The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-26 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

PATAL OccuratENcE.—An inquest was held yes
terday At the Portcullis public-house, Wellington-
place, Clifton, on the body of James Martin, aged fifty-
3LIC Yeats, who died on Wednesday. It was supposed
that the cause of death was attributable to a violent purg-
ult, occasioned by his taking, on the Ist instant, a
quantity of jaltiv, given him in a frolic by some compa-
nions of the dec•ea.,ed, who were drinking with him in a
public-house; but th:3 evidence of the medical man who
r4cle a post mortem examination was to the effect that
e died of fever, with inflammation of the brain and its
Thembranes to which his intemperate habits predisposed
him, Verdict accordingly.—Fefix Farky's Journal.
TOM TRUMB.—This little hero is now in posses-
rstion of the outward and visible sign of a gentleman
be his carriage ; and on Saturday we were invited
t' inspect it. An ingenious artificer, Mr. Beaton, of
Remark-street, has devoted his energies to the task of
nilding it, and his genius has enabled him to produce a
oeaatiful model suitable to the dimensions of the general,
'e°tuplete in all its parts—•even to springs, window-blinds,
Ind folding-steps—and quit available for the purposes
13f locomotion. It is a chariot about three feet and a half
14 height ; the body is of intense blue, and the mouldings
are of silver • the wheels are elegantly picked out with
white ; the hammercloth is of rich crimson, embroidered
gaacifully, containing also the general's arms—a mixture
at the heraldic symbols of England America—with the
business-like recommendation, " Go-a-head," flourishing
blldetneath, in the form of a motto. We are informed
that a pair of ponies of matchable size are in training
~u• this pretty little vehicle, and that two small boys
have been obtained to fill the arduous situations of coach-
Inan and footman. In this chariot the general, we pre •
rule, intends to take the west-end air, and we may there-
Yore calculate upon his equipage " stopping the way,"
after the manner of bigger, if not better, folks.
The Bishop of Durham and Mrs. Maltby, who have
been visiting the Bishop of Bangor, at the Palace at
Bangor,
have left for Auckland Castle, Durham. The
'',`Bllop of Hereford and the lion. Mrs. Musgrave, have
440 been staying there, but left on Wenesday last.
The Bishop of Norwich and Mrs. Stanley went in
the earlier part of the week to the episcopal residence at
Norwich. The Right Rev. Prelate was to have held an
ordination yesterday at the Cathedral.
hA Trieste letter states that the Austrian frigate,
t
Bellona, had arrived at that port on the 13th from
`Smyrna. As it was known that Admiral Bandiera was
4°,°,ard, a number of persons made a point of going to
1,-1%," 'inn, and expressing all the interest they took in
Ws late loss.
A. new description of goods waggon or box has
been in use on the Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Asso-
!lilted Railway during the last few weeks. In appear-
ance they aye very much like a cottage placed upon a
are aboNt twelve fe long and six to eight feet
igh, have, inst3ad of the loose covers used on other
waggons substanijal sloping roofs, are completely
boarded up to the roof; have a door in the middle of each
aide, and a trap-door in the floor, They are at present
chiefly used for salt, of which each waggon is capable of
ilinig six tons, but they are loaded up to four and a
tut tons.
Government have decided on the following places
to be Central depots for military prisoners :—Weedon,
f?eutilsea Castle, and Chatham, for England ; and the
I",t e extmsive French prison, at arksrdaw, for Scotland.
;,x;;Yvernors and chaplains are to be appointee to them.
The mode of punishing misbehaved soldiers ,in theS.o
Prisons •
s hioe a much better effect than the mere in-
carceration •
_ in idleness which has heretofore been the
fie.—Naval and Military Gazette.
The Duke , of Wellington is not expected to leave
*t_l3.."leY House for Walmer Castles until after the proro-
l'°n• Mr. Arbuthnot is still staying with his Grace
_mi a visit. The Marquis and
Marchioness of Douro are
'.king a tour of the German spas.

AND
Pttbitir Optiitott.

" Who runs nzay read."

