The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
On Saturday evening, their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received the Neapolitan Ambas-
sador, the Ministers of Marine and Commerce, the Duke
&Harcourt, the Count de Colomby, and M. Bermudez.
We understand that their Majesties and the Royal Fa-
mily will remove to the Palace of St. Cloud about the
25th, and that the King, after seeing his family in•
stalled, will go to Eu, from which place he will proceed

to England.
The King and Queen of the Belgians, with the Princes,
their sons, and suite, arrived at Ostend on Saturday last.

They are to return to Brussels on the 22d.
The Constitutionnel says that their Sicilian Majesties
will arrive at Paris at the end of October, and it believes
that their visit is connected with the Duke d'Aumale's
rumoured marriage.
M. Cortina, ex-President of the Spanish Corte,-, and
ex-Minis'er, anl M. Cantaro, ex-Minister of Finance,
have arrived in Paris.

The .Nuremberg Correspondent has a Berlin letter of
the Bth, saying:—" The Empress of Russia is expected
to pass the winter at the Palace of Belle Vue, in Berlin.
Our King, it is said, is to have an interview with the
Emperor Nicholas, at a place on the frontier, near
The Univers states that several French and Italian
Jesuits have just e nbarked at Bordeaux for Madag tscer,
where they intend to form a missionary settlement.
The Pope has anointed an auditor of rota for Spain.
The appointment is provisional, but it is regarded as an
indication of the approaching settlement of ti e differ-
ences between the Papal Court and the Spanish Govern-
meut.

We read in a letter from Trieste, of the sth:—" The
Prince de Metternich has given an audience to all the
foreign Consuls. The French and English Ambassadors
to the Court of Austria have arrived, and it is generally
reported that a conference will be held on the affairs of
Italy. The Emperer and Empress of Austria have just
arrived." _ _ _

In consequence of the failure of the harvest in Poland,
from the inundations of the Vistula, the Emperor
Nicholas has interdicted the exportation of corn from
that country.
A letter from Leipsic of the 11th inst., announces that
the town of Plauen had been on fire for two days, and
was still burning. The church, the great pharmacy, and
160 houses were already destroyed; but the town library
was fortunately saved.
The Mayor of Dieppe has given notice that in con-
sequence of the postponement of the visit of the King
and Royal Family to the chateau d'Eu, the ceremony of
the inauguration of the statue of Duquesne, which was
to have been honoured with their presence, and had

therefore been postponed, will take place on Sunday next.
The culture of rice has just tee I tried with full suc-
cess at Camargue, near Arles. The vegetation of the
crop is so fine, that no doubt remains of the soil, Ca-
margue being perfectly wall adapted to it.
At a recent sitting of the Municipal Council of Paris, a
vote was come to that the Prefect should be requested
to make inquiry as to the various communities formed
in Paris—the Scours Ursulines, and others—the mem-
bers of which, under pretence of furnishing charitable
&c., obtain admittance into families, and employ an

influence which may be turned to an improper account.
Ile Council demand that none of these societies shall
be permitted unless the law respecting them be fully
conformed to.
' A letter from Athens of the 31st ult., in the Sud c f
Marseilles, states that dissentions had already commenced
in the new Ministry, particularly between M. Metaxa
And M. Colletti, the former having manifested a deter-
mination to appoint only his own partisans to Govern-
ment offices. In consequence of this misunderstanding,
the elections for the capital had been postponed.
LAW AND POLICB.

Henry Steward, for burglary, and William Windsor,
a well-known thief, for picking pockets, were respec-
tively sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to ten
years' transportation by the Recorder, in the Old Court:;
and William Franklin, the pig-dealer, who robbed an
Irishman named Ward of 1091, the produce of the sale
of twenty-five pigs, was sentenced to be transported for
a similar term by Mr. Commissioner Bullock, in the New

