The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-17 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Optatton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

On Monday evening the King and Queen of the French
entertained at dinner the Pope's Nuncio, the Turkish Am-
bassador, the Baden, Portuguese, and Swedish Ministers,
Marshal Soult, Marquises d'Escayrac, de Lauture, and d'Ara-
mon, Generals Baron de Lascours and Jauin.
The Committee, charged with the examination of the Bill
relating to the Paris and Lyons Railroad has determined, by
six votes to three, to recommend to the Chamber to adopt
the line running by the Yonne, the Armanc;on, the Brenne,
and tho Loze, on the ground that it shortens the distance,
between Paris and Dijon, by 32 kilometres. The Council-
General of the Ponts-et-Chaussees had previously adopted
the same line, by a majority of 12 to 4.
The National states :—" The Government is about to con-
ciliate the priesthood by a new concession, it being intended
that the Pantheon is again to be converted to religious pur-
poses, by celebrating in it, on the next anniversary of the
(lays of July, a funeral service in honour of the victims of
that glorious week."
M. 'Tiers has concluded his " History of the Empire," and
was to deliver the manuscript on Tuesday to the publisher,
who is to pay him 500,000£ (20,0000 for the work.
The first year since the opening of the Paris and Rouen
railway having elapsed without any accident occurring
through the fault or neglect of the locomotive branch of the
service, the Company, to testily their general satisfaction, re
solved to give, at the Batignoiles station, a grand feast to all
the engineers and their men. From the necessity of not in-
terrupting the service of the road, this was divided into two
parties, on different days.
The Herald°, of Madrid, states that the Spanish capital
will soon be lighted with gas by the Company which has
erected gas works at Barcelona and Valencia.
A letter from Leipsic, in the Courrier de la Moselle, relates
that at a grand concert and supper, in the evening of Sunday,
the 21st ult. at the Hotel de Boulogne (the casino of Leipsic),
at which about 400 persons were assembled, the inhabitants
of the Rhenish provinces, who are still attached to the French,
called for the" Marseillaise" in honour of their Gallic guests.
Upon this, a number of persons from Berlin who were present
opposed the call by a violent hissing. A row ensued, and
soon became general, and as bottles, plates, chairs, and other
missiles flew in every direction, many serious wounds and
contusions were given and received before the tumult could
be allayed.
The French Ambassador in Switzerland has addressed to
the Vorort a series of questions, relating to the statistics of
the periodical press in that country. lie has requested an
account of the charges laid upon the Swiss journals in the
shape of stamps, postage, duties upon advertisements, &c.,
with the amounts of these imposts, and the number of the
journals and other periodicals published in Switzerland, and
their respective circulation. This inquiry is made, no doubt,
with a view to a due consideration of the proposition made
by M. Chapuys Montlaville, for the abolition of the stamp-
duty on journals in France. The Vorort has transmitted
these inquiries to all Cantonal Governments, desiring them
to return answers.

LAW AND POLICE.
Mr. Andrew Van Sandau, solicitor, appeared before Mr.
Twyford, at Bow-street, to answer the complaint of Thomas
Clarke, a clerk in the service of Messrs. Turner and Hainsman,
solicitors in the Court of Review, for assaulting him. The
complainant stated that on the 13th instant he had occasion
to meet the defendant at the ofice of the Registrar of the Court
of Review, in Chancery-lane, respecting the minutes of a case
in which he was concerned. A discussion arose out of an
order of the Court; the defendant at first applied the terms
" knave and fool" to the complainant, and afterwards struck
and kicked him with much violence. The magistrate in-
flicted a penalty of 51., and ordered the defendant to find bail
to keep the peace for six months.
At Marylebone, Henry IVellby, proprietor and driver of
an omnibus running from Paddington to the Bank, was
summoned before Mr. Long, by Charles Hoppey, Esq., soli-
citor, for unlawfully driving to the danger of passengers.
The evidence went to show that on the 18th ult. com-
plainant and another gentleman named Needham, a special
pleader in the Temple, were on the outside of an omnibus
belonging to the London Conveyance Company, and that in
Oxford-street the defendant crossed the vehicle upon which
they were riding, thereby causing a collision which threw
both the gentlemen into the road. Mr Hoppey was very
severely injured. Defendant was ordered to pay five gui-
neas, the expenses attendant upon surgical assistance for Mr.
Hoppey, in addition to 255, for damage to wearing apparel,
and ss.—a nominal fine for the offence for which he was
summoned. _ •

