The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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The Fiance says everything has been finally arranged
for the visit of the King of the French to Englaul, but
that his absence will not exceed a week.
The Gazette de Metz mentions a report that two es-
tafettes have been sent off by the Duke de Nemoura
with orders to stop the movement of the troops who
were arriving for the camp, the heavy rains that have
fallen having retarded the harvest, and prevented the
clearing of the ground for the encampment.
The Minister of Public Works arrived on Saturday at
Havre, where he was received on landing by the Mayor,
and the engineers and officers of the port.
The trial of the Legitimists accused of sedition is to
come on at the end of the present month. It is said that
several curious documents will be produced at the trial,
among which are letters of M. Berryer's and some other
Legitimists, and projects for a Legitimist rising in La
Vendts.

Marshal Soult has returned to Paris and resumed his
functions as Minister of War. The ad interim nomina-
tion of Admiral Mackau arose from the necessity of the
ordinance dissolving the Polytechnic School being signed
by a Minister charged with the war portfolio.
A London paper having announced that Mr. Pritchard
is expected to return to Otaheite, in the Coiling-
wood, to resume his functions as Britannic Consul, the
Paris Globe gives a decisive denial_ to the statement,
adding that it only notices it because the gobe-mouchcs of
the Opposition will not fail to enlarge upon it, by giving
it as a certain fact to their credulous readers.
An interesting ceremony took place last week at Val-
de-la-Haye, near Rouen. A subscription of 5,000 f.
having been entered into for a monument to mark the
spot of the first resting-place on the river, on the occa-
sion of transporting the remains of the Emperor Na-
poleon to Paris, the inauguration took place on the 15th,
in presence of the authorities and an immense multitude.
A letter from the camp at Batna (Algeria), written at
the end of last month, represents the country to be de-
voured by clouds of locusts, which alighted on the
ground to the height of above a foot, and covered the
roofs of the barracks like a thick fall of snow. They
seemed, however, to be inclined to take their flight to-
wards the desert.

One of the receivers of taxes, &c., of Vendome (Eure-
et-Loir), who absconded a short time age, leaving a de-
ficit, it is said, of a million of francs, has been arrested
at Brussels, at the demand of the French Government.
This deficit, however, will, it is Understood, affect only
private individuals, his accounts with the Government
having been regularly paid up.
The Universal German Gazelle states that letters from
Singapore, of April 11, have been received at Leipsic,
giving a very satisfactory account of the commercial ex-
pedition sent from that city to China.
A royal decree has been issued at Madrid suspending
the further sale of church property.
The King of Prussia arrived at Vienna on the 11th
inst., and immediately proceeded to the palace at
Schcenbrunn. The Prince de Metternich was expected
on the 12th.