The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

SWEDEN,

SPEECH OP THE KING Ob SWEDEN ON OPENING
THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATES-GENERAL,

JULY 20, 1844 :
The position which I occupy in this sacred place, in the
midst of the States-General of Sweden, brings to all our
minds the recollection of a great and irreparZle loss, and
the first words that I have to utter, are accompanied with
unatrected grief and deep regret. These feelings must ever
be yours as well as mine, and they are no more than a just
tribute to him who now reposes in the peaceful tomb, my
venerated father. his memory is dear to the two States
that he by his power and genius united in tie:, which are In-
dissoluble. by their union lie established for the north a
new source of strength and glory. It is in the firm main-
tenance of that which has been accomplished, and in bro-
therly concord and sameness of object, that we ground our
future hopes, and find the best security for the independence
and the welfare of the Scandinavian neeplc.
The first meeting ef 4 mcnarch Ifie'representatives of
a nation; in 610 to ..cdne'e'ri. 'wli'at.nMy be necessary for the
future, is ilways an important and' solemn proceeding. guch
depends upon cominnnication, that springs
confidence In vows and 11190 v, just actions at;ks assured,
and; with the assisidnee- Of. ProVidence, the repose and
prosperity of the country we love will thus be promoted and
established.

In the temple of God we have invoked the protection of
the All Powerful. his strength is indispensable to the ac-
complishment of the high duties imposed upon us u 11.; we

rely upon it for the performance of our mutual obligations
and attachments ; for fidelity, benevolence, and concord. I
promise you, Gentlemen, to defend and maintain justice and
truth, to help onwards the progress of knowledge, and to
encourage and promote, by my efforts, the development of
all those noble and endearing qualities that are to be found
in the manly character and energies of the natives and inha-
bitants of the hardy north. These are my resolves :to you I
look for a sincere co-operation, and for reliance upon the
purity of my exertions for the good of our country—for the
welfare of a magnanimous people.
In calling you together, Gentlemen, in an Extraordinary
Diet, I do but gratify my lively desire to meet the Assembly
at an epoch which is a solemn one both for me and for you,
that you may, at the earliest possible moment, be prepared
for the consideration of those important arrangements for the
benefit of the State which are the objects of my solicitude,
and regarding which I bespeak your prompt attention and
deliberation. The great social questions that were before you
In the last session will again come before you and re-claim
your particular attention and investigation. I shall cause to
be brought before you, in due course, various matters of deep
interest, and one of the earliest of these will be a project for a
new criminal code. in conformity to the times in which we
live, wherein we should studiously endeavour to combine with
*the severity needful for the repression and punishment of
offences the respect and tender regard which, as rulers and
law-makers, we owe to the dignity of man.
Appreciating the importance and necessity or amending
and s►mplifying the administration of our internal concerns
and the completion of our system of defence, I commend to
your instant attention the consideration of these vital ques-
tions. With regard to the accomplishment of the public
works to which I intend, at a future period, to invite your
concurrence, I propose to make them one of the subjects to
be submitted to you in a new Extraordinary Diet.
It is with the most lively satisfaction that I communicate
to you the fact that my accession to the throne has been
viewed by all the Foreign Powers with the most gratifying
friendship and good wishes. I shall take an early occasion
to make to you the necessary communications on this and
other points of interest.
The relations of these united kingdoms with the States of
Northern Africa, and the payment of an annual tribute, are
injurious to our commerce, and incompatible with our na-
tional dignity. I have firmly resolved to break through an
exaction which all the Powers of Europe, except ourselves,
have long since refused to pay. My feeling on this matter
is strong; and I have reason to expect that the negotiations
which have been opened with referen:e to it will terminate I,
pacifically, and to your satisfaction.
The patriotic sentiments and feelings with which you are
all animated, Gentlemen, will guide you in your delibera-
tions, and influence and facilitate your decisions. I pray the
Almighty to be with you, and assure you all of my royal
regard and affection.

HAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAILS.

