The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The King and Queen of the French, accompanied by the
Duke de Nemours and the Prince de Joinville, paid another
visit, on Monday, to the Exhibition of 'National Industry.
Their Majesties, on this occasion, examined the musical in-
struments and the different articles of furniture, and put
several questions to the exhibitors. They also inspected a
great variety of other articles, and expressed their high ap-
probation of the skill displayed by the makers. The Royal
party remained at the exhibition from half-past one till a
quarter past five, and then left for Neuilly, amid the accla-
mations of the crowd, who had assembled on the outside of
the building.
The funeral of 111. Laffitte was fixed for Thursday, not
Wednesday, as stated in some of the papers, and would pro-
bably be attended by nearly all the Members of the Chamber
of Deputies. He is said to have died very rich, notwith-
standing the great losses he sustained in 1831. He has also,
it is said, left political memoirs, with correspondence, and
secret memoirs extending from 1828 to 1832.
M. Charles Laffitte has been returned for the fourth time to
the Chamber of Deputies, by the electors of Louviers.
The Moniteur publishes a report-1n Ike King from the
Minister of Justice and Public Worsh4r.en-the necessity of
regulating the mode of establishing Jewish consistories in
France, the election of their rabbis, &c. It is followed by a
royal ordonnance of great length, fixing the various points
connected with this subject. By this ordormance a consis-
tory is to be established in each department where the
Jewish population amounts to 2,000, and where this is not
the case the number is to be made up from the adjoining de-
partment or departments. The central consistory is to be in
Paris.

The Staoueli, CaptainDubois, arrived at Havre on Monday
morning, from the Havannah, whence she departed on the
14th ult. Captain Dubois confirms the news brought by the
English papers of the discovery of a censpiracy among the
blacks. A great number of arrests continued to be made at
the Havannah, and several British agents, says the Journal
de Havre, suspected of having encouraged the conspiracy by
their imprudent discourses, if not of having taken an active
part, were involved.

We red-intlre- Journal de Toulouse :—" We learn from
an undoubted source that Father Lopez passed through
Bordeaux, on Monday last, on his way to Madrid,
making known to several personages of consideration at
Bordeaux belonging to the 'artist party, that he was com-
missioned by Don Carlos to declare his readiness to abdicate
his sovereign rights in favour of his eldest son. This fact
foretels a happy conclusion to the project of marriage between
Queen Isabella and the Prince of the Asturias."
"The King of Saxony," says the France, has just given
orders to the authorities of his kingdom not to give the title
of Highne,,s to the Dukes of Saxe Coburg Gotha and An-
halt. Similar directions have been given by the King of
Prussia to the authorities of his kingdom, who might have
any intercourse with the principalities in question."
On the occasion of the opening of the railway between
Hanover and Brunswick, about a fortnight since, the King of
Hanover gave a grand dinner at his Palace, to which no fewer
than 700 guests were invited.

LAW AND POLXCD.
On Wednesday a special sessions for the Edgware division
of the county of Middlesex took place at the Chandos Arms
Inn, Edgware, before Major Abbs, Chairman, and Messrs.
Phillimore, B. Rotch, Burchell, R. Shuter, Hooper, and
Carter, Magistrates, acting in and for that division of the
county, for the purpose of hearing and determining two in-
formations laid at the instance of Mr. William Foster Smith,
a resident of Hendon, and a freeholder of the county, against
the Rev. Theodore Williams, Vicar of Hendon, and a county
magistrate, under the Police Act (2d and 3d Victoria, cap.
47, sec. 54). The informations were read by Mr. Tootell, the
clerk, which went to show that the rev, defendant had on
certain occasions used threatening, abusive, and insulting
words to the complainant on the Queen's highway, with in-
tent to provoke a breach of the peace. After evidence had
been heard Major Abbs addressed the rev. defendant, and
said, " the majority of the Magistrates being satisfied that the
case is proved against you, they fine you in the penalty of
405., with costs."
A the Thames police-court, Richd. Bragger, John Horsted,
Alexander Nicholson, Mary Ann Ash, Rosetta Bragger, and
George Bragger, were again brought before Mr. Ballantine,
charged with the wilful murder of Luke Williams, late pro-
prietor of the Chequers public-house, in Wapping-wall, and
robbing him of 301., in the dwelling-house of the prisoner
Nicholson, and after an investigation of four hours, were re-
manded till Wednesday.
At Marlborough-street Mr. William Guillian Slack, a so-
licitor, was charged on the police sheet with having at-
tempted to suffocate three respectable ladies, named Hughes.
It appeared that the ladies were lodgers in the house ofa Miss
Danner, in South Audley-street, and hajl received notice to
quit, but having failed to do so the defendant went to the
house and insisted upon their immediate removal. Not suc-
ceeding he went down stairs, and began a, great disturbance
in the house. the-heard him cofOili pair ofelogain order
_that he might 'make more clatter— in running up and down
stairs.- The defendant caused a stove to be procured, in which
a fire was kindled, and a quantity of sulphur and similar suf.
focating ingredients were placed in a tin pot and put on the
fire on the stove. The stove was then placed at the foot of
the stairs leading to Miss Hughes's apartments, and the re-
sult was, that the house soon became filled with a dense
smoke, and Miss Hughes and her two sisters were nearly
choked -by the fumes, which forced their way into the
apartment. Mr. Hardwick ordered the defendant to find
good bail to answer the charge at the sessions, and in addi-
tion to enter into his own recognizances for double the amount
of bail.

