The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-24 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

The procession of the Bceuf Gras was repeated on Tuesday,
at Paris, and the weather being very fine, although rather
cold, the Boulevards were crowded with persons assembled
to see the lines of carriages, and in expectation of beholding
groups of maskers. As far as numbers went they were not
disappointed as to the carriages, but the maskers were by no
means numerous. Those who did make a display were evi-
dently for the most part composed of the working classes.
The weather on Wednesday was excessively cold, with a fall
of snow.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the produce and con-
sumption of domestic sugar down to the close of January,
1844. On the Ist of February there were still 324 manu-
factories in activity, which, as compared with the number
existing on the same day in 1843, shows a decrease of 58.
The •quantity manufactured during the whole season was
20,186,622 kilogrammes, or 2,279,259 less than in 1843, and
that sold for consumption 15,952,102. The duties levied on
that article in January last amounted to 1,125,605 f.
The Chambers of Commerce have received a circular offi-
cial dispatch from the Minister of Commerce to the following
purport :—Merchant vessels bound for ports in the Mediter-
ranean, on being obliged to put into Gibraltar from stress of
weather, have been used, in order to escape the payment of
anchorage-dues, to take a mooring at a distance from the bat-
teries, in unsafe ground, and at the same time do not gain
their object of saving the exacted payment. French ships
driven to take shelter in the Bay of Gibraltar are therefore
recommended to wait for favourable weather, by coming to
an anchor at the west of Mala Point, at the mouth of the
small river the Majorgo, to the south of the town of St. Roch,
where they will be in Spanish water, better sheltered, and
very nearly free from all dues.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 17th states, on the authority
of a letter from Naples, that some regret is already mani-
fested by the Neapolitan Court at having, under the influence
of deceptive promises, so promptly recognised the Spanish
Government. It is again stated that the Courts of Sardinia
and Rome persistin their refusal to follow the example of that
of Naples.
The accident which has happened to M. Gay Lussac will
not be attended with any serious consequences. His sur-
geons have made a most favourable report on the subject to
his friends and acquaintances.
A subscription has been set on foot to defray the expense of
a marble statue of Rossini, which is to be placed in the saloon
of the Academie Royal de Mush-Inez . .

Madame Persiani, Correlli, ana Fornasari, will leave Paris
for London at the end of this month. Fornasari centinues
seriously indisposed. Rubini, on quitting St. Petersburgh,
proceeds to Moscow, after which he will visit London, where
the prinzo tenorc is expected to arrive during the ensuing
season.

The Weser Gazette states, from Copenhagen, that the
Emperor and Empress of Russia are expected too arrive in
that city early in the spring.

LAW AND POLICE.

In the case of Fraser v. Bagley, which occupied the Court
of Common Pleas for three days, the jury, at ten o'clock at
night, after consulting for three minutes, returned a verdict
for the defendant.

At Marylebone Police-court, James Gatsell, an oft-con-
victed member of the swell mob, was brought up for re-
examination, charged on suspicion of having stolen a purse,
containing a 51. note, from the person of Mrs. Allen, wife of
the clerk of the peace for Westminster.. The case was not
fully made out, but the prisoner was, as a suspected person
loitering about with the view of committing a felony, com-
mitted for two months.

William Bennett, a man of respectable appearance, was
brought before Mr. Cottingham, at Union Hall, charged
with committing various robberies. It was his practice to
drive up to the door of a tradesman's shop, enter, and order
a variety of goods which he desired to be placed in his
vehicle, and drove off with speed. Five distinct charges
having been preferred, the prisoner was committed.
At the same Court, John Stevens, the silversmith, charged
with obtaining money to the amount of between 701. and 801.
of Mr. Folkard, a pawnbroker, by means of spurious ingots of
silver, the particulars of whose examination havealready
appeared, was again brought up, and the depositions having
been taken, he was committed.

Sarah EVans was charged at Clerkenwell with having in
her possession 81bs. of foreign tobacco, &c., which subjected
her to a penalty of 1001. The prisoner said the tobacco was
handed to her by a man to carry. She did not know him.
Mr. Greenwood convicted her in the penalty of 1001., and
told her if there were any 'mitigating circumstances attached
to her case, she might petition the Commissioners of Customs.
At Lambeth-street, Norman Proctor, a smartly-dressed
young man was charged with defrauding a poor man named
Wright out of a horse, cart, and harness, of the value of 121.
It appeared that on the sth of July last, the prisoner called
upon the prosecutor and said his master, who was a lime-
merchant, wanted such a horse and cart as he had for sale,
and took him to a person whom he represented to be his mas-
ter, but who turned out to be his brother. The person pur-
chased the property, and prevailed upon the poor man to take
a bill for the amount, payable in seven days. The bill was
presented, when the person in the house said the drawer of
the bill had merely taken lodgings there on that morning,
that he left upon the same day, and that he knew nothing
whatever of him. The prisoner was remanded, Mr. Norton
remarking that he belonged to a gang who had obtained pro-
perty from very poor persons, amounting to near 500/.
On Thursday the Windsor bench of Magistrates proceeded
with the investigation of the charges against John Downes,
Robert Tucker, Charles Wansell, William Large, Richard
Woodhouse, James Thomas, and George Dawson, of riot, and
of assault and robbery committed upon three men, named
Garn'ham, Varney, and Baker, the former of whom had been
a witness to sustain five informations against certain beer-
shop-keepers in the parish of Horton for permitting gambling
on their respective premises. Downes and Wansell were
committed to Abingdon gaol to take their trial for highway
robbery. Tucker, Large, and Thomas were admitted to bail,
and the other two were discharged.
C OURM--WASEIZONAIII6II.