UTRECHT, JULY 29.--The Netherlands Govern-
ment positively refused to admit English agents into
Java. The new English law on the sugar duties
allow the importation of sugar, the produce of free
labour, at a reduced duty; but in order to enjoy this
privilege, an English agent residing on the spot
must sign a certificate of origin. The Netherlands
will rather lose the advantage of this reduction than
admit English agents in its colonies.
THE HAGUE, AUG. I.—We have received Java
papers to the 17th April. The Java Courant of that
date says :—" According to an account received by
the Commander of the station on the west coast of
Sumatra, his Majesty's brig the Siewar, commanded
by Lieut. P. Lanvage, has ran aground on a reef to
the north of Poeloe, and is entirely gone to pieces.
The crew, however, and part of the tackling was
saved."

BONN, JULY 26.—There has lately been found in
the coal mine at Roth (from which our museums
have already received several valuable acquisitions)
the jaw bones of a kind of pike now extinct. Com-
paring them with the lower jaw bones of the present
specimen of pike, the animal to which they belonged
must have been almost ten feet long.
THE IIAGUI, AUG. 2.—This being the twentieth
anniversary of the birth of Prince Alexander, their
Majesties' second son, has been observed with the
usual ceremonies.

The Stoats Courant publishes a royal decree, by
which the Minister of Finance is authorised to pro-
ceed by anticipation to the exchange of Lerrentin at
5 per cent., for bonds of 4 per cent., and to effect the
transfer of them to the National 4 'per cant. debt.
M. de Jonge Van Campens Nieuwland has been ap.
pointed by his Majesty to the post of Minister of
Justice, which he had held for some time ad interim.

ELSINEUR, JULY 29.—The remaining, part of the
Russian squadron, consisting of four ships of the line
and a frigate, left our road yesterday, with a nor
wind, to pass the Sound, and was out of sight at
sunset.

HAMBURGIT, AUG. 2.—The Universal Prussian
Gazette begins to publish accounts from various parts
of the kingdom of the horror excited by the attempt
to assassinate his Majesty, and the gratitude to Divine
Piovidence for his escape, which seems to have 'wen
almost miraculous. A pamphlet, publishe4 on the
29th July, says that Tschech had stated that he had
been the more impelled to execute his design by
seeing that a woman, attempting to present a petition
to the King and Queen, had no notice taken of it'by
either of them. "This statement," says the Prussian
Gazette, "is wholly unfounded. It appears, on inquiry,
that the petitioner (who was erroneously re-
ported to be the daughter of the assassin) is
the wife of a merchant, who is sentenced to
imprisonment; and, from the examination which
was deemed necessary, the following is found to be
the state of the case. QA the evening before their
Majesties' departure, she stood at the palace-gate and
presented to the King a petition for a mitigation of
her husband's punishment. The King had spoken
very graciously to her, and on the same evening had
the matter discussed with other things, and gave an
order in compliance with the petition. The woman
fearing the King's departure might delay the fulfil-
ment of her request went to the palace gate on the
following morning and presented a similar petition to
the Queen just as, har Majesty was stepping into the
carriage. Her Majesty received it kindly and gave
it to the King who recognising the woman, told her
very graciously to make herself easy, that her request
was granted, and the necessary orders given. The
woman relating the preceding particulars, says, that
being deeply faceted, she was going to kneel and
express her wish that Providence would grant him a
happy journey, when the criminal fired the shot at
her benefactor."

