The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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On Thursday afternoon the King of the French, accom-
panied by Colonel de Chabannes, the Count de Strada, and
two orderly officers, visited Versailles, but returned to
Neuilly to dinner. In the evening their Majesties received
the British Ambassador, the Ministers of Prussia, Saxony,
Tuscany, and Texas; the President, Vice-Presidents, and
Secretaries of the Chamber of Depaties ; Marshal Wee,
Rear-Admiral Quernel, Generals Ayinard, Hecquet, and Ber-
nelle, the Prefects of the Seine and Seine-et-Oise, Counts
Portalis and Latournelle, and M. Boissy d'Anglas.
The Revue de Paris says that the visit of Louis Philippe
to England is definitively fixed for the end of September. It
adds that Queen Victoria will not receive his Majesty in the
Isle of Wight, as it was originally intended, but at Windsor
Castle.
The departure of the Duke de Nemours for Metz is fixed
for the 21st.
A Vienna letter of the 12th infortns us that her al
Highness the Princess Clementine of France and her husband
were to arrive there on the' following day, The Faßch
Ambassador had proceeded to Slerkereau to meet their IM-al
Highnesses, and accompany them to the capital.
Marshal Soult has addressed a circular to all the sotiers
whose service commenced in 1843, but who had not yet been
called upon to serve, to join the regiments to which they are
appointed without delay.
The Mongibello steamer, which arrived at Marseilles on the
16th, brings accounts from. Naples of the 10th. The Cala-
`)rian insurgents are to be brought before a military tribunal
at Cocenza. Besides the insurgents who embarked at Corfu,
a great number of the natives of Calabria are among the
prisoners. There is no doubt that the brothers Bandeira and
Mori are among the number.
A Frankfort journal publishes an account of the population
of Prussia, from which it appears that, in Prussia Proper, and
all the states under the Prussian Crown, the number of inha-
bitants was, in 1840, 14,934,340. This number, however,
must have increased considerably since 1840, for, after Eng-
land and Ireland, Prussia is, we believe, the state of Europe
in which the population increases most rapidly.
From returns lately received by the Minister of the Marine
and Colonies, relative to the slaves enfranchised in the French
islands and settlements, it appears that the number, from Ist
January to 31st December inclusively, amounted in the gross
to 1,449, viz. :—in Martinique, 787 ; Guadeloupe, 352 ;
French Guiana, 63 ; Bourbon, 247. The total number of en-
franchisements in the four colonies, from 1830 to 1843 in-
clusively, is 42,059.
The Universal German Gazette states that 24 persons lost
their lives in the riots at Prague on the 19th.
The comet discovered a few days ago by M. Victor Matt-
vais, of the Paris Observatory, was seen also at Berlin, for
the first time, on the night of the 9th. The Berlin astrono-
mers state that its circular nebulosity is of a remarkable
diameter.

COITAT-FASEEZONABLE.
The Duchess of Gloucester does not pass the autumn at
her residence at Bagshot this year, having given up that
mansion to her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia. The
King of Hanover's Palace at Kew will be occupied by the
Royal Duchess and her household, and it is thought her Royal
Highness will pass the winter at Gloucester House.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge intend to prolong
their residence in town until the second week in the ensuing
month, when their Royal Highnesses go to Cambridge Cot-
tage, at Kew. We have reason to believe that the visit of
the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz is to be of considerable duration ; it is said, indeed,
that those illustrious personages do noecontemplate quitting
this country for Germany beforaftinuAy next.
Mr. George Byng, entertained at dinner on Satur-
day, at his mansion in St. James's-square, the Duke and
Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Mary Howard, the Marqnis
and Marchioness of Westminster Viscount Melbourne, the
Earl and Countess of Gainsborough, Lord and Lady Marcus
Hill, the Earl of Auckland and the Hon. Miss Eden, Mr.
Paget, &c.
Lally Emily Hardinge and family have left Whitehall-
gardens for West Park, near Tunbridge Wells. It is not as
yet determined what period of the autumn her Ladyship
and family will depart for India, although September has
beeu named.

The' Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and family left Nor-
folk House yesterday morning, for Cadlands, near Southamp-
ton, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond. After
remaining a few days at that beautiful seat, the Noble Duke
and Duchess will proceed to Arundel Castle, where they pro-
pose to entertain a large party during the approaching Good-
wood race week.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and family have
lso-
journing Grosvenor-square
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House,
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The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Elizabeth Leveson
Gower have returned to Stafford House, from a visit to the
venerable Archbishop of York, at Nunehain Park, Oxford.
shire. The Duke of Sutherland and the youthful Marquis of
Stafford have been passing some days at Leamington Spa, for
the improvement of his Grace's health.
The Marquis and Maichioness of Anglesey and Lady Ade-
laide Paget, intend to leave Uxbridge House early in the
ensuing week for Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight. His Lord-
ship's yacht, the Pearl, will go round from the river to meet
his Lordship.
The Marquis of Salisbury has left town for the season, and
is at present at Hatfield House, Herts,wandev Blanche
reiscounßt
all.Croanur-
bourne, Mr. J. 1L Balfour, M.P., and Lady
are staying. The Noble Marquiszoes to Scotland shortly, to
fish and shoot in the Highlands.
Lord and Lady Beauvale took their departure on Friday
evening for Dover, on their way to the Continent; the Noble
Lord being advised to repair to the German spas for the be-
nefit of his health, having of late suffered severely from gout.
The Countess of Wilton, accompanied by her daughter, the
Lady Elizabeth Egerton, returned to town from Heaton
House, Lancashire, on Saturday. Her Ladyship will give a
grand concert to-morrow evening at the family mansion in
Grosvenor-square, subsequent to the Noble Earl's dinner party
on the same day.

MIS C EXALANMO ITS.
On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone vestry, a
discussion took place upon the subject of the recent proceed-
ings of the Poor-law Commissioners, who have, it appears,
by their last report; determined to take the parish of Mary-
lebone under their management and protection. An import-
ant clause had been added to the new Bill now in Parlia-
ment, which was, that no parish could be controlled by the
Poor-law Commissioners, without the consent of two-thirds
of the guardians. Mr. Harbert said the vestry, in whom the
election of the guardians was vested, must not fail to apply
as a test to every candidate whether they would pledge
themselves to oppose the Poor-law Commissioners. Mr.
denounced the course pursued by
language,
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might the entry of the Commis-
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The sum of 19,000/. is required, supplementary to Vote 5
of the Ordnance estimates, for 1844-45, to be thus expended :
—For repairing
g the damages at the Royal gunpowder manu-
factory Abbey, caused by the explosion, 10,0004
For the
hereacpt Walthamoaniversion of buildings to be reserved solely for the
reception of soldiers convicted of military offences, 9,0001.
The subscription for the great clock bell for York Minster
now amounts to 1,850/., being only 1504 below the estimated
cost-2,0001.
We understand that the Committee of the Horticultural
Society have it in contemplation to hold a fourth fete in the
course of the ensuing week. The Duke of Devonshire has
been applied to on the subject of allowing the grounds of his
beautiful villa at Chiswick to be thrown open to the public as
on the last fete day, and. from his Grace's well-known liberality
and interest in the Society over which he presides, there is no
doubt that the permission sought will be granted.
