The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-15 00:00:00

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WOILEZON.
On Friday the Duchess of Nemours was safely delivered
of a son, who is to bear the title of Duke d'Alencon. •
We learn from Berlin, July:s4th at:intelligence had just be.eue
received there, from St. Petersburgh, announcing that th,
Grand Duchess Alexandra had been delivered of a dead child,
and had received the last sacraments.
Nedim Effendi, Councillor of the Ottoman Embassy is
Pans, died on Friday, at the age of thirty-two, of an affec-
tion of the lungs. lie was one of the most distinguisbeu,
public functionaries in Turkey, where he held the rank °L
Chief of Division in the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The Council of Discipline of the Order of Advocates of the
Cour Royale have confided their appeal to M. Gamier, Pl'
tonnier of the Advocates of the Court of Cessation.
On Saturday M. niers presented his report to the Chair':
ber of Deputies on thelSecondary Education nu. The repo!!
(which took three hours in reading) is very hostile to the
pretensions of the clergy.
The report of the Committee on the Prison Reform
(says the National) will not be made this year. The Keepe'
of the Seals, being far from approving the system of Meshrt
de Tocqueville and de Beaumont, has desired that the rer
should be postponed till the next session, in order to give ])
time to consult the Cours Royales on the subject.
Don Joaquin de Abarca, Bishop of Leon, and who formerly
acted as Minister to Don Carlos, died last month at the mo-
nastery of Lanzo, in Piedmont.
Marshal Soult leaves Paris immediately for St. Cunard, big
residence, near Toulouse, where he will remain for a month.
The Court of Assizes of the Seine was on Wednesday °cell:
pied with the trial of a native of Corsica, named krange'''
Gallina, aged 42, for forging Bank of England' notes. TllB
jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the Court sentenced h•L''„„
to eight years' hard labour, with exposure on the pillorY•
A letter from Stockholm, June 28, states that the qu
Sw estio!l
relative to the Swedish flag has been decided in the edis?
and Norwegian Council of State: The two nations presen'e
their respective colours, but in the Union flag the colours
will be blended.
There are, says a Frankfort journal, upon the German
railroads 296 locomotives, of which 194 were manufactured
in England, 57 in Germany, 16 in Belgium, and 29 in Americo:
A letter from Dusseldorf states that great commotion was
excited in that town on the 4th, by the suicide of M. Ling'
hardt, Procureur du Roi, aged 42. This gentleman pas
equally distinguished for his talents and amiable manner,
and the greatest surprise is expressed at such an event. It
is supposed that the circumstance of a disturbance haN'iljg
taken place in the street, on June 6, in which the militia
were called, and two men killed, preyed on his mind, and
duced him to blow out his brains with a pistol.
LAW AND POLICE.
At the Buckingham Assizes William Chandler and Joseph
Keen were indicted for the murder on the 2d instant, of ;
seph Leech, gamekeeper to Mr. Curtis, who is lord of !'"t
manor of Bow Brickhill. The jury acquitted Keen, oIIA
found Chandler guilty of manslaughter, and be was sentence'
to transportation for fifteen years.
Robert Raez was indicted at Winchester for having, on the
21st of January, killed and murdered John Harrison, the
shooting him on the high seas, within two miles of the slohr.
;
of Dalmatia. Mr. Cockburn contended, on behalf of t„,
prisoner, that it was an accident ; that there had been insu-
bordination bordination on board the ship; and that the prisoner to;
drawn his pistol from his pocket by way of threat, and thf
having a hair trigger it accidentally went off. The jury re'
turned verdict of not guilty.
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Benjamin Hunt was convicted of arson, and sentenced
be transpoited for life.
00172.111-71.11.OTIZONABLE.

