The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREXON.

On Thursday the King of the French came to Paris,
and held a Council of Ministers. His Majesty retuned
to Neuilly to dinner.
The Ministers of the King of Wurtemberg, the Grand
Duke of Mecklenberg Schwerin, and the Grand Duke of
Mecklenberg Strelitz, had audiences of the K'ng, to
deliver to his Majesty letters from their respective
sovereigns in answer to the notification of the birth of
the Duke d'Aleneon. The King has also received
similar letters from the King of Norway and Sweden,
and the free towns of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh,
and Frankfort-on-the-Maine.
On Thursday evening their Majesties received the
Minister of Marine, the Marquis de Mornay, Generals
Baudrand, Hecquet, and Gazen, Captain Pujol, and M.
Desmousseaux de Givr6.
Letters from Rio Janeiro of the 9th of July announce
that the Reine Blanche frigate, on board of which Ad-
miral Dupetit Thouars is returning to France, was daily
expected in that harbour.
" We are assured," says the Presse, " that the King
has expressed a desire to review the National Guard of
Paris, on the occasion of the successes which our armies
by sea and land have obtained on the coast of Africa.
This review is fixed for Sunday, the 29th instant."
General Negrier, Commandant of the 13th military
division (Rennes), is removed to the 16th (Lille), in
the room of General. Corbineau, who goes on the re-
tired list.
The Havre journals state that a seizure was made
there a few days ago, at one of the provision shops, of a
quantity of potted game, on the supposition that the
game was killed during the period of the year when the
killing of game is prohibited by the new law. The shop •
keeper has given notice of appeal, in order that the
question may be tried.
Preparations are being made to crown the Arc de
Triomphe in the Champes Elysies. A statue of France
is to be place on an antique car. Around it, on foot,
will be the genii of the French nation. All these works
are to be of colossal size, and in bronze. A pasteboard
model will be shortly erected.
The King has engaged M. Horace Vernet to paint
three pictures, representing the bombardment of Tan-
giers, the taking the island of Mogadore, and the battle
of Isly.
The Almanach Royal for 1844 contains the insertion of
the name of Capt. Bruat, under the designation of Go-
vernor of the Marquesas Islands, and King's Commis-
sioner to the Queen of the Society Islands.
A letter from Metz, of the 10th inst., announces the
arrival of Duke Edward, the son of Duke Bernard, of
Saxe Weimar, accompanied by Captain Gordon, a son
of the Earl of Aberdeen. They were received at the
Prefecture by the Duke de Montpensier, the Duke de
Nemours being with Duke Bernard at head-quarters, at
Buchy, where the two foreign Dukes, and the personages
who came with him, will remain with their Royal High-
nesses as guests until the reviews and other military
operations are over.
The Journal du Havre announces the arrival on
Thursday of the Theodore, from Guadeloupe, with the
Commissioners sent out by the Government at the re-
quest of M. Cailloue, to explore the great sulphur mines
in the neighbourhood of Basse Terre. The report being
favourable, the Colonial Council had made a grant of
the mines to M. Cailloue for fifty years, on condition that
they be brought into full work within five years from the
present time. M. Cailloue went out with the Commis-
sioners, and has returned with them to make arrange-
ments for carrying on his undertaking.
Letters from Vienna of the 4th say, that Admiral
Bandeira has been called on by the Austrian Govern-
ment to disprove, before a military commission, all par-
ticipation with his unfortunate sons in their late attempt
at revolution in Calabria.

A letter from Alexandria of the 28th of August states
that amongst the passengers who had arrived in that
city from Calcutta by the Bentinck, were Count Ratti
Menton and family.
A letter from Athens of the 25th ult. says--" On the
22d ult. the mail was stopped in the middle of the Isth-
mus by 25 well armed brigands, who had gained infor-
mation that it contained money. They forced open the
carriage, and took a sum equal to about 10,000 E ; they
broke the seals of the dispatches to Ambassadors ; and
also broke open the trunks of the travellers, and carried
off all they thought worth keeping. The courier col-
lected all the scattered papers and took them to Luiaki.
General Prokesch, on being made acquainted with the
occurrence, set out for the Isthmus, to make a personal
investigation. It had no political character. We are
afraid, also, that our waters are infested with pirates, for
a Post-office steam-packet, known to have large remit-
tances on board, has disappeared, and the crew are
feared to have been massacred, as bodies have been seen
floating in the sea."

The—MonitetWParisien states that no intelligence from
Otaheite of a nature to confirm the account of a conflict
between the French troops and the natives, given in a
letter said to have been received by a Mr. Salmon, and
published by the English papers, has been received by
the French Government.

The Herald() informs us that the son of Sir Robert
Peel, who is an attache of the British Legation at Ma-
drid, had left that city for Cadiz, with a courier of the
French Embassy, bearing dispatches for the Prince de
Joinville.

