The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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". Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
On Tuesday, at two o'clock, the King of the French, ac-
companied by General Durosuel, Colonel Dumas, the Count
de Strada, and two orderly officers, left Neuilly for St. Cloud.
His Majesty returned to Neuilly at four. in the evening
their Majesties received the President, Vice-Presidents, and
Secretaries of the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of
Hesse, Generals Sebastiani, De Colbert, Boyer, and Levasseur,
and Baron Mechin.

Marshal Soult had addressed an order of the day to the
army on the occasion of the attempt made by the Legitima-
tists to seduce from their duty the Sappers of the Corps of
Engineers stationed at Issy, near Paris. The Minister of
War reminded the officers, sub-officers, and soldiers of the
oath of allegiance they had taken to the King and their
drapeau.
he Precurseur de ?Guest announces the arrest at Angers
of M. Cherbonnier de la Guesnerie, a well-known Legitimatist.
His papers were all examined, and a warrant had been re-
ceived to transfer him to Paris. The Patric of yesterday
evening states that two visits have been made by the police
at the house of M. Cherbonnier, at Paris; one on Sunday last,
when all his papers were seized, and another on Monday, to
search for portraits and busts. The Gazette de France an-
nounces the arrival of Cherbonnier de la Guesnerie in Paris,
under escort, and states that he is confined au secret at the
Conciergerie.
M. Dudresnay, the Legitimatist candidate, has been elected.
a Member of the Chamber of Deputies by the electoral col-
lege of Morlaix.

I. Barbet, the Mayor of Rouen and the Ministerial candi-
date was elected deputy for that city, in the room of the late
M. Jacques Laffitte, on Wednesday. He obtained 461 votes
votes, and his opponent, M. Bouvet Bondel, 392.
The .Alg&-ie publishes a few details of the engagement of
the 15th between the French troops and those of Morocco.
The account states that 300 of the enemy were killed, and
that the heads of 110 of them were brought in by the spahis
on the points of their sabres. The French had 7 killed and
20 wounded.

The Wurzburg Gazette contains a letter from Berlin,
June 20, which says :—" It is confidently reported here that
the news of the death of the Grand Duchess Alexandrina,
Princess of Hesse, has just arrived."
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AND POLICE.

George Jessop, a journeyman painter at Yarmouth, was
charged at the Guildhall, with stealing some silver spoons
and other articles, the property of James Gage Last, an inn-
keeper at Yarmouth. The prisoner had, in fact, carried off
the innkeeper's wife, a good-looking young woman, who
was also placed at the bar. He was committed for trial, and
Mrs. Last returned home with her husband.

A respectable looking young man, about twenty-five years
of age, who gave the name of George Page, but refused to
give his address, was charged at the same office, with bur-
glariously breaking into the house of Constantine Geralo-
pulo, a Greek merchant, residing at No. 15, North-buildings,
Finsbury, at two o'clock on Friday morning, and stealing
some trifling articles. He was committed.
William Fisher, describing himself as a porter, was charged
with having broken and entered some wine-vaults in Hun-
gerford-market, and stealing therefrom a pipe of port wine,
value 801., belonging to Mr. John Wright, wine-merchant
and hotel-keeper, 142, Strand, his employer. He was com-
mitted for trial.

Mr. William Burt, many years rate-collector for the united
parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, was
charged, at Queen-square, with embezzling upwards of 6001.,
the moneys of the Governors of the Poor. Prisoner, who
had absconded some weeks ago, and for whose apprehension
a large reward had been offered, was captured on Thursday
evening, in a lane leading from High6eld to Greenhithe,
Kent, by Mr. Taylor, an Inspector of the B division. Evi-
dence of the defalcation was given, and the prisoner was re-
manded for a week.

• William Colson Simmons and Richard Duke, both of them
respectable inhabitants of Highgate' were charged at Mary-
lebone with having been concerned in stealing a cow, the
property of H. Aslett, North-hill, Highgate. Several wit-
nesses were examined for the defence; and their evidence was
of such a nature as to convince the magistrate that the charge
of felony could not be maintained. The prisoners, who. re-
ceived good characters, were discharged.
COURT—PASHioIiaBLE.
The Princess Augusta of Cambridge, who was united to
the Hereditary Grand-Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in June
last, is expected to arrive in England in the course of the en-
suing week, upon a visit to her Majesty and her illustrious
parents.
The Earl and Countess of Ripon have left town on a visit
to the Right Hon. S. Lushingtont in Kent.
Viscount Lifford and family embarked on Thursday morn-
ing, on board the. steamer Soho,, at Blackwall pier, for
Antwerp.

