The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-23 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who raps may rewl."

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The procession of the Bceuf Gras was repeated on Tuesday,
at 'Paris, and the weather being very fine, although :rather
sold, the Boulevards were crowded with persons asSembled
to see the lines of carriages; and in expectation of beholding
groups of maskers. As fur 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 let of February thore 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
20,183,622 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 lo 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 NaplCs, that sonee 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 persist in 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 Musique.
Madame Persiani,, Correlli, and Fornasari, will leave Paris
for London at the end of this month. Fornasari continues
seriously indisposed. Rubini, on quitting St. Petersburgh;
proceeds to Moscow, after which he will visit London, where
the prim tenore is expected to arrive during the ensuing
season.

The. Weser Casette states, Prom Copenhagen, that the
Emperor and Empress of Russia are expected to arrive in
that city early in the spring.

LAW AND POLICD.

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

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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 5L 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 mousy to the amount of between 70/. and 80/.
of Mr. Folkard, a pawnbroker, by means of spurious ingots of
silver, the particulars of whose examination have already
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 100/. 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 het 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 12/:
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 me-
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 lum. 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/.
Yesterday 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
Garnham; 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.