The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-22 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

• On Monday evening the King of the French received at
dinner the Apostolic Nuncio, the Austrian Ambassador, the
Minister of Foreign -Affairs, the Marquises de Dalmatie, de
Gabriac, and de Roure, Count Rodolphe d'Appony, Generals
Roussel, d'Hurbal,Courtot, and M. Persil.!
The Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, and the Bishops of
Autun, Langres, St. Claude, Grenoble, and Dijon, have ad-
dressed a letter to the Minister of Justice and Public Wor-
ship, protesting against the Education-Bill 'presented to the
Chamber of Peers, and complaining of the power given to
the University in public education.
The Academie Royale des Sciences have elected the Prince
of Canino (Charles Buonaparte) a corresponding member in
the section of zoology, and Sir B. Brodie, of London, in the
section of surgery.
Seven more condemned malefactors were exposed on the
pillory on' Tuesday, in the Place du Palais de Justice.
Among them was Courvoissier, condemned in. October last
to hard labour for thirty years. The effigies of twenty others,
condemned by default, were also posted on the same pillory.
" We can state most positively," says the France, " that
the negotiations for the marriage of the Count de Trapani
with Isabella of Spain have been completely broken off.'
The Municipal Council of Poitiers have just voted a
guarantee of 3 per cent. interest on a capital of a million of
francs, for the railroad from Orleans to Bordeaux. Should
the line be only partly conceded, or in portions, the vote is to.
be applied to the line between Tours and Poitiers. .
The Memorial of Rouen complains Vat a considerable
quantity of false money has been lately issued by the English
workmen employed on the railroad to Havre. Two days
back a couple of English labourers went into a wine-shop,
and tendered a bad five-franc piece for what they had drunk.
On being challenged with passing bad money, they took to
flight and got clear off.
The Universal German- Gazette repeats, in a positive man-
ner, the report that the negotiations for a marriage between
an Austrian. Archduke and a <daughter of the Emperor of
Russia have been broken off, in consequence of a difference as
to the religion in which the children of the marriage should
be educated.

We learn from Stuttgart that. the Kirg of Wurtemberg has
authorised the construction of railroads from Ludwigsburg to
Stuttgart, from• Stuttgart to Cronstadt, and from thence by
the right bank of the Necker to Esslingen.
A letter from Stockholm, in the Journal de Frankfort,
states that a treaty has Veen agreed to between Sweden and
Belgium for the i:gciprocal extradition of criminals, The
measure was publed on the 21st ult. '

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In the Court of Bankruptcy assignees were appointed in
the matter of Joseph Barwick, who had been an extensive
omnibus proprietor, plying between Dulwich' and the• City of
London. On his examination the bankrupt stated :that he
had commenced business a few years back without any
capital, and that his debts, contracted very shortly before his
bankruptcy, were now about 3,0001. He had kept ne cash-
book. Between the months of December and February last
he had about three-and-twenty horses, half-a-dozen omni-
buses, and other carriages, which were all sold under an exe-
cution, -put in by a person named Brown, of Crown-
street, Finsbury, tor advances made by him at dif-
ferent times, to the amount of 4741. 13s. 6d. The
bankrupt had bought thirteen or fourteen horses of different
persons, Which he never paid for, and also-271 quarters of oats,
between December and February last, for which he had not
paid, but out of the part produce of which he paid a Mr.
Turner 301. He sold the oats at a small profit, and applied
the produce to his business. Sir C. F. Williams expressed
disapprobation of such 'conduct, and adjourned the hearing for
further investigation into the state of his affairs.
William Brown, a well-dressed man, who formerly kept a
beer• shop in Nelson-street, Hackney-road, was brought be •
fore Mr. Bingham, at Worship-street, for final examination,
charged with having been concerned in the commission of
several daring burglaries that have been committed in the
counties of Essex and Cambridgeshire.• He was fully com-
mitted on four distinct charges.
- At the Surrey Sessions, William Bennett, a man of respect-
able appearance, against whom there were four indictments,
was charged with stealing, on the the 13th of February last,
a quantity of groceries, the property of 'William Smith,
grocer, of the Old Kent-road. The prisoner was convicted
on two indictments and sentenced to twelve months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.
At Bow-street, a young man named John Howe, who is
employed as a money-taker at Drury-lane Theatre, was .
brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with having embezzled
various sums of money belonging to Mr. A. Bunn, lessee of
that building, and his employer. The charge was fully
proved, and the prisoner was committed for trial.
At the Lewis Assizes an action was brought by M.
Lereux, a banker at Calne, to recover a sum of sixty-five
thousand francs and interest from the defendant, F. H.
Berkeley, Esq., M.P. for Bristol. 'Witnesses were called to
prove the facts, and one, Coup, in answer to a question
from Mr. Baron Alderson,. said, that if parties chose to make
an agreenient to pay nine per cent. that the law of France
did not consider such a transaction illegal. The jury, after a
short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
6,640/., that being the amount. of the principal sum, arid the
interest for 18 years, at nine per dent.