The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

PONLIEIGBT.

The King and Queen of the French, the Queen of,the Bel-
gians, and the Royal family, arrived at Dreux on the 12th.
All the Paris theatres remained closed on Saturday night,
that being the anniversary of the death of the Duke of
Orleans.

. The Cothmittee of the Chamber of Deputies, to which the
fifth election of M. Charles Lafitte for the borough of Louviers
was referred, has reported that the offer of M. Charles Lafitte
for the branch railway to Louviers having been withdrawn,
there is no longer any reason why he should not be admitted
to take his seat. The question was expected to come before
the Chamber on Monday.
The Paris and Lyons-Railway Bill, the debate upon which
we mentioned several times last week, passed the House of
Peers on Saturday with a majority of 75.
The quarrel between the Cour-Royale and the Council of
Advocates has not been adjusted, the Council having resigned
in a body. A new election took place, when all were elected
by a majority of 496 to 5. A great many members of the
Chamber of Deputies, professors, and other members of the
profession, long retired from business, attended to give their.
votes, and among others M. Gerard de Bury, the oldest mem-
ber of the French bar, who is now in the 99th year of his age.
Accounts from Christiania, of the sth inst., announce that
the anniversary of King Oscar's birth-day was observed
there with extraordinary rejoicings.
The reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, Prince
Rupert of Saxe Coburg, and his Royal Consort Princess Cle-
mentine, have arrived at Vienna on a visit to the Duke Fer-
dinand of Saxe Coburg. They intend to remain about three
weeks in the Austrian capital.

LAW AND POLICE.
In the Court of Bankruptcy the case of William Bromley
was further heard, and adjourned at the bankrupt's expense
till the 28th of October. In the course of the hearing the
following dialogue took place. Mr. Sturgeon, counsel for
Bromley, assured the Court that the bankrupt's property had
cost him upwards of 120,000/., the whole of which will come
to the creditors. Sir C. F. Williams—l should be very glad
if 120,000 half crowns would come to the creditors. Mr.
Humphrey, who represented the assignees, here said that
there would not be one shilling in the pound.
The commission for the Oxford Assizes was opened on the
15th. At ten o'clock, Mr. Serjeant Atcherley took his seat
in the Civil Court, and Chief Justice Tindal proceeded to
charge the grand jury in the Crown Court at eleven. There
are fourteen causes for trial, and the calendar comprises the
names of thirty prisoners, who severally stand charged 'with
the following offences :—Cuttingl and stabbing, 1 ; horse-
stealing,l2 ; larceny, 15 ; highway robbery, 2 ; stealing from
the person, 3 ; sheep-stealing, 1 ; manslaughter, 1 ; assault
on constable and issuing base coin, 2 ; rape, I—the bill in
this last case has been ignored by the grand jury.
At Bow-street, Mr. Charles Pembroke, of 35, Ely-place,
Holborn, was brought up in custody, charged with sending
a threatening letter to Mr John Buller Yarde Buller, with in-
tent to provoke a breach of the peace. The case was taken in a
private room, before Mr. Twyford, who ordered the defendant
to put in bail, himself in the sum of 400 L, and one surety in
200/., to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for twelve
months. The bail was found.
At Worship-street, four finely-grown, but exceedingly sun-
burnt young Lancashire women, very neatly and pictu-
resquely attired, were placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton
for final examination. They had been charged on a previous
day with singing some dolorous ditty, collecting crowds, and
begging in the streets. They stated that they had been em-
ployed in the coal mines, but were thrown out of bread by an
Act of Parliament. The clerk, by direction of the magis-
trate, wrote to their last employer, to know whether their
statement was true, and received an answer, stating that a
great number of young women have within these last few
months been deprived of employment by the operation of
Lord Ashley's Act for excluding females from coal-mines,
and that the statement of the girls was likely to7be true. On
reading the letter, Mr. Broughton expressed his conviction
of the truth of the prisoners' statement, and ordered a suffi-
cient sum of money to be given to each of the girls from the
office poor-box to carry them comfortably to their native
place. The prisoners expressed their gratitude in the warmest
terms for the magistrate's kindness, and promised to set out
immediately on their journey home.