The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vitttatt Optition.

" Who runs may read."

PORZIGN.

The Count of Paris enter on Saturday on his seventh
year, having been born on August 24, 1838. Conse'
quently, according to the terms of the Regency Bill;
in twelve years, on the same day, he will have attained
his majority.
Count Duchatel has returned to Paris, and resumed
his functions as Minister of the Interior.
Orders are said to have been given at the Ministry of
War to prepare the apartments of Marshal Soult, whose
return is expected in a few days.
Intelligence has been received of the demise of the
youthful Archduke Rainer of Tuscany, third son of bill
Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, which
event took place on the 14th instant, at the Villa Cato
giole, at Florence.
The King of Prussia arrived at Erdmannsdorf in per'
feet health in the evening of the 17th inst.
The King of Bavaria arrived at Berchtesgaden, on his
return from Italy, on the 18th inst. In addition to the
Crown Prince of Bavaria, Prince Luitpold and Prince
Charles of Bavaria, and the Electoral Prince of Ileoe,
have r( paired to Berchtesgaden to welcome his M 5.
jesty. The Dowager Empress of Austria is also el'
petted.
His 11,,yal Highness the Prince of Orange and bit;
Royal Consort Princess Sophia of Wurtemberg, travel-
ling under the name of Count and Countess V. Buren,
have arrived at Rome, via Civita Vecchia. Prince Ns'
poleon Montfort accompanies the royal party.
The Prince of Solms, who is on a tour in the Um
States, intends proceeding to Galveston, and from then'
to Texas. The Prince is accompanied in his travels bI
several engineers and other scientific men.
The improvements made in the river and canal 136
l'Ourcq have just been completed, both as regards the
navigation and the supply of water to Paris, which is
now increased from 4,000 to 5,000 inches (one milli°
hectolitres, or twenty-two millions of English gallons);
every twenty-four hours. These improvements have c'os
986,000 f.
The Montezuma steam-frigate left Brest on the 2164
for Tunis, with orders, says the Toulonnais, for the
Inflexible, ship of the line, to join the squadron of the
Prince de Joinville. The Montezuma is also to be at-
tached to that force.
A Toulon letter of the 20th says, " To-morrow the
Egerie corvette, and the Perdrix transport, will sail for
Mogadore with powder and ball fur the Prince de Join-
ville. The hospital steamers Mgteor and Griegois Wlll
leave at the same time for Algiers."
A letter from Coblcntz of the 22d contains the
lowing paragraph:—Yesterday two French couriers
passed through here in great haste towards Ems, With
dispatches for the French Minister; and the (lay before
his Excellency also received three French couriers from
Paris. Lord Palmerston arrived two days ago at Ems'
Yesterday he visited our city, and stopped at the Trn"
yellers' Hotel. In the evening he returned to Ems. la
a few days he intends to pay a visit at Herrnsheim, near,
Worms, where several persons of distinction, belonging
to the Whig party, will meet him.
A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, state;
that the publication of the " Juif Errant " has cause',
several journals, in which it had been given, to be seize°,
The Austrian police, to clear Vienna of the crowd Ti
vagabonds and thieves which infested it, has just arrested
400 of them together, and has had them taken nif