This statement is eigned by Baron Von Arnew,
Minister of the Interior.--liamburgh Papers, Aug. 2.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 2.—The Preeurseur of Antwerp has
the following article :
" Thus, then, we have entered directly on a system
of reprisals, with a war of tariffs. This is an unhappy
necessity on the part of Belgium ; and though we la-
ment, in an economical point of view, measures of
this nature, we must on this occasion applaud
the firmness of the Government. We say frankly
that wo did not expect that it would show so
much courage, and it was not without some surprise
that we learned from the Moniteur this manifestation of
energy:—.' But since the Government has entered on
this course of repri4s, which the dignity of the country
and numerous interests that were threatened pointed out
to it, it is our duty, and that of the whole truly national
press, to support it in its struggle with the Prussian
colossus. "
The Journal du Commerce of Antwerp, and the Organ
des Flanders, have likewise long articles commending
the conduet of the Government.
His Highness Prince Michael Olrenovich, with his
suite, has arrived at Brussels, and lodges in .the Hotel
de Saxe, where apartments were bespoke for his reception.
The organisation of the new lino of steamers between
Ostend and Dover, which was said to have been com-
pleted on Monday, last, is deferred for a week, at the re-
quest the English Company, which was not ready to
deliver the three steamers required for this service.
Yesterday a destructive fire broke out in the cellars of
M. Denville, grocer and oil merchant. It was discovered
by some persona in tho street, who had great diffi-
culty in rousing the family and the lodgers. The
progress of the flames was so rapid, that the inmates
were obliged to escape by the roof. Besides the total de-
struction of the house and its contents, we have to state
the deplorable fact, that a daughter of M. Denville, aged
19, and a son, aged 11, perished in the flames.
By the new convention between the British and Bel-
gian post.offices, the postage of letters between England
and Belgium is reduced to Is. for the whole distance, of
which sum Belgium will take .5d., and England 7d. This
is a reduction of more than half of the present rate.
The prepayment will be optional. The journals, of what-
ever sire, will be charged and continued.
Since we shall never receive the English journals in
Belgium without extraordinary expense, the Govern-
ment should consent to suppress the extraordinary stamp
duty. We ask it for the sake of the English families re-
siding in this oountry.

Sr. MARYLEBONE.--THE 14100111-LAW COMMIS.
SIONERS.—A meeting of the Si. MarylebonP, ;-"estry was held
on Saturday, for tho purpose of ooPfidering the recent in-
terference of the Poor-law Commissioners, and their
threatened intention of issuing rules, orders, and regula-
tions, for the management of IViarylebone Workhouse. Mr.
Lowe having been %Vie() to the chair, the correspondence
between the direetere and guardians and. Poor-
law Commissioners as also the evidence taken some
time since before the Commissioners, at Fladong's Hotel,
was road, and, after some discussion, ordered to be printed
and circulated throughout the parish. The following
resolutions were then proposed by Mr. Soden, and
carried unanimously " That this vestry hear with ex-
treme surprise the threat of the Poor-law Commissioners
to Woo orders for the management of the poor of this
pariah, and thereby entirely subvert the principle of local
self-government by a law not only unconstitntonal but
grounded on injustice, unsuited to the wants and in-
sulting to the feeilugs of the deserving poor, most expensive
in its machinery, and entirely inoperative for any general
good.' `-4` That the thanks of this Board be given to the Di-
rectors and Guardians for the very great ability displayed in
their answer to the Poor-law Commissioners."—" That the
vestry cordially agree with every word of such answer, and
hereby exGpress their entire conftdianee In the Board of Direc-
tors and uo.rdic,r,;,,, and urge upon them to use every legiti-
tritits riNon in their power to prevent any inroads being made
Eby the Poor-law Commissioners.
WELSH HERRING FISHERY. ~The herring fishery
has commenced at Dinas this week, although the take
gni The tiommenonment is not large ; but it argues well
liar a plentiful fishery, the herrings taken being large and
very fat.— Welshman.
WELSH SALMON risnEßT.7:74e, Salmon fishery
is very successful here V4l, season ; there was not such
a plentiN 4qply of salmon taken in the recollection of
ti,se present fishermen. Prices at present, Salmon, 4d.
per lb., Sewing 3d.—We(shman

SUMMARY CIF NEWS

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tlutatt Opt„ntott.

" Who runs may read."

