The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-18 00:00:00

OF NEWS

titablir Optition.

" 117 to runs may read."

roierir.
On Sunday evening the King and Queen of the French
received the Swedish Minister and Countess de Lcewenhieltn,-
the Duke de Montmorency, Generals Count de Lcewenhielm,
Count Lalaing d'Auclonarae, and Count de Dampierre, the
Prefect of Police, Counts Hamilton, Noe, and de Bassevitz,
Countesses de Bassevitz, de Castellane, and de Montalivets
the Prefect of the Haute-Saone, Baron and Baroness Ache rd.,
Baron Boissy d'Anglas, Baroness Tascher, and M. Chant-
panhet.
The Prince de Joinville arrived at Havre on Saturday
morning, attendedby an aide-de-camp, and took his debar.
ture the same evening for Brest in the steam-boat Morlaisien„
M. Duchatel, the. Minister of the Interior, who has beets
for the last week absent from the Chambers, has had a severe
attack of influenza. He is better, but will not, it is said.
be able to attend his legislative labours before the end cf
the week.

A vessel arrived at Marseilles on Friday from Carthagena,
in Spain, with 195 refugees. Amongst them were the Presi.,
dent and members of the revolutionary Junta.

Unless some event should occur, (says the Quotidiensti)
to modify the intentions of the Chateau, the promotion cf
General Bugeaud to the head of the War Department
been determined on. Thus every ' one will be satisfie..
Marshal Bugeaud to have the portfolio of War,lll. d'AurtiLla
the Government of Algeria, M. Guizot the office of Presidei- t
of the Council, and Marshal Soult his liberty.
One of the journals of Monday morning says : —" On ,:ia-
turday the body of a municipal guard was taken from the
river near the Pont des Invalides. The state of the
leads one to :uppose that he was murdered. It is said flat
five days before the bodies of two others were taken out,
andthat within a fortnight six have:disappeared." In reply
to the above, the Messayer declares that there is no truth
in the report of six municipal guards having disappeared, t
states, however, that three have recently committed suienle.
The Unirers publishes an address from the Bishop= C
Bourges, Clermont, St. Fleur, and Puy, on the liberty ( f
education in France, addressed to the King. This adtficei
inculcates the necessity of giving every system of educat key
a religious foundation,- and complains that the spirit viii, t
animates the university is irreligious, and tends to substitin
the domination of an incredulous philosophy for the salutail
influence of religion.
The Conslitutionnel publishes a letter which it states is
have received from a correspondent " usually well informed:*
It is dated Bologna, the 7th of April, and mentions rumourl
of a grand insurrection having broken out at Naples, unavr
the direction of men belonging to the richest and most dis-
tinguished families. The Government immediately mus-
tered the whole garrison, fell upon the insurgents, and.
drove them to the shore, where they were surrounded and air
captured. The Constitutionnes correspondent adds :—"Severst
versions are in circulation respecting these events. Some per-
sons reject them as improbable, others pretend that they
have acccounts which diminish the gravity of the factts
alleged; but the whole population-is in anxiety and expeeea
some important determination on the part of the Pontifleat
Government."
We learn from Madrid that the Government had received
a dispatch, announcing that the crew, eight in number, of is
small vessel, which was near Ceuta, had been massacred br
the Moors of Morocco, but it was not known whether ilia
vessel was Spanish, or of another nation.
The Moniteur states that, according to the last arrivate
from Hayti, the Government of the island has come to Ow.
resolution that no foreigners shall hereafter have the right to
purchase or hold lands within the territory, unless they are. suhjects of governments who have emancipated their slave..
The Lyons journals announce that the refractory iniet-ra
of Rive de Gui have agreed to resume their labour.
LAW AND POLICE.
At Bow-street, Mr. Martin, landlord of the Ship Taver:i. Chichester-rents, Chancery-lane, was summoned before Mr,
Twyford, charged with having opened his house for the saki
of beer, &c., at illegal hours, namely, at a quarter past rises
on the morning of the sth April, Good Friday. Two ',alive-
men having been examined in support of the charge, Mr..
Wire said the defence was very simple. A benefit soc!ety
met at his house, and the night in question being a quarterir
night, they had sat late, to make up the accounts, but th.-At
was not the least liquor drawn after twelve o'clock, nor were.
there any persons in the house but members of this society,
Mr. Martin had been a licensed victualler for nineteen yeaxs,,
and had never had the slightest charge brought against him,
having served all the parochial offices with honour and credit.,,
He then called George Raisin, the waiter, who proved than
nothing was served after twelve o'clock, and that the houses
was cleared of customers at that hour. Mr. Twyford eon-
sidered the case fully answered, and dismissed the informa -
tion.—This is the fifth charge of the kind brought by tins
police before the Bow-street magistrates, in two days, and ant,
of them have been dismissed. -
At Worship-street Mary Pettigrew, an intim and aged
widow, in her 82d year, was charged, conjointly with her
daughter, a middle-aged married woman, named MaryAnit
Joblyns, with having wilfully and maliciously 80 fire to at
hou e situated in Old-street-road, and which was• Said to havia
been i n the occupation of. the elder prisoner for the last fe7,4 \-
