The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Publtc Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
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On Saturday the King of the French, accompaniea
Count Montalivet and three Generals, left Neuilly.L"
Versailles, and returned in the evening, when his
jesty received at dinner the Grand Duke of Hesse,
Pasquier, and the Ministers of Sardinia, Sweden, Pi
tugal, and Saxony.
The King, by royal ordonnance, has dissolved '
Polytechnic School. By another ordonnance, of ,
same date, the Minister of the Navy and Colonies, Aar°.
miral de Mackau, is entrusted, ad interim, with the
partment of War.
.The Government, it was said, had received fresh ne_l6.
by telegraph. Marshal Bugeaud has left Sala Algol;
for Fez, which he will slowly approach. The Prince
Joinville has orders to bombard all the towns on 1"",
coast, but not to remain before any of them longer
two days.
It was reported at Oran that Abd-el-Kader had 11
the Moorish army, and had gone to the western Virg
the Moorish territory.
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The Constitutionnel mentions a report that a Pr-0
the Moorish troops had entered the town of Tanglered
soon as the French cannonade commenced, and destroy
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the houses of the consuls, besides committing other
cesses '• but the report was not believed.
The Madrid Gazette, of the 12th, states that the 13111
of San Fernando was only to advance 50,000,00°,j
reads for August, because the Minister of Finance Pjj
considered that sum sufficient for the wants of
Government, and that the proceeds of the taxes collo;i
by the Bank in July last, had amounted to 57,544 s
reels.

MAW AND POLICE.
There were fifteen cases heard on Monday in the
of Bankruptcy, before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanqn
In one of them the bankrupt was opposed on the gro
of having vexatiously defended an action. In the COf;i
of his (the bankrupt's) cross-examination, it aPPe:4
that the Learned Counsel, who was severely pro'""
him, had actually signed the plea on which the dell
was mainly grounded. The Commissioner smiled, A.
Counsel blushed, and, ultimately, the bankrupt wee p 035,
The Central Criminal Court resumed its sittings, W;;•
the Recorder having addressed the grand jury.P„ho.-
ceeded to dispose.f some cases of misdemeanour. s'"-0(
Richard Downee, for embezzling money, the propertY„t,
his master,was sentenced to twelve months' imprieouw'"
In the New Court, William Warmington, a s-,°1,411
was indicted for a felonious assault on Catherine IN s;te
Ile was convicted of a common assault, and sentencedll
be imprisoned a month. Charles Daniels, for stela',
three halfpence, having been previously convict
felony, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonnienriee
-Maria Lewis and Harriet Smith were indicted re,
stealing six yards of printed cotton, value 51., the_.„l?
perty of W. Webb. The evidence was conclusive ar
b '-ul
both prisoners, and they were pronounced Gilroy
It was then proved that Lewis was convicted of felt°
in this Court last April, hence she was now sentence" to
seven years' transportation ; and the other prisoner
three months' herd labour in the House of CorrectinTere
The Middlesex Sessions commenced on Monday be e
Alr. Serjeant Adams, the newly appointed assistslo
judge.
This was the first Session under the new Ant' ,
the better administration of criminal justice in Middleso e
The calendar was exceedingly light ; it contained
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names of twenty-four prisoners for trial, sixteen of p
were indicted for felony, and the remainder for asssl4
and misdemeanours. tte4
A fisherman, named Janes White, was conunl-
from Brentford for a gross outrage on two children.
At Bow-street, Michael Read and Jane Furphfled•
brought before Mr. Hall, the former charged wil"1; •
riously and cruelly stabbing James O'Flaherty, Nt
pair of scissors, and the latter with being in his comPsrle
aiding and abetting him. Read was remanded, in 0 no.
to give the prosecutor, who is severely injured, or1,1;0,
portunity of recovering sufficiently to appear against ;tea
Patrick Larkin, a letter-carrier, was fully cononii
for stealing 7801. from letters at the Post-office,
Mrs. Pelham, accompanied by her legal adviser, Ws' 0.
on Mr. Burrell, at Queen-square, for the purpose Sate'
tradicting the statement made by a Mrs. Bird, on ate
day, to the effect that Wilson Pelham, who had al*lvof
passed as Mrs. Pelham's son, was, in fact, the slere,
Mrs. Bird, who had been kidnapped from her. .te.
Pelham distinctly denied the truth of Mrs. Bird'S 21"
Inca.
John Merry, charged with stealing two silver sP°°°'
was remanded for a ortniht e 4
Mr. Maltby, the (Magistrate at Marlborough's b tre ile
fined Isaac Sorrell, a coachman, 3/., for having' en'
driving a carriage up Oxford-street, assaulted two b
tlemen, by striking them with a whip. toth
Three women, named Buckley, Pierce, and Theme 00,
were charged at 'Lambeth-street, before Mr. Snreife
with robbing a captain of a vessel of a 51. note and thwoose
sovereigns. The robbery had been committed in - es'
of ill-fame. After a considerable time having„teilitrate
pended in the investigation of the case, the 0-“'"fsCor-
committed Buckley and Thompson to the House Tio
rectiou for two months, and Pierce was discharged' s ere
note was returned to the captain, the Magistrate °LA
ing A
he richly deserved to lose it.
coarse vulgar-looking woman named Eliza 1‘
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was charged at Worship-street, with robbing 4,
Henry Barnes. The prisoner had stopped the Prty
tutor in Shoreditch under pretence of asking her 1/
and accompanied him a short distance until siteinel!he
tall man to whom she said all right and bolted. he
prosecutor was then attacked by the man whnia
shook off ; and starting in pursuit of the prisoner, clot
tured her. She was remanded in order to give tiale
the capture of her accomplice. • 00
A gentleman named N\ alker applied to the regisnar
for assistance, in precuting the enlargement of a gf" he
man named White from a lunatic asylum, in wl" ter
had been incarcerated by the authorities at the Char ro.
house. Certificates from various medical men were Poe
duced, testifying to Mr. White's perfect sanity.
mstrate told him he must sue out a writ of liabeettb
William Postlethwayte charged at Union.hall,
attempting to violate Mrs. Eliza Augusta-Townsendt
remanded.
At the Thames-office, Mr. Kennedy, clerk to the' 60
of Ditehburn and Mare, iron steam-boat budderssr
Blackwell, made application to Mr. Broderip for aerated
rant to apprehend ten apprentices who had ans'oe.
themselves trent their employ without leave. The
rants were granted.

