The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-26 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Pubttt Optutou.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
A Cabinet Council, at which the King presided, was
held on Sunday afternoon at the Tuileries.
In the evening their Majesties did General Tom
Thumb the honour of receiving him at the Tuileries.
The little gentleman experienced the most kindly recep-
tion, and was warmly complimented by the junior
branches of the Royal Family on the efficient manner in
which he gave his representation of the Grecian statues,
danced the sailor's hornpipe, &c. ; and on leaving, after
an audience which lasted an hour and a half, he received
several marks of the royal bounty from his Majesty, the
Queen, the Princess Adelaide, and other distinguished
personages of the Court.
The Minister of Finance had presented to the Cham-
ber two projects of law, the one relative to the payment
of the di,idend due on the Greek Loan, and the other
proposing the withdrawal from circulation of pieces of
13 and 30 sous, &c., and the issuing of other small coin,
more in accordat cc with the decimal system.
This year, for the first time these 50 years, (says the
Prcsse,)the w ell known ehe: tout-tree of the Tuileries was
not seen green with leaves on March 20 ; the branches
were as hare c.s in the middle of winter.
According to accounts from Pau, of the 18th, the
weather had become so completely changed at the, nd of
the preceding we( k that tF e heat was actually oppressive.
A letter from Grenoble, of the 18th, states that the
diligence between that town and Gap had resumed its
journeys that morning, after having been stopped by the
snow ever since January 27, that is to say, for 50 days,
the longest suspension which is known to have ever
occurred.
A Berlin letter of the 18th states, on the authority of
positive accounts from St. Petersburgh, that the Empress
of Russia, accompanied by the Emperor, will visit
Berlin in May, and proceed to Tegerusce fur the re-
covery of her health.

&AM AND POLIO!.
In the Court of Bankruptcy, Mr. Commissioner Hol-
royd suspended the certificate of a bankrupt named '
Stacey fur two years. The bankrupt had been a ware-
houseman in Milk-street, Cheapside.
At Leicester, Joseph Cliff, and Joseph and Samuel
Collier, were acquitted on a charge of night poaching.
In defending them, Mr. Miller characterised the law
which exposes three or more persons, armed with any
weapons trespassit:g, to fourteen years' transportation,
as one which operates as an inducement to violence to
prevent being captured.
Samuel Brown was indicted at Liverpool for having
on the high seas feloniously stabbed one Ltncelot Read,
with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The
prosecutor was the commander of the bir Charles Na-
pier, on board which the prisoner was a seaman. In
consequence of tie prisoner's disobedience to orders,
words ensued between him and the captain, and even-
tually he stabbed the captain in the abdomen. The jury
found him guilty of an assault, and Mr. Justice Coltman
sentenced him to two years' imprisonment with hard
labour. .

A man named Gatehouse. for an assault on a police-
constable, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment
at the Middlesex Sessions.
Thomas Gaines, one of the old Bow-street patrols,
who was pensioned off in consequence of receiving a
violent injury to the head in the execution of his duty,
was brought before Mr. Alderman Copeland, upon a
charge of striking a boy on the head with the brass
crown head of his staff. The prisoner, who is nearly
childish, in consequence of an injury in the head, had
been to Tapping's execution, en amateur. Some boys
had teazel him, and he had struck one of them a violent
blow with his staff. He was committed in default of
sureties to appear at the sessions.
John Parish was charged with having stolen horses
and carts belonging to butchers, while the drivers had
gone into the houses of the nobility and gentry at the
west-end, to deliver meat and receive orders. The
prisoner was committed fur trial from Marylebone.
At the Thames Police-court. Michael Lee was fully
committed for obtaining 51. from Patrick O'Connor, a
Custom-house officer, by threatening to charge him with
receiving bribes.
COURT—PASHION.III37,E.

The Duke of Wellington's party at Strathfieldsave,
owing to the recent bereavements in his Grace's family,
is limited, during the Easter holidays, to the Marquis
and Marchioness of Douro, Lord and Lady Charles
Wellesley, Lord and Lady de Roos, Right Hon. Charles
Arbuthnot, &c., and his Grace is expected in town on
Wednesday next, to dine with his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, who is directr_r of the Concerts of
Ancient Music.
The Earl and Countess of Albemarle entertained the
Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair, G.C.8., the Hon. Captain
and Mrs. Henry Keppell, and a small party at dinner, on
Monday, in Berkeley-square.
The-Marquis of Worcester has left town for Gloucester,
to attend the approaching assizes held in that city, his
Lordship having been summoned on the grand jury.
The Earl of Derby, who, we are glad to learn, is in
greatly improved health, has arrived in Grosvenor-
square, from his seat, Knowsley-park, Lancashire.
Lord Stanley has left town for Knowsley-park, Lan-
cashire. His Lordship is expected to return before the
close of the week.
Viscount and Viscounts as Combermere, the Earl and
Countess of Hillsborough, and other branches of the
family, have been placed in mourning by the demise of
Miss Heater Cotton, sister to the Noble and Gallant
Viscount, at her residence near Barnet, on Thursday last,
at an advanced age.
The Dowager Lady Holland entertained a select
party at dinner last evening, in Great Stanhope-street
May

Lard William Fitzgerald, High Sheriff for the coun

Kildare, left his house in Green-street, accompanied 1337
his daughter, Miss Fitzgerald, on Saturday last, on a
visit to his brother. the Duke of Leinster, at Carton.
Viscount and Viscountess Tiovvick have left town for
Brighton, where they purpose remaining until after the
close of the EasterM recess.
IsCELLANEOUS.