The Queen Dowager will return to England irom the Con'
fluent on the 23d inst. The Black Eagle, steam-yacht, master
commander B. Cook; which has been newly painted and fitted
at Woolwich, is ordered to proceed toAntwerp, to be in reaw,i;
'
ness to bring over her Majesty.
The King of Saxony will leave Great Britain for his Na.
jest's dominions on the 31st inst. His Majesty will ernil.re
at Granton Pier, Edinburgh, on board the Princess Ailepi
steam-packet, master commander Luke Smithett, which ve's'd
will be there in readiness to receive the King of Saxony, an
convey him to Hamburgh.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge entertained the Duke
of Wellington and a distinguished circle at dinner, last
ing, at Cambridge House. There is to be a grand entertain
ment at Cambridge House on the 26th inst. t
The Duchess of Gloucester has an assembly, to-night,e
Gloucester House, and on Monday next, the 22d inst., ,ha
Royal Duchess will have another evening party.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel received a distinguished part-
at
dinner, on Saturday last, at their mansion in Whitel° t
gardens, when among the guests of the Right Hon. Bar°l,e,
were his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, General Avitabei:
Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, Countess of Westmorelan;
Earl and Countess of Dunmore, Earl and Countess Browill°0;
Viscount Melville, Earl of Normanton and Lady Mary Ag
Lord Heytesbury, Viscount and ViscJuntess Barring,
Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Sir H. and Lady Fe
mantle, Hon. Captain Harris, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. M. Milnes,
Mr. A:O'Brien, Mr. Entwisle, & 2.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton have left Belgrave-square'
for Croxteth Park, near Liverpool, for the races. A iinnb"i
rous and brilliant circle will be entertained by the Noble Earl
and Countess, at Croxteth, during the race week. ocl
The Earl and Countess of Jersey have appointed the
of the ensuing month for their entertainment to their RO)4
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and t"e
Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenbtlr'
'Strelitz.

The Earl of Auckland entertained the Earl and Coun-t
e d
of Minto, Earl and Countess Grosvenor, Viscount V 1
Viscountess Howick, Mr. Standish, Mr. Colville, and a select
party at dinner on Saturday, at Eden House, Knightsbrial
The Earl of Mansfield will give a grand fete at Caen Wnei a
Hampstead, on the 23d inst., to the Royal family and t
fashionable world.

The Duke of Wellington has issued cards for a splendid er!,:
tertainrnent on the 3ist inst., at Apsley Ho to thel;
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Caml;ridge, the
Duchess of Gloucester, and the Hereditary Grand Duke an
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz.
On Saturday the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's entes
tamed at dinner, at Holly Lodge, the Duke and Duchess s'a
Norfolk, Lord Edward and Lady Mary Howard, Duchess all
Mdlle. De Coigny, Marquis of Granby, &c.
Mr. W. Gladstone, M.P., has engaged a mansion in NI
Town, where the Hon. Member purposes remaining with
family until the end of August.
Viscount Palmerston entertained a distinguished circle at
dinner on Saturday and the Viscountess held her usual
„
,
sembly at a later period of the evening. There was a rel
numerous attendance of the nobility, notwithstanding the
unfavourable weather which prevailed.

