The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-25 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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rOREZON.

On Tuesday afternoon the Ring of the French, accom-
panied by General Gourgaud, Colonel Dumas, and two or-
derly officers, ♦iaited St. Cloud, but returned to the Tuileries
to dinner.

The Moniteur Parisien states that Lieutenant-General
Count Pajol has been for the last two days in an alarming
state from the consequence of the fall which he experienced
some time since on leaving thi Tuileries. Another paper says
he expired on Thursday.
The Courrier Francais mentions a rumour that M. de Sal-
vandy is to be appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburgh or
Constantinople.
The Si?cle states that the Committee of the Chamber of
Deputies on the Budget has had the conversion of the Five
per Cents under its consideration, and that in the report
which it will submit to the Chamber it will not only main-
tain the right of the State to make the change, if considered
desirable; but will point out, in a marked manner, the ad-
vantage of the measure, and recommend to the Ministry to
take it into consideration without delay.
A letter from Beyrout, dated Feb. 17, in the Courrier
Francais, saws :—" The Albanian troops commanded by
Abbas-Aga having entered the Lebanon, some of them met
at Ouadi-el-Delab two farmers and a woman with a child in
her arms. They killed one of the men, and quartered the
child. The other man escaped, and it is not known what is
become of the woman. On a complaint of this outrage being
laid before the Pacha of Beyrout, he observed—' There is no
great harm done—it is only a trifle "
In execution of the rules for granting gratifications to such
drivers of fiacres, cabriolets, and other public carriages in
Paris, as have shown the greatest honesty, the Prefect of
Police has just awarded this mark of approbation to several
drivers. The property which these men have restored to
their owners, who left it in their carriages, during the year,
amounts to 22,719 f. 30c. in cash and bills, beSides a great
number of valuable articles.
The Manheim Journal states that the Russian army in
the Caucasus has recently experienced many reverses,
arising principally from the improved state of discipline
amongst the hardy mountaineers who are defending them-
selves against the invaders. It appears that several Poles, of
military experience, have succeeded in joining the. Circas-
sians, and giving to them the aid of their tactics.

LAW AND POLICE.
The Assizes at Cambridge were opened on Thursday, by
Lord Abinger. There were only seven common jury cases,
and a calendar of fifty prisoners.
At the Assizes at Exeter a man, named Walter Smith,
was indicted for a burglary in the house of Captain Hero, at
Stonehouse. The evidence against him being only that of
an accomplice, and unconfirmed, he was acquitted. For the
same reason, he was acquitted on four other charges. At the
same Assizes two men, named Denham and Crocker, were
indicted for sacrilege, in having broken open the church of
Exminster, and stolen two surplices, the gold fringe from the
pulpit-cushion, and other articles. The surplices were cut
up in order to make shirts, and the gold fringe brought for
sale to the house of a Jew. When Denham was asked by the
Learned Judge if ho wished to say anything to the jury, he
replied " Yes ;" and forthwith commenced addreAsing them,
which he did with great effect, pointing out is a forcible and
almost oratorical manner, the points in the evidence which
made in his favour, whilst he recapitulated the story he had
before told the policeman. Crocker said nothing. The jury
acquitted Denham, and found Crocker guilty; sentence was
deferred.
Mrs. Mary Keene, a widow, about fifty years of age, the
landlady of the Lord Kendal public-house, Cambridge-street,
Edgeware-road, was brought before Mr. Long, at Maryle-
bone, upon a charge of stealing, from a Paddington omnibus,
in which she was a casual passenger yesterday morning, a
piece of Irish linen. On missing the parcel, the conductor
went after the prisoner, and found it in her possession, when
she apologised, and begged that nothing would be said about
it. At the station-house she alleged that she had been
making purchases, and mistook the parcel taken for her own.
She was remanded, bail being refused.
A court-martial has been ordered by the Lords of the Ad-
miralty to assemble at Portsmouth, for the trial of the en-
gineer of the Prometheus, on charges of neglect of duty,
whereby the boilers of that vessel were damaged and the
machinery deranged.
George Guam, the young man who was some days ago
brought up on suspicion of having been concerned in the rob-
bery of the City of Boulogne steam-vessel belonging to the
Commercial Steam-packet Company, was put to the bar of
the Mansion-house, in the custody of Daniel Forrester, for
re-examination. He was again remanded. _ _

James Stokes, a man having all the appearance of a steady
servant, was charged at the Guildhall with having systema-
tically plundered his employers of various kinds of paper,
Messrs. Weadon, Smith, and Co., wholesale stationers, in
Paternoster-row. He had enjoyed their confidence for the last
fifteen years. He was committed for trial.