The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-30 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOIIitEXON.

On Saturday the King and Queen of the French, their
Royal Highnesses Madame Adelaide, the Duchess d'Or-
leans, the Duchess de Nemours, the Princess de Join-
Ville, and the Duke d'Aumale, accompanied by Generals
Athalin and de Rumigny, the Count de Strada, and two
orderly officers, visited Versailles, but returned to St.
Cloud to dinner. In the evening their Majesties re-
ceived the Ministers of the United States, Sweden, Chili,
and Tuscany, the Minister of Commerce, the Count de
Chabannes, Barons de Busseres and Deffaudis, M. de
Lesseps, and M. Conte, Director-General of the Post-
office.
M. Herbet, the French Consul-General at Dublin, has
been appointed Consul at Trieste.
Dr. Bowring, M.P., arrived in Paris on Saturday, at
the Hotel Victoria, from London. Mr. Hume, M.P.,
has also arrived in Paris.
M. Lebas, the member of the Institute, who has been
two years in Greece on a scientific mission, hav-lately
written to the Minister of the Interior, stating that he has
collected about 4,000 Greek inscriptions, 2,500 of which
are entirely new, and the rest corrected and rendered
more complete. With these be has 500 drawings of
antique buildings, statues, and bas-reliefs, besides several
pieces of sculpture in marble, which will be valuable to
the arts.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer states that it forms
part of the arrangement between the Saint Germain
Railroad Company and the Government on the atmos-
pheric railway from Nanterre to the terrace of St. Ger-
main, the various systems of Messrs. Clegg, Hallette,
Perquem, Chaineroy, &c., shall be tried for a certain
time before the opening of the road to the public, in
order to test the advantages of each.
The first section of the railroad of Lower Silesia, viz.,
from Breslau to Leignitz, a distance of about 58 English
miles, was opened on the lath. This is part of the great
line of railway which will extend from Kiel (Holstein)
to Trieste, and thus connect the Baltic Sea with the
Adriatic.
A letter from Sarterre, in Corsica, of the 21st, states
that a man named Canazzi, who on the 13th assassinated
a medical student named Pianelli, in the commune of
Olmeto, and who had almost immediately afterwards
posted up a notice forbidding all persons to work on the
property of Captain Pianelli, the uncle of his victim, has
paid the penalty of his crimes. The authorities, deter-
mined to seize on this man, pursued him so hotly that he
was obliged to take refuge in the arrondissenient of
Ajaccio. The brother of the young man who was mur-
dered continued to pursue him unceasingly, and on the
night of the 16th he and some gendarmes succeeded in
bringing him to bay, after the exchange of a few shots.
The Marseilles and Toulouse journals contain accounts
of severe storms, accompanied with an enormous fall of
rain, in these places ; but it does not appear that any
serious damage was caused.
On the debate in the Portuguese Chamber of Depu-
ties on the measures of the Government during the sus-
pension of the Constitution, Ministers had a majority of
, 48, in a house of 100 members. The Ministry is, there-
fore, secure. Despotism is congenial to the soil of the
Peninsula.
The memberh of the Congres Vinicole met at Bor-
deaux ©n the 24th to: the first time this year. There
was
an
animated diso„,;_inii on the state of the wine
trade, and the means of relv;ying the embarrassments of

the growers.
The Seville mail was robbed on the i2d, between Villa-
verde and Los Angelos, by six bandits.
iers and
The honours bestowed on the victors of Tal.',
Mogadore have occasioned great dissatisfaction ,in the
French navy.

