The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-02 00:00:00

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POIREION.
The Ring, the Queen of the French, and other mem-
bers of the Royat Family, came to the Tuileries on
Wednesd2y, but returned' to St. Cloud to dinner.
I)tiring his stay his Majesty presided at a Council of
Ministers.
Oa Tuesday evening their Majesties-received the Eng-
lish Ambassador, the Mexican Minister, the Neapolitan
Peers,
of Embassy, the President of the Chamber of
Peers, Generals Sebastiani, Schneider, and Jacque-
Vice-Admiral Ilalgan, M. Gauthier, Peer of
Prance, the Count de Bundy, and the Prefect of la
Charente-Inferieure.
The journals of the south of France continue to
Publish
•accounts of inundations from the enormous quan7
tity of rain that has fallen. The destruction of pro-
perty, however, is not very great, and it does not appear
that any lives have been lost.
The Congres Vinicole, which met at Bordeaux, has
tclosed its sittings. It llas decided that delegates from
‘`ine-growers shall present to the Chambers a peti-
tj'i)n' stating that, after their third general Congress.
afe perceive with regret that nothing has been done to
th d remedy to their distressed condition ; that of
a e two last years the first vintage was generally bad,
rld the second, though excellent in some places, was un-
fortunate in others ; that their position is, if anything,
aggravated of late, and that they are forced to call on
the Government to examine what their position realises,
and adopt some measures to relieve them.
spe uring the calamity at Cette, on the 22d, says the
diterrunee a man belonging to the port, being near a
beat which had capsized, called out to know if any per-
ns were under it. He received for answer that there
The
six.
" Plunge," said he, "and you shall be saved."
,„!,3eY replied that not one of them could swim. " Never
had tl;repeated the man. Only one of the six
found courage to do so, and he was saved ; the others
1
~, watery grave.
Brussels journal gives an account of two attempts at
suicide, both fortunately prevented, by a girl under ten
agars
age, at a village in Belgium, from grief at being
able to assist in the support of her mother and some
Tictlnger children, who had been left almost destitute by
the death of the father.
Prussia
learn from Copenhagen, Oct. 21, that the King of
teila3rsia had announced his intention of visiting that city
w
ds the end of the month, or the beginning of No
I,_-;‘• Vienna letter of the 24th ult. informs us that Lord
n,!.9; rston had arrived there.
v esti disturbances took place on the 15th amongst the
workmenacie on the Saxon and Silesian Railroad, near
was berg. The troops were called out, and tranquillity
Tile restored by the arrest of 15 of the principal offenders.
cattle of the riot is not stated.

