The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Some accounts from Paris would lead to the belief that the
health of tie King is not satisfactory, but, judging front his
frequent visits to Versailles and other places, and the large
parties invited every evening to the Palace, little credit
can be attached to these reports. On Monday evening he
received the Austrian Ambassador, the Ministers of Bavaria,
Baden, the Netherlands, the Hanseatic towns, Tuscany, and
Denmark, Rear-Admiral Le Ray, Marshal Molitor, Generals
the Marquis de St. Simon, Count Dejean, and Jacqueminot,
the Marquis de Rochambeau, Count d'Haubersaert, Viscount
d'Archiac, Baron Deffaudis, the Chevalier and Mme. Macedo,
MM. Conte, Robineau, de Bougon, Esperonnier, and Hebert,
the Duchess de Valencay, the Countess de Boigues and de
Luxbourg, and Mme. Peruzzi.
The Journal du Havre of Monday, in announcing the ap •
pearance there of the Prince de Joinville, says :—" On Sa-
turday, at about one o'clock, a traveller, very simply attired,
went to the office of the Morlaisien steamer, to engage his
passage. Your name, sir,' said the bookkeeper. 'My name ?
write the Prince de Joinville.' The bookkeeper, who heard
him imperfectly, instantly wrote a receipt in the name of M.
Blin de Joinville."

The National, and almost all the opposition Paris papers,
blame the Spanish promotions in the Legion of Honour. The
National, after mentioning that the grand cross of the Legion
of Honour had been conferred upon the Duke de Bayles, calls
this an act of anti-nationality worthy of the Man of Ghent,
which cannot be sufficiently reprobated.
" A strange report was current to day," says the Cowrie,*
Francais, " at one of the offices of a Ministerial department,
relative to the marine excursion which the Prince de Join-
ville has gone on to the western ports. It was affirmed that
he was travelling by superior order, and that he had been
formally prohibited from seeing, before *his departure, Capt.
' Reine aide-de-camp to Admiral Dupetit Thouars. It was
added that the Prince de Joinville had proved hostile to M.
Guizot's policy in the Tahiti affair, and that his eloignement
by order might very possibly be a:little disgrace."
We find, by the Moniteur Algerien of the 10th inst., that
the Duke de Montpensier arrived at Algiers that morning,
on board the steam-frigate the Labrador, and was received on
landing by the Governor-General and the whole of the civil
and military authorities. His Royal Highness was in perfect
health.

A letter from Algiers of the 10th inst., in the Gazette de
France, represents Abd-el-Kader as having once more risen
from his ashes, and made an inrcad in the environs of Oran
with 1,000 horsemen, instead of the 150 which the bulletins
of the last campaign left him, and as having killed 900 men
belonging to the tribes who had made their submission to
France.

We learn from Vienna, April 9, that a duel, arising from
very frivolous causes, took place lately in the environs of
Presburg, between the Count S. de Schoenborn-Wiesenthied
and Captain Baron Arnstein. At the third discharge the
Count, who was only thirty years of age, but who had
already fought several duels, was killed by the ball of his
antagonist.

The Universal German Gazette states from Kalisch, in
Poland, April 5, that six Russian deserters were lately sen-
tenced to receive 1,500 lashes each. Three of them are stated
to have died under the effects of the punishment, and the three
others to have been transported to Siberia.

LAW AND POLICZ.
At the Central Criminal Court, Mr. W. Read was ac-
quitted on the charge of forcing Captain W. Simpson to sink,
at sea, the brig Colina. The verdict was received with ap-
plause by the Court. Simpson was then called up for judg-
ment, and sentenced to be transported for life.
A woman, named Mary Walters, was brought before the
Lord Mayor at the Mansion -House, by the authorities of
Bishopsgate, upon. the charge of having abandoned her set-
tlement in Gloucestershire, to which she and her four children
had been 'regularly passed from St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate,
to which she and her children became thus a serious bur-
den. She was sent to Bridewell for a month, and the children
were taken to Norwood.

Jane Walker, a showily-dressed, pretty-looking girl, 18
years of age, was charged at Queen-square with having
robbed her father, an aged and infirm pensioner from the
Coldstream Guards, of 41. 10s. It was the amount of his
quarter's pension, which he had just received, and given the
daughter to pay the bills of the tradesmen who were
in the habit of trusting him till he received his
money, but she expended it all in purchasing
dress. Only 9d. was found on her. The Magistrate consi-
dering it a breach of trust rather than a felony, dismissed the
girl ; but on quitting the Court she used such violent threats
to her old father, that she was again taken into custody and
sent to prison for 21 days.
Mary Hammond and Mary Ann Davis, late in the service
of Mrs. Storer, residing at 5, Upper Hyde Park-street, Pad-
dington, were charged at MarylEbone with having robbed
the lady above alluded to of property of different descnp •
tions. Some of the articles stolen were produced and iden-
tified by Mrs. Storer, and the prisoners were committed for
trial.

John Shields, a respectable-looking young man, was
brought before Mr. Cottingham, at Union-hall, for re-exami-
nation, charged with forging and uttering bills of exchange,
with intent to defraud Aaron Smith, ship-owner, and bill-
discounter. The amount forged is between 6001. and 700/.
Some further evidence was adduced, and he was again re-
manded.

