The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-11 00:00:00

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SU MARY OF-NEWS

AND
Putatt Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

On Saturday the King of the French received the Portuguese Mi-
nister, General Colbert, General Friant, General Duchand, Genera
Marbot, and several other persons of distinction.
The weather at Paris on Satunlay was still severe, the thermo-
meter at six o'clock in the morning being at 21. It changed, how-
ever, on Sunday, and some rain fell. No business was dune at Tor-
toni's on Sunday.
The Presse states that the frigate Erigone is being fitted out at
Brest in order to convey to the Itiode la Plata Baron Deffaudis, who
is proceeding there to arrange, in concert with the British Minister,
the differences existing between Buenos Ayres and Monte Video.
The .Almanach du Alois states that a new amnesty will soon ap-
pear, including all the political prisoners omitted in the last.
The Journal des Deba's states that, according to a document lately
published by the Minister of Commerce on the vaccinations performed
in France during the year 1843, it appears that of 910,337 children
born during that year, there were 547,646 vaccinated, or rather more
than one-half ; that of those vaccinated, 11,779 were attacked with
the smallpox. Of the latter, 1,294 became disfigured or infirm, and
1,379 died in consequence of the disease. The amount of the expenses
incurred by vaccination was 205,714 f.
The accounts from Syria state, that the Greek Synod at Jerusalem
had elected as Patriarch of the Holy Land Kyrilus, the Bishop of
Lyda. It is added that that body had signified this fact direct to the
Porte, without the intermission of the Patriarch of Constantinople,
under whose jurisdiction the Ottoman Minister wished to place it. .
The Comete, De Boninge, which arrived at Ostend from Messina,
2d inst., was fired Into by pirates in three lateen-rigged craft, on the
• 9th ult., aboift 15 miles off Cape Santa Marla.
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LAW AND POLIOIII.
At the Central Criminal Court Edward Brown, Moses Jacobs; and
Wm. Bailey, were indicted for a misdemeanour in having fraudulently
conspired together to defraud a person named-Richardson of a sum of
money, under the pretence of compromising 'an • indictment agairist
him for keeping a brothel. Jacobs only was found guilty, sentenced
to pay a fine, and be imprisoned for six months.

Elizabeth Donovan was convicted of stealing a silk and cotfqg
handkerchief, the property of George Beale, a baker, in the Londori-
road, from the person of Thomas, his infant son. There were other
charges, but the Court did not proceed with them. She had been pre-
viously convicted of felony, mtill was sentenced to be transported for
ten years.

Thomas 'locker was fully committed this day at MarylebOne police
office, to take his trial for the murder of James Delarue.
COURT-FASHIONABLE.
Major-General Lord .Frederick Fitzelarence on Wednesday last
qualified and took the oaths as a Justice of the Peace for the county
of Northumberland.
The Earl and Countess of Camperdown, the. Ron. Hamilton itan-
tutd Lady "Elizabeth Duncan have left Camperdown Castles their
seat in Scotland, for Sydney-place, Bath.
The Earl of Zetland has left Arlington-street to join the Countess
at Asko Ball, near Richmond.

The Earl and Countess of Shelburne left Lansdowne House on
Saturday last; on a visit to Countess Flahault and the non, Misses
Elpb instone Flahault, at Hastings.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Emma Campbell are
at present staying at Ardincaple Castle, where the Marquis and-Mat-
chioness of Lorn, and Mrs. and Miss Cunninghame are on a visit to
their Graces. The Noble Duke and family leave Ardincaple at the
end of the present month for Inverary Castle, after a short= stay at
w ieh they will take their departure from Scotland for the south.
The Dowager Duchess of Bedford and Lady Rachel Evelyn Russell,
who have been residing since their return to town at Mrs: Balfour%
in Grosvenor-crescent, have left that mansion for her Grace's villa at
Campden-hill.

