The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-06 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Journal des Debats of Monday publishes along reseript
addressed by the Pope to the Roman Catholic clergy against
Bible Societies. "We recommend you," says his Holiness,
"to announce and to explain in proper time and place to the
people confided to your pastoral charge our present advice,
and to use all your efforts to withdraw your faithful flock
from any connection with those Bible Societies. It will be
your duty to take from their hands any Bibles translated into
the vulgar tongue, or published contrary to the sanction of
the Roman Pontiffs."
We observe a paragraph in the Constitutionnel, stating
Louis Philippe's watch to have been stolen, en Monday be-
fore last, whilst he was again visiting the exhibition of works
of art.

M. Horace Vernet, the celebrated French painter, left Paris
on Monday, to pay his respects to his Imperial Mt;jestcy the
Emperor of Russia, who, it would appear, has a great personal
regard for the artist.
Mdlle. Taglioni re-appeared at the opera on Saturday night
in La Sylphide. The receipts amounted to 11,500 f.
Letters from Strasburg, referred to by the Paris papers,
state that on the passage of the Duchess of Kent through
that city her Royal Highness had been received with every
possible testimony of respect by the authorities and the
population.
The Commerce states that M. F. de Lesseps is, at the ex-
piration of his conga to be appointed Consul-General of
France at Alexandria, in place of M. de Lavalette.
The Wurtzbury Gazette contains a letter from Berlin, May
27, which says :—" It is believed that the Emperor of Russia
will go to Vienna after his return from London. His Majesty
is to join the Empress at Sans Souci on July 13.
The Revue des Deur lhrondes mentions a report that the
French naval division in the China Seas has received orders,
with the assent of England, to take possession of an island at
a few leagues distance from Hong-Kong.
The Memorial !de Rouen gives an account of the arrest in
that city on Friday last of three Englishmen, detected in
coining and issuing false one-franc pieces. They made a
desperate resistance before they could be secured, The coun-
terfeit coin is extremely well made, and cannot be distin-
guished by weight without being put into the scales; but on
being rubbed the colour of the zinc becomes apparent. It
bears the date of 1843, and the letter B.
LAW AND POLICE.
At the Mansion-house a person of very respectable appear-
ance, named James Egan, was brought before the Lord Mayor,
in the custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged with
having received a Bank of England note for 1001., knowing
the same to have been stolen. A vast deal of interest was
excited by this case, the prisoner having, as was reported,
been at one time manager and director of the National Bank
of Ireland, whose property the stolen note was stated to be,
and having been tried in the year 1842, in Dublin, for stealing
a parcel of bank-notes, of which the 1001. note in question
was one. After a lengthened examination the prisoner was
remanded.
At Guildhall, Thomas Hoare, a young man about twenty
years of age, was brought before Mr. Alderman Humphery,
charged with burglariously breaking and entering the dwell-
ing-house of James Stone, with intent to commit felony.
Mr. Alderman Humphery, after hearing evidence on the
charge, and ascertaining that only a few pence had been
missing, put some questions to the prisoner, who said he had
net been near the place that was broken open, and did not
know even where it was. He was a printer by trade, but got
his living by playing the accordion in gentlemen's houses,
and lodged at No. 5, George-street, Tottenham-court-road.
The Alderman determined on punishing him summarily, and
committed the prisoner as a rogue and vagabond for three
months.
Michael John M'Cann was finally examined, at Marylebone,
charged with having intermarried with Bridget Thomas, his
first wife, Mary M`Cann, being at the time in existence, and
fully committed.
The long protracted case of the robbery and murder in
Ratcliff was brought to a close on Tuesday before the Magis-
trate at the Thames Police Court. The prisoners were
brought from Clerkenwell in the police van, at eleven o'clock.
Their names are Alexander Nicholson, a milkman, in whose
house the deceased was robbed of 30/, and ill-used% Richard
Bragger; Rosetta Bragger, his wife; Mary Ann Ash, the
sister of Rosetta, with whom Nicholson has for some
time cohabited; George Bragger, the brother of Richard;
and John Horsted, a non-registered coal. whipper. At the
conclusion of the examination, Mr. Ballantine said he had
made up his mind to commit Horsted, George Bragger, Ro-
setta Bragger, and Mary Ann Ash, for wilful murder; and he
should also commit Richard Bragger, Alexander Nicholson,
and Mary Ann Ash, fur the robbery on Saturday night, the
18th of May. The announcement caused a great sensation
among the prisoners, especially those charged with murder.