At Clerkenwell, Caroline King, who was remanded from
Monday last, on a charge of having assaulted and wounded
George King, her husband, of No. 5, Little Warner-street,
Clerkenwell, was again placed at the bar for final examina-
tion, when her husband attended in a weakly condition. The
husband said he did not wish to press the charge. The pri-
soner on being discharged clung to her husband, begged his
forgiveness, and they went away arm in arm in tears, and ap-
parently on affectionate terms.
Edward George Barrington, a native of Bristol, was brought
before Mr. Ballantine, at the Thames police-court, on a charge
of stealing two 101. Bank of England notes, a 5/. note, and
35/. in gold and silver, from the Volunteer public-house, in
Mill-place, Limehouse, the property of Mrs. Ann Blakey, a
widow, and committed for trial.

COURT-PELEMION.A.BLE.
Lady John Russell's assembly, on Wednesday evening, in
Chesham-place, was attended by the Duchess of Sutherland
and the Ladies Leveson Gower, the Duke and Duchess of
Bedford, the Earl and Countess of Morley, Mr. Aysford and
Lady Caroline Sanford, Lady Theresa Lister and the lion.
Mrs. George Lister, the Earl of Minto, LordGlenelg, the Earl
of Auckland and the lion. Misses Emily and Fanny Eden,
the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Mr. Charles and Lady
Georgiana Romily, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Labouchere.
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst received the
Duke and Duchess of Bucelench, Duchess of Beaufort and
Lady Augusta Somerset, his Excellency the French Ambas-
sador and Countess de St. Aulaire, Viscount and Viscountess
Villiers, Earl of Lonsdale, Lord Forester, Lord Lovaine, Sir
Wm. M. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stanley, Mr. Tomline,
Rev. Sydney Smith, and a select party at dinner last even-
ing, at the Noble and Learned Lord's house, in George-street,
Hanover-square. Lady Lyndhurst had a soirée afterwards.
. The Hon. Colonel Douglas Gordon Pennant, M.P., gave a
dinner at Ingestre House, Belgrave-square; on Wednesday
evening, to Lord Saltoun and a select party.
Sir George Palmer, Bart., and family, the Countess of Mel-
ton, Captain Mainwaring, the Count uva, &c. left London
on Sunday last, by the steamer Antwerpen, Captain Jackson
Miss Burdett Coutts, Captain Bristowe, Captain Cotton,
Colonel Hall and family, and the Rev. Mr. Porcher, were
among the passengers that embarked yesterday at the Bruns •
wick Pier, Blackwall, on board the General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's steam-ship, Wilberforce, for Antwerp.
Lord and Lady Northesk have arrived at Brown's Hotel in
Dover-street.

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES).
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 2........... 192 Indian Stock 287 pm.
3 per Cent. fled.. 9Bs Ditto Bonds B4 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons. ........ 99 Ditto Old Annuities
3 per Cent. Bei ........ 101 Ditto New Annuities —
New 3% per Cent. ..... .... 102% Ex.. 81111, 1,0001. INd 69 pm.
New 5 per Cent. •.«•«..... Ditto 5001 — pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6B pm.
Jan. 1860,.„.„.,.,. It 7.16 Bank Stock for Acct 191%
Oct. 1859. .... ..... 12 5.16 Consols for Acct 99%
Jan. 1860............ 12 India Stock for Acct —
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ......... 114 'Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent 103% Ditto New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds ... ..... ....... 80% Prussian, 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent llB-
Chllian, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, q per Cent 35
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, Deferred 13%
Danish, 3 per Cent ....... ..... French, 51er Cent. --f —c
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Exchange ... ........... «.. —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837....... Dutch, 2% per Cent..,,,, 60%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 'Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 92
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s. 4d. paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
..... 77
Ditto Filths, 12 paid 2l'
Harwick(Braithwaite), 2 paid i,
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Dittos Locke, 2)( paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto Quarter Shares (2 paid) 614
London and Blackwall (16/, 13s. 4(11) 7
Londoia and South Western (411.65, 10d. paid) 854
London and Croydon (Trunk) l9 •
Manchester and Birmingham 57
Midland Counties (100 paid) B9
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland (100 paid)
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (33/2s 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid)
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid)
11854
York and Scarborough Branch(2,2 paid) .....

