The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

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" Who runs may read."

POREXtIN.

On Thursday afternoon the King of the French, the Queen,
and Madame Adelaide, went from Nenilly to the Trianon,
where the Duchess of Orleans bad arrived in the morning
with the Duke of Saxe-'Weimar, to view the palace and gar-
dens of Versailles. Arend dinner was given at the Trianon,
followed by the play of the Deserteur, performed by the com-
pany of the Op4ra comique. At the conclusion of the per-
formance, their Majesties, the Princess Adelaide, and the
Duke of Saxe• Wcsmar, returned to Neuilly, where the
Duchess of Orleans had preceded them in the earlier part of
the evening.
The Manheim Journal gives the following extract of a
letter from Coburg, dated May 11 :—" An English courier,
who arrived here some days since, has brought intelligence
that unless some unforeseen obstacle occur, Queen Victoria
will arrive here on a visit in the course of the ensuing month,
with her consort Prince Albert, Preparations are already
being made at the Court for their reception."
It was rumoured at Pads that her Maksty will also visit
the King and Queen of the French at St. Cloud in the course
of the summer.
According to a Vienna letter, the Duchess d'Angoul6ne
and the Duke de Bordeaux and his sister will not return to
Goritz. They were expected to arrive about the middle of
this month at Frohsdorif, about four leagues from Vienna.
The French Minister of War has appointed a commission,
composed of an officer of engineers and two officers of artil-
lery, to proceed to Bourges, and choose out the ground for
placing the cannons destined for the fortifications of Paris.
These gentlemen are to set out for Bourges as soon as the
Bill just voted by the Deputies shall have passed the Chamber
of Peers.
The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 13th instant, announces
the arrival in that city, on the 12th, of M. Pisoatory, the
French Ambassador at Athens, and of Count de klontford,
son of Jerome Bonaparte, both on their way to Paris.
The Tou/onnoig states, that several foreign officers had re-
paired to Algiers to accompany as amateurs, the contem-
plated expedition against the Kabyles. "We have ob-
served of late in the streets," writes the correspondent of
that journal, "numbers of Prussian, Austrian, Bavarian,
and even English uniforms. The day before yesterday a
British Captain presented himself to the Governor-General.
All those officers preserve their uniforms. They were all
present on the 30th ult, at the ball given by the Governor-
General."
The Courier Francaiimentions a report, that "an eminent
banking-house had proposed to the Government to under-
take the execution of the Northern, Lyons and Strasburg
railroads, on condition of receiving a lease of 25 years. This
company would further undertake to reimburse the Govern-
ment the full amount of the outlay already incurred on those
three lines, and agree to deposit as a guarantee for the ex-
ecution of its engagements a capital of six hundred millions
(24 millions sterling) in Government securities."
COURT---rASNIONABLZ.
Saturday, the 24th is the twenty-sixth anniversary of her
Majesty's birth-day. The drawing-room and grand official
banquets by the Ministers and grand officers of State in
honour of the event, will not take place until Tuesday, the
27th instant

The Duke of Sutherland and the Marquis of Stafford left
Stafford House on Satarday for Scotland. The Duchess and
Lady Caroline Leveson Gower have gone on a visit to Baron
and Lady Park, at Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire, but return
to Stafford House to-day. Lord and Lady Blantyre are
expected from their seat, near Glasgow, early in the ensuing
month.
The Marquis of Londonderry has had cards issued for a
grand banquet at Holdernese House, on the 3d of the ensuing
month.
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The Earl of Aberdeen will receive the whole of the Fo-
reign Ambassadors and Ministers, at a grand full-dress en-
tertainment at Argyll House, on Tuesday, the nth instant,
in honour of her Majesty's birth-day.
The Earl and Countess of Verulam have left town to
attend the Gorhambury races, which commence on the 20th.
The Noble Earl and Countess will entertain a distinguished
party there during the week.
The Marquis of Waterford, the Earl of Howth, Lord Sal-
toun, Sir Watkins W. Wynn, Viscount 141aidstone, Hon.
John Kennedy, Hon. S. Erskine, Sir Alexander Montgomery
Cunninghame, Sir H. Dhnbar, Sir James Roswell, Colonel
and Mrs. Montgoinerie, and Captain Dalrymple were among
the guests who partook of the hospitalities at the Earl and
Countess of Eglinton, at Eglinton Castle, during the race
week.
The Earl of Harrowbv has returned to Grosvenor-square,
Prom a visit to the Hon. (1. D. and Lady Georgiana Ryder, at
Westbrooke, near Berkhampstead, Herts.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston on Saturday even-
ing entertained at dinner the Marquis and Marchioness of '
Clanricarde an Lady Elizabeth De Burgh, the Earl of Bes-
borough, Countess De Grey, Earl and Countess Cooper, Lord
Edward Toward, Dowager Lady Holland, Hon. William
Cowper, Mr. P. Byng, &c. After the dinner her Ladyship
had an assembly, w ich was attended by the Duke de ,
Broglie, the Court St. Aulaire, most of the foreign Ministers,
and a very large number of persons of rank.

