The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Ilubitt ®pinion.

" Who runs may read."

POILEIZON.
We regret to learn from Constantinople that the re-
port of :the arrest and detention of Dr. Wolff by the
tyrant of Bokhara is confirmed. The situation of the
reverend gentleman is one to create great anxiety and
alarm to all the friends of humanity. It appears uif
his fate were made to depend in some measure on the
result of a war in which the Khan is engaged.
The King of the French and his sister Madame Ace-
laide, accompanied by General de Rumigny, Count de
Strada, Colonel Dumas, and two orderly officers, went to
St. Cloud on Tuesday, returning to Neuilly to dinni-r.
In the evening their Majesties received the Ministers-of
Marine and Foreign Affairs, Baren Teste, M. de 86-
ranger, and M. Wailly, the Proviseur of the college of
Henry IV.
The infant Princess, by the command of his Majesty,
has received the name of Franemse Marie Amelie. The
witnesses were M. Felix Barthe, Vice-President of the
Chamber of Peers ; Vice- Admiral de Rosamel, Peer of
France ; Chevalier Jose de Arajo de Ribeiro, Envoy
Extraorinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Em-
peror of Brazil ; and Vicomte d Itabayana, member of
the Council of the same Monarch. At five o'clock on
Wednesday the Archbishop of Paris went to Neuilly to
baptise the royal infant.
Their Majesties on the morning of that day received
the Mayor of Montreuil accompani.d by
some of the principal fruit-groivers of that commune.
The King has thus re-established the ancient custom of
permitting eaeh year the presentation of a basket of
peaches for his dessert. This custom, which dates as
far back as Girardot, the first person who introduced the
cultivation of peaches at Montreuil, under Louis XIV.,
was broken off by the Revolution of 1789 The King
presented. the Mayor with a sum of 5001: for the poor
of the commune.

The following gossip appears in the Co►urrier Francais :
---" Sir H. Hardinge had in three days completed a treaty
with Mehemet Ali, by which the English Government
guaranteed to himself, as well as to his descendants, the
Government of Egypt, and that no other Power should
interfere with him. In return, Mehemet AE had granted
that the English Government •should do as they liked
in the country. and that protection should be afforded to
all English subjects he consents moreover, to allow
troops to go through Egypt whenever necessary. The
railways from Cairo to Suez were tobe commenced with-
out loss of time ; and, in fact, the Paella had become a
complete Englishman."
On the 2d inst., two medical men were tried before
the Correctional Tribunal of Vesoul (Haute Saone) for
having caused the death of a patient by injudicious
operations for hernia. The tribunal negatived the charge
of involuntary homicide, but condemned them to six
days' imprisonment, -a fine of 50f. each, and the joint
payment of the costs of the prosecution, for inflicting
wounds from want of skill.
On the 10th inst., whilst ten men were employed in
building the church at Plemee Jugon, C,Ote du Nord,
were mounted on a scaffold 60 feet high, it became over-
charged with the materials, and fell to the ground. Five
of the men were killed on the spot, and three were so
severely injured that their lives 'are in danger. The re-
maining two were much bruised, but will probably
recover.

The Universal Gazette of Prussia states that, on the
4th, the Academy of Sciences of Berlin sent a deputa-
tion to Baron de Humboldt, to testify the lively interest
felt by them in his voyage to America, from which the
progress of science had derived such great advantages ;
and the following day the members of the Academy gave
him a grand banquet, at which • the Prince de Canino
(Charles Lucien Buonaparte), who is an honorary
member of the Society, was also present.
M. Madoz has .arrived in Paris, and M. Cortina and
M. Lopez are expected, These gentlemen, it may be
remembered, are the parties who were arrested, on a
charge of conspiracy against the Spanish Government,
but dismissed after a confinement of three months.
The Universal German. Gazette announces the arrival
of the King of Saxony'at Leipsic, on the 9th inst.
A letter from Rome, of the 2d instant, states that the
most perfect tranqui'Jity reigned in all the towns of
.the
Romagna.

