The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-02 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.
The discussion in the French Chamber on the proceedings
of Admiral Dupetit Thouars at Otaheite commenced on
Thursday, and had not closed at the hour of post. Should a
division take place, Ministers, it wasenticipated, would have
a considerable' majority.
On Tuesday the King, after having visited the church at
Eu, went to the wood de la Poterie. His Majesty was ac-
companied by the Prefect and Engineer of the department,
General d'Audenarde, the Mayor of Eu, Col. de Chabanne,
and Count de Strada. The King afterwards went to the
farm on the Treport road. In the evening there was a grand
dinner at the Chateau, at which all ,the civil and military
authorities were present. • At seven o'clock his Majesty set
out on his return to Paris, and at eleven o'clock on Wednes-
day arrived at the Tuileries.
Lady Cowley commenced her second series of route on
Wednesday evening by a most numerous and brilliant assem-
blage. The elite of English society, residents or visitors in
Paris, were present on the occasion, and also a great number
of the French nobility. Among the brilliant crowd was the
newly arrived Turkish Ambassador, Reschid Paella, who was
an object of general interest.
" Letters from Beyrout," says the Presse, " received by ex-
press, bring the following important intelligence :—Mount
Lebanus is in insurrection. Twelve thousand Maronites are
under arms, and have named for their chief Francis Cozeno.
Two Druse chiefs, who were as hostages at Beyrout, escaped
durieg al:.
night, and returned to the mountain to make
Maronites. The inhabitants of the
common cause
chaaudsdeeicel,::;.hedt,h
t after having for a length of time
'' exactions of the Turkish
demanded from the Porte that tt.. h have no longer
functionaries should be put a stop to,
L ey
any hope but in arms." .
..
The Postampt Gazette of Frankfort gives the following,
of the 20th ult., from Posen :—" Within the last few days,
the Government has adopted measures which give rise to a
belief that not only the Polish emigrants and Russo-Polish
directors had entered into revolutionary conspiracies, but
that they have been joined by young men belonging to the
Grand Duchy. Domiciliary visits have been made at the
houses of several young men of the city, and their papers
seized and put under seal. Forbidden books have also been
detected and secured. At the same time we have not learnt
whether the Government have succeeded in acquiring the
evidence sought for."
Admiral Gall, one of the oldest admirals in the Russian
navy, lately died at St. Petersburgh, at the age of 84. He
was an Englishman by birth, and had been nearly 60 years
in the Russian service,
A letter from Zara (Dalmatia,) in the Journal de Frank-
fort, gates that, on Feb. 9, near ten in the evening, a slight
shock of an earthquake was felt in the neighbourhood, which
lasted three or four seconds. The atmosphere was serene at
the time.
It is stated in a letter from Carlsruhe, of the 22d, that
the principal cemetery, of that place has been recently
the scene of repeated violations, More than forty graves
have been opened, and all the gold and other valuable orna-
ments with which the bodies were interred stolen, Ao these
atrocities weir carried on with great caution on the part of the
depredators, the cr;Zie would have remained unpunished if a
young man had not be,;:t arrested in the act of offering for
sale a silver handle of a corisiii. This person instantly con-
fessed, and denounced his associates, not less thin} thirty of
whom have since been apprehended.
LAW AND POLICE.
At the Hertford Assizes the Rev. Mr. Brogden was ac.
quitted on a charge of firing at and wounding a man named
Cornelius Wintle a constable, whom the rev. gentleman had
mistaken for a thief.
The Assizes of the Northern Circuit commenced an Thurs-
day at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The business is not heavy, but
in one case there are nine charges of rape against one man.
Among the members of the Bar engaged on the Western
Circuit, the assizes of which commenced at Winchester on
Friday, there was a general feeling of regret at the arrival of
the intelligence of the death of Mr. Sergeant Bonipas, the
senior counsel on that Circuit, who expired on Thursday last,
He was much respected by the profession.
