The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-05 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
pubitr Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN'.
On Friday, the French Chamber of Deputies came to a
division on the affair of Otaheite, when the Ministers had a
majority of 46. This raised the funds in a few minutts• 54c.
According to intelligence brought by the 'ship Jules, from
Monte Video, of the 31st December, affairs there had become
complicated to a most disastrous extent. On December 27,
M. Pichon, the French Consul-General, demanded his pass-
ports, and having received them, embarked on the 31st, in
the Atalante: M. Leyde, the Portuguese Consul, also retired
on board a brig of war of his own nation. The French mer-
chantmen in the roadstead had, a week before, received
orders from the French Admiral to be in readiness to sail at
the first signal, but on the 30th, the English, American, and
Brazilian commanders posted a notice to the vessels of their
nations not to remove from their anchorage without further
orders. The town was nearly destitute of supplies, the
blockade being kept with the utmost rigour.
Queen Christina arrived at Narbonne on the 24th, on her
way to Barcelona. Her Majesty was received with Royal
honours by the authorities. She left on the afternoon of the
26th for Perpignan.
A horrible crime (says the Paris Siecle) was committed on
Thursday evening at six o'clock, in the Rue de Londres. An
Englishman residing in that street, No. 40, was assassinated
in his apartment, by blows from logs of fire-wood. It is sup-
posed that the assassins expected to find a large sum of
money, which was said, to have been received during the
day. The name of the victim was Ward.
The Seine rose on Thursday to 5 metres 95 centimetres (19
feet), but had fallen yesterday to 5 metres 50 centimetres.
Since the quays have been submerged, all the steps and land-
ing-places have been lighted by lamps to prevent accident.
The Moniteur contains a notice of the Director-General of
the Post-office, announcing that from the 4th of March a line
of steam-packets, for the conveyance of passengers, would
ply monthly between Marseilles and Alexandria.
According to a published report by the Prefecture of Po-
lice, on the adulteration of wine in Paris, this fraud is prin-
cipally committed by the wholesale merchants and retail-
dealers, who amount in Paris to 600. The ingredients chiefly
employed by them are syrups made from fecula, raisins, raw
sugar, dried fruits, and other.similar things, which are made
to ferment in a quantity of water, by adding small portions
of alcohol, vinegar, and tartaric acid.
The Moniteur publishes the table of the prices of wheat in
the several market towns of France in last month, from which
it appears that the average cost of the .hectolitre was—at
Gray, Toulouse, Marseilles, and Lyons, 22f. 17c.; at Marans
and Bordeaux, 20f. 36e. ; at St. Laurent and the Grand
Lemps, 31f. 39c.; at Mulhausen and Strasburgli, 19f. 55c.' •
at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, Paris, and Rouen, 181.
32c. ; at Saumur and Nantes, 19f. 92c. ; at Metz, Verdun,
and Charleville, 16f. 45c. ; at St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, and
Hennebon,l9f. 51c. The hectolitre is equal to 2i imp. bushel.
According to letters from Vienna of the 22d ult., M. de
Rothschild, of that city, had held several conferences with the
Russian Ambassador on the subject of the decree for the re-
moval of Polish Jews- from the frontiers, and hopes -were
entertained that the decree, which has already been much
modified, will be entirely revoked.
Weslearn from Berlin, 21st ult., that the King of Prussia
had been so unwell for some days, that he had not quitted
his chamber ; but his illness was not of sufficient gravity to
render it necessary to issue bulletins.
Advices from Athens, of the 10th, state that King Otho
has had a narrow escape from being poisoned, owing to the
carelessness of his cook, who prepared a dish in a vessel in
which verdigris had been allowed to collect. The illness,
however, soon gave way to proper remedies.
COURT-1".&811Z0 N ABLM.
The Court will change mourning on Thursday next
for his late Royal Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe
Coburg Gotha; there will be a further change on Thursday
se'nnight, the 14th instant, and on tke 21st instant the Court
will go out of morning. The posthumous bust of the late
Duke, which the Prince has continued to superintend, is now
completed.
Lord and Lady Brougham entertained the Duke ofWelling-
ton, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lady Peel, Sir James and Lady
Graham, Earl of Shaftesbury, Earl and Countess of Jersey,
Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Hon. Colonel Dawson
Darner, Sir William Follett, and a distinguished circle at
dinner on Saturday last, at their residence in Grafton-street.
Sir Robert Peel, from a previous engagement to dine with the
Russian
his Company,
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could
not honour the Noble and Learned
Lord with
Sir Robert Peel, Bart., gives his first Cabinet dinner this
season to-morrow, at his mansion in Whitehall-garden.