COIL If ALT —rasHlO N Ma'
Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley left town oe
day by the two o'clock train, for the Reading staP°lo
the Great Western railway, for Strathfieldsay, t.°,4 of
the distinguished circle invited to meet the Pile—
Vi
Pru, r s
co Viscount Sandon and family with a party o. frtdBD,
have arrived at Burnt Norton, near Chippers Ca''
where they intend staying a month or two, • ed‘t
The Prince and Princess Radzivill and suite aril/con'
the Brunswick lletel, Jermyn-street, from the
tinent. re
The Marquis of Worcester was expected to exl.l
town yesterday from Wales. e
The Earl and Countess of Orford are residi
Wiesbaden for the summer. Ai
Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn have errive,ised
Cawdor Castle, North Britain, on a visit to Ler"
Lady Cawdor, from St. Leonard's, near Windsor- left
The arrivals at Leamington Spa have lately bec'. an
numerous, and comprise many families of ree.,,writ
affluence. Among the most recent are Viscount P.,,`",roef
M.P., and Viscountess Newry, Lord and Lady AP„ica•
Lord Calthorp, Lord Blayne, Lady Montagu, 14r, fiplceo
uterine Tollemache, Lady enlock, Lady birbbisoes
Lady Farquhar, Hon. Mrs. Sneyd, W. B. Wrigigkier
Esq., M.P., Colonel Fielding, Colonel Maxwell, sc.
Best, Captain D'Eyncourt, R.N., Sir Richard Ottiel'
AILISOZI46./13731101716. opd frel
The Great Western steam-ship, which se"--„114-
Liverpool on Saturday for New York, carries °-
passengers. 10101'
0n Saturday afternoon the Prince of Vire•-ia :age •
with steamer, Captain John Stevens, on her CO
London, while coming into Greenwich, ran ere
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siderable force against the pier, when one of t".°,oence
who was holding out the fender to prevent the "to the
of the concussion, was thrown off the vessel o%oo'
pier with such force, that he received a com Pee; the
ture of the thigh. The paddle-box was stave 1 'O3OrP
wheel doubled up, and the shaft and machinery
damaged. ifig, an!
Camberwell fair commenced on Monday reeriLiciefe
a finer day for the amusement of the holiday, of the
was never seen. The shows were numerous Or
oily he:,
first-rate order, embracing every natural curial 'rod
tween the torrid and frigid zones. " OriFsnive Prer;
Thumbs," and " Unquestionable Ojibbeways Vitt
servation," are in great abundance. The vish"t ore'"
very numerous, and throughout the day the
bel
prevailed. • tie° cee
The Local Committee of the British Aso° pOll/1
issued circulars from the " Museum, York," to 014 hald
t.
the forthcoming meeting of the Association, or, whicro
in that city, commencing on the 26th Septee'brol year
is six weeks later than the time appointed for
meeting. vieg en
The Governorship of Dumbarton Castle hl", ,nodoe
abolished upon the demise of General Lord tote ?
the 01'
the governors house and premises fall jet°, wish A
Ordnance I and the intention is there to ee's
litary prison for North Britain. aehellhiPf
The Bishop of London has conferred the Prennogb,
of the Charter-house on the Rev. Folliett ibbe'
parish,llord Oa nxdfotrhde,
aßnedv.FSeilWo
walodfeAg rialvseo,
icilusrcatoeueegf Old
to succeed Mr. Baugh at Ilford.

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more or , sole.,
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in the Horse battles hsauspdosed the mar of the artillery in his " , ;
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his advanced age the slightest symptom 0, "re-Adler
ment cannot but be regarded with uneasiness
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Mackerel have been so abundant at Brighton -.ltipl.
that some very fine fish were retailed at twelve', Sbi' •
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WEST INDIA PINE ArPLEs.---YesterdaY, -Ivo id
sand more of this fruit were sob' by Mr. Adll'o-
Pudding-lane, Monument-yard. The fruit was
lk The
cellent quality and realised from 2s to 55• "CS. thio
pine apple season in the Bahamas, from ‘ole"Zi. 0
fruit was brought, continues from June till Septat7n-IL
that further importations may be expected tho 1"""