The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The weather at Paris still continues very severe. At six in the
morning of Tuesday the thermometer stood at 19 deg. (13 below
freezing), and at noon rose only to 25.
The Duke de Nemours, the Prince and Princess de Joinville,
the Duke de Montpensier, and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe.
Coburg, honoured the Theatre Francais on Monday night with
their presence to witness the representation of Moliere's Tartuffe.
The general debate on the address in the Chamber of Deputies
was brought to a close on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the discus.
sion on each paragraph commenced. M. Bethmont, one of the mino-
rity in the Address Committee, has presented to the Chamber the
following amendment, to be introduced into the last paragraph of
the address :—" The rights of your dynasty are founded on the
imperishable principle of the national sovereignty."
M. de Labaume has been elected Deputy for the Gard by the
Electoral College of Uzes, in the room of M. Teste, raised to the
Peerage M. de Labaume, who is a Legitimatist, had 246 votes out
of 460 ; thus defeating N. Teste, jun., the Ministerial candidate.
The price of bread in Paris, for the second fortnight in January,
has been fixed at 38c. per kilogramme for the first quality.
A melancholy event occurred in the basin of the canal at La
Vilette, on Sunday night. A bargeman named Behnaire, was
sleeping in his barge laden with stone, with his wife and five chil-
dren, when suddenly, from some unknown cause, the barge began to
fill, and before Deli:nail.° could extricate his family all six were
drowned. He made his own escape with difficulty.
Major-General Wautier died at Clermont on the 14th inst., in
the 87th year of his age. He served in all the campaigns of the
Revolution and Empire, and was Colonel of the 84th Regiment of
the Line, which had inscribed on its colours this glorious device—
" Ten against one."
The Austrian Observer publishes a letter dated Athens, the 26th
ult., announcing that the reply of King Otho to the address of the
National Assembly had excited such general applause, that the
entire Assembly wished to proceed to the Palace to thank his Ma-
jesty. Perfect tranquillity prevailed throughout Greece.
LAW AND POLICE.

In the case of Dickens v. Berger, before Vice-Chancellor Bruce
on Thursday, a motion was made to dissolve the injunction granted
on the 11 th instant, restraining the defendant from copying or
imitating, in the work published by him, called Parley's
noted Magazine, any partici( the work recently published by Mr.
Dickens, under the title of A Christmas Carol in Prose. The mo-
tion was refused.

In the Bail Court Mr. Planch4 brought an action against Mr.
Hooper, the proprietor of the Bath theatre, for representing a piece
called The White Cat, of which the plaintiff was the author, with-
out his permission, and in opposition to the statute. The jury re.
turned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 141., costs 40s.
Wheatley, the beadle of Ealing parish, brought an action against
Captain Wilde, R.N., for an attack made upon him by one of the
defendant's dogs, and obtained 10/. damages.
A motion was made at the Middlesex sessions for increasing
the salary of Mr. Wakefield, the medical officer of the House of
Correction and New Prison, from 4001. to 5001. a year, which
was lost by a majerity of six.
At Clerkenwell Joseph Headford, agcd 18, apprentice to Messrs.
Mortimer and Hunt, silversmiths, of No. 24, Harrison.street,
Gray's Inn-road, was finally examined, charged with stealing 3oz.
of silver. The prisoner, whe reserved his defence, was fully com.
mitted for trial.

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John Davis, alias James Blythe, and Henry Robertson, charged
at Worship-street with a burglary on the premises of Mr. Edwin
Leaf, 47, Wood-street, Cheapside, and George Hist, charged with
receiving part of the property, knowing it to have been stolen, were
committed for trial.

C OUR.T —FAB II X 0N.11.13X.E.
Lord and Lady John Russell are expected to arrive in Chesham-
place on Friday next for the season, from a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon at the Grove, near Watford, where they
have arrived from the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn Abbey, and
Earl Spencer's at Althorp Park.
The contemplated matrimonial alliance between Lord Aberdour,
the eldest son of the Earl of Morton, one of her Majesty's Lords in
Waiting, and Miss Watson, is expected to be solemnised at the
close of the ensuing week.
The answer to inquiries yesterday at Sir Francis Burdett's
mansion in St. James's-place, was, that the venerable Baronet con.
tinued indisposed with a severe cold.
Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart., left Hooton Park on Wed.
nesday for Newnham Paddocks, Leicestershire, for the hunting of
Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, having left the Hooton
hunting under the management of Mr. Charles Stanley, during the
time he is in Leicestershire.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The annual meeting of the members and friends of the London
Vaccine Institution took place on Thursday at the George and
Vulture, Cornhill.
The applications to Parliament in the next session for Railway
Acts will be more numerous than in any previous year since 1835.
These applications relate to lines extending six hundred miles in
length ; and so confident are the projectors of obtaining their Bills,
that they have been eager to make contracts, even before the Bills
are passed, and many of such contracts have been entered into for
the formation of railways, at an expense, including stations, of
10,0001. per mile.
The Earl of Stradbroke (says the Bury Post) will be the new
Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, in the room of the Duke of Grafton.
It was currently reported in Dublin on Wednesday, that the
Court of Queen's Bench would prohibit the publication of the
evidence to be given on the State trials till all the witnesses had
been examined.