once to the galleys at Venice and Trieste.
We learn, by a Berlin letter of the 18th instant, tho
the Deputies of the States of the circle of Nimptick,?
which is Klein Kreignitz, the native place of Teach, We.,°
attempted to assassinate the King of Prussia, have el;
dered the parsonage house of the town in which Teg,
was born, his father being minister, to be demolishee
and rebuilt.
A letter from Munich, of the 19th, states, that in feu;
sequence of the almost incessant rains, the Iser river ht
risen to an extraordinary height. An immense quantity
of snow had fallen on the mountains, and the cold there
was intense. Accounts from Carlsruhe of the 20th state
that the Rhine had overflowed its banks, washed el
several warehouses, and cut off all communication with
Rhenish Bavaria, except by boats.
The Portafoglio of Malta, of the 16th says :—"The
two Dutch frigates Rhine and Japan, commanded Ili
Prince Henry of the Netherlands, arrived here on w.e
13th, from Tunis, and are, we understand, on their '0;!„;
to the Levant. From them we learn that the four ships
of the line, Ocean, Marengo, Neptune, and Jupiter'
under Admiral Parceval Deschenes, are before Tuels.
Their object in being sent there is said to be the eDs
forcement of a fixed frontier boundary between sb
Regency and Algeria."
A letter from Berlin states, that a courier arrived oli
the 18th at the Russiau Embassy, with the news that
the Emperor intended shortly to accompany the Foe.
press to that city. Her Imperial Highness, it was 15
ported, would make a pretty long stay at the Court
Prussia.
The Angsburgh Gazette contains a letter from Steci‘;
holm of the 6th, which says—" A few days back th
Marshal of the Diet, the Archbishop, and the two Pre•
sidents of the order of the Burgesses and the Peasantl
were summoned to attend the King. His Majesty declare
to them that, having learned that several members dal:
two orders intended proposing to reimburse to him the surn"
of money which the late Kin, had expended for the SW!,
out of the privy purse, be wished them not to again brinb
forward any proposition on a subject which had alreadf
met with such violent opposition in the last session.
LAW AND POLICZ.
The business of the present session at the Cell •tt
Criminal Court concluded yesterday. The Judges
the Old Court were occupied the greater part of the
da
in trying cases of felonious assault, the details of whint
are unfit for publication. In the New Court judgtne"
was respited upon Henry Burton, convicted of 010
slaughter, and also upon W. A. Postlethwaite,
pleaded to a charge of felonious assault.
Henry Stephenson, who pleaded guilty to a charge 00
throwing a stone on the South-Western Railway, the
discharged on entering into recognizances ; but
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Common Sergeant remarked that the offence was sr;
serious one, inasmuch as the lives of thousands of atiel
subjects of the Crown were put in jeopardy by
it must be distinctly understood that the utmost pen so
of the law would de enforced against all persons found
offending in future. fear
J. Lovell, J. Bull, G. Williams, and G. Phillips' for
labouring men, indicted for stealing three sacks, the
bushels of oats, and three ditto of beans, value 30s.e,
property of J. Stanly, were convicted, and sentenced
'
Mr. Commissioner Bullock to six months' hard labour's
Frederick Thomas Scott, a respectable tradesol,l
was indicted for feloniously running against Soiel, 1104-
John Read, on the 15th of July last, and causing o'f,;11
mortal ruptures and fractures, whereof he lingered se
the following day, when he died. This is the etia,
of the man who was run over in the Blackfriars-reed,
and killed—it was said through the culpable negligee,.
of the prisoner. The evidence, however, was cont';‘,
dictory, many persons who witnessed the oceurreePthe
declaring it originated entirely in the stupidity 0' %,
deceased, and exonerating the prisoner from all blee::.,%
The jury acquitted him. Mr. Clarkson, the prisone'to
counsel, stated that the prisoner had been very kind
deceased's widow, and would continue to be so. .41
John Bridgen, convicted of feloniously killing ot,
slaying Ann Jones, at Stepney, on the 9th of JulPit,g
by forcibly and furiously knocking down and drif
over her in a cart, thereby inflicting divers inejech
bruises and contusions whereby she then and there
was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. John
A letter from Mr. Sheriff, owner of the ship the
Campbell, was read at the Mansion-house, denying the
statements made by Laidlow, on Saturday, as
conduct of the captain of that ship, and accusing -1'
low of mutiny. The ship has not yet arrived.
At Guildhall, yesterday, William Francis Johrts°,lll4.ll,
jobbing master butcher, was brought before Mr. Awc-o,
man Brown, charged with obtaining, by false pretelllo
from Mr. Hill, a salesman in Newgate-market, a cue'
for 5Fr2l. He was remanded.
Francis Hallett was held to bail at Bow-street, nn t:
charge of insulting Mrs. Elizabeth Buller in the stave'
and assaulting her husband and his friend, who e-n s to
voured to protect her. The prisoner called evidence
rebut the charge. gas
A begging-letter impostor, named Ann Purchae,
committed from Clerkenwell for three months. 0
At Queen-square, yesterday, James Roche, Thy,
M`Cabe, and Thomas Burn, three powerful roffi,
looking fellows, were placed at the bar charged tole
attempting to defraud and rob a number of reePeco so
tradesmen at Chelsea and Pimlico. Their plan loot
go into a shop and ask for change, to dispute the
received, create a disturbance, and rob the Pre'.
They were remanded until Friday. v Was
John Sprole, the butler of Mr. Mackinnon, M.`"
committed from Marleybone for robbing his nlastecrwith
At Worship-street, Maria Clifford was charge_ Aide
endeavouring to induce two young girls to embraces ell
of prostitution. The prisoner and the girls
....rweioppl
inmates of the Institution for the Reform of tin coy
Females, and she had endeavoured to induce her sheet
panions to leave the Institution, and had given was
letters to a procurers at the West•end. As there
_d,
no evidence of agency, the prisoner was dischargeboor
Mr. Jeremy committed Martha Appleten, late Dieclv
maid to James Brain, Esq., No. 7, Egertoo-rolie birth
heath-road, for trial, on a charge of concealing iota.
of her infant child, by dropping it in her master '
closet.

High el:Is:1 e£, 070 r
It is said thatcyi taativcecrsyt
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sciirlccl3e,
Royal
lligarige
noured with
COURM—P.S.SIZIONA,BZS. bv
Prince of Prussia upon his arrival at Windsor
Saturday next. The Earl of Aberdeen and severalsot;
of the Cabinet Ministers, Count Nesselrode hic.tiests
cellency Baron Brunnow, &c., will be among'the guests
her Majesty on the occason. hoar
Lord Wharncliffe and party have sailed from Soot- 0 s
ton in his Lordshi's cutter acht, the Romulus, ° of
cruise in the Channel, prior to his L rdship laying
o .
his vessel for the season. »sae'
Baron de Talleyrand,
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attache to the French Vai- and
left Manchester House yesteay, on a visit to Lord Bern,
to
Lady Barrington, at Becket House, Shrivenha,
who are entertaining a select circle at that seat. Au.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Ladifdrai
gusta Somerset left town this morning for 13, to
ton, where the Prince of Prussia. is, expeetTh,
honour the Nobe uke with his company to-morre„.
The Duke of l
NorthumbeD land still remains contgi;
to his room at Sion House by an attack of ghe ill_ t;. Defit
Grace is expected to visit Leamington, for t n the
orth tor
of the waters, prior to proceeding to the N
season. aught"
The Duke and Duchess of Agyll have left Conn. _ie
Ardle°"'
terrace to-day for Edinburgh, en route for
will
_, •
Castle, North Britain, where their GrAtes F.L7cI/
few days, proceeding thence to Inverary Castle^ ''"