The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEW

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Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

• V3REIGN.
On Saturday evening the King of the French had a select
party to dinner, among whom were the SpanishAmbassadort
the Duchess of Dalmatia, and Colonel Fox.
The Moniteur announces numerous army pt wnotiOnS,
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which are to take place on the King's birth-day:
The debate on 'the Education Bill in the Chambers of
eakers reell
was to commence on Monday. A great number of op
for and against it had inscribed their names. -
By the Neapolitan steamer Mongibello, which. left N521:15.
on the 11th, we learn that the political prisoners in the CS&
of St. Elmo have been released, there being no charges agaiok

them. •
The new Austrian Minister, Prince de Schwartenberm had
arrived at Naples on the sth, and immediately obtained am

audience of the King.
Preparations are making everywhere in Tuscany for
tathe
fetes on occasion of the marriage which will very shortly ke
place between the Grand Duke's daughter and Prince Luit"
pold of Bavaria, who has already arrived at Florence.
On the 28th ult. the Porte added 8,000 men to its aryl'
and it was said that a levy of 10,000 Annemarie, 7,j_r
Greeks, and 3,000 Jews, was about to take place for servls6_
in the arsenal, rope works, &c., in order to strengthen the
naval and military force of the empire ; 8,000 men be"
about to be sent to Syria. rot
The Gazete des Tribunaux announces that the EnVe—
of Austria has published an Imperial ordinance, interdicting!,
under the severest peLalties of fine and imrisonment, sIV
Catholic subject of his Majesty to embrace Protestantiqt
without having previously obtained an express permissic''
from the Government.

