The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-11 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Pubitc Optitton.

" Tilo runs may read."

rozaiazr.

The Paris papers of Sunday bring no additional intel-
ligence from the coast of Africa, and are chiefly occupied
with comments on the settlement of the Otaheite affair.
On Saturday the King received the Spanish'Ambassa-
dor, the Russian Minister, the Count de Sainte-Aulaire,
and Admirals Jacob and Wiilaumez.
His Majesty was expected to set out for Eu in about
a week. During the sojourn of the Court at that place,
he will proceed to Dieppe to assist at the inauguration of
the statue erected there to Duquesne.
The heat at Paris on Sunday was very oppressive. At
two o'clock the thermometer in the shade marked 80
degrees.
The Queen of Holland intends to remain for some time
longer at Weimar, on a visit to the Grand Ducal family.
A letter from Alexandria, August 19, in the Augsburg
Gazette, says—" Ibrahim, who is still at Cairo, has con-
voked all the Provincial Governors, to deliberate on the
means of ameliorating the lot of theFellahs. Semi Pacha
sails to-morrow for Malta, and thence to Tuscany, to
take sea-baths. We have now lying here an Austrian
man of war and a French one."
The Konigsburg Gazette gives at great length the ac-
count of the ceremonies on the celebration of the 300th
anniversary of the foundation of the University of that
city, which commenced on the Ist of September. His
Majesty, who has been for thirty-six years the proctor of
the University, was pleased to issue a proclamation ap-
proving of the plan for a new building, of which his
Majesty laid the first stone. At this ceremony his Ma-
jesty addressed the numerous assembly present in a very
impressive speech, in which he expressed his confident
expectation that his wishes would be fulfilled, with the
Divine blessing, and the aid of the faithful care of the
teachers, in the noble sentiments of the youth committed
to their care; he invited them, while he was striking
the foundation-stone with the hammer, "to salute
with their heartfelt and joyous buzzes this focus of
light for our Nath."
A letter from Dresden, dated Aug. 31, says, after
the long-continued unfavourable weather of rain, cold,
and storm, we hoped for a tine autumn, but the hope does
not seem likely to be realised. We already see many
birds of passage, which in general do not arrive till the
end of September. The prospect of the harvest in the
mountains is, therefore, very melancholy.
LAW AND !OLIO'.

At the Surrey Sessions Lord Cranley, on of the Earl
of Onslow; S. Nicholson, Esq., of Waverley Abbey, near
Farnham; and W. H. Gatniel Farmer, Esq., of Nonsuch
Park, near Ewell, qualified, and were sworn in by Mr.
Onslow, the Deputy Clerk of the Peace, and took their
seats on the bench as Magistrates of the county.
A man named Legg, for stealing a quantity of cut
clover, of the value of one penny, was sentenced, at these
sessions, to seven days' solitary confinement.
A decent-lookinc, man, about forty years of age, who
gave his name Robert Wilkinson, was charged upon his
Own confession, at Guildhall, with stealing a pair of sheets
from one of the cheap lodging-houses in West-street,
Smithfield. The prisoner had made the confession in a
drunken fit overnight, and positively denied its truth
when he became sober in the morning, and there being
no, other evidence against him he was discharged.
Mr. Murphy, the gentleman who has been several
times remanded from Clerkenwell, on a charge of having
killed a man at Highgate, by driving over him, was finally
discharged.
At Lambeth-street, three German sugar-bakere,
named Ellers, Marken, and Miller, charged with assault-
ing a countryman of their own, named Rosenburgh, in
so brutal a manner as to place his life in great danger,
were remanded until Friday next.
A dastardly fellow, named John Hartley, was com-
mitted for two months, in default of payment of two pe-
nalties of 50s. each, fur knocking down two young wo-
men, total strangers to him, whom he chanced to meet
in the street. _ _

George Walker, described as a coal and corn-mer-
chant, in Blackfriars-road,lwas brought before Mr. Traill,
at Union-hall, for re-examination, charged with fraudu-
lently obtaining 301. of Aaron Smith, on a bill of ex-
change. The prisoner had accepted the bill in question,
and on the faith of his representation that he was 23
years of age, the prosecutor had discounted it. The bill
WAS dishonoured, an action was brought, the prisoner
pleaded infancy, and obtained a verdict. Mr. Traill held
him to bail to answer the charge at the next sessions for
the. Central Criminal Court.

A warrant was granted at Greenwich by Mr. Cotting-
ham (who sat for Mr. Jeremy) to a widow lady, against
Captain Spratly, of the Cyrus, South Seaman, for un-
lawfully leaving her son behind, at a Dutch settlement
in the South Seas, during a whaling voyage in March
last.

Osborne, T 61, the warrant officer of the Hammer-
smith Court, informed the Magistrate, that a man named
Benjamin Bolton, against whom he held a warrant, had
committed suicide. The warrant was directed to be
cancelled.
At Gravesend a man named Bradshaw was fined 5s
fur weighing people on a Sunday.
Thomas Thompson, who has been several times re
manslaiwe.
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