A bill in Chancery has been filed, within a few weeks, by cer.
tain ex-Directors of a Joint-stcck Company, and which will re-
quire an answer of about 2,000 folios, and ten or twelve reams of
paper in its preparation. It has been mentioned that filing this bill
and its answer will alone cost about 7001.

The annual ball, in aid of the Licensed Victuallers' School, took
place last night at the London Tavern. The Advertiser thus
winds up the description of the scene :—" At twelve o'clock one
thousand tickets had been received. At the witching hour the
pleasures of the dance appeared to be at their height, a remark, in.
deed, equally applicable at two this morning. The Stewards, with
excellent tact, met everything like inconvenience arising from such
an assembly, Bathe and Breach, the proprietors of the tavern,
made their domestics absolutely 8y; refreshments were plentiful
and of ready access, as, indeed, is always the case at the London
Tavern."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

WARNING TO GRAND JURYMEN.—The names of the Middlesex
Grand Jurymen were called over this morning ; only nine answered
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EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.)
()Wore Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
SIR FELIX BOOTH r. SMITH.

This was an action to recover the sum of 991. 12s. 6d., the
amount of two puncheons of gin supplied by y the plaintiff, the noted
distiller, to the defendant, an:innkeeper, in Yorkshire. The defendant
in his plea states that he has paid the amount claimed, with the ex.
ception of 101. 17s. 6d., which he had paid into Court.
Mr. Montague Smith and Mr. Martin appeared for the plaintiff,
and Sir John Bailey for the defendant.

The following witnesses were examined :
James Valentine examined—l am a clerk in Sir Felix Booth's
distillery. It is my business to see that all orders are executed.
The puncheons supplied to Mr. Smith wre invoiced by me to him.
It is customary to send invoices with all goods. The entry in the
memorandum book detailing the orders of Mr. Smith is in my hand.
writing.
George Beard examined—Is a carman, occasionally employed by
Sir Felix Booth. I took the puncheons to. 11Iessrs. Davis' wharf,
where they were booked.
William Sharman, wharfinger, examined—Recollects the re.
ceipt, at different times, of the puncheons of spirits, directed to
" J. Smith, Corby, Moorside, Yorkshire," which were shipped to
him from Davis' wharf.
James Nash, managing clerk in Sir Felix Booth's distillery, exa-
mined—The orders of the defendant were generally given through
a Mr. Priestley, Sir Felix Booth's agent in Yorkshire. It is cus.
tomary to send in invoices of the balances of accounts owing by
customers in June and December.—Verdict for the plaintiff, da-
mages, 991. 12s. 6d.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET,-(THIS DAY.)
Two paupers, named Thomas Lady and John Cooper, were
Mr. Corder, one of the relieving officers, said they had been
compelled to bring the prisoners to this Court, as there had been
bsrtoraungdhtun up,
nio. charged with refusing to work at the workhouse of the
several most determined attempts at insubordination in the work-
house. The prisoner Cooper had only been out of prison for
about five days, after having suffered three months' imprisonment
foi assaulting one of the officers of the establishment. Last night
both prisoners declared they would not work any longer, and it was
at last found necessary to give them into custody.
The prisoners in their defence entered into a long statement
against the diet of the workhouse, saying that they very much
preferred the prison diet to that of the workhouse. They stated
that their shirts and stockings were not changed for five and six
weeks together ; and such was the filthy state in which many of the
inmates were, that the vermin could be seen to crawl over them.
Mr. JARDINE said he himself knew this to be false, and he did
not believe the other statement.

Mr. Corder said nothing could be more untrue. He only wished
the magistrate would some day go unexpectedly over the house.
Mr. JARDINE said he had been, and he was perfectly satisfied
with the arrangements. He should convict the prisoners, and
sentence them to 21 days' imprisonment.
Cooper—Oh, make it three months.