Court.
At Bow-street, Emily Brockwell, a servant girl,
eharged with robbing Mr. William Cunningham of
1001. 10s. in gold, was fully committed.
Caroline Stuart was again brought up at Queen-
square, on a charge of practising the most revolting
cruelty on three children named Tyler. The children
were examined, and on their evidence, together with that
of several persons lodging in the same house, she was
committed to take her trial.
A drover, named Edward Drake, was committed from
Marylebone on a charge of horse •stealing.
At Union hall, John Cooper, alias Timberlake,
George Jackson, and George Weston, charged with
robbing the house of Thomas Brundall, of Agnes-street,
Waterloo-road, of 121. 10s., some silver spoons, and other
articles, were committed for trial. They had obtained
admittance to the prosecutor's house during his absence
by pretending to ba police-officers, acting under a search
warrant.
The Gravesend magistrates continue their crusade
against Sunday amusements. James Riddell, the pro-
nrietor of a shooting gsllery on Windmill-hill, was
tined I Is. 6d. for weighing persons on Sunday last.
The driver of a Rockwall omnibus, named Edward
Jennings, wearing the badge No. 8,162, was sentenced,
at the Thames office, to fourteen days' imprisonment, for
furious driving.
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The Duke of Sutherland and the Marquis of Lorn
leave Dunrobin Castle, Sutherlandshire, at the close of
this week, to join the Duchess and Lady Caroline Leve-
son Gower, at Erskine House, the seat of Lord and Lady
Blantyre, near Glasgow, from whence the Noble Duke
and Duchess, and Lord and Lady Blantyre, repair to
Inverary Castle. •
The Duke of Wellington is at present staying at
Weimer Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of
Douro, accompanied by Miss Hope Vere, are expected
to arrive there from Germany during the present week.
The Duke of Richmond, Lord John Manners, and
Mr. Dickens, of Sussex, left Glenfiddich Lodge, his
grouse shooting-box in the Highlands, on Friday, and
after paying a short visit to Mr. Lumsden, of Clooie, ar-
rived at Gordon Castle on Monday.
The Duke de Melfort, the Earl of Mansfield, his Ex-
cellency the American Minister, and Mrs. Everett and
Miss Everett, the Earl and Countess of Sefton, the Earl
of Durham, and Ladies Maria and Alice Lambton, the
Countess of Camperdown, and Lady Elisabeth Duncan,
Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Fox Maule, M.P.,
and Hon. Mrs. Maule, the Hon. E. J. Stanley, M.P.,
Viscount Ingestre, Lord Gray, Lord and Lady Bel-
haven, Lord and Lady Ruthren, Sir A. Campbell, Lady
Elizabeth Moncrieffe, and Miss Moncrieffe, Viscount
Fielding, Sir David and Lady Anne Baird, &c., have
been among the recent visitors of the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Breadalbane at Taymouth Castle.
The Earl and Countess Poulett left town on Saturday
for Hinton St. George, their noble seat, Somersetsbire.
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor and Lady Mary
Campbell arrived at Drumlanrig Castle on Thursday
last, on a visit to the Duke of Buccleuch, from Cawdor
Castle. Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn, the Earl and
Countess of Desart, and the Hon. 0. and Lady Caro-
line Duncombe, who have been staying with the Earl
and Countess at their ancient baronial family residence
in Nairnshire, left there in the previous week.
Viscount Melville and the Hon. Misses Dundas, who
have been among the circle invited to meet the Royal
visitors at Ravensworth Castle, have taken their depar-
ture thence, and are arrived at Melville Castle, near
Edinburgh, for the season.
Viscount and Lady Marianne Alford have left town
on a visit to the Marquis of Northampton, at Castle
Ashby, Northamptonshire.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers are net expected to
return to this country from Vienna, where they are now
staying on a visit to Prince and Princess Nicholas Ester.
hazy, until the first week in November.
lIIMICZMLANZIOTTS.

The white marble statue ofher Most Gracious Ma-
jesty, which arrived in the St. Katharine's Dock last
week by the schooner Effort, from Leghorn, has not
been landed, as reported, but still remains on board the
vessel which is lying at the rear of the Dock-house. The
white marble statue of his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, arrived upwards of a month before that of the
Queen, having been brought to the St. Katharine's Dock
on the 9th ult., from Leghorn, by the schooner Mary
Ridgway, Captain Traill. It was immediately landed
and safely conveyed to Buckingham Palace.
Two ladies, of the sect of the White Quakers, were
apprehended in the Streets of Longford, where they dis-
played themselves in the supposed costume of Eden, viz.,
a garment of leaves twisted together, and covering them
from the waist to the knee.

Lieutenant Richard Nantes, on half-pay of the 55th
regiment of foot, has just been appointed one of the
military knights of Windsor, in the room of the late
Major Anderson, who died in the early part of last
month.

Mr. O'Connell has caused the bed on which he slept
during his incarceration to be removed to Merrion-
square, and hai supplied Mr. Cooper, the deputy-go-
vernor, with a new one instead, declaring that he would
keep it as a memorial for his children.

The Recordership of Cork is vacant by the death of
Mr. Robert Bennett. The appointment is vested by the
Irish Municipal Act in the Lord Lieutenant.
The situation of Counsel to the Irish Office, vacant by
the recent death of Mr. O'Hanlon, has not yet been
filled up. We have heard that some new arrangements,
with respect to the transaction of business in the Irish
office, are in contemplation.
At a most numerous meeting of the men of Wexford,
held on Thursday last, a befitting address to the Libe-
rator was adopted amidst the greatest enthusiasm.
Amongst the gentlemen who spoke at the meeting were
the Mayor (chairman), Very Rev'. Doctor Sinnott, Rev.
Mr. Murphy, Messrs. Greene, Kenselah, Macdonnell, &c.
Jenkin Morgan, who, with Frost, Williams, and Jones,
was sentenced to be hanged at the Monmouth Special
Commission in 1840, for the Newport riots in 1839, but
whose sentence was subsequently
.commuted to impri-
sonment in the Millbank Penitentiary, has been lately
released. When be was arrested he was the proprietor
of three houses, bad a well-stocked farm, and was other-
wise most comfortably situated. Upon leaving the pri-
son he found himself and his family houseless, and is
now endeavouring to raise a subscription to enable him
to support his wife and children.

Earl Bathurst, on Saturday- last, caused thirteen
sheep to be distributed amongst the labourers in his em
ploy for the purpose of commemorating the old English
"harvest home.