The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-18 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubtir 14: pinton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

On Thursday, the King of the French, attended by
General Friant, the Count de Strada, and two orderly officers,
left the Tuileries, at three o'clock, for Saint Cloud, where he
remained till five, and then returned. In the evening, their
Majesties received the British Ambassador, the Portuguese
and Tuscan Ministers, Counts Merlin and de Brigode, Peers
of France, Admiral Baron de la Susse, and the Baron de
Bougainville.
Snow began to fall in Paris on Saturday morning, between
ten and eleven o'clock, and continued heavily throughout
the day.
The Univers says—" Up to the 10th inst., nine archbishops
and nearly forty bishops had signified their approval of the
pastoral letter of Cardinal de Ronald, conderuring M. Dupin's
work. It is probable that at present the number is increased."
The Moniteur Parisien contradicts from authority the
statement that N. de Rothschild had purchased estates of
Prince Puckler Muskau.

The funeral of M. Dujarrier, who was killed in the duel
with M. Beauvallon, took place on Friday at two o'clock.
The hearse, drawn by four horses, was followed by a very
long train of mourners, consisting of the family and friends
of the deceased, to the cemetery of Montmartre, all on foot
and uncovered. The pall was borne by MM. de Balzac,
Alexandre Dumas, Wry, and Emile Girardin, the latter of
whom delivered an impressive oration over the grave.
It appears by a letter from Naples that, in the early part
of the last month, several shocks of earthquake were felt
in various parts of Calabria, but they were not attended
with any disaster. Considerable injury, however, was done
by a storm on the 3d, on the coast near Gallipoli and Otranto.
A letter from Stockholm, of the 21st ult., states that the
municipality of that capital has come to a unanimous
resolution to erect in it an equestrian statue in bronze of
the late King Charles John, the model of which is to come
from the hands of Schwanthaler, the celebrated sculptor of
Munich.

The great cattle-show at Poissy will be held on Wednes-
day next. At one o'clock will take place the sale of the
bulls, cows, and heifers of the Durham breed from the expe-
rimental farm of Du Pin. The Duke de Nemours, it is said,
has intimated his intention of presiding at the distribution of
the prizes, and in the evening there will be a grand dinner of
distinguished agriculturists, at which the Minister of Com-
merce and Agriculture will preside.
A trial of the electrical telegraph took place on Tuesday,
on the part of the Orleans line lying between the terminus
at Paris and Ivry, and was perfectly satisfactory. The Com-
pany, it is said, intend immediately prolonging the apparatus
to Juvisy.

COURT-FASHIONABLE.
Sir James and Lady Graham entertained the Duke de
Broglie, the Count de St. Aulaire, Count Pollon, the Earl of
Aberdeen, Lord Brougham, the Earl and Countess of Lin-
coln, the Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Lord John
Manners, Lady Dufferin, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Sheridan, Mr.
G. Hope, and a distinguished circle, at dinner, on Saturday
last, at the Right Hon. Baronet's house, in Hill-street.
The Earl of Ellenborough had a dinner party on the same
evening, at the Noble Earl's residence in Charles-street,
Berkeley-square, when Lord Granville Somerset, Lord Fitz-
roy Somerset, Sir John Macdonald, Sir Thomas Herbert, Sir
George Clerk, the Right Hon. George Dawson, the Right
Hon. J. C. Herries, Viscount Jocelyn, Colonel Cluny, Colonel
Cureton, the Hon. William Bingham Baring, Mr. Bonham,
Colonel Seward, &c., were present.
The Right Hon Thomas Grenville's dinner party, in
Hamilton-place, was attended by Lord and Lady Mahon, the
Earl of Clare, Lady Davy, Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., the Hon.
George and Lady Louisa Fortescue, Lord and Lady Dalmeny
Mr. S. Rogers, tic.
The infant son and heir of the Marquis and Marchioness
of Douglas will take the title of Earl of Angus, being one of
the Earldoms possessed by his noble grandfather, the Duke
of Hamilton.

Viscount Melbourne leaves town in a few days for Brockett
Hall, Herts, for the Easter recess, where Lord and Lady
Beauvale, and a select party, will assemble. The Noble
Viscount will be absent from town about three weeks.

Viscount Morpeth left town on Saturday, for Castle
Howard, the seat of the Earl of Carlisle, in Yorkshire.
Lord Cottenham has purchased the spacious mansion of
the late Sir Bethel Codrington, in Park-lane, and the edifice
is undergoing re- embellishment, previous to its occupancy by
the Noble and Learned Baron and family.
'The Duke de Broglie arrived on Saturday evening, at the
French embassy in Manchester-square, and we understal.d
he will remain with Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambas-
sados, during his sojourn in this country.