Frederick Radford, a butcher, Frederick Shaw, a gold-
beater, and Anne, his wife, John Dybell, a parchment cutter,
Edward Radford, a copper-plate printer, and an old woman
named Mary Osborne, were charged at Bow-street, on sus-
picion of being concerned in burglariously entering the fac-
tory of Mr. Smith, bookseller and stationer, 49, Long-acre,
and stealing therefrom two parcels of receipt stamps, three
bank-notes for 201., 29 sovereigns, and a number of engrav-
ings, with other articles, on the sth ult. The evidence was
not complete, and Roe and Shaw were remanded.
John Dobey Pollard, a solicitor, residing at No. 2, Bowling-
green-lane, King-street, Borough, and Marsh-gate, Lambeth,
was charged, at Clerkenwell, with stabbing Mr. 11. Ken-
worthy, a reporter, residing in Camden-town. The parties
had had some refreshment together, and the prisoner was not
quite sober at the time. The prosecutor luckily escaped in-
jury. Pollard was committed for trial, but admitted to bail,
James Kelly, a young man of respectable appearance, was
charged at Lambeth-street, with being found upon the pre-
mises of Mr. Castle, a ship-broker in High-street, Wapping,
to be detainedinn, custodynam ed
A young
ma
under singular and suspicious circumstances. He appeared
to be labouring under the effects of insanity. He was ordered
°Bassett, was remanded from Green-
wich office on a charge of being concerned in a robbery of
letters, containing money, &c., front the post-office at
Lewisham.

COTTRT—VASHIONABLE.
The Lord Chamberlain (Earl Delawarr) arrived on Friday
in Upper Grosvenor-street, from a visit to the Earl and
Countess Amherst, at Knole Park, near Seven Oaks, to
transact official business, and his Lordship afterwards left for
Bourn Hall, Cambridgeshire, on a visit to Mr. Francis and
Lady Elizabeth Russell.
The Earl and Countess of Arran are expected to leave town
early in the ensuing week for the Lodge, Enniscorthy.
The Earl of Powis arrived in Berkeley-square early in the
week to attend the Ancient Britons Welsh festival, from
Walcot House, near Ludlow. The Countess and the Ladies
Herbert are expected in town for the season early in the
ensuing month.
Lady Beresford left Paris for Mulogne on Wednesday last
Sir Robert Peel has a dinner party on Saturday next, the
' 9th inst., at his residence in 'Whitehall-gardens.
Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., and family, have arrived at his man-
sion in Hyde Park-place, from Rome and Naples.
Viscount and Lady Campden have left Gainsborough
House for Barham Court.
Mr. O'Connell has EhasijSuCstattae3sNedEa°l77ettfile; to the people of
Ireland, denouncing in the strongest terms the incendiaries
who have set fire to farming property in some places. He
again adverts to the manner in which he had been received
by the English people, He says, ." I have been received
with kind and manly generosity by tens of thousands of the
English. The Irish people themselves could not receive me
with more of the noblest sentiments of sympathy and good
feeling. I cannot express the extent of my gratitude, nor
ought the Irish people ever to forget that sympathy which is
not created or limited by kindness towards an individual, but
whose basis is a fervent desire to have justice done to the
Irish nation. I hope the people of Ireland will never forget
these instances of generous kindliness."
A meeting, consisting of 8,000 individuals, was held at
Manchester on Thursday evening, the Mayor in the chair,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of
presenting a memorial to her Majesty upon the present state
of Ireland, consequent upon the Government prosecutions.
Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were
adopted, and it was resolved that a memorial should be pre-
sented to the Queen, embodying the substance of the resolu-
tions, to be signed by the Mayor, and also by the people of
Manchester.
The Carlton Club has purchased the leases of Mr. Evans,
the bookseller's premises, and of those recently occupied by
Mr. Mott, which will be pulled down for the purpose of en-
larging their present club-house, and of building a splendid
edifice. We understand that several plans have been already
sent in.
On Friday the whole of the men of the Royal Artillery at
Woolwich off duty were assembled to witness the infliction of
corporeal punishment, to the extent of 150 lashes, upon Gun-
ner and Driver Davis, of the 6th battalion, who was tried by
a Court-martial, and found guilty, of breaking open one of
the barrack-rooms, and stealing a cornopean, value 51., the
property of Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun. The prisoner, on
leaving the hospital, will be discharged from the regiment
with ignominy.

