The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-15 00:00:00

VENING, MARCH 8., 1844.

SUMMARY OF NEW

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70 aIIION.

The King of the French on Monday, accompanied by
General de Rumigny and two orderly officers, went to
Neuilly and visited every part of the chapel of Saint Ferdi-
nand. His Majesty returned to the Tuileries to dinner, and
among the party invited on the occasion were M. Guizot and
Mr. Edward Ellice.

The France of Wednesday says, that though the report of
the Duke of Angouleme's death is nut true, yet, that by ac-
counts of the 6th, received from Goritz, there was no doubt
that he could not hold out for many days.
"A letter from Madrid, of the 6th instant," says thw
Commerce, "has been communicated to us, according to
which Bonet had left Alicante in an English frigate, which
anchored off Alicante at dusk, on the 29th of February, and
set sail about eleven at night, carrying away, it is said, large
sums of money.
The last letters from Italy are full of accounts of the
armed bands which have of late re-appeared in the Appe-
nines and in the low country on the coast of the Adriatic;
and it is said that all the troops the Pope has at his disposal
at Bologna are not sufficient to prevent the nightly depreda-
tions to which that city is exposed.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Oxford Assizes, Edward Butler was tried for the
murder of his wife, by kicking and beating her in a most
brutal manner. The jury to the surprise of the Court, re-
turned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter only. The pri-
soner was transported for life.
At the same assizes Keeling Richardson, aged 24, John
Richardson, 34, and Joseph Starkie, 18, three of a desperate
gang who have infested this county for some time past, were
indicted for entering in the night time certain enclosed lands
at Clifton Carnpville, and for having feloniously wounded
Thomas Harrison, with intent to murder him. The jury
found all the prisoners guilty, and they were transported for
20 years.
The assizes on the Western Circuit were opened yesterday
at Dorchester by Judges Wightinan and Cresswell.
John Hall, Richard Terry, sen., Richard Terry, jun.,
Joseph Terry, William Adams, and Thomas Spratlev, were
indicted, at Aylesbury, for having committed a brutal assault
on the person of Ann I'epper. The evidence proved the most
shocking depravity on the part of the prisoners, who were
found guilty, and transported for twenty, years.
The trial of the persons charged at fullainore with the
murder of Lord Norbury, has been postponed till the next
assizes.

Two boys, named W. Matthio and Joseph Hood, both
under 14 years of age, were committed for trial from Mary-
lebone, on charge of robbing Mrs. Cobden, the lady of the
Honourable Member for Stockport, of her purse, containing
11/. 15s. 6d., while passing through Oxford-street.
'William Camel', a tall well-dressed man, was brought
before Mr. Cottingham, at Union-hall, for re-examination,
charged with being concerned with another man, not in cus-
tody, in the robbery of James Forder of 110/. in Bank of
England notes and sovereigns. The robbery was effected by
the old trick of entering into conversation with hill', advising
him to be very careful of his money from the number of
sharpers about, and then "ringing the changes" by putting
a bag of coppers into his pocket instead of his sovereigns.
The prosecutor left town by the train for Brenchley, in Kent,
immediately after the robbery, and did not discover his loss
till the next morning. The prisoner was committed for trial,

COURT-P.A.BILIONABLZ.
Prince Albert has deferred his visit of inspection to her
Majesty's marine residence, near Cowes, until Monday next,
when the Black Eagle Admiralty steam-yacht is ordered to
be in waiting at Portsmouth on that day, to convey his
Royal Highness to the Isle of Wight.
The Duke of Wellington gives a grand entertainment on
the 27th inst. to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, at Apsley House, when her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester is also expected to dine
with the Noble Duke.

The Earl of Devon has left town for Dublin, intending
from thence to go to Dundalk, when the Noble and Learned
Earl, and the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the
tenure of land in that country, resume the active duties of
the Commission.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and the Ladies Leve-
son Gower intend to remain at Brighton until the second
week in April, and then return to Stafford House for the
season.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have arrived in Park-
lane from Brighton. The Noble Duke and Duchess com-
mence their elegant parties immediately after Easter.
The Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Admiralty,
held his first levee on Thursday, when thirty-seven officers
of the Royal Navy had audiences with his Lordship.
MISCZUGANZOUS.
Mr. Murchison, as President of the Royal Geographical
Society, gave his third soiree of the season, at his residence
in Belgrave-square, on Wednesday evening, which was at-
tended by aboN;-e 300 noblemen and gentlemen, besides a
great many ladies of distinction. Among the interesting
objects inviting attention was the prow of a Roman galley,
the property of Sir Howard Douglas, fished up from the
bottom of the sea, near the promontory where the battle of
Actium was fought.

An anti-League meeting was held at Morpeth on Wednes-
day, to adopt measures for opposing the repeal of the corn-
laws. The meeting was convened by a requisition from cer-
tain landowners and farmers, amounting, it was said, to eight
hundred. Resolutions in accordance with the object of the
requisitionists were adopted, and an Association formed, to be
called the Northumberland Society for the Protection of Agri-
culture, the Duke of Northumberland President.