The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubitt Optntott.

" Who runs may read."

FOESEIGN.

A further rise took place in the French funds on Thursday,
when the Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 85c., and the Fives
at 124 f. 65c.

No Bill will be proposed in the French Chambers this ses-
sion for a pension to the Duke of Nemours.
The Tribunal of First Instance has declared itself incom-
petent to decide on the claim of Louis Napoleon against the
public Treasury for the sum of 1,800,000 f.
According to a calculation in the Patrie, the cost to France
of the conquest and occupation of Algeria amounts to 670 mil-
lions of francs. On the other hand the Government has re-
ceived-1 st, the treasure taken at Algiers, and the treasure of
the materiel, estimated together at 54,737,000; and 2d, in
revenue, from 1831 to 1843, a sum of 46,000,000, making the
total loss hitherto sustained 569,263,000 f. (22,400,0001.)
The Frankfort journals of the Ist announce the arrival in
that city of the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary,
her daughter.
The Prussian State Gazette, of Dec. 31, publishes a royal
ordonnance far organising benevolent societies. As a preliminary
measure, it restores the ancient order of the Swan, founded by
the Elector Frederick 11. New statutes are to be drawn up,
and a council is to be formed to direct the efforts of the society.
The King and the Queen are to be at the head of the Order,
and all other benevolent societies are to be subject to the direc-
tion of that of the Swan.

A letter from Rome announces the death in that city, on the
23d ult., of General Paskewitsch, brother of the Governor-
General of Warsaw.

The Augsburgh Gazette states from Rome, Dec. 22, that
the Papal Government has ordered a levy of men for the army,
for the purpose of placing it on a footing to resist any attempt
that may be made to disturb public order.
Accounts from Athens of the 19th ult. state that the
National Assembly had concluded its preliminary arrange-
ments, and was preparing to discuss the draught of the Consti-
tution. The greatest tranquillity prevailed throughout Greece.

LAW'

11.1‘D POLICE.

At the Chester assizes Samuel Maddock, 53, tailor, was
charged with the wilful murder of Matthias Bailey, game-
keeper to George Wilbraham, Esq.. of Delamere House, on
the 28th day of July, at Crowton. The jury found him Not
Guilty. . . .

George Fox, aged 35, was charged at the same assizes with
the wilful murder of his wife, Charlotte Fox, at Stockport, on
the Ist of December last. The jury found him guilty of man-
slaughter, and the Learned Judge sentenced him to two years'
hard labour.

William Christey, a Custom-house agent, was brought before
the Lord Mayor by Inspector Waller, upon a warrant, charged
with having been concerned in frauds committed at the Cus-
tom-house. The prosecution is instituted by the Board of
Customs, and he is charged with returning a smaller amount
of sugar than that chargeable on certain goods imported. He
was released on giving heavy bail to appear and take his trial
at the Central Criminal Court.

James Bovington, aged 29, and William Andrews, two re-
spectable-looking mechanics, were indicted at the Surrey ses-
sions for feloniously stealing on the 23d of December last, 128
pounds of brass, fixed in a mill or building, the property of the
Right Hon. Beaumont Lord Hotham and Sir George Henry
Frederick Berkeley, K.C.B. They were found guilty, but
their counsel moved an arrest of judgment, on the ground that
one of the parties in the indictment was wrongly described.
The case will be argued on the first day of term before the
judges at Westminster.
A summons having been applied for and obtained at Marl-
borough-street against the coachman of Count Pollon, the
Sardinian Minister, for refusing to pay the reward adjudged to
the firemen who attended to extinguish a fire which occurred
at the Sardinian Minister's stables, the sitting magistrate re-
ceived a note from his Excellency, stating that the defendant
was his servant, and that he pleaded his privilege as an Am-
bassador to protect him from any process, the demand being an
unjust one. The summons was therefore cancelled.