reside there till Easter.
Viscount Loftus and Lord William Clinton were amongst
the passengers who left London fpr Antwerp, on Sunday last,
by the steamer Princess Victoria, Captain Jackson.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons
will hold his sessional levees on the 2d, the 9th, and the 16th
of March.
The Bishop of Bangor has arrived in town from Wales for
the season.
Sir R. Peel gives a Parliamentary dinner to-morrow, to a
circle of about fifty noblemen and gentlemen.
2WISMILTAJINZOI7III.
The number of prisoners now in the Penitentiary exceeds
1,200.

A general meeting of the subscribers to the London Hospital
was yesterday held at 3, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-street,
Mr. John Capel, treasurer, in the chair. From the statement
laid before the meeting by Mr. Joseph Cecil, Honorary Secre•
tary to the Charity, the addition to that fund during the past
year was 2081., and the gross amount figured 5,155/. 10s. In
May, 1832, a transfer of 8,739/. 11 s. from this fund was made
to the general estate of the hospital.
The Mint sustained a loss by its purchase of old worn silver
coin froM the Bank of England during the past year of
9,4831. The sums issued out of the Consolideted Fund for the
purchase of silver and copper bullion for coinage amounted
during the past year to 350,000/. The silver coin delivered
into the Mint• office during the same period amounted to
276,606/, and the copper coin to 10,985/.

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BIOGRAPHY OF O'CONNELL, GRATIS.—The Fourth
Supplement, gratis, with the Weekly Dispatch, and of the
full size of that journal, will be published on Sunday next,
Feb. 25, containing the Biography of Mr. O'Connell, written
by a gentleman intimately acquainted with, and, conse-
quently, one who has treasured up many reminiscences con-
nected with the great Agitator. " The proprietors of this
popular and widely circulated journal intend, it will be seen,
to present their readers with two additional supplements,
making four relative to the State Trials—the most compre-
hensive history of that memorable investigation which has
appeared."—Liverpool Chronicle. Orders for the Dispatch re:
ceived by every Newsvender and Bookseller in the kingdom ;
and by Mr. Wood, at the office, 139, Fleet-street. " The
Proprietors of this popular and widely-circulated journal in-
tend, it will be seen, to preaent their readers with two addi-
tional Supplements, making our relative to the State 2 \ ials
—the most comprehensive history of that memorable in s •
tigation which has appeared."—Liverpool Chronicle.
THE SECRET PASSION. BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE
YOUTH OF SHAKSPEARE," " SHAKSPEARE AND HIS
FRIENDS," &c.—" The Shakspeare novels are now generally
known and justly appreciated. ' The Seceet Passion' (just
published) is the third and last. Shakspeare being himself
the hero of it as of the two others, and its design and object
being identifical with those of its predecessors, namely, to
furnish a living picture of the • Life and Times' of our great
bard. We must say of it generally that it is fully equal in
spirit, vivacity, and truth of painting to its popular prede-
cessors, and that it is equally rich in incident, action, and
character. The Shakspeare novels are a valuable addition
to our literature. They place before us not only Shakspeare
the poet, but Shakspeare the man—Shakspeare in his ' habit
as he lived'—Shakspeare the bov, the youth, the son, the
brother, the lover; the father, die friend—Shakspeare the
actor and the companion of actors—Shakspeare the manager,
the playwright, the wit, the courtier, the man of the world
—and, finally, Shakspeare in his beloved retirement on the
banks of his dear Avon."—Naval and Military Gazette.
ST. STEPHEN'S, WALBROOK.—Yesterday an ad-
journed meeting was held in the Vestry-room, Roger Cunliffe,
Esq., in the chair, for the purpose of further considering Mr.
Alderman Gibbs's accounts. Messrs. Howett, Rock, and
other speakers, having expressed themselves much dissatis-
fied with the conduct of Alderman Gibbs, and the manner
in which he had prepared his accounts, and having stated
that the parties selected by him as auditors had not been ap-
proved of by the vestry, and that three of them were unable
to manage their own affairs, resolutions of want of confidence
in Alderman Gibbs, and declaratory of the incompetency of
, the auditors selected by him, were passed ; after which the
, vestry adjourned. Dr. Crelv -was present, but took no part
1 in the proceedings.