The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vublit Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

POREIGIT.

On Saturday, the King Titel4'rench left for Versailles,
accompanied by General de Rumigny and the Count
de Strada. His Majesty was received on his arrival
by the Prefect of the Department, and the authorities of the
town. After having visited the galleries, his Majesty, at six
in the evening, left the Palace to return to Paris. Their Ma-
jesties received in the evening Admiral Willaumez, M. the
Prefect of the Maine and Loire, General Count D'Astory,
Viscount de Goyon, the Prefect of the Lower Seine, the
Prefects of the Manche and the Rhone, the Prince and
Princess D'Anglona, &c., &c.
Guizot has just received from Queen Isabella of Spain
the Order bf the Golden Fleece.

The Chamber of Peers voted, on Saturday, the project of
law relative to the Greek loan.

M. Charles Laffitte has again been elected deputy for
[or Louviers.

M. Locquet, the 'Government candidate, was elected deputy
for the ninth arrondissement of Paris, on Saturday, beating
M. de ivry, the Opposition candidate, by a majority of 301
to 255.

The editors of the Gazette de France and Nation were sen-
tenced on Saturday, by the Court of Assizes of Paris, the
first to six months' imprisonment and B,ooof. fine, and the
other to four months' imprisonment and 6,000 f. fine.
The influenza is very prevalent at Paris, and has carried
off a great number of persons. The King some days since
had a slight attack, but had completely recovered. The
daughter of M. Guizot was convalescent.
The Malta Times states that King Otho closed in person
the first session of the New National Assembly on Saturday,
the 30th of March. He made the following brief speech on
the occasion :—" I am rejoiced to -see- the great work of the
Constitutional Charter of Greece brought to a close, and I
prasent myself before you, in order to seal it by the prescribed
oaths. I desire that the Constitution, that sacred and indis-
soluble tie, between the nation and the King, may produce
and consolidate the prosperity of Greece. The task for which
I have convoked the National Assembly being finished, I
declare it to be closed."

LAW AND POLICE.
Yesterday being the first day of Term the Judges, Masters
in Chancery, and Queen's Counsel breakfasted with the Lord
Chancellor, and afterwards proceeded in State to open the
Courts at Westminster. Sir F. Pollock was sworn in as
Sergeant-at-Law and Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
The Surrey Easter Sessions commenced at the Court
House, Newington: 'Several minor cases were disposed of.
William Henry Walton, a youth 18 years of age, was
charged at Lambeth-street with attempting to set fire to
the house of Abraham Solomons, a marine store dealer, in
Old Gravel-lane. He was committed for trial.

Francis Tubbs, a smartly dressed young rustic, was
charged at Worship-street with having been concerned in
burglariously breaking into the dwelling-house of Mrs.
Kealing, an aged widow lady, residing at Broxbourn- bridge
House, near Broxbourn, Herts, and stealing a quantity of
plate and other valuable property. The prisoner was sent to
be examined in the county in which the robberies were com-
mitted.

Mary Ann Stephens, a woman of lady-like appearane,
was charged at Union-hall with intermarrying with Julius
Price, a native of Germany, her first husband, Richard
Stephens, a turner, of St. Just's, Cornwall, being still alive.
Both husbands were in attendance, and the first instituted
the prosecution against her. She was remanded.

COMMT-WASIZIONABLE.
The King of Hanover is expected in this country towards
the end of May.
_ . _ _

Her Majesty's second drawing-room for the season, on
Thursday next, at St. James's, is expected to be very numer-
ously attended.
The Duke of Wellington has arrived at Apsley House
from Strathfieldsaye. Lord Charles Wellesley, and the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Douro have likewise come to town.
The Hon. Charles Arbuthnot has considerably improved in
health by his stay with the Noble and Gallant Duke at
Strathfieldsaye,

Prince Troubetskoy left Mivart's Hotel on Saturday for
Paris, after a sojourn of several weeks in this country, during
which the Prince made a tour of our manufacturing districts.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, who after passing
several days with Viscount Melbourne at Brockett Hall,
Herts, went to Broadlands, the Noble Viscount's seat near
Romsey, come to town for the season on the 17th.
The Marquis sand Marchioneseof Ailesbury have arrived
in town from TOttenham Park, near Marlborough.
The Earl and Countess of Belmore have been receiving
company during the holidays at Castle Coote. The Hon. T.
Corry, M.P:, First Lord of the Admiralty, has been among
the guests of his noble relatives.
_ _ . _ _ _

