The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vuric Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

POlLMnisr.
The King and Queen of the French on Saturday evening
received the Austrian Ambassador, the Bavarian Minister,
the Minister of Justice, Duke Decazes, Counts de Montaliret
and St. Aginan, Generals Sebastiani, Dode de la Brunerie,
and Fabvier, and Martineau des Chenez.
The Duke de 'Nemours had arrived at the Tuileries.
The King and Queen of the Belgians left Neuilly on Sa-
turday for Brussels.

A letter from Naples, of the 16th of July, states, that the
third son of the King of Naples, the Count de Castro Gio-
vanni, is dead. Twenty-one of the Calabrian insurgents, who
came from Corfu, have been sentenced to death, and six have
been already executed.

Accounts from the east of Algiers, brought by the steamer
Cerbre, which came in on the 17th, state that a party of
Kabyles, amounting to about 500, lately attacked the camp
of Bathena, between Constantina and Biskara. The force in
the camp, though not strong, repulsed the enemy with con-
siderable loss, for they left twenty dead on the field, while
the French did not lose one man.

On the 20th, some slight shocks of an earthquake were felt
at Louvie-Juson, in the Basses Pyrenees.
The Lyons journals of Friday speak of the heat there as
having been for several days of unusual intensity. On that
morning the :thermometer stood at 26 degrees Centig►rade,
79 Farenheit ; but at four in the afternoon of Thursday, it
was facing the north, and in the shade, at 32,1 C., 9d F.
This is nearly the highest degree of heat in that climate, as,
according to the records kept at the Observatory of Lyons,
it appears that the utmost point to which the thermometer
rose, during the seven years from 1833 to 1839 inclusively,
was 33 6-10ths C., 93 F.

At Athens, on the 10th inst., the thermometer marked in
the shade 36 degrees Reaumur, 113 Fahrenheit.
The inhabitants of Constantinople were treated on the Bth
inst. with rather a novel spectacle for that city. A rI. Co-
marchi made a balloon ascent in the presence of the Sultan
and his court, and an immense assemblage of persons. The
ascent was perfectly successful.
The Commandant-General of the Prussian Guards has is-
sued, says a German paper, an order interdicting the soldiers
and non-commissioned officers up to the rank of sergeant-
major, from becoming members of temperance societies, upon
the ground that the rules of these societies forbid in toto the
use of liquors which, if taken in moderation, are beneficial to
the men, and at times even indispensable.
According to a letter from Belgrade, the Christians of
Bosnia are still suffering gteat persecution. It was hoped,
when Kiamil Pacha was appointed Governor of the province,
that a more humane and enlightened policy would be adopted,
as he had been twice ambassador in Europe, and was thought
to be free from sentiments of religious hatred. It appears,
however, that he has adhered to the course adopted by his
predecessors.

The Augsburgh Gazette quotes a letter from Smyrna, of the
Ist, stating in the most positive terms that in the island of
Rhodes and other places the Turks had formed a plot for the
massacre of the Christians at last Easter. The execution of
the plot appears to have been prevented by an accidental
discovery.