1,6:W Amp POZICSI.
The case of Sawyer, the attorney, of Bow-lane, Cheap-
side, came on for judgment, before Sir C. F. Williams in
the Bankruptcy Court. The Learned Commissioner con
eluded his judgment in these words:—" I am of opinion
that no day shall be named for the final order, and that
he be forthwith remanded to the prison from which he
has for a short time been released, under the authority
of this Court." The insolvent was forthwith conveyed
to the Queen's prison.
Patrick Gamon, charged with feloniously cutting and
wounding, and thereby seriously endangering the life of
police-constable Higgins, 130, of the N division of metro-
politan police, also with violently assaulting police-con-
stable Gooderam, 433 N, was committed for trial, from
Clerkenwell.
At Queen-square, yesterday, a young man of colour,
whose attenuated figure, and threadbare garments in-
dicated the extremes of disease and poverty, -applied to
the Magistrates for relief. The applicant, who had
evidently received a liberal education, was, he said, a
native of Demerara, and came to this country at a very
early period. On the death of his father, who was
connected with the West India trade, applicant, who was
educated for the medical profession, was obliged to relin-
quish it on account of pecuniary difficulties, and the
prejudice he had to contend against as a person of
colour. In consequence of long-continued ill-health,
which had now assumed an asthmatic form, he had been
reduced to very great distress, and, with a wife and child
to support, was compelled by dire necessity to make the
present application. Mr. Bond afforded him some tem-
porary relief, from the poor-box, and desired him to
call again in a few days.
Louis Woodcock, a gentleman of property, who is
well known from his disputes vrith various hotel-keepers
with whom he has at times taken up his abode, was
charged at Marlborough-street with having broken two
lamp-shades, and also assaulted Mrs. Coquerell, landlady
of the European Hotel, Leicester-place. It appeared
that the defendant went to the European Hotel to obtain
linen he had left there, but the linen was refused
to him 0,-;!il he had paid the balance of his bill. This
excited the '•:.!
endant, and with his stick he broke the
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glasses in question,
and then afterwards struck the land-
lady a blow on the oi:th and two on the body. He was
fined 31. Thomas, a tobacco and
At Lambeth-street, Mr. tr. 1,.
on
_extensive business at
snuff manufacturer, carrying
;;ftfor.e Mr. Henry,
No. 115. Ratcliff-highway, appeared
to answer to two informations, charging 1;1m with hav-
ing on his premises 173i1bs. of smuggled tobacCO3 which
had been found by the Customs' officers on the bib and
7th instant. He was committed on both informatL7s
in the penalty of 1681. 18s. 6d., and detained until tha
money was paid.
The late M.P. for Newcastle-under Lyme, Mr. Jahn
Quincy Harris, appeared at Union-hall yesterday, to
answer a charge of endeavouring to provoke Mr. Philip
Roberts, of Upper Montague-street, Russell-square, to a
breach of the peac... The parties, it appeared, were con-
nected by marriage, and in consequence of family dis-
putes Mr. Harris had challenged Mr. Roberts to fight a
duel. Mr. Harris was ordered to enter into his own
recognisances in 500/. to keep the peace.
At Hammersmith, Mrs. Susannah Folkard, 10, Pel-
ham-road, Brompton, who has repeatedly appeared at
that court on similar charges, appeared before Mr. T.
Paynter, the sitting magistrate, on summons charging
her with having, on the 16th day of October instant, and
on divers other da) s, burst into the house of Colonel
Francis Home, at Knightsbridge, in the metropolitan
police district, and then and there behaved in a menacing
and violent manner, whereby the said Francis Home ap-
prebends some bodily harm. The magistrate ordered
her to find two sureties in 10/. each to keep the peace,
upon which the defendant declared that she would die in
prison first, and then the public would know the villainy
with which Colonel Home had treated her. She was
accordingly conveyed to prison.
Isaac King, a coal-porter, was brought before Mr.
Ballantine, at the Thames Police-court, on a charge of
breaking sixteen panes of glass in the Harrow public-
house, High-street, Poplar. He was fined 405., which
he soon paid. Singular enough, before his liberation the
breaking of glass was renewed in the High-street front-
age of the tavern, and continued at intervals throughout
the day. About thirty panes of glass were broken
during the day. The stones appeared to come over the
houses on the opposite side of the way. Some of King's
relatives and a companion live in that quarter, but the
persons who threw the stones could not be discovered.
Mr. Abbott caused posting-bills to be printed and cir-
culated, offering a reward of 51. for the discovery of the
offenders, and several policemen were on the look out.