The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vutitt Optnton.

" Who runs may read."

rozuzaw.

The discussion in the French Chamber on the proceedings
of Admiral Dupetit Thouars Otiiheite commenced on
Thursday, and had-not closed at the hour of post. Should a
division take place, Ministers, it was anticipated, would have
a considerable majority.
• On Tuesday the King, after having visited the church at
Eu, went to the wood de la Poterie. His Majesty was ac-
companied by the Prefect and Engineer of the department,
General d'Audenarde, the Mayor of Eu, Col. de Chabanne,
and Count de Strada. The King afterwards went to the
farm on the Treport road. In the evening there was a and
dinner at the Chateau, at which •all the , civil and military
authorities were present. At seven o'clock his Majesty set
out on his return to Paris, and at eleven o'clock on AVednes-
day arrived at the Tuileries.
Lady Cowley commenced her second series of routs on
Wednesday evening by a most numerous and brilliant assem-
blage. The Elite` of English society, residents or visitors in
Paris, were present on the occasion, and also a great number
of the French nobility. Among the bkilliant crowd Mss the
newly arrived Turkish Ambassador, Reechid Pacha, who was
an object of general interest.
" Lettere from Beyrout," says the Prue, "received by ex-
press, bring the -following important intelligence :—Mount
Lebanus is In-insurrection. ' Twelve thousand bfaronites are
under arms, and have named for their chief Francis Cozeno.
Two-Druse chiefs; who were as hostages at Beyrout, escaped
during the night, and returned to the mountain to make
common cause with the Dfaronites. The inhabitants of the.
Lebanus had declared, that after having for a length of time
demanded from the Porte that the exactions of the Turkish
functionaries should be put a stop to, they have no longer
any hope-but in arms?
The Postampt Cazme of Frankfort give, the following,
of the 20th ult., from Posen:-=" Within the last few days,
the Government has adopted measureswhich give rise to a
belief that not only the Polish emigrants and Russo-Polish
directors- had entered into revolutionary conspiracies, but
that they have been joined by young men belonging to the
Grand Duchy. Domiciliary -visits have been made at the
houses- of several young men of thaeity, and their papers
seized and put under seal. Forbidden books have' also been
detected and .secUred. At the same time •we have not learnt
whether the Government have succeeded in acquiring the
evidence sought for."
.Admital Gall, one of the oldest admirals in the Russian
navy, lately died at, St. Petersburgh, at the age of 84. He
was an Englishman by birth, -and had been nearly 60 years
in the Russian service.

A letter from Zara (Dalmatia,) in the Journal de Frank-
fort, states that, on Feb. 9, near ten in the evening, a slight
shock of an earthquake was felt in the neighbourhood, which
lasted'three or four seconds. The atmosphere was serene at
the thrie.

It is stated in a letter from Carlsruhe, of the 22d, . that
the principal cemetery of that place has been recently
:the scene of repeated violations. More than forty graves
have been opened, and all the gold and ether valuable orna-
ments with which the bodiei were interred stolen. As these
atrocities were carried on with great caution on the part of the
depredators, the crime would have remained unpunished if a
young man had not been arrested in the act of offering for
sale a silver handle of a coffin. This person instantly con-
fessed, arid denounced his associates, not less than- thirty of
whom have since been apprehended.
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zatue AND rozzcs.
At ;the. Hertford Assizes the Rev. Mr. Brogden was ac-
quitted on a charge of firing at and'wounding a man named
Cornelinf Wintle, a constable whom the rev, gentleman had
Mistaken fora thief.

