The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-13 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

POREIGN.

On Tuesday afternoon the King of the French, accompanied
by General de Rumiguy, M. Fontaine, and two orderly
officers, visited St. Cloud, and walked for some time in the
park. Ilis Majesty returned to the Tuileries to dinner. In
the evening their Majesties received the English Ambassador
and Lady Cowley, the Neapolitan Ambassador and the
Duchess de Serra Capriola, the Portuguese Minister, the
Prince de Wallerstein, Lord Brougham, and many other per
sons of distinction.

It is said that the mediation of Great Britain has been ac-
cepted for the settlement of the difference, between the King
of Sardinia and the Bey of Tunis.
Accounts from Berlin of the 3d state, that the Prussian
Government contemplates a treaty of commerce with Por-
tugal. The treaty with the United States will, it is sup-
into operation in July. It is drawn up in
English and German, and not in French, as has hitherto becu
the case with treaties.

We learn from Cologne that the desire to invest capital in
the German railroads is so great that the applications for
shares of the intended road from Cologne to Crefeld, for which
'only 2,400,000 Prussian crowns were required, amounted to
52,908,000 crowns; and for the road from Bonn to Coblentz,
for which three millions and a half were wanted, the applica-
tions amounted to eighteen millions.
The Municipal Council of Rheims voted, on the Bth inst.,
a credit of 1,500,000 f., to guarantee a minimum of interest
of 3 per cent. to a capital of 5,000,0001., which was to be sub-
scribed in that town by the Company of the Strasburgh Rail-
road, passing through the valley of the AiSne, Soissons,
Rheims, St. Menehould, Metz, &c.
At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Lyons, on
the sth inst., to take into consideration the Bill for the rail-
road between Paris and Chalon, and the interests therein of
Lyons in particular, it came to a resolution to petition the
Chamber that the road should be continued to Lyons, either
by the State or by Companies, and than the two bills should
be both presented and passed this session.
The Municipal Council of Metz has come to a resolution
that it will grant an annual sum of 40,0001., as a guarantee
for the payment of the interest on the capital to be embarked
in the proposed railroad between Metz and Sarrebruck.
The Lyons journals of Wednesday inform us that there
has been no fresh disturbance at Rive-de-Gier, but that the
miners who have turned out have not yet returned to their,
work, although they have been offered their former wages.
They demand that a tariff shall be drawn up, and signed by
the owners of the mines.
LAW AND POLICE.

At Guildhall, Julia Regent, aged 17, a girl of the wandering
mendicant class, was charged with wilfully breaking a pane
of glass, value 71. 55., in the shop-window at Mr. Boyle's, a
jeweller, No: 28, Cheapside, abour eight o'clock the preceding
evening. Sir Peter Laurie asked the prisoner why she did
it? She replied she wanted to go to prison. Sir Peter Laurie
,aid he would give her the full term of punishment, and com-
mitted her to hard labour for two months.

A slight-made, delicate-looking woman, named Jane
Thorpe, alias Hindle, apparently about 24 years of age, was
,iharged before Mr. Bingham, at Worship-street, with being
implicated in numerous robberies in dwelling-houses, com-
mitted by a man named William Hindle, an engineer, who
is now in custody on those charges. After hearing the evi-
lence of the policeman who arrested her, the magistrate
ordered her to be remanded, and brought up again on Mon-
day for re-examination with the other prisoner
Edward Proctor, who had been apprehended some days
since at an early hour in the morning in the same bed with
his mother, by Sergeant Teackle, of the H divisiott,,of police,,
on a charge of being concerned with his brothers "and two
other persOns in an extensive system of fraud and plunder,
was brought before Mr. Norton, at Lambeth-street, for final
examination. The other members of thegang had previously
been finally examined, and stood committed for trial. There
are altogether upwards of thirty cues -against the prisoners,
and the property which they obtained amounted to 700/. or
300/. Sergeant Teackle said that in all his experience he
mid never had such difficulty in bringing forward witnesses.
Mr. Norton paid a merited compliment to the Sergeant for
the skill and activity he displayed in apprehending the
whole of the gang and bringing them to justice, and 'com-
mitted the whole of the prisoners for trial at the present session
of the Central Criminal Court. "