The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-12 00:00:00

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The following is an extract from a letter, dated "Co:
stantinople Sept. 19" :—`• Dr. Wolff writes from BI ".
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hare, dated' July 25 •—' The Ameer has returned frog;
Kohhan, and presented me with a dress of honour,
horse, and one hundred tomauns ; and I hope to sot out
in a few days for Persia."
The voyage of the King of the French to England (saYs
the Journal du Havre) recals to their country the tra;
yellers of the Continent, who are` anxious to be presen
at the unusual spectacle which is being prepared. Pesc i
am
sengers for Southampton are flocking into Havre, ar,
the steamers are not lae enough to y than
Yesterday more than two hundred persons crowded a;
board the Grand Turk steamer, and such was the crush,
that it was found necessary to give up fulfilling the pel
formalities required on leaving France. 'The Utile
Turk left a good number of passengers behind.
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There was a grand hunt on Monday in the woods:c
Chantilly, with the Duke de Nemours' hounds. in which
a stag was killed. The Duke returned to St. Cloud. h
The Gazette de France states, from Froshdorf, 291;
ult., that on that day a meeting of twenty-five Franc h;
men took place there to celebrate the twenty-fourth inn
versaryulwer, aof the Duke de Bordea.
Mr. Bccompanied byux Messrs. Peel and Sand'
foi-d, of the British Ligation, arrived at Seville on the
27th ult., on their way to Madrid.
Chestnuts are so plentiful this year that they areo sela
in the Cevennes for 3f. 50c. the fifty kilogrammes, f the
finest quality.
The Magdeburg Gazette contains a letter from Berlin.
Oct. 2, which states that a company has been fort? f,
there for carrying on a foreign trade. The associatit'
it says, is to embrace all the Zollverein, and the expert',
ment is to be first tried with a few vessels.
The Danish Exhibition of Industry, which opened el!
the 15th ult., in the' Palace of Charlottemburg. 7
capital, is composed of 3,849 objects, sent in by 29
exhibitors.
Several German journals state that a commission Me
been appointed by the Prussian Government, under tat
direction of the President of the Court of ApPeal' :d
Posen, for the purpose of perfecting important project
improvements in the administration of justice. githerL._,
the judges had themselves to make oat the bills of COsro
00
in prosecutions, and receive their amounts, and als° ;0,
superintend the execution of their judgments bu'ths
future they will have no other duties than to Dear t
trials and deliver their judgments. This amendme%
and that .which makes the High Court of Appeal an ePthee
tribunal, must add both confidence and dignity to
administration of justice in Prussia.

LAW AND POLICD. •
A tinman named Davis brought an action Intb
Sheriff's Court, against a gentleman named named Robinson'
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recover 21. on an I. 0. U. The defence was that
plaintiff had taken a house of defendant, and had litgrel'-ot
to deposit 51. on entering upon possession ; that 402
being able.to muster the 51., the defendant had givellty;
possession on his paying the 21. for which the I.
had been given by way of acknowledgment. Theiury
found for defendant. the
In the Bankruptcy Court Charles Kerry Nicholls, the
projector of the Westminster Loan and Invest!! ;ft.
Society, was examined before Sir C. F. Williams. 0'6,-0
debts were proved, and Captain Smith, of the Jernose
Coffee-house, was chosen assignee.
arried
"James Gomme,-an insolvent debtor, who had e— t
on business as a carpenter and builder, in Castle-stresl
Oxford-street, and who lost 400/. by fitting up. the 11)11'9,
yacht last year, was remanded to prison for six 110....gn t..
by Mr. Commissioner Pollock, for improperly c on' •
ing debts. The insolvent had been kite-flying- se%
There was a very numerous meeting of Nliddle 00,
magistrates at the Court-house, Clerkenwell-greell,;ipt
Thursday, for the purpose of renewing music and aln-der
licenses, and considering applications for new ones, 11116,
the provisions of the Act 25th of George IL' cal). es,
The list of applicants for renewals contained 57 Ilit't?„
the whole of which were granted without any 0P.4%-°of,
There were also 21 original applications. Tit72,r..-ffer
the HA Wotan* tlfidugh lie Tore two "o'cloOk,
thttliillitnthl- oda* ikeipied Chfrink.the renl=''', A
of thgita? f few Cities 'of felony, Pciu7
(which exhibited a feature of any, public interest."
At Guildhall, when the' magistrate took his seat Ole
A.
was not a single prisoner in custody for examinatirrtiss.
journeyman shoemaker, in his shirt sleeves, named with
Perkins, was, however, soon brought in, cbaxgel Of
stealing a piece of doeskin woollen cloth, of the vaills'oet,
61., from the doorway at Mr. Wilson's, Ludgate-0,00
where it had been exposed for sale. The prisoner, _of
stated that he had stolen the cloth for the purposv