Viscount and 'Viscountess Maynard gave a dinner in
Grosvenor-square, to the Earl of Liverpool and Viscountess
Milton, Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Mary West,
Marquis of Granby, &c.
Lord Rokeby, after a lengthened tour in the East, has ar-
rived at Montagu House.

Lady Peel arid family, who have been at Drayton Manor
since Monday last, will come to town early in the next week.
Lord and Lady Carew and family have left town for Har-
rogate.
The Earl of Burlington and Lord Cavendish left Belgrave-
square early in the week, for Compton-place, Eastbourne,
where a family party have assembled.
The Countess of Zetland has left town for Upleatham Hall,
Yorkshire, for the season. The Noble Earl departed on
Saturday last.
The Countess of Westmoreland has arrived from Berlin,
and is staying with the Earl and Countess of Harrington, at
their residence in Saville-row. The Noble Earl is shortly
expeoted from the Prussian capital on leave of absence, and
will remain about six weeks in this country before his Lord-
ship returns to resume his diplomatic duties as ambassador
at the Court of Berlin.

The Earl and Countess of Brownlow's dinner-party on
Friday, at their residence in Be'grave-square, was to the
Earl of Normanton, jNlarquis of Winchester, Earl Countess
of Powis and Lady Lucy Herbert, Viscount Northland, Lord
Goderich, Sir Watkin W. Wynn, Sir William and Hon. Lady
Middleton.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
In the Cotton Market, at Liverpool, yesterday, business
to some amount was transacted,- and prices ruled fully as
firm.—The general tone and feeling of the Share Market was
on the whole rather better. French, however, were lower.
Birmingham and Gloucester, 921 ; Eastern Counties Perpe-
tual, 20s. 10d. ; Grand Junction, Half, 1101 f; Ditto, New
Quarters, 39i ; Great North of England, New, 2i ; Great
Western, Fifths, 22i ; Liverpool and Manchester, 223 ; Ditto,
Half, 109 ; London and Croydon, 17i ; Midland Counties,
94 ; Ditto, Half, 23i ; South-Eastern, 34 ;
Ditto, ;
Ulster, 37i ; Lyons and Avignon, 2/. ; Paris and Lyons,
2i ; Paris and Orleans, 38 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
375. 6d.

There are no arrivals of interest except the Caledonia, with
the American news to the 4th inst. from Halifax, a summary
of the news by which appears in another part of The Sun.
Stocks, as usual on the last business day of the week, have
been neglected. and Consols have gone down a trifle, viz. to
984 to 984. The Three per Cent. Reduced Stock is 991 to
994, and the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 1024 to 1024.
Long Annuities are 12 7-16ths to 124. Exchequer Bills ob-
tain 735. to 755. premium, and East India Bonds 945. premium.
The foreign investments are also drooping. Spanish Actives
obtain 254 to 1 ; and the Three per Cents., 344 1 ; Porta-
guese Converted Bonds have varied from 46 to 474 ; Colom-
bian are at 134 ; Dutch Two-and-a -Half per Cents. realise
1004 to 1001.
In Railway Shares there have been a few transfers at nearly
previous rates.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNK O.—The market
s dull, with little disposition for business. Manchester and
Leeds Half-Shares, .431 ; Trent Valley, 84 ; Huddersfield and
Manchester, 11 premium ; Great North of England New, 24
premium; Union Bank of Manchester, 94; Manchester As-
surance, 114.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock — , Indian Stock 000000 ....•..••
3 per Cent. Red 911% Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons
3% per Cent. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities
New 3% per Cent.
New 5 per Cent.
Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 73 pm.
Jan. 111%0 12% Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 Consols for 0pg..... ..... 98%
Jan. Ha ..... ".• • - India Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent - Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, b per Cent.. .... ...... -- • Ditto, New Ditto...,
Brazilian- lioilds — Prussian, 5 per Cent ...... ...
Buenos Ayres, 6 per. Cent — ,Russian, 5 per Cent... ....... .
Chllian, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 1335 Spanish, 5 per Cent.. ...... m 22%
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 9 per Cent 341
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent.... Ditto, Deferred.............
Danish, 3 per Cent ~. ....... French, 5 ver Cent —f. —c.
Greek, 143.4, 5 per Cent.... Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent - • French, 3 per Cent. —4l —c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 ' Dutch, 234 per Cent...... 62
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 •per Cent ....JON
SHARES. •
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 933y
Ditto, New'Sharea; 1734 paid- 23%
Caledonian (5-paid) • . • 36
Chester and Hulyhead ( a paid)' 444
Chicbesterend Brighton, 5 paid
Dublin and Cashel, 235 paid
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ;.... . : ..
Ditto Registered (816 s ild paid)
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Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., Os 4d. paid,No. 1 3,
Ditto ditto, r, paid,. No. 2
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid sNI
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Fifths; -12 paid -
Hull and Selby, 50 paid
Ditto, Quarter Shares (,B.paid) . 11%
Lancaster.and Carlisle, 5 paid 5
London and Biriminghlut (Stock) '• •
Ditto. New Thirds, 2 paid-- •' - i ' ' • 367
London and Blackwall (16/.135. 441.)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (12/. 15s. 4d. paid)
Diito, Preference or Privilege; .£ 78 17. 2d paid 1034
Lind= and South Western (41/. 68.- lad. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) ' .—. ............ . ...
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction. 21 paid 4l
North British, 234 paid
Trent Valley, 2 paid 834
Yarmoutlrand Norwich (18 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) •
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) r
York and Scarborough Branch (.*. paid)
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, I -paid
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Pariiand Rouen, 2a paid ................... ...... . , -39

LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.--The con-
tractors are under a very heavy penalty to open this line
on or hefore the Ist June, 1846. It is said that up-
wards of 5,000 virorkrnen are' at once to be put on it.—
Lancaster Guardian.

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THE RAISING Or THE BRIG ti o ALENA.—Late on
Thursday night, the brig Galena. Captain Dotching, London
and Newcastle trader, which took fire early in_ the morn-
ing, whilst lying at her moorings off the Irongate-
stairs, ' Tower, and which suWequently fell over on her
starboard side, was raised by means of chain lighters, and
warped to the hard . gravel in front of the. Tower-wharf;
where . she presents a distressing spectacle.- Yesterday
morning the immense quantity of water in the . hold was
pumped out by a large number of labourers and others
employed : fort the purpose. The whole of the cargo (con-
sisting of teas, sugars, figs, cotton, and other articles has
been destroyed by the fire and water, and the hold, wit the
exception of a valuable log of mahogany, which is only par-
tially damaged by the fire, presents a mass of rubbish. The
fire had raged from stem to stern, but appears to have made
the greatest havoc abaft the mainmast, the cabin being lite-
rally gutted. The mainmast, for nearly 18 feet above the
deck, has sustained much damage, bid the forepart of the
vessel, above the deck, has not received injury. A survey
has been held on the brig, but the result of the surveyor's
report has not transpired. She is, however, repairable, but
the expenses of doing so must be very considerable.- Part of
her top rigging, sails,. &c., have been put on board a lighter'
and conveyed to a place of security. When the hold is
emptied of its contents, the. Galena will likely be placed in a
dry dock to undergo the requisite repairs. A crowd of per-
tons proceeded to the Tower-wharf yesterday and inspected
she ill-fated vessel.

FINE ARTS.

EXHIBITION OF CARTOONS, &c., IN

WESTMINSTER HALL.

