The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-19 00:00:00

rox.Exems.

The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance, dated St.
Cloud, 7th instant, prescribing the publication of the
convention entered into with the Emperor of Morocco
on the 10th September, and ratified on the 26th Octo-
ber. The ordonnance is followed by the convention,
which differs in no point from the copy which we have
already published.
The Minister of the Interior has just signed an autho-
risation in favour of an important decision which was
come to a few days ago, by the Council of the Mont de
Pile, at which the Prefect of the Seine presided. By
this decision, with a view to the relief of the indigent
during the winter season, a sum of 11100,000 f. is to be
employed during the first three months of 1845, in loans
without interest. The maximum of the loans is to be
twenty francs, and the minimum three, and no persons
will be permitted to make pledges for loans free from
interest, except the indigent, who have certificates from
the Bureaux de Bienfaisance.
M. Alexandre Gouin, member of the Chamber of De-
puties, banker at Tours, and formerly Minister of Finance,
has consented to become Managing Director of Laffitte
and Co.'s Bank, which will henceforth be entitled the
bank of " A. Gouin and Co."
According to the journals of the south the cold in
Languedoc, last week, was quite as severe as in Paris.
Indeed, at Montpellier, on the night of the Bth, the ther-
mometer fell nearly half a degree centigrade lower than
the lowest point in Paris. A young soldier was frozen
to death on the road from Lod 'e to Caylar; and on
Monday morning last a boy was frozen to death in a
boat in the port of Marseilles.
It is stated by a Brussels paper that the cold in Bel-
gium, last week, was so intense, that several children
were found frozen to death in the snow.
" A new amnesty for political offenders has been talked
of," says the Constilstionnel, "but we learn that M.
Toussant Michel, condemned to six months' imprison-
ment for a pamphlet entitled Caduciti des Religions,'
and whose term expired on Saturday, is still detained,
and will hare to remain in confinement twelve months
longer for non-payment of 2,413 f., the amount of his
fine, and the costs of the prosecution."
Our accounts from Berlin of the 12th state that at
Lucerne on the 11th there was no change in the situation
of the repective paities. The Government was adopting
vigorous measures against the rebel chiefs who had
fallen into his hands, and the journals favourable to the
insurrection had suspended publication under the dread
of prosecution.
The Messager publishes the following return of the
vessels entering the port of Papeiti (Otaheite) during
the first three months of 1844 :—Whalers (French) 3,
measuring together 715 tons, with cargoes valued at
222,000 fr. ; English, 1, of 350 tons, cargo 95,000 fr. ;
American, 15, 4,853 tons, cargoes 877,000 fr.; Bremen,
1, of 340 tons, cargo9s,ooofr.—Trading vessels (French),
8, measuring together 243 tons, cargoes 16,250 fr., be-
sides 5 vessels freighted by the State ; English, 9, to-
gether 1,094 tons, cargoes 221,500 fr. ; Chilian, 1, of
115 tons, cargo 15,000 fr. ; Danish, 2, 635 tons, cargoes
65,000 fr.
The Chamber of Nobles of Sweden decided, on the
23d ult., by a large majority, that, on the intended in-
troduction of a new monetary system. the decimal divi-
sion shall be adopted, notwithstanding the opposition of
the bank committee to this mode of division
Another gang of malefactors, ten in number, called
La Bande du Marais, was tried last week by the Paris
Court of Assize. An immense number of robberies
were proved against them, chiefly on the evidence of a
portion of the gang, and on Saturday a verdict of guilty
was recorded against the whole of them. The most
criminal were sentenced to various terms of imprison-
ment, of from five to ten years, at the Bagne, and the
least criminal were condemned to solitary confinement
or simple imprisonment for periods of three to six years.
We learn from Strasburg that the steeple of the
cathedral, which, from some unknown cause, has been
for some time gradually diverting from the pet pen-
dicular, now leans so much that the summit is two
metres out of a line with the base. Great fears are
entertained of its falling.
LAW AND POLICE.

At the Liverpool assize, Thomas Stew was convicted
of the wilful murder of Alice Nolan, at Manchester, by
cutting her throat, and sentenced to death.
Paul Downing, 19, and Charles Powys, 17, were in-
dicted, at Stafford, for the wilful murder of William
Cooper, at Audley, on the 4th August last, the head
gamekeeper to Sir Thomas Boughey. The trial lasted
all Monday, and was adjourned.
At the Guildhall Walter Bennet, a lad about ten years
of age, who was brought up at this court on the 21st of
November last for stabbing an apprentice in the employ
' of Mr. Graham, of Bride-lane, with a gouge, and who
has been remanded from time to time in consequence of
the dangerous nature of the wound, was again placed at
the bar with a view to the obtainment of his liberation.
A surgeon's certificate was handed in, stating that the
boy Ingrain was now out of danger, but still too weak to
attend and give his evidence. Alderman Johnson said
he should not allow the affair to end in that manner. He
must see the boy in court, and for that purpose he
should remand the prisoner for another week.
Tuesday, Sarah Smith, a middle-aged woman, who
had been for the last four or five years engaged as a
charwoman at the houses of several respectable persons
at Chelsea and Brompton, and availed herself of the
opportunity so afforded to plunder her employers to a
considerable extent, was committed, on three distinct
charges, from Queen-square.
Four men, named Pear, Elliott, Carr, and Donovan,
were on Tuesday placed at the bar at Union-hall, before
Mr. Traill, charged with being concerneol in manufac-
turing glass in an unlicensed house. Mr. Traill inflicted
the penalty of 301. on each of the prisoners. In default
of payment they were committed to prison for three
months.

The following notice was posted outside Union-hall :
—" By an Order in Council the Police-court, Union-
hall, will close after the 28th init., when the estalalish-
ment will be removed to the Police-court Blackman-
street. By order of the magistrates,
" N. EDWIN, Chief Clerk."
James Webb, aged 18, was committed at Clerkenwell
for stealing a gown, the property of his mother, a poor
widow living in John-street, Tottenham-court-road.