COITAT-11PASHIONAZIZ.Z.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompa-
nied by Countess Wratislaw, and attended by Lady
Charlotte Dundas, is expected to honour Earl Howe
with a visit shortly, at Gopsal Hall, Leicestershire.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, accom-
panied by the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, is expected to leave Ravensworth Castle to-day,
where they have been staying on a visit to Lord and
Lady Ravenswords, on a visiting tour in Scotland.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
intends to return to this country from the Continent
early in the ensuing month.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and Miss
Percy leave Leamington Spa this week, for Alnwick
Castle, Northumberland.

The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Lore-
son Gower, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn, the
Dowager Lady Blantyre, and the Hon. Misses Stuart,
have assembled at Erskine House, N. 8., on visits to
Lord and Lady Blantyre.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, accompanied by
Lords Edward and Bernard Howard and Lady Mary
Howard, left St. James's-square, on Saturday last, on
their return to Arundel. Castle. Owing to the recent
demise of Lady Brooke Pechell, the Duke and Duchess
do not intend to see company at the Castle for some time
to come.

Lady Brougham arrived at Brougham Hall on Sunday
last from London, and on Thursday last Mr. Baron
Parke and the Hon. Charles Howard and lady, who had
been on a short visit to Henry Howard, Esq., of Grey-
stoke Castle, joined Lord Brougham, at Brougham Hall,
for a few days.
Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard have arrived at Holkar
Hall, near Milnethorpe, on a visit to the Earl of Bur-
lington.
Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart., has returned from
his shooting-box in the Highlands. The respected Ba-
ronet visited Lady Stanley, at Haggerstone, Northum-
berktnd, on his way south.
The Bishop of Ripon has returned to the Episcopal
Palace from his annual visitation. His Lordship was
the guest of Gaskell, Esq., at his seat near Wake-
field, early in the week.
The Earl of Strg.dbroke arrived at his seat in Suffolk
the week before last, from visiting his estates in Ire-
land. The Noble Earl and the Hon. Captain bons,
M.P., were to leave Henham Hall on Saturday, for Don-
caster.

The Earl of Harrowby and Viscount and Lady Frances
Sandon and family arrived at Harrowgate, on Thursday
last, from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire.

bUSOZILSANJAO'OII.
The Lords of the Admiralty have arrived at Devon-
port on their usual visit of inspection. They left Lon-
don on Wednesday afternoon, and arrived at Exeter by
the Great Western Railway on the same night. They
slept at Exeter, and reached Devonport on Thursday.
Incendiarism has again commenced in Suffolk. A
most destructive fire took place on Wednesday night on
a farm, the property, and in the occupation of, Mr. John
Phillips, at Great Barton. The property destroyed con-
sisted of a large barn, in which was 100 coombs of wheat
and 200 coombs of oats, which had been got up about a
week ; a row of cart-sheds and other out-buildings, a
waggon, and a quantity of agricultural implements.
The property was insured.
We regret to stato that fire after fire has taken place
in Dorsetshire during the last six or seven days, and all,
there is every reason to believe, the work of vile incen-
diaries. Much property has been destroyed. A lad
has been committed for trial charged with one of the
offences.

According to the Post Ami Gazette, the news of the
acquittal of Mr. O'Connell has produced an extraordinary
sensation at Frankfort. Immediately after its arrival
his portrait was exhibited, surrounded with garlands, and
even an illumination was talked of. An Englishman,
who had become notorious for his anti-Irish opinions, has
considered it prudent to quit the city.
Alderman Brown will resign the aldermanic gown of
Billingsgate to•inorrow. At present there is only one
candidate in the field.
On Saturday morning a task of deep solemnity was
performed in the removal of a number of coffins from an
old vault belonging to the parish of St. John Zachary, in
Maiden-lane, City. The old church was burned down
by the great fire of London, after which a very large
house was built over' the vaults, which, however, has
continued in use. The removal, as well as other bodies
from a portion of the churchyard itself, took place in
consequence of the ground being required for City im-
provements. The coffins in the vault, and the mortal
remains of those interred in the churchyard, were de-
posited in what will probably be their final resting-place,
a large vault formed in another part of the churchyard.
Captain Layard, M.P., has been, and continues, we
understand, dangerously ill, at Benown, the seat of
Arthur D. Chaigneau, Esq., county of Westmeath.

Lord and Lady Lilford, the Hon. and Rev. Richard
Bruce and Hon. Mrs. Stopford, the Hon. and Rev. L.
and Mrs. rowys, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Colquhoun,
Sir John Murray and lion. Lady Nasmyth, &c., are
placed in mourning by the demise of the Hon. Miss
Emily Powys, who died at Clifton, near Bristol, on
Tuesday last. The deceased, who was third (laughter
of Thomas, first Lord Lilford, was born May 18, 1784.
LISKEARD.—On Sunday last the Rev. F. Todd re-
sumed his services in the church here, after his suspen-
sion by the Bishop, for omitting a part of the burial se
vice.— West Briton.