The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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On Tuesday the French funds were firm. The Three per
Cents. closed at Slf. 95c., and the Fives at 122 f. 20c.

On Sunday evening their Majesties received the Marquis
de Pange and Generals Sebastiani and Friant.
By a Royal ordonnance, dated the 28th ult., his Royal
Highness the Duke de Montpensier has been created a Knight
of the Legion of Honour.
The godfather of the young Duke d'Alencon is his Majesty
the King of Portugal, who appointed his Ambassador at the
Court of Paris to be his proxy. The godmother is her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, represented by
her Royal Highness the Princess de Joinville.

The distribution of the prizes and rewards to the exhibi-
tors at the great National Exhibition will be made by the
King's own hand, on the 28th instant, in the Hall of the
Marshals at the Tuileries.

Mr. Lewis Goldsmith, the father, we believe, of Lady
Lyndhurst, has been labouring under a serious attack of ill
ness, but was sufficiently recovered to take daily carriage
airings.

The Society for the protection of young prisoners and
juvenile liberated prisoners held its general meeting on .Sun-
day at the Hotel de Ville. N. Berenger (de la Drome), Peer
of 'Prance, who presided, delivered an interesting address, in
which he proved by authenticated figures that repetitions of
offences by young convicts had considerably diminished since
the application of cellular confinement to this class of pri-
soners.

The post-offices of France last year received in the various
boxes 114,200,000 letters, of which 3,200,000 remained un-
claimed. The 111,000,000 millions produced a sum of
41,569,200 f. There were also distributed 60,000,000 of printed
papers, which produced 2,400,000 f., giving a total of
43,969,200 f.

The price of bread at Paris for the concluding fortnight of
the present month remains as it was-36c. the kilogramme.
A new opera, Les Quatres Fits Aymon, the music by Pialle,
was produced for the first time at the Opera Comique, Paris,
on Monday night, with immense success.
Madame Lacoste had been acquitted by the Court of As-
size of Gers.

The Herald°, a Madrid paper, states that Don Antonio
Alcala Galiano, long one of the most eminent politicians in
the Spanish capital, has left, on his way to Cadiz, to open a
school. The Herald° censures the Moderado party in very
severe terms, for suflering so distinguished a man to fall into
such distress.

M. Thiers left Paris on Tuesday, for Dieppe, from which,
after a short stay, he will go to Lille.
The Lyons papers say that several persons have been
arrested, charged with a Fieschi plot against the authorities
of that place. Several grenades were found in their posses-
sion, with which, it is said, they intended by a single dis-
charge to destroy the general in command, the mayor, and
the prefect, when coming out of St. John, after the solemn
mass of the Ist of May.
Law' AND POLICE.
At the Chelmsford assizes, an action was brought by Mary
Ann Spaull, to recover damages from Stephen Forster for a
breach of promise of marriage, and obtained a verdict for
4001. damages.

At the same assizes, a boy nine years of age was convicted
of setting fire to a barn, by which property to the value of
4001. had been destroyed. Sentence deferred.
At the Mansion-house, Henry Sage, the person who was
charged on Tuesday with having presented for payment a
cheque for 301., which had been stolen out of a lady's car-
riage on Monday, was brought before Sir Peter Laurie and
fully committed.

At the Thames Police-court, James Brigden, a cowkeeper
and dairyman, of Gulston-street, Whitechapel, was brought
before Mr. Broderip for final examination, on a charge of
manslaughter, in running his horse and cart over a young
married woman, named Ann Jones, who was killed on the
spot. Mr. Broderip said the act was so clearly one of man-
slaughter, that he could not take bail, and the prisoner was
committed.

At Queen-square, Mr. Bond gave judgment in a case of
considerable importance to stage coach proprietors and book-
Mg-office keepers. The matter in dispute was, whether the
omnibuses conveying passengers and luggage to the various
railway stations were liable to the provisions of the 6th and
7th of Victoria, cap. 86, which requires the proprietors and
conductors of stage carriages within the metropolitan police
district, to be licensed by the registrar, and the persons in
charge of the vehicle to wear a metal ticket, corresponding
with the number of their licence. Mr. Bond said, he was
clearly of opinion that these omnibuses came under the ope-
ration of the Act.
COUILT--FASUIONABLE.
The Dowager Duchess of Bedford gave another file on
Wednesday, at Campden-hill, which attracted a very nume-
rous assemblage. The beautiful grounds of her Grace's villa
are now seen to great advantage, and the excellent arrange-
ments which prevail render these periodical assemblages of
the aristocracy at Bedford Lodge, perhaps the most attractive
reunions of the season. All the preparations for the amuse-
ment of the juvenile portion of the visitors, which have been
before described, were repeated. Conspicuous among the
juvenile dancers were the children of the Marchioness of
Abercorn, the Viscount and the Ladies Hamilton, whose
clever execution of several dances was much applauded.
The Earl of Shaftesbury entertained the Earl of Mansfield,
Earl of Wicklow, Earl of Normanton, Lord Carbery, Lord
Colchester, Lord Methuen, Lord Brougham, Sir Alexander
Grant, Captain A'Court, Lord Ashley, Hon. H. Corry, and a
distinguished party at dinner, last evening, at his mansion
in Grosvenor-square.
The Earl and Countess of Ripon have returned to town
from a visit to the Right Hon. J. R. Lushington, in Kent.
Lord and Lady Bridport and family have left town for their
seat, Cricket St. Thomas, near Chard, Somersetshire.

Lord Sinclair and' family left London on Wednesday
morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company's
steam-ship Sir E. Banks, for Ostend.
The following are the latest arrivals at Brighton :—The
Dowager Countess of Falmouth, the I.larquis of Exeter,
Lady Gardiner, Major Cholmeley, Lord and Lady Worsley,
the Countess of Mansfield, Lady Murray, Sir James and
Lady Douglas, Lady Harriet. Hamilton, Lady and Miss Haw-
ler, Lord Lurgan, and the Dowager Countess of Cleveland.
Lord Yarborough arrived off Brighton on Tuesday morning
in the yacht the Kestrel. His Lordship landed on the Chain
Pier, and after being on shore for a short time, re-embarked,
and proceeded on an excursion westward.