The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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PubUr eptinton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

On Thursday, the King, attended by M. de Chabannes,
and two orderly officers, went to Saint Cloud, returning to
Neuilly at six o'clock. In the evening their Majesties re-
ceived the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess d'Appony,
the Prussian Minister and Baroness Kcenneritz, the Minister
of the Hans Towns and the Netherlands, the Chancellor of
France, and several other persons of distinction.
Lord and Lady Cowley gave a grand dinner on Friday, at
the hotel of the British Embassy, in honour of the birth- day
of her Majesty Queen Victoria. Among the company were
all the Foreign Ambassadors (with the exception of the
Turkish Minister, absent through illness, and the Minister of
Sweden, who is in mourning for his late sovereign) ; Marshal
Soult, M. Guizot, and all their Ministerial colleagues ; the
Chancellor of France. Baron Pas/Flier; General Sebastiani
and his brother the Marshal ; Count Montalivet ;
the President of the Chamber of Deputies; Count Barn-
buteau, the Prefect of the Seine, &c. After the dinner, which
was of the most varied and sumptuous description, Marshal
Soult, as the Prime Minister of France, rose to propose the
health of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of England,
which, having been appropriately honoured, was followed
by the toast of the King of the French, given by Lord Cow-
ley, and similarly honoured. Military bands were stationed
on the grand staircase, and in the garden ; and the entire
arrangements were on a scale of magnificence befitting the
occasion.

A letter from Goritz, of the 15th inst., quoted by the
Gazette de France, says :—" The Duke d'Angouleme is in a
hopeless state. A catastrophe is shortly expected. His suffer-
ings are frightful. The Duke de Bordeaux is still here, and
indeed at the present conjuncture he cannot be absent."
The Paris Commerce mentions a report that a Commission,
composed of magistrates, bankers, and merchants of consi-
deration, appointed by the Minister of Finances, who consti-
tuted himself its president, has for several months been en-
gaged in framing rules for the regulation of time bargains in
the public. funds, and that the measure is so far advanced as
to allow of the proposed ordonnance being shortly laid before
the Council of State.

A Toulon letter statesthat the Lavoisier steamer is to go
to Carthagena, to be at the disposal of Queen Isabella and her
mother, and convey them to the coast of Catalonia, where
their Majesties and the Infanta are going to take the be-
nefit of the waters.

The Gazette Suisse of Berne of the 21st inst., announces the
departure of the Count de Pontois, the new French Ambas-
sador for Lucerne, to deliver his credentials to the Vorort.
He was accompanied by the Count de Reinhard, Secretary of
Legation.
The intelligence from Switzerland comes down to the 22d.
The Upper Valaisans have had the best of the first struggle,
and the Lower Valaisans have been compelled to retreat.
The number of killed on the side of the vanquished does
not exceed twenty-eight or thirty, though both parties were
provided with cannon.
The city of Dresden and its environs were visited on the
12th by a severe storm, and a heavy fall of hail. The Elbe
rose, and, overflowing its banks, did much injury. At the
village of Rippehen several persons lost their lives, and this
calamity was followed by a fire, which destroyed seventeen
houses.

The Augsburg Gazette states that all the works of the
railroad of the Upper Rhine, from Carlsruhe to the French
frontier, are finished, and that on the 20th the trial would
be made to Offenburg and Kehl, so that on June 1 the
whole line from Mantle= to Kehl would be opened.

coinzT—F.A.SMONABLE.
We understand that her Majesty purposes shortly after
the arrival of the King of Saxony from Germany, to give a
state ball in compliment to her illustrious visitor at Buck-
ingham Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite are expected to
embark for Germany on Monday or Tuesday next, in an Ad-
miralty steam-packet. The visit of her Majesty to the Con-
tinent, we hear, is not expected to exceed six weeks, during
which period her Majesty will visit the reigning Duke and
Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen, and other illustrious relatives.
The Duke of Wellington, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, Hon. and Rev. Dr. Gerald
Wellesley, and the Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, arrived at
Strathfieldsaye on Saturday afternoon for the holidays. The
Noble and Gallant Duke entertained a party of about
eighteen at dinner last evening. The Hon. H. Pierrepont
and Miss Pierrepont, and a select circle assembled last even-
ing, and the party will not separate until to- morrow, when
the Duke returns to Apsley House.
The Duke of Devonshire has only gone for a week to
Bolton Abbey, the object of the Noble Duke being to per-
sonally inspect the alterations and improvements in progress
at that interesting residence. The Noble Duke does not in-
tend having any more balls at Devonshire House this season,
the parties there for the remainder of the summer will be con-
fined to dinners. A fete at Chiswick is spoken of.
Sir Richard and Lady Puleston and family have arrived
in Norfolk-street from Flintshire.

The Ladies Patronesses of the Royal Dispensary for
Diseases of the Ear, will give a grand fete champetre early
next month in aid of the funds of this institution.

Lord and Lady Mahon have issued cards for a grand
dinner in Grosvenor-place, on Thursday next.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The ceremony of laying the first stone of the Dublin
station of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway was performed
on Friday, by the Lord Lieutenant. The engineer, Dr.
➢lacneill, was knighted on the spot.
The cattle show was held at Tiverton last week, in the
market place, agreeably to public advertisement. The show,
like that of our Exeter society, was not very well attended,
the complaint being that these meetings come too frequently
in the year. The stock shown, though not numerous, was of
first-rate quality, and drew down encomiums from all who
witnessed it.