OIR.ZIGN.
.On Wednesday evening the King and Queen of the
French received the Danish Minister, the Minister of
Public Instruction, Count de Beauregard, attache to the
Embassy at the Court of Sardinia, M. Boulay (de la
Meurthe), deputy, and Viscount Duchesne.
On Wednesday the Austrian Ambassador had a pri-
vate audience of the King, to deliver to his Majesty let-
ters from the Emperor of Austria, in answer to the com-
munication of the birth of his Royal Highness the Duke
d'Aleec
The Journal de la Hoye of Wednesday. announces the
death of the Grand Duchess Alexandra in a way which
leaves little doubt (that journal being semi-official) of the
event having taken place. It says, "It is with deep re-
gret that we r.nnounce that the Court has just received
the sad news of the death of the Grand Duchess Alex-
andra, wife of his Royal Highness Prince FreJerick of
Hesse, and niece of our august Sovereign."
A royal ordonnance has just been signed, appointing
a new branch in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to
which the direction of all business relating to America
and the East and West Indies is to be entrusted. M. de
Lavergne, maitre des reqt.ites, and already employed in
the political part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
has been placed at the head of this new department,
which is to be both political and commercial.
The Marquis of Queensberry has arrived at the Hotel
Bristol, Place VendOme.
M. de Broglie, Secretary of the French Embassy at
Madrid, arrived at Paris on Friday.
At the sitting of the Academy of Sciences on the 19th
instant, a letter was read from Baron Charles Dupin re-
lative to the dissolution of the Polytechnic School. M.
Dupin, being absent from Paris, apprised the Academy
that he was anxious to uphold its prerogatives' .and re-
quested that the speech in this sense which he had made
in the Chamber of Peers on the Ist inst. might be read
to the Academy. This was accordingly done, and M.
Arago then stated that whilst he fully concurred with
their annual president, M. Dupin, in his desire to main-
tain the prerogatives of the Academy, he wished to cor-
rect an error into which M. Dupin had fallen. He had
said that the right of the Academy to name a single
candidate as professor and examiner dated from the Di-
rectory, and existed under the Empire and the Restora
tion. M. Arago said that this right, which would become
illusory if the view taken of it by the Government were
to be tolerated, dated from the revolution of 1830.
The report of the Emperor of Morocco having com-
plied with the demands of Spain is again repeated, but it
is on the authority of private letters which cannot be
relied on.
The Duke d'Ossuna, supposed to be one of the
wealthiest grandees in Spain, is so ill that his life is de-
spaired of. He is labouring under an attack of the
brain fever.
It is reported that the Spanish Consul at Gibraltar
has attempted to inveigle the refugees in that place to
make an incursion into Spain. If this report be true his
conduct is most atrocious.
The Observateur of Brussels of Wednesday says:—
"We are hourly expecting the return to Brussels of
M. Van Praet, the King's Secretary. It appears that
the first bases of the project of a commercial arrange-
ment between France and Belgium have been recently
considerably modified.
In one of the late excursions of General Bounolly
against the Flittas a remarkably fine royal black eagle
was casght, and sent by him from Mostaganem to
France, and will shortly arrive at the Jardin des
Plantes. It is only six months old, but measures more
than eight feet from the tip of one wing to the other.
A letter from Tarifa states that, by the bombardment
of Tangiers, fifty guns on the Custom-house side were
dismounted by the fire of the French squadron, and that
the town suffered considerably. The letter adds that
the Prince de Joinville discontinued the bombardment
the moment that the fire of the batteries ceased.
The Courrier Charentais states that a few days back
two little girls, of six and eight years of age, having in
playing got into a kind of chest, the cover fell over them,
and shut with a spring-lock. They were alone in the
house, and when their mother returned home, not find-
ing them, it occurred to her that they must have got
into the chest, and on lifting the lid she found them
both dead.
We learn from the Toulonnais that the Egerie trans-
port has just been dispatched with a considerable store
of ammunition of all kinds for the Prince de Joinville's
squadron, and the Perdrix store-ship is about to depart
with a further supply.
The Haniburgh Correspondent states that the King of
Hanover has concluded a treaty of navigation for ten
years with the city of Lubeck.
We find the following in the Westphalian Mercury :
" Several Sisters of Charity have lately arrived at Ber-
lin, having been conducted to the frontiers of Prussia
from their convent at Wilna, in Russia, which has been
suppressed. They are young women of education and
good families, and will return to their principal convent
in France. They were put under the charge of Cossacs,
of whose treatment they make severe complaints."
A correspondent writes on the 13th inst. from Posen.
—" The news from Poland is very sombre. Four Polish
gentlemen have been carried oft to the interior of Russia.
It is said that the chain of a secret association has been
discovered, having many and strong ramifications, and
in which the persons arrested were linked. They were,
it is reported, in a great sporting party, given some
months ago by the owner of extensive forests close to
the frontier."
The King of Prussia left Vienna on the morning of
the 15th, repairing to Silesia by the railroad.
LAW AND POLICE.
At Gloucester,Henry Harding was convicted of steal-
ing two sovereigns. Nine previous convictions for as-
sault were proved against him, and he was sentenced to
seven years transportation.
The case of Milne v. the Town Council of Manchester,
was tried before Mr. Justice Cressvvell, at Liverpool. It
was an issue on a return to a mandamus to try the
right of the plaintiff to compensation for the loss of cer-
tain fees to which he had been entitled as clerk to the
Justices and clerk to the stipendiary Magistrates of the
division of Manchester, of a large portion of which he
had been deprived by the grant of a charter of incorpo-
ration to the borough of Manchester, and the new ar-
rangements consequent thereon. The whole question
at issue was one of law, and the jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff—damages ls., it being agreed that the
facts should be put into the form of a special case, for
the opinion of the Court above, by which the question
will be decided.
Eliza Daley, aged 20, James Daley, aged 30, and
Elizabeth Daley, aged 60, were charged with having, at
Manchester, on the 26th of July, attempted to suffocate
and drown a newborn male child. The Lord Chief
Baron, before whom they were tried, directed their ac-
quittal, but ordered them to be detained on a charge of
exposing the child, of which the younger prisoner is the
mother.
Alfred Locke, Thomas Jennings, and Ellen Letch,
were convicted of breaking into the dwelling-house of
Deborah Taylor, and stealing upwards of 3001. in money,
and some silver spoons. The two male prisoners were
rather stylishly dressed, and appeared of a better class
than those who usually make their appearance in the dock.
William Swanton, indicted for the murder of his wife,
at Wigan, by kicking her, was found guilty of man-
slaughter.
M. A. Buller, a young girl, was indicted for an at-
tempt to suffocate a child, Rosanna Monday, by throwing
her into a privy. The prisoner, who is nearly an idiot,
was acquitted on the ground of insanity.
James Burgess was indicted for attempting to murder
his wife by strangling her. He was found guilty of an
aggravated assault, and sentenced to two years imprison.
ment.