Private letters from Barcelona, of the 9th instant' men.
ion that the Nar viiez Administration 'as again menaced
in its existence by a Court camarilla, at the had of
which is the Marques% de Santa Cruz.
LAW AND POZACMI.
Robert Bannister, the Portsea bankrupt linendraper,
who was captured in Madeira, to which island he had
absconded with upwards of 2,000/. in his possession, was
on Fr'.day brought up for examination at the Bankruptcy
Court, bef.we. Mr. Commissioner Goulburn. Several
curious disclosures were made as to the manner of con-
ducting business in the linendrapery trade. His last
examination is fixed for the 20th inst.
Wills and Davy, who bad carried on business as
drapers in Oxford-street, applied to Mr. Commissioner
Fang for their certificate ; the application was opposed,
and the Commissioner postponed his judgment till the
30th inst.
In the Insolvent Court, Richard Cleaver, a builder at
Paddington, was remanded for twelve months.
George A. J. Chapman, late saloon keeper at Drury-
lane Theatre, was remanded for eight months. •
Thomas H. Horatio Cauty, who is known in the
" play world" as Captain Cauty, was ordered to be dis-
charged.
At the Gloucester Assizes Thomas Williams, 18, was
indicted fur killing and slaying Henry Cox, at Bitten,
on the 24th of July last. It appeared that the prisoner
and the deceased had been throwing stones at each other,,
and that a stone thrown by the prisoner had fractured
the skull of the deceased. The prisoner was convicted
and sentenced to three months' hard labour.
In the case of Herbert v. Brown, an action was
brought by an attorney to recover his bill of costs, which
was tried at the same assizes, before Chief Justice
Tindal ; the jury found for plaintiff for 351. 25. Bd.
Golding Jones was convicted at. the Middlesex Ses-
sions of three assaults upon different policemen, and
sentenced to two months' imprisonment for each assault.
At the Mansion-house John Tennyson was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed Mr.
Thomas Dunster, of Gun-street, Spitalfields, of a pocket-
handkerchief. He was committed.
Mr. George Deacon, a person who was said to be very
respectable, was brought before the Lord Mayor upon
the charge of having haused great disturbance and con-
fusion in Mark-lane and its neighbourhood, by addressing
the passers-by-in the language of Scripture, and distri-
buting amongst them handbills, containing a most extra-
vagant rhodomontade about his former business as a
farmer and breeder of cows and sheep, and his present
occupation of promoter of the religious advantages pf his
fellow-creatures. It appeared that the poor man imagined
he had a call to serve the Lord. His uncle, who was in
attendance, said he was perfectly harmless. He was dis-
charged with an admonition.
Joseph Bealby, a young man about thirty years of age,
employed as a clerk at Messrs. Beard and Co.'s, Purfleet
Coal-wharf, Earl-street, Blackfnars was brought up at
Guildhall, charged with having embezzled moneys to a
considerable amount.. He was remanded.
Thurston Warts, the driver of the cab 648, wasifined
ss. by Mr. Alderman Farncombe for refusing to carry
a fare.
At Bow-street, Mr. James Hodge was brought before
Mr. Twyford, charged with neglecting to support his
wife and three children, whereby they became charge-
able to the Strand Union. The defendant excused him-
self by saying he was at present going through 'the
Bankruptcy Court, and was receiving nothing • from the
official assignees. The defendant having refused to -be-
come an inmate of the workhouse, his family were given
up to him, with an intimation that if they again became
chargeable, he would be sent to prison.
Charles Lambe Dowden, an actor at Sadler's Wells,
who stands charged with several forgeries, was brought
up for re-examination, at Bow-street, and again re-
manded. ,
A cabman summoned Mr. W. L. Whitmore, of James-
street, Buckingham-gate, before Mr. Burrell, at Queen's-
square, for non-payment of his fare. It appeared he
had sent for the cab off the stand but had not subse-
quently engaged it. He was adjudged to pay Bd., the
fare, and ss. costs.
Mr. Hardwick, the magistrate of the Marlborough-
street Police-court, inflicted a fine 'of 41., or six weeks'
imprisonment, upon George Martin,a/ias Toby, a power-
ful man, who called himself ajockey and gentlemen's
boot-maker, for beating Richard Parrott. The defend-
ant had knocked down his unfortunate victim, broken,
his leg, and afterwards beat, his bead upon the pavement.
Mr. Dick, proprietor of the Blue Posts Hotel, Hay-
market, was summoned by the police for having his
house open after the hour prescribed by the Act of Par-
liament. He was fined 20s.
M. Dubourg, the Well-known restaurateur in the Hay-
market, was convicted in a similar penalty for a similar
offence.
Edward Griggs was sentenced at the Marylebone
kolice-court to pay a fine of 51, or be imprisoned two
months, for throwing a knife at his wife, and wounding
her on the arm.
Mr. John Yardly, a very well-dressed man, whose
abode did not transpire, was charged with a violent as-
sault upon Mr; John Grant, a gentleman residing with
his family at 55, Bayham-street South, Camden Town.
It appeared that defendant had insulted complainant's
sisters, and on being remonstrated with had struck the
complainant himself. He was fined 51, and ordered to
find sureties to keep the peace.
A young lady, who figured some months ago at the
Thames Police-Court and the Old Bailey, in the prosecu-
tion of a man who used to act as her amanuensis, but
subsequently, with the assistance of a solicitor and others,
dragooned her into a singular form of marriage, applied
to Mr. Norton, at the Lambeth-street Police-court, for a
little temporary pecuniary assistance. Mr. Norton said
he would communicate with Mr. Ballantine, of the
Thames Police-court, with a view of seeing if anything
could be done for the applicant.
Sarah Bagley, the female sailor, was again brought up
at Union-hall, but having promised never again to as-
sume male attire, she was given up to her parents.
At Woolwich, a driver named Kirk, badge 7,684, in
the employ of Mr. Pullen, van proprietor, appeared to a
summons for wilfully damaging an omnibus belonging
to Mr. Munyard, to the amount of 21. The case having
been proved, Mr. Jeremy, in giving judgment, said "I
shall order the defendant's master to pay 2/. 10s. damage
done and the costs. He is liable for the conduct of his
servants, and had the means of punishing his servants
for so doing."
Frederick Fleming, an omnibus conducter, was re-
manded from the Hammersmith Police-court, on a
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John Bander was remanded from the same Court on a
charge of rape.