The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

On Sunday evening their Majesties, tbo Kitag and
Queen of the French, received the Minister for Foreign
Affairs and General de Saint Yon.
The Bavarian and Danish Ministers had yesterday
audiences of the King, to deliver to his Majesty letters
from their respective Sovereigns, in answer to the noti-
fications of the birth of the Duke d'Alencon. A similar
letter from the Queen of Spain has been transmitted to
the King, through the Spanish Chargé d'Affaires, is the
absence of the Ambassador.

Admiral Lasusse, who arrived at Havre on Sunday,
took his departure thence on Monday, for Cherbourg, in
the Government steamer Caiman.

The Patrie mentions a rumour that the King and
Queen of Naples will visit Paris towards the end of Oc-
tober or the beginning of November.
Captain Aufray, of the Spahis, has died at Lalla-
Maghrin of 'the wounds which he received at the battle
of Isly.
M. Camille Perier, Peer of France, fell a victim on
Saturday, at Paris, to a long and painful malady, at the
age of sixty-three. lie was auditor in the Council of
State under the Republic, and Prefect for some years
under the Restoration, but, being dismissed from this
latter situation, he took his place as a Member of the
Chamber of Deputies. In 1830, he was one of the first
deputies in Paris who protested against the violation of
engagements by the Crown, and he gave his support to
the new Government. During his brother's Ministry,
he afforded him all the assistance in his power. He was
called to the Chamber of Peers in 1837.

A large number of distinguished persons went on
Monday to Neuilly to offer the King their congratula-
tions on the conclusion of the peace with Morocco.
A Naples letter of the 6th inst. speaks of the marriage
of the Duke d'Aumale with his first cousin, the Princess
of Salerno, as fixed for the second week of next month.
Great preparations were in progress for the celebration
of the marriage with pomp and circumstance.
The Duke de Bordeaux arrived at Venice on the 23d
ult., and put up at the Hotel Danieli, on the quay of the
Sclavonians. Sea bathing has been recommended to
him, and he appears to excel in the (irt of swimming,
having several times swum, without resting, from the
Mole to the Lido, a distance of three miles. The Prince
is accompanied by the Duke de Levis and M. de Monty
lieze. The persons summoned to attend the legiti-
matist congress were nearly all at their post. Messrs.
lllyde de Neuville, La Tour Foissac, Hautpoult and St.
Priest, had already arrived at Venice. Messrs. Aurelien
de Seze and St. Marc, members of the bar at Bordeaux,
were also expected. Marshal Sebastiani was at Milan
watching the legitimatist movement.
The Augsburg Gazette announces that a divorce has
been decreed between Prince Gustavus Vasa and the
Princess Louisa Amelia Stephania of Baden, and that
the judgment has been confirmed by the Grand Duke.
Thus the parties are relieved from the bonds of matri-
mony, and each may contract a new alliance. They
were married on the 9th November, 1830.
Letters from /Zons represent the state of the public
mind in the Roman States as very unsettled.
A Vienna letter, bearing date the 9th instant, says:—
" The Government has given permission to a company
to establish a central railroad in Hungary. It is hoped
that the Government will guarantee the payment of
3 per cent. interest. A capital of 18 millions will be ne-
cessary to execute this line, and of this sum eight mil-
lions have already been obtained by subscription, and
three by the intervention of Baron de Rothschild, so that
only seven remai❑ to be raised. The concession is made
for eighty years. Several branch lines have also been
authorised. The works will be executed simultaneously
between Pesth and Vienna, and Pesth and Debreczen."
The Berlin journals state that the grand line of rail-
road between Berlin and Kcenisburgh is decided upon,
and that it is to run by Kustrem, Landsberg, Driesen,
and the other towns towards the Vistula. From Drie-
sen, it is said, there are to be two branches, one to
Posen and to Stargardt, in Pomerania, in order to
unite these two towns with Stettin. In this case, the
distance between Berlin and Posen may be performed in
nine or ten hours, and between Berlin and Stettin in
seven or eight hours. The surveys of the railroad be•
tween Posen and Glogan are very nearly finished.