The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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The insurgent leader Bonet, and twenty-five officers, having
fallen into the hands of General 80/kali, at Alicant, were
immediately butchered.
The King of the French, accompanied by Colonel the Duke
d'Estissac and two orderly officers, visited St. Cloud on Tues-
day afternoon, but returned to the Tuileries to dinner.
The Gazette de France, a royalist paper, was seized on
Tuesday, by order of the Government.
Additional lists of subscriptions towards presenting Admi-
ral Dupetit Thouars with la "sword of honour," are pub-
lished in the National. Two other Paris papers, and thirty-
one provincial papers, have opened their offices for the same
purpose.
The Patrie, a journal generally well informed of what
passes in the interior of, the Chamber of Deputies, says that
the commission on the budget will not submit any plan for
the reduction of the Five per Cents., but their report will
contain an admission that the conversion is a wise and legal
measure which the Government ought to make preparations
for effecting at a future period.

The Augsburgh Gazette states, from Constantinople, 21st
ult., that the Earl of Aberdeen has sent a very strong note
to the Divan on the subject of the recent religious prosecu-
tions, and has desired Sir Stratford Canning to demand a
personal interview with the Sultan, if he should fail to
obtain the desired guarantees from the Divan against further
outrages.
The verdict of the tribunal of Alzei, in the case of M.
Haber, for the duel in Germany, which ended so fatally, has
been pronounced. M. de Ilaber, having been found guilty,
is senterxed to the minimum of the punishment awarded by
the law. He is to be imprisoned for six months in a fortress.
The seconds were acquitted.
General Bertrand, on his death-bed, charged his brother,
M. L. Bertrand, to present to the city of Lyons a copy of the
campaigns of Italy, written by the Emperor at the Island of
St. Helena. Napoleon had two copies of these memoirs
made, one of which he gave to General Bertrand, and which
is now transferred to Lyons; as are also a map of Italy, by
Albe, which the Emperor used in writing those memoirs.
During the first two months of the present year there have
been printed in France 1,155 new works in various languages.
M. Berryer arrived at Marseilles on Sunday last, about
three o'clock in the afternoon, his carriage being escorted by
a party of young men on horseback, and followed by more on
foot, to the hotel in the Place de Noailles, at which he
alighted, all welcoming him with cries of " Vive Berryer I"
The Sad of Marseilles states, that in the evening, at the
Grand Theatre, the audieftett called for the Marseillaise,
which was sung by the company in full chorus, and ap-
plauded with the loudest enthusiasm.
Lady Cowley gave a concert on 'Wednesday, evening, at
the British embassy, for which 250 invitations were issued.
The company consisted of the elite of the rank and fashion,
English, French, and foreign, at present in Paris.

LAW AND POLICE.
A man, about forty years of age, who gave his name
James Fletcher West, and described himself as a clergyman
of the Established Church, was placed at the bar, at Maryle-
bone, upon a charge preferred against him by William Rash-
leigh, Esq., 'Br P. for East Cornwall, of obtaining money by
false representations of distress, &c. The prisoner had been
before apprehended on a similar charge, but there being no
direct proof in the present case, he was discharged.
William Curver, a shoemaker in Middlesex-street, Somers
Town, was charged, at Union-hall, with obtaining the sum
of 9/. 4s. 2d., by forging the name of a depositor in the
Southwark Savings Bank, in Three Crown. square, South-
wark. The prisoner admitted that he signed the bank-book
in the name of the complainant, the wife of the latter re-
questing him to do so ; but said that she received the money-
herself He was unconscious of doing wrong, as the bank
would not sustain any loss. Ho could not be committed for
forgery and was discharged.
John Gadsden, a well-dressed young man, who was ex-
amined on a former day for raising a sum of money upon a
horse and chaise he had borrowed of Mr. May, livery-stable
keeper, of the Southwark-bridge-road, was committed from
the same office for trial.

Aim Latham, a respectable-looking woman, about 35 years
of age, who appeared in delicate health, was charged at
Worship-street, with having feloniously intermarried with
Thomas Hayward, her first husband, Edmund Connor, being
then and still living. The charge was made by her sister,
the second' husband refusing to appear against her. She was
admitted to bail. .

John Ward, formerly a drayman in the employment of
Messrs. Elliott and Co., brewers in Pimlico, was charged at
Lambeth-street with embezzling 91. 14s. 2d., the property of
his employers. He was remanded.