The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Tuesday being the fourth anniversary of the acces-
sion t. power of the present Ministry, all the members
of the Cztbinet dined with the King at Saint Cloud.
A 'Toulon letter mentions a report that, after the mar-
riage of the Duke d'A.umale, the Prince and Princess
Jumville will take up their residence for the winter in
the environs of Toulon. _

The Augsburgh Gazette states from Constantinople,
Oct. 9, that Mr. Bourne, the English Post-oi£►ce agent,
had returned to Alexandria from Cairo, after having had
two interviews with Mehemet AU, which has caused him
to renounce all hope of success in the object of his
mission. _ _ _

The Dowager Empress of Brazil and the Duchess of
Leuchtenberg arrived at Munich on the 23d for the
winter. The former will embark for Brazil in May.

Accounts from Bayonne state that Colonel Raphael
Mendiconti, formerly Aide-de-camp to Espartero, ho ar-
rived there about three weeks before from London, set
out on the 25th inst. for Spain.
The Marquis of Santa Cruz, a relation of the wife of
Espartero, was arrested at the same time as General
Amettler, at the moment they were about to cross the
Spanish frontier, and brought back to Perpignan. The
Marquis was President of the Insurrectional Junta at
Carthagena.
The annual meeting of the proprietors of the Rouen
and Ilavre Railway took place on Wednesday, and was
attended by a great number of both the English and
French shareholders. M. Charles Laffitte presided. The
report of the progress of the works, and of their present
state, was read by the secretary, M. Thibaudeau, and it
gave great satisfaction.
By a royal ordonnance, dated the 26th ult., the
custom-house of Boulogne-sur-Mer is added to the
number of those previously indicated for the export of
manufactured articles of gold or silver under the law of
19th Brumaire, year VI.
It appears from a recent return that the population of
the French colonies at the last census, in 1842, was as
follows :—Martinique, 42,403 free, 76,172 slaves ; Gua-
daloupe and its dependencies, 37,830 free, 92,639 slaves ;
French Guyana, 5,805 free, 14,500 slaves ; Bourbon,
39,060 free, 66,064 slaves.
According to a statistical account published this year
by order of the Minister of Commerce, it appears that,
in the ten years from 1833 to 1843, the State expended
for the maintenance of 10,933 convicts a sum of two
millions four thousand francs, being an average of 82
centimes per day for each, whereas, in several of the de-
partments, the salary and emoluments of the teachers of
public schools do not amount to 80 centimes per day.
A letter from St. Pierre (Martinique) of the 26th
ult., in the Memorial Bordelais, states that two bales of
pamphlets, printed under the auspices of the Anti-
slavery Society, had been seized there on board the
Bon-llenri, from Havre. It is added that the heads of
the slaves had been previonsly turned by similar pub-
lications, and that a rising had been feared, but was
prevented by the energy of the authorities.

LAW AND POLICII.
The case of Mr. Renton Nicholson, of the Garrick's
Head, in Bow-street, came on for hearing in the Insol-
vent Court before Mr. Commissoner Pollcck. The in-
solvent was ordered to be discharged.
Mary Davis, aged 25, was commuted from the Guild-
hall to Bridewell, to be kept on bread and gruel for 14
days, for breaking a pane of glass at the shop of a baker
in the Old Bailey, who refused to give her some bread.
A crossing sweeper in Belgrw-e-square, who gave his
name Teddy M‘Donnough, was charged at the Queen-
square Court with having attempted to pawn a valuable
gold Geneva watch, the property of Lady Selina Bridg-
man, which he had picked up in the street. The pri-
soner, in answer to the charge, said that he had picked
the watch up, and said he had tried to pawn it because
he was in great distress. He was discharged, after re-
ceiving a severe lecture from Mr. Bond, and the watch
was given up to her Ladyship's butler.
William Smith, charged with stealing a set of harness,
the property of Richard Cooper, butcher, 54, Great
Portland-street, was fully committed from Marlborough-
street.
At Marylebone Benjamin Lambourn, who for a period
of nearly 25 years has held the situation of waiter at
Ibbotson's Hotel, Vere-street, Oxford-street, was brought
up in custody, and remanded on a charge of embezzling
money, the property of his employer.
Edward Faithful, a warehouseman in the City, was
brought up for re-examination, at Union-hall, charged
with violating the person of Sarah Alice Nott, of W al-
worth. He was bound over himself in 1,0001., and two
sureties in 2501. each, to appear at the Central Criminal
Court to answer the charge.
An elderly female, named Sophia Jones, charged by
Mr. Davis, the master of the Hammersmith (female)
workhouse of the Kensington Union, with having refused
to work, was committed for seven days, from the Ham-
mersmith Police-court.