The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vublitz eptuttin,

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

Their Majesties the King and Queen of the French
received on Monday evening Prince Paul of Wurtem-
berg, the Neapolitan Chargt d'Affaires, the Archbishop
of Rheims, Count Hippolyte de la, Rochefoucauld, Baron
de Barante, Generals Durosnel, Schneider, De Colbert,
Lagrange, Aupick, De Mornay, and Marbot, Admiral
Le Ray, and Baron Mechin.
The inscription of the marriage of the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale was on Tuesday formally entered in
the registers of the Etat-Civil of the Royal Family.
By a royal ordonnance, dated December 16, the King
has conferred the title of Duke on Baron Pasquier.
The French Academy has unanimously elected M.
Patin, in the place of M. C. Nodier, to the office of Secre-
tary of the Standing Committee to draw up the new
Dictionary of the French language.
The annual mass in celebration of the anniversary of
the arrival in Paris of the remains of the Emperor
Napoleon, was performed on Monday, in the Church of
the Invalides. The Governor and his staff, all the inva-
lides not confined by infirmity or illness, and a great
number of officers and soldiers of the old, as well as of
the present army, attended in uniform.
The navigation of the Seine, which was stopped for
some days by the floating ice•blocks, has become per-
fectly free again.
It is reported that Zurbano is in Madrid, watching an
opportunity to put Narvaez to death.
The Moniteur Grec, of the 29th ult., affirms that the
people of Greece are in the enjoyment of perfect tran-
quillity, and the real position of the population forma
a direct contrast with the language of certain journals
of Athens.

On the 13th ult.. the Emperor of Russia issued an
ukase for the establishment of gratuitous elementary and
superior schools for the children of Jews, and with all
the same privileges and advantages as the gratuitous
schools for Christians. In the Jewish schools, none but
Jewish professors are to be employed for the religious
part of the education. The professors for the other
branches of education, may be either Jews or Christians.
Many of the disabilities under which Jews serving in th4l
army laboured, are also abolished.
The supply of truffles this year is reported to be but
scanty. They were sold last week at 13rive for Bf. the
lb., and as much as 10f. the lb. has lately been paid for
them at P6rigueux.
The journeymen bakers at Rochefort having com-
bined against their masters to obtain an advance of
wages, about twenty of them have been arrested, and
the Major-General of the Marine has placed a sufficient
number of the Government bakers at the disposal of the
Municipality, during the strike, to keep up the supply of
bread to the inhabitants.

An eruption of Mount Etna, remarkable for its bril-
liancy, took place on Nov. 30. It was visible at Malta,
notwithstanding the distance between that island and
Sicily.
The Piethrontese Gazette fully confirms the accounts
given in private letters of the severe cold lately expe-
rienced at Turin. It states, on the night of the 6th, the
thermometer fell to 20 degrees Centigrade below the
freezing point (4 below zero of Fahrenheit), and that
three carts arrived at the gates of Turin with the carters
lying in them, frozen to death. The cold was aho very
severe in Tuscany. The roads between Florence and
Leghorn were covA.ed with snow at the date of the last
accounts.

At seven in the morning of the 10th inst., the thermo
meter at the Hague was at 20 degress below zero of the
Centigrade scale, 4 below zero of Fahrenheit.

31.A.1i€7 AND POLIC2I.

At the Exeter Assizes John Goodwin, a private of the
13th Dragoons, was indicted for stabbing a woman, with
intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. This was
the only case for the city of Exeter. After the prose-
cutrix and other witnesses had been briefly examined,
Mr. Baron Alderson went over the facts of the case,
pointing out the discrepancies between the evidence of
the prosecutrix and the other witnesses, when the jury
immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. His Lord-
ship then, addressing the jury, said he found the papers
had denounced this case as a "horrible and bloody
assassination." Such prejudging the case in the papers
which were circulated among the jury was an outrage
on public justice, and could not be too strongly censured.
Peter Phillips, William Doddemead, and Thos. Baths),
were convicted of setting fire to a rick of wheat, th,.
property of George Kean, and sentenced to fifteen years'
transportation. _ _ _

EIL Daley, Elizabeth Daley, her daughter, and Jas.
Daley, her son, were indicted, at Liverpool, for unlaw-
fully exposing a child. The parties had been indicted
at the last assizes for an attempt to murder, but were
acquitted on the ground of a variance between the in-
dictment and the proof. James Daley, Not Guilty;
Eliza Daley and Elizabeth Daley, Guilty. To be impri-
soned twelve calendar months.

William Burgess, implicated in the Bank forgery,
was covicted at the Central Criminal Court, and sen-
tenced to be transported for life.
In the New Court James James, who has been many
years an active officer in the metropolitan and rural
police, and four years turnkey at the Brixton house of
Correction, was convicted of stealing a truck or barrow,
value 30i., the property of Richard Burt, at Clapham,
and sentenced to IN:, transported for seven years.
William Edbury, a clerk in the Post-office, was con-
victed of stealing a half-sovereign and two shillings, the
property of the Right Hon. the Postmaster-General of
her Majesty's Post-office, and sentenced to be kept to
hard labour for two years.
At Union-hall Charles Richert was brought ap for
final examination, charged with stealing a gold watch
and chain, the property of Miss Williams, of Stamford-
street, and Fanny Dronsart as an accessory in the
robbery. Mr. Cottingham said that, having heard all the
evidence, he should commit Richert for trial to the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, and adjudge the young woman
Dronsart to put in bail to appear at this court on the day
after the Old Bailey Sessions commenced, to give the
complainant an opportunity of preferring a bill of indict-
ment against her as an accessory after the fact.