The Earl of Lincoln, First Commissioner of Woods and
Forests, returned to Whitehall-place at the end of last week
from Dublin, which city, it is understood, the Noble Lord
visited on official business connected with his department.
Lord and Lady Arthur Lennox and family are expected to
embark for Australia at the end of the summer, his Lord-
ship's regiment, the 72d Highlanders, being under orders to
embark for that colony.
Lord Kilmarnock, eldest son of the Earl and Countess of
Erroll, will come of age on the 3d of May. His Lordship is
still serving with his regiment, the Rifle Brigade, in I' ova
Scotia.

'Pr
LITERATUR
GASTON .DE FOIX.
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London, 184 -_1
most readers of history are acqofitzit
strange career of Gaston de Foix, Duke
and nephew of Louis the Twelfth of France. At the
early age of twenty-two, this extraordinary young
man made a successful stand _against some of the
ablest commanders of his day, overran all. Lombardy,
of which he was appointed Viceroy, and closed his
triumphs by the decisive victory of Ravenna, one of
the most fiercely contested battles of ancient er mo-
dern times, where he received his death-wound.
Gaston de Foix seems, like Napoleon, to have been
born genius for war; prudence, enterprise, and sk
were combined in him in nearly equal proportions ;
and had he not been cut short in the very dawn, Its it
were, of his greatness, there is little doubt that !le
would have achieved a renown in arms second
to that of no warrior in modern history.
His character is delineated with very re-
spectable accuracy in the volumes before us,
of which he is the hero, and the principal inci-
dents in his public career appear to be detailed
pretty nearly as they occurred, with but little help
from the fancy; while, by way of- relief to the uni-
formity of a mere military chronicle, the author
has represented Gaston de Foix as desperately
enamoured of a high-born Venetian girl, Mariana,
daughter of the Count Avogaro, who has been taken
in arms against the authority of France, and is con-
demned to die the death of a traitor on a public
scaffold.- The scenes wherein Gaston vainly endea-
vours .to persuade Mariana to accept his hand,
assuring her that by so doing she will save her father's
lifer are witten in a very impassioned spirit, and con-
stitute by far the most effective portions of the story.
The closing sketch of the battle of Revenna is some-
what wire-drawn, and deficient in the nerve and
animation that should characterise such a description.

