The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-22 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.
On Monday evening the King and Queen of the French
received the British Ambassador, the Marquis de Dalmatie,
Rear-Admiral Hernoux, General de Saint Joseph, and M.
de Givre, Members of the Chamber of Deputies.
The Committee on the Budget continued its examination
of the Navy department on Tuesday. It gave its assent to
sonic augmentations of salary, such as for captains of cor-
vettes, &c. It also approved of the increase of the number of
mechanicians on board steamers.
The disturbances in Switzerland continue unabated. The
Protestants and Catholics are preparing for a contest which
can only be prevented by the interference of foreign Powers.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons has, it is said, arrived
in Paris, for the purpose of meeting the charge of abuse of
functions, in commenting upon and condemning, in his pas-
toral letter, a work by M. Dupin, on education.
A letter from Alexandria of the 26th ult. states that on a
report of his medical advisers, Sami-Pacha has obtained leave
from the Viceroy to reside in Paris. It is thought at Alex-
andria that this is & pretext the 'ltacha to have a repre-
sentative at Paris, withont giving offence to the Sultan.
A man named Marchal, who was condemned to death for
the murder of his father, was executed at Nancy on the 15th.
He walked to the scaffold in the costume of condemned par-
ricides, viz.; in his shirt, and wearing a long black veil, with
his feet bare. He was full of contrition, acknowledged the
justice of his sentence, and prayed fervently up to the moment
of ellteution.
Hasle, who was condemned for the murder of a widow and
her daughter, who had given him an asylum for a night, was
guillotined at Rennes on the 15th, •
The celebrated banker Benedicks, formerly partner in the
eminent firm of Michaelson and Benedicks, of Stockholm,
died recently in that city, aged eighty-three years. The de-
ceased possessed several iron Wand copper mines, and leaves a
colossal fortune.. He has bequeathed above 50,0001. to various
public charitable institutions.
A St. Vetersburgh letter of the 6th, in the Berlin State
Gazette, informs us that the Emperor of Russia' although
able to take exercise daily, was still indisposed, and the Em-
press was suffering from palpitation of the heart.
A letter from Amsterdam states that M. Levi-Salomon, of
Haan, had just celebrated the 103 d anniversary of his birth-
day. This old gentleman is still robust; he reads without
glasses, and enjoys his intellectual faculties fully.
At Berlin on the 9th, Fahrenheit's thermometer marked
3 deg. belowgero.
A letter from Frankfort of the 14th says:—" It is known
that a demand was made to the Diet by several States of
Germany for the suppression of all the public gaming estab-
lishments in the Germanic Confederation. In consequence of
this demand a Committee was appointed, which decided that
all the existing contracts shall be completed, but that no new
contracts shall be entered into. Instructions to this effect
have been forwarded to all the States. The following is an
account of the time that the different contracts which now
exist have to run :—Hombourg, twenty years ; Baden-
Baden, nine years ; Wisbaden and Ems, nine years ; Aix-la-
Chapelle, eight years ; Kissingen, eight years.'
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In the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Augustus Newton and
his wife brought an action for arrest and false imprisonment
against the proprietors of the Cheltenham Examiner news-
paper. The plaintiffs had brought an action • for libel
against the defendants, in which they had been unsuccessful,
and the plaintiff and his wife had been arrested by defen-
dants for their costs. Plaintiff's wife was, subsequently dis-
charged, and then the present action was brought. The de-
fendants pleaded a justification, and on that plea the jury
gave them their verdict. •
At the Lancaster-Assizes, Thomas Donahoo was indicted
for the wilful murder of his wife, at lilverstone. It ap-
peared that the unfortunate woman had come .home in a
state of intoxication, which so enraged the prisoner that he
struck her a blow which terminated ber existence. He was
found guilty of manslaughter, andsentenced to be transported
for life.
A lad, named Thomas Jones, was charged at Guildhall,
with stealing four sovereigns from a bowl of money,_ exposed
in the shop-window at Mr. Walton's, a jeweller inLudgate-
street. He was remanded until Saturday.
At Brow-street,' Edward Spicer, a mail-guard, in the ser-
vice of the General Post-office, was charged, before Mr. Jar-
dine, with stealing 17/. 16s. from a letter which had beiii•
posted on the 18th of January last. The charge was deafly
proved, but the prisoner was remanded for a few days in
order to complete the case.