The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

POR.EXOI2.

The Queen of Portugal prorogued the Cortes in per-
son on the 14th. Very destructive storms had taken
place off the Portugne coast, by which several lives had
been lost.
In the Spanish Senate the report of the Constitution
Reform Bill was brought up on the 16th, the Archbishop
of Toledo having been elected president of that com-
mittee. The committee approves of the Bill.
The Castellano mentions the departure of M. Gonzales
Bravo for Lisbon.
A letter from Logrono, of the 16th, expresses the
hope that the prosecution instituted against General
Iturbe, M. Gamboa, Colonel Bousingault, &c., will end
in the royal mercy being extended to them. It was also
expected that, in a day or two, the proclamation which
had proclaimed Logrono in a state of siege, would be
revoked.
A letter from Turin states, that considerable sensation
had been produced in that city early in the present
month, by the violation of the Sardinian territory by a
body of French gendarmes, douaniers, and other armed
soldiers, who arrested some Sardinian subjects, and car-
ried them prisoners to Grenoble, to answer for alleged
thefts committed in a furest on the French side of the
frontier.
Accounts from Constantinople announce that Dr.
Wolff had arrived in safety at Teheran.
His Imperial Highness the Duke of Leuchtenberg has
returned to Munich from Eichstadt, where his Imperial
Highness has been enjoying the sports of the field. The
Duke purposes to be in St. Petersburgh on New Year's-
day, which, according to the Greek calendar, corresponds
with the 12th of January.
The Obserrateur Suiesse contains the following from
Lucerne :—" The Central Government was seized with
the greatest alarm on learning that numerous meetings
had been held at Fraubrunnen and Zofinger. It
immediately called out the Landwehr and for-
warded troops from Schwyz towards the frontier of
the canton, in order to be able to enter Lucerne
at the first signal. Numerous attempts at incen-
diarism have been made in the canton of Lucerne. The
Pope's Nuncio has congratulated the Director of the
Vorort on having overcome the party opposed to the Je-
suits." The Messager Suisse, after complaining in bitter
terms of the apathy of the people of Lucerne, expressed
indignation at the want of energy evinced in the execu-
tion of a plan of operation skilfully combined, and at the
absence of the assistance promised by other cantons.
141100 aIVD IOLICA.

In the Court of Exchequer an,action was brought by
Mr. Holman, " a Lloyd's surveyor," to recuver com-
pensation from Mr. Brightman and another, representing
the British Maritime Assurance Company, for a libel,
imputing to him neglect, indiscretion, and misrepre,en-
tation in a report made by him respecting the condition
of a vessel called the Brutus. Verdict for the plaintiff'
—Damages, 501.
More than one-third of the number of prisoners tried
at Stafford were totally uneducated, included among
whom are the two youths, Downing, 19, and Powys, 19,
who are condemned for the murder of the gamekeeper.
At Bow-street, Ebenezer Paron Ilingston, the pro-
sector to Dr. Todd, at King's College, Somerset-house,
was brought up for final examination, charged with
stealing from a cupboard in the porter's room at that
place a coat and other articles, the property of Mr.
John Farmer, of 11, Wellington-street, Strand. The
prisoner was further remanded, to allow of other cases
being inquired into, but the witnesses in. three cases
were bound over to prosecute.