The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-31 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

PORE I GN.
The French funds continue depressed. On Sunday the
Three per Cents. were quoted at taf. 10e.
On Saturday evening the King had a large party to dinner,
including the Austrian and Neapolitan Ambassadors, the
Minister. of Marine, General Excelmans, the Marquis de la
Place,- and the Pope's Nuncio.
The King of the Belgians gave a grand ball and supper on
the 24th, at the theatre of Brussels, which had been tastefully
and elegantly fitted up for the occasion. The number of guests
is stated at nearly 3,000 ; amongst whom were all the aristo-
cracy of Brussels and its environs, the foreign ambassadors
and ministers' and the other foreigners of distinction resident
at Brussels. Their Majesties were in the Royal box, but the
King left it from time to time to go down to the stage and
pit, where the dancing was carried on, and converse with
seine of his guests.
Messrs. Deinimuid, directors of one of the most extensive
ironworks in the department of the Meuse, have been declared
insolvent.
The shareholders of the Bank of France held a general
meeting, on the 26th, at which they re-elected M. Moreau to
be Censor, and MM. Jacques Lefevre, Delatnare, and d'Eich-
thal, to be Regents, adding M. Legentil in the room of M.
Cottier, deceased.
A letter from Algiers of the 10th inst., says :—" The ba-
rometers having prognosticated rain, the troops have been
recalled from their labour on the roads of Medeah, Cherchell,
and Milianah, and the clearings round the villages of the
Sahel. At this point they have done so much as to allow to
each colonist almost ground enough to insure him sufficient
produce of food for the ensuing year," Later accounts state
that the rainy season had set in, and the military operations
had been consequently suspended. General Bedeau was in
the mean time organising an expedition against Abd-el-
Nader.
A remarkably fine meteor, in the form of a very large ball
of tire, with a lung train of electrical sparks, was seen on Sa-
turday last at Niort, in the Deux-Sevres, which disappeared
without bursting.

LAW AND voracne.
In the Arches Court articles were exhibited against the
Rev. Mr. Hodgson, the Chaplain of Salisbury Gaol, for a se-
none offence, that must at present be kept secret. The:
prayer was that the clergyman might be dismissed from his
living. An objection was raised to the admissibility of the'
articles, on the plea that the Court had not jurisdiction in the!
case, no indictment having been preferred against the party'
articled against. A lengthened argwnent was entered into,
when the Court took time to consider its judgment.
Judgment was given in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, in
the case of Charles James Johns, in which a question was
raised respecting subsequently acquired property. The in-
solvent, a sporting person, had won a large sum from Lord
Ward, a portion of which had been paid into Court. The
insolvent had been twice discharged under the Act, and the
question was whether the money in Court should be distri-
buted under the two estates, or only under the estate in which
the application was made. The Chief Commissioner gave the
decision of the Court, laying down the principle that. all
the creditors in the two schedules should participate in the
fund.
At Lambeth-street George Haskam and James Reeves, two
notorious characters, the former of whom has been fre-
quently tried and convicted, were brought before Mr. Henry
for final examination, on a charge of stealing three bags of
coffee, of the value of twenty pods, from St. Katharine's
Dock. Both prisoners were fully committed for trial.
At Marylebone a young woman, named Isabella Honey-
man, was charged with having stolen jewellery, and other
property, from 42, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square,
the residence of Mrs. Phillips and her son, the Rev. H. J.
Phillips, with whom she lived as a servant. The stolen ar-
ticles were of considerable value. The case was fully esta-
blished, and the prisoner was committed for trial ; but she
will again be brought up before this Court, when it is ex-
pected that other charges will be proved against her.
On Monday morning a seizure of a private still, together
with a quantity of illicit spirits, was made by the officers of
the Custom-house, in a house situate in an obscure court
leading out of Bermondsey-street, and two men, named
Temple and Warren, were taken into custody in the still-
ioom. Temple, however, contrived to escape after he was
brought to Union shall, and 'Warren was held to bail in the
amount of 60/. to appear on a future day.-
COURT—.-1.415; HMO rit Ail LE.
The christening of the Marquis of Exeter's infant daugh-
ter, who is to be called Victoria, after the Queen, to whom
his Royal Highness Prince Albert stands sponsor, will take
place in the course of the ensuing month.
The Duke and Duchess of I3eaufort have gone to Hampton
Court Palace on, a visit to Lady Anne Culling Smith. Mr.
Culling Smith left Beaufort House yesterday to meet the
payty. _ _