LAW AND POLICE.
Sentence was passed at the Old Bailey on the parties 1111-
plicated in the wills forgeries. Barber and Fletcher Ive.e
both transported for life, Saunders for seven years, Lydis
Saunders and Mrs. Dorey were sentenced to two years
prisonment each.
Edward Bathurst, the person who was brought bcfore Sil
Peter Laurie on Saturday, charged with having endeivoureuf
to obtain 2,0001. Exchequer Bills from Mr. Joseph Dc:vis °,
the Stock Exchange, was re-examined at the Mato. 'i°3„
house. Mr. Borradaile and other mercantile men of enriuelic,,i,
were present. Mr. Davis not pressing the case the pesoll'to
was discharged ou entering into his own recognizenci4
appear again when called on. • lec
A.gentleman applied at the same office for' advice unG h,
the following circumstances :—He stated that about a 'nett:
ago he handed a bill of exchangefor 100/. to a friend of his,"'
get discounted ; that his friend handed it to a person ViPer
was a clergyman of the Church of England, and rePr'''
seated himself as having control over large sums of tnoloe):1
on account of which representations the bill was entrust',
to him, and that the address this money-agent gave prove
to be incorrect, as the house was uninhabited, and
Rev. Gentleman .was not known there. It was presinup
as he had broken several appointments, promising to gl
la'
the cash for the bill, that he had obtained the money 31
misappropriated it. A summons was immediately issued._
A young man, respectably dressed, was charged at D,l'ot
street with having committed a robbery to a large a0m,4„0
upon Mr. Henry Mason, a publisher, at Brighton. d.,
' ,
prosecutor was staying at the Exeter Coffee-house, StrMll,,,
and had taken out his purse, containing a considerable sod'
e
in notes, to pay his bill before going to bed. The rotTelf,
was then all safe, but he missed it about six in the moriOnt'a
Having called up the lancllord he went for a policeman,
,a,.,.%
the prisoner was takenwhile endeavouring to leave the b"''''
with some of the notes on his person. He was remanded. or
.-
William Burton Newenham, charged with the abductionder
Miss Louisa Frances Wortham, a ward in Chancery, lir', st
sixteen years of age, was again examined on that cliaigoo
Clerkenwell, when the Court was excessively crowded.
ease was again adjourned. Ida
Mary Pettigrew, an aged wi"ow, and her daughter, ...,„r
Ann Joblyns, were brought up for final examination at 1010;6
ship-street, charged with having wilfully set fire to tbe,,ll„. the
No. 21, Old-street-road, which had been tenanted "-',..0.
elder prisoner for nearly forty years. They were - both -
'flitted for trial.
COURT—rAsuromusLE. lot
The Duke of Wellington gives his first Cabinet &one ot
t; 11
morrow evening at Apsley House. The Noble and w-At the
Duke dines with Lord and Lady Stanley ou Thursday, °,,le-
tull-dress banquet given by the Noble Lord and Lady ill-
bration of her Majesty's birthday, 1s A.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, accompanied by
ad lip
Mary Howard and Lord Bernard' Howard, have •%rrllr 0.
Norfolk House, from Arundel Castle, Sussex, for the sell:(01%.,
Viscount Melbourne is expected in South-street to-?n° d4r
from Broekett Hall, Herts, to attend her Majesty's birth
drawing-room at St. James's Palace, on Thursday. 000,
The Dowager Countess of Leicester and the Rig -tiog
Edward Ellice returned to town yesterday from vi3l
Viscount Melbourne at Brockett Hall, Herts. ~,,ii oil
The Countess of Jersey has issued cards for a grand "" 010
Friday next, at the family mansion in Berkeley-square'
to be on a very elegant scale. 'lr . ..,,,40
The Earl and Countess of Zetland arrived at their ince,
in Arlington-street, on Saturday, from Aske Hall, Yorks.
for thh 'season. to
The Duke of Argyle and family were expected to Ifelio
Rome at the middle of the present month, and are to sill
England early in June. d t"
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry tin lice
Ladies Alexandrine and Adelaide Vane arrived at r1(/),,ri5,
ness House, Park-lane, at the end of last week, from Ole
for the season. Lady Alexandrine has recovered free'
effects of her late indisposition.
Lord Brougham, who has been passing the parliantellr;
recess at Paris, arrived at his residence late on Fridayii
from the French capital.
MISCELLANEOUS. a K
Yesterday the Marquis of Blandford was returll,6oB
Woodstock, Sir William Follett for Exeter, and Mr- m
for Huntingdon. ~..1„ er il''
The Marquis of I3ute will be Lord High Comfno."‘-nr the,
the next General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, ',.°",„05"
third time. The Assembly meets about the middle of
-
month. ':f
On Monday a special general meeting of the Societe
Ancient Britons was held at the Welsh Charity 08
Gray's Inn-road, to adopt measures for preveoth'; Jll'
amalgamation of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, 300,0
templated by a recent Act of Parliament. There werety
Earl Powis, Lord Kenyon, Lord Clive, M.P., Cot rowel 01°.;
and about eighteen or twenty noblemen and gilt I ti
Earl Powis was called to the chair, and briefly orenc(r.p, ill'.
proceedings, but declined making any lengthened root!' rsr
consequence of the frequent expression of his opinionslnictioli
'lament and elsewhere. Lord Kenyon declared his e°ll,c ei
of the inapolicy of passing any resolution relative to t..ferre,
posed union of the two dioceses at present, and Plc op it
leaving the matter in the hands of Earl Powis,to t• 0 x icecto
h
had hitherto been entrusted. A resolution that eo
0
agreed to. r 100
The arrangements for the exhibition in the 5t...4A, ot
..,t
Bazaar, King-street, of decorative works, tent in pol,stliese,,
notices issued in June, 1843, by her Majesty's Cornoys:010::
on the Fine Arts, were completed at a late hour on a tat'
and the exhibition was thrown open-to, the public Yedscd ri",;
morning. The bazaar is well adapted for the inten log ti,'x
pose, forming one extensive saloon nearly 200 feet, 't,s, $ll
40 wide. The exhibition ircludes nearly 200 subJec ic/-e
among the contributors whose names appear in the etitlisefit
are those of the most celebrated men in each deP'" tve
of art. „ to ,jit
The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellingt°loll3i,
placed in front of the Royal Exchange, is completecit_t 50
be inaugurated, to use a foreign phrase, on the oe' 04
till
versary of the Battle of Waterloo. 'house' Dor'
Daily inquiries are being made at the Custom-- of ;or
the recent death of Thorwaldsen, after a statue ~,0010,
Byron by this celebrated sculptor, and which is 4010, •
supposed to have been for years lying there in the l
heeded and " cast among the common lumber."