The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubltr eptnton.

" Who runs may read."

Eliza Daley, aged 20, James Daley, aged 30, gnat
Elizabeth Daley, aged 60. were charged with having, $t
Manchester, on the 26th of July, attempted to suffoel.l
and drown a newborn male child. The Lord Chief
Baron, before whom they were tried, directed their aci
quittal, but ordered them to be detained on a charge °
exposing the child, of which the younger prisoner is the
mother.

Alfred Locke, Thomas Jennings, and Ellen Letelli
were convicted of breaking into the dwelling-house
Deborah Taylor, and stealing upwards of 3001. in monef,
and some silver spoons. The two male prisoners were
rather stylishly dressed, and appeared of a better els°
than those who usually make their appearance in the doe.lf.:
William Swanton, indicted for the murder of his wur:
at Wigan, by kicking her, was found guilty of man
slaughter.

M: A. Buller, a young girl, was indicted for an at'
tempt to suffocate a child, Rosanna Monday, by throwing
her into a privy. The prisoner, who is nearly an idiot,
was acquitted on the ground of insanity.
James Burgess was indicted for attempting to murder
his wife by strangling her. He was found guilty of 411
aggravated assault, and sentenced to two years' imprisoD-
ment.

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Lord and Lady Ravensworth have arrived at Rargi
worth Castle.
The Earl of Falmouth has left Tregothnon, hiseit
in Cornwall, and is at present staying with the Dowser
Countess at Woolhatnpton, near Newbury.
The Earl of Harrowby has arrived at Port Eliot, on
visit to the Earl St. Germains, where Lord and Lacif
Jemima Eliot and a numerous family circle are Weill-
bled.

The Earl of Lonsdale left Lowther Castle on Saa
day morning for Whitehaven Castle.
Viscount Melbourne has returned to South-street freul
Nuneham Park. His Lordship is expected to leave tom
about the latter end of the week for Brocket Hall.
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The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of C°l-:
mons has left Taymouth Castle, the Marquis of Brad,.
albane's magnificent seat in Perthshire, for town, inters
in en route to pay several visits.
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The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady
t,
Campbell are expected to leave Connaught-place
of
to-day for Inverary Castle, N. 8., which will be Iti'•
visitants at the end of the ensuing month.
The Duke of Roxburghe has arrived at his shootill
quarters, Byrecleugh, where his Grace and party hiss
had good sport since the commencement of the grow
shooting.
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The Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and faniq hie
passing the summer at Tunbridge Wells. The Pe'
Marquis's health has of late improved.
• te The Marquis of Conyngham has gone on a cruise
of
the eastern coasts from Southampton, in the Flower
Yarrow yacht. The Noble Marquis was at Harwich °n
Thursday last.
The Earl and Countess of Morley have received & suct
cession of friends at Saltoun, Devon, during the lay
week.
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The Earl and Countess of Zetland arrived at
Hall, nig-
Hall, York, on Tuesday last, from Kerse House, Stallinee
shire. The Countess's health has greatly
her departure from towr.
arrived at
The Earl and Countess of Galloway have aria
their seat in Scotland.
by hire
The Earl of Besborough and Ladies Ponson
yea.
arrived at Besborough House, Kilkenny, from
dish-square, at which seat the Noble Earl and
The Or'
have made arrangements to pass the autumn.
welcome
val of his Lordship at his paternal estates was weic
by his tenantry by every possible mark of esteoeT.,,_een.,
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Governor f, ,eft
improved
with Hospital, anti Lady Stopford and family, have
the Royal Hospital for Leamington Spa. gl/,
Colonel Peel has, we hear, taken Bagingfou
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Thompson, and the Hon. Mr. Dundas, have also
on a visit to Sir James and Lady Anne.
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DIZEICIII LLANZOUS.
The Queen has been pleased to signify, through the
Lord Chamberlain, to the respective 11* wagon, that

