The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-01 00:00:00

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Oa Friday at..three o'clock Louis Philippe, attended by
General Gourgaud, Colonel Dumas, the Marquis de Strada,
and two orderly officers, went to inspect the porcelaine ma-
nufactory at Sevres, and afterwards the stud at St. Cloud,
returning to the Tuileries at seven o'clock, In the evening
their Majesties received the Pope's Nuncio, the Chancellor of
France, the President and members of the Bureau of the
Chamber of Deputies, the Duke d'Estissac, Counts Mole,
d'Augeville, and de Saint-Mauris, and Generals Dode de la
Brunerie, de Ponthon, and de Laplace.
A grand dinner took place at the Tuileries on Saturday on
the occasion of the anniversary, of the birth of the Queen,
who, on that day, entered her 64th year.
M. Guizot was to leave the Hotel of the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs onTuesday for the villa of Beausejour, at Passy.
About 500 postmasters assembled on Saturday, at Lemar-
deley's, in the Rue Richelieu, and sent a deputation, com •
posed of the masters of Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Stras-
burg, Lille, Rennes, and Nimes, to wait upon the Minister of
Finance. They were immediately received, and were in-
formed by the Minister that a Bill on the subject of the posts
would be presented to the Chamber without delay, and upon
which he had consulted various Members of both Chambers,
and also M. Jouhaud and M. Dailly.
MM. Georges and Elie, Councillors of State of the Re-
public of Hayti, and M. Cerisier, Secretary of Legation,
have arrived in Paris on a special mission, to negotiate
respecting the financial questions between France and Hayti.
General Bustamente, ex-President of Mexico, has left
Paris for London.

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At the close of the reign of Napoleon, the number of per-
sons who received the Cross of the Legion of Honour was
30,747: at present it amounted to 49,744, •r something more

;ban a third additional.

The collection which was made some time ago by the sth
Legion of the National Guard for the benefit of the poor,
amounted to 13,861 f., being a much larger sum than in any
former year.
The Espectador, a Madrid journal, having announced the
marriage of the Young Queen with the Count de Trapani, the
Herald° and the Globe deny the truth of the statement, and
say that the Madrid Government has not yet taken the ques-
tion into consideration at all.

The fifty-second anniversary of the birth-day of the Em,
peror of Austria was celebrated at Vienna on the 19th inst.

LAW AND POLICE.

A clergyman named liUii;cjivedUsinterim order and
protection from Mr. Commissioner Shepherd, in the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Trencher, an insolvent fishmonger, was remanded for two
months, and Farrell, an insolvent tailor, for six months, by
the Chief Commissioner.
At the Middlesex Sessions a man named Butler appealed

against a conviction of Mr. Bond, the magistrate, wlio had
fined him 51. for hawking hay without a license. The Court
having heard the arguments in this case quashed the con-
viction, subject to the opinion of the judges.
A middle-aged decently dressed man, named Joseph Lin-
sell, was brought before Mr. Jardine, at Bow -street, charged
with having a quantity of plate, jewellery, and other property,
supposed to be stolen, in his possession. The prisoner
had been stopped by a pawnbroker, who suspected that the
articles had been stolen, and had been given into custody.
He was remanded to Friday.
Mary Wilson, 14 years of age, was finally examined, at
Clerkenwell, 'charged by Mrs. Sarah Caroline Edmunds, of
"Walcot-place, Lambeth, with stealing 501., some jewellery,
and several foreign coins, and was fully committed.
At Worship-street, Mr. J. L. Sawell, a surgeon, of Stoke
Newington, and William Hawley, were charged with having
committed the following assault upon Miss Sarah Taylor, the
daughter of a g.entleman residing at North Cottage, Hackney.
The prosecutrix and her servant were passing down the
-Hackney-road, when they met the two defendants, who,
without any provocation, threw two bundles of fire-wood at
them, which struck them, and hurt them severely, and when
remonstrated with on their conduct, one of them struck the
prosecutiix, and they both insulted her. The defendants,
wlio pleaded intoxication, were each fined 5L
John Macdonald was taken before Mr. Broderip,' at the
Thames Police-court, charged with assaulting and wounding
George Thompson, who is upwards of 66 years of age. Both
parties were inmates of Mile-end New-town workhouse, and
a dispute arose between them as to who should be first
shaved. They began fighting, and used each other very
roughly, until Macdonald threw his adversaay against the
edge of an iron bedstead, and broke his ribs. Mr. Simmons,
the master of the house, said he was afraid the injuries would
be fatal to Thompson. Mr. Broderip remanded the prisoner
for a week, and said,. if Thompson continued in the same
condition, and was not out of danger, he must remand him
again.