The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vutatt ptittoit.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The number of persons killed by the explosion of the pow-
der magazine at Algiers is 88, besides 48 persons wounded.
They are principally soldiers of artillery.
Marshal Bugeaud left Paris for Algiers on Tuesday. He
will be followed in a few days by his Royal Highness the
Duke de Montpensier.
The appeals to the Cour Royale, by the Procureur du
Roi, against the judgment of the Tribunal of Correctional
Police in the case of Walker, Ogilvie, Frazer, Lambert,
Peyronnet, and the woman Emma Caye, for cheating with
marked cards, came on on Monday. An imense crowd com-
pletely filled the Court. M. Gashon read the report. The
President having interrogated the parties accused, they made
the same protestations as before the Correctional Tribunal,
and adduced the like defence. The Advocate-General, M.
Nougnier, delivered his arguments in support of the appeal,
and called upon the Court to pronounce conviction. The
Court adjourned to the following day.
According to a Vienna letter of the 10th, in the Augsburg
Gazette, the convulsed state of Switzerland has induced the
Austrian Government to send a force of between 3,500 and
4,000 men, under the command of Count Lechnowsky, to re-
inforce the Austrian garrisons on the Swiss frontiers.
The journals of Italy state that the winter still continued
in that part of the world. The Diario of Rome mentions that
the cold was as great as six degrees below zero of Reaumur
(11 below freezing). At Naples it was at two degrees be-
low zero (3i below freezing), which for that place is extra-
ordinary.
The captain of the Phenicien, which arrived at Marseilles,
states that the tower of the lighthouse has been erroneously
comprised amongst the edifices destroyed at Algiers. The
light Was merely put out, either by the shock or by the
stones that were thrown. The glass of
,the lantern was
broken, but the next day everything was temporarily re-
paired, and the light was exhibited as usual in the evening.
In its last session the Council-General of the Seine-Infe-
rieure had expressed a wish to have an inquiry instituted to
learn the causes of the depopulation on the coaste of the
Channel. The Prefect of the Seine-Inferieure has, in conse-
quence, just ordered the inquiry to be made.
We learn from Rochefort that orders have been received at
that port to prepare for sea the steam-frigates Descartes, of
450, and Infernal, of 320-horse power.
According to a letter from Constantinople of the 26th ult.
in the Augsburg Gazette, the Divan has addressed another
note to the Ambassadors of the great Powers, promising
early payment of the indemnity due to the Maronites,
and-that their privileges and those of the Druses shall be
fully respected.
Dr. Wolff arrived at Constantinople on the 22d, and
was to leave for London by the Oriental Steam Company's
packet.

A Berlin letter of the 10th instant says :—" The great
composer, Weber, at the time of his death, was engaged in
writing the music of a comic opera, and among his papers
were found the scores of eleven pieces of the work entirely
finished. According to the desire of the King of Prussia, M.
Meyerbeer has undertaken to finish the opera, which will be
brought out on our first lyric stage, under the auspices of his
Majesty. As the libretto has become a little old-fashioned
the celebrated poetess and actress, Mme. Charlotte Birch
Pfeiffer, will retouch and so arrange it, that the first act will
contain exclusively the eleven pieces written by Weber, and
consequently the whole of the music of the second act will be
by M. Meyerbeer, who will also compose the overture."

11.45.V7 AND PDXAON.
At Lewes, George Curd was convicted of uttering a forged
101. note, as far back as 1840. He had managed to elude
the police until December last, when he was taken in London.
His identity was distinctly proved, and it further appeared
that he belonged to a sang of forgers.
Patching. Burgess, and Layhurst, the Sussex house-
breakers, who have during the winter spread such terror in the
neighbourhood of Brighton, pleaded Guilty to several indict-
ments, and were sentenced by Mr. Baron Alderson to ten
years' transportation. Mary Ann Hounsell and Jane Gates,
for receiving the stolen property, were sentenced—the first to
be imprisoned for two years, and the second for eighteen
months.

Two men, named Walton and Proffit, were convicted at
Stafford of poaching on Sir Robert Peel's lapels. They had
been out on bail, and surrendered to take their trial. Mr.
Baron Platt sentenced Walton to one year's hard labour, and
Proffit, who had been convicted of a similar offence before, to
seven years' transportation, the severity of which created
much apparent surprise.
At Derby, an astrologer, named Coulson, brought an action
against two magistrates, for having sent him to prison for two
months as a rogue and a vagabond. The action was brought
by a Society, calling itself the Astrological Cerebral Mes-
meric Society of London. The plaintiff was non. suited.
How comes it that these learned pundits did not ascertain
either by astrology, or some other ology or ism, that such
would be the event of the action before they went into court ?
Robert White, convicted at York of highway robbery, was
sentenced by Mr. Justice Wightman to be transported for 15
years.

At the Surrey sessions, the policeman Hall, whose case has
already been before the public, was convicted of robbing the
till of Joseph Dennison, potatoe salesman, and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
At Greenwich, James Parsons, of Arbour-square, Com-
mercial-road, East, was brought up for final examination,
charged with being connected with another man not in
custody, of stealing 84 deals from the dock of the Grand
Surrey Canal, Rotherhithe, and fully committed for trial.