The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-18 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Pubftt eptnion.

" Who rsqia may read."

POIRMIC&N.

On Saturday morning; at eleven o'clock, the King of the
French received at Drew= the different civil and military
authorities,. and immediately. afterwards his Majesty and the
Royal Family attended Divine serviee, which was performed
by the Bishop of Morocco. Soon afterwards the King paid •
second visit to the chapel and vault in which lie the remains
of the Duke of Orleans. Their Majeities and the other mem-
bers of the Royal Family returned during the night of Satur-
day to Neuilly. •
The infant Duke d'Alenpon, the newly-born scn of the
Duke and Ditchese de Nemours, was baptised on Sunday,
in the chapel of the Palace at Neuilly, by the Archbishop of
Paris, and the usual entry of his birth has been made by the
Grand Chancellor, Baron Pasquier, in the archives of the
Chamber of Peers: The Christian names of the young Prince
are Ferdinand-Phillippe-Marie. The official witnesses to the
act of birth, designated by the King,, are the Duke de
Broglie and LieuL-General Jacqueminot.
By a Royal decision,of the 3d March last, Roar-Admiral
Laplace has been appointed to succeed, in the command of
the station of the :Antilles and the Gulf of Mexico, Rear,
Admiral de Moges, who has terminated his. third Year of sm.-
-vice in this command, and who had frequently expressed his.
desire to return to France. The King's Government having
recently recognised the inutility of augmenting the number
of vessels destined for the station of the coast of .Hayti, this
destination has been assigned to the Thetis frigate, now tint-
ing at Brest. •

The Toulonnais, in its news from Algiers of the 4th inst.,
gives an account of the murder of the gardener and
his wife, left by M. Lavoll4, the notary at Algiers, in
Charge of his country-house it Boudjariah. The murder is
supposed to have been committed by some Kabyles employed
in the neighbourhood.
The Bien Public of Macon quotes a letter from its corre-
spondent at Marseilles, stating that several cases of cholera
of a very severe character had appeared in that city; but the
Marseilles journals of the 11th are totally silent upon the sub-
ject, and, therefore, there is every reason to believe that the
report is unfounded.
The ilamburgh Correspondent contains a letter from Copen-
hagen, which states the Danish squadron had sailed on the
26th, it was supposed for Morocco. It consisted of two fri •
gates, a corvette, and a war steamer. A brig is to join this
force at Tangiers.
According to a letter from the Hague, the Countess de
Nassau, widow of the late ex-King of the Netherlands, is on
the point of taking for a second husband General Van Omphal,
who was'Aide-de-Camp of his late Majesty.
Lord and Lady Dinorben have arrived at Namur, Belgium,
on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Capua.

- LAW AND VOLUM.
The Midland Circuit commenced at Northampton on the
15th, before Lord Denman and Mr. Justice Coltman. There
are twelve causes in the list, three being marked as special
juries. The calendar contains the names of twenty-eight
prisoners for trial, but we believe there are two or three
others who have been brought to the county gaol since the
calendar, was printed. On the 16th, some cases were tried,
but they were of little interest.

, Oxford,-• Richard Elliott was indicted for stealing
banker's parcel, containing 1,500 sovereigns, from the liefi.•:
ance toke,h,jiri the 18th of March, and after the examination
of seyeral• -Witnesses was acquitted: • .
• At ,the Middlesex Sessions, Samuel Saulter a shoemaker,
aged 28, and MarySaulter, his wife, aged 29, were put upon
their trial for assaulting Emma, their daughter; the tirst
count in the indictMent charged them with unlawfully and
malicicrnwtr if"asing to sap* her with -sufficient mainte-
nance; a second count with having, during certain times,
unfawfully;confined herin a.room in a state of nudity; and
'in a third with-a Ammon assault. The jury found both pri-
soners guilty on, tlrefirst count, and as much of the 'second as
regarded the aonfinentent, ' end acquitted • them on the third.
count. The Chairman, in passing sentence said, the • Court
concurred with the view the jury- had taken of the case, and
in order to mark it with the severest disapprobation, the sen-
tence of the Court was that they be imprisoned for
.six
months in the House of Correction. . .
At Worshipfstreet, Frederick Mills, a bargeman, surren-
dered on bail, and was finally examined before Mr. Bingham
.upon a charge of having caused the. death of 'a boy named
Thomas Strut, 15 years of age, by throwing him into the
river I.ea.. • ,Sergeant,Rawkes,6 NOIONV informed the magis-
trate:that the Coroner's jury had returned a verdict of " Ac-
eidetitally. -drowned ;" but the Coroner and jut', Strongly re-
probated the conduct of the prixonettlialls, and expressed a
hope that the Magistrate webld'sendl him' to the-4(isSioits, to
be trkai fa. the aggravated itssault:tie.,.bail committed on the
deceased. Mr..Bitighatniequired Ike,defoidant to give.hail.
for his appearance at the. sessions, •
At Marylebinie otfice Thomas Baker was charged, on his
own 4onfession, with having stolen, two • silver watches, the
property of Mr. Henry Halsey Reading, at Hampstead.. One
of the watches was produced by a pawnbroker-Eand identified
by the owner; and the prisoner was committed for trial.

COURT---PILSIOO7. ran 1,24.
Th'e Duchess of Gloucester Ints hstied ceirdFi for a grand en.
tertalnment to tha Puke _and Duelies.of.Cambri,ige and the'
• Tiercditary Grand Duke andDuchess.of2leckleubergStrelitz,
.on Monday next at ,Gloucester House. very numerous
circle; of the nobility have been invited. to meet their Royal •
liighnessesm,-

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The Marijuis and Marchioness of Downshire are staying at
their Seat, Easthamstedd 'Park,. 111 Berkshire, from whence
they proceed on
,a visit to Lord and Lady Bridport, in So-
mersetEhire. • •. . •

Lord and Lady Carew and_family have arrived at illivart's
lotel, from Yorksh ire.

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The Duke and Mellen of Beaufort and Lady Augusta
Somerset have led town for .Hooton Hall, Cheshire, the .se.xt
of Sir W. Massey Stanley, where they will remain, •during
the ensuing races.
The Duke of Sutherland left town on Tuesday for,Learning-
ton, Where his Grace purposes `remaining a few day:4, The
Duchess of Sutherland is at present on a visit le the Arch-
bishop of York, at Newnham.. ,-Her Grace is expected to re-
turn to town on Thursday or Friday; and the'family will
leave London for Trentham oh the 24th instant, to prepare
for the approaching festivities on the occasion of the marriage
of the Lady Elizabeth Georgians Gower with the Marquis of
Lorn.'

The Countess of Wilton left town on Tuesday for Heaton
House,,Lancashire. Her Ladyship is expected to rettirrr to
London before the expiration of the present week.. . •
Lord and Lady Carew and family have arrived at Mivart'
from Yorkshire..