COURT--.WJAIMIONABLia•
Prince Albert has become Vice-Patron of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society, vacant by the death of the Duke of Sus-
sex. His Royal Highness honoured Mr. Murchison, the
President, with a visit yesterday in Belgrave-square, to in-
spect the vase and plateau presented to him by the Emperor
of Russia.
The Duke of Wellington returned to Apsley House yester-
day afternoon, from Strathfieldsaye. The Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Hon. and
Rev. Dr. Wellesley, Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, and the other
visitors who have been staying with the Duke during the
holidays, also returned to town in the course of the afternoon.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have arrived
at Mivart's Hotel, from their seat in Ireland.
The Countess of Cawdor and Lady Mary Campbell are ex-
pected in South .Audley-street in a few days, from Desart
Castle, where they have been on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Desart.
The Earl and Countess of Leicester are passing the season
at Holkam Hall, and are not expected to return to town until
next year.

DUSCIMI.A.IgEOuS..
A woman named Charlotte Hall, the wife of a plasterer,
was found dead in bed in her house, in Church-street, Wim-
bledon, yesterday morning, and from the appearances pre
sented by the body there is reason to fear that she had been
strangled. The husband could not be found, and the follow-
ing notice, in consequence, has been issued by the Commis-
sioners of Police Absconded, at half-past five o'clock this
morning, from Church-street, Wimbledon, leaving his wife in
bed dead, from strangulation,
a plasterer, between five feet ten
inches and six feet in height, fair complexion, brown hair, no
whisker, a down look with forbidding aspect, and his mouth
awry. He carries his head on one side. He is 40 years of
age, and was dressed in a coarse blue pilot coat, with pockets
in front, a fustian pipe-clayed round jacket underneath, slate-
coloured trousers, and Blucher boots. He is remarkable for
always carrying his pocket-handkerchief in the left breast of
his coat or jacket." Some of the neighbours heard her
scream " Murder" about 11 o'clock the previous night.
A numerous meeting of members ofthe Established Church,
Presbyterians, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists,
and other orthodox Dissenters, took place in Exeter-hall, for
the purpose of adopting such measures as might be consi-
dered necessary to prevent the enactment of the Dissenters'
Chapels Bill recently introduced into Parliament by the
Lord Chancellor, and now awaiting its second reading
in the House of Commons. Resolutions in accordance with the
object of the meeting were unanimously adopted. It is a
curious fact that Lord Lyndhurst has passed a Bill through
the House of Lords which pleases nobody.
The eighth concert of Ancient Music took place last night,
under the direction of his Royal Highness the Prince Albert,
for the Earl of Westmoreland. The performances require no
specification.

The boat• race on Monday, from Ostend to Bruges, between
Robert Newell, of Battle-bridge-stairs, and four Flemish
watermen, with a coxswain, terminated, contrary to general
expectation, in favour of the latter. He lost only, however,
by two minutes. It is but justice to the Flemish men to
state, that they behaved with great kindness to the two
Londoners, and made them a present on their departure.

LTERATION in the DEPARTURE
of the MAILS.

Very great inconvenience having been sustained, not only
by the commercial interests, but by the public generally, in
consequence of the mails for India, &c., being dispatched
fron this country previous to the arrival of the Overland
Mail, by reason of which those persons who had correepom-
dents in India could not reply to their advices for at least a
month—to remedy this evil the following arrangement has
been made by command of the Postmaster-General, notice of
which was put up yesterday morning at the General Post-
office and the several branch offices

" General Post-office, May, 1844.
" The next mails for Malta, Egypt, and the East Indies,
vid Southampton, will be dispatched on the morning of the
3d of June instead of the morning of the Ist, as heretofore,
and those vid Marseilles will be dispatched on the evening of
the 7th instead of the 4th.

"The same arraUiemeUts will be adopted with these mails
for the future, the mails rid Southampton being dispatched
on the morning of the 3d, and the mails rid Marseilles on
the evening of the ith.
" When the 3d of the month falls on a Sunday, the mail
vid Southampton will be closed and dispatched on the pre-
vious evening."
" The Great Liverpool, for India, &c.-3lails of the morn-
ing of the 3d of June.

11 The Trent, for the West Indies.-11fails of the morning
of the 3d of June.

" The Acadia, for America.—Mails of the 3d of June.
" The Garland Grove, for New South Wales.—Mails of the
31st hut."

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GRAY'S INN, MAT 29.—William Shaw, Esq., was
this day called to the degree of Barrister at Law by the
Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.
BRIGHTON, MAY 27.—The King of Saxony, who
visits England under the title of the Count de Hohensteine,
will arrive: at the York Hotel, to-morrow morning at nine
o'clock, accompanied by the Earl of Delawarr, &c., and im-
mediately_proceed to inspect the Pavilion. He will leave
the York Hotel at eleven o'clock for Portsmouth, calling at
way, and is expected to
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