The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-26 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

I'OR.EIDN.
On Sunday afternoon the King, accompanied by
General-de Rumigny and an orderly officer, went to
Versailles, but returned to the Tuileries to dinner.
In the evening their Majesties received the Duke
Decazes, Count Mortier, Viscount de Mortemart, the
Baron de Perignon, the Baron and Baroness de St.
'Didier, and MM. Abraham Dubois, de Came, and
Esperonnier.
The King and Queen of the Belgians were ex-
pected in Paris for the Carnival.
The Minister of Public Works, it is reported, is
about to bring before the Chamber, as a sort of pilot
balloon, a bill for the Northern Railroad, and another
on the Vierzon line. It is to be an adjudication on
certain conditions, several companies having applied
for those two lines. Should the Chamber not agree
to his proposition, the Minister intends proposing that
those lines should be executed by the State.
On the 20th inst., a fire took place at a manufac-
tory at Pont Remy (Somme). The loss of property
was inconsiderable, but nine of the workmen were
killed by suffocation in one of the staircases whilst
vainly endeavouring to escape.
The son of Mr. Watt, the great engineer, has just
presented to the Academie des Sciences at Paris a
marble bust of his father, by Chantrey.
The last number of the Bulletin de Lois contains an
ordonnance directing the annullation of not less than
219 patents through default of payment of the second
portion of the fees. In consequence, they all become
public property, and the specifications are to be placed
at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, with all the
models and plans, for consultation and publicity.
The buildings used by the Marquis de Jouffroy
in the Rue de l'Ouste, at Paris, as workshops for the
experiments of his system of railroads, were burnt
down on Sunday night. It is suspected that the fire
was the act of incendiaries.

The Augsburg Gazette, of the 19th states from
Goritz that the physicians of the Duke d'Angoul 'eine
have declared their patient to be suffering from a
disease in the intestines with cancer, but that if he
should live until the spring he may hope for a per-
manent recovery from sea-bathing.
We learn from the Berlin journals of the 18th that
the Queen of Prussia is suffering from illness. The
following bulletin was published on the 17th :—" The
Queen has passed an agitated night. Her cough was
frequent, but the progress of the malady is regular,
and inspires no anxiety."
LAW AND POLICE.
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In the Court of Bankruptcy another examination
of J. Bedford, who had carried on business as an iron-
monger in the Westminster-road took place. It appeared
from his balance-sheet, that during the time of hie
trading (a period of only about 36 weeks) he had in-
curred debts to the amount of 2,3691., and that the
property given up to the assignee valued at 1,2621.
His expences were put down at 1,2151., while the
profits of his business amounted to only 3161. 2s. 4d.,
and 2941. from his wife's jointure. Commissioner
Evans, after examining two witnesses said, I shall
adjourn this case sine die, and when the bankrupt can
furnish reasonable accounts he may come up again.
James Gomm and Harris Gomm, his son, appeared
again before the Insolvent Court. They were builders,
and it was stated that they had given a mortgage to
one particular creditor, a relation, when they owed
their present debts, and when failure was inevitable.
The question was, whether the insolvents had been
actuated by fraud in the disposition of their property,
which property had been created by the debts they
owed. The Court deferred judgment.
At Marylebone, Henry North, the boy who was
brought up on Tuesday upon the charge of having
stabbed another boy, named Robins, in the breast
with a pen-knife, was fully committed for trial.
At Clerkenwell Joseph Tuohy, a middle-aged re-
spectable-looking man, was charged by his employer,
Mr. Henry Bedford, solicitor, of No. 20, Calthorpe-
street, Gray's Inn-road, and of Gray's Inn-square,
with having embezzled two cheques for 831. and
91. 9s. 2d., respectively. Mr. Combe told the pri-
soner he stood fully committed for trial on the charge
of embezzling the cheque for 91. 9s. 2d., but that he
should remand him on the charge founded on the 831.
cheque, for the attendance of Mr. Torriano, the b ar-
rister.