The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-31 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Public eptuton.

" Who runs may rewL"

FOREIGN.

The French Funds were further depressed on Monday, the
Three per Cents. closing at 82f. 5c., and the Fives at 124 f.
55e. Orleans Shares closed at 855, Rouen 845, Havre 680,
Avignon 760 ; Spanish Actives 30i.
Six of the Legitimatist Deputies, among them Berryer
and Larochejacquelin, had tendered their resignation to the
Chamber of Deputies, which was accepted.
The returns of the elections at Madrid were made up on
the 23d—all in favour of the Opposition.
The accounts from Alexandria are to the 6th inst. The
Viceroy had returned to Cairo from Upper Egypt.
LAW AND POLICE.

In the Secondaries' Court an action was brought against
Mr. Blyth, the captain of the bark, Racer, by Antonio de
Souza, the steward, for an assault committed at sea. The
defendant had repeatedly struck the plaintiff, and one of the
blows had materially affected his sight. The jury retuned
a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 30/.
The following array of counsel have been engaged in a will
case, Baughton v. James, which stands for hearing in the
Vice-Chancellor's Court :—Mr. Swanston, Mr. Siumkinson,
Mr. Spence, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Russell, Mr. Wigram, Mr. An-
derton, Mr. Teed, Mr. K. Parker, Mr. Coote, Mr. Terrell, Mr.
Rolt, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Stinton, Mr. Hallett, Mr.
Hall, and Mr•. Blower.
Thomas Frost, a letter-carrier in the General Post-office,
was charged at Bow-street, with stealing a sovereign and a
Scotch bank note for 1/., the property of the Postmaster-
General. The prisoner said nothing in his defence and was
fully committed.
At Marlborough-street, Stanislaus Dembricki (calling him-
self Count Dembricki). Marie Therese Dembricki, and Louis
Sosnowski, were charged by William Henry Best, butler to
Lady Trotter, No. 11, Grosvenor-square, the two former with
knocking and ringing violently at her Ladyship's door that
morning, and the latter with assaulting and abusing him in
the streets. It .appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff,
that they were suspected of being begging impostors ; and
Lady Trotter had ordered him to make a statement to that:
effect before the magistrates. For this they had annoyed
him, and one of them threatened to strike him with an um-
brella. Mr. Maltby, after some consideration, said the case
was one which he could not deal with. He must, therefore,
order the parties to be discharged.
Yesterday James Hughes was charged at the Thames
Police-court by Samuel George Bayley, an officer of the
Animals' Friend Society, with having worked a horse which
was totally unfit for labour. The prisoner, in his defence,
said, he had paid 7s. for having the collar altered twice. He
merely used the horse as a makeshift, having been compelled
by an accident to sell for a sovereign two months since a
horse which he had previously purchased for 151. Mr. Bro-
derip having viewed the horse, which was in the yard at-
tached to the Court, told the prisoner that he was utterly
unfit to be entrusted with the care of any animal. He should
pay the highest penalty, 405., or stay in gaol for the longest
term the law allowed. The prisoner was then locked up.
At Union-hall William Holder was committed for trial on
a charge of embezzling various sums of money, the property
of Messrs. Flockton and Co., turpentine distillers, of Ber-
mondsey, by whom he was employed as cash collector.
Thomas Sparks was also committed for trial, charged with
having stolen a bag containing gold and silver to the amount
of 40/., the property of a pawnbroker residing in the New
Cut, Lambeth, by whom he had formerly been employed, but
from whose service he was discharged in the month of
October last.

At the Hammersmith Police-court Edward Haylen, James
Pearce, Benjamin Smith, and James Paine, four young men
of respectable appearance, from seventeen to twenty years of
age, apprentices of Mr. Charles Brown, builder, at 'Hammer •
smith, were brought before Mr. Paynter on a charge of hav-
ing administered to James Welsh, Mr. Brown's foreman, a
quantity of jalap, and afterwards attempting to drown him.
After hearing a vast mass of evidence, Mr. Paynter inflicted
on Haylen, Pearce, and Smith, a fine of 5/. each for the as-
sault, and held all of them to bail for their future good be-
haviour in two sureties of 40/. each.
COURT —FASHIONABLE.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort, will pro-
ceed in state to open the session of Parliament. The Court
is expected to return to Windsor on Saturday.
Lord John Russell returns to Chesham-place to-day, from
a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn
Abbey, where some political and private friends of his Lord-
ship have assembled; and this evening the Noble Lord will
give a Frand dinner to a party of 20, including some of his
Lordship s former colleagues in office. Lady John Russell
will arrive in town to-morrow from Woburn, for the season.
Sir Robert Burdett, Bart., accompanied by the Hon. Robert
0. Cave, M.P., left town on Tuesday for Ramsbury Manor,
Wilts, to attend the obsequies of the late Sir Francis and
Lad/Burdett, and thence Mr. Cave proceeds to the seat of
the venerable Baroness Braye, his mother, Stanford Hall,
Leicestershire.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are expected to leave
Stafford House next week, for Brighton, where their Graces'
relatives, Earl and Countess of Granville, are prolonging
their sojourn