The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-15 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Putatt Optitton.

" With runs may read."

FOREIGN.
On Saturday evening the King and Queen of the French
received the British Ambassador, Lady Cowley, and Miss
Wellesley, the Turkish and Neapolitan Ambassadors, Nafi
Effendi, the Duchess de Trevise, Countess de Barcellos,
Count and Countess de Tracey, Marquis and Marchioness of
Londonderry, Lady Elizabeth Peel, Viscountess de Beuret,
and other persons of rank.
The Duke de Montpensier left Paris on Monday at eight
o'clock for Africa. His Royal Highness goes to join the ex-
pedition preparing at Constantina, Under the direction of the
Duke d'Aumale, Commander-in-Chief of the province.
The Patrie mentions a rumour that MM. de Lamartine
and Lherbette intend to submitt to the Chamber of Deputies
a proposition declaring that the Government shall in no case,
and without a law, arm the forte near Paris, or place artillery
or engineer corps in them ; and, moreover, that there shall
Ue no materiel of siege kept within a distance of at least
sixty leagues of the capital.
The editor of the France is to take his trial before the
Court of Assizes on the 21st inst., on an indictment founded
on political articles published in that journal on the 10th,
12th, and 29th of December last.

M. Nadau des Islets, member of the Colonial Council at
Quadaloupe, died last week at Paris. In the dreadful earth-
quake he lost his wife, seven children, and a sister. A son,
only three years old, is the sole surviving member of this
unfortunate family.
The great quantity of snow which has fallen lately in Upper
Bavaria and the Tyrol has greatly interrupted the communi-
cations in those parts, and the couriers have been considera-
bly retarded. Some thousaads of labourers are employed in
clearing the roads. The ordinary depth of the snow on the
In.spruck road is six feet, but in many places it is from 15 to
30 feet.

The last accounts from Spain announce that at Valencia,
Seville, Saragossa, Grenada, and Malaga, the inhabitants are
ready to make their pronunciamientos.
We learn from Berlin, Feb. 5, that the inorease of pauperism
in that city has excited the profound attention of the autho-
rities, and that measures are to be adopted for the diminution
of this evil.

The marriage of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhai•
lowna with the reigning Duke Adolphe of Nassau was cele.
brated on the 31st ult., in the Imperial Palace, at St. Peters•
burgh.

LAW AND POLICE.
In the case of Muntz, M.P. v. Foster and others, relative to
a patent, which was tried in the Common Pleas, the jury gave
a verdict for the plaintiff.
In the new Central Criminal Court Thomas Seargent, aged
36, was indicted for embezzling and stealing various stuns of
money to a considerable amount, the property of Messrs.
Thomas Tucker Modsell, Smith, and Co., his employers. There
were five indictments against the prisoner, on the first of
which he was acquitted, and convicted on the second. In
answer to a question from the judge, one of the prosecutors
said, that for some years they had lost from 1001. to 2001. a
year. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for seven
years. It appeared that between 7001. and 800/. passed
through his hands in the course of a month.
At Bow-street, Mr. Luke Winton, landlord of the Crooked
Billet, corner of Wych-street, Strand, was summoned before
Mr. Jardine, charged with permitting persons of disorderly
and bad character knowingly to assemble in his house, against
the provisions of the Licensed Victuallers' Act, 9th Geo. IV.
An inspector named Logan gave evidence against the defen-
dant, but the Magistrate dismissed the charge on the ground
that there was no proof that the character of the parties
was known to the defendant or his waiter. The house from
all accounts was most respectably conducted.
At the Greenwich Police Court, John Roberts, master of
the schooner Waterford, of Weymouth, appeared to an in-
formation, at the instance of Richard Gowland, master of her
Majesty's Revenue cutter Vigilant, charged with having
on board two boxes of foreign cigars, and ten packages of
manufactured tobacco, the duties upon which had not
been paid. On the evidence of the master of the Revenue
cutter, Mr. Jeremy convicted the prisoner under the 4th of
Geo. IV., sec. 48, by which he had incurred: no penalty, but
imprisonment in the county gaol for six months.
A young man, of respectable appearance, named George
Wheldon, was charged at Worship-street, before Mr.
Broughton, with having attempted to defraud the Eastern
Counties Railway Company of seven shillings, being the
amount of fare for travelling in a first-class carriage from
Bishop Stortford to London. After an inspector on the rail-
way had given evidence in support of the charge, the de-
fendant said he had only come from Edmonton with' a friend,
and they paid one shilling each, and on leaving the station be
gave the ticket to an officer. He was quested, however,
conveyed like a felon to the station-holtse, immured in a
damp cell until nearly three o'clock in the morning, when
some of his friends arrived and gave security for his appear-
ance. Mr. Broughton called on the inspector to show the
authority under which he had acted. He could show none,
and then went and consulted his superiors, who were in the
same predicament, and the defendant was instantly die.
charged,