The Marquis" and 3farchioness of Ailesbury are expected In Gros-
venor square for the season, from Paris, shortly after Easter. The
Noble Marquis's health has much improved by his sojourn in the
French capital.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Dowager Mar-
chioness of Westminster, and Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor d 6
not intend to leave Eaton Hall until after Easter. The Marquis of
Westminster comes to town occasionally on business, but returns
almost immediately.
Earl and Countess Delawarr and the Ladles Sackvillo West are
expected to leave Upper Grosvenor-street early in the ensuing week
for Bourm Hall, Cambridgeshire, for the Easter recess.
The Countess of liaddington's party, on Wednesday, the 12th, iS
postponed. •
Lady Brougham has issued cards for a select assembly to-morrow
night at her Ladyship's mansion in Grafton-street.
The Dowager Lady Abinger arrived last week at her newly-pur-
chased residence in Norfolk-street,-Park-lane, for the season.
Mr. and Lady Louisa Tighe have been entertaining a distinguished
circle at Woodstock, Kilkenny, during the last week. The party
claded the Earl and Countess of Shannon, Earl and Countess Desart,
Lord and Lady Templemore, lion. W. Cole, Sir John and Lady Power,
Col. Dixon, Dean Vig,noles, &c.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Intelligence was received yesterday by the City police that on
Friday value
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stolen
Bricklayer's Arms. The box arrived between three and four o'clock
in the morning, and was deposited amongst other luggage, and at six
containingstation two
of barsthe o
Doverf gold,
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o'clock it was missed.
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A Parliamentary return has been issued showing that last year the
expense of supplying Acts of Parliament to public departments was
5,24
to
I,6sir3elUandd, 4
d. The
ox,asd.to Scotland, is nil ; and with re-
spect The estimate of the total cost of the New Houses of Parliament,
according to the latest approved plan, is 928,913/. 6s. 3d.
The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the Shareholders of the Hull
and Selby Railway was held on Friday at Hull; Richard Tottie,
Esq., the newly-elected Chairman of Directors, presiding. The
Directors recommended that the Proprietors should give them autho-
rity to open and conclude a negotiation with the Manchester and
Leeds Rs lway Company, on such terms as they might think
eligible, for a complete and immediate amalgamation of the two
companies, including the projected Leeds and 'West Riding Junction.
and the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railways, with others that
might hereafter be deemed promising, in the event of the Board of
Trade being fhvourable to such amalgamation, and the decision being
confirmed by the Legislature. A resolution, conveying to the Di-
rectors the necessary powers, was unanimously passed.
The Lord Mayor, yesterday, requested that the newspapers would
mention that he had received the fbilowing sums for the poor-box :
The Drapers' Company, 101. 10s. ; Newcastle-under-Lyne, I/. Is. ; a
Middlesex Curate, Conservative Club, F. It., 2/.

THE LATE MYSTERIOUS CASE

OF POISONING AT CAMBERWELL

Yesterday George May, shopman to the late Mr. Mon-
tague, who, it will be recollected, had, with Mrs. Montague,
been poisoned at Camberwell on the 11th of last month, was
placed in the felons' dock, before Mr. Henry, at Lambeth
Police-court, on the following charge, as entered inthe police
sheet :—" For feloniously appropriating to his own use various
sums of money received by him for and on account of his
late master ; also with forging the name of the deceased to
various receipts in the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell."
Mr. Dodd, the vestry-clerk of Camberwell, attended to
prosecute on behalf of the heir-at-law to the late Mr.
Montague ; and Mr. Humphries appeared on behalf of the
prisoner. _

Mr. Dodd briefly alluded to the melancholy circumstances
which led to the apprehension of the prisoner, and said that
since the mysterious death of Mr. and Mrs. Montague, their
books and accounts had been examined, and it was found
that the prisoner, who had been their shopman and confiden-
tial servant, had received various sums of money on account
of his master, of which he had made no entry in the books
kept for that purpose ; and coupling this fact with the in-
formation which had been obtained from the customers them-
selves, the nephew of Mr. Montague, who is next of kin,
deemed it advisable to give him into custody on the charge
of embezzlement and forgery.
Evidence was then adduced as to certain. declarations of
the prisoner to police-inspector Campbell, with respect to
the accounts, and of the receipt of moneys, of which no entry
had been made.

Mr. Humphries observed that en the inquest holden after
the melancholy affair, on the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Mon-
tague, the prisoner had been examined for hours, and, though
not upon oath, his deposition had been taken down touching
these very accounts, with the greatest minuteness. He com-
plained that it was an indirect attempt to connect the pri-
soner with a charge of murder.
Mr. HENRY said he had nothing to do with such irregu-
larities, and that he should countenance no more inferential
imputations. He was of opinion, however, that there were
grounds for remand, and he asked what was the total amount
of the alleged embezzlement ?
Mr. Dodd replied from 50/. to 100/., and added that he
would be able to show on a future occasion that the prisoner
had represented himself on many occasions as the nephew of
the deceased.