OIL FROM NEW ZEALAND.—Yesterday afternoon
the brig Victoria, Captain Sinclair, arrived in the St. Katha-
rine's Dock, from New Zealand, with a cargo of oil, turpen-
tine,&c. She sailed from New Zealand on the 13th December.
REVOLTING CLIARGE.—At the Bristol Quarter Ses-
sions on-Tuesday, the Rev. Henry Ileathcote, who was de-
scribed ih the calendar as forty years of age, and who is a
clergyin'an of the Church' of England, a married man with
two, sons, was placed at the bar charged with a series of
offences of the most disgusting character. It is utterly im-
possible- to give the evidence, which disclosed a state of
moral depravity on the
.part of the prisoner scarcely possible
to exist. with sanity of intellect. As respects the first indict-
ment, the jury acquitted the prisoner of all the serious counts,
and found him guilty of only the common assault; on the
second indictment they found him not guilty of the intent,
but guilty of the solicitation, and of the common assault.
The other indictment was withdrawn. The Recorder then,
'on the fltst indictinent, sentenced him to pay a fine of twenty
shillings; for the offence in the second, of solicitation, &c.,
twelve months' imprisonment in the common gaol of the
city ; and for the common assault in that indictment to pay
a further fine of twenty shillings.—Bath
FUNERAL OF THE LATE LORD ABINGER.—This
mournful ceremony took place on Sunday morning last, at
the small village of Abinger, about four miles from Dorking,
in Surrey. The remains of the late noble Lord were removed
from Bury to London on Tuesday, by a special train on the
Eastern Counties Railway, :and subsequently conveyed to
Abinger Hall, where the body lay in state on Saturday last,
in one of the drawing-rooms of the mansion. At nine o'clock
on Sunday morning the melancholy cavalcade, with all the
trappings of funeral pomp, preceded by about thirty of the
Noble Lord's tenantry, attired in deep mourning, left the
Hall and proceeded to the church. Onarriving at the church,
which was hung with black cloth, the procession was met by
the Curate of Abinger (in the absence of the Rev. Mr. Daw-
son, the Rector), who read the service in a very impressive
manner. This portion of the ceremony concluded, the coffin
was re-conveyed to the churchyard, in one corner of which
the family vault is situate, Lady Scarlett, the deceased
Baron's first wife, having been interred there in the year
1829. The body was here lowered into the grave in the
usual manner, and the customary prayers having been read
over it, the mournful procession returned to Abinger Hall.
LEAMINGTON, APRIL 15.—Durin ?,• the Parliamen-
tary recess there has been a large accession of visitors at this
watering-place, and the fineness of the weather has much
Contributed to the gay appearance of its promenades and other
places of public resort. In the list of arrivals are the Duchess
of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulett, 'Viscount and
Viscountess Newry, Lord Howard, Lord Macdonald, Lady
Grace Gore, Sir George and Lady Cockburn, Sir Davidge and
Lady Gould, Sir Seymour Blanc, Bart., Colonel Carmichael,
Mr. and Mrs. Spottiswoode and family, Mrs. General Bowen,
Mr. and Mrs. Dalrymple, &c. The recent acceleration of the
Birmingham mail trains has proved a source of great advan-
tage here in the early delivery of letters, and the benefit of a
day mail to and from London is generally acknowledged by
all classes as highly serviceable to their interests.
Anmecies.—There was a meeting of the lady
patronesses yesterday morning at Willis's, when it was
arranged that there not being any appointments for Thursday
beyond the opera, that the opening ball should be appointed
for that night, instead of the 24th inst., as originally contern •
plated. It being the day on which the Queen holds her second
Drawing-room, and there not being any full-dress assembly
as usual announced by oar leaders of fashion, the applica-
tions for the first subscription are likely to be exceedingl7
numerous. Tolbecque will be unavoidably detained in Paris
until the ensuing week, so Collinet will, en attendant, direct
the orchestra.

BRIGHTON, MONDAY, APRIL 15.—Lord and Lady
Granville, who have been staying at the Duke of Devonshirels
house in Kemp-town all the winter, took their departure
this morning for London. Baroness Bray also left Brighton
this morning for London, after a stay of several mouths.
Lady Louisa and Miss Georgiana Lygon, Lord Calthorpe,
Lady Burnett, Lady Gamier, and Lord Wm. Graham are
among our latest arrivals. The unexpected arrival of a
company of the Scots Fusilier Guards on Saturday afternoon,
and their being immediately placed on Palace duty, led us to
believe that we were to be honoured by a visit from sonic of
the Royal Family. The rumoured meeting of her Majesty
and the King of the French at the Pavilion was spoken of,
but on inquiry we ascertained that the Inniskilling Dragoons,
who were to have relieved the 7th Hussars, have been -de-
tained at Sunderland, where a disturbalice was expected in
the collieries, and that the Guards had merely arrived to do
duty till quiet is restored in the north. Two troops of the
7th Hussars marched from Brighton this morning errrpute
to Coventry. The remainder of the regiment will fellow on
Wednesday. The Geniral Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Menia, Captain Goodburn, arrived this morning
in Shoreham Harbour from Dieppe, with about fifty pas-
sengers, most of whom took their departure by railwav,.im-
-
mediately after their arrival, for London.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Mr. Higgs held an inquest
on Monday evening, at the Rose and Crown, Knightsbridge,
on view of the body of Margaret Orger, aged sixty-eight.
William Woddock, boatman in the employ of the Royal Hu-
mane Society, stated that about six o'clock, last Saturday
evening, while he was dragging the Serpertine river for the
body of a young lady who was suspected to have drowned
herself there, he found the body of the deceased on the south
side of the river, about two hundred yards from the bridge.
Witness conveyed the body to the receiving-house, where
every means were used to restore animation, but without suc-
cess; deceased had evidently been in the water a long time.
Mary Elizabeth Phillips an inmate of St. James's Work-
house, Poland-street, said that deceased was a widow, and
had latterly been an inmate of the workhouse with witness,
and in the same ward. Deceased had leave to go out last
Saturday for the day, and left the house at one o'clock in the
afternoon. For some time past she had been suffering under
great depression of spirits. She was never seen after leaving
the workhouse on Saturday, and no one knew what had be-
come of her, until her body was found in the Serpentine.
She had been in the workhouse two years, and was much re-
spected there by the master and matron. John Brodie, de-
ceased's son-in-law, said that deceased had been dreadfully
affected, about two years ago, by losing the society of her
daughter, who went. to America. She always said she was
well treated in the workhouse. One of the deceased's sons
had also been absent in America during the last three years,
and hal:lnes-ft- written to deceased, and that also preyed upon
her mind. Deceased had been Very infirm for some years
past. Verdict---" Temporary insanity."
. SMUGGLING.—At the Rochester Petty Sessions,
on Friday, a Deptford waterman, named James Pattison,
was charged with having:on board his boat seven three-
quarter pounds of contraband smuggled tobacco, when in
Sea Reach, on the Bth instant. Lieut. Henry of the Coast
Guard Station at Holy-haven, deposed, that on the Bth
about twelve o'clock, he boarded defendant's boat in Sea
Reach. Witness was not in a galley, and had on a shoot-
ing - dress. Found a box of cigars on the stern seats
another under the head sheets, and part of two or three
other. boxes in the boat. They were all wet. Pattison,
Seam
his defence, said that he fonnd the cigars floating in
prov.e
id
Reach. George Henderson, a Gravesend waterman,
that he saw the cigars floating down the rlvercoiann
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question, but would not pick them up. The
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of the Customs 'said he should be happy to recommend a
hard labour, in consideration of his ill health. solicitor
' mitigation of punishment, and the magistrates accordingly
' directed a letter to be written to the Commissioners of CUB-
' toms oil defendant's behalf.
' Mr. T. Baring, the unsuccessful opponent of Mr.
Pattison in the recent City of London contest, is the Govern-
' ment candidate for .Huntingdonshire.
SALE OF DER* MAJESTY'S' SHIPS.—The folloWing
vessels, belonging to the Royal Navyi: are shortly 'to be
brought to the hammer at Somerset-house, viz. t—Tha Lyra,
10 guns, 236 tons ; Delight, 10 guns, 231 tons ; Jaseur, 16
guns, 387 tons ; Pylades; 18 guns, 432 tons ; Algerine, 10
guns, 231 tons ; Weazle, 10 guns, 237 tons ; Termagant, 10
guns, 231 tons; Swan (cutter), 144 tons; and Harriet
(lighter), 83 tons.

