The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-07 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN,

Their Majesties, the Princess Adelaide Duke de Ne-
rums, the Prince de Joinville, and the Duke de Montpensier
again visited the exhibition in the Champs-Elysées, on Mon-
day, arriving a little before two o'clock. Attended by the
Minister of Commerce and the members 'of the Jury, their
Majesties and Royal Highnesses examined the many beau-
tiful specimens of cabinet-work, crystal, porcelain,' jewellery,
and goldsmith's work. They remained till half-past live,
when they set out on their return to Neuilly.
The Messager officially contradicts the statement of Louis
Philippe having had his watch stolen at the Exposition de
l'lndustrie. _

_
Commander de Araujo do Ribeiro, Envoy, Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Emperor of Brazil, in a
private audience, delivered to the King the insignia. of tho
Order of the Southerd Cross, which his imperial master had
conferred on the Dukes de Nemours, d'Aumale, and de Mont-
pensier. The King immediately invested the Duke de Ne-
mours and the Duke de Montpensier with the Orders.
Two terrible fires took place on the 26th ult. in the depart-
ment of the Aisne. One was in the village of Essigny ; the
other at Grugies. The loss by the two tires is estimated at
nearly 130,0001'. The fire at f.ssigny is supposed to have been
the act of an incendiary. ,

M. de Le3seps, Consul of Franco at Barcelona is to succeed
M. de Lavalette as Consul-General at Alexandria.

The Posen Gazette states that the Library of Count Titus
Dzialynski, at Kornik, near Posen, possesses the autograph
manuscript of a novel which Napoleon had commenced, under
the title of " Clison et Eugenie, and adds that the authen-
ticity of it has been proved by a Committee composed of M.
Charles de Montholon, Baron Fain, and Baron Mounier. There
is in the same library, says the Posen Gazette, the project of
Napoleon for assuming the command of the army of the
Sultan, with notes in his own hand.
A letter from Venice states that, owing to the symptoms of
discontent in that place, the whole of the garrison had been
changed.
The King of Bavaria arrived at Rome on the 23d ult. He
travels under the name of Count d'Augusta. He alighted at
his palace (Giardino di Malta).
On Monday, between one and two in the afternoon, a man
about 25 years of age, said to be a tailor, threw Limself from
one of the towers of the Cathedi-al of Notre Dame, and killed
himself. lie touched a female who was passing at the mo-
ment with sufficient force to knock her down, but she was
not materially hurt. Disappointed love is said to haye been
the cause of this suicide.
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_POLICE.

Mr. Richard Taylor indifr: Ashurst, the Common Council-
men, waited upon the Lord Mayor, in the Justice-room, in
consequence of having seen placards borne about the streets,
and advertisements in the newspapers, intimating that a
meeting had, on Monday, taken place, at which his Lordship
presided, and a petition against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill
had 'been unanimously agreed to. His Lordship explained
that the meeting was a private one.
Two youths, about sixteen years of age, named Henry
Alfred Young and Thomas Hussey, were charged at Bow-
street, with having committed a robbery in the house of Mr.
William Silcox, landlord of the Neptune Tavern, Great
Lionel- street, Somers-town, the latter _being more parti-
cularly concerned in receiving the goods. They were both
committed for trial.

Edward Youngman Cotton, Stephen Chandler, and Hen-
rietta Sharpe, charged with the robbery in and attempt to
fire the house of Mr. Edward Driver, surveyor to the Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests, 8, Parliament-street, were
brought up at the same office for final examination. Cotton
and the woman Sharpe were committed for trial for the rob-
bery and arson, and Chandler for receiving property from
Cotton. Cotton declined saying anything. The female de-
clared she was innocent. Chandler declined to say anything,
and the whole were removed in the prison van.
Daniel Rodriguez, alias Rogers, a Portuguese Jew, and
Charles Stewart, a young Scotchman, were charged at Wor-
ship -street oh suspicion of having been concerned in breaking
into the premises of Mr. Peter Hay, a watchmaker and jew-
eller, in Leith-street, Edinburgh, and stealing an immense'
quantity of jewellery, watches, and other valuable property.
The evidence proving distinctly that they were not the par-
ties, though their description exactly tallied with that given
of the robbers, they were discharged.
Daniel Dearlove,'who has been in custody for several weeks
past, on a charge of stealinga cash-box, containing Bank-
notes and gold to the amount of 3001., together with bills of
exchange and bonds of the value of nearly 2,0001., from the
residence of his uncle, Mr. James Dearlove, was brought up
at Lambeth-street for final examination, and fully committed
for trial.

