The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-14 00:00:00

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POILEXCair.
On Friday his Majesty the King of the French re-
ceived Vice-Admiral Villaumez, General Fabvier, Baron
DaviNiers, peer of France, and Captain Bonet.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Aquilla left Paris on Friday for Marseilles, from whence
they will embark for Naples.
L'AbLe Laurence.
.has:- been nominated to the
bishopric of Tarbes; by Royal ordinance, dated Dec. 31.
It appears from Dr. Laurent's bulletin of Saturday
that the health of M. ViHerman still continues to im-
prove. On that morning he took a drive out in a car-
riage.

The Commerce states that it is the intention of the
French Government to establish harbours of refuge on
the coast between Cherbourg and Brest.
The Constitutionnel states that the chess match that
was to have taken place between M. St. Amand and Mr.
Staunton is indefinitely postponed.
Accounts have been received from Madrid to the 6th
inst., but they bring no news of the slightest interest.
That day being the Feast of the Epiphany was ob-
served as a holiday, and the Bourse was closed.
On the 2d inst. the Portuguese Cortes were opened
by Commission, and the Speech from the Crown was
read by one of the high functionaries. The country re-
mained perfectly tranquil.
Amendments to the Address will be proposed in both
the French Chambers relative to the right of search.
The Journal des Debats refers briefly to the draft of
the Address presented to the Chamber of Peers, which
we published yesterday, and praises it for elevation of
thought and patriotism. The Opposition journals de-
scribe it as obsequious and servile.
It is said that the Austrian Government has called
upon that of France to " concur in measures for convinc-
ing the malcontents of Switzerland that the Great Powers
would not permit any proceeding calculated or intended
to produce any change in the existing Constitution of that
Republic."
Accounts have been received from Athens of the 26th
ult., from which it appears that the verifications of the
elections had at last been brought to a close, but might,
not right, had prevailed.
MAW AND
In the Court of Queen's Bench a rule nisi for a cri-
minal information for libel was obtained.
The case of " White v. Spettigue " was tried before
Mr. Baron Rolfe and a common jury, in the Court of
Exchequer. The plaintiff, who was a solicitor, had
some books stolen from his chambers, and some time
afterwards the books were discovered exposed for sale
in the shop window of the defendant, a bookseller, who,
it appeared, had bought them of a young gentleman who
had been in the plaintiff's employ. The action was
brought to recover the value of the books. The Learned
Baron ultimately left it to the jury to find for plaintiff,
if they thought defendant should have been on his guard
under the circumstances, and had not acted with due
caution ; otherwise, for plaintiff. The jury found for the
plaintiff, damages in the cost price of the books.
A black sailor, named David Louis, was committed to
hard labour in Bridewcll for twenty-one days, by the
Lord Mayor, for absconding from a vessel in which he
had engaged to serve for the voyage to Terceira and
back. This was the first conviction under the new Act.
At Clerkenwell, John Maloney, a young man, who de-
scribed himself as a lieutenant in the navy, residing in
Richmond-terrace, Islington, was charged by Emma, his
wife, with having threatened to stab her. The prisoner
was ordered to find two bail in 50/. each to appear at the
Sessions.
Three labourers, named Wool ff, Leary, and Odell, were
placed at the bar, at the Marylebone Court, charged
with keying violently assaulted several of the police. The
case was clearly proved, and the assault was entirely un-
provoked. Mr. Rawlinson considered it necessary to
make a strong example of the prisoners, all of whom
have been long known to the police, and without inflict-
ing upon them any fine, committed them to the House of
Correction for a month.
Yesterday Robert Pratt, who has been in custody
for several days, on a charge of cruelly treating and
grossly neglecting his child, a boy of five years of age,
was fully committed to take his trial from the Lambeth
Court.
At Greenwich Marian Carver, a woman who has lately
been appointed nurse in one of the wards of Greenwich
Hospital, surrendered in discharge of her bail, being
charged on suspicion of stealing a silver watch. The
case broke down, but another accusation of stealing some
flannel was gone into, and on that charge the prisoner
was committed for trial.
C OITZLIC—PASFIO7S7.II2IX.M.

The Duke of Manchester has left Kimbolton Castle
for Tandaraggy Castle, the family seat in Ireland.
The Duke and Duchess de Sotomayor returned to
town on Saturday from Windsor, and in the evening en•
tertained a select party to dinner at Mivart's Hotel. On
Sunday his Excellency was occupied by paying visits.
The Duke of Rutland is staying at present on a visit
to Lord and Lady Southampton, in Northamptonshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, with the Ladies
Caroline and Constance Leveson Gower, have arrived at
Stafford House from Trentham.
Tho Dowager Duchess of Cleveland has returned to
Newton House, Yorkshire, from a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Cleveland, at Raby Castle.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, as is
their custom at this festive season of the year, are enter-
taining a number of distinguished visitors at Eaton Hall.
The Marchioness of Hastings has left town for Don-
nington Park, Leicestershire.
The Earl and Countess Craven have arrived at Combe
Abbey, near Coventry, from visiting the Earl and Coun-
tess of Verulam, at Gorhambury, Herts.
The Countess of Beauchamp has left Portman square
for Worcestershire.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are still at Eglin-
ton Castle, surrounded by a large circle of friends.
Viscount Duncan has arrived at Bath from Scotland.
Lord Alvatiley has left town, on a visit to Lord and
Lady Southampton, in Northamptonshire.
Lady William Powlett is expected in town, from the
seat of Lord and Lady Anglesey, on her way to Paris.
Lord and Lady Leigh will shortly receive a large ac-
cession to the number of their present visitors at Stone-
leigh Abbey, to celebrate the coming of age of their
eldest son, the Hon. William Henry Leigh, who will at-
tain his majority on the 17th inst.
The Hon. Horatio Pitt has left town, for Yorkshire.
The hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fulke Greville Howard
have arrived in Grosvenor-square, from their seat, Castle
Rising, Norfolk.

