The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-10 00:00:00

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On Tuesday, the King of the French, accompanied by
General de Rumigny, and two orderly officers, came to Paris.
His Majesty went to visit the exhibition at the Louvre, after
which lie returned to Neuilly, where he arrived at six o'clock.
In the evening, their Mitjasties received the Belgian Am-
bassador,,the Tuscan Minister, Marshal Gerard, the Prefect
of the Sein'e, Generals Doge de la Brunerie, Colbert, de
Preval, and Friant, Messrs. Vatout and Vigier, Deputies, and
Colonel Dumas.
A correspondent of Calignani writes :—" I see in the mis-
cellaneous grants of the House of Commons, a certain sum
voted for a monument to Sir Sidney Smith. An uncertain
sum was subscribed here for the same purpose. Can you tell
me what has become of this money, or if a monument has
been erected in Pere la Chaise?"
The Carlsruhe Journal announces that Kehl, on the Rhine,
has been declared a free port.
A letter from Cordova (Spain), of the 25th ult., represents
that province to be overrun by an audacious band of robbers.
On the 23d they stopped a diligence on the mountains be-
tween Cordova and Villa Viciosa, and, after stripping the
passengers and the conductor of all their money and other
valuables, went off with three of their best horses, and the fire-
arms and ammunition. •
A private letter from Barcelona, of the 31st ult., mentions,
that the feeling of the population towards the Queen Mother
was of a very unfriendly nature, and that placards insulting
to her Majesty had been posted in various parts of the city.
The Courtier says—" It is asserted that the two hundred
pupils of the Polytechnic School, who went on Sunday to pay
a pious homage to the ashes of M. J. Laffitte are confined
for a month. Yesterday, the usual day of going out, not one
of those young men passed the walls of the school. It is even
said that several of them have been placed under arrest."
On Monday, a little after twelve o'clock, as a workman
was lying asleep on a heap of straw, below the Pont Louis-
Philippe, probably still suffering from his too copious pota-
tions of the preceding day, some children conceived the idea
of setting fire to the straw with a chemical match. The poor
workman was rescued from the flames with the utmost dif-
ficulty, but with Ilia legs and thighs much burnt. He was
taken to the Hotel Dieu.

We have learnt that the man who threw himself from one
of the towers of Notre Dame on Monday was not a tailor,
but the son of a man in business in the Rue Vaugirard,
named Boucher. It appears that, though not in positive dis-
tress, their affairs were not prosperous, and young Boucher
was under constant apprehension of being separated from his
family, and obliged to seek his bread elsewhere, and this
preyed on his mind. The back of his head struck the ground,
so that his face was not the least disfigured, and when taken
up his eyes were shut.
The Vesuvius and Geyser British steamers arrived at
Marseilles on the sth inst., the first coming from Barcelona,
and the other from Malta. It was understood that these are
to wait the arrival of the new Governor-General of India to
convey him and his suite to Alexandria.
LAW AND POLXCE.
Joseph Clarke, a horse-dealer, lodging in Bullen-court, in
the Strand, was charged at the Guildhall with conspiring,
with a person not in custody, to defraud Charles Osborne, a
poor man living on Walworth-common of a gelding and a
cart, in Smithfield market on the Bth of March last. He was
remanded on bail. -

Charlotte‘M`Gee and Henry Barnes, the former of whom
is well known as a begging-letter impostor, were charged at
Queen-square with having attempted to impose upon Chris-
topher Turner, Esq., M.P. for South Lancashire. They were
each committed for three months and hard labour. •
George Gray, porter to the Horticultural Society, Regent-
street, was charged at Marlborough-street with having em-
bezzled money which he had received for subscribers' tickets,
As it was suspected there were other cases of a similar nature,
Mr. Hardwick agreed to remand the prisoner for a few days.
Susan Smith was brought up at Marylebone for final exa-
mination, on the charge of having robbed her master, Mr.
Swaine, a linendraper, &c. in an extensive way oL business at
40, Chapel-street, Edgware-road, of property to a consider-
able amount. She was fully committed for trial.
Jonathan Davis, a cow-keeper, in Back Church-lane, and
Benjamin Davis, were placed at the bar at Lambeth-street,
on the double charge of violently assaulting Morgan Jones,
and stealing from his person 351. in Bank of England notes.
The evidence was such that the magistrate could not treat
the case as a felony, and the prisoners were held to bail to
appear on a future day.
Elizabeth Whitburn, a young woman, late in the service
of Mr. Studley, of Alfred-place, Brixton, was brought up for
re-examination at Union-hall, charged with stealing a gold
watch, a diamond brooch, and other articles of jewellery, to
the amount of upwards of 1001., the property of her master.
She was again remanded.
John Sharratt, a middle-aged man, of respectable appear-
ance, a foreman late in the empley of the East and West
India Dock Company, was (on remand) charged at Thames-
street with stealing 1 cwt. of cotton, the property of the Com-
pany, that quantity being named merely to ground the charge
of felony upon. The Dock officers having to collect a large
body of evidence the case was again postponed.