We on Saturday attended a private view of an ex- .
hibition of cartoons, pieces of sculpture, &c., which
have been sent in to Westminster Hall, pursuant to
the notices issued. by her Majesty's Commissioners on
the Fine Arts. The array of cartoons is a very im- -
posing one, and completely fills the walls of this mag-
nificent hall, while the statues and groups in marble
and clay are ranged on tables in the centre, which -
run the entire length of the building. The exhi-
bition, we understand, will be opened to the public -
to-morrow, and meanwhile we will just bestow
a few words on some of the works of art which most -
attracted our attention in the hurried survey we
took of them. No. 1, Encounter between Ccesar and
Cassieilaunus on the Banks of the Thames, is a battle
scene by Melling full of spirit and action. The
Roman leader and the British King are of course tl e
principal figures in the piece, but the expression in
the countenance of the latter is too exaggerated,
being less that of a stern, patriotic hero, than of a
raging maniac whose eyes, which glow like hot coals,
indicate the fire of insanity. No. 12,- Fair Rosamond
in Woodstock Park, awaiting the arrival of _Henry the
Second, is by Edward Corbould. The listening,
anxious attitude and demeanour of the mistress of this
enamoured monarch, are well delineated, but there is
too much of sternness and severity in the countenance
to realise our notions of Rosamond. No. 14, The
Overthrow of the Druids, represents the Roman Ge-
neral, Suetonius Paulinus, making his last fatal attack
on the British priests in their strong-hold in the
island of Mona. There is considerable vigour in this
sketch. N 0.15 is a representation of Milton's famous
scene in Paradise Lost, where he describes the fallen -
angels lamenting their fate in a " silent valley." The
chief defect of this sketch is a want of appropriate -
expression. No one would ever imagine, without
the aid of the explanatory catalogue, that the singers
were other than a group of enamoured men, bewailing
either the coldness or the death of their respective
mistresses. Their grief wants dignity, elevation, and
intensity. N 0.19, Discovering the Body qf Harold.
This is one of the most correct, skilful, and natural
designs in the whole exhibition. Two Saxon monks,
assisted in their search by the deceased monarch's
mistress, Edith, have just succeeded in discovering his
body amidst a heap of slain. One of the monks is
kneeling down, and raising the royal corpse reverently
in his arms ; the other is standing erect
holding in his hand a lighted torch which
casts a lurid light over the whole fore-
ground. To the right of the spectator appears
the figure of Edith, whose attitude and manner—
though her countenance is averted from us--expresses
a world of heart-felt grief. Nothing can be simpler
and more intelligible than the design of this study in
oil for fresco. It is full of expression, animated, yet
wholly devoid of exaggeration, and one reads it with
the same interest which one would read some touch-
ing
episode in a work of fiction. The grouping of
this clever sketch is not among, its least recom-
mendations. It is replete with easy beauty and pro-
priety. No. 21, Scene from the Tempest, is chiefly
deserving of praise for the single figure of Caliban,
which goes far to realise our notions of this ma-
lignant, ill-favoured imp. No. 24, Sampson, with the
Jaw-bone of an Ass in his hand, is a striking display
of prodigious physical energy. No. 25, Council of
Ancient Britons, shows an aboriginal British Chief
listening to the counsels of an aged Druid adviser,
The scene is a wood, and the Chief is seated under
the shadow of a branching oak, with a youth, his
armour-bearer, reclining at his feet. The sub-
ject is well chosen, but the execution is not re-
markable for spirit or character. No. 30, The
Signing of Magna Charta, by Douglas Guest, is
another well selected theme. The best sketch in the
groupe is that of King John, who is seated in a
Gothic chair, and whose action expresses just that de- •
gree of indecision and apprehension which might be
anticipated from the distrustful usurper at such a
crisis. N 0.33, King Henry the Fifth praying before the
Battle of Agincourt, possesses a deep historical interest
which will be sure to attract notice to it ; but there is
a most singular discrepancy between the figure
of the monarch, which is that of a full-
grown man, apparently past his five-and-
twentieth year, and that of his face, which
is that of a mere boy, not more than sixteen or seven-
teen years of age. No. 46, The Fates, contains one
expressive figure—namely, that of Atropos, who is
cutting the thread of destiny, and whose countenance
indicates a mingled sternness and melancholy. It is
shown in profile, and has a very striking effect.
No. 47, Wat Tyler, is a design much too crowded
with figures. No. 49, A Bohemian Fortune-Teller.
is cleverly-executed, and the features of the Bohemian,
the principal figure in the piece, teem with shrewd-,
inquisitive expression. No. 80, Luna and Endymion
is a very sweet, poetic sketch, though too deficient
in breadth, we fear, for the 'purposes for which it was
designed. Among the clay models and pieces .of
sculpture, which are as numerous as they are varied,
we may single out for praise No. 90, a full length
figure of Captain Cooke,—another, of Geoffrey
Chaucer, the poet, and a portrait statue of his
late Majesty, William the Fourth. No. 105, So-
phronia and Olinda at the Stake, is a beautiful
groupe in marble by Retchie, and merits
high praise, if only for the exquisite tenderness
which the sculptor has contrived to throw into the
countenance of the female martyr. No. 112 is a very
indifferent statue of George the Fourth—a worse than
indifferent monarch. His Majesty looks as sour as •
vinegar, and displays no more dignity than a King'
in a penny puppet-show. No. 142 is a striking full- ,
length likeness of the Marquis of Wellesley, represent-
ing him at that period of his life when he was Governor-
General of India. No. 153, The Burial of the Princes in
the Tower is a skilful and naturally disposed grouper
No. 110, Hesitation of Pandora, is an elegant and
symmetrical female figure, with the exception of the ,
neck, which is too lean and scraggy for our ideas of
feminine beauty. At some more leisure opportunity
we may possibly return to the subject of this exhibi-
tion, which will, no doubt, attract crowds during the
season.