The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

The France says everything has been finally arranged
for the visit of the King of the French to England, but
that his absence will not exceed a week.
The Gazette de Metz mentions a report that two es-
tafettes have been sent off by the Duke de Nemours
with orders to stop the movement of the troops who
were arriving for the camp, the heavy rains that have
fallen having retarded the harvest, and prevented the
clearing of the ground for the encampment.
The Minister of Public Works arrived on Saturday at
Havre, where he was received on landing by the Mayor,
and the engineers and officers of the port.
The trial of the Legitimists accused of sedition is to
come on at the end of the present month. It is said that
several curious documents will be produced at the trial,
among which are letters of M. Berryer's and some other
Legitimists, and projects for a Legitimist rising in La
Vendio.

Marshal Soult has returned to Paris and resumed his
functions as Minister of War. The ad interim nomina-
tion of Admiral Mackau arose from the necessity of the
ordinance dissolving the Polytechnic School being signed
by a Minister charged with the war portfolio.
A London paper having announced that Mr. Pritchard
is expected to return to Otaheite in the Coiling-
wood, to resume his functions as Britannic Consul, the
Paris Gbbe gives a decisive denial to the statement,
adding that it only notices it because the gobe-mouches of
the Opposition will not fail to enlarge upon it, by giving
it as a certain fact to their credulous readers.

An interesting ceremony took place last week at Val-
de-la-Haye, near Rouen. A subscription of 5,000 f.
having been entered into for a monument to mark the
spot of the first resting-place on the river, on the occa-
sion of transporting the remains of the Emperor Na-
poleon to Paris, the inauguration took place on the 15th,
in presence of the authorities and an immense multitude.
A letter from the camp at Batna (Algeria), written at
the end of last month, represents the country to be de-
voured by clouds of locusts, which alighted on the
ground to the height of above a foot, and covered the
roofs of the barracks like a thick fall of snow. They
seemed, however, to be inclined to take their flight to-
wards the desert.

One of the receivers of taxes, &c., of VendOme (Eure-
et-Loir), vrho absconded a short time age, leaving a de-
ficit, it is said, of a million of francs, has been arrested
at Brussels, at the demand of the French Government.
This deficit, however, will, it is understood, affect only
private individuals, his accounts with the Government
having been regularly paid up.
The Universal German Gazette states that letters from
Singapore, of April 11, have been received at Leipsic,
giving a very satisfactory account of the commercial ex-
pedition sent from that city to China.
A royal decree has been issued at Madrid suspending
the further sale of church property.
The King of Prussia arrived at Vienna on the 11th
inst., and immediately proceeded to the palace at
Schcenbrunn. The Prince de Metternich was expected
on the 12th.

LAW AND POLICE.
Mottram, the bankrupt, who had carried on business
as a wholesale warehouseman in Wood-street, Cheap-
side, passed his final examination on Tuesday. At the
close, Mr. Thomas applied for protection on the part of
the bankrupt. Mr. Commissioner Fane—lf he asks at
once for his certificate, and an early day to be named for
that purpose, I shall grant him his protection ; but if
not, I shall leave him entirely to the mercy of his cre-
ditors. Mr. Thomas—The bankrupt states that he has
no fear as to his protection, and does not apply now for
his certificate.

At the Liverpool Assizes Mr. Aldis, formerly an
artist, but now a clergyman, obtained a verdict against
an attorney of the name of Gardiner for negligence.
Damages, 3001.

Octivins Clarke, the son of a late highly distinguished
divine, was fully committed at Worship-street, charged
with committing numerous depredations in the houses of
gentlemen connected with his family, and with whom he
had been on terms of intimate friendship.
At Marylebone, David Garrow, a boy about fourteen
years of age, in the service of Mr. Salter, a butcher,
carrying on basiness iu Church-street, Portman-market,
was brought up for re-examination, charged with having
driven over a respectable elderly female, named Sarah
Bath, who, from the very serious injury inflicted upon
her, was unable to attend. 'The prisoner was bailed by
his master and his father, who undertook that he should
be forthcoming on the 17th of next month.
At the Greenwich police-court, Charles Reeves, an
upholsterer and furniture dealer, in Church-street,
Greenwich, was charged with disorderly conduct in the
Clarence-hall concert room, Greenwich, by letting off
fireworks in the midst of about one hundred and fifty
females, whereby he caused great alarm, confusion, and
danger to the premises ; and was ordered to pay a fine
of 20s.

Henry White, a powerful man, a coalwhipper, who
had been in custody for three weeks, was brought before
Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police Court, for final
examination, on a charge of assaulting and wounding an
aged couple, named Robert Reay, a crucible-maker, and
Sarah Reay, his wife, whose lives were despaired of for
some days. The prisoner, who had previously made a
defence that he was first attacked by Reay and his
family, and that he was beset by numbers before he
struck a blow, wished his witnesses to be called. Mr.
Broderip said he had already informed the prisoner that
he could not hear his witnesses; but he could call whom
he pleased at the Central Criminal Court, to which
place
riactelail.e was about to send him. He committed him
for