The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-18 00:00:00

SUF' MARY OF NEWS

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I,Oubltt Opinion.

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On Saturday evening, their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received the Neapolitan Ambas-
sador, the Ministers of Marine and Commerce, the Duke
d'Hareourt, the Count de Colomby, and M. Bermudez.
We understand that their Majesties and the Royal Fa-
mily will remove to the Palace of St. Cloud about the
25th, and that the King, after seeing his family in •
Stalled, will go to Eu, from which place he will proceed
to England.
The King and Queen of the Belgians, with the Princes,
Heir sons, and suite, arrived at Ostend on Saturday last.
'They are to return to Brussels on the 22d.
The Constitutionnd says that their Sicilian Majesties
will arrive at Paris at the end of October, and it believes
that their visit is connected with the Duke d'Atunale's
rumoured marriage.
M. Cortina, ex-President of the Spanish Cortes, and
ex-Minister, and M. Cantaro, ex-Minister of Finance,
hir:e arrived in Paris.
The Nuremberg Correspondent has a Berlin letter of
rthe Bth, saying:—" The Empress of Russia is expected
-to pass the winter at the Palace of Belle Vue, in Berlin.
Our King, it is said, is to have an interview with the
Emperor Nicholas, at a place on the frontier, near
Tilsit."

The Univers states that several French and Italian
Jesuits have just embarked at Bordeaux for Madagascar,
where they intend to form a missionary settlement.
The Pope has appointed an auditor of rota for Spain.
The appointment is provisional, but it is regarded as au
indication of the approaching settlement of the differ-
ences between the Papal Court and the Spanish Govern-
ment.

We read in a letter from Trieste, of the sth:—" The
:Prince de Metternich has given an audience to all the
foreign Consuls. The French and English Ambassadors
to the Court of Austria have arrived, and it is generally
reported that a conference will be held on the affairs of
Italy. The Emperor and Empress of Austria have just
arrived."

In consequence of the failure of the harvest in Poland,
from the inundations of the Vistula, the Emperor
Nicholas has interdicted the exportation of corn from
that country.
A letter from Leipsic of the 11th inst., announces that
the town of Plauen had been on fire for two days, and
'as still burning. The church, the great pharmacy, and
a6O houses were already destroyed; but the town library
Was fortunately saved.
The Mayor of Dieppe has given notice that in con-
sequence of the postponement of the visit of the King
and Royal Family to the chateau d'Eu, the ceremony of
the inauguration of the statue of Duquesne, which was
to have been honoured with their presence, and had
therefore been postponed, will take place on Sunday next.
The culture of rice has just been tried with full suc-
cess at Camargue, near Arles. The vegetation of the
t'ep is so fine, that no doubt remains of the soil, Ca-
reargue being perfectly well adapted to it.
At a recent sitting of the Municipal Council of Paris, a
Vote was come to that the Prefect should be requested
!co make inquiry as to the various communities formed
in Paris—the Sceurs Ursulines, and others—the mem-
bers of which, under pretence of furnishing charitable
&c., obtain admittance into families, and employ an
influence which may be turned to an improper account.
the Council demand that none of these societies shall
°e permitted unless the law respecting them be fully
conformed to.
,_A letter from Athens of the 31st ult., in the Sud of
Marseilles, states that dissentions had already commenced
In the new Ministry, particularly between M. Metaxa
and M. Colletti, the former having manifested a deter-
teination to appoint only his own partisans to Govern-
teent offices. In consequence of this misunderstanding,
the elections for the capital had been postponed.

LAW AND POWC76S.
Henry Steward, for burglary, and William Windsor,
4 well-known thief, for picking pockets, were respec-
tively sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to ten
Years' transportation by the Recorder, in the Old Court:;
Llnd William Franklin, the pig-dealer, who robbed an
Irishman named Ward of 109/., the produce of the sale
of twenty-five pigs, was sentenced to be transported for
4sirnilar term by Mr. Commissioner Bullock, in the New
Court.At Bow-street, Emily Brockwell, a servant girl,
%harged with robbing Mr. William Cunningham of
I°ol. 10s. in gold, was fully committed.
Caroline Stuart was again brought up at Queen-
Nuare, on a charge of practising the most revolting
ftuelty on three children named Tyler. The children
*ere examined, and on their evidence, together with that
°I several persons lodging in the same house, she was
eclulinitted to take her trial.