Mr. 'Charles Dickens and various other literary
gentlemen will be at the festival of the Governesses' Benevo-
lent Institutioit-on Saturday next. As several noblemen and
gentlemen of distinction are pledged to support the roval
Chairman on this occasion, it is e,xpected.that this entertain-
ment will be of peculiar interest.
During Divine service on Sunday, a house in Aber-
deen was entered by false keys, and a large quantity of silver
plate, to the value of SOL, was carried off. A house in
Dundee was broken into on Sunday, and a quantity of silver
plate, of the value 'of 504 was stolen. Tuesday information
was received at the police-office here, that a quantity of
clothes had been stolen from a gentleman's house in Glasgow,
and a description of the thief was also given. Yesterday,
M‘Levie, that active criminal officer, succeeded in appre-
hending the thief in a house in the lligh-street. A pawn-
ticket for the stolen goods, pledged in Falkirk, was found in
the man's possession.--Edinburgh Courant.
ANECDCTE OF TIIE LATE SIR EDMUND NAFLE.—
When a young twin, travelling in a po-t-chaiie up
Shooter's-hill, a highwayman rode up, presented a pist.,l
into the window, and demanded his money or his life.
Sir Edmund, then a very athletic man, seized the arm of
the ruffian, twisted the pistol from it, dragged him
through the window, end, placing him beside him to
keep him quiet, ordered the post-boy to drive on. The
humble supplications of the highwayman were answered
I with, "Be easy, boy, be easy, I won't hurt ye." Still
the conscience-stricken robber kept pleading, till, •at
length the chaise reached the captain's lodgings, when
he hauled the fellow out of the coach, walked up to the
garret, and locked themselves in. He then took off his
own coat, and said, " Now, Sir, I neither mean to hang
ye, nor hurt ye, but I'll just give you a-broth of a beat-
lug," which, having accomplished, he opened the door,
bade the robber bo off, and the next time he stopped a
coach, to rap at the window, and ask if Pat Nagle was
inside, before he ventured to poke his pistol into it.