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

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FOREXON.

On Tuesday evening, their Majesties the King and Queen
of the French received the Hanoverian and Saxe Weimar
Ministers, the Duke d'Albufera, M. Casimir Perier, Minister
from France to Hanover; the Marquis de Rumignv, General
Sebastiani, and the Count de Bondy. On We&esday the
King came from Neuilly to the Tuileries, but remained a
very short time.
The Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, and the Prince and Princess Augustus of
SaxerCoburg, had arrived at Neuilly from Chantilly.
The different reports received by the Government, says
the Messager, announce that the King's fete was everywhere
celebrated with eelat and order; the entire population took
part in it, and the clergy celebrated at the same time the re-
ligious and the national fete.
The consumption of meat in Paris during the last month
was 6,458 oxen, 1,374 cows, 6,862 calves, and 40,413 sheep,
being 310 oxen less, and 228 cows, 518 calves, 3,915 sheep
more than in April, 1844.
The bridge of boats over the Rhine, at Busach, erected at
the joint expence of France and the Grand Duchy of Baden,
was opened to the public a few days ago, in presence of the
authorities of France and Baden, in the adjacent localities.
The Government of the Canton of the Valais has sentenced
Dr. Barmann, who took a leading part in the disturbances,
there, to deprivation of civil rights for two years, a fine of
150 f., and the costs of the prosee,ution. A similar sentence
has been pronounced upon M. Torrent.
Last week the son of a farmer, residing near St. Omer, in
ploughing, came on a number of gold pieces. They have;
turned out to be coins of Philippe le Bon, Duke of Burgundy,
and of Charles VIII. and Louis XIII, Kings of France.
The Belgian and Valenciennes journals contain several
accounts of accidents from lightning, notwithstanding the
low state of the atmosphere. On Thursday last the electric
fluid fell near Valenciennes, at a place called Vendegier-sur-
Ecallion, on a house inhabited by a custom-house officer,
It entered by the chimney, and broke in pieces the chair on
which the man was sitting by the fire, and left marks of its
passage on all the iron articles in the room. On the same day
the electric fluid,fell on a wooden house at the camp of Beverloo,
in Belgium, occupied ty Captain Louis Caimo, and the build-
ing was at once set on fire. A sum of 13,000 f. in bank notes,
some valuable jewels, and all the furniture were consumed.
On search being made after the fire had gone out, 14 pieces
of 10 florins were found half melted, and two earrings.
At Constantinople, on the 26th ult., commenced the cere-
monies attending the marriage of Mhemet Ali Pacha, Go
vernor of Topklanch, and the sister of the Sultan. The pro.
cession was by no means so splendid as such pageants used
to be in former years. Divested of their accessories of Eastern
costume, a long train of servants, bearing on their heads pots
of confectionaries and Broussa silks had rather the appear-
, ante of porters and waiters at a tavern than the retainers of
royalty.
Mehemet Ali left Cairo on the 19th of April for Mansoura,
where his Highness intended remaining for a few hours only,
and thence he would proceed to Alexandria. His Excellency
Chalil Bey, son of the Viceroy, is going to Paris to join the
Prince his brother, who has now been residing in that city
for more than a year.

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The King of Prussia was expected to leave Potsdam in
the course of next week, on a tour of inspection through the
various provinces in his dominions which have suffered from
the recent inundations. The arrival at and departure from
Berlin of English, Russiau, and French Cabinet Couriers is
at this moment, according to accounts from the Prussian
capital, very active.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Central Criminal Court, John Dobson, for breaking
into the Church of St. Marylebone, and stealing divers
articles, was sentaced to ten years' transportation.
At Marlborough street, Mary Ann Johnson, a young
woman, was charged with stealing a shilling seed cake from
the shop of Mr. Tarver, baker, Coventry-street. The poor
girl, who had for some months past been leading a life of
prostitution, had taken the cake for the purpose of being com•
mitted so as to be removed from the streets. Mr. Tarver
refused to press the charge, and the magistrate gave her a
letter of recommendation to the Magdalen.
John Wilkins, charged with having deserted his wife and
three children, whereby they had become chargeable to the
parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, wat committed for
a month from Hammersmith.

George Mallinson, a butcher, aged 26, of Skipper's Folly,
Old Gravel-lane, St. George's-in-the-East, was charged at
the Thames Police-court with indecently exposing himself to
a little girl, and committed to the House of Correction for six
weeks as a rogue and vagabond, there to be kept to hard
labour.