The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vublt Optaton.

" FT hc runs rilly read."

PCN,IBEON

On Sunday evening their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received the Turkish Ambassa-
dor, the young Egyptian Princes, Baron de Boor-
queney. the Count de Saint-Maurice, and M. tie
Saint. Priest, Peer of France.
The Council-General of the Seine closed its session
on Saturday. It has been engaged in the considera-
tion of many important questions, among which were
the means of centralising in the hands of the Govern-
ment the hospitals fur foundlings and lunatics, the
expenses of which have so much increased ; and the
service of kthe prisons, so as to lighten as much
as possible the burdens which weigh so heavy
on the department. But what most interested the
Council was a paper on the taxes, which it has or-
dered to be printed.
A recent letter from Algiers announces the death
of M. Maissait, an officer of the 53d Regiment, of the
wounds received in one of the last affairs with the
Kabyles. Another letter announces the death of M.
Grandpierre, an officer of the same regiment, and
wounded in the same affair.

General Ametler and his aide-de-camp, who were
arrested whilst attempting to enter Spain, arrived at
Chaumont on the 14th in custody of the police.
The inundations in Italy appear to become general.
A letter of the 4th, from Rome, states that the con-

tinual rains have caused the Tiber to overflow and
submerge the lower quarters of the city and the plains.
In some of the streets boats were plying, and for
several days no mails had arrived from the north, so
that it was feared that the Po had also overflowed its
banks.

We read in the Obserrateur Suisse of the 14th :
" The Vorort has just addressed to the States the
reply of M. Guizot to the application of the Govern-
ment of Geneva for certain facilities in the convey-
ance of letters to and from England through France.
Guizot states that he is willing to grant the pro-
posei facilities, but that he is desirous of entering
into postal treaties, having the same basis, with each
of the States of Switzerland."

Letters from Constantinople of the 30th state that
fresh disturbances had broken out in Syria, and that
towards Latakia the country was in such a state that
troops were marching towards it with all possible
rapidity.
The Trieste journals of the 12th inform us that
for several days past it has been raining there con-
stantly, and that a great portion of the surrounding
country was under water.
A letter from Warsaw, of Nov. 7, says :—"The
fortifications of the kingdom may now be considered
terminated. Before the revolution there were only
two fortresses—those of Moslin and Jamosk. Since
then, they have been strengthenen and enlarged by
gigantic works. Two new fortresses have also been
built—that of Warsaw and that of Demplin, which
has received the name of Ivangrod. These works
have cost more than 300 millions of Polish florins,
which sum has been raised by taxation. The four
fortresses are nearly on the same line from north t€
south.

The Vigie of Dieppe states that the sea, driven by
the late violent gales, has done great damage to
that part. and has invaded the ground on which the
lately demolished warehouses stood. On the retiring
of the tide, several pieces of gold coin of Louis XIV.
were found. The ground was made-ground, and it
is supposed that the coins had been concealed in sonic
old houses, the foundations and walls of which were
brought to form it.