PORYI3.3.ne.
The few words spoken by Sir Robert Peel relative to the
arrest of Mr. Pritchard, had caused a strong sensation at
Paris. Extracts from the French papers on the subject will
be found under the proper head.
The Prince de Joinville left the bay of Cadiz, with the
fleet, on the 24th, for the coast of Morocco.
On Thursday evening the King and Queen received the
British Ambassador, the Prussian and Saxon Ministers, the
Chancellor of France, Count Mole, Barons de Mareuil, and •
de Prejean, Generals Baudrand, de Colbert, and de Previa,
an MM. Viennet and Boulay (de la Mcurthe.)
A small printing-office has just been established at she
Tuileries for the amusement of the Count de Paris.
Brtelographic accounts received from all parts of France
the fe'tes ofJuly have been cerebrated with the most perfect
order.

An English medical man, named Edmonds, was on Thurs-
day arraigned before the Correctional Tribunal, for prac-
tising his profession in France without sufficient license or,
authority. Mr. Edmonds pleaded ignorance of the law of
France, but the President replied that he must have been
made aware of it by a former prosecution against him.
counsel, however, defended him so well, and produced 90
many favourable certificates, amongst the rest one from 31-
Lisfranc, the eminent surgeon, speaking in the highest terms
of his science and skill, that, the Avocat du Roi recommended
him to the consideration of the Tribunal. lie was, in conse.
quence, subjected to a fine of only 30f.
The great fair of Beaucaire has this year been extrenleli
brisk in all branches of trade, more foreign dealers having,
attended than in former 'years. The most numerous have
been Spaniards, who came to purchase goods of mixed salt
and wool, and silk and cotton, Which are now admitted into
Spain on payment of moderate duties, instead of being, ne
formerly, absolutely prohibited. Larger purchases ware
made for Nice, Genoa, and Leghorn, which are free ports.
There was a complete dearth of Americans, who, in former,
years, before the great augmentation of their tariff, frequented
the fair, and did a considerable business.
We learn from Montpellier that the number of persons
wounded by the railroad accident of the 29th ult. amounts to
fifty, but none of them are in danger.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer states, cn the authority of
a letter from Papeiti, that Captain Bruat, finding it neces-'
sary to bring building materials from the mountainous parts
of the island, has constructed a railroad for that purpose.
The intended ascent of MM. Bravais and. Martins to the
summit of Mont Blanc, to make meteorological observation
has not taken place, from the guides positively refusing t°,
remain through the night at the summit, as was proposed'
They wished to return to the Grand Mulet every evening;
because during the night whirlwinds are liable to arise, ani
bury all within their influences under avalanches. As to*
would prevent the observations from being taken as fre-
quently as was thought necessary, the ascent has been
abandoned.
The Castellano of Madrid contains the following:—" Fue3
Effendi, the Ottoman Ambassador to the Court of Madrid,
is at present on a tour through Spain, visiting the principal
towns and monuments. When looking at the Alhambrai
he readily translated into French the inscriptions on the
walls, although in the ancient Moorish characters. ll*
afterwards visited the Charweuse, and in contemplating tb*
ruins of that edifice, which had suffered so much from the re
volutionary troubles, he exclaimed—" The hordes of Afrial
would not have done so much injury."
MAW AND POLICE.
At the Stafford Assizes, William Beards,
victed of the wilful murder of Ann Gr.:... .god 35, -els c,•'
..ths, at the parish"'
Wednesbury, on the 16th of DI.P.-.015 last, and sentenced to be
executed.

