The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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On Thursday, the 10th instant, the Queen of Spain
opened the session of the new Cortes with a speech from
the throne. It was her Majesty's birthday, who has now
entered her 14th year.
A telegraphic dispatch conveyed intelligence to Paris
on Tuesday that the King returned to London from
Portsmouth on Monday night, and proceeded to Dover
to embark for Calais.
The belief was general on Tuesday on the Paris
Bourse that Government would issue at least one-half
(150,000,000 f.) of the loan still on their hands. Never-
theless, the funds improved on that day.
The King, says the Constitutionnel, has granted an
amnesty to all the political offenders who had received
sentence by contumacy, and taken refuge in England.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the amount of
Customs and Excise received during the nine months
ending the 30th of September, 1844, amounting to
573,849,000 f., being an increase over the corresponding
period of the year 1843, of 16,756,000 f.
A letter from Otaheite, in the Emancipation of
Toulouse, gives the following account of the affair of
Lieut. Rose :—" The commandant of the guard-ship sent
a midshipman to invite the English officer to come on
board. At first he refused, but afterwards said he
should yield to superior force, and offered his sword to
the midshipman, who received it without having any
orders, and the officer came as a prisoner. After ex-
planations, the English officer was sent to his own ship,
and the midshipman put under arrest for having ex-
ceeded his orders. The chief of the staff afterwards
went on board the English sloop to make apologies."
General Van Halen, Count de Peeacamps, has arrived
at Bordeaux with his family.
The adjudication of the Amiens to Boulogne branch
of the French Northern Railway took place in Paris on
'Tuesday. Only one party (Messrs. C. Laffitte, Blount,
and Co.) appeared to bid for it. Their proposition,
which was conformable to the principle laid down by the
Chamber of Deputies, but limiting their tenure to
98 years, 11 months, was accepted.
A letter from Havre states that the tide of the 13th
was one of the highest of the year. The water, driven
forward by a strong west wind, reached the level of the
quays, and inundated the lower part of the quarter of
St. Francois. This circumstance, which from the calcu-
lations in the almanacs, had been expected, was provided
against, and caused no damage.
The Cadiz Eco del Comercio states that an attempt has
been made at Seville to assassinate General Schelly, the
Captain-General of the province. General Schelly was
entering his own house, at midnight, when a pistol was
fired at him. Fortunately the shot missed both him
and the aids-de-camp who accompanied him. The as-
sassin escaped.
ZALIV AND POLICE.

Sir C. F. Williams, in the Bankruptcy Court, refused
to allow F. W. N. Bayley further protection, and inde-
finitely postponed his final order. The bankrupt had
been editor of the Illustrated London News, and had ob-
tained money on orders which he gave as editor after
he had been dismissed.

Several applications were made for music and dancing
licenses at the Surrey Sessions. Among the licenses
renewed was the one for Vauxhall Gardens.
At the Guildhall, Mrs. Gibson attended before Sir

Peter Laurie and Mr. Alderman Kelly to complain of
the non-payment of 501. to her, on the death of her
father, according to a policy opened with the General
Benefit Assurance-office, No. 4, Farringdon-street, an
institution that combines the business of a life insurance
company and a benefit club, the members of which are
exempt from serving the offices of visiting the sick and
keeping accounts. The complainant stated her father
opened a policy for the payment of 501. at his death. He
was unable to keep up the annual payments, and in order
that the money paid in might not be lost, complainant
herself paid the contributions for 16 years. When her
father died she made the claim. The secretary said he had
lent her father 44/. on the policy. He offered her 6/.,
and a form of receipt, releasing him from the payment
of the 501. She refused to sign it, and asked him if he
ought to have advanced the money to her father without
consulting her, knowing that she was keeping up the
payments ? The person replied he did not know whe-
ther she ought to have been a party, but so it was. He
had the policy, which had been purloined from her
drawers three years before she applied. Sir Peter said,
it mattered not whether the magistrates had jurisdiction
in the case or not—exposure would work the cure of
abuse. The public were attracted by the reputation of
a concern, and this benefit institution could not afford to
lose its reputation. He did not mean to prejudge the
case, for both sides must be heard. The hearing was
then postponed till Saturday.
An elderly gentleman, who gave his name as Joshua
Wilson, and described himself as a captain in the Royal
Navy, was fined 10s. at Clerkenwell, for assaulting Mr.
Richard White, pianoforte manufacturer, of Woburn-
buildings, Woburn-square.
Henry William Mullins, a lad about sixteen years et
age, potboy to Mr. Ed ward Smart, landlord of the Pine-
apple, William street, Pimlico, charged with having on
several occasions plundered his employer, was fully com-
mitted from Queen-square.
At Marylebone John Stevenson, a well-dressed young
man, who stated that he was a member of the theatrical
profession, and another man, who gave his name John
Smith, were fully committed for stealing an umbrella,
the property of Mrs. Garden, a lady on a visit at Mr.
Cowie's, Marlborough-road, Regent's-park.
John Watkins and William Jones, watermen, ap-
peared before Mr. Norton, at Lambeth-street, to answer
to the charge of police-constable Willoughby, K 236.
The case stood adjourned from the preceding day for
the attendance of witnesses, the • prisoners having
solemnly declared their' intodentq OF the charge, and
that they had been used in a Meit-.ssilndalous manner
by Willoughby, the constable;'aiNas quite drunk at
the time he apprehendyl them. ,Tl3o,,,charge against
them was the usual policesharke of drunli and disorderly
conduct, and obstructing the police in the execution of
their duty. Their defence was that Willoughby was
drunk, and assaulted them without provocation, and that
while on their way to the station-house to complain of
him, he sprung his rattle, assaulted them, and gave them
into custody. There was a great deal of conflicting evidence.
Two constables, Pickering, 87, and Simmier, 61 K, and
a sergeant, deposed to Willoughby being sober at the
time, while Mr. Fletcher, the proprietor of the Wheat-
sheaf-wharf, Wapping, wbo from his own house wit-
nessed the whole transaction, confirmed the account
given by Watkins and Williams, and deposed that Wil-
loughby was drunk. The magistrate discharged Watkins
and Williams, who stated they should lodge a complaint
against the police with the Commissioners.
William Brocksopp, formerly an extensive grocer and
tea -dealer in Blackman-street, was brought before Mr.
Traill, at Union-hall, charged with stealing a gold pin, a
gold ring, and a portfolio, the property of Wm. Brock•
sopp, his son. The father admitted pledging the pro-
perty, but stated that his son was a minor, and had pur-
chased the articles with his (the father's) money. As
there were circumstances calculated to throw a doubt on
the whole affair, Mr. Traill admitted the accused to
bail, in order to give him as opportunity of rebutting the
evidence of his son. _

