The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

SUM •CRY OF NEWS

AND
tittbitr Optuton.

" Who runs nay read."

PONZION.
Disgraceful riots have taken place at Philadelphia,, caused
by some misunderstanding between the native inhabitants
and the Irish population. The Americans burnt down two
Catholic churches and eighty houses, and fifty people had
been killed or wounded.

On Saturday evening the King and Queen of the French
received the Brazilian Minister, Generals de Preval, Latour-
Maubourg, and Du Roure, Counts de Segur, Saint-Priest,
and Dubreuil, Baron de Talleyrand, M. Franck Carr& and
M. Rabien; Mayor of Eu.
"If the Prince de .loinville went to Compiegne, as has
been announced," says the Constitutiolinel, "he did not re-
main there long, for he was at the theatre on Friday, and on
Saturday he visited the Exhibition of National Industry."
The Prefect of the Seine, Count de Rambuteau, gave a
grand dinner on Saturday, at the Hotel de Ville, to the mem-
bers of the jury of the Exhibition of Nlational Industry."
The Pope has addressed a letter to the Roman Catholic
Archbishops and Bishops, calling their attention to the efforts
which are being made by various Bible Societies, and par-
ticularly by the Christian Society of New York, to produce
religious dissent in Italy.
The King of Bavaria arrived at Florence on the 14th, and
alighted at the Pitti Palace, where apartments had been pre-
pared for his reception. His Majesty was to leave on the 15th
or 16th for Rorie.

Two English families, who arrived on Thursday evening
at Antwerp from London, were so alarmed by the late acci-
dent on the railroad, that they determined to proceed to
Brussels with post-horses. Before they arrived at Vilvorde,
one of their carriages was overturned into the canal, and the
inmates were saved with difficulty.
The cures and clergy of Paris generally waited upon the
Archbishop of Paris last week, to protest against a passage
in the speech of M. Persil, in the Chamber of Peers, in which
he spoke of dissensions between the inferior clergy and the
episcopacy.
M. Laffitte, the banker, died at Paris on Sunday, aged 77.
From the heavy falls of rain on Monday and Tuesday
several of the bears in the Garden of Plants were nearly
being drowned. The drains of their fosses becoming choked,
the water rose, and the poor animals had no other means of
saving their lives than by climbing the dead trees that are
left there for their exercise and recreation.
We learn from Naples, May 15, that the alarm which was
felt in Sicily as to the crops, owing to the drought which
threatened a famine, has ceased, abundant rains having fallen
to refresh the earth and promote vegetation.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Sheriffs' Court, a special commisiorl was held, issued
at the suit of the Crown, by the Commissioners of Excise,
against the estate of the late Mr. Edward Hall Campbell, who
was a distiller and rectifyer, carrying on an extensive business
at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for alleged frauds upon the revenue,
amounting to 15,871/. lls. 7d. The jury found for the whole
amount claimed by the Exchequer.
William Clough, master of the brig Bolden, of Shields, was
summoned at the Mansion House, to answer the complaint of
John Whiting for having unlawfully detained him a month
longer, than was necessary for the discharge of the cargo of
that brig in the port of London. The Lord Mayor gave the
defendant a day to answer the question, whether he would
pay the man for a voyage and a half; if he did not, the law
would be put in force against him.
Johan Eivart, the mate of the ship Alexander, from Ros-
tock, was charged at the same office with having been on
board that vessel, with the knowledge that she had stowed
away amongst her cargo a large quantity of tobacco, made
up into parcels, each of which weighed a pound. Two of the
crew had been committed a few days before, upon a similar
charge. The mate was not brought up with the convicted
defendants, because of the inconvenience likely to arise from
capturing an officer so prominently engaged in the vessel. It
was stated by Mr. Davis, one of the revenue officers, that
two-thirds of the tobacco used in the metropolis is smuggled.
It was also stated that some of the steam-vessels had been
fined forty times for carrying smuggled goods, and that
20,000 pounds weight had been lately cleared out of the Cus-
tom- house in Dutch cheeses. The penalty of 100/. was inflicted.
The Watermen's Company have taken out a summons
against the father of the boy who was entrusted with the
wherry, the sinking of which caused the loss of so many lives
at London-bridge.

Thomas Walker, the collector of the City street-toll at
Temple-bar, was Charged at the Guildhall, with unlawfully
obstructing the public highway in Fleet-street, by enforcing
payment of the toll, by forcibly hindering the passage of a
cart, instead of forthwith distraining something in, or be-
longing to, the cart, as directed by the statute in respect to
tolls created by the statute, and as the custom has been in
respect to tolls created by grants from the Crown, or cus-
tomary tolls. The ease was heard by Alderman Gibbs, who
took time to consider upon it.
Emma Hayes, a girl only thirteen years of age, with Thos.
Hayes and Susan Hayes, her parents, who have for many
years borne the character of hard-working respectable people,
and who have a family of seven children, were brought be-
fore the magistrate for re-examination at Queen-square, the
former charged with stealing a 101. note, and the two latter
with having feloniously received it. The girl was in the ser-
vice of Mr. J. Severn, the artist. The daughter and father
were committed, and the mother was discharged.
Thomas Cleary, of South-place, Hercules-buildings, Lam-
beth, was charged at Union• hall with committing a violent
assault on William Parnell, by which his life is placed in
imminent danger. He was remanded, bail being refused. _

Mr. Charles—Pearson, the City solicitor, attended before
Mr. Ballantine, at the Thames Police Court, to prosecute an
information against Mr. John Alexander, the master of the
collier brig Liberty and Property, for remaining in the Pool
a longer period than fifteen days_, contrary to the by-laws
for the regulation of the port of London, by which he had
incurred a penalty of 201., or 101., for each day beyond the
time allowed. It being the first offence, the penalty of 40s.
only was enforced. The law will, it is understood, be rigidly
carried out.