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The very laughable co-
medy, A Cure for the Heartache, was revived last night.
Old Rapid, the enriched tailor, was personated by Farren;
Young Rapid, the son, had Charles Mathews for his repre-
sentative ; Mr. Strickland was Vortex, the nabob ; Mr. Web-
ster appeared in the character of Frank Oatland, Miss Julia
Bennett as Jessie, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold, as Ellen Vortex, and
the character of the more antiquated Miss Vortex was ad -
mirably sustained by Mrs. W. Clifford. Farren was almost
inimitable in some of the scenes, especiall- that wherein his
son receives the challenge from Young Stanley. The con-
tending feelings of the affectionate father with the sense of
what is due to his son as a man, were depicted with genuine
feeling, and elicited loud applause. The character of Young
Rapid is well suited to Charles Mathews, who continued to
keep up the spirit of the scene to its full tone, without
exaggeration. The comedy was received with shouts of
warmth
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laughter and applause, and when
was g
Mr. Farren
to announce its repetition,greeted
came
dwitli a
that testified how much the efforts ho had made were
appreciated.
FIRE AT CHELSEA.—About seven o'clock yesterday
morning a fire broke out in an unfinished house, No. 4, Mark-
ham-square, Chelsea, which, owing to the inflammable nature
of the materials in the building, spread with frightful rapi-
dity. Several workmen were on the premises at the time,
and whilst some were endeavouring to check the progress of
the flames, others were dispatched for the fire-engines. The
local engines arrived first, and after them the Fire Brigade
and County engines. There was an ample supply of water,
amobuuntta theseth nearly were
and by half-past nine o'clock the fire was totally extin-
guished. It was confined to the
premises,
completely gutted. The damage done
30W., the building containing a great quantity of doors, win-
dow-frames,i a anom d
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premises, had insured them in the Guardian-office
some shavings. Messrs. Hunt and Humphrey, the owners
of the
for 200/,

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.—It is a common idea that the
most laconic military dispatch ever issued was that sent by
Cresar to the Horse Guards at Rome, containing the three
memorable words, " Veni, vidi, vici ;" and, perhaps, until
our own day, no like instance of brevity has been found. The
dispatch of Sir Charles Napier, after the capture of Sinde, to
Lord Ellenborough, both for brevity and truth, is, however,
far beyond it. The dispatch consisted of one emphatic word—
" Peccavi " " I have Slade" (sinned).—Punch.
TIIE WEST Ismail MAlL.—Letters and news-
papers will be in time this morning, the 17th instant, for
lkMadeira, the West Indies, Bermuda, and Venezuela, to be
forwarded by the Dee steamer, via Southampton. For Bri-
tish North Americarand the United States, to-morrow even-
ing, the 18th instant, to be forwarded by the Caledonia
steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston. For Sydney,
New South 'Wales, and Port Philip, on the evening of the ,
31st instant, to be forwarded by the Garland Grove, via
Gravesend. For Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, India, Hong-Kong, and China, on the morning of
the Ist of June, vux Southampton, by the overland closed
mail to India, via Marseilles, on the evening of the 4th of
June, if net detained by Government,

