The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-11 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEVI'S

AND

Vubtir Opinion.

" TJ7ia runs may real."

rOREIGN.
The French Funds continue to rise. On Monday the Three
per Cents. closed at 82f. 70c., and the Fives at 124 f. 40c.
On Saturday evening the King received at dinner General
Bertrand, Count d'Ossuna, Lord Brougham, and the Ministers
of Hanover, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
M. Bergeron, who was condemned for an assault on M. de
Girardin, was on Saturday set at liberty, after a confinement of
three years and two months at Ste. Pelagie.
The following paragraph appears in the Hanthurgh Corres-
pondent, under the date of Hanover, Dec. 30 :--" M. Perier,
the French Ambassador, is decidedly going to Brunswick. It
is thought that the advances made by the King of Hanover to
the Duke de Bourdeaux are the direct cause of this change.
The King was not present at th*last evening party given by
M. Perier."

64 We are informed," says the Constitutionuel, "that a
supernumerary at the Court of Accounts, the brother of a newly
appointed Conseiller Referendaire, has been suspended by the
First President for having made the journey to London."
Lord Brougham had arrived at the Hotel Meurtee, from his
seat in the south of France.

M. Dastugue, cure Sentous (Hautes-Pyrenees), died a few
days ago, aged 100.
The (,'ourrier Francais announces, that a joint stock com-
pany has been formed in the department of the Seine et Oise,
for the destruction of rats. The following is an extract from
the deed prepared by M. Baget, a notary at Nauphle-le-Chatean,
and registered en the 17th of December, 1843:—" M. Charles
Adrien Paris, a destroyer of rats, residing at Nauphle-le-
Chateau; and M. Edine Frege, likewise a destroyer of rats, re-
siding at Paris, have established between them a company in
their joint names for the destruction of rats and mice, to extend
to all France." The name of the company is " Paris and
Frege," to continue 20 years, from the 17th of December,lB43.
Capital, 500,000 f. (20,0001. )
A letter from Stuttgard states that the King of Wurtemberg
has ordered a grant to be made to the Jews for keeping up their
places of worship, schools, and hospitals, in the same way as
those granted to other religious sects. The preamble of the
Act declares that all citizens, of whatever persuasion, have a
right to share in the benefits of the Government, as they all
contribute to its support. .
We perceive, by an Athens letter of the 21st, in the Augs-
burg Gazette, that considerable excitement prevailed in that
city, that troops were patrolling the streets to maintain order,
that an unsuccessful attempt had been made on the 11th to set
fire to the Hall of the National Assembly, and that on the likth
the hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs was burnt to the
ground.. But the accounts in the German papers from Athens
are often greatly exaggerated to the prejudice of the new
Government.

A letter from Naples announces the death in that city of two
enormously wealthy persons, the Marquis Maseura, and the
Director-General of Taxes. They have bequeathed their for-
tunes to the clergy, and principally the Jesuits, to the entire
exelusion of their relations.

The Suabian Mercury states, under the head of Darmstadt,
that M. de Haber, who recently killed M. Sacharaga in a duel,
intends to surrender to take his trial at the assises of Alrey.

His extreme punishment, if found guilty, will, according to
law, be three years' imprisonment in a fortress.

LAW AND POLICE.

At the Surrey Sessions Charles William F;:ter was sentenced
to twelve months' imprisonment, for ill-using his child, a girl
six years of age.
Mr. Ba..ber and Mr. Fletcher, the parties implicated in the
charges uf forgin; wills, were again examined at the Mansion-
house. A third case was brought against them, but the evi-
dence not being completed they were once more remanded.
An elderly man, named Conolly, poorly clad, was charged
at Bow-street, before Mr. Jardine, with feloniously breaking
and entering the house of Mr. Mark Wheeler, japanner, No.
8, New-street, Holborn, in the parish of St. Giles, and stealing
therefrom a variety of property. He was committed for trial.
Jane Perring, a fierce-looking woman, was charged at
Clerkenwell, by police-constable 36 E, with having stabbed
and wounded George Perring, her husband, with a table-knife,
by whic'a his life is placed in danger. She was remanded till
the fate of her husband should be known.
William Johnston, an athletic Seotchman, and stonemason
by 'trade, was charged at Lambeth-street, with committing a
murderous assault upon his wife eighteen days ago, and for
which he has since remained in prison. He was committed
for trial.