The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

The King of the French arrived at Eu on Monday morning
at nine o'clock, accompanied by his staff. His Majesty was
received at the chateau by the Prefect of the department,
Lieut.-General Count Lalaing d'Audenarde, the Commandant
and officers of the National Guard, the Municipal Council of
Eu. the Mayor and Municipal Council of Treport, and the
Colonel and officers of the 12th Regiment of the Line and the
Ist Light Infantry. At noon the King went to Treport, and
took a walk on the jetty. His Majesty appeared to be in
excellent health. In the evening there was to be a dinner
at the chateau, to which all the civil and military authorities
were invited.

The Commerce assigns as a reason for the King's journey
to Eu his wish to judge of the progress made in the Victoria
Gallery, which he ordered to be erected at the chateau in
honour of the Queen of England's visit.
The Ministerial evening journal, the Messager, says," Several
papers contain on Otaheite, and the affairs connected with it,
information and details which are utterly incorrect. We
confine ourselves to a general contradiction. The discussion
on Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies will rectify all these
false notions."

M. Durand, responsible editor of the Nation, was cited to
take his trial on Tuesday, before the Court of Assizes, for an
offence against the laws of the press, but, having made de-
fault, was condemned to six months' imprisonment and a fine
of 6,000 f.

The Seine continues to rise ; yesterday it had attained the
height of 4 metres and a half (14 feet), by the scale attached
to the bridges. Many of the wharfs are under water.
A man, suspected of being an accomplice in the murder of
M. Donon Cadot, has escaped justice by becoming his own
executioner. After lzeing some days in the hospital, he was
discovered by the police on Sunday last as a man under
charges of fourteen robberies and three murders. He was to
have been removed yesterday, but, being left free in his bed,
he poisoned himself yesterday morning with some drug which
he had contrived to secrete.
A letter from the camp before Alicant states that the com-
munications between the General and the rebels are every
day more frequent, and there is every reason to suppose that
the surrender will not be delayed many days.
According to a letter from Naples of the 10th, the Me-
teorological Observatory on Vesuvius is finished. It is in
the form of a tower, in the style of the Renaissance, standing
a little above the Hermitage, 2,082 feet above the level of the
sea. On the upper floor, it contains a small but splendidly
furnished apartment, for the accommodation of the Royal
family, when they visit the mountain. This Observatory is
placed under the same direction as the Royal Observatory at
Naples. It will be opened in the course of the next month.
The Augsburg Gazette states, from Constantinople, that
the difference between the Bey of Tunis and the Sardinian
Government is on the point of being arranged, by the inter-
vention of the Baron de Bourqueney and Sir Stratford Can-
ning with the Porte, which has declared that the King of
Sardinia shall have full satisfaction, but will not allow of any
direct negotiations between Sardinia and the Bey, whom it
regards as its vassal.