The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-27 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF PIEWS

AND

iAtiatc Optizton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN. Armes,
On Thursday, the King, attended by M. de Chab
and two orderly officers, went to Saint Cloud, returninegrw,
Neuilly at six o'clock. In the evening their Majesti
ceived the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess d'APII`e;
the Prussian Minister and Baroness Koznneritz, the Migo'sr
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of the Hans Towns and the Netherlands, the Chan
France, and several other persons of distinction. ~ At
Lord and Lady Cowley gave a grand dinner on Friday,
the
ot hf ehe r hotelof
Majestyth Qußritisheen Victoria. Embassy , in
Among honourthoef
othe
pbtalf;et4brJ:
all the Foreign Ambassadors (with the exception
.o,er
of
Turkish Minister, absent through illness, and the Ali„nlst _hal
Sweden, who is in mourning for his late sovereign); innhe
Soult, M. Guizot, and all their Ministerial colleagues the
Chancellor of France, Baron Pasquier ; General Sebes',
and his brother the Marshal ,• Count Montalif,e':'.
the President of the Chamber of Deputies ; Count ii;irch
bateau, the Prefect of the Seine, &c. After the dinner,:orsuhal
was of the most varied and sumptuous description, 318 e the
Soult, as the Prime Minister of France, rose to proposiand,
health of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Enkoed
which, having been appropriately honoured, was f‘sn
by the toast of the King of the French, given by Lordt!-•0(•_I
ley, and similarly honoured. Military builds were stationed
rre
on the grand staircase, and in the garden ; and the
entire
arrangements were on a scale of magnificence befitti g
occasion. inha
A letter from Goritz, of the 15th inst., quoted by
i,sider•
Gazette de France, says :—" The Duke d'AngouleV
hopeless state. A catastrophe is shortly expected. 11s "e, and
ings are frightful. The Duke de Bordeaux is still lier„
indeed at the present conjuncture he cannot be absert..sion,
The Paris Commerce mentions a report that a Com,,n"osi•
composed of magistrates, bankers, and merchants of onsti-
deration, appointed by the Minister of Finances, ich° c n a'
tuted himself its president, has for several months bee,:in
gaged in framing rules for the regulation of time harg°,lo as
the public funds, and that the measure is so far advs"ilefors
to allow of the proposed ordonnance being shortly laid
the Council of
let State. to
A Toulon leer states that the Lavoisier steamer td her
to Carthagena, to be at the disposal of Queen Isahell3 "";,here
mother, and convey them to the coast of Catalonia,bo
their Majesties and the Infanta are going to take
nefit of the waters. Odle
The Gazette Suisse of Berne of the 21st inst., nuno_noos.,
departure of the Count de Pontois, the new renels iwort;
sador for Lucerne, to deliver his credentials to the ,o). of
He was accompanied by the Count de Reinhard, Sore' ,
Legation.
The intelligence from Switzerland comes down to t
The Upper Valaisans have had the best of the first strut;st.
and the Lower Valaisans have been compelled t°,,,rtei does,
The number of killed on the side of the vancinis,,"cs if 0"
not exceed twenty-eight or thirty, though bothpas'"
provided with cannon. A 011 t"
The city of Dresden and its environs were visit The
12th by a severe storm, and a heavy fall of hail. 1":13 tile
rose, and, overflowing its banks, did much injury and
village of Rippehen several persons lost their lives, "-cote°
calamity was followed by a fire, which destroyed
houses. ks of tb
The Augsburg Gazette states that all the w" rtell A‘
railroad of the Upper Rhine, from Carisruhe to thsi ode
frontier, are finished, and that on the 20th the a 1 O.
be made to Offenburg and Kehl, so that o enf"
whole line from Manheim to Kehl would be °p"' to
COURT—FASEIONAZI.X.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel the Princess Alice'
to 'At;
Smithett, is ordered to be at Ostend, in readineThi dsi,;
bark his Majesty the King of Saxony and suite tut, yo,
Monday, the 27th inst. It is expected his Maje"
on a
land at Dover, and proceed by the railway to lAriCiOn'
tt
Ofl
visit to her Majesty the Queen. f
We understand that her Majesty purposes shetttoire;
the arrival of the King of Saxony from German'',
state ball in compliment to her illustrious visitor at
in gham Palace. neetelAr
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite are eltrionP;'
embark for Germany on Monday or Tuesday nott,',:ibev,.;;
miralty steam-packet. The visit of her MajestY deantinent, we hear, is not expected to exceed six ween—ithe
which period her Majesty will visit the reiguing page
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Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen, and other illustrious re.iiioo,
ld
The Duke of Wellington, the Marquis and Marenr. Gert'it
Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, Hon. and Rev.
Wellesley, and the Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot,
Strathfieldsaye on Saturday afternoon for the 110100; iibol't
Noble and Gallant Duke will entertain a partY4cree°4,
eighteen at dinner this evening. The H t
on. It O-es
and Miss Pierrepont, and a select circle assemble
ing, and the party will not separate until Wednescisl'
pelc
the Duke returns to Asley House. Pl-
The Duke of Devonshire has only gone no kr",4
Bolton Abbey, the object of the Noble Duke beine,rogrrn
sonally inspect the alterations and improvernentsAfe;o!;,
at that interesting residence. The Noble Dtilohlsse
tend having any more balls at Devonshire House
the parties there for the remainder of the summer Wi
fined to dinners. A fete at Chiswick is spoken of. 00"
Sir Richard and Lady Puleston and family hale pr
in Norfolk-street from Flintshire. essif
The Ladies Patronesses of the Royal Dierte
Diseases of the Ear, will give a grand fete chamPe
1000
next month in aid of the funds of this institution.
Lord and Lady Mahon have issued cards for
dinner in Grosvenor-place, on Thursday next.
ZIZSGELLANMOUS. the
The ceremony of laying the first stone of erforv,
station of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway was P eer,
on Friday, by the Lord Lieutenant. The engiu tyl
Macneill, was knighted on the spot. Je.„o
The cattle show was held at Tiverton last Veo' e suid,
market place, agreeably to public advertisement. te) tit
like that of our Exeter society, was not very well „,a" sie°,ct(
the complaint being that these meetings come too '`"
in the year. The stock shown, though not nurnen9—All
first-rate quality, and drew down encomiums fon'
witnessed it. to" •
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On Saturday a sale of useful and ornamental ly'rbebrt,
place at iladley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, °Lcie„fo
of the objects connected with the Church MissionarY 00
the London society for Promoting Christianity sulchioeos
Jews, and the Protestant Association, namely, to tiferos,,d
Missions of the -named'-named society, to the „ting,,,'
Bishopric Fund, and ,to the special fund for roP,h"° re 'Y
issuing standard Protestant works by popular 91.'"'"
cheap and attractive form. dill
A chapter of the noble and ancient order of the u_rigalli
be held in a few days, 'at Buckingham Palaot 'we
Talbot will be elected a Knight, in the room of
of Lonsdale. ,A the
On Dartmoor, during the past week, so chilly 0,7 '
that its lofty heights again assumed a wintry gltr'''
peered capped with snow.
It is said that at the lowest computation 900 ere
of beat
tocracy assembled to participate in the splendid ht,
provided by the Duke of Wellington on Friday ni,i throl/g
The Bristol and Gloucester Railway will be OpenaG
out to Gloucester on the-lit afjuly next. i'd4l,,•
There will be three- bekt:diming the .•..n°
Greenwich, Wandswortht,and ety, and a '7,,f153
cy fa~,ell
the Tunnel under the Thames: 'Meth. at Stepney
to be the last, for the groandi.tterbe.beilt upon'
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