The Earl Brownlow and Viscount Alford have returned to
town from Lincolnshire. The Countess and Ladies Cust left
Bolton House on Monday for Castle Ashby, the seat of the
Marquis of Northampton, where they intend to remain until
the return of the Earl. The family are not expected to re-
turn to Belgrave-square until April next.
The Earl of Chesterfield remains during the week at Mr.
R. Errington's, in Warwickshire. The whole of his Lord-
ship's stud are now there.
Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor have arrived in Park-
street from Eaton Hall.

Lord and Lady Prudhoe have returned to Stanwick Park,
from a visit at Eaton Hall.

Lady Mildmay has returned to Belgrave-square from Dog-
mersfield Park, at an unusually early period, in consequence
of the serious indisposition of her son.
The Hon. Colonel Rawdon and. the Dowager Viscountess
Cremorne arrived in Stanhope-street, Mayfair, after an ab-
sence of two years passed in France and Italy.
M. Moura, Secretary of Legation to the Portuguese Em-
bassy, has arrived in town from a visit to Colonel and Mrs.
Rolt, at Trunkwell House, Berks.
• The county ball (which had been postponed on account of
the melancholy death of Lord Inverury) took place at the
George Hotel, Northampton, on Friday last, under the
stewardshiP of Sir F. Goodricke, Ambrose Isted, Esq., and
Bainald Knightley, Esq. Among the company were the
Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Lord Cantalupe, Lord and
Lady Dillon, Lord William Graham, Lord and Lady Ernest
Bruce, Lord Brooke, Lord Maidstone, Lady Dryden and Miss
Dryden, Sir F. Goodricke, &c.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A meeting of the tenant-farmers and tradesmen of Amer-
sham, Chesham, Chenies, Beaconsfield, Penn, Coleshill,
Chalfont, Missenden, and of all the parishes within, the-
hundred of Burnham, Bucks, has been convened, to take
place to-day at the Town-hall, Amersham, by a requisition
signed by between seventy and eighty of the principal and
most influential tenant-farmers of the above-named agricul-
tural district, for the purpose of determining upon the mea-
sures to be adopted " to protect the agricultural interest, at
the present most important crisis."
A requisition is about to be presented to the High Sheriff of
Somersetshire, requesting him to convene a county meeting,
for the purpose of taking measures to oppose the Anti-Corn-
law League in the most efficient manner. The second preli-
minary meeting, for the arrangement of the proceedings, will
take on Saturday next at Taunton.
The Duke -of Buckingham, President of the Royal Bucks
Agricultural Association, will take the chair at the annual ,
meeting of the members, at Aylesbury, on Saturday next,
when some most important business is expected to be brought
forward in reference to the Anti-League movements in the
county of Bucks.
On Monday, at twelve o'clock, the Saracen's Head Inn,
Friday-street, one of the oldest in London; was sold by auc-
tion for its building materials. Large Manchester ware-
houses are to be built on the site. This inn was extensively
connected with coach proprietors and waggon-carriers down
the Great Western-road, the traffic of which has been broken
up by the establishment of the railways.
It is stated that the grand music-hall, which is in course
of being built at Liverpool, will not be ready this year, con-
sequently.no festival will take place in that town until the
autumn of 1845. The meeting of the three choirs, Hereford,
Worcester, and Gloucester, will be held this year in the latter
eity.
A Tory Contemporary says the negotiations between the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Governor and Deputy Go-
vernor of the Bank are proceeding; and the American Minis-
ter
has commenced the discussion of the Oregon territory
with Lord Stanley, at the Colonial-office.