The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-11 00:00:00

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POZZIOW.
Accounts fro-m Marseilles announce that the Gomer,
with the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale on board, and the
other vessels commanded by the Prince de Joinville,hai
been compt lled.iby stress 'of weather to take shelter in
the Toulon Roads.
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The frost at Paris on Sunday was very intense. At
noon the thermometer stood at 24, and it was expected
that in a rev,' days the Seine would beemOotely frozen
over.

The Paris barristers have elected M. Durergier de
Hauraiine their battonier, in place ef. M. Chain d'Est
Ange, who hus resigned in consequence of his election
as Deputy for* Itheinii. The other candidates. were IL.
Gaudry• and
The Nonitetir publishes a communication from the
Ministry of Csmitrierce, stating that in 1843 Austria pos-
sessed ,:1,300.000 -horses, 10,400,000 heads of horned
cattle, 25,000,000.- sheep (furnishing 55,000,00016, of
wool). 5,800.04)0 pigs, and 1,245.000 goats.'
The 'Uhiverx-siatcs that a proi.essor of tine of the c-l-
-leges huriogya-tew days ago, punished the pupils .of his
class EA• the pi ivetion of their usual holyday; they had
mutinied, called the professor ar Jesuit, and chanted the
Morseiklaice. • •
The Madrid correspondent of the Constitution:ad
writes,, that the. Minister of Finance would present to
the Cortes, immediately after the adoption of the reforms
in the Constitution, a project of law re-establishing the
tax of three per cent, on agricultural produce, to form a
dotation for the clergy; but maintaining at'the sane
time the suspension of the sale of national property.
Lett4;rs and•papers of the '3d inst. him) -fren received
from Lisbon, but they are unimportant. An influential
member of the Chamber of Peers, Senhor Gereldas, had
resigned his Seat in. the Chamber, and the dignity" of
the peerage, on account of the late decision of the
Chamber, approving of the dietaWrial measures of the
Government. The municipal elections had gone in favour
of the Government.,

His Excellency Fued 'Effendi, AMbasssador from the
Ottoman Porte to 'the Courts of Spain and Portugal,
having . terminated his diplomatic mi,lsions; arrived at
Gibraltar on the 20th ult., by the Royal Tar steamer,
and, accompanied by a guard of honour, proceeded to
the Government house. He was to embark is a few days
for Constantinople, .

A.AIPT AND POILICII.
At the Che,ter assizes, Mary Gallop,. aged 91, was
Convicted 'of the ,wilful murder of ltiehard Gallop, her
own father, at-Monks Coppenhall, and sentenced by Mr.
Baron Gurney to be executed. The Jury recommended
the parracide to mercy, but the Judge refused to listeu
to the recommendation.

At Marlborough-street John Griffin, driver, and
Thomas Harris, conductor, of a Highgate omnibus, were
brought before Mr. Hardwick for misconduct. Police
constabk! Adams, ' C 62, said he was on-duty in Great
Pulteney•stieet, on Sunday evening, when he saw an
omnibus coming along at a •very rapid rate. A cab-
driver, perceiving that the omnibus was not on the right
side, called out to the driver, but without effe:l, for the
omnibus ran against the cab, knocked the horse down,
and broke one of the shafts. As soon as the rmnibus was
extricated the driver whipped the horses, and went off at
a gallop. The driver and conductor were both drunk.
The driver was sent to prison for twenty-one days, and,
in addition,'sentenced to pay the amount of the damage ;
and the conductor was sent to prison fer ten days.
William Poshilly, a man about 30 years of age, was
brought before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police-
court, on a charge•of stealing a quantity of silk and other
property, from - the' warehcuse of his employer, Mr.
Robinson, outfitter, in Nassau. place, Commercial- road,
East. The prosecutor's foreman said his employer
wished the case to_ be disposed of summarily, and the
prisoner to be leniently dealt with. Mr. Broderip said
that similar applications were made every day, but he
had no power to dispose of cases of -felony summarily.
This was the "case of a man'robbing his master, and of a
very serious nature, and he committed the prisoner for
trial. '