The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-23 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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POZEIGN.

,
On Sunday evening their Majesties the King sou
Queen of the French received Prince Paul of Wurtens"
berg, the Austrian Ambassador, the Minister of Justice,
General Sebastiani, and Colonel Marnier.
The Constieutionnel states that active preparations
were making in Paris for the intended journey of the
King to England. M. de Montalivet, the Intendant of
the Civil List, was said to have drawn a sum of 3,000,00 a
out of the Caisse des Consignations to defray the sr
penses of that visit.
The Duke de Montpensier has arrived at Metz.
M. Chaudordy, a Conservative candidate, has "bey
elected for Agen, in the place of M. Bonet, who had re"
signed. M. Chaudordy had 241 votes out of 255.
Lord and Lady Palmerston left Brussels on Sunday for
Prussia. On Saturday they dined with the King and
Queen of the Belgians, who paid marked attentiod 14)
them during the whole of their stay in Brussels.
The Observateur of Brussels states that there is $
report that the King of the French will return to raj'
from England by way of Belgium.
M. Apiau, who in the lamentable accident of the -8111
May, 1842, on the Versailles Railroad (Left Bank), I°4
one of his sons, had another horribly mutilated, and ireg
himself so much injured that he was compelled to hsve
one of his legs amputated, having appealed to the Cour
Royale against the judgment of the Tribunal de Premiere
Instance, which rejected a claim that he made upon 113°
Company for damages, the appeal, after several healing
was decided upon on Monday. The Court confirmed the
decision of the lower tribunal, and ordered M. Apiss to
pay all the costs.
The general exhibition of the produce of national.'
dustry in the States of Germany was opened at Berlin
on the 15th inst. At the first the catalogue contained
only 1,913 members, but was expected to be shortly 111"
creased to 3,000. In the 1,913 Prussia reckons 1,315'
but as yet only 21 of the States of the Confederation
have contributed.
A strange circumstance occurred recently to the Duke
of Genoa, second son of the King of Sardinia. Ile .12
attacked and robbed near the Royal chateau of Racothr
where there are several thousand men in garrison.
An Englishman named Snow, accompanied by fore
guides, effected the passage of the Col du Giant on the
6th. He left Montanvert at two ,in the morning,
after having crossed the Mer de G%ce,'the. GlaGi
da
Tacul (which was found the most . difficult pait of di!
undertaking), and the Giant, arrive-d. at Cormateur 11`

six in the evening.
The closing of the different public libraries of Pais
for the vacation is fixed as follows:—The Royal Libre,'
from Ist September to Ist October ; that of Saints
O
nevieve from Ist October to 15th November ; that of t!I
City from Ist September to 15th of October ; and that
the Arsenal from 15th of September to 15th of Oct?lier'
The Bibliotheque Mazarine eas shut on the Ist
and will be re-opened on the 15th of September.

LAW AND POLICIL,
At Marylebone Police-court Charles Williams, EA,"
a gentleman of property, residing in Park-square,
tended before Mr. Rawliuson, by virtue of a wars"
to answer the charge of having committed a violent 55,.;
sault upon Sarah Jacobs, housemaid, in his service.
appeared that a violent altercation took place betweell
the defendant and his wife, and that the prosecutrix
terfered to gave her mistress. The consequence volt
that the defendant struck her a desperate blow on
breast, from which she suffered very much. Mr.
Ar
linson remarked that he could see no excuse whatel
for defendant's conduct, and inflicted on him th 4
penalty of 51. The defendant, by the advice of bis
licitor, intends to appeal against the Magistrate's dee'.
sion at the sessions.
At Union Hall, Thomas Wetherell and Will
Edmonds, were charged with gambling at Camberwe
on the preceding day. Sergeant Kendall, P
saw the defendants with a table in the fair, on whied
was spread a piece of oilcloth, with the apparatus calie
a " Roundabout," and calculated to impose on-
~
e
unwary. That Edwards acted the part of a "deo();
duck," and as an inducement for the bystanders, prioc,l;
pally youths, to " try their luck," he pretended to
money at the game, which he was afterwards seen to Ptield
back to his fellow prisoner. Wetherell was comtnitt
for a month, and the other for fourteen days.

G 011X1r --7PASSIIO MAUI LS.
We are gratified in being enabled to state that ber
Majesty is now sufficiently well to be enabled to dispel!!!
with the further attendance of Dr. Locock, who tong 111"
leave of the Queen on Tuesday evening, and left the
C. stle for town, intending to proceed yesterday 003
a tour on the t ontinent.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with the ber°.
ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Str:i
litz, accompanied by Baron Knesebeck and suite,
toPssBtbe
through Derby on Monday last, on their way
splendid seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, at Alton Mil'
The Royal party arrived at the station at tivti
d°Vote!,
and after partaking of luncheon at the Midland
_es t..
proceeded in three carriages and four to their

nation. Sack'
Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lad
i MarY
vile West have arrived at Aberystwith, om Conit'N
and Bangor. The Noble Earl is expected to retail' 1°
town at the end of the month on official business.
The Duke of Wellington arrived in town on Wedner
day afternoon, from Nuneham Park, the seat of 114
Grace the Archbishop of York. his Grace has suffeo"
no inconvenience from the fatigues he has recently tor
diTgone in accompanying his Royal Highness the
,
Prince of Prussia in his tour to Portsmouth, OxfoM
&c. His Grace attended at the Horse Guards 10 'Li."

