The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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tlutittr eptuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

Their Majesties the King and Queen of the French
received on Monday evening Prince Paul of Wurtem-
berg, the Neapolitan Chargi d'Affaires, the Archbishop
of Rheims, Count Hippolyte de la Rochefoucauld, Baron
de Barante, Generals Durosnel, Schneider, De Colbert,
Lagrange, Aupick, De Mornay, and Marbot, Admiral
Le Ray, and Baron Mechin.
The inscription of the marriage of the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale was on Tuesday formally entered in
the registers of the Etat-Civil of the Royal Family.
By a royal ordonnauce, dated December 16, the King
has conferred the title of Duke on Baron Pasquier.
The French Academy has unanimously elected M.
Patin, in the place of M. C. Nodier, to the office of Secre-
tary of the Standing Committee to draw up the new
Dictionary of the French language.
The annual masa in celebration of the anniversary of
the arrival in Paris of the remains of the Emperor
Napoleon, was performed on Monday, in the Church of
the Invalides. The Governor and his staff, all the inva-
lides not confined by infirmity or illness, and a great
number of officers and soldiers of the old, as well as of
the present army, attended in uniform.
The navigation of the Seine, which was stopped for
some days by the floating ice-blocks, has become per-
fectly free again.
It is reported that Zurbano is in Madrid, watching an
opportunity to put Narvaez to death.
The Moniteur Grec, of the 29th ult., affirms that the
people of Greece are in the enjoyment of perfect trail•
quillity, and the real position of the population form;
a direct contrast with the language of certain journals
of Athens.

On the 13th ult.. the Emperor of Russia issued an
ukase for the establishment of gratuitous elementary and
superior schools for the children of Jews, and with all
the same privileges and advantages as the gratuitous
schools for Christians. In the Jewish schools, none but
Jewish professors are to be employed for the religious
part of the education. The profess,Ts for the other
branches of education, may be either Jews or Christians.
Many of the disabilities under which Jews serving in the
army laboured, are also abolished.
The supply of truffles this year is reported to be but
scanty. They were sold last week at Brive for Bf. the
lb., and as much as 10f. the lb. has lately been paid for
them at Pirigueux.
The journeymen bakers at Rochefort having com-
bined against their masters to obtain an advance of
wages, about twenty of them have been arrested, and
the Major-General of the Marine has placed a sufficient
number of the Government bakers at the disposal of the
Municipality, during the strike, to keep up the supply of
bread to the inhabitants.

An eruption of Mount Etna, remarkable for its bril-
liancy, took place on Nov. 30. It was visible at Malta,
notwithstanding the distance between that island and
Sicily.

The Piedmontese Gazette fully confirms the accounts
given in private letters of the severe cold lately expe-
rienced at Turin. It states, on the night of the 6th, the
thermometer fell to 20 degrees Centigrade below the
freezing point (4 below zero of Fahrenheit), and that
three carts arrived at the gates of Turin with the carters
lying in them, frozen to death. The cold was also very
severe in Tuscany. The roads between Florence and
Leghorn were covered with snow at the date of the last
accounts.

At seven in the morning of the 10th inst., the thermo
meter at the Hague was at 20 degress below zero of the
Centigrade scale, 4 below eero of Fahrenheit.