The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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49'‘,tbItt nton.

" Who runs may rewL"

FOREIGN.
The accounts from Spain are frightful. Butcheries, like
those committed by Don Carlos and Cabrera, have com-
menced at Murcia and Alicant, and martial aw has been
proclaimed in every province. Details respecting these
painful events, as well as the revolt of several regiments in
Portugal are given in another place.
" Paris and its suburbs," says the Reforme, " are at pre-
sent guarded by the Ist, 11th, 13th, 23rd, 24th, 40th, 47th,
50th, 62nd, 69th, 70th, 71st, and 74th Infantry regiments of
the line ; 2nd, sth, 10th, 16th, 17th, and 23rd regiments of
Light Infantry ; two battalions of African Chasseurs ; six
companies of ,Engineers ; 9th Cuirassiers, sth Dragoons, 4th
and Bth Lancers, 3rd and 4th Hussars ; four companies of
veterans, 4,000 gendarmes and municipal guards, presenting
an effective force more considerable than that of Napoleon
when he conquered Italy. But independent of this force,
there is an army of reserve, amounting to 30,000 men, quar-
tered at Fontainebleau, Melun, Meaux, Beauvais, ureux,
Rambouillet, Orleans, and Rouen. So that the capital of the
civilized world is garrisoned by a force of 100,000 men."
The Prince de Joinville, says the Toulonnais of the 12th,
will, on his arrival here, embark in the Minerva frigate, and
that she will proceed to Tunis with some other vessels of war,
to offer the Bey of that regency the mediation of France, for
the friendly arrangement of the difference with the Court of
Turin.
The Reunion Agricole (Agricultural Association), of which
not less than eighty deputies are members, has just decided
that there shall be a general meeting of agriculturists in Paris
during the approaching summer, to discuss the means of re-
lieving that body of the burdens of which they complain, and
giving a new impetus to agriculture.
The Bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies have completed
the appointment of the Committee on the Budgets. There
are eighteen members, of whom thirteen belong to the Con-
servative party.
Baron Pasquier, President of the Chamber of Peers, has
been pronounced convalescent.
The five commercial delegates, who form part of the mis-
sion to China, and five missionaries, have left Paris for Brest,
to embark in the Archimede steamer.

The Garonne on the 11th, and its branches had so over-
floweel the surrounding country, that all the steamers had
ceased to run, and the diligences on the lower roads arrived
one or two days later than under ordinary circumstances.
Near Toulouse also a great part of the country is under water.
The new line of packets between Marseilles and Egypt is
to commence on the 4th of next month, and one steamer is
to leave each month. The passengers' fares and.other charges
are to be the same as those of the Levant packets.
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The Cologne Gazette states that letters have been received
from St. Petersburgh, announcing a great victory against
the Circassians, but that there is reason to believe from other
accounts that the success of the Russians consisted only in
taking two villages, and that not without sustaining a con-
siderable loss of men.
LAW AND POLICE.
A woman, about 30years of age, named Charlotte Collins,
was charged at Bow-street with an extensive system of
swindling upon the shopkeepers. The case seemed to create
a great sensation, the Court being crowded to excess with
highly respectable linendrapers, silk-mercers, haberdashers,
&c.-, who had suffered by her artful conduct. She had been
examined at Marlborough-street upon one charge, but
it not being sufficiently strong she was discharged, and
ordered to be conveyed to this Court, for a charge in this dis-
trict. She was remanded.
James Dart, a porter in the service of Mr. Hawkins, a
grocer in High-street, Whitechapel, was committed to New-
gate from Lambeth-street, on a charge of stealing a quantity
of tea, the property of his master.
Sam. Nash, a baker, 3, Oak-terrace, Notting-hill, was ad-
mitted to bail at Hammersmith, on a charge of criminal as-
sault on a young woman named Mary Horn.