The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-16 00:00:00

'SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
tittbitt Optutott.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

By an order of the day issued by the Governor-
General of Algeria, on the 30th ult., he announced the
expected arrival of the Duke d'Aumale at Algiers on
the 10th or 11th inst., and prescribed that honours
were to be rendered to the Ffince' with conformity to
the decree of the :24th Messidor, An. XII., on honours
and precedence.
The Algy!rie states that the civil hospital of Algiers
is so full that the directors are daily obliged to refuse
the adtniseion of fresh patients. The number received
during the last month amounted to more than 1,800.
Letters have arrived from Algiers to October 7.
The troops which took part in the campaign of Mo-
rocco had just gone aboard three packets. It was
said that a part of the army would shortly be em-
ployed in the draining of the Metidja.
There is no country in the world in which the
changes of Ministry have been so frequent as in Spain.
Between the 7th of June, 1835, and the sth of May,
1844, there were twenty Cabinets ; giving an average
duration of five months and twelve days for each.
The King of Prussia has just given 50,000 Prus-
sian crowns towards the completion of the Cathedral
of Cologne.
The Silesian Gazette states from Poland, Oct. 1,
that about twenty students had recently been ar-
rested at Warsaw on a charge of being members of a
secret society. The younger of them, who were only
from thirteen to fourteen years old, were, it is added,
sent into the interior of Russia, but the others were
sent to the army of Circassia as common soldiers.

An extraordinary trial for swindling took place
last week before the Court of As3ize for Paris. A
person named Hue de Marsenay and his wife were
charged with having obtained, by fraudulent means,
more than 500,000 f. from different persons, of which,
however, 450,000 f. were from a M. Gosse. Marse-
nay was originally a captain in the army. The
various persons swindled gave evidence on the trial,
which lasted four days, and the prisoner being found
guilty, Marsenay was sentenced to eight years' im-
prisonment with hard labour, and his wife to five
years of the same punishthent, and both to stand in
the pillory.
Five tenders were presented for the contract for
the rails of the first section of the Paris and Northern
Railroad. These works were estimated at the maxi-
mum of 225,0001., and the contract was awarded on
Saturday to M. Barbier St. Ange, at 8 per cent.
below this sum.

M. Guichon de Grandpont, chief of the administra-
tive service at the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon,
has just arrived at St. Malo, being ordered home by
the Colonial Council, who have suspended him from
his functions after a quarrel between him and the
Governor, in the course of which both parties are
said to have come to blows.

It appears by letters from Athens of the 27th ult.,
that, in the first discussion of the Chamber of Depu-
ties on the verification of the qualifications of Depu-
ties, and other subjects of a nature to test the Minis-
terial influence in the Chamber, the Cabinet had large
majorities.

Lucerne has made a strong demonstration against
the installation of the Jesuits in that town. At a
grand convocation of the inhabitants, held lately, 769
of them out of 1,260 declared against their admission.