On Saturday a sale of useful and ornamental work took
place at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on behalf
of the objects connected with the Church Missionary Society,
the London society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews, arid the Protestant Association, namely, to the Chinese
Missions of the first-named society, to the Jerusalem
Bishopric Fund, and to the special fund for reprinting and
issuing standard Protestant works by popular authors in a
cheap and attractive form.
A chapter of the noble and ancient order of the Garter will
be held in a few days, at Buckingham Palace, when Earl
Talbot will be elected a Knight, in the room of the late Earl
of Lonsdale.

On Dartmoor, during the past week, so chilly was the air,
that its lofty heights again assumed a wintry garb, and ap-
peared capped with snow.
It is said that at the lowest computation 900 of high aris-
tocracy assembled to participate in the splendid recreation
provided by the Duke of Wellington on Friday night.
The Bristol and Gloucester Railway will be opened through-
out to Gloucester on the Ist of July next.
There will be three fairs held during the holidays—at
Greenwich, Wandsworth, and Stepney, and a fancy fair in
the Tunnel under the Thames. The fair at Stepney is likely
to be the last, for the ground is to be built upon.

CHARACTERS IN " CONINGSBY."—ID noticing Mr.
D'lsracli's new work, " Coningsby," the Morning Post
observes:—" It must not be supposed that in selecting
personages for his romance, the author has gathered
simply from the stores of his imagination. The leading
persons are full length portraits from actual life. No
one can fail to recognise the amiable, philanthropic Lord
Henry, nor the easy, sagacious, gentlemanly Lord Esk-
dale, nor the hearty, open, impetuous Buckhurst, nor the
good-natured, affectionate Milbank. These are characters
that will be assigned to the respective owners instantly,
and may be appropriated with honour. But then there
are others—Rigby, the shallow party scribbler, the
doer of dirty work, and the toady of the rich and profli-
gate Marquis of Monmouth ; Tadpole and Taper, the
small hacks of the Carlton Club, working through thick
and thin for small places ; the Marquis of Monmouth
himself—requiescat in pace—who will be hardy enough
to point out the originals of these portraits ? And yet
we could lay our fingers on the very men—and so the
reader will b 3 able to do ere he has perused the second
volume. The original of Lucian Gay every one will
recognise. In deciding who sat for Coningsby himself,
or for that greater Jew than Rothschild, the enormously
rich and surprisingly accomplished Sidonia, we find
greater difficulty, though, sooth to say, we have our
suspicions as to the men intended. Who sat for the
portraits of Madame Colonna and the Princess Lucretia
we dare not say ; but no one who studies them can deny
that they are drawn with a master hand."
THE LATE W. BECKFORD, ESQ.—We understand
that the June Number of Colburn's New Monthly Ma-
gazine will contain some very interesting and remark-
able personal " Recollections" of the Author of "Vathek,"
now for the first time made public.
MR. HIGHTON'S ELECTRICAL TELEGRAPH.—We
understand that the patenting of the new electrical tele •
graph, which we mentioned a week or two ago, was op-
posed at its second stage, by Mr. Alexander Bain, the
patentee of one of the old electrical telegraphs. As in
the case of Protestor Wheatstone's opposition, at the
first stage, the Attorney-General decided in favour of
Mr. Highton, and Mr. Bain was adjudged to pay the
costs of both sides.—Liverpool Albion.
STEAM-BOATS ON TUE THAMES.—In consequence of
the melancholy accident which happened near London-bridge
last Sunday week, by the upsetting of a boat filled with
children, and the constant practice of the captains of steam-
boats running to Greenwich and Woolwich during the holi-
days taking more passengers than is safe for the lives of the
holiday makers, the following notice has been issued by
order of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, which will be
strictly enforced. Policemen were placed on Sunday at Lon-
don-bridge Wharf, the Old Shades-pier, and the other piers
in Thames-street, with strict orders to prevent the boats
from being too fully laden, and to prevent the confusion
that is always experienced by the public through the compe-
tition of the different Steam-boat Companies on these fete
days. The steam-boats will run every ten minutes from the
City piers, and from Hungerford-market every quarter of an
hour, to Greenwich ; and that as little confusion as possible
may takeplace since the order of the Lord Mayor, an extra
number of steamers will be in.readiness :—" Magnay, Mayor,
—Whereas numerous accidents, attended in many instances
with loss of life, have recently occurred on the river Thames,
from the practice of carrying in the boats plying upon the
river more than a proper number of passengers, the Lord
Mayor deems it necessary to caution all captains of steam-
boats, watermen, and others, that any future infringement
of the by-laws of the Court of Aldermen, or any other mis-
behaviour on the part of those navigating on the river
Thames, tending to endanger the lives of the public, will be
punished with the utmost severity, the police having re-
ceived orders to prevent any infraction of the law.—By order
of the Lord Mayor, S. R. GOODMAN, Chief Clerk. Mansion
House, May 24."
TIIE OSTEND ROWING MATCH. The Ostend
Gazette says that the second match between the English
rower and those of Ostend, will take place on Monday (this
afternoon). The English rower may use the same boat as
before. He may, however, choose another, which the Ostend
men have a right to refuse. We therefore believe that the
Englishman will keep his first boat, which is so light. The
Ostend boatmen will use a new boat, made for six oars, but
only four are to be used ; this seems to us to be a disad-
vantage for our men. It is true this boatis much lighter
than the one they had before ; yet, with all its advantages,
we do not think it equal to the English boat.
The following ships belonging to the General
Steam Navigation Company arrived in the River during
yesterday and this morning :—William Jolliffe, from
Rotterdam ; Caledonia, from Hamburgh ; Clarence,
from Edinburgh ; Water Witch, from Hull ; City of
Hamburgh, from Newcastle ; Attwood, from Sunder-
land ; Mercury, from Ramsgate ; Sir E. Banks, from
Ostend ; Harlequin, from Boulogne ; and Belfast, from
Calais.