The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-13 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vutatt eptitton.

" Who runs may read."

POZEZWN.

The National observes—" That Louis Philippe show
wish to leave France and pay a visit to Queen Victoria
is a question which regards his Ministers ; but it
generally considered by the public that this fancy is .
timed. It is considered that the travellers might choose
anotker period for their exchange of politeness, than the
• very moment when Sir Robert Peel, Lord Aberdeen, and
• the Duke of Wellington, held the most eccentric and
gross language towards our country in the presence of
the British Parliament, when, thanks to the timidity of
our governors, the English Cabinet has inflicted on the
dignity of Franca the most sanguinary affront, and at a
moment when through Out the English press, at public
meetings, and in the Parliament, the most violent calum-
nies and invectives are lavished on our navy."
Baron d'Andlaw, the Minister of Baden, Baron de
Drachenfels, Minister of Hesse, and M. Weyland, had
audiences of the King on Monday, at which they pre
seated the replies of their Sovereigns to the notification
of the birth of the Duke d'Aleneon.
On Sa'urday the annual funeral service, in commemo-
ration of the late King and Queen of Napl.'s, was per-
; formed in the presence of the Queen of the French in the
Church of Neuilly.
The Prefect of the Seine has just left Paris to pass a
month at his estate of Rambuteau. The Marquis de La-
morelie supplies his place ad interim.
The Prefect of Police has issued a circular to the
Mayors of the department of the Seine, relative to the
New Game-law, calling on them to inform the several
keepers and agents under their authority, that licences
under the old law are to be considered in force until the
year for which they were granted shall have fully elapsed.
Lieutenant Besson, who was in command of the Groen-
land, is to appear before a court-martial.
The Moniteur Beige publishes a decree by the King of
the Belgians, dated the 7th inst., by which, as a conse-
quence of a recent treaty with the German Customs'
Union (Zollverein) it is ordered that, in future, Prussian
vessels in Belgian ports shall pay only the same duties as
Belgian vessels ; that the Customs' duties on wines of the
union shall be reduced to fifty centimes per hectolitre in
cask, and two francs per hectolitre in bottle ; the excise
duty also to be reduced 25 per cent., and the import duty
on silk manufactures of the Zollverein to be reduced 20
per cent.
A Madrid journal states that a quarry of lithographic
stone of the best quality has just been discovered at Mi-
rallet, in Catalonia.
On the 3d inst., at eight in the morning, a pilot-boat
of Antwerp fell in with what appeared to be a raft, at
a considerable distance from the shore off Walcheren,
and having nine men on it. On approaching, it was
found that the supposed raft was one of the platforms
made upon faggots which are used for the repair of
dykes. The master of the pilot-boat rescued the men
from their perilous position, and learned from them that
24 hours previously they had left with two boats to
transport their platform to a dyke which had been in-
jured, but that the wind had got up strong from the
land, and forced them out to sea. Their boats had been
swamped, and their only means of saving themselves
from immediate drowning was their platform. 'They
would probably have perished in a few hours, as the si a
was getting very rough. They had been without nou-
rishment of any kind for 24 hours.
The Havre journals of Monday inform us that on the
preceding afternoon that town was visited by a storm of
extraordinary violence. The wind was so high that
considerable damage was done to some' of the houses,
and the rain subsequently fell in such abundance that
even carriages could not circulate in some of the streets,
and the cellars of the houses were filled with water.
The Cologne Gazette contains the follovving letter from
Berlin, of the Ist September: —" A great uneasiness is
felt for the corn trade of the Baltic provinces, and espe-
cially for the trade of Danizie, w here immense quanti-
ties of wheat are accumulated, which cannot be disposed
of except in case of a bad harvest in England ; but, as i:
is better this year than it Las been for a long time, the
merchants of Dantzic being obliged to keep their corn,
are threatened with considerable losses. One house has
already failed for 180,000 dollars, and it is feared that
several others, and more considerable houses, will shire
the same fate."

LAW AND POLICII.
On Wednesday the first order of affiliation under the
recent Act of Parliament was made at Queen-square
Police•court. The putative father of the &did was
Joseph Edgely, a young linen draper's assistant, resid-
ing at Nantwich, in Cheshire, who was summoned to
show cause why an order of 2s. 6d. per week should not
be made upon him for its maintenance. After the wom3n
had given her evidence, the solicitor for the defendant
said he did not consider there was the description of
confirmatory testimony required produced in this case.
Mr. Burrell thought the case clearly made out, and
should adjudge the defendant to make an allowance to-
wards the maintenance of the child. Mr. Edwards, the
chief clerk, inquired the amount ? Mr. Burrell said it
must be 2s. 6d. per week. The object of the Legislature
in mentioning this sum, had clearly been with a view to
put part of the onus on the mother of the. child. De-
fendant was further adjudged to pay the sum of 3/. 17s.
travelling expenses of the officer to Nautwich, and other
costs.

A number of individuals, omnibus proprietors and re-
sidents of Kensington, waited on Mr. Hardwick, at Marl-
borough-street-office, to intercede for a mitigation of the
sentence on William Mills, a driver of one of the Brixton
omnibuses, who was sentenced to the treadmill for one
month, for racing with Foulkes, the driver of a Kensing-
ton omnibus. Mr. Hardwick said he saw no motive for
modifying his judgment. The case was a very bad one,
arid the defendants had not attempted to palliate their
offence, but had pleaded guilty at once. The public
safety had been greatly endangered by the reck'ess con-
duct of omnibus-drivers, and as penalties were paid out
of a common fund, he had determined to try what effect
imprisonment would have.