getting transported, was committed for trial
his
nee
A young man, aged eighteen, who refused 'lb wing
or address, was charged at Clerkenwell, with trades'
thrown stones at the windows of Mr. Butcher, a broke
man, residing at 46, Lamb's Conduit-streets .tiet ccustodyplate-glass, value BL, and on being taken I°t this 1‘11,(1
he said he did it wilfully. He still persisted fined 841
refusing to give any account of himself, he was 111
the amount of damage done, and 1/. for the
default of payment he was committed for a ninth'. 111"
John Fornard, of 24, Great Peter-street, Welt?! Of
ster, was convicted at Queen-square, in the pimalv,iia
405., for emptying night soil in the • kennel of the pouth
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street. The prosecution was instituted and suPls°.r. o
by the evidence of the respectable neighbours, -
complained of the nuisance.
Two nien, named Arnold and Threvetian, in the el,•
ployment of Mr. Harris, a watch and chronore,eLeo
maker, in East Smithfield, were fully committed 1,1"3„a
Lambeth-street, for stealing and disposing of a cart lob
of bricks, .the property of their master. Arnold, it
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peared, had been placed in a very confidential s"l.ti
tion, in superintending and taking care of large Plerrio
and premises in Glasshouse-street, and when Mr. zte be
was told that he had been in the habit of robbing b'sli'ro."
disbelieVed it until the man who had bought the P
perty was brought to him. table
At Worship-street a middle-aged man, of respect, 00
appearance, who gave his name William Job Wes
Thompson, and stated himself to be a general agent 1.
placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged, 70d
jointly with Ann and Emma Thompson, his Wife sice
daughter, with having fraudulentlyobtained posses roe
of a large assortment of miscellaneous articles, the Foi,
perty of various tradesmen in Pentonville, and the t° be
Joining neighbourhood. The prisoners were said t 0 per
connected pith a numerous gang of unprincipled
o_,
sons, who for a considerable time past have
most ingenious and successful system of swiadling,:or
wholesale scale, the ramifications of which have
tended over all parts of the metropolis. Four Pe ore
alleged to be leading members of the confederaek
remanded from this Court, upon numerous charges to
ferred by different tradesmen at Hammersmith, on ,701
day last. The two elder prisoners were remand" Ott'
the girl was discharged, the magistrate observingocr
the law would suppose that she had acted under the
carried ; •
trol of her parents. table
George Prestige, alias Bracebridge, a resPe.e hafo
looking man, recently in the employ of the Birralajoe
Railway Company, was fully committed from
Hall, for bigamy. the
A man named David Gosling was remanded aloe'
same police-court, on a charge of robbing a le ,b 0
patient in St. Thomas's Hospital. The prisraerteutoo
was convalescent, had been entrusted by the pros! bor
a discharged marine, who was too ill to leave tn,e.s ser
pital, to receive a small pension due to him for 01 d of;
vices. The prisoner had received the pension, n:obbeo.
his return to the hospital, stated that he had been rot be
of the money. As it was ascertained, however, "..„ /en
had changed a sovereign, and as his statement
confused he was given into custody. d seeei
Sarah Haggerstone, an inmate of the Wah-e•
and Clapham Union Workhouse, was fully cominnesri
from Wandsworth, upon a charge of stealing s
trieleir
brooch, valued at 255., a piece of lace, and other ell, tbe
the property of Mr. Collingburn, a pawnbroker,
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High-street, Wandsworth. The prisoner was °l3; dir
days in the service of the prosecutor, when she w
charged for laziness. Upon her return to the ra the
house Mrs. King, the matron, had her searched, en

property above described was found upon her.
COURT.— PASZIXONII.IIIZits. otieer/
We are sorry to hear that the health cr the '4tivi`
Dowager is such as to prevent her enjoying the 1100
ties at Windsor Castle during the visit of
Philippe. ad on
The Marchioness of Ormonde was safely delitrpb°
Saturday, at Kilkenny Castle, of a sera and he'r'
takes the title of Earl of Ossory. asoP
The Duke of Devonshire has transmitted an in'''.
to the King of the French to visit Chatsworth. cerld
We regret to state that the Duke of Hamilton '-eyeg,
fined at Bath with cold and inflammation in bilyitid,
which will prevent the Noble Duke from being a f
sor to attend as Kright of the Garter, the chapter"
order to be holden at Windsor Castle this day. eir
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The Marquis of Salisbury has arrived in tolv„itil'
pressly to be present at the investiture of the Ding ►

Prencli as a knight of the Garter.
rtIXSO ilaZialali *IOUS.
A subscription for the relief of the surviv°,'h- 0/3
e
friends of the individuals who lost their lives lnA
plosion at the Haswell Colliery has been opene".eirabi;
lions parts of the county, and already,a con ha
realised. The owners of Haswell Colliery
given the munificent sum of 5001., and the sain,eft-oe.Pg
men, as proprietors of Shotton Colliery, the au— have
sum of 2001. The trustees of the Earl of DurhaT ; tfr
given 1001. ; the Marquis of Londonderry, 100
Hetton Coal Company, 100/. ; Lord Ravel'nea
100/. ; and proportionate sums have been subscr""
.01
the smaller collieries.
Professor Liebeg, of Giessen. the clebrated agi)rorgly
tural chemist, had the freedom of the city of Eiji° "it
bokg-
conferred upon hint, on Tuesday last. cot ,
There ar© now, throughout the world, 147 •- 9 pre
archbishops, 584 bishops, 71 vicars aP ostolical,ool,
facts, and 3 apostolieals. The number of faitlll.-resen
amount to 200,000,000,000. In the course of the ri hsvA.,-
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century (irorn 1800 to 1842) 40 new episcopal 9Ce
been ereatd A in
Meetings have taken place, or linnotince,-fl're')/!--t
most ev,ry county and town of Scotland, to eterd P.;
any change in the bank-note cu r 3of Seotl'il—'
the Michaelmas county meetinrraetnFc-o'rfar, c°r`l3l3le
was unanimously named to watch over and c;Prrriencl;
It. Peel's proposed interference with Scot la Cl3;-,
They vb ere further instructed to concert ruOsu-ottsY ici
t,;emottinpnudr7asendwit wasithiur
ITctohieir rveners everYnde:pluetitl i:tia°.o:
ess,ive( to Se
from eery rar.sh in Forfapskire, deprecating -
;t wouldlr
awnlof the one-pound unti
s from eirculati°n',
produce ruin and clinnay from John 0
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„to
1-19 e to Berwick,
On Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock,
Byrd
Sinsoni !I,clizg chief vticerQf the Vinet Go's