Thomas Sullivan, -a man in the habit of street preaching,
was charged at Union-hall with assaulting and threatening
the life of Margaret, his wife. The complainant's statement
was confirmed by a female lodger. who, in giving her evi-
dence, said that the defendant was filled with hypocrisy, and
that slle had known frequent instances, after ill-treating his
wife in the way described, that he then wended his way to
Kennington-common and commenced preaching to crowds of
people. Ho was bound over to keep the peace.
COUILT-ZELSHIONILIME.

The Queen has caused invitations to be issued from the
Lord Chamberlain's office for an evening party at Bucking-
ham Palace to-morrow, to meet the Emperor of Russia and
the King of Saxony.
The Duke of Devonshire gives a fate at his villa at Chis-
wick to-morrow to the Emperor of Russia, when the King
of Saxony will likewise be present.
The Countess of Roseberry had a soirée on Tuesday night.
It was a small and early party.
The Earl of Yarborough has returned to town from Brock-
lesby, Lincolnshire, after inspecting the North Lincolnshire
Yeomanry, of which corps the Noble Earl is Colonel, the an-
nual duties of that regiment having terminated.
The Countess de St. Aulaire has left the French embassy
for Paris. His Excellency the French Ambassador joins the
Countess in the French capital early in the ensuing month.
The absence of his Excellency and Countess will, however,
be of short duration, as they are to return to this country by
the Ist of September, in order to receive the King of the
French, who, according to general expectation, will visit this
country about the Bth of that month.
Lord and Lady Newport have arrived at Mivart's Hotel.
Lady Peel left town on Wednesday by the four o'clock
train of the Great Western Railway, for Windsor Castle, on
a visit to her Majesty.
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst entertained a
select circle at dinner on Wednesday, at the family residence,
in George-street, Hanover-square.
The Hon. Spencer Cowper has taken a mansion in the
vicinity of Windsor for the Ascot week, where the Hon.
Gentleman has every evening received a distinguished circle
to dinner. _ _

Mr: Charles Sheridan leaves at the close of the present
month for the British Embassy at Paris, to enter upon his
dutieS as secretary to Lord Cowley, our Ambassador at the
Court of France.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A vestry meeting of the rate-payers and inhabitanti of the
parish of Lambeth' was held on Wednesday, in the Boys'
School-room, Lambeth-green, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the
.provisions of the Bill introduced by Sir
James Graham into the House of Commons, and now before
that branch of the Legislature, " for the amendment of the
law relating to the relief of the poor in England and Wales."
The meeting was convened by the churchwardens in com-
pliance with a requisition presented to them for that pur-
pose, and signed by a numerous and respectable body of
rate-payers. Resolutions strongly condemnatory of the new
law were agreed to.
A copy of a very curious communication from M. Dedel,
the Dutch Minister, to Lord Aberdeen, appears in the Deme-
rara papers. It. charges the colonial journals with applaud-
ing the absconding of the negroes of Surinam, and the British
authorities with countenancing their landing; but to this
Lord Aberdeen very properly replies to the effect, at least in
spirit, that colonial newspapers are not under censure laws,
and that any slave setting foot on British soil becomes free.
The production from the pen of the immortal
Handel, his oratorio the "Messiah," was performed on Wed-
nesday, for the benefit of the Royal Society of Musicians, to
a very numerous audience.
The Emperor of Russia and the King of Saxony accom-
pany the Queen to the Opera on Saturday next.