afternoon.
The Archbishop of York has fixed the following dal
for his public dinners at Bishopsthorpe :—Thurstrs
Sept. 5 ; Thursday, Sept. 12 ; Thursday, Sept. 19
Tuesday, Sept. 24.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn arrived in te
RD
on Tuesday from Brighton, where they had been staYl
during the last few days on a visit to the Duke se
Duchess of Argyll. On Wednesday the Noble pail' le
Stafford House for Trentham.
Ihe Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have fa
Nuneham Park for Apethorpe, in order to prePre,,s-
the reception of his Royal Highness the Prince of Fi.,'""ra
sia, who has signified his intention of honouring ,'OO
Westmoreland with a visit upon his return from
land on Tuesday next. 00
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left tom ,
Wednesday for his Lordship's seat, Bretby Park, Leice*
tershire. re'
The Earl of Roden and Viscount Jocelyn have t•
turned to town from Ireland, where they have beeti,_ete
tending the obsequies of their lamented relative, the
Viscount Powcrscourt. West'
Lady Brougham left town on Wednesday for
1°
moreland. Her Ladyship is, we regret to leanly
delicate state of health. the
Lord and. Lady Carrington have left Whitehall for . p
rd
season, and are staying at Grayhurst, his LO-81101
seat, near Newport Pagnell, where Lady Willoug
D'Eresby is at present on a visit to her Noble daueno
Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley have arrived
from Strathtieldsaye.
OXISCEZZANZOIIIIII. de f'
Plymouth regatta is appointed to come off on 00,,11 r
the 28th instant, being the anniversary of Prince A"-;t1
birth-day. In the eveving there is to be a ball stow
Roy al Hotel, under the patronage of the Noble C°ll%.
dore and members of the Royal Western Yacht Cl° • of
The Right Hon. George R. Dawson, Commissioeet of
Customs, is making a tour of inspection, in pursuant
a recommendation of the Revenue Inquiry Conit°l;oo
in their receot.report, that the members of the Cos the
Board should not only personally survey and inspee,l io-
departments in London, but should, at certain perinas'aft,
spect the whole of the ports of the United Kingdn°l*
Daa son is at present inspecting the Irish ports. post'
" For some weeks past," says the Dublin Evening force
" there has been a gradual diminution of the militaryrow
congregated in Ireland at the period of the State t 60th
We mentioned, on Saturday, that two regiments, wecoffer
Rifles, and the 61st Foot, were under orders at /00
awaiting the arrival of transports to embark for
_s been
Those transports have arrived ; but an orderer ;et
flet
forwarded from the Horse Guards suspending tue
parture of both regiments." oti
Every debtor in the Liverpool gaol was
Saturday last, under the operation of the new
the abolition of imprisonment for debt. .over"
A letter from St. Petersburgh states that the
ment is about to send several professors
ones ,!,060,1
veysi.ty of Cason and St. Petersburgh, iscii, ow"
mission to Italy, Germany, France, Switzer°
England.
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FIRE AT DEPTFORD.—Wednesday fternengolor,
broke out in the private dwelling-house- 30f Orr': orl—giA'.
No. 8, Union •street, High-street, Deptford• Grit
when
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fiinrsotnyeeroefetihveedbahcakdrooobmtasiainedthae
fiurppinehroy_rwoirtiii thtiej
apartment. The necessary alarm being raiseul Doe_AP.
possible expedition an engine from her MajestJ'i SW'
yard was on the spot, with one from the Geriers,.waric."
Navigation Company's Wharf, and also the Soo west of
bridge-road brigade engine, with that of th lent their
England Company. The inhabitants having .„ 0011
assistance, by means of plenty of water, got the ""e ton
of the fire before the engines came down, but
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sealing some charts a few minutes before.
is insured in the Licensed Victualler's Office.
LANDLORDS.--SirGOOD LANDLORDS.--Sir Henry Winston ..e
B.ed 0.
Bart., M.P., Lady Barron, and family, have arrl' oar
their beautiful marine residence at Ballinsairtjo has
Ardmore, in the county of Waterford. Sir °extensile
commenced draining for all his tenants on bis riote'
estates, at his own expense and under the eoPe__euent
dence of a professed drainer. He is a roost exu._ and
and indulgent landlord. He pays the rent-cbsure, for
poor-rates for his tenants, and has built slated hSr., is
them. Edward Galwey, of Ducks pool, Es cP •
rogninef„'
aLo draining extensively on his estates.—Cwba
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BRIGHTON, AUG. 21.-Count Ness
Pegg's Pegg's Royal York Hotel yesterday, for ifi3daii°l3'd ieg:
turned this afternoon with Baroness Seebsel'it_ .0000,
Kisseleff, the Russian Chargit d'Affaires at PaliZ6uit
13runnow, the Russian Ambassador o.n
London, is expected on a visit to Count.
morrow. Among the latest arrivals here
and Countess of Wicklow, Lord Gainshoroue,:;;oolo
Elizabeth Noel, Viscount and ViscouiltekVr",
Lad'
Mr. and Lady Sarah Bayley, LadY list 4
Heytesbury, Sir George and Lady Worm)
Aso
Rolieby, Mr. and Lady. Sandford, Ficc. less '—
rm." are no lbS
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