The prisoner was remanded to a future day, and Mr.
Henry consented to take good bail for his appearance.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN
RAILWAY.

A meeting of shareholders in the above line was held yes-
terday, at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, under
rather singular circumstances. On Friday last, an adver-
tisement appeared in a morning paper, calling a meeting of
shareholders at the above house to take into consideration
the condition of the company in consequence of the peculiar
difficulties in which it was unexpectedly placed, and) t
Saturday another advertisement appeared, signed byi't
secretary, denouncing the former notice as a stock-jobbing
hoax, and stating that the company were in no difficulties,
the Bill having been read a first time and standing for a
second reading on Monday. Yesterday morning Alderman
Vickers (of Sheffield), the projector of• the line, Issued a air•
eular, caking on the shareholders to assemble at Ike, ap-
pointed place, as "it is expedient either to drive the oppo-
nents of the line into the pit they have dug for the promoters,
or, if they do not attend, to place such a resolution before the
public as will show this line to be beyond a doubt of first-
rate public and private value." At two o'clock, there being
about twenty shareholders present, E. S. Kennedy, Esq., was
called to the chair.

Mr. VICKERS said, on Friday last his attention was called
to the advertisement convening this meeting, and he hastened
to the solicitors of the line, begging them not to contradict
it, but to let it take place, and see if any one dared to come
forward. He regretted that that course had not been fol-
lowed. On Saturday, he ascertained that n• room had been
engaged by their opponents, and therefore he engaged it
himself, determined that, as the meeting had been called, it
should take place.
J. STANIFORTII, Esq., solicitor to the Goole line, moved,
and Mr.VicKEas seconded, a resolution—" That this meeting
express its strongest disapprobatiln of the unworthy means
used by the anonymous writers ofthe advertisement to depre-
ciate the property of the shareholders in the Cambridge and
Lincoln Railway by such calumnious and foul reports; and
that they deem such conduct most disgraceful and dishonour-
able to the character of Englishmen ; and that this meet-
ing express their strong belief in the excellency of the pro-
jected railway, and recommend it to the, continued support
of the shareholders, and the' favourable consideration of the
public at large."
The resolution was unanimously carried.
Mr. IVALmisLEy then moved,. and Captain Cousnes, for-
merly- harbour-mortar of London, seconded a resolution re-
commending the shareholders to support the extension lines,
the Lincoln, Leeds, and York direct, and the Goole, Don-
caster, Manchester, and Sheffield Junction, as tending with
this line to ensure
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LETTERS OPENING.—On Monday a public meet-
ing (by requisition to the Mayor) was convened at Nottingham, rela-
tive to Sir J. G. Graham's letters opening propensity. Every town
and village ought to protest against this most odious system.
COLLIERS' STRIKE.—The pitmen lately employed.
at Mr. Smith's colliery, Longton, have struck for an advance of
wages. Four shillings per day, we are informed, is the rate of wages
sought to be obtained, being an advance of 7d. per day over their
late scale of remuneration. Rumour states that other colliers in the
neighbourhood will soon follow their example.—North Staffordshire
Mercury.
Eail Grey will complete his 81st year on Satur-
day next.

BANKING Houes.—lt is the intention of the banks

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in Manchester to close their establishments at three o'clock, and it
has been suggested that this 'plarr-might be adopted throughout the
country. _ _

LAUNCH OF TILE Saturday the La-
here, of Llverrcol, was launced from the ship:building yard of Mr.
Peter Cato, at the south-west corner of the Brun wick Dock. Her
length is 119 feet, her breadth 29 feet 6 inches, and her tonnage 575
tons. She will be commanded by Capt. Burt. Mr. Cato owns one
half and Capt. Burt the other half of this fine vessel, which is in-
tended for the East India and China trade. Miss Cato, the daughter
of Mr. Peter Cato, performed the operation of christening. The
launch was a capital one, and, odor it had taken place about 100 of
the ladies and gentlemen present were entertained at a dejaine, over
which Mr. Peter Cato presided.—Litripeol Albans.
The idle and injudicious prosecution in the Royal
Court of Guernsey of the Governor by a jurat is still proceeding,
though the Crown officers refuse to have anything to do with it.
They rightly urged the absurdity of the Court's entering upon a
matter in which their decision, if unfavourable, could net be acted
upon.—Jersey Times, March 7.
Mr. Locke has been elected City Pleader by a
majority of twenty votes above Sir Walter Riddell, the only other
candidate.