The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-09 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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POREIGN.

The King of the French arrived at the Tuileries from
Neuilly, on Monday, at noon, and at half-past twelve a
Cabinet Council was held, at which his Majesty presided.
The sitting occupied an hour. The Court returned to
Neuilly to dinner.
The following summary of the business of the session
appears in Galignani .—" The Chamber of Peers, con-
voked on December 27, has held 101 public sittings in
223 days, and passed 117 Bills, of which 75 related to
mere local objects. The Address, to which the Chamber
of Deputies devoted twelve sittings, was discussed and
voted by the Chamber of Peers in one day, whilst the
Secondary Instruction Bill occupied not less than 28
sittings. Amongst the Bills adopted by the Peers, the
Secondary Instruction, Railroad Police, and Roulage
Bills have not yet been discussed in the Chamber of
Deputies. Four new Peers have taken their seats during
the session—the Prince de Joinville, M. Teste, M. Passy,
and M. G. Delesert."
The Journal des Dcbats states that Joseph Bonaparte
was attended in his last moments by Louis and Jerome,
his only surviving brothers. Nothing has been heard
of these Princes for years and many persons believed
them to be dead.
During the month of November last there were eight
fires in two, communes of the department of the Creuse,
which, no doubt was entertained, were caused by incen•
diaries. A few days ago a man named Lavaud was
caught setting fire to a mill in the same country. Being
brought before the magistrates, he confessed that he was
the agent in one of the former fires, and accused a per-
son named Ripon of being his principal, or instigator.
Both are committed for trial.
On the 16th May last, Etienne Clement, a boy ten
years old, of the village of Saint Mande, near Paris,
went out bird-nesting with some of his companions.
Seeing a nest in a hole on the side of a atone-quarry, to
which there was no other access than by a plank thrown
over a deep excavation, the boy ventured upon it, but
only reached the middle, when the board broke, and he
fell to the bottom and was killed. The father brought
an action against M. Valette, the owner of the quarry,
for the loss of the child through his negligence in laying
down so insecure a board, claiming damages at 4,000 f.
The trial took place yesterday before the Correctional
Tribunal, and M. Valette was condemned to a fine of
50f. and also 800 f. damages.
The railway from Altona to Kid, the length of which
will be about 31 leagues (124 miles English), and which,
in traversing the Duchy of Holstein throughout its whole
extent, would unite the Elbe and the Baltic, is already
more than half completed. The part of the line com-
prised between Altona and Feehrde (7i miles in length)
is just finished.
LAW AND POLICE.
At the Shrewsbury assizes Susannah Wynne was con
victed of stealing a brass candlestick, and sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment. The case, which is cu •
rious, will be found reported at length among the assize
intelligence.
In the case of Parry v. Lord Charles Fitzroy, being an
action upon a bill of exchange accepted by the defend-
ant, and tried at Guildford, the jury gave a verdict for
the full amount, with interest. In another action against
the same defendant, a verdict was also given against him
for 1,0121.

An action was brought against a mai of the name of
Parry, a parish broker, aged 70, by a sergeant of police
for criminal conversation with his wife, when a verdict
was given for the plaintiff—Damages 3001.
The Carlisle assizes commenced on Tuesday. There
are 17 prisoners in the calendar, the greater number of
whom stand charged with petty thefts of a class more
usually disposed of at sessions. The most serious case
is one in which a person employed at the Post-office
stands charged with embezzling the contents of a letter.
There are 11 causes entered for trial.
At Lambeth-street Police-court, James Cockburn. Be-
laney was fully committed to take his trial for the mur-
der of his wife, by administering to her a quantity of
prussic acid.

COTIXT-PISSNIONAIII.II.
The marriage of Lord Claude Hamilton, M.P., bro-
ther to the Marquis of Abercorn, with Miss Elizabeth
Emma Proby, second daughter of Rear-Admiral the
Hon. Grenville Leveson Proby, and niece of the Earl of
Carysfort, was solemnised oil Wednesday morning in the
chapel of Lambeth Palace, his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury officiating at the ceremony.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn have left
Dudley-house for his Lordship's beautiful seat near
Portobello, Scotland, where the Noble Marquis proceeds.
for the grouse shooting.
The Earl and Countess De Grey, Sir Charles and
Lady Scudamore, Sir Benjamin and Lady Haywood and
family, Colonel Banbury, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Cotton,
and several other persons of distinction, are amongst
the recent arrivals at Buxton.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey gave a grand dinner
party on Wednesday at Osterley, their suburban resi-
dence, near Hanwell, on which occasion they were
honoured with the cotop.lny of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, th, it Royal Highnesses the
Grand Duke and Duchess of Necklenburgh Strelaz,
and a distingui,hed circle of the nobility, among whom
were his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and
Duchess of Burckuch, the Earl and Countess of West-
moreland, his Excellency Baron Dedel, the Baruness
I3runnow, &c.

Lady Kemeys has left Berkeley-street on a tour.
Sir Rob.rt and Lady Sale and Mrs. Sturt were amongst
the company at Lady Anstruther's dinner party on Wed•
nesday, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square.
The Duke of Somerset gave a grand dinner party on
Wednesday at the family mansion in Park-lune. The
following distinguished individuals formed the circle :
The Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the Marquis of Kil-
dare and Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the Duke and Duchess
of Leeds, the Duchess de Coigny and Mademoiselle de
Coigny, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, Vis-
count and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Archibald St.
Maur, Mademoiselle d'Este, Lord Dunkellin, and Sir
Michael Shaw Stewart. In the evening the Duchess had
a musical party.