FOZGN.
On Wednesday evening the King and Queen of Lb►e
French received the Danish Minister, the Minister of
Public Instruction, Count de Beauregard, attach 6 to the
Embassy at the Court of Sardinia, M. Boulay (de 11
Meurthe), deputy, and Viscount Duchesne.
On Wednesday the Austrian Ambassador had a pri'
vate audience of the King, to deliver to his Majesty let-
ters from the Emperor of Austria, in answer to the Ow
munication of the birth of his Royal Highness the Duke
d'Alencon.
The Journal de la Haye of Wednesday announces the
death of the Grand Duchess Alexandra in a way which
leaves little doubt (that journal being semi-official) of the
event having taken place. It says, "It is with deep, in
gret that we announce that the Court has just received
the sad news of the death of the Grand Duchess Ales'
andra, wife of his Royal Highness Prince Fre3erick of
Hesse, and niece of our august Sovereign."
A royal ordonnance has just been signed, appointing
a new branch in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to'
which the direction of all business relating to Amen°
and the East and West Indies is to be entrusted. M.
Lavergne, maitre des reque tes, and already employed "'
the political part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs'
has been placed at the head of this new departmen‘
which is to be both political and commercial.
The Marquis of Queensberry has arrived at the Het./
Bristol, Place VendOme.
M. de Broglie, Secretary of the French Embassy la
Madrid, arrived at Paris on Friday.
At the sitting of the Academy of Sciences on the 19th
instant, a letter was read from Baron Charles Dupin re,"
lative to the dissolution of the Polytechnic School. es'
Dupin, being absent from Paris, apprised the AcadelnY
that he was anxious to uphold its prerogatives and re'
quested that the speech in this sense which he had made
in the Chamber of Peers on the Ist inst. might be
read
to the Academy. This was accordingly done, and ,
Arago then stated that whilst he fully concurred with`
their annual president, M. Dupin, in his desire to nisi °.
taro the prerogatives of the Academy, he wished to Or
re ;
ct an error into which M. Dupin had fallen. He tau
said that the right of the Academy to name a single
candidate as professor and examiner dated from the 1;4"
rectory, and existed under the Empire and the Bestow
tion. M. Arago said that this right, which would become illusory if the view taken of it by the Government were' to be tolerated, dated from the revolution of 1830.
The report of the Emperor of Morocco having
plied with the demands of Spain is again repeated,
out 3
is on the authority of private letters which cvdmot be
relied on.
The Duke d'Ossuna, supposed to be one of the
wealthiest grandees in Spain, is so ill that; his life is de'
spaired of. lie is labouring under an attack of the
brain fever.
It is reported ttiat the Spanish Consul at Gibraltar
hEss attempted to inveigle the refugees in that place t°
make an incursion into Spain. If this report be true his
conduct is most atrocious.
The Ohservateur of Brussels of Wednesday 501'1
"We are hourly expecting the return to Brussels 0,
N. Van Praet, the King's Secretary. It appears that
the first bases of the project of a commercial arrange'
ment between France and Belgium have been recendf
considerably modified.
In one of the late excursions of General Bourjolll
against the Flittas a remarkably fine royal black eagle'
was caught, and sent by him from Mostaganem
France, and will shortly arrive at the Jardin des
Plantes. It is only six months old, but measures more
than eight feet from the tip of one wing to the other.
A. letter from Tarifa states that, by the bombardment
of Tangiers, fifty guns on the Custom-house side wet;
dismounted by the fire of the French squadron, and the.
the town suffered considerably. The letter adds OP
the Prince de Joinville discontinued the bombardment
the moment that the fire of the batteries ceased.
The Courrier Charentais states that a few days WO
two little girls, of six and eight years of age, having
playing got into a kind of chest, the cover fell over them,
and shut with a spring-lock. They were alone in the
house, and when their mother returned home, not fin'''
ing them, it occurred to her that they must have go..
into the chest, and on lifting the lid she found the
both dead.
We learn from the Toulonnais that the Egerie W6o'
port has just been dispatched with a considerable store
of ammunition of all kinds for the Prince de Joiraille,s
squadron, and the Perdrix store-ship is about to dept
with a further supply.
The Hambur9h Correspondent states that the King of
Hanover has concluded a treaty of navigation for te°
years with the city of Lubeck.
We find the following in the Westphalian Mercury
" Several Sisters of Charity have lately arrived at Ber-
lin, having been conducted to the frontiers of Pruso"
from their convent at Wilna, in Russia, which has bee;
suppressed. They are young women
of education and
good families, and will return to their principal comet"'
in France. They were put under the charge of' Cossets,
of whose treatment they make severe complaints."
A correspondent writes on the 13th inst. from Posen;
—" The news from Poland is very sombre. Four Polish
gentlemen have been carried oft to the interior of Russia.
It is said that the chain of a secret association has beet;
discovered, having many and strong ramifications, and
in which the persons arrested were linked. They were,
it is reported' in a great sporting party, given some
months ago by the owner of extensive forests close 40
the frontier."
The King of Prussia left Vienna on the morning of
the 13th, repairing to Silesia by the railroad.
LAW AND POLICE.
At Gloucester, Henry Harding was convicted of steal-
ing two sovereigns. Nine previous convections for as"
sault were proved against him,
seven years transportation.
The case of Milne v. the mown Council of Manchester,
was tried before Mr. and ke was sentenced 0)
-Tustice Cresswell, at Liverpool. 15
was an issue ';',"n a return to a mandamus to UT tile
right of ttie plaintiff to compensation for the loss dole.
tai,", tees to which he had been entitled as clerk to the
Justices and clerk to the stipendiary Magistrates of the
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division of Manchester, of a large portion of which he
had been deprived by the grant of a charter of incorpe
ration to the borough of Manchester, and the new o
Ar-
rangements consequent thereon. The whole questr.cc
at issue was one of law, and the jury returned a Ten%
for the plaintiff—damages ls., it being agreed that the
facts should be put into the form of a special case, e...
the opinion of the Court above, by which the questiou
will be decided.