His Excellency the Russian Minister gave a sumptu-
ous entertainment last evening, at Ashburnham House,
to the various attaches of the Embassy, in celebration of
the Russian New Year's-day.
Mr, T. buncombe, M.P., has passed through town,
from Lord and Lady W. Powlett's,
Yorkshire. on his way to

Mrs. G. Lamb has left town, on a visit to the Duke of
Devonshire, at Bolton Abbey.
Mrs. Robarts has left Hill-street, for Paris.
BILISOZZLAN2OI7II.
The Islington Philanthropic Society, which meets at
the Kenilworth Castle, King-street, Lower-read, Isling-
ton, yesterday, according to annual custom, distributed
tickets for bread and coals, to the number f 1,250, thus
proving in some measure the usefulness of the charity.
The Society has been established nine years, since which
period upwards of 5,000 persons have been partakers of
its bounty. The Members for the borough of Finsbury
are joint patrons.
The following order was posted at the General Post-
office, and the several metropolitan branch offices belong-
ing to that establishment :—" On and after Tuesday, the
21st inst., the letter-boxes at the chief office, in St.
Martin's-le-Grand, for the receipt of foreign letters on
Tuesday and Friday nights, will be closed at 10 P.m.
Paid leiters will, however, be received at the window
until 10 15 P.M., upon payment of a fee of one penny
each ; and until 10 30 P.M., upon payment of a fee of
6d. each, at which latter hour the office will be finally
closed,"
A Woolwich Correspondent informs us that " the
Terrible steam-frigate will not be launched on the 24th
inst., as stated in seine of the papers, her contractors not
deeming her sufficiently advanced yet for that decisive
move." Her armament is to be as follows:—Four 10-
inch guns ; sixteen 56-pounders, of Monk's pattern ; in
all twenty. Also, one brass 6-pounder, two 18-pounder
carronades, and two 12-pounder ditto, for boat service.
The four 10-inch guns are for the weather deck, two of
them on pivots; the sixteen 56-pounders are for between
decks.

The Leeds Mercury states that Mr. Pritchard, of Ota-
heite celebrity, is to sail next week for the important
station to which he had been appointed by the Govern-
ment prior to his forcible removal from that island,
namely, the extensive and populous 'group of the Samoas
or Navigators' Islands. This group, which comprises the
Island of Upolu„ Savaii, Tutuila, Manono, &c., is situated
considerably to the west of the Otaheitan and Society
Islands, and east of the Fiji Islands. It is one of the
most populous and important groups of the Poly-
nesian archipelago. The population is about 60,000,
whilst that of Otaheite and the Society Islands is only
20,000, of the Marquesas 15,000, and of the Hervey
Islands 18,000.
On Monday the annual ball in aid of the funds of the
Master Bakers' Orphan School, Pentonville, took place
at the Freemasons Tavern, Great Queen-street. The
ball was respectably and well attended ; dancing was kept
up till an early hour in the morning.

RUMOURED LAW CHANGES—We have taken some
pains to ascertain the truth of the announcement of legal
changes, copied in our yesterday's paper from the Globe.
We find that there is not the slightest foundation for it.
The Lord Chancellor is in excellent health and spirits ;
neither he nor Lord Chief Justice Tindal has expressed
any
fact,immediate
that
tenstiior illnwofiamFollett's
resigning and it is a re-
markable
return in ro-
novated vigour is simultaneously announced. The occa-
sion, however, has been eagerly seized by a Contempo-
rary to renew an unjust and illiberal attack on Sir Fre-
derick Thesiger, who would not have been placed where
he now is had he not been deemed a good lawyer, as
well as an accomplished advocate and a high-minded
man.—Pest.

Trig SOLICITOR OF EXCISE.---It is rumoured
that Dr. Bateman, chief clerk to the late Mr. Mayow,
the assistant-solicitor to that department, will be the suc-
cessor to that office. The salary will in future be only
1,000/. per annum. Mr. Carr, son of the late Mr. Morton
Carr, who formerly held the appointment of solicitor to
that revenue, at which time it was worth 4,000/ per
annum, has very recently been apEiointed to that situation,
in the room of W. I thaney, Esq., deceased..
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