MEETING OF THE PITMEN.
(From the Tyne Mercury.)
On Monday, at twelve o'clock, a meeting of the pit-
men recently employed in the collieries of the Tyne,
and a few on the north of the Wear was held on the
Town Moor, in this town. The placard announcing the
meeting intimated that the use of the ground had been
granted by the Mayor (Sir John Fife, Knight), of the
borough. The meeting was numerously attended, there
being not less than from seven to eight thousand men
and women present. The entire proceedings were of
the most peaceful character.
Mr. MARK DENT, having been called to the chair, said
that it was not with him at this meeting as it had been
on former occasions—it excited within his breast plea-
surable emotions in having the honour as acting as
chairman. We are still alive, he said, though it was
predicted that we should have been by this time as a
nonentily as an association ; but we am. now more
powerful than when we first came out. The speaker
then alluded to certain articles which had ap-
peared in the Durham Chronicle, respecting the
pitmen, on which he said, this old hag, this
Will o' th' Wisp, that before long they would
let him know they would catch hold of him, and
punish him for his calumny and falsehood.
IWhen we started in this struggle, we said that we were
determined to be fed, aye, and to be better fed, better
clad, and better educated; we want all the abundance
our labour was destined to create for us. At the com-
mencement of this struggle ne had to contend against
the avarice of the coalowners and the ignorance of the
people. Many of the local press were also opposed to
us, but now their views are changed, and they are with
us. I must now urge you to keep the peace, and give
every speaker a fair hearing.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. JOHN TULIP, from South Hetton, moved the fol-
lowing resolution :
" Resolved—That in the opinion of this meeting, we,
the Miners of Northumberland and Durham, have been
an ill-used cla,s of men, and we hold ourselves justifiable
in ceasing from labour until we obtain an advance of
wages on equitab!e terms."
After reading this he said—Now my friends, many men
have insinuated that our grievances are imaginary. Now,
I ask, was not our time come to resist the oppression of
the masters ? I am thankful that the Miners' Association
exists in England. We have met together to-day to show
that we are an oppressed set of men. We have been in the
school of experience, and there learned wisdom. The
masters laid on the screw, but at length we reared our
heads, and to-day we are free men, to-day we are no
man's servants, and before we return to our employ
ment we are determined to have a better agreement. We
are told to discharge from .our service Mr. Roberts, as
our legal adviser, and all will be well. It would appear
that this gentleman is a mote in their eyes. If they
wish us sincerely to accept their advice, let them destroy
the cause for him, and do unto others as they would
others do unto them. After urging them to keep the
peace, and making other remarks, he concluded by
moving the resolution.
Mr. THOS. PRATT, from Castle Eden, seconded the
resolution. He said that it had never been deemed
that they were an ill used set of men. He said, they
tell us that we have no just ground of complaint,
and that we are a lazy, indolent class of men. He
now declared, and without a blush, that there was
not in the county a more hard-working, industrious
set of men than the pitmen of Northumberland.
Are we not called from our bed in the night, and
required to descend into the bowels- of the earth
and there risk our lives, and run numberless hazards
to earn a paltry pittance for our families? But we
defy their threats; we are possessed of a moral power
which alone is sufficient to carry us through this strug-
gle triumphantly. He said that in Scotland, the men
were receiving 2s. per ton, whilst in Northumberland
they were only asking from ls. 3d. to is. 4d. per ton.
Mr. MITCHELL said that it was an incontrovertible
fact that the peaceful demeanour of the men in this con-
test had gained them the good opinion of numbers of
the middle classes, and spok at considerable length on
the principles of the union, which, in consequence of the
late period at which the meeting was held, prevents our
reporting. He concluded by moving the following reso-
lution:—

Resolved—" That in the opinion of this meeting, we
have, by our joint actions and virtuous deeds, merited a
great share of public opinion, and in order to maintain
our ground, we pledge ourselves to keep the peace."
Passed unanimously.
Mr. GEORGE CHARLTON, from South Shields, pro-
posed the third resolution, which was seconded by
CHRISTOPHER HASWELL, of Seghill :
" Resolved—That in the opinion of this meeting, we,
the miners of Northumberland and Durham, feel abun-
dantly thankful for the help we have realised from our
friends, the shopkeepers and others ; and we do hereby
pledge ourselves to come forward, like honest men, to
liquidate all debts that may be contracted during our
cessation from labour."
At the conclusion of the meeting a Vote of thanks was
unanimously passed to Sir John Fife, the Mayor ; and
also to the Chairman, for his conduct in the chair.