The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.
Some accounts from Paris would lead to the belief that the
health of the King is not satisfactory, but, judging from his
frequent visits to Versailles and other places, and the large
parties invited every evening to the Palace, little credit
can be attached to these reports. On Monday evening he
received the Austrian Ambassador, the Ministers of Bavaria,
Baden, the Netherlands,. the Hanseatic towns, Tuscany, and
Denmark, Rear-Admiral Le Ray, Marshal Molitor, Generals
the Marquis de St. Simon, Count Dejean, and Jacqueminot,
the Marquis de Rochambeau, Count d'Haubersaert, Viscount
d'Archiac, Baron Deffaudis, the Chevalier and Mine. Macedo,
MM. Conte, Robineau, de Bougon, Esperonnier, and Hebert,
the Duchess de Valencay, the Countess de Boigues and de
Luxbourg, and Mme. Peruzzi.
The Journal du Havre of Monday, in announcing the ap•
pearance there of the Prince de Juinville, says :—" On Sa-
turday, at about one o'clock, a traveller, very simply attired,
went to the office of the Morlaisien steamer, to engage his
passage. Your name, sir,' said the bookkeeper. My name?
write the Prince de Joi:nville."The bookkeeper, who heard
him imperfectly, instantly wrote a receipt in the name of M.
Blin de Joinville."

The National, and almost all the opposition Paris papers,
blame the Spanish promotions in the Legion of Honour. The
National, after mentioning that the grand cross of the Legion
of Honour had been conferred upon the Duke de Baylen, calls
this an act of anti-nationality worthy of the Man of Ghent,
which cannot be sufficiently reprobated.
" A strange report was current to -day," says the Courrier
Francais, " at one of the offices of a Ministerial department,

relative to the marine excursion which the Prince de Join-

vine has gone on to the western ports. It was affirmed that
he was travelling by superior order, and that he had been
formally prohibited from seeing, before his departure Capt.
Reine, aide-de-camp to Admiral llupetit Thouars. It was
added that the Prince de Joinville had proved hostile to M.
Guizot's policy in the Tahiti affair, and that his eloignement
by order might very possibly be a little disgrace."
We find, by the Moniteur Algerien, of the 10th inst., that
the Duke de Montpensier arrived at Algiers that morning,
on board the steam-frigate the Labrador, and was received on

landing by the GovertiOr-General and the whole of the civil
and military authorities. His Royal Highness was in perfect
health.

A letter from Algiers of the 10th inst., in the Gazette de
France, represents Abd-el-Kader as having once more risen
from his ashes, and made an inrcad in the environs of Oran
with 1,000 horsemen, instead of the 150 which the bulletins
of the last campaign left him, and as having killed 900 men
belonging to the tribes who had made their submission to
France.

We learn from Vienna, April 9, that a duel, arising from
very frivolous causes, took place lately in the environs of
Presburg, between the Count S. de Schoenborn-Wiesenthied
and Captain Baron Arnstein. At the third discharge tile
Count, who was only thirty years of age, but who had
already fought several duels, was killed by the ball of his
antagonist.
The Universal German Gazette states from Kalisch, in
Poland, April 5, that six Russian deserters were lately sen-
tenced to receive 1,500 lashes each. Three of them are stated
to have died under the effects of the punishment, and the three
others to have been transported to Siberia.