This day is the birth-day of the Duke of Cambridge, who
will completes his 70th year.
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar has been visiting the
Queen Dowager at Witley Court, since Wednesday last.
The Duke of Devonshire has returned to Chatsworth from

visiting Sir W. Boothby, at Ashbourn-hall.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have been entertaining,
at Badminton, his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, Countess
of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, his Excellency the
Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, Lord Alfred Paget,
Hon. Mr. Bagot, Mr. Lovell, &c. The Countess of Jersey
and Lady Clementina Villiers, and Baron and Baroness
Brunnow, came to town on Wednesday night.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have come to
town from Brighton for the season. The Noble Marquis is
in the possession of better health than for some years past.
The Countess of Cardigan has arrived in town from Deene
Park, Northamptonshire, but returns early next week, and
her Ladyship intends to reside there till Easter.
Viscount Loftus and Lord William Clinton were amongst
the passengers who left London for Antwerp, on Sunday last,
by the steamer Princess Victoria, Captain Jackson.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons
will hold his sessional levees on the 2d, the 9th, and the 16th
of March.

The Bishop of Bangor has arrived in town from Wales for
the season.

Sir R. Peel gives a Parliamentary dinner to-day, to a circle
of about fifty noblemen and gentlemen.

Inzscxxmaremous.

The number of prisoners now in the Penitentiary exceeds

1,200.
A general meeting of the subscribers to the London,Hospital
was on Thursday held at 3, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-street,
Mr. John Capel, treasurer, in the chair. From the statement
laid before the meeting by Mr. Joseph Cecil, Honorary Secre-
tary to the Charity, the addition to that fund during the past
year was 2081., and the gross amount figured 5,1551. 10s. In
May, 1832, a transfer of 8,7391. 11 s. from this fund was made
to the general estate of the hospital.

IRELAND.
MILITARY OCCUPATION OF IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 21.—The Government still continue their
arrangements for the military occupation of the country.
The Nenagli Guardian of this day thus reports progress from
that quarter
:
"Two cart-loads of ordnance stores, containing five hun-
dred stand of arms, arrived here under a strong escort of the
Hari from Roscrea, on Saturday last, and proceeded en route
on Monday morning, under the escort of an officer's party
of the. 52d, for Killaloe. On Tuesday there arrived from
Killaloe, under the escort of the 52d, a quantity of ammuni-
tton, to the amount of 20,000 rounds of ball cartridge, for the
use Of :the troops in this depot, and a like quantity to pro-
ceed to Templemore and Roscrea."
The' war-steamer Tartarus sailed from Dingle, county of
Kerry, on Sunday last, on a cruise alone that coast. The
war-steamer Stromboli is still stationed in Ventry harbour,
on the Kerry coast. The chief occupation of the officers of
both steamers has been the agreeable one of attending balls
and pleasure parties amongst the gentry residing in the vi-
cinity.
REPRESENTATION OF LONDONDERRY. _

Captain Robert Peel Dawson and the other candidates for
the representation of this county have retired, in consequence
of the determination of the family of Sir Robert Bateson to
start the second son of that Baronet, Lieutenant Bateson, of
the 11th Light Dragoons, as successor to his brother, the
late:Member, who died of malignant fever at Jerusalem, en
last Christmas-eve.

BIOGRAPHY or O'CONNELL, GRATIS.—TIIO Fourth
Supplement, gratis, . with the Weekly Dispatch, will be
published to-morrow, Feb. 25, and of the full size of that
journal, containing the Biography of Mr. O'Connell, written
by a gentleman intimately acquainted with, and, conse-
quently, one who has treasured up many reminiscences con-
nected with the great Agitator. This will be the last of the
Supplements relative to the State Trials in Dublin, as pro-
mised by the Proprietors of the Dispatch, who have spared
no exertions to render them complete as Historical Registers,
and therefore invaluable as works for reference. In quantity
they consist of 128 Dispatch columns, which are equal to an
octavo volume of nearly 1,000 pages. Orders for the Dispatch
received by every Newsvender and Bookseller in the kingdom ;
and by Mr. Wood, at the office, 139, Fleet-street. —" The
Proprietors of this popular and widely-circulated journal in-
tend, it will be seen, to present their readers with two addi-
tional Supplements, making four, relative to the State Trials
—the most comprehensive history of that memorable inves
tigation wifich has appeared."—Liverpool Chronicle.
PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BlLLS.—Yesterday being
the last day for presenting petitions for private Bills to
Parliament, the lobby of the House of Common's was thronged
with persons anxious not to lose the benefit of the present
session. The majority of the petitions were for short or
branch railways, which seem now to excite as much of the
public attention as the main lines did in the year 1826.
Three or four have been projected for the northern
district of Kent, but only two of these can this year
be entertained by the Legislature, viz., that from
Rosherville, at Northfleet, to Chatham (avoiding Graves-
end, Strood, and Rochester), and that from the
town of Gravesend to Rochester and Strood. The company
engaged in the latter undertaking had issued a prospectus,
intending to go from Gravesend to the northward of the
Thames and Medway Canal, but finding that the Canal Com-
pany had actually commenced a railway on the south bank
of the canal (under the authoriry contained in their Act
of 1804), which was to begin within half a mile of
the Terrace-pier, and to terminate near Rochester-bridge,
it was resolved to seek only for the authority of Parliament
to carry on the line from the Terrace-pier so far as to
form a junction with the Canal line, and consequently the
intended capital of 150,0001. has been reduced to 20,0001. If
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Messrs. Fox, llenderson, and Co., have engaged to complete
the Canal line by the first of August next, before which time
the new pier at the Terrace-gardep will be completed.