years. A broker and two policemen gave evidence as ti flies property in the house, the commencement of the tire-W:1
w ,
.when both the prisoners strongly asserted their- innocence,
and the younger one said that her husband was a wine neer.
chant, residing in France, from which cOnritry she was stn.
mooed about six weeks ago to tho sick bed of her Moflier„
upon whom she had been .since in' constant attend:Wee.
Mr. Broughton said that after the evidence lie had heard h'a could come to no other 'conelusion than that the hpeee44,l
been wilfully set on fire,under circumstances. that, attachedt
strong suspicioirto both the prisoners, and he- had ticlieeltai.
Lion in remanding them till a future day. The prisoziOrs-1444
remanded until Blonday next.
James Standen, the proprietor of the hackney cab 7104n;21
charged at Queen-square,- by Richard Carter. a rel.'e of .that;
degraded class of society called common inforwas, with hay.
ing neglected to inscribe in conspicuoui chs:acters the num-
ber he was licensed to carry The defenelant, who appearel to be a very respectable man, pleader. ;guilty, but hoped to bts excused, as it was entirely the 'effect of accident. The call
had undergone some repair's, and the coachmaker, after pains.
ing it, had' omitted to replace the plate on which the wolsia
"to carry two persons" were inscribed. He was fined 10s.
and costs.
At Marylebone Police-court, David Smith, a cab-driver,
badge 7,056, was charged with cruelty to his horse, by strik, ing it upon the head with the butt-end of his whip, and also
flogging the poor animal so unmercifully under the flank the:,
the blood dropped down upon its hoofs. Mr. Rawlinson corn.
milted him, without the infliction of any fine, to two months,*
imprisonment in the House of Correction.
COURT—I'dgRIONAIML
Her Majesty has most graciously presented a coupi.e of
bucks from Windsor Park to the stewards of the Revel
Tradesmen's Association, for the dinner to be held at ill,*
Freemasons' Tavern, on the 25th, to celebrate her Majesty4l
birthday.
The Queen Dowager honoured the performance of the Con.
cert of Ancient Music with her presence yesterday evaninv
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have returned 'ea
Stafford House from Trenthani Hall, Staffordshire.-
; The Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Lady Itachael Rus.
sell
Tuesdays
evened at their villa on Campden-hill, Kensington, oil
ing.
The Duke of Bedford left town on Monday for Croydon.
His Grace returns on Friday. On Saturday the Duke ant*
Duchess leave town for Woburn Abbey. - On Blondav
his Grace will proceed to Newmarket. new
The Marquis and Marchioness ofWestminster are ex in town about the second week in May. pectec
The Earl and Countess of Brownlow, and the La- ,:ti tesus ,
arrived in Belgrave-square on Monday evening, fre..m Beltom
House, Lincolnshire.
The Earl and Countess of Powis and the ',Ales Herbert
leave Powis Castle this day, for Berkeley-sqr..,
Sir Philip and Lady Grey Egerton have, arrived in Eaten.
place, from Oulton Park, Cheshire.
Admirali Sir Philip and Lady Portiere has arrived in Hill.
street from their seat in Scotland
DZISCEZ:.-41,31#7110175.
The one hundred and frArth anniversary festival in aid of
the funds of the London Hospital, was celebrated yesterday,
at the London Tavern_, Bishopsgate-street. The Secretary*
read the report, by which it appeared that S. B. Brooke,
Esq., contribated 30 guineas, the Duke of Cambridge 201
guineas, the Lord Mayor 10 guineas, George Byng,
10 guineas, Mr. W. Cotton 10 guineas, Mr. Banbury, :'ties
Treasurer, 10 guineas, Mr. R. Hanbury 30 guineas, awl_ Lora
Robert Grosvenor, 5 guineas. Mr. Benjamin Heath 'nate col-
lected 150/. amongst his friends, Mr. George I'. oung, the)
Chairman of the House Committee, 159/., and, -191. was col-
lected after the sermon, which was preactaeli by the Bishop,
of Worcester, in aid of the funds of the ;:astitution. The suira
total of these subscriptions amounted, to 1,2281. 19s.
A meeting of the supporters of *L e Syrian Medical Aid As..
sociation was held on Wednee:Ziay at the Hall of Commerce*
and among others present were Lord Robert Grosvenor,
M.P., Rev. Doctors Ce,:es, Croly, anti Wilson; John Acton.
Esq., Sit James Cle:ik, Bart., J. S. Redmayne, Esq., Captain;
Smith, R.N., ....Viderman Hunter, Drs. Hell and Conquest,,
&c., &c. lord Robert Grosvenor was called to thee
chair. A report from Dr. Kerns, agent at
-at.Beyrout„
."cad that considerable good had been effected lsy:
the efforts of the Society at eyrout, amongst the natives. ..I'7
which place a very kindly feeling had grOwn up towards the,
I)
gland in consequence of their humane efforts to.
&eople of England,
the suffe'rings of the sick of that portion of thee
world. A number o resolutions, in conformity with thee .
objects of the Association, was passed, and subscriptions to.
gtheiven tot
the Nnt of
obl4o/e Chairman.. being haed in, a vote of thanks wr,el
nd
party during consequen
the ce
last fe loft t
immense destruction of pubß
w years by fire, Government,. itts.dreo:
termined upon the adoption of some safeguard, fir.
bl •
vent similar calamities as far as.possi e future., ; and in t
event of an outbreak occurring in any of the estal,'l
under control of the officers of the Crown, it schonntte4ti:
plation to have supplies of water always readej,
no reasonable outlay, so as to secure this dee"
The third "Ancient Concert"took I
and to spar.
arable object.
P AV. last night, at t
Hanover-square Rooms, under the direct; on of thetr chblsi
of York—Sir Henry Bishop conductir
The at-.
tendance was a little better than tir,Jengihaestwusouaformer ocez.
sions, but not great.
AC

