The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWSI

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FOREIGN'.

On Tuesday the French Chamber of Peers adopted the
Bill relating to the Extraordinary Credits of Algeria, and the
Tours and Nantes Railroad Bill. In the Deputies, the Bill
relative to Credits for Canals, Roads, &c., was adopted.
On Monday evening the King and Queen received the
Sardinian Ambassador, the Ministe,rs of Denmark, Wirtem-
berg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin., and the Hann Towns, the Mi-
nister of Marine, Generals Excanans and de Prevost, Coimts
Mollien and &ranger, and the Baron de Barante.
Marshal Soult left Paris on Tuesday for his estate at St.
Amans, where he will remain some weeks for the benefit of
his health. During his absence, the portfolio of the war de-
partment will not be held by any other person, and all im-
portant matters will be submitted, as last year, to his
decision. The dispatches from Africa will reach him direct,
and, says the Moniteur Parisien, all things have been so
arranged that no inconvenience will arise from his temporary
absence.
The grand banquet given to the Minister of Commerce by
the manufacturers and artisans who exhibited their produc-
tions at the Champs Elysees, was held on Tuesday, in the
orangery of the Louvre. The tables were served with great
luxury, under the management of six stewards chosen from
the bOdy of exhibitors. The Dukes de Nemours, and Mont-
pensier, the Ministers of Commerce and the Interior, the
Prefects of the Seine and Police, Duke Decazes, Count
Montalivet, Baron Thenard, and other distinguished persons,
honoured the meeting with their presence. The number as-
sembled was calculated at six hundred. The health of the
King was drank with much enthusiasm. The Duke of Ne-
mours returned thanks.
The.Patrie states, on the authority of letters from. Oran,
that the place of rendezvous of the French sqnadron, under
the command of the Prince de Joinville, is to be Algesiras,
and not Gibraltar, as had been reported.
M. Forbin-Janson, Bishop of Nancy, Who has long lived
apart from his see, died a few days ago at Guilhermy, near
Marseilles, aged 58. His fortune is estimated at 3,000,000 f.
The works of the Rouen and Havre railroad are proceeding
with great activity. M. Jones, one of the contractors, has
commenced the great tunnel, which is more than 2,000 metres
in length, and has already arched and bricked a considerable
portion of it.
An extraordinary quantity of rain has fallen in Paris
within the last few days, and we regret to learn that very
serious injury has been done to the crops in some of the pro-
vinces. Much of the corn has been laid almost beyond
recovery. For the last two days the rain in Paris has been
incessant.'
It will be remembered that shortly after the murder of
Mr. Ward, in the Rue de Londres, it was announced that
several men, addicted to infamous practices, and with whom
he was said to have had relations, were arrested. They were
tried on Tuesday by the Tribunal of Correctional Police, upon
charges of outrage upon public morals. Three were con-
demned to six months' imprisonment, one to eight months,
and another to two years, and five years surveillance.
MAW AND POLICE.
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At Northampton, on Wednesday, William Gardner, aged
52, was capitally convicted of having, on the 18th of March,
set fire, in the night, to the house of William HolHer, in the
parish of Chacomb, there being no less than six persons
therein asleep in their beds. Sentence of death was recorded.
At Huntingdon, Samuel Baxter, a respectable little boy,
aged 10 years, and not unlike the celebrated General Torn
Thumb, having pleaded guilty to a charge of firing four straw
stacks, the property of Robert Daintree, of Hemingford Ab-
bots, on the 11th May, was sentenced to be transported for 15
years.
William Wilson, the driver of a Merton omnibus, was
charged before Mr. Cottiugham, at Union-hall Police-court,
with committing an assault of an aggravated nature on Miss
Hannah Murrell, residing at No. 30, Mornington-crescent,
Hampstead-road. The complainant entered the wrong ve-
hicle, and the defendant would not allow her to leave it with-
out payment. She attempted to leave, and the assault was
then committed. Mr. Cottingham inflicted a fine on Wil-
son, the driver, of 31. and costs for the assault on Miss Mur-
rell, and adjudged Steel, the conductor, to enter into his re-
cognisance in 1001., and find two sureties of 504 each to ap-
pear at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court, in
order to give the complainant an opportunity of indicting
him for perjury in giving his evidence, a step which he
strongly advised her to adopt.
At the same Court, Henry Shepherd, the driver of a Car-
shalton omnibus, was charged with furiously driving and
endangering the lives of the passengers. Mr. Cottingham,
instead of inflicting a fine, which would be easily paid, said
he should commit the defendant for a month to hard labour.
A person named Simon Simmons, who had been appre •
hended at North Shields, was charged at Lambeth-street
with uttering two forged acceptances, purporting to be those
of Samuel Abraham, the one for 291. 10s., and the other for
45/., and also defrauding several tradesmen to a very consi-
derable amount. Several cases were gone into, and the pfi-
soner was remanded to a future day, when it is expected that
several new charges will be brought against him, his trans-
actions being enormously extensive.
COTTRIP---PA8810NA.111633.
The Duchess of Gloucester honoured the Marquis and Mar-
-1 chioness of Ailesbury with her company to dinne,r on Thurs-
day evening at the family mansion in Grosvenor-square,
where the following guests who had been honoured with in-
vitations to meet her Royal Highness had already assembled :
—The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Abercorn, the Marquis of Granby, the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and
Lady Clementine Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Shannon,
the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Viscount and Viscountess
Newport, Lord Forester, Lord Foley and the Hon. Miss
Foley, and Mdlle. D'Este.
The Earl and Countess de Grey and suite arrived in St.
James's-square late on Tuesday evening, from the Vice-
regal Lodge, Dublin Castle. Lord Heytesbury, the newly-
appointed Lord Lieutenant, had an interview with the Noble
Earl yesterday.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received on Wednes-
day evening a select party at dinner at their residence on
Carlton-house-terrace, when among the guests were the Earl
of Auckland, Lord and Lady Hatherton, Lord Glenelg, Lord
and Lady Marcus Hill, Hon. Wm. Cowper, Dowager Lady
Holland, Mr. Tufnell, Sir John and Lady Easthope, Sir
Charles Napier, Sir T. Wilde, &c.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk will entertain a large
party at Arundel Castle during the approaching Goodwood
Races, which commence on the 30th inst.

The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch's dinner party at
Montagu House on Wednesday evening comprised the Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, Hon. George and Lady Louisa-Caven-
dish, Lord and Lady Seymour, Lord and Lady Ashley, Vis-
count and Lady Margaret Marsham &c.
The Earl and Countess of Granville entertained the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Earl and Countess of
Clarendon, Lord Harry Vane, Mr. Sneyd, and a select party
at dinner on Thursday evening, at their residence in Bruton-
street.

The Earl of Craven entertained at dinner, in Charles-street,
the Earl and Countess of Verulam, Lady Jane Grimston,
Viscount Grimston, and the Hon. Mrs. E. Grimston, Lord J.
F. Gordon Hallyburton, M.P., and Lady Augusta Hallybur-
ton, Lady Johnson, Hon. Mr. Gore, Major Weyland, Mr.
Bagot, &c.
The Duke of Rutland, accompanied by Lady Adeliza Man-
ners, arrived at Cowes on Monday, in the Resolution
schooner yacht, from a cruise off the coast of France.
Mr. Orby Hunter has arrived at Farranco's Hotel,
Belgrave-street, from his seat, Lyddiard Park, Swindon.