The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-02 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Pulatt Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The Mon:teur Parisien states the number of French
Government steamers now afloat, or building, is 92. Of
these, eight are frigates of from 450 to 650 horse-power,
and 18 corvettes of from 220 to 320 horse-power.
The Ist Legion of the Natirnal Guard of Paris met
on Sunday morning, in the Place Vendome, to receive
its Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, and other officers lately
appointed. The weather was uncommonly fine, and the
attendance of the men was numerous. The Prefect of
the Seine administered the oath to the officers, afar
which the General in command, accompanied by the
Prefect, passed in front of the four battalions composing
the legion, which afterwards defiled before him.
Several of the Paris journals announce that petitions
against the Bill for arming the fortifications of Paris
are lying for signature at various places. The Eeforrne
publishes a first list of the subscribers to a petition
from the officers of the National Guards of Paris. It
contains the names of sixty captains, lieutenants, and
other officers.
The Duchess of Orleans has sent, in her own name
and that of the Count de Paris, a sum of 200 francs to
the Committee of the English National Schools of the
.Havre and Rouen Railroads. There are, at present,
four, schools established at Rouen, Malauney, Barcritin,
and Bolbec. The number of children who attend amounts
to upwards of 500.
Several cases containing plants and seeds from the
different countries visited by the legation to China have
been received at the Ministry tor Foreign Affairs.
Amongst them are several specimens of the tea-plant,
and a coffee-plant from the Malay Peninsula, which has
been hitherto unknown to the botanists of Europe. The
bean is small, nearly white, and highly aromatic.
On Saturday the police emptied into the Seine, near
the Jardin des Plantes, nearly 500 casks of adulterated
red and white wines, which had been received at the
entrepot, from Rouen, at the end of 1843, but had hi-
therto been unsuspected.
The Council- General of the Moselle, and the Munici-
pal Council of Metz, have voted four millions of francs for
the prolongation of the Frouard and Metz railroad to
Sarra:buck. The department is to furnish 2,700,000 f.,
and the town of Metz the remainder.
A portscript to a communication from Berne, of the
27th ult., says :—" I have just heard that, in consequence
of the daily increasing defections from the Lucerne Go-
vernment's troops, the expedition of the free-corps is to
take place to-morrow. At the same time the Berne Go-
vernment (seeing that this revolutionary attempt no
longer requires its moral support) intends to issue a pro-
clamation prohibiting the people of its canton from join-
ing these free corps : their only object is to keep up some
appearances towards foreign diplomacy. The Russian
Minister has, according to report, delivered to the Vorort
a note drawn np in harsher language than those of
France, Austria, and Prussia.
A letter from Athens of the 18th ult. states that the
Russian Charge d'Afflores in that city had received fresh
dispatches from his Coml. They confirm the declara-
tion of the friendly disposition of Russia towards Greece
and the present Ministry.
MAW AND FOS/CV.
In the Bankruptcy Court, the examination of H. C.
Maine, late a grocer at Poole, was adjourned sine die.
'Mr: Commissioner Fane refused to grant the bankrupt
his protection. The case of John Brokenshire, the man
who endeavoured to hoax his creditors into a belief that
he had been drowned at Weston-Super-Mere, was again
before the Insolvent Court and again adjourned
At Monmouth, John Pritchard, was indicted for
<breaking into the dwelling-house of George Reynolds, at
4bergavenny, on the 7tb of December, and stealing
various articles of grocery therein. He was found
guilty, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
the prosecutor recommending him to mercy.
William Pilling, the manager of the Warrington
Branch of the Liverpool and Manchester District Bank,
was tried at Liverpool on a charge of robbing the bank,
.and of embezzling money. He was acquitted on both
Tharges.
At the Mansion-house yesterday, Elias Benfield, fore-
Emu in a mercantile house, in Tower-street, was charged
with having assaulted Captain Lewis, of the 2d Regiment
of Guards, and one of the privates of the same regiment.
The defendant refused to stand aside to let the Bank
picquet pass, and when touched by one of the men,
assaulted the man and also the officer, who attempted to
remonstrate with him. He was held to bail upon both
el-urges.
James Keefe, a tailor, was committed for six weeks,
from Bow-street, for dog-stealing.
At Marlborough-street Mr. B. C. Willis' of 52, Quad-
rant, was charged before Mr. Maltby, with having stolen
two bills of exchange for 5001. and 6001., the property of
Mr. Hearn, of 9, Pall-mall East. The particulars which
canoe out in evidence prove that a certain gang of bill-
swindlers, most of whom have over and over again been
at the bar of different police-courts, are, notwithstand
ing the publicity given to their fraudulent practices, at
present in full activity, and are carrying on their
schemes in various parts of the town under differ-
ent names. By some means or other the bills
in question, which were held by Mr. Hearn, as
ha stated, for a bona fide consideration, had been
obtained from the drawer Mr. Mytten, without con-
sideration, in fact, stolen from him,and be had em-
ployed Mr. Willis to vat them back. The case was
adjourned till Tuesday, the defendant being permitted
to go at large on bail.
James Herbert, a journayman shoemaker, charged
with cutting and wounding William Gurling with a
shoemaker's hammer iso serious a manner that his
life was committed from the Lambeth
Police-court.
At Greenwich, yesterday, Elizabeth George, servant
to a widow lady named Melhuish, residing at No. 1,
Park-row, Blackheath, was charged with embezzling
several sums entrusted to her for the payment of the
tradesmen's bills. After the evidence adduced, the pri-
soner said she had certainly used the moneys given by
her mistress to pay the weekly accounts, but would wil-
lingly make it all good if her mistress would allow time
for that purpose. She was fully committed to Newgate
for trial.
William Copsey was fully committed from the Thames-
office, on a charge of highway robbery, attended with
violence.

COUILT--FASIIIONABLE.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
Director of the Ancient Concerts, will entertain the
Duke of Wellington, the Archbishop of York, the Earl
of Cawdor, and a distinguished circle at dinner this
evening, at Cambridge House.
Marchioness of Wellesley and Miss Mactavish have ar-
rived at her Ladyship's residence at Rutland Gate, from
Paris, after a sojourn of nine months in that capital.
The Earl of Carlisle continues in improved health at
Castle Howard, Yorkshire, where a family circle is as-
sembled during the holidays.
The Countess of Cardigan has hastily left this country
for Rome, her Ladyship having received information
from Italy of the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Hubert
de Burgh, who, when the last letters were dispatched
from Rome, was alarmingly indisposed.
The Earl and Countess of Powis and the Ladies Her-
bert are expected to arrive at the family mansion, in
Berkeley-square, early in the ensuing week, from Wal-
cott Hall, the Noble Earl's seat in Shropshire.
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst have ar-
rived in town for the season. Lady Lyndhurst would
have joined the circle assembled at Belvoir Castle during
the visit of the Duchess of Cambridge and the Heredi-
tary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenbumh
Strelit:4 to the Duke of Rutland, but for the indispesitiOn
of Miss flopley, the Noble and Learned Lord's sister.
His Lordshu gives his customary dejeuner to the judges
and law offiCers on the commencement of Easter term,
on Monday week.
Earl Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington, Sir Charles
Shaw, Montague Gore, Esq., M.P., and a numerous
party of the local neighbouring gentry and clergy, at-
tended a meeting of the newly-established Barnstaple
Literary and Scientific Institution last week, to adopt
measures for its immediate opening.