The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-10 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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On his way to Fontainbleau, Louis' Philippe alighted at
Villejuif, and reviewed the National Guard, attended by the
Dukes de Nemours and Montpensier. Ills Majesty was
greeted along the whole_,of his way with the loudest acclama-
tions of loyalty.
The Presse announces, that the Committee of the Chamber
of Deputies, to which the Paris and Belgium Railroad Bill
had been referred for examination, determined, on Tuesday,
that this line should be completed at the public expense, and
managed by the State for its own account.
Every year (says the Constitutionnel) on the day of the
King's fete, the Minister of Justice and Public Worship
gives a grand dinner, at which the Archbishop of Paris is
usually present. This year the Archbishop did not attend.
The Ami de la Religion, one of the organs of the clergy, on
the other hand, states that the Archbishop of Paris has al-
ready received sixty adhesions- -to the reply which be ad-
dressed to the Minister of Justice and Public 'Worship on the
13th of March laSt, relative to the irreligious doctrines taught
by the University.
Paris has seldom had so great an influx-of visitors at this
season of the year as during the last few days. An Angers
journal states that 3,000 passports have been granted for
Paris in that town within a month, and 6,000 in the same
time at Nantes. The number of anivals from England has
also been much greater than it was at this time last year.
It is stated in one of the journals that 27,400 persons were
conveyed to and from Versailles by the right-bank railway
on Sunday last, and that the receipts amounted to 42,865 f.
According to a letter from Oran of the 22d ult., there was
a current report that General Lamoriciere had left Tlemcen
at the head of a corps concentrated at that point, and
marched towards' Sebdou. : It was also, said that eight Con.-
louglis and an European, who had left Tlemcen to establish
themselves at Sebdou, had fallen into the hands of Abd-el-
Kader and his band, and that with the exception of one,
who succeeded in making his escape, all had their heads
cut off...

We learn from Chamounix; iii Savoy, that although the
snow during the winter fell in great abundance, in that
valley, it has alreadyenti:ely disappeared ; and that, on the
26th ult., several English tourists succeeded in ascending the
Montanvert, which is seldom accessible at such an early
period.
The Journal de Villefranches states that the wine-growers
of the Beaujolais have no hope of a.good vintage this year.
The old vines have been frozen at the root, and cannot pro-
duce. The young vines look well., but the quantity of fruit
from them will be comparatively small..
The Frankfort Journal mentions that serious riots have
taken place at Munich, in consequence of a rise in the price
of beer. A great.number of workpeople and soldiers assembled
for the purpose of attacking the breweries, but they were dis-
persed by the authorities, and several of the rioters have been
arrested.

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LAW AND POLICE.
The jury on the trial of the man Crouch for the murder of
his wife, after being locked up without food till a late hour,
returned a verdict of guilty, and Baron Alderson, passed sen-
tence of death on the prisdner.
William Henry Gower, 42, a person genteelly dressed, and
who was stated to be an attorney, was indicted at the Old
Bailey for feloniously uttering a forged certificate of mar-
riage, alleged to have been solemnised between himself and
one Amelia Drayson. The prosecutrix had agreed to live
with the prisoner as his wife, and the copy of the register had
been prepared to show, in order to produce a belief that she
was married to him. They had become acquainted in con-
sequence of the prisoner being employed by her to copy ma--
nuscript for the press. The jury returned a verdict of guilt,
and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, but in
consequence of the circumstances of the case, a representa-
tion in his favour will be made to the Secretary of State.
Mr. Wilkins applied to postpone the trial of William Bur-
ton Newenham, charged with the abduction of Miss Wortham,
until next sessions. No opposition being made to the motion,
the Learned Judge ordered the trial to stand over until next
sessions. . '

At the Excise Court, John Sykes, tobacco manufacturer,
of Red Cross-street, Barbican, was charged on various infor-
mations with having in his possession articles for the purpose
of adulterating tobacco—namely, sugar, molasses, logwood,
nutgalls, and copperas, by which he had incurred penalties
to the amount of 8001. He was convicted on one informa-
tion, and fined 251. '

Henry Dawkins, a warehouseman, in the service of Mr.
Swainson, a worsted and fringe • manufacturer- in Wood-
street, was charged at the Guildhall with stealing a large
quantity of goods from the premises of his employer, and
George Buxton, of Eden-place, Hoxton, fringe and line-
manufacturer, was charged with receiving a portion of the
stolen goods. They were both remanded.
A well-dressed man; named Thomas Franks, was charged
with having written and sent to the Rev. Clement Strong,
Oxford-terrace, 'Bayswater, a letter, - couched in such
violent and threatening language, as to cause him .(corn-
plainant) to consider-his life in danger. He was held to bail.
Margaret Morgan, a young, handsome, and very fashion-
ably-dressed Frenchwoman, was charged at Marlborough-
street with robbing-Mr. Thomas Graham, of No. 7, Trevor-
square, Knightsbridge, and a member of the Stock Exchange,
of ten shillings in silver. She was committed for trial.
John O'Connor, a boy thirteen years of age, was charged
pt Queen-square with a gross imposition on Mr. Spottis-
woode, of No. 16, Great George-street, Westminster, by ob-
taining money, under the representation that his mother,
whom the complainant had frequently relieved, had been
knocked down by a cab and had her leg broken. One of the
officers of the Mendwity Society stated that he had known
the mother for some years as a begging-letter writer. She
had met with no accident. He was sent to hard labour for
three months in the House of Correction.
- COURT—FASHIONABLE.
Last evening the Marquis- and Marchioness of Ailesbnry
entertained at dinner the _French Ambassador and the
Countess de St. Aulaire, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch,
Baron Nieumann, Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry,
Marquis of Normanby, Marquis of Granby, Earl of Pem-
broke, Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam, Viscount and Vis-
countess Sydney, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, &e.L at
their mansion in Grosvenor-square.
The Marquis of Anglesey received Viscount and Vis-
countess Palmerston and. a select party at dinner, on Wed-
nesday evening, at Uxbridge House.-
The Dowager Countess of Sefton had an evening party'on
Wednesday, at the ft mils residence in Arlington-street.
His Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess have
a dinner party at Manchester House on Monday next, after
which.theCountess has a soirée.

The Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Devonshire House,
from Kemp Town, Brighton.
The Marchioness of Hastings and her youthful family are
expected toleave Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, early in
the ensuing week, for. Donnington Castle.
At Almack's on Wednesday night, as was expected, there
was rather a• full meeting, amounting to at least four hundred.
The Marchioness of Londonderry, the Countess of Jersey,
and Viscountess Pabfierston, were prevented by other en-
gagements from presiding over the -honours of the assembly.
The Polka was danced no less than four times. We cannot
find room for the full list of company.