The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-30 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The King of the French, accompanied by General Du-
rosnel, Colonel de Chabannes, and the Marquis de Strada,
went to St. Cloud on Tuesday afternoon, and returned to the
Tuileries to dinner. In the evening their Majesties received
Lord Cowley, the Minister of the Grand Duchy of Hesse,
General Changarnier and Baron Deponthon, the Duke and
Duchess de Reggio, the Marquis de Dalmatie, Count &gur,
Count and Countess Serrurier, the Prefet of the Loiret, and
M. de Lahaye Jousselin.
The funeral obsequies of Count d'Ambrugeac, Peer of
France, took place on Wednesday at the church of St.
Thomas d'Aquin. The cords of the pall were held by the
Duke Decazes, the Marquis de Lauriston, Viscount Dode,
and a friend Of the family. The grand deputation of the
Chamber of Peers was composed of twenty-five Members,
but several other Peers were also present.
The great subject of conversation in the offices of the Mi-
nister of the Marine, says the Commerce, is a magnificent
steamer now being built at Brest, and finishing in a style of
splendour as to accommodations, gilding, and hinting, for
the purpose of conveying the Royal Family to England.
The Copenhagen official journal publishes an ordennance
of the King of Denmark, for ameliorating the condition of
the slaves in the Danish West India islands of St. Croix. In

the preamble to the ordonnance, the King expresses his sa.
ti faction at the readiness with which the planters in all thi
three islands have made sacrifices in order to enable the Go.

vernment to adopt the above provisions.
A grand ball will be given by the President of the Cham-
ber of Deputies, after Easter, at the Palais Bourbon. In
addition to the vast saloons of that building, a large room
will be constructed of wood in the garden for the occasion.
The Moniteur states that the following proposition has
been made to the Government by a Company for the execu-
tion of a railroad from Paris to Strasburg : Ist, a lease of 46
years and 324 days ; 2d, to share the profits with the State
after 10 per cent.; 3d, the gratuitous surrender of the road
at the expiration of the concession.
The same journal publishes the Customs' Bill, which has
been presented to the Chamber of Deputies by the Minister
of Commerce. It is of great length, occupying nearly eleven
columns of the Moniteur, and is for a great part a recapitula-
tion of official documents which have been already published.
Three deputies, Messrs. Magnin, Lasalle, and Teniers, have
introduced a bill for the purpose of preventing the adultera-
tion of wine, and for the more effectually punishing those
guilty of committing it. The principal conditions of the bill
are :—To increase the amount of penalties; or to make the
cases punishable by the correctional tribunals; to forbid the
manufacture of vinegar at Paris ; to organise an extensive
service of inspectors ; and to limit and regulate the making
of wines. It is proved that in ten years the loss of the re-
venue, in Paris alone, by the adulteration of wines, has
amounted to 80,000,000 of francs.

LAW AND POLICE.

At Liverpool, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, Peter Halewood was

indicted for fekiniously setting fire to a stack of hay, the pro-
perty of one James Dickenson, and to a certain barn and out-
houses, at Upholland, in this county, the property of the Rev.
Richard Ramshaw Rothwell. He was found guilty, and
transported for life.

AC the Mansion-house, William Read, shipowner, of Ips-
wich, and William Simpson, the commander of the brig
Colina, which was lost off the coast of Rolland, were brought
up in the custody of Daniel Forrester, officer, for final exa-
mination upon the charge of having conspired to sink that
vessel, for the purpose of defrauding the Alliance Marine
Assurance Company. The prisoners were remanded, but will
be formally committed on Monday. The witnesses were
bound over to appear at the next sessions of the Central
Criminal Court.

At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Patteson, Win.
Hall was indicted for setting fire to a stack of wheat, and
other stacks, the property of Edward Corbould. The prose-
cutor is a tenant of the Earl of Leicester, under whom he
occupies a farm in Weasenham. The prisoner was a labour-
ing man in that parish, and is deaf and dumb. The indict-
ment against him was put into his hands, and having read
it, he wrote on a separate paper, " lam not guilty," and the
names of the jurors were given to him, and he was informed
that he might challenge any or all of them ; but he answered,
by writing, that he had no objection to any of them. The evi-
dence was nearly all circumstantial, but the prisoner was
found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life. .
Elizabeth Watson and Mary Elliott, the former a well-
dressed middle-aged woman, the latter the wife of a highly-
respectable tradesman in Spitalfields, were charged at
Worship-street by Mr. Thomas Butler, a linen-draper, 74
and 75, High-street, Shoreditch, with shoplifting. The article
stolen was an expensive satin scarf, which on being searched
the prisoner -Watson let fall from part of her dress. She was
fully committed for trial, but Airs. Elliott was discharged,
there being no sort of evidence against her. The husband
of Watson was stated to hold a confidential public situation
in the City.
A fashionably attired young man, wearing moustachios,
and described on the police-sheet as William Burton Newen-
ham, 31, Upper Berkeley-street West, Portman-square,
gentleman, was charged at Clerkenwell with the abduction
of Frances Louisa Wortham, the daughter of a widow lady,
living in 39, Gerard-street, Coburg-road, Islington. The
young lady, who has an indepeinlent property, is only four-
teen years of age. She is a ward in Chancery. She was
given up to her mother, and the prisoner remanded till Wed-
nesday next.