COMILT-FASSIONALBLE.
Lord and Lady Ra,vensworth have arrived at Ravens-
worth Castle.
The Earl of Falmouth has left Tregothnon, his seat
in Cornwall, and is at present staying with the Dowager
Countess at Woolliampton, near Newbury.
The Earl of Ilarrowhy has arrived at Port Eliot, on a
visit to the Earl St. Germains, where Lord and Lady
Jemima Eliot and a numerous family circle are assem-

bled.
The Earl of Lonsdale left Lowther Castle on Satur
day morning for Whitehaven Castle.
Viscount Melbourne has returned to South-street from
Nuneham Park. His Lordship is expected to leave town
about the latter end of the week for Brocket Hall.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons has left Taymouth Castle, the Marquis of Bread-
albane's magnificent seat in Perthshire, for town, intend-
ing en route to pay several visits.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Emma
Campbell are expected to leave Connaught-place West,
to-morrow, for Inverary Castle, N. 8., which will be full
I of visitants at the end of the ensuing month.
The Duke of Roxburgh° has arrived at his shooting
quarters, Byrecleugh, where his Grace and party have
had good sport since the commencement of the grouse
shooting.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and family are
passing the summer at Tunbridge Wells. The Noble
Marquis's health has of late improved.
The Marquis of Conyngham has gone on a cruise to
the eastern coasts from Southampton, in the Flower of
Yarrow yacht. The Noble Marquis was at Harwich on
Thursday last.
The Earl and Countess of Morley have received a suc-
cession of friends at Saltoun, Devon, during the last
week.
The Earl and Countess of Zetland arrived at Aske
Hall, York, on Tuesday last, from Kerse House, Stirling-
shire. The Countess's health has greatly improved since
her departure from town.
The Earl and Countess of Galloway have ari ived at
their seatin Scotland.
The Earl of Besborough and Ladies Ponsonby have
arrived at 13esborough House, Kilkenny, from Caven-
dish-square,
at which seat the Noble Earl and family
have made arrangements to pass the autumn. 'The arri-
val of his Lordship at his paternal estates was welcomed
by his tenantry by every possible mark of esteem.
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Governor of Green-
wich Hospital, and Lady Stopford and family, have left
the Royal Hospital for Leamington Spa.
Colonel Peel has, we hear, taken Bagington Hall,
Warwickshire, for the winter. The Gallant Colonel and
Lady Alice are at present residing at Dover.
Viscount and Viscountess Milton have arrived at Sir
James :z id Lady Anne Mackenzie's seat in Ross-shire,
from visiting file
_....v.r1 and Countess of Morton, at Dal-
mahoy Castle, near EdininiiVL fir, and Lady Mary
Thompson, and the Hon. Mr. Dundas, have also arrived
on a visit to Sir James and Lady Anne.
risiseElas.lLNEotll3.
The Queen has been pleased to signify, through the
Lord Chamberlain, to the respective head masters, that