drover, named Edward Drake, was committed from
Alarylebone on a charge of horse-stealing.
At Union hall, John Cooper, alias Timberlake,
George Jackson, and George Weston, charged with
Webbing the house of Thomas Brundall, of Agnes-street,
Waterloo-road, of 12L 103., some silver spoons, and other
articles, were committed for trial. They had obtained
admittance to the prosecutor's house during his absence
Y Pretending to be police-officers, acting under a search
warrant,
The Gravesend magistrates continue their crusade
against Sunday amusements. James Riddell, the pro-
prietor of a shooting gallery on Windmill-hill, was
fined !Is. 6,1. for weighing persons on Sunday last.
aerin. driver of a Bisickwall omnibus, named Edward
at th:7Barnes office, to fourteen days' imprisonment, for
famous driving.
A3l
sair IP.ILISNIONI.3II.
The Duke oxmaf
Sutherland and the Marquis of Lorn
rears Dunrobin Castle, Sutherlandshire, at the close of
this week, to join the Duchess and Lady Caroline Leve-
-8011 Gower, at Erskine House, the seat of Lord and Lady
tlantyre, near Glasgow, from whence the Noble Duke
and Duchess, and Lord and Lady Blantyre, repair to
4nverary Castle.
The Duke of Wellington is at present staying at
calmer Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of
Douro, accompanied by Miss Hope Vere, are expected
lo arrive there from Germany during the present week.
Me
Duke of Richmond, Lord John Manners, and
"". Dickens, of Sussex, left Glenfiddich Lodge, his
41°ure shooting-box in the Highlands, on Friday, and
after paying a short visit to Mr. Lumsden, of Clooie, ar-
tired at Gordon Castle cn Monday.
te;fenhee puke de Melfort, the Earl of Mansfield, his Ex-
the American Minister, and Mrs. Everett and
liss Everett, the Earl and Countess of Sefton, the Earl
°' Durham, and Ladies Maria and Alice Lainbton, the
~.otintess of Camperdown, and Lady Elizabeth Duncan,
'B4 Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Fox Maule, M.P.,
and Hon. Mrs. Menlo, the Hon. E. J. Stanley, M.P.,
Viscount Ingestre, Lord Gray, Lord and Lady Bel-
-1-,BYen, Lord and Lady Ruthven, Sir A. Campbell, Lady
tldlizabeth Moncrieffe, and Miss Moncrieffe, Viscount
Fielding, Sir David and Lady Anne Baird, &c., have
k_
',en among the recent visitors of the Marquis and Mar-
Neness of Breadalbane at Taymouth Castle.
The Earl and Countess Poulett left town on Saturday
'or Hinton St. George, their noble seat, Somersetshire.
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor and Lady Mary
iiarnpbell arrived at Drumlanrig Castle on Thursday
lm., on a visit to the Duke of Buccleuch, from Cawdor
Castle, Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn, the Earl and
Countess of Desert, and the Hon. 0. and Lady Caro-
line Duncombe, who have be( n staying with the Earl
in Countess at their ancient baronial family residence
41 Nairnshire, left there in the previous week.
'Viscount Melville and the Hon. Misses Dunda
haver been among the circle invited to meet theßoyal
':isitors at Ravensworth Castle, have taken their depar-
ture thence, and are arrived at Melville Castle, near
Edinburgh, for the season.
Viscount and Lady Marianne Alford have left town
°Au a visit to the Marquis of Northampton, at Castle
Ashby, Northamptonshire.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers are not expected to
return to this country from Vienna, where they are now
Zayin on a visit to Prince and Princess Nicholas Ester.
843', g until the first week in Nove Pmber.
astrISCIELZULPIEOII7II.
The white marble statue of her Most Gracious Ma-
Jests, which arrived in the St. Katharine's Dock last
Reek by the schooner Effort, from Leghorn, has not
°en landed, as reported, but still remains on board the
'vessel which is lying at the rear of the Dock-house. The
t!fhite marble statue of his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, arrived upwards of a month before that of the
Queen, having been brought to the St. Katharine's Dock
°,,u the 9th ult., from Leghorn, by the schooner Mary
1-'idgway, Captain Traill. It was immediately landed
and safely conveyed to Buckingham Palace.
Two ladies, of the sect of the White Quakers, were
aPprehended in the streets of Longford, where they dis-
Played themselves in the supposed costume of Eden, viz.,
garment of leaves twisted together, and covering them
r°lll the waist to the knee.
Lieutenant Richard Nantes, on half-pay of the 55th
regiment of foot, has just been appointed one of the
military knights of Windsor, in the room of the late
Major Anderson, who died in the early part of last
month.
au r. O'Connell has caused the bed on which he slept
ring his incarceration to be removed to Merrion-
rquare, and has supplied Mr. Cooper, the deputy-go-
Zernor, with a new one instead, declaring that he would
"IP it as a memorial for his children.
I,The Recordership of Cork is vacant by the death of
Robert Bennett. The appointment is vested by the
Irish Municipal Act in the Lord Lieutenant.
The situation of Counsel to the Irish Office, vacant by
A11;,2 recent death of Mr. O'Hanlon, has not yet been
"'fed up. We have heard that some new arrangements,
With respect to the transaction of business in the Irish
office, are in contemplation.
At a most numerous meeting of the men of Wexford,
held on Thursday last, a befitting address to the Libe-
rator was adopted amidst the greatest enthusiasm.
iAmongst
the gentlemen who spoke at the meeting were
Mr-
Mayor (chairman), Very Rev. Doctor Sinnott, Rev.
44r- Murphy, Messrs. Greene, Kenselah, Macslonnell, &c.
,
enkin Morgan, who, with Frost, Williams, and Jones,
gas sentenced to be hanged at the Monmouth Special
Commission in 1840, for the Newport riots in 1839, but
Wnose sentence was subsequently commuted to irnpri-
;°,ureent in the Millbank Penitentiary, has been lately
olleased. When he was arrested he was the proprietor
w.three houses, had a well-stocked farm, and was other-
s '
ise most comfortably situated. Upon leaving the pri-
son he found himself and his family houseless, and is
now endeavouring to raise a subscription to enable him
t Support his wife and children.

_
Earl Bathurst, on Saturday last, caused thirteen
shop,lo to be distributed amongst the labourers in his em
harvest
for the purpose of commemorating the old English
uarYeet home."