The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

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A fire broke out at Algiers on the 26th, which destroyed
property, a considerable portion of which belonged to the
Government, to the amount of 52,000/.
The last advices receivedfrom Oran at Marseilles announce
that the Emperor Abd-er-Rhamon has formally disavowed
the hostilities commenced against France, and that El-
Guenioni has notified to the tribes on the frontier that it is
expedient to relinquish the pretension of removing the fron-
tier of Morocco to the Tafna.

The Moniteur Algerien of the 30th says :—"The last ac-
counts from the west continue most favourable. Since the
brilliant combat on the 15th of June, no act of hostility has
been committed by the Moorish chiefs, who have retired
with their troops several days' marches behind Oneida."
La Presse, in its correspondence from Toulon, says that
Abd-el-Fader had received from the son of the Emperor of
Morocco a supply of 6,000 English muskets, with instructions
for artillery service, printed in Arabic and English. '
A letter from Trieste says that the Emperor of Russia
having recognised the Constitutional Government of Greece,
diplomatic relations are to be renewed with that State. M.
Persiani, on the part of Russia, has communicated the fact to
the corps diplontatique. It is reported that M. Doschkow, the
Consul-General in Moldavia, would go to Athens as Russian
Ambassador. M. Persiani is recalled. M. Fokk is appointed
Russian Consul-General in Egypt.
A letter, says the Paris Presse, from Rio Janeiro, of the
10th of May, states that the Brazilian Minister of Foreign
Affairs has informed the foreign Consuls that the treaty con-
cluded with England eight years ago, which expires on the
Ist of November, will not be renewed.. Arrangements made
afterwards extended this treaty to France, consequently from
the 2d of November the duties on all goods imported from
Europe will be raised to 50 or even 60 per cent. ad valorem,
and that not the original value, but the value in Brazil—
that is to say, with freight, insurances, and other expenses
included. Such an increase of duty is equivalent to a pro-
hibition, and no doubt if it be so maintained it will exercise
a disastrous influence on our (French) exportations.
. We learn from Cuxhaven that the body of Mrs. Smith,
who lost her life in the wreck of the Manchester, has been
taken up near Kronprinzen Krong, and landed there.
LAW AND POLICE.
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In the Common Pleas an action was brought by Mr. An-
derson, a horse-dealer, against Mr. Elmore, to recover the
price of two horses which the plaintiff had sold to defendant.
The horses were warranted, and the defence was that there
had been a breach of the warranty, as the horses were un-
sound. The defendant paid into Court 61/., the price which
one horse fetChed, after deducting the expenses of the sale at
Aldridge's Repository, and 41. the sum the carcase of the
other horse, who had died, had_fetched. Evidence was given
of the unsoundness of the horses by Sir W. W. Wynn, Mr.
Mason, the steeple-chase rider, and a veterinary surgeon,
when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 3151.
At Marylebone Police-court, John Brown was charged be-
fore Mr. Long with having attempted to stab a man, named
Matthew Delahey, residing in Crawford-place, Bryanston-
square. -Complainant stated that on Saturday last, as he
was proceeding along the Alpha-road, Regent's-park, the
prisoner cried out in a load voice, "Clear the way." Com-
plainant, not knowing what was the matter, jumped off the
foot-path into the road, when the prisoner pursued him. car-
rying in his hand an open clasp-knife, with which he twice
tried to stab complainant. He fortunately escaped being in-
jured. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that he
bad been drinking with a brother whom he had not seen for
some years before, and he had no knowledge of having acted
wrong. Mr. Long fined the prisoner Si. ; in default of pay-
ment, two months' imprisonment.
At Worship-street, a very respectable-looking young man,
but whose name was not given, was brought before Mr. Bing-
ham upon a charge of assaulting one of the officers of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company. A railway inspector
said that the defendant, who bad tome up from Essex, had
behaved in a very extraordinary way, but he believed that
the unfortunate gentleman was insane. His friends live at
Witham, in Essex, and he is by profession a surgeon. The
defendant being asked if he wished to say anything, replied
that be was guilty of everything that they said against him,
and ready to submit to any punishment, and, in return, he
asked the Magistrate if he was a ventriloquist? Mr. Bing-
ham directed that he should be detained until he could pro-
cure bail, two sureties in 251. each, and he was removed in
custody. When in the cell, he addressed an incoherent letter
to Sir Robert Peel, signed" Ellison Spencer Douglas Grove."