The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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The Court of France has gone into mourning for
eight days for her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Alexandra of Russia, whose mortal remains were to
have been deposited in the Imperial family vault on the
16th inst.

Accounts from Gibraltar announce that a heavy can-
nonading was heard on the coast of Africa on the 12th,
which was supposed to be the Prince do Joinville bom-
barding Azzila ; and more cannonading was heard at
Cadiz, in the same direction, on the 14th.

According to letters from Constantinople of the 7th
inst., Sir Stratford Canning has obtained satisfaction for
the insult offered by a Russian pilot to the British flag.
The pilot is to be punished in an exemplary manner.
Letters have been received from Athens of the 10th,
when Greece was perfectly tranquiL An amnesty had
been granted to all those who were engaged in the in-
surrections during the months of May and June last,
with the exception of General Grivas and eight others.
The elections were still going on.
According to the Paris Reforme, officers of engineers
and of the artillery had been sent to inspect the bat-
teries along the coast, and place them in a proper state
of defence.

The Grand Duke of Hesse has issued an ordonnance,
declaring that in future the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Hesse is to have the titlo of Royal Highness.
An article in the Journal des Debats announces that,
notwithstanding the bad weather, the crops have pre-
served a good appearance throughout Normandy, and
promise an abundant produce.
The Queen of Wirtemberg arrived at Frankfort on
the 20th, and left on the following day for the banks of
the Rhine. The King and Queen of the Netherlands
were expected to arrive on the 23d, on their way to
Weimar, to be present at the baptism of the son of their
daughter, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar.
The reigning Duke of Saxe Meiningen is amongst the
last arrivals at Frankfurt.

The Imperial Court of Russia has gone into mourning
for three months, for the late Grand Duchess Alexandra.
Great preparations are at present making at Milan
for the forthcoming meeting of the Italian scientific con-
gress, which it was feared, owing to the recent political
movements in Italy, would not take place ; but the Pre-
sident, Count Borromeo, has just issued his official an-
nouncement, stating that the opening is fixed for the
12th of September, and is to take place this year at
Milan. The savans will hold their morning sittings at
the Palace Brera, and for ttheir evening meetings the
Palace del Marino has been put in readiness. The re-
union is to continue until the 27th of next month. The
opening of La Scala was postponed from the 17th to the
21st instant.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Central Criminal Court, Henry Brown, 41,
Emma Brown, 16, and Elizabeth Jones, 23, were in-
dicted for feloniously making counterfeit shillings and
sixpences, and also for having in their possession moulds
calculated to make counterfeit coin. They were all con-
victed, and Mr. Baron Gurney sentenced the male pri-
soner and Elizabeth Jones to be transported for twelve
years ; and Emma Brown was ordered to be kept to hard
labour for six months.
Thomas Corby was indicted for feloniously forging an
acceptance to a bill of exchange for 61., with intent to
defraud William Franks. The jury found him not
guilty, as it appeared that the acceptor had authorised the
prisoner to use his name, and the acceptor's wife had
received a portion of the proceeds of the bill.
The Recorder sat in. the New Court, where John
Mullett, convicted of horse stealing, was sentenced to
be transported for ten years.
A domestic servant, named Elizabeth Hughes, was
convicted of robbing her master, and sentenced to be
imprisoned for a year. In passing sentence, the Re-
corder remarked upon the great number of cases of rob-
bery by domestic servants in the calendar, a crime which
must be suppressed by the intervention of the law.
William Fisher, convicted of stealing a pipe of port
wine the property of his employer, was sentenced to fif-
teen
,ears !ran- portation.
a :::hterman, aged 20, for stealing 38 gal-
John Riley,
ions of brandy, on the th of August instant, the property
of the East and West India ouipany, was sentenced to
be transported for ten years.
A the evening sittings, before Mr. Commissioner
Bullock, Mary Ann Smith, aged 20, and Charlotte Wil-
liams, alias Mary Ann Smith, were convicted of stealing
35 handkerchiefs, value 405., the property of Elizabeth
Knox, there being a former conviction against Williams.
The jury found them guilty, and the Court ordered
Smith to be confined for six month, and Williams, other-
wise Smith, to be transported for seven years.
Harriet Thomas, a young woman who has frequently been
in custody, was committed from Guildhall by Mr. Alder-
man Brown, charged with stealing a diamond pin from
Mr. Gray, a merchant, of Dublin. She had snatched the
pin from his breast on Ludgate-hill. Mr. Gray wished
her to be summarily punished, but the Magistrate re-
fused, and bound Mr. Gray over to prosecute.
A very respectably-dressed man, habited in full black,
and white cravat, and who gave the name of Frederick
Grosjean, a tailor and draper, living at 99, Quadrant,
was brought before Mr. llall, the chief magistrate, at
Bow-street, charged with having caused an obstruction
in front of St. Paul's church, Covent-garden, by collect-
ing a crowd, and refusing to withdraw when requested
icy the pollee. The defendant, .ho had attracted a crowd
by preaching in front of the church, was admonished
and discharged.
John Smith was convicted from Clerkenwell on seve-
ral charges of robbing furnished lodgings.
At Queen-square, John Jones, a labouring man, was
charged with wilfully breaking one of the gas lamps in
Maram-street, Westminster. The defendant, who had
been refused a night's lodging at the station-house and
at the workhouse, said he was two hundred miles from
home, and had not tasted food for two days, and being
unable longer to walk the streets, had broken the lampsin the constable's presence, :n order to be taken up. Mr.
Burrell said that persons could T.'ot be allowed, because
they were in distress, to destroy tl:e property of the
parish contractor, which offence subjected him to a
penalty of 51. Defendant must pay 7s. 6d., amount
of damage, or be imprisoned for ten days. The :Tan
appeared very thankful, and was locked up.
Several vendors of fruit and toys were fined for ob-
structing the Knightsbridge foot pavement, by placing
their baskets thereon.
Mary Anne Jones was remanded from Marylebone, on
a charge of having " stolen" a silk umbrella, the property
of Miss Maria Louisa Riviere, the proprietress of a
school for young ladies, at 25, George-street, Camden-
town. The prisoner had called at the school on a rainy
day, and stated her intention of placing two young ladies
there, and on her departure had borrowed an umbrella,
which, it is needless to say, was never returned, and the
address which she had given Miss Riviere could not be
found.
John Blake, John Rogers, and Sarah Smith, charged
with having been concerned in stealing furniture, &c., to
a considerable amount, the property of Mr. John Dyke,
Park-place, Paddington-green, were remanded.
At Lambeth-street, Saul Fichell, a German Jew, was
charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Adolphus Lip-
man, outfitter, 86, Pearson-street, Ratcliff highway, of
one gold and nine silver watches, value 351. The pri-
soner owned having taken the watches, and said he was
instigated to it by a person who was a notorious coiner,
in Rosemary-lane. lie was remanded to give time for
the apprehension of his accomplice.
A respectable-looking man, who gave his name Chas.
Stevens, but which, it is known, is a fictitious name, was
committed, from Worship-street, for one month, for
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having deserted his wife.
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several sums of money from his employers, and was
remanded.
George Bonchee, a member of the swell mob, was
charged before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Office, with
assaulting Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, a lady residing at,Mus-
well-hill, Hornsey, with intent to commit a felony. The
prisoner had attempted to pick her pocket on board one
of the railway Gravesend steamers. A policeman said
that robberies had been very frequent among the pas-
sengers in the steamers between London and Gravesend,
and the swell mob took advantage of the crowded state
of those vessels occasioned by the cheap fares. Ile was
committed.