The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

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POSIZZON.
The Journal de Cette (a small seaport in the south
of France) gives an account of a terrible calamity
which befel that place on Tuesday, the 22d instant.
About four o'clsck in the afternoon, a thunderbolt
burst over the town, and produced such awful effects
that it is described as resembling a place which had
undergone all the horrors of a siege. The Royal
Arsenal, a large building, was entirely destroyed—
even the walls not being left standing. The zinc
roof of the building was carried into the air, and
broken into thousands of pieces, which fell in diffe-
rent parts of the town, where they did a great deal
of injury. Several other large buildings were also
destroyed. At the same time, a storm prevailed in
the harbour which wrecked and sunk six or seven
merchant vessels, besides a great number of fishing
and other boats. The number of persons who perished
is calculated at about thirty, but the exact number
was not known, and numbers were still missing
whose fate was uncertain. A great number besides
are severely wounded from the falling of houses, and
even at the time when the accounts came away the
people were afraid of a renewal of the disasters, as
the storm was not yet over.
The Kabyles have made another attack on the
French troops at Dellys. A letter from Algiers, of
the 20th, says there were 130 of the French killed
and wounded, of whom 15 were officers. Thirty-five
men and two officers were killed.
Several Progressista Spaniards have been arrested
at Carcassone, Limoux, and other places leading to
the Spanish frontier, their object being, as it is
alleged, to create an insurrection in Catalonia.
Troops had been marched towards Valladolid, where
it appears a serious alarm was excited.
The Minister of War had suppressed one second
lieutenant and one sergeant in each company of in-
fantry, which will effect a saving in the budget of
3,513,706 reels vellon.
Fuad Effendi, the Envoy of the Sultan to the
Queen of Spain, has received from her Majesty, to
present to his Imperial master, a magnificent coffee
service in massive gold, consisting of a large tray,
twelve cups and saucers, twelve coffee-spoons, a
coffee-pot, cream-jug, and sugar-basin.
A letter from the frontiers of Catalonia, of the
19th instant, states, that the movement made among
the Spanish refugees in the French depots, has given
occasion to the greatest vigilance of the French police
along the frontiers. They did not exhibit such vigi-
lance, when Narvaez and party escaped from France,
`,o overturn the Government of Espartero.
The Courrier de Havre, of the 24th instant, says
the Chamelion steamer brings news of a quarrel which
had taken place in Malta between some American and
English officers upon the subject of Louis Philippe
and the Queen of England, which led to several duels.
The issue of this unfortunate affair was not known
upon the departure of the steamer.
POZ1:013.
Two young men, named Thomas Smith and George
Heffell, were charged at Guildhall with stealing three
pint pots from the Swan's Nest, in Coleman-street-
buildings. Sir Chapman Marshall remanded the pri-
soners till Thursday, that any person who had lost
pots might look at them.
At Queen-square yesterday, William Stanborough,
a tall, fashionably-dressed person, who drove up to
the private entrance of the court in his horse and gig,
was charged with an assault on John Puleston, a boy
in the service of Messrs. Rackstraw and Atkinson,
fishmongers, Victoria-road, -Pimlico. The summons
was directed to William and George Stanborough, of
6, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-place, but the latter did
not appear. -It appeared that the boy had gone to 6,
Wilton-street, to request payment of a bill ; that on
knocking at the door he was forced into the parlour,
where he was beaten and kicked by the defendant and
two others. The defendant, who denied that he was
present at the time, was fined 41.
Yesterday three gentlemen, named Phillips, Hodg-
kin, and Smith, were fined 20s. for obstructing the
police in keeping the line clear for the passage of the
royal procession, in the neighbourhood of Trafalgar-
square.
At Worship-street Mary Todd, the wife of a porter
in a city warehouse, who stood charged with having
been concerned in concealing the birth of a male infant,
the body of which she had surreptitiously introduced
into the Bethnal-green workhouse, on the admiSsion of
its mother, a young woman named Maria Gaffee, who
is now an inmate of that house, was finally examined
and discharged, as there was no further' evidence pro-
, ducea- against her.
William Allsebrook, deputy to Mr. Raine, an officer
of the Palace Court, was charged at Greenwich with
stealing two china egg cups, two china mugs, sundry
china ornaments, curious shells, &c., the property of
Frederick Starkey, a plumber, residing at Lewisham.