Several paupers, belonging to the Wandsworth union,
were committed by Mr. Paynter for twenty-eight days,
for disorderly conduct and refusing to work.

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The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by Lord and
Lady C. Wellesley, left Apsley House yesterday at noon,
on his return to Walmer Castle. The Noble and Gallant
Duke intends to stay there until the day preceding the
opening of the new Royal Exchange by her Majesty the
Queen, at which interesting ceremony his Grace, as well
as Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, and several of
the leading member,. of the Government, have engaged
to be present.
Sir Robert Peel is expected to return to Whitehall-
gardens either on Saturday or Monday next, from
Brighton, and will remain some days in town before he
rejoins his family at that watering-place.
The Duke of Devonshire has left his villa at Chiswick,
for Hardwicke Hall, the Noble Duke's stately Elizabethan
seat, in Derbyshire, where a select party is about to
assemble.

The Marchioness of Donegal, accompanied by the
Earl of Belfast and the younger members of her family
have left London, for Bath, where her Ladyship goes for,
the benefit of the waters. The Marquis has remained in
Ireland since his father's death.

The Marquis of Salisbury, who returned to Arlington-
street, on Saturday, after attending at Windsor Castle
the previous day at the investiture of the King of the
French with the Order of the Garter, has returned to
Hatfield House, at which noble mansion the Marquis in-
tends to receive a large party towards the close of the
month.

The Marquis of Anglesey is entertaining a large and
distinguished party with the sports of the field at his
seat, Beaudesert, near Lichfield. The Duke of Montrose
has joined the party for a few days.
The Earl. and Countess of Essex. on Friday last, left
Brougham Hall, the seat of. Lord Brougham, where they
had been paying a visit for nearly a fortnight.
The Dowager Countess of Pembroke and the Earl and
Countess of Clanwilliam, after a tour of several months
in Germany, visiting most of the principal watering-
places in that country, and having extended their journey
to Bohemia, have arrived at her Ladyship's residence in
Grafton-street.
Viscount Templetown, the Hon. F. G. Howard, of
Levens Hall, Westmoreland, and the Hon. M. Caven-
dish, during the last three days, have joined the party
now on a visit to H. Howard, Esq., Greystoke Castle,
Cumberland.
Lord and Lady Brougham are still at Brougham Hall,
Westmoreland, but the Noble and Learned Baron is ex-
pected in Grafton-street, in the course of the ensuing
week, on his way to the south of France.
Viscount Seaham and some of the officers of the
Scotch Fusilier Guards have consented to give an ama-
teur performance for the benefit of the funds of the
Sussex County Hospital, at the Brighton Theatre, on
the 21st inst.
Lady Beresford left Boulogne for Paris on Tuesday
last.

DIESCIMILALIMOUS.
An order has been issued by the Customs authorities
directing, that in cases of vessels working before and
after the legal hours of business, in cases of leakage, when
the cargo is in danger of being damaged in consequence,
or contract or demurrage, on special application being
made by the owners, or by the several dock companies
or wharfingers, during the influx of shipping, and conse-
quent pressure of business, in consequent of contrary
winds having prevailed, or other causes, the tidewaiters on
board such vessels are to be paid by the party making
the application, sixpence for every hour they are kept