The Earl and Countess of Eglintoun, Earl and Countess
Craven, Hon. Frederick Craven, Mr. Grenfell and Miss
Grenfell, and a large party, have been staying during the
last week at Croxteth Park, on visits to the Earl and Coun-
tess of Sefton.
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The Earl and Countess of Lichfield and family are still at
Graefenberg, in Austrian Silesia, where they are expected to
pass the spring. Lord Anson is pursuing his academical
studies, near Huntingdon, preparatory to entering the uni-
versity. The Noble Earl's health is much-improved.
The Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Mary Sack-
ville West left town on Saturday for Bourn Hall, Cambridge.
shire.

The Earl of Ilehester presided at the meeting held at.Wer-
mmith on Saturday, to take measures for erecting a suitable
monument, in the county of Dorset, to the memory of the late
gallant Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, G.C.B.
Viscount Rauelagh has left town for Bordeaux.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. Moxhay, the liberal proprietor of the Hall of Com-
merce, has written letters to some of the great mercantile
houses in the City, offering the use of his noble building for
the purpose of a meeting, to- express the public opinion on
the conduct of the Emperor of Russia towards the Jewish
portion of his subjects. It is believed that the offer will be
accepted.
The Bank of England, the East India Company, the Wor-
shipful Company of Mercers, and the Worshipful Company
of Grocers have, during the past week, each subscribed the
sum of 2001. in aid of the association for visiting and reliev-
ing the poor at their own dwellings. The gross amount of
the fund of this association is now, we hear, above 20,0001.,
and its operations are extended over upwards of sixty of the
parishes.
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-n, on the
at'his mansion,
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at least 350 fellows and visitors present, including most of the
members of the different literary and scientitic institutions,
besides several learned savans from Germany, America, &c.
The Marquis of Northampton was unavoidably absent from
impaired health, but the honours of the reception were ably
acquitted by Mr. C. S. Dickens and Viscount Alford.
The last averages show a considerable advance in the price
isf wheat—that of the last week being 555. hi. per quarter,
which is an increase of from 4s. to ss. on the prices which pre-
vailed during the greater part of the autumn and winter;
and of 3s. sd. within the last five weeks
Bean, who was taken into custody for attempting to annoy
her Majesty by presenting a pistol at her Majesty's carriage,
as she was taking an airing in St. James's-park, and for
which he was tried at the Central Criminal Court, Old
Bailey, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in
the Millbank Penitentiary, was on Saturday liberated, the
term for which he was incarcerated having expired.
A new floating steam-boat pier has been constructed by
the Fishmonger.? Company, and thrown out from the river
front ofttleir
spacious hall adjoinipgthe north-west corner of
Loudon-lidsdge, which is likely to
prove a great accommoda-
tion to the public making short trips per steam-boat to West-
minster, Greenwich, Woolwich, Lunehouse, and the Adelphi
Pier.

COURT CIRCULAR
The Queen held a Privy Council a quarter before three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. It was
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Lord Wharn-
President ; the Duke of Wellington, Commander-
;btylie Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Privy Seal ; Sir Robt.
Commander-
in-Chief i-tffce
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Lordeefd
Peel, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Earl of Aberdeen, Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs; Lord Stanley, Secretary of
State for the Colonies ; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State
for the Home Department; Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer ; the Earl of Haddington, First Lord
of the Admiralty ; Sir Edward Knatchbull, Paymaster of the
Forces ; and the Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse.
At the Council a new Sheriff was appointed for the county
of Rutland.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audience to Lord Whamcliffe and Sir
Robert Peel.
The Court was attended by the Vice-Chamberlain, the
Treasurer of the Household, and the Comptroller of the Hous-
hold.
Lord Byron and Admiral Sir Robert Otway were the Lord
and Groom in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Peince Albert, attended by Sir Edward
Bowater, took equestrian exercise in the Riding School at
Pimlico yesterday. His Royal Highness visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House.
The " Immaculate Conception," painted for the King of
Spain, Philip IV., by Murillo, was submitted to the inspec-
tion of her Majesty and Prince Albert, by Mr. Woodburn, at
Buckingham Palace, yesterday.
The Lord Mayor had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on
Saturday.
Mr. Somes, Governor of the New Zealand Company had
an interview with Lord Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial
Office.
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➢ir. Thornton, Deputy Chairman of the Stamps and
Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches for the Governors of the North American Co-
lonies were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-
office.