The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-20 00:00:00

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The number of persons-Erred-1.7y-t-lie explosion of the pow-
der magazine at Algiers is 88, besides 48 persons wounded.
They are principally soldiers of artillery.
Marshal Bugeaud left Paris for Algiers on Tuesday. He
will be followed in a few days by his Royal Highness the
Duke de Montpensier.
The appeals to the Cour Royale, by the Piocureur du
Roi, against the judgment of the Tribunal of Correctional
Police in the case of Walker, Ogilvie, Frazer, Lambert,
Pevronnet, and the woman Emma Caye, for cheating with
marked cards, came on on Monday. An imense crowd com-
pletely filled the Court. M. Gashon read the report. The
President having interrogated the parties accused, they made
the same protestations as before the Correctional Tribunal,
and adduced the like defence. The Advocate-General, M.
Nougnier, delivered his arguments in support of the appeal,
and called upon the Court to pronounce conviction. The
Court adjourned to the following day.
According to a Vienna letter of the 10th, in the Augsburg
Gazette, the convulsed state of Switzerland has induced the
Austrian Government to send a force of between 3,500 and
4,000 men, under the command of Count Lechnowsky, to re-
inforce the Austrian garrisons on the Swiss frontiers.
The journals of Italy state that the winter still continued
in that part of the world. The Diario of Rome mentions that.
the cold was as great as six degrees below zero of Reaumur

(11 below freezing). At Napfe's it was at two degrees be-
low zero (3i Below freezing), which for that place is extra-
ordinary.

The captain of the Phenicien, which arrived at Marseilles,
states that the tower of the lighthouse has been erroneously
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broken, but the next day everything was temporarily re-
paired, and the light was exhibited as usual in the evening.
In its last session the Council-General of the Seine-Infe-
rieure had expressed a wish to have an inquiry instituted to
learn the causes of the depopulation on the coaste of the
Channel. The Prefect of the Seine-Inferieure hiss, in conse-
quence, just ordered the inquiry to be made.
We learn from Rochefort that orders have been received at
that port to prepare for sea the steam-frigates Descartes, of
450, and Infernal, of 320-horse power.
According to a letter from Constantinople of the 26th ult.
in the Augsburg Gazette, the Divan has addressed another
note to the Ambassadors of the great Powers, promising
early payment of the indemnity due to the Maronites,
and-that their privileges and those of the Druses shall be
fully respected.
Dr. Wolff arrived at Constantinople on the 22d, and
was to leave for London by the Oriental Steam Company's
packet.
A Berlin letter of the 10th instant says :—" The great
composer, Weber, at the time of his death, was engaged in
writing the music of a comic opera, and among his papers
were found the scores of eleven pieces of the work entirely
finished. According to the desire of the King of Prussia, M.
Meyerbeer has undertaken to finish the opera, which will be
brought out on our first lyric stage, under the auspices of his
Majesty. As the libretto has become a little old-fashioned
the celebrated poetess and &tress, Mme. Charlotte Birch
Pfeiffer, will retouch and so arrange it, that the first act will
contain exclusively the eleven pieces written by Weber, and
consequently the whole of the music of the second act will be
by M. Meyerbeer, who will also compose the overture."