On Easter Tueaday there were vestries held in most
of the metropolitan parishes fur the purpose of electing
pariah officers for the ensuing year. As usual there was
a great deal of squabbling at several of them.
Last nigt.t a numerous company was attracted to
Sussex Hall, a concert being given in aid of. the funds of
the society for supporting the aged needy. We believe
the society is one of those especially belonging to the
Jewish community, and it reflects the highest credit on
the kindly feelings which actuate the majority of
the wealthier Jews towards their poorer brethren.
On Monday next the Asylums for the Houseless Poor
in Playhouse-yard, Glasshouse-yard, Ogle-street, St.
Marylebone, and Market-street, Paddington, will be
clos,d for the season.
Mr. William Crome, of Erith Cottage, Old Kent-road,
died on Saturday, the 15th instant, in the 80th year of
his age. lie brought the first news to Lord Liverpool of
the victory over the French army at Waterloo. Mr. W.
Crome at that time was a resident at Ostend.

AT

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, TUESDAY EVEZCING.
TIMES.--The premium on gold at Paris is 19i per miller
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s.10id. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 64 ; and the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 90, it follows
that gold is rather more than 1 per cent. dearer in London
than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 436 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 14 ; and
the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 12i,
it follows that gold is 1.02 per cent. dearer in London than
in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is 110
per cent. ; and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 0.42 per cent. in favour of England ; but the quoted
exchange at New York being for bills at sixty days' sight,
the interest must be added to the above difference.
SUN.—Consols were marked at 100 to % for Money, and
wolfs 14 for Account. Exchequer-bills were heavy, at 575. to
51s. premium.
The Foreign Bonds continued heavy. Spanish Five per
Cents. have been 30% ; and the Three per Cents. 4076.
Portuguese Converted were 6714 to 1; Peruvian, 33%;
Colombian, 15 ; Buenos Ayres, 41 to 42%; Brazilian, New,
90; and Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 601.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these •:—The Bristol and Exeter, 12%; Caledonian, 51% ;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 5%; Churnet Valley, 5; Dublin
and Belfast, 4; Great Western,lialt, 57 ; Guildford, Fare-
ham, and Portsmouth, 21%; Lancaster and Carlisle, 20 to ;
London and Birmingham, Quarter, 29% to 30 ;, South-
Western, 38%; Ditto, Eighths, 17 ; Ditto, New, 9%; South-
Western, New, 714 ; Croydon, 414 ; Lynn and Ely, 5 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Half, 32 ; Ditto, Quarter, 18 ; Northernewark
and Eastern, 20 ; Ditto, Scrip, 5 ; North Wales, 114 ; Newark
and Sheffield, 214 ; South-Eastern, New, No. 1, .
Staines and Richmond, %; Trent Valley, 15% ; York
and North Midland, 51 ; Selby, 46%; Ditto, Extension, 13 ;
Boulogne andAmiens,73/4 ; Lyons and Avignon, 1 to IA ; Tours
and Nantes, 1; Aberdeen, % to 1; and Armagh and Port-
rush, % premium.
The Foreign Exchanges generally were firm this afternoon.
The following is the official return of the exports of but-
lion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday
ast :
Silver Coin to Belgium

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDEN
STEPNE 1 FAIR.
Yesterday, William Davis was charged, at the Thames
Police-office, with endangering the lite of a man, named
Bell, in Stepney fair. The injured person is now in the
London Hospital, in a precarious state. A man of
gigantic proportions and. stature, known as Black
Morris, from his complexion, was killed in the fair on
Monday night, at the very spot where Bell was injured, as
stated in 7he Sun of yesterday. David Adams, of No. 6,
Match-Walk, Shadwell, said he was the proprietor of an
up and-down swing in Stepney fair, and the prisoner
was employed by him to RE sist. While the lowest boat
next the ground was being filled with passengers, a hook
was screwed on to a stancheon, and made last, to prevent
the revolution of the machine until the lowermost boat
or car was properly tilled, when it was unhooked, and
the last boat filled sent up acting by its weight as a
counterpoise to the boat coming down. Unless each boat
was filled with the proper number of passengers, the labour
of turning it was excessive. The boat next the ground
had been stopped for the purpose of letting out nine
passengers, and taking nine more in, and six only had
already entered, when the prisoner unfastened the hook,
and the top boat, containing nine passengers, over-
balanced, and it came down very swifty, causing the
wheel'to revolve, and turning round the handle of the
winch at which Bell was stationed, and it struck him on
the head and face, and injured bim severely. The man
NM conveyed to the hospital.