liz"gr
11.77"°LITt•M‘Dermot, one
At the Mansion-house Francis Patric
a thief confederate of
tiliTe c ity policemen., was brought before Sir John
r'? aPon the charge of having been the
no moral
doubt but hat a;
had been guilty of the crime
in robbing gentleman. There was
laid t ,_, the prisoner
ed himself that it
° 'lls char • indeed he admitt
„...y
soffit
dent` ge ,
was scarcsi
all wrong" but as the evidence
to Bride-
George to send before a jury, he was committed
well
' ed the police.
as ogue for a month, and dismiss
srs. Sutton and
Willi Maon clerk to Messr .
Co e • ain •
further examined
, so letters, Basinghal(-street, was further
containing a
lit. Guildhall, charged with stealing letter,aHe was remanded
34, and a quantity of jewellery.
the proceedings
until Tuesda,y. During the course of
to hear there
"34 Chapman Marshall said he was happy ,
respectable
Was no imputation whatever on the prisoner s
retailer.
At Clerkenwell John Clemenson, son of a gentleman
Hertford-
of property, who resided in Wormly
Park,
d become
shire, for deserting his child, whereb it had
sentenced to two
chargeable to Islington parish, was forgeable
imprisonment in the House of Correction.
_ Jo- epli Whitton, who was
charged on his own confes.
aion with having embezzled a considerable sum of money
l
be •
Mar
to Mr. Powell, of Liverpool, was brought up
tlarvlebone, before Mr Long, and discharged, a
letter hs • b received from Mr. Powell (in whose
er aving een
of clerk and travel
establishment he held the situation
intention to prosecute.
ler), stating that it was not his
named
~,,,A schoolmaster, of Brick-lane, Spitalfields,
" illia Bear, appeared before Mr. Bingham at
na
street,e to answer a charge of having cruelly treated one
named Wil.
°.` als pupils, a little boy, nine years of age, named
H divi-
earn
Crowe of police constable of the
, the son a
ly with four canes
s'°ll. He had flogged the boy severe
n and he
tied together. The poor boy's ear was cut ope
Mr.,
Bing-
eras covered with blood. In giving judgmenth defendant
ilatll said he was strongly inclined to sen
s the father of
t 9 the sessions to answer the charge, buta
justice of the
the child was in needy circumstances, the.
ermitting a corn-
ease would, perhaps, best be met
bY
permitting a coin-
reventing the expense of further proceed-
promise, and preventing the expense o
made com-
ins elsewhere. The defendant accordingly
proceed-
Pens
„Ant paupers, for refusing to pickoakum in St. Sa-
s
6)111.'8 workhouse, were committed tor seven days from
It
ilinn•hall.
brig Thomas
tat. Coulson Douglas, the master of the
Thames-office for
"tr, a collier, was fined 41. at the Them .
eradi
d registering the
, , ag the new Act for regulating an s°4-vvhippers in the port of Lontlon.
etlygat
''.---211181Eglic°1v"Nlslt ton is suer
r AA Widmer Castle the Duke of
Wellington
gMarquis o-
q-:V4-t,sts by u. select party of friends.
Mahon, Countess
' - l'uurY, Viscount and Viscountess sc ,
are
Ponlett, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, es •
train
there. Earl Ellenborouh left by the eleven o'clock
for Dover yesterday, tog join the party.
House,
In consequence of the royal visit to Burghley
Lordship has
torn
seat of the Marquis of Exeter,
his
to visitors
directed his splendid mansion to be closed
instant.
fronplSl
16th
onday next, until Saturday, the
has just
His Lordship's eldest son Lord Burghley,
entered St. John's College;Cambridge.,
have
The 'Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne _
been entertaining a succession of visitors at Bowood
131„.a,k, Wilts, The Earl of Auckland and the Hon.
Misses Eden, who have been staying at that hospitable
seat, arrived at Eden Lodge, on Thursday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and the
Youthful Ladies Hamilton are about to leave Areryke
Lodge, Inverness-shire for Baron's Court, near Tyrone,
for the winter.
Earl and Countess Cowper, and Viscount and Vis-
countess Jocelyn, left Pansanger, Herts, on Thursday,
.°, visit Viscount Melbourne, at Brocket Hall, where
Viva and Lady Beauvale are prolonging their sojourns.
a""iscount Jocelyn shortly proceeds to Ireland, to past
Toll
few daYs with the Earl and Countess of Roden, a
y more Park.
psTs.be Earl and Countess of Kinnoul have arriv?d in
th"_,'lss The Noble Earl and Countess purpose remaining
i winter on the Continent; their youthful family are
at frighten.
present Earl of Lonsdale, Postmaster-General, who is atn
tiv'estrat resident at Lowther Castle, Westmorland,ano _
Ben„li„es,(l,as last paid a visit to the Hon. Mr. Petrel
Id
Th ' `sovsard E G toke Castle, Cumber an
e non. , sq., at reys .
castle. Colonel Lowther, ivisis,, still remains at the
The t • 1
' d at Brocklesby
°ll'e 41. or Yarborough has arrive
be, Isle of
Wigt,. Lincolnshire, from Appuldurcom _
1 t letters,
has ,• , ,_Lord and Lady Worsley, by the as
tot-e-eued sa• - they intend to rein' 'r
,ltico Ilan, from thence e
rd '
Gardiner shortly
leave Lute Lady Dinorben and Lady Gar
h the
fine in House, for Kinmel Park, near St. Asap h,
is • -44sien bein ncomplete for their reception. It
situated
g now
splendid hall destroyed
some ~e on the site of the
Lorstt ~ears ago by fire.
face
tar' •and Lady Ashley returned from the manu
mg district T A last, and are about to proceed
to vcss ,s son ues-ay
}iiineas or Castle, on a visit to the Q ,
ueen anhis d Royal
sun s Prince Albert, by royal invitation.
The esnae
Uticzsillawislitrigh
at Camberwell,
wbie„ cration of new churc .
the
f Messrs.
Scot," aas been erected from the designs o .
0 ,nd Moffat, of Spring-gardens, on the site of the
_lle uestroyed by fire in 1841, is expected to take place
un Thursday weekandactive preparations are being
made fur that , he
p earance of the sacred
edifice. both iPnetrPn°sly a d eextpernally, is worthy the
oPulent tied ext el.'
al
- 'nh hose cost it has been
erected. ensive parts at w
, -A, Correspondent suggests the employment of the light
i
!obtained from electricity to illumivate.mines, insteads.
lamps and candles, eh ctrical light being produced with-
in
out bur ;
1-1-eg, that is, independently of air, and consne
in tubes hermetically sealed.
ii non Thursday evening a numerous meeting was held
sv` ntilet -New Hall, Leicester, H. F. Coleman, Esq., of
Briti
—g Hall, in the chair, when the objects of the
sh Anti-State Church Association were advocated
dressed b
by Mr. Miall, of London. The meeting was further ad-
' six Dissenting ministers, and resolutions in
favour of the measures sought by the Association were
unanimously adopted.
Her Majesty's buck-hounds have had three private
Meets during this week, and on each day at the kennel.
An nnt •
Be ried deer was turned out on Wednesday at King's
inecb, which, after doubling about for nearly two hours
that immediate vicinity, was run into and killed on Old
Windsor•
will common. The public meets during the season
be thrice a week.
HWe hear that the mansion and estate of Longford
Caen 11, Derbyshire, the residence of the late Dowager
phi tess of Leicester, has been bequeathed to her lady-
p's second son, the Hon. Edwaid Wentworth Keppel
Coke, of the Scots Fusilier Guards.
Workmen' are busily employed in preparing the Guild-
hall for the Lord Mayor's banquet on Saturday next, the
eth instant. During tho last few days a wooden floor-
-I'g has been laid down, upon which is painted, in imita-
tion of a carpet, the arms of the Lord Mayor elect, the
company to which lie belongs, and those of the City,
the whole surrounded by a neat scroll work. The civic
Pr ion will, it is understood, after leaving Guild-
hall,
all, Proceed through King-street, Cheapside, Mansion-
street, King William-street, to London-bridge,
Mansion-
where the Lord Mayor, &c., will take water, returning
by the usual route, up Brige-street, Blackeriars, Lud-
gate-hill, St. Paul's, Cheapside, to Guildhall.

• IlEltnlNGs.—So great was the glut of fresh her-
rings which were landed at Billingsgate from the smacks
throuohout Friday that they were selling in Clare-mar-
at 3id• per dozen, and were cried throughout the
'various streets of the metropolis, being perfectly fresh
i
plchards, a fish Very threepence arRl in full season, per dozen, whilst fresh
very rarely seen in the London mar-
kets, were selling at the rate of three halfpence per
dozen ; and flounders were offered at the exceeding low
puce of one penny per score.