G.—(THIS DAY.)
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squalls.
DEAL, MARCH I.—Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd.
John Tomlinson; Hutchinson, China; Elephanta, Ross, Ma-
nilla ; Stratford, Tait, Mauritius ; Zampa, Lanske, Angostura
for Bremen. Sid. Poictiers, Madras ok, Coun-
tess Hope, Montreal, and John Crai; Thomas Sno
g, New York ; Emma,
Newfoundland.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH I.—Wind W.N.W. to W., hard and
squally.—Arrd. MAI S. Resistance, Plymouth. Off, Richmond,
London, for Algo Bay.
PLYMOUTH; MARCH I.—Wind W.—Arrd. Virginia, Liver-
pool for Boston, with cargo shifted.
FALMOUTH, MARCH I.—Wind W., strong breezes and
squally.—Arrd. Lord Stanley, Shields for Aden, put back ;
Albert, Dominica.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH I.—Wind W. moderate.—Arrd. Mar-
garet, Rio de la Hache ; Memley, Glover, Laguna, Dec. 31 ;
George Schofield, Schofield, Apalachiola. Ski. Tartar, Ha-
vannah ; Thomas Bennett, Charleston ; South Esk, Boston.
KINGSTOWN, FEB. 29.—Arrd. Madonna, Demerara.
CORK, FEB. 28.—Acrd. Nestor, Stuart, Mauritius (100
days) ; Clio, Bridgwater, for Savannah, leaky.
You Gum„, FELL 2".—Acrd. Mary Flagg, St. John's, N. B.
OFF ALDBOROUGH, MARCH I.—Andromache, Hull, for St.
John's, N.B.
YARMOUTH, MARCH The Runcina, Cowie, of Cullen,
on shore on the Barber Sand, yesterday, has been got off, and
will proceed, as she makes no water.
WELLS, MARCH I.—The Robert and William, of Boston,
on shore at Hunstanton, has been got off, after discharging
110 quarters of wheat, and into the harbour, where she will
discharge the remaining part of it, being wet.

C. DICKENS, ESQ. (Boz), IN LIVERPOOL.—The
annual Christmas soirée, at the Mechanics Institution, having
been postponed in order to suit the convenience of Charles
Dickens, Esq., who had promised to preside on the occasion,
the event, which was looked forward to by many with feel-
ings of anticipated delight, came off on Monday evening last.
Long before the hour appointed for the opening of the doors,
the street was crowded with persons anxious to obtain ad-
mission, and double rows of carriages, cars, and other
vehicles, lined Mount-street, from Hope-street, to Rodney-
street: From the excellence of the arrangements, however,
after the first rush was over, not the slightest inconvenience
was experienced. Mr. Dickens had arrived in town during the
day, accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Burnett, of Manchester,Mr.
Burnett, and another friend. He was supported on the right
by Wm. Fawcett, Esq., President of the Institution, and Sir
Arnold Knight, and on the left by W. B. Hodgson, Esq., the
secretary, and John Smith, Esq., of the Liverpool Mercury.
On the platform, and in the other parts of the ball, we noticed
. •
followingttivalh,heormbusirneyet gentlemen :—W. Rathbone, Esq. i Sir Joshua
RA.ndYre.wYaKteusr,tzE,
Esqs.cl.
;W. D. M'Andrew, Esq Andrew Melly, 'Esq. ; Dr,
Dr. Heldenmaier ; James Wason, Jun, Esq.; Richard Shed,
Erip? and many of the Directors of the Institution. Most of
the gentiernen• 11-44 their families with them. It would be
difficult to describe, sap the ,Liverpool Mercury, after giving
a full description of the proceedings, and a Forort tho
poeches, the pleasure which ni"nbers of the townsmen and
towilSwppga forpgrinc.ed from the visit of Mr. Dickens. The
inimitable ilia pilikmpropic. " has made an era in
Liverpool from which nay 4,5400;4 eir!';',TT;tidio
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duties on paper; and we understand that the principal papAr:
makers in Mid-Lothian have prepared and sent off a petition
a Similar import.—Witness.