The accounts in the provincial papers just received of the
weather and crops are highly satisfactory.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—amongst the distin-
guished personages present at her Majesty's Theatre on Sa-
turday night were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
their Serene Highnesses the Grand Duke and Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, accompanied by the Princess of
Baden and Marquis of Douglas, and attended by Baron
Knesebeck. The Countess Brownlow and party occupied
the Queen Dowager's box. The Dukes of Wellington, Beau-
fort, and Leinster; the Duchesses of Somerset and Leinster;
the Marquises of Ailesbury, Douro, Norinanby, Clanricarde,
Granby, and Huntly ; the Marchionesses of Ailesbury and
Douro ; the Earls of Pembroke, Liverpool, Lonsdale, Wilton,
Kenmare, Cardigan, Glengall, Beet; the Countesses of
Kenmare, Glengall, Cardigan, Essex ; Baron Nieuman, Baron
and Baroness Rothschild, Baron and Baroness de Lagos;
Lords Adolphus Fitzclarence, E. Bruce, Sandys, Elphinstone,
Ranelagh ; Ladies Augusta Somerset, De Dunstanville,
Langhain, Alford, Aylmer, Baker, Flowers, Pynn, Foulis,
Joddrell, Durham ; Sirs H. Webb, Charles Kent, Philip
Durham, Frederick Trench, Thomas Hare the Hon. Mrs.
Tollemache, Mrs. Wyndham, George Fitzroy; Messrs. H.
Baring, James Grattan, Capt. Daniels, Mrs. Montefiore, Mrs.
Col. Fitch, Mrs. 11. Bainbridge, &c.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave town
to-day for Broadlands, their seat near Romsey, Hants,
where they intend to receive a succession of visitors during
the Royal Agricultural Society's show at Southampton. At
the close of that national exhibition the Noble Viscount and
Viscountess return to town for a few weeks, till the termina-
tion of the Parliamentary session, when they depart on a tour
in Germany. We hear the absence of the Noble Viscount
and Viscountess abroad will not exceed four months.
Viscount Morpeth and Lady Mary Howard have
left town for Castle Howard, the seat of the Earl and Countess
of Carlisle. At the close of the month the Noble Viscount
goes to Trentham, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Su-
therland, at the marriage of the Marquis of Lorne and Lady
Elizabeth Leveson Gower, when a numerous family circle,
including the Duke of Devonshire, Duke and Duchess of
Argyll and Lady Emma Campbell, Lady Dover, Viscount
Clifden, Lord and Lady Blantyre, &c., will assemble for the
wedding festivities.
THE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS BILL.—The main
features of the arrangement between the Government and
the railway deputation in reference to the Railways Bill are
briefly as follow :—The revision of the tolls of such railways
hereafter to be constructed as may return a larger interest
than ten per cent, per annum is not to take place until the
lapse of twenty-one years from the passing of the Bills
under which the respective companies may be incorporated,
and not at the end of fifteen years, as originally fixed. A
further
second revision can be effected. The Act is not to apply in
period of twenty-one years must elapse before a
any way to existing companies, except in reference to third-
class
passengers, for whose accommodation the companies
agree to run one train daily, at fares not exceeding a penny
a mile, the Government binding itself wholly to exempt from
taxation the receipts accruing from such cheap trains.
THE CASE OF RICHARD DADD.—It will be in the
recollection of our readers that this unfortunate young man,
who, some months since, in a fit of insanity, murdered his
father near Gravesend, and escaped to France, was appre-
hended in that country on a charge of injuring a person with
whom be travelled in a diligence. For that offence he was,
by the French authorities, committed to custody for a cer-
tain period; and that period having now expired, Mr. May,
of the K division, has been, by Sir J. Graham, dispatched to
claim his person, and to bring him over to this country. We
understand that he will, on his arrival, be brought to trial,
pro forma, for the murder, with a view to his being confined
in a lunatic asylum.—Bekanaia.
THE FRUIT SEASON.—The London markets have
not for many seasons past been so extensively supplied as at
the present with every description of soft fruit. Notwith-
standing the profuse crops of currants, particularly in Kent
and Essex, there was last week imported by one dealer in
Spitaltields-market 1,024 baskets of this fruit, and 170 by
one in Covent-garden, all from Rotterdam. There was also
a
an importation of 58 baskets of plums from Havre, which
by about a week the English supply, which is
likely to prove very abundant. The supply of gooseberries
has been so large that they have been scarcely worth the
trouble of gathering; and in some parts of Kent cherries on
the trees have been offered under one halfpenny per lb. Ap-
ples and pears have come in of good quality, and there is
every prospect of a plentiful geom.