The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-02 00:00:00

SHP ARY OF NEWS

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OttiAtt Optitictt.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

Reports were current in Paris that the health of the King
was not very satisfactory. He had not taken his usual ex-
ercise, and there had been no public receptions tor two days.
Not much credit, however, is to be attached to these reports,
for we find that the King, Queen, and Royal family, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, and other illustrious guests of
the King and Queen of the French, enjoyed on Tuesday a
private view of the exhibition in the splendid temporary
range of buildings erected for that purpose on the Grand
Carrd of the Champs Elysees. In the evening the " recep-
tions " customary on the eve of the King's fete were to take
place.
On Monday the Duke de Montpensier arrived at Paris from
Marseilles.
The Duchess of Orleans visited Dreux last week, accompa-
nied by the Duke de Praslin and a lady of honour.
Lady Georgina Fane, and General Sir William and Lady
Lumley, had arrived at Paris.
The following promotions have been made by the King in
the Legion of Honour :—To be Grand Cross, Vice-Admiral
Arnoux ; to be Commander, Rear-Admiral Hamelin ; to be
Officers, Captains Tavenet, Guayde, Taradel, Vaillant, and
Monay.
The Presse states that the Bank of France has abandoned
its intention of issuing notes of circulation of 250 f. The
Presse deplores this determination, as the proposed measure
was anxiously desired by the public.
M. Sellier, an opposition candidate, has been elected De-
puty at Cherbourg, in the room of M. de Briqueville, deceased.
He had 292 votes ; and his opponent, General Meslin, 288.
Letters from Rome announce the death of Cardinal Pacca,
the Dean or Senior of the Sacred College, on the 19th inst.
He was born at Benevento, on the 25th December, 1756, and
made Cardinal by Pius VII. in 1801.
The Great Liverpool arrived at Alexandria on the 18th,
with 112 passengers for India. • The last accounts received
from Syria announced that 200 inhabitants of Hasbeya, a
village situate at the foot of Mount Lebanon, had abjured the
Greek orthodox religion to embrace Protestantism.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Mansion-house two young men, named Hart and
Johnson, who were fashionably dressed, and had very much
the appearance of medical students, and a little boy named
Johnny Britan, who walked between the other two in quality
of a little brother, were brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having made repeated attempts to pick pockets.
They stoutly asserted their innocence, but the Lord Mayor
nevertheless sent them for three months to Bridewell as
rogues and vagabonds.
At Guildhall a summons was granted against an informer
named Birch, evidence having been given showing that he
had used the laws and the summonses of the Court as the
means of extorting money, by laying informations and com-
promising them with the parties accused. Mr. Alderman
Copeland male some severe remarks on the whole gang of
informers, who, he said, used the laws, not for the public
good, but merely for the sake of extortion ; and expressed a
determination to sift the matter to the bottom. _ _ .

William Burton Newenham, charged with the abduction
of Miss Wortham, was again brought up at Clerkenwell for
examination, and again remanded. The prisoner said that
he conceived himself to be very much ill-used. He had been
harassed week after week, and it struck him that there was
a decided feeling against him on the part of the Magistrate.