The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-17 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

On Monday, the King of the French, attended by General
Rumigny and two orderly officers, left the Tuileries at two
o'clock for Saint Cloud, and returned at five. In the even-
ing their Majesties received a numerous party to dinner.
The youngest daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, the Princess
Constance, aged 24, says the Commerce, has just entered
the convent of the Sacrd Cur de Notre Dame, on Mount
Pincio. On account of her extraordinary mental capacity,
her superiors destine her to be the foundress of a depen-
dence on the order at Warsaw.
Nafi-Effendi, ex-Ambassador from the Ottoman Porte to
the Court of the Tuileries, has left Paris to return to Con-
stantinople.
M. Munoz, brother of the morganatic husband of Queen
Christina, has just arrived in Paris, with dispatches from the
Spanish Government.
The Augsburg Gazette states that the Russian army in the
Caucasus is about to receive a reinforcement of 10,000 men.
At the last sitting of the Court of Assizes at Dijon, a ser-
vant girl named Rousseau, and her master, named Langon-
nier, the Mayor of the commune of Venaray, were tried for
infanticide, the former as a principal, and the latter as ac-
cessory. It appeared from the evidence, and from the con-
fession of the girl, that she had borne three children, of
which Langonnier was the father, and that they had all been
murdered at his suggestion, and with his assistance. The
prisoners were both found guilty. The Court condemned
Langonnier to death, and the female to imprisonment for
life, with hard labour.
The Countess of Nassau, widow of the ex-King of the
Netherlands, is said to have decided upon fixing her resi-
dence at the chateau which she possesses near Cologne, and
to which workmen have been sent from Brussels to prepare

it for her reception.
A letter from Rome, of the 4th of February, says that the
Director of the Police at Ravenna had been shot as he was
returning home from the theatre.
At Castel Bolognese, near Imola, several gensdarmes have
been assassinated, and the theatre of Cesena has been blown
up by means of a powder mine. Happily there was no per-
son in the theatre when this happened.

LAW AND POLXCE.
In the Court of Queen's Bench an action was brought by
Mr. Coppock, the solicitor, to recover damages for a rather
serious assault, committed upon him in April last, when em-
ployed in getting up the evidence which was intended to be
laid before the House of Commons on the petition against
Mr. Kelly's return for the borough of Cambridge. The
charge was clearly made out, and the jury, without hesitation,
returned a verdict for the plaintiff7llamages,2sol.

In the Central Criminal Court, Elizabeth Brown, who was
convicted a few days since of an extensive robbery of plate
from her master, I%lr. R. Clavering Savage, to whom she had
acted in the double capacity of mistress and servant, was
brought up for judgment, and sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment, with hard labour. The Court, at its rising, ad-
journed till Mohdtiv, the 4th of March.
At Union-hall, John Stevens, a silversmith, of John-street,
Islington, was finally examined before Mr. Cottingham,
charged with fraudulently obtaining money to the amount
of 751., of Mr. Folkard, the pawnbroker, of the London-
road, by means of spurious metal, resembling ingots of
silver. Mr. Cottingham said he was of opinion the charge
was made out against the prisoner, and that he should com-
mit him for trial. _ _ _

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At the Thames Police-court Charles Lambert and William
3PGregor were brought up on remand, charged with piracy,
under the 11th and 12th William 111., c. 7, which constitutes
any attempt to create a revolt on ship board, to be an act of
piracy. The statute of William was subsequently confirmed
and perpetuated by the 6th George 1., c. 19. The prisoners
were seamen on board the brig Hester, bound on a whaling
voyage to the South Pacific, and owing, as it was alleged, to
the misconduct of the prisoners, a revolt arose, in which one
man, named Greggs, was shot dead by the master, Captain
Richard Lucas Williams. They were committed for trial.

COURT-PABEIZONABLE.
Lady Holland received at dinner on Wednesday evening,
in Stanhope-street, Mayfair, the French Ambassador, the
Countess St. Aulaire, the Baroness Langsdorif, and other
foreigners of distinction.
The Baron Langsdorff left the seat of the French Embassy
on Tuesday last, for Paris.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford leave Woburn Abbey
on the sth of the next month, for Belgrave-square.
The Countess Dowager of Carnwath has arrived in Glou-
cester-place, Portman-square, from Canterbury.
Earl and Countess Grosvenor and Lady klizabeth Gros-
venor are expected to leave Eaton Hall, for town, on Tues-
day next.. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
are not expected at Grosvenor House, for the season, until

the first week in May.
Lord and Lady Kinnaird are expected to leave Rossie
Priory at the latter end of the ensuing month, for their new
mansion in Upper Brook-street, for the season.
The venerable Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, brother to
the late celebrated statesman, who has been indisposed at his
mansion in Hamilton-place, is convalescent.
Mr. Bolton Clive, M.P., is recovering from . a severe attack
of indisposition.