Margaret Brown, the wife of a tradesman in Broadwall,
was charged at the same office with attempting to destroy
herself. The unfortunate woman precipitated herself at six
o'clock in the morning from Waterloo-bridge, and the tide
running down at the time she was carried midway between
the two bridges, and picked up, being found floating on her
back. On an inquiry into the circumstances which led her
to attempt the rash act, it appeared her father, to whom she
was greatly attached, died a few days ago, since which she
had been in a low desponding state. She was given up to
her husband.
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Earl Howe will give an entertainment on Wednesday week
at Curzon House, when the Queen Dowager and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected
to honour the Noble Earl with their company. The Arch-
bishop of York, Duke of Wellington, and other distinguished
personages are invited to join the circle.
Viscount and Viscountess Leveson shortly return from
Germany, where they have gone to make their usual visit at
this season of the year to the Viscountess's estate.
Count and Countess de Tscharnolousky arrived yesterday
at Mivart's Hotel, from St. Petersburgh.
Lord and Lady Farnham arrived at Mivart's Hotel on
Wednesday from Southampton, and in the afternoon departed
for Gray's Court, Lady Stapleton's seat, near Henley-on-
Thames, from whence they will come to town on Saturday.
His Excellency Baron Brunnow was prevented from being
present at her Majesty's Drawing-room yesterday, at St.
James's Palace, by a family affliction. His Excellency and
Baroness Brunnow's dinner party last evening was put off
from the same cause.
We understand that Lord Wodehouse, the Lord Lieutenant
of Norfolk, is about to break up his extensive establishments
both at Kimberley and Wilton Park, in that county, and to
proceed forthwith to the Continent, for a lengthened period.
rho absence of this excellent Nobleman will be severely felt
and lamented by all classes.
The marriage between Mr. Talbot Clifton and Miss Low-
ther will be solemnized early in the ensuing week, at St.
George's Church, Hanover-square. A breakfast will be given
after the ceremony by the Hon. Colonel and Lady Lucy
Eleanor Lowther, at their house, in Bruton-steet, Berkeley-
square, the invitations to which are confined to the imme-
diate family connexions, in consequence of the recent demise
of the venerable Earl of Lonsdale, grandfather of the bride.

MX CEIMANEOI7B.
The total naval force on the Irish coast consists of 2 frigates,
1 brigantine, 1 cutter, 1 steam-frigate, 11 steam vessels, and
2 steam transports—force, 1,600 men. The Vernon, 50,
Captain Walpole, is on her way to Cork from Portsmouth,
and the Malabar, 72, Captain Sir E. Sartorius, was ordered
there from Lisbon.

A general court-martial is ordered to assemble at Chatham,
on Monday next, for the trial of a private of the 13th Light
Dragoons, for striking a non-commissioned officer. _

._. .
The Benevolent Sificiety of Blues held their twentieth an-
niversary festival on Thursday, at the London Tavern, where
an excellent dinner had been provided by the proprietors of
the establishment. Upwards of one hundred and forty gen-
tlemen were assembled, the greater majority of whom
had received their education at Christ's Hospi-
tal. The donations amounted to upwards of 900/.
Among the contributors were the names of Mr. Charles
Few, the Chairman, for twenty guineas ; Mr. G. Thackeray,
twenty guineas ; Lord Arundel and Surrey, ten guineas ; Mr.
B. B. Cabbell, ten ; Mr. Baring Wall, ten ; Mr. S. B. Brooke,
ten ; Mr. R. Pigeon, the Treasurer, ten ; Mr. Barnard, the
Hon. Secretary, ten ; Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, ten ; 31r .
Bellassis, ten; Mr. J. Curteis, twelve; Messrs. Bathe and
' Breach, fifteen guineas ; Alderman Farebrother,e
anniversary five, &c.
Yesterday evening being the seventh annivrs of the
Westminster Literary and Scientific Institution, a very nu-
merous and resrctable company assembled in the new
Lec-
ture Theatre, Great Smith-street, Westminster, tohear the
customary address. It was read by the Secretary, and dwelt
upon the gratifying fact of the great increase of the members,
and the general prosperity of the Society. The library, it
appeared, now contains no less than 4,000 volumes on the
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Clerkenwell, 857 males, 253 females
a total of 1,121. The labour of the prisoners
children—making
during the last year 5251. Bs. 9Ad. prisoners had realised
In the New Prison there are 143 •
males, and 44 females. Several prisoners, of whom 99 are
ffortheat
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various es Ge".
various terms of imprisonment
suicide.

SUICIDE IN I WORKHOUSE.—On Thursday after-
noon a man named Thomas Moore, aged 35, committed
suicide by hanging himself in the workhouse of the Stepney
Union, situate in the Globe-road, Mile-end. It appeared that
the unfortunate man was a coalwhipper, having a wife and
young family. From some reason, he was compelled to re-
sort for a short time to the above workhouse, where he had
been an inmate for the last seven days, and yesterday morn-
ing was employed in breaking stones in the yard, from which
occupation he was suddenly missed, and one FT the paupers
having occasion to go to the watercloset, he found the door
fastened on the inside, and on its being forced open, deceased
was discovered hanging by his neckerchief from snail behind
the door. On being cut down he was found to be quite dead.
The only cause that can be assigned for the rash act is the
dread that he would be entirely separated from his wife and
family, by his being obliged to remain an inmate of the work-
, house.