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The Assizes of the Nerthern Circuit commenced on Thurs-
daY at 1/764castle-on-TYne. The business is not heavy, but
in-one case there are nine charges of rape against one man.
Among-the members' of the Bar engaged on the Western
Circuit, the'assizes of which commenced at Winchester on '
Friday, there was a general feeling of regret at the arrival of
the* intelligence of the death of Mr. Sergeant Bompas, the
senior counsel on that. Circuit, who, expired on Thursday last.
He was much respected by the profession.
Frederick 'Radford, a butcher, Frederick Shaw, a gold-
beater, and Anne, his wife, John Dybell, a parchment cutter,
Edward Radford, a copper-plate printer' and an old woman
named Mary Osborne, were charged at Bow-street, on sus-
picion of being concerned' in burglariously entering the fac-
tory of Mr. Smith, bookseller and stationer, 49,. Long-acre,
and stealing therefrom two parcels' of receipt stamps, three
bank-notes for 201., 29 *sovereigns, and a number of engrav-
ings, with other articles, on the sth ult. The evidence was
not complete, ancr.Roe and Shaw were remanded.
John Dobey Pollard, a solicitor, residing at No. 2, Bowling- •
green-lane, King-street, Borough, and Marsh-gate, Lambeth,'
was' charged; at Clerkenwell, with stabbing Mr. H. Ken-
worthy, a-reporter, residing in Camden-town. The parties.
had had some refreshment together, and the prisoner was not
quite sober at the time. The prosecutor luckily escaped in-*
J ury. . Pollard was committed for trial; but admitted to bail.
James Kelly, a young man of respectable appearance, was
charged at Lambeth-street, with being found upon the pre-
mises of MrXiitle, a ship-broker in High-street, Wapping,
under singular. and. suspicious circumstances. He appeared
to be labourihg under the effects of insanity. He was ordered
to be detainectin custody. •
A young man, named °Bassett, was remanded from Green!.
wich office on a charge of being concerned in a robbery of
letterg, containing Money, &c., from the post-office at
Lewisham. • •

COMIT--WASZIONAII74III.
.The Lord Chamberlain (Earl Delawarr) arrived on Friday,
in Upper Grosvenor-street, from a visit .to, the Earl and
Countess Amherst, at- Knole Park, near Seven Oaks, to
transact official business, and his Lordship afterwards left for
tenni Hall, Cambridgeshire, on a visit to Mr. Francis and
Lady Elizabeth Russell.
The Earl and Countess of Arran are expected to leave town
early this week for the Lodge, Enniscorthy.
e The Earl of Fowls arrived in Berkeley-square early last
week to attend the Ancient Britons Welsh festival, from
Walcot House, near Ludlow. The Countess and the Ladies
Herbert are' expected in' -town for the season early in the
ensuing month.

Lad.); Beresford left Finis for Boulogne on Wednesday last..
Sir Robert. Peel has a dinner party, on Saturday next, the
9th inst.,.at his residence. in Whitehall,gardens.
Mr. Mackinnon, XT., and family, have arrived at his man-
sion in Hyde Park-place, from Rome and Naples;
Viscount . and Lady Campden have left Gainaborough
House for Barham Court.
MACISCILIMANIIIIOI3II. . .
Mr.•O'Conte/1 has just. addressed a letter to the people of
Ireland, denouncing in the strongest terms the. incendiaries
,who have set fire to, farming, property in some places. He
&gain adveits to the manner in which he had been received
by the Engliih people. He says, "I have been received
with kind and manly;generosity by tens of thousands of the
•Rnglisli.: The Irish people themselves could not receive me
with more of the noblest sentiments of sympathy and god
feeling. ',cannot express- the extent of my gratitude; nor
ought the Irish people ever to forget that sympathy which is
not created or limited by kindness towards an individual, but
whose basis is a fervent desire to have justice done to the
Irish nation. I hope the people of Ireland will never forget
theSe instances of generous kindliness." . .
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A . meeting, 'Consisting' of 8,000 individtals, was held at
Manchester on Thursday evening, the Mayor in the chair,
for' the purpose of taking into consideration the pfopriety of
presenting a -memorial to. her Majesty upon the present state
of Ireland, consequent upon the Government prOsecutions.
Resolutions in accordancewith the object of the meeting viers
adopted, and it was resolved that a memorial should be pre-
sented to the Queen, embodying the substance of the resolu-
tions, to be signed, by the Mayor, and also , t.y, the people of
Manchester. .- .
• . ... .
' . The Carlton Club has purchased the leases
.of Mr. Evans,
.the bookseller's premises, and of those recently, occupied by
Mr. Mott, ,which will be pulled down for the purpose of ien-_
larging their present club-bouse, arid of building S Stlendid
edifice. We understand th severs.' plans hays been 4.e/I.d,
sent in. .
On Friday the whole-of the men of-the Royal A.rtille at
Woolwich off duty were assembled to'witness theinflicti n of
corporal punishment, to the extent of .lsC9iiihes, upon unz
ner and Driver Davis,of the 6th battalion who-fial trio by
a Court-martial, and found guilty; of brelking, Open. o _of
• the barrack-rooms, and stealing a cornopean, , value 54 the
property of-Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun.. 'The prisoner, on.
leaving the hospital, will be discharged. from the regiment
with: ignominy, . • , . .