,orrespondent in Caber informs us, that Mr.
Vincent Scully was the person intanded to be shot at by
those who made the recent attempt on Lord Tullamure. This gentleman is the brother of the Mr. Scully, %dal
had been murdered some time since. " A few nights (sd.lea
our correspondent), be%re the attempt on Lord
more was made, th!;,l Captain of Infantry, quartered. at
Thurles, was drvgged off his horse by a gang of fell ieies„
who, just as
bludgeons, discovered that he was not'the victim in.
were about proceeding to beat him. with
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t:nsdei;di.c"
IDE IN A WouxnousE.—lresterday
-02..aer held an inquest at the Wellington, Cannon.-street,
George's-in-the East, on the body of James Hicks, aged
who was by trade a bill-sticker. It appeared that the ilt
ceased was a widower, and in consequenct of being in ve
great distress from the falling off of la's business about 14ute
months ago, was compelled to enter the workhouse ois
George-in-the-East. For some wteks past he has been in as
very depressed state of mind, On Sunday night he observeA
to one of his sons that his brain was turned, and that he lin:-tv.t
he was mad. On Tuesday morning, between two
and
th
o'clock, he was seen to get out of bed by another inmate, IA-t
never returned. Shortly after five o'clock he was fowl,' • hanging by a cord to the balustrade railing by a man nasnedi
Butterworth, who cut him down, Life was extinct. He hail cat the rope from a line.—Verdict, a Temporary insanity."
SPARLINGS.—This little fish, which visits our riret-
annually, has appeared this season in very great numb
so that, for several days past, it has been selling at
hundred. It is somewhat strange, however, that, it 1-,av not
come, by several miles, so far up the river as
U5•,,a1.....n0ne
having been got higher than Fallin, instead of 'neing at O.
tail of the Hood, and even at the Shore, ar...1 We have sees
them. It may be fourteen or sixteen yeaSl since they' wee.
so numerous,—Stirling Qbserver.