Mark Sherwood was indicted at Newcastle for the murder
of hii wife, Ann Sherwood, in March last, found guilty, ana
ordered for execution.
At the same Court Jane Purvis, a middle-aged woman, If°
indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, $l.
Leatham Shank, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, on the 23d 0,
June, by cutting its throat. His Lordship having summeo
up, the jury, after being some time out of Court, found the.
prisoner guilty of
.concealing the birth.—To be imprisoned
for twelve calendar months.
At Bodmin, Matthew Weeks was indicted for the -"NO
murder of Charlotte Dimond, on the 14th of April, last, 11
cutting her throat. The jury retired for about half an hoer,
and the foreman then said, We are of opinion that the Pri"
soner is guilty." The Learned Judge thou put on the black
cap and passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, assuring
him that no mercy:could be extended to him in this worht
The particulars of this extraordinary murder are given in tl9/
assizes reports, . '
James Frost, aged 31 was charged, at Norwich. with the
wilful mur
When
* calleder of
d llarriet Frost on the Bth op April last.
on to plead to the indietalni, he said goiitY
eneett. the eyes. of the world, bi‘ ..,
*"., not of God. He wa.'
acquitted on the ground of insafity.
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The following is a surnr:lary of the arson cases which stood
for trial at Norwich—the were ten in number, and the Per;
ties implicate',were ten also; of these there were, convicteut
4 ; acquitted, 2 ; bills ignored, 4 ; total, 10.
- 4117013111T—PASINXONALISZIL
O Saturday Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston enter'
tamed Viscount Melbourne, Viscount and Viscountess
Jocelyn, Lord William Russell, Lord and Lady, Seyro°ll;
Dowager Lady Holland, Mr. M. Manes, Mr. E. Landsee_;
Mr. Samuel Rogers, and a distinguished circle at dinner,
their mansion, in Carlton House-terrace. A small party 8.,
sembled after dinner, the visitors including Baron Nieumao°
Chevalier Bunsen, Duchess De Coigny and Mdlle. De Coign'',
the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, Count
Marquis of Worcester, Countess Cadogan and Ladies
gusts and Honoria ('adogan, Countess of Mount EdgecurolL,
and Misses Macdonald, Countess of Mexborough and Lad}'
Sarah ,Saville, Earl of Auckland and Hon: Misses Eden,
Robert and Lady Sale and Mrs. Sturt, Viscount and bird
countess Ponsonby, Lord Foley and Hon. Miss A. Foley, Li)
Campbell, Mr. T. Duncombe, &c.
Sir Robert Peel has, we believe, accepted-an invitari°a:
from the Duke of Rutland, to meet a select party, at Lag,
shawe; Derbyshire, for grouse shooting, about the middle
the month.

The Duke of Rutland and Lady Adeliza Manners and Lora
George Manners have arrived in town, from Southampton,
after a cruise in the Noble Duke's yacht, Resohltion.
Duke purposes early next week to repair to Longabove,
shooting box in Derbyshire, where his Grace will receive
distinguished party for grouse shootag.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have gone on a toa llll.;
of the German Spas. The 14oble Earl and Countess left t,
on Thursday, and embarked the following day for Osten
We hear their absence on the Continent is not likely to
protracted beyond three months. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford left Goodwood. Park —,
Saturday, and have joined the circle assembled at Aruiloto
Castle, the seat of the Duke of Norfolk. Lord Southampton
is among the guests at present partaking the Noble Duke
hospitality.
. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor and family have leg
town ikor the season.
The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by his eldest 5°,.t
the Marquis of Stafford, was expected to leave Trentliain '-
Scotland on Saturday last.
Viscount and Viscountess Canterbury, who have dal
their sojourn in town been residing with the Counteset. t
Blessington, at Kensington-gore, left on Thursday last °
Rockbeare House, near Exeter, for the autumn.
Do Viscount Morpeth has left Trentham, the seat of the of
and Duchess of Sutherland, for Castle Howard, the Ear' -
Carlisle's family seat in Yorkshire.
Lady Jemima Eliot and family have left Dover-street flottr,
Pert Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall, and at the close of t,O
Parliament will be joined by Lord Eliot, who will re°l`;o"r
there a short time with his family, and then go to Dublin
the winter.
The Hon. George Wentworth Fitzwilliam, M.P., arriv:,
at Mortimer House on Saturday, from a visit to the I-I°be
Mr. Wodehouse, in Norfolk, and leaves town to-day for ,tv,
Earl of Yartirough's seat, in the Isle of Wight. Earl F't
william and the Lathes Fitzwilliam remain at Milton.

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