The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

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On Saturday evening the Duke de Montpensier,
accompanied by M. le Comte de la 'four du Pin,
honoured the performance of Othello by the English
company with his presence.
M. Gamier Pages, lately residing at Madrid, has
declared that he intends to make a vigorous attack
upon M. Guizot's policy in Spain in the impending
debate on the address. M. Gander Pages has added
that he has so large a number of "monstrous" facts to
allege before the Chamber of Deputies that the least
clear sighted cannot resist his evidence.
The Patrie states that the Minister of Marine has
received an official notice of the arrival of Admiral
Dupetit Thouars at Rio Janeiro, on his way to
France, where, adds the Patrie, he is daily expected.
An earthquake of sonic violence was felt in Savoy
during the night of the 10th instant. At Rum]lly
and Chautagne the furniture in the apartments was
so shaken that the glasses and other articles left on
tables were thrown down. At Chambery, however,
it was so slight, that it was perceived by only a very
few persons.
A letter from Nismes of the 17th instant represents
that town as being kept in constant commotion by
conflicts between the rival coinpagnons of the dif-
ferent trades. On the 12th upwards of eighty stone-
cutters caaght three or four bakers' men near the
Place du Grand Temple, and, assailing them with
stones, would have probably killed them but for the
timely interference of the police.
M. Duris, editor of the Legitimatist journal Her-
mine, has been condemned for libel on the Govern-
ment, by the Court of Assizes at Nantes, to three
months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine, notwithstand-
ing an able defence presented by M. Berryer.
Prince Gaston de Montmorency has addressed a
letter to the Gazette de France, which it publishes,
declaring that as he is convinced that the Govern-
ment is determined to have a judgment against him,
he had resolved not to appeal against that which has
been pronounced upon him, -but will contentimself
with leaving his conduct to public opinion.
The title of Duke, which has just been conferred
by the King on the Chancellor of France, is to be
transmissible to his nephew, M. Gaston d'Audiffret.
According to a recently-published statement of the
Bureau de Bienfaisance of the first arondissement of
Paris, which is considered as one of the wealthiest, it
appears that the number of its indigent inhabitants
has increased, and is still increasing. From the
official returns in 1835, this Bureau had to relieve
1,645 families, comprising 3,599 individuals. In
1841, the numbers were 1,742 families; in 1842,
there were 2,127 families ; and in 1843, there were
2,245 families, comprising 5,242 individuals, viz.,
1,097 men, 2,065 women, 1,025 boys, and 1,065 girls.
A letter from Vienna, of Dec. 8, in the Universal
German Gazette, says—" We understand that, in the
course of next year, Prince Frederick will make a
voyage to China. It is reported that the Austrian
Government is not averse at present to acknowledging
Queen Isabella.
General Prim had arrived at Cadiz, and was con-
fined in the fort of St. Catalina, where he will re-
main till a ship of war happens to be going to the
Philippine Hanes.
The Progress du Pas de Calais states that the
ports of Calais and Boulogne are on the point of com-
ing to a friendly understanding on the subject of the
northern railroad. Calais, it says, is ready to con-
cede to Boulogne what it has been demanding for
five years, in exchange for the advantage which its
competitor, now become its associate, solicits it to
accept. Calais assents to the system sustained by
Boulogne in 1842—the uniting of all the seaports—
in consideration of the Amiens and Boulogne Com-
pany's continuing that line to Calais, and maintaining
the same fares to and from Paris and Calais as to and
from Boulogne and Paris.