ZVKIBCEM.Y.ArirICOUS, • -r
On Saturday night a long inquiry took place at the Milo
Head Inn, Wandsworth-road, before Mr. Higgs, relative
the circumstances attending the decease of Miss Sat. d
Graves, aged 13, the daughter of Mr. Greves, a saddler a f
harness maker, in the Blackfriars-road. The particulars (3
this melancholy case have already appeared. After evideec;„
of the facts had been adduced, the jury consulted for a ffoi
minutes, and returned a verdict of " Accidental death," with
a nominal deodand on the cart and horses. The jury 11;
pended to their verdict this remark :—" That we severe6f
censure the practice or custom of taking the bits out
horses' mouths whilst in the public roads."
On Saturday the third and last exhibition of the Nottdi:
cultural Society took place at. the gardens at Chiswick, O
notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather
,
was attended by a very numerous and distinguished coed
pally. It rained almost incessantly after three o'clock,
the beautiful grounds which, in fine weather, afford such
lightful promenades, became muddy and sloppy, and were VA
most deserted for the tents.
It appears from the weekly report of the Liverpool cotto.
market, that the stock in that port now exceeds one railli°o
of bales (1,002,920), being the largest quantity stored tbeA,
at any one time, and exceeding the stock of the correspol%
ing period of last year (which, until this week, was
largest upon record) by very nearly 40,000 bales.
The meeting of the Protestant citizens of Dublin to preyal
an address for presentation to the Earl and Countess De ti
:p
previous to their departure from Ireland, was held on Fr'"Ar,ge7
at the Rotunda. The attendance could not be said to n°lll
heen very numerous, and certainly not so respectable as neigh
have been anticipated. The chair was taken at one o'clock
the Dean of Kildare, and a series of speeches and resoluta*,
applicable to the occasion having been spoken and agreed for
the proceedings terminated before four o'clock.
The parish of St. Mary, Newington, is at present in a st toa b
of great excitement, caused by the attempt of the 90
Church party to levy a church-rate, against which tht
parishioners have successfully contended for the last eig„ed
years. The Church establishment in this parish is supPollui,
at a cost to the inhabitants of upwards of 5,000/. per awn'
el
and yet the clergy will not attend to the
spiritual wants
the poor in the workhouse unless a large sum be paid for the
services of a chaplain. This, then, is the chief ground ()a
which the rate is called for. A poll has been demanded, an
will take place to-morrow and Wednesday, July 16 and

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JULY 10.- The'project of law on civil all
ecclesiastical pensions was adopted by the Senate to'
day, after a long debate on the first and sixth articles.
Several amendments were proposed, but afterward
withdrawn.

The Government has received from the Belgian C°llci
sul at Rio de Janiero an account of the settlement formed
by a Belgian manufacturer at Campos, in Brazil, vvhi,
the view of introducing the cultivation of flax. A con%
derable number of Belgians have been invited to join 1„
the undertaking, and have embarked at Dunkirk °'
board a French ship, which is to take them to Brazil.
It seems that others are to follow. Their Majesties the King and Queen, with a few t-
tendants, set out this morning for Paris, and will be ab'
sent about a month.
According to observations and surveys of Mr. Shop
with on the iron railway of the Sombre and Meuse, the
principal line will be sixty kilometres in length, and to„
branches thirty-one kilometres.
A letter from Antwerp of yesterday gives an account
of a visit made the day before by the governor and Inelf;
bers of the council of the Commune to Fort Lille,
order to inspect the works carrying on to draw the
Polder of Lillo, which has been under water so rOlllllO
years. On inspecting the works, they found that t.},",
new dike would have been nearly completed by this tllll
but for the unfortunate rupture a month ago, by
great damage was done. however, the works have s'u-11
t,
been carried on with such activity, that in about a for d
night the part lately inundated will be drained, and
raised to the height of the ordinary tides. The softie
dike is proceeding in a satisfactory manner. The tir ,
of this visit was chosen for laying the first stone °
sluice which is to be built behind the fort. It appear
from the plans that this sluice will be on a
great seae.
It is intended in time of peace to drain the water frciioe
the River Polder, and in time of war to inundate t
environs of the fort to the whole extent of the Rayoo•i,i
CONSTANTIXOPLE, JUNE 26. The troubles in Albaor
being entirely suppressed, the Porte has appointed a p„-
mission to inquire into the causes of them, and to asserts
the extent of the damage done to the insurgents. to
Sir Stratford Canning had an audience of the Sultan,
express the satisfaction felt by Queen Victoria at the hilts
termination of the differences respecting apostasy, and
assurance given by the Sultan in favour of his Chris'
subjects.
Pasha re
The Divan has made an agreement with the
Egypt, for a regular communication by steam-boats bete
n
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Alexandria and the capital. As there are at presenttWo
Turkish steamers that can be spared for this service,
Egyptian steamers will be employed for the present.o
Tend The troubles in Albania are, indeed, considered to be
oi,
but while the fire is extinguished (to appearance, at le_ast),, „,
one side, it breaks out on another. Disturbances bate
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broke 4 out =log the Kourd4 iu the pachalick 0