The defendant who had been employed to make a seizure
on the premises of the complainant, had removed
certain articles. Starkey having paid the money
required the restoration of his goods. They were
restored according to the inventory, but the missing
articles although taken by defendant did not appear
in the inventory. The prisoner refused to give the
complainant his address. He, however, discovered it,
and found part of the stolen property there. Mr.
Raine, who appeared on behalf of his man, made very
light of the matter, and said the articles were of
trifling value. Mr. Starkey said that the prisoner's
son told him that there was another china jug, the
match of the one in the basket, on the mantel-piece of
Mr. Raine's house. Mr. Raine was put into the box
and sworn. Mr. Jeremy then said—Now, sir, upon
your oath, is it true that the cup alluded to was at
your house? Mr. Raine, after a little hesitation, said
—No, sir; I deny having seen it; he was, however,
so much excited that night, that he could not remem-
ber. Mr. Jeremy, in giving judgment, characterised
the case as one of heartless cruelty. Here was a
tradesman in pecuniary difficulties, robbed under cir-
cumstances very painful, with little probability of
redress e but having unexpectedly satisfied his cre-
ditors, fortunately found the means of detecting the
offender. It was a high misdemeanor, if not a felony.
The prisoner might consider himself very lucky in
having escaped being sent to Newgate. He was fined
Si. for the unlawful possession of the goods, and in
default of payment be committed for two months to
the county gaol. He was locked up.
John Featherstone, aged 53, was charged on a
peace-warrant, at the Thames Police-court, with pre-
senting a pistol at Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Wall, the
landlady of the Britannia Tavern, in the New-road,
St. George's-in-the-East, and with threatening her
life. The prisoner has frequently been bound over to
keep the peace towards Mrs. Wall, and at the last
sessions articles of peace were exhibited against him
He was liberated on bail only on Thursday last. The
bail, it was stated, was " straw bail." The magis-
trate said that he knew, from long experience, that in
99 cases out of 100 false and artificial bail was given.
The Chairman of the sessions must be made acquainted
with the fraud. The prisoner was then ordered to
enter into sureties, himself in 801., and two sureties
in 401. each, to keep the peace until the sessions, and
in default he was locked up.
OTTET--...-MAREVECITILSZN.
The Duchess of Inverness is passing the autumn at
Kensington Palace, where her Grace occasionally
entertains select parties at dinner.
The Duke and Duobcao of Ivicumheatcr and Lady
Olivia Montagu intend to pass the winter in Spain,
for the improvement of her Grace's health, which has
been for some time in a delicate state. The Duke
and Duchess have arrived at Brampton Park, on a visit
to Lady Olivia Sparrow, from Tandaregle Castle,
previous to embarking for Cadiz.
The Hon. Mr. Cadogan and Mr. F. Courtenay have
returned to town from Lord William Powlett's seat
in Norfolk and leave shortly on a visit to the Marquis
and Marchioness of Anglesey, at Beaudesert.
On Saturday, George Cornwall Lewis, Esq., one
of the Poor-law Commissioners for England and
Wales, led to the altar, at Watford Church, Lady
Theresa Lister, relict of the late Thomas 11. Lister,
Esq., and sister to the Earl of Clarendon, and to the
Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers. The Hon. Montagu
Villiers officiated at the ceremony.
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On Wednesday, the 16th instant, application was
made to the Court of Quarter Sessions for the county,
at Exeter, for permission to erect a set of powder-
mills on Dartmoor. The Court took time to consider,
and on Friday granted a license for this purpose to
Messrs. George Frean and Co. The site selected is
ten miles from Moretonhamptead, and two miles from
Two Bridges. The nearest point of the mills to the
turnpike road is 728 yards, of three feet each. The
nearest point of the magazine to the road is 520 yards.
The distance between the mills and the magazine will
be 1,200 yards.
On Friday, October 11, as a labourer was employed
in digging flints on one of the highest points of the
hills which bound the Vale of Pewsey on the north,
he turned up a beautiful ornament of solid gold,
weighing rather more than two ounces and a huff
troy, in the highest state of
preservation. It was ire.
bedded in the earth at about eighteen inches under
the turf. The only articles at all resembling it are
the supposed Druidical ornaments called torques, of
which several were discovered in Somersetshire to-
wards the end of the last century, but of base metal.
Prince Albert's Hariers met at the gas house at
Eghaint on Saturday, had three excellent rime,
securing a brace and a half of fine hares.
On Saturday the students of University College,
Gower-street, assembled in the lecture theatre, for
the purpose of inviting Professor Liebig, of European
celebrity as a chemist, to a dinner. Though the
matter had been only broached the evening before in