DIXBOBZZAZCZOI7IS.
Much interest is excited in Kent by the agricultural
fete which is to be given on Wednesday next, by Vis-
count Torrington, at his seat, Yoker Court, near Mereworth,
Kent. At the last anniversary dinner of the Kent and Maid-
stone cattle show, the Noble Viscount announced that he was
erecting a suite of farm buildings on the most approved
plan, combining every suggestion of practical utility, and
that when that homestead was completed, he hoped his agri-
cultnral friends would come and see it. His Lordship has
issued between three and four hundred invitations for Wed-
nesday, and all the arrangements for the entertainaeht are
made on a most sumptusus scale.
The Duke of Wellington has engaged the following vocal-
ists for the fifth performance of ancient music, which will
take place on Wednesday evening, under the direction of his
Grace :—Madame Caradori Allan, Bidlle. Brambilla, and
Mdlle. Vera (her first appearance); Messrs. Hawkins, Ma-
chin, Staudigi, and Piechek.
Mr. Hudson, the sub-inspector of the factories in Ireland,
has proceeded against several of the proprietors of flietories
in Belfast, for infringements of the law in permitting woman
and boys to work on Good Friday—the penalties vary from
10/. to 201.

The symphonies selected for the fifth Philharmonic Con-
certs are Beethoven's in and Mendelssohn's No. 2in A.
Mr. W. S. Bennett will play a pianoforte concerto, by Mo-
zart. The overture to Faust will be performed, followed by
a vocal scene by Herr Staudigl and Harr Oberhoffer.
The London Association for the Protection of Trade have
got up and extensively circulated a petition to Parliament
for a repeal of the Act of last session, abolishing imprison-
ment for all debts under 201. The petition also prays for the
adoption et some better means than at present exist for the
recovery of debts under 201. contracted previous to the pass-
ing of the late measure.
M. Arban, the celebrated carnet-a-piston player from the
Academie Royal, has arrived from Paris, and will appear at
Vauxhall this evening, and, with Laurent, will perform
Bellini's duet " Deh Conte."
The steam-ship Great Western, Captain Mathews, having
been in port during little more than a week, again departed
from Liverpool for New York, on Saturday afternoon, carry-
ing out from GO to 70 passengers, amongst whom was the
Count de Talaru„and the usual mail.
The course of lectures for the ensuing Trinity Term, which
commences on Thursday next, founded by Sir Thomas Gra-
ham, will be read at the theatre of the college in Basinghall-
street, City, at twelve o'clock in the forenoon, in Latin and in
English, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely, en the
days, and by the gentlemen hereunder specified, viz.:—Thurs-
day, May 22, and Friday, 23, the Rev. Joseph Pullen, on
astronomy, Monday, 26, and Wednesday; 28, H. 11. Southey,
M.D., F.R.S., on physic; Friday, 30, and Saturday, 31, the
Rev. Samuel Birch, on geometry ; Monday, June 2, and
Tuesday, 3, William Palmer, Esq., on law ; Wednesday, 4,
and Thursday, 5, the Rey. Henry John Parker, on divinity ;
Friday, 6, and Saturday, 7, the Rev. Edward. Owen, on rhe-
toric ; Monday, 9, Tuesday, 10, and Thursday, 12, Edward
Taylor, Esq., on music, at seven in the evening precisely.