The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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On Friday the King of the French received M. Victor
tug© and General Aupick.
On Saturday a company of comedians were to perform
two pieces before the Court at St. Cloud. Alderman
Moon had received an invitatien from his Majesty to be
present on the occasion.
M. de Bourqueney, Ambassador at Constantinople, the
Marquis of Lavalette, Consul-General at Alexandria,
and M. Nyon, Consul-General at Tangiers, had arrived
at Paris.

The Maritime Prefet of Toulon had received a tele-
graphic dispatch from Paris, announcing that the Duke
d'Aumale and the Prince de Joinville would reach Toulon
on the 15th, and embark fur Naples on board the Gomer
on the 17th.

The address of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies to
the Queen was presented on the 11th by a deputation.
Disturbances are said to have occurred at Cad iz, bu
to have been suppressed.
Accounts from Alexandria state that Mehemet Ali
had determined on monopolising the transit through
Egypt to Suez.
From Constantinople we learn that in the capital,
and, indeed, in the entire Turkish empire, tranquillity
prevailed.
Brofessor Liebig's reception at Darmstadt, his birth-
place, on his return from England and Scotland, was
most enthusiastic. Numerous friends and admirers of
the learned professor, and all the students of the Poly-
technic School, assembled before his residence (at his
father's house) with flambeaux, and greeted him with
serenades, expressly composed for the occasion, in refe-
rence to the great honour paid by the people of Scotland
and England in bestowing upon him the freedom of their
respective cities.
The Augsburgh Gazette states that the Archduke
Charles is to quit Vienna on the 11th instant, fur Pres-
burgh to close the Hungarian Diet as the representative
of the Emperor.
According to the same journal, not only in Greece
but in Thessaly and in Southern Albania, public opinion
is in favour of the extension of the frontiers of the new
kingdom. A considerable agitation prevails throughout
those provinces, and an explosion may be expected
sooner or later.
ILA IT :POLICE.

At Union-hall several persons were summoned by the
P division of the p, dice, and among them some poor wo-
men, for selling fruit in the streets. The evidence ad-
duced against the defendants was, that they had boards
or stalls by the road side, at Walworth, with fruit, and
that they created an obstruction, and being warned to
desist and not paying attention to it, were accordingly
summoned for the offence. One of the defendants, an
elderly woman, said that she had no other means of sup-
port, and that it was to keep out of the workhouse she
endeavoured to sell fruit in the Walworth-road to support
herself. Mr. Traill committed her to prison.
Another woman, in defence, said she had five children
dependent on her for support, and asked what she was to
do if she was prevented from selling a little fruit by the
road-side—that the workhouse was staring her and her
children in the face if she was obliged to abstain from it.
Mr. Traill fined her 205., but should not enforce the fine
till she offended again.
A third defendant said, that she had a sick husband,
and tried to keep him and herself out of the workhouse
by selling fruit, and that if she was deprived of the
means of doing so, that must be their fate. Mr. Traill
finding that the defendant was not at all disposed to
make a promise that she would remove her apple-stall,
said that he was of opinion it would be a kindness to
many of those persons who obstruct the thoroughfares
by selling fruit, to commit them to the House of Cor-
rection ; that it was an idle lazy way of living, and that
those who pursued it, ought to be made to try and earn
their bread by different means. This woman and the
rest were threatened with a fine of 20s. each in case
of future disobedience. This appears to be a most atro-
cious law.

Philip Bear, a foreigner, and assistant cook on board
the Batavier steam-ship, was charged at Lambeth-street
with smuggling four pounds weight of foreign manufac-
tured tobacco. The prisoner admitted that two pounds
of tobacco found upon him was his own, and the other
two pounds had been given to him by a shipmate who
had gone on shore. Mr. Henry remarked that it was
quite evident, from the manner in which the tobacco
was made up, that it was intended for smuggling, and
fined the prisoner in the penalty prescribed by the Act—
namely, 100/.
At Worship-street, Henry Meacham was charged on
suspicion of having burglariously entered the warehouse
of Messrs. Waddington and Horton, wholesale umbrella-
manufacturers, in London-wall, and stolen a large quan-
tity of silk and other property to the amount of 4001.
The prisoner, in defence, denied the charge altogether,
and said that the prosecutor was wholly mistaken in his
identification of him as tb2 man who had called at the
warehouse on the occasion in question. Mr. Broughton
said that the case was one of such strong suspicion
against the prisoner, that he was fully warranted in re •
manding him, to give time for the police to trace the
property.