The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-05 00:00:00

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A Council of Ministers was held on Wednesday at the
'Tuileries, at which the King presided. Previously to the
Council M. Guizot had a long conference with his Majesty.
On Tuesday the King, and his sister Madame Adelaide,
accompanied by General Durosnel and Colonel de Chabanues,
paid a visit to INTettilly. In the evening their Majesties re-
ceived at the Tuileries the British Ambassador' the Minister
of Baden, the Minister of Commerce, General Marquis de
Faudoas, Generals de Pouthon, Guingret, and other distin-
guished personages.
The Marquis de Larochejaquelin has announced to the
electors of Ploermel his intention of again soliciting their
suffrages.
The Moniteur states that the voyage M. Gisquet to
Constantinople, in which he is accompanied by his family, is
connected with an agricultural project in Egypt, in virtue of
an arrangement between the Viceroy and a French company,
of which Al. Gisquet forms part.
• An official Return has been published of the aggregate
imports and exports of corn and flour in France during the
last year. The imports were as follow, in tnetrical.quin-
tals (the metrical quintal is 221 i lbs. English) :—Wheat,
1,490,783 ; other corn, 150,603 ; flour, 3,913. The exports
were—Wheat, 68,599 ; other corn, 90,556 ; flour, 33,373. The
quantity remaining in the entrepots on the Ist of January
last were—Wheat, 64,072; other corn, 7,135; flour, 17,365.
The Moniteur publishes the table of the prices of wheat
in the markets of France during the month of January last,
from which it appears, that the average -rate was 22f. 22c.
per hectolitre (24 imp. bushels), at Toulouse, Gray, Lyons,
and Marseilles; 20f. 46c. at Marans and Bordeaux; 21f. 59c.
at St. Laurent and Le Grand Lemps ; 19f. 's4c. at Mulhausen
and Strasburg; 19f. lc. at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons,
Paris, and Rouen ; 18f. 85c. at Saumur and Nantes ; 16f. 58c.
at Metz, Verdun, and Charleville ; 19f. 10c. at St. Lo, Falun-
pol, Quimper, and Hennebon.
The Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva has just
adopted, by a large majority, the system of trial by jury, for
crimes,:misdemeanors, and in all cases. • _ _ _

The directors of the' railroad from Breslau to Freeburg, in
Silesia, have established in each of the carriages a signal, by
which passengers, in case of necessity, may have the train
stopped. This is dime by hoisting a Hag through an aperture
in the roof, and this being perceived by a conductor he
orders the stoppage of the locomotive, and proceeds to inquire
into the cause-of the signal.
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LAW.

gLrfID POLXOIII.

At the Middlesex Sessions, Peter Kiley 'aged 22, was in-
dicted, charged with having assaulted Richard Bartlett and
other police constables whilst in the execution of their duty.
The case was fully reported when the:prisoner was examined
at Marylebone, Mr. F. O'Connor being the principal witness.
The jury, after an absence Of twenty minutes, returned, find-
ing the defendant guilty of a common assault, but recom-
mended him to mercy on account of the injuries he had re-
ceived, and the violence with which he had been treated
during his confinement to the station-house. The Chairman
sentenced him to six months' imprisonment.
George King, the driver of a slop cart belonging to Gore,
the city scavenger, was brought before Sid' J. Key, at Guild-
hall, charged with ill-treating a horse, by compelling it to
work when in an unfit state, from a wound near the shoul-
der. Sir J. Key inflicted the extreme penalty of 40s, and in
default of payment committed him to Bridewell for 14 days.
At Worship-street, William Harris, a linen-draper,
in Church-street, Bethnal-green-road, and a woman
named Mary Garmon, were charged with receiving a
quantity of valuable French silk lace, the property
of Messrs. Marshall and Co., silk-mercers and lacemen,
of Vere-street, Oxford-street. It was proved that the
woman had been a lace-agent for several years, and that she
had no knowledge of the mode in which the lace in question
had been obtained. She was then admitted a witness against
Harris • and, after hearing her evidence, Mr. Bingham com-
mitted male prisoner for trial.
•At Lambeth-street, John Felix, John Wood, and John
Wood, jun., who have been in custody for some days past on
a charge of plundering the Export Excise-office on Tower-
hill, of several reams of printed paper, were fully committed
for trial.

Thomas Edwards, the American seaman, charged at the
Thames police-court, with the wilful murder. of William
Kammish, on board the barque Amelia, of Jersey, whilst
voyaging on the high seas, from Para to London,. was fully
committed to take his trial on the charge of wilful murder,
at the next session of the Central .Criminal Cotirt, which
commences on Monday.

COURT wAsszomenx.E.
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh have arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, from Fleurs Castlo.
The Duke of Beaufort returned to town on Wednesday,
and the Duchess on Thursday, from Hampton Court.` On
Thursday evening their Graces received at dinner the Mar-
quis of Worcester (who has just returned from Rome), the'
Lord George and Lord Alfred Paget, and Dr. Quin.
Viscountess Palmerston is expected to give her first assem-
bly on Saturday next.
Lady Emily Hardinge and Miss Hardinge have arrived in
Whitehall-gardenifrom Sir Henry's seat, near Penshurst, for
the season.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel will give a splendid banquet on
Saturday next to a circle of about forty,, to which the DulFe
of Wellington, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, his Excel-
lency the French Ambassador, and Countess de St. Aulaire,,
and most of the corps deplomatique ant invited.
The Marchioness of Anglesey and Lady Adelaide Paget,
arrived early in the last week at Hinchinbrooke, Huntingdon,
on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, from Beau
desert, Staffordshire. The Gallant Marquis and Lord Alfred'
Paget have returned to Uxbridge House.