The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

UMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubttr eptaton.

" Who runs may read."

The R POREIGZif.
ing of the French reached Eu at a late hour on
Tuesday evening. A courier arrived in Paris on Wed-
nesday afternoon, who brought the intelligence of the
safe arrival of his Majesty.
The Patrie gives the following on the authority of a
letter from London :—" The King was walking at Vir-
a Water. An officer of his suite having perceived a group of men, informed General Athalin, and the King,
having desired them to advance, asked them what they
wanted. They replied that, as Frenchmen, they had
come to share in the general joy, and, being political re-
fugees, to solicit the Royal clemency. The King replied
that he would immediately see to their affair, and at the
same time gave orders to M. Guizot to write to the Mi-
nister of Justice to proceed to Eu to prepare an ordon-
nance of amnesty."
We 'egret to state that the Prince of Prussia, who
was lately in this country, while inspecting some build-
ings at Babelsberg, fell, and broke both the bones of
his right arm, two inches above the wrist. The frac-
ture was immediately reduced, and his Royal Highness
wag. at the date of this account, doing well.
The Journal de la Manche of the 11 th instant an-
nounces that the bridge at Saint LO, called_La Bar-
quette, has been carried away by the sea,
nd that
twelve persons, who were upon it, narrowly escaped
with their lives. The damage is estimated at 1,000,0001.
A Madrid letter of the 9th states that the Spanish
Ministry had not yet taken any official notice of the
affair of the Rayo, as Mr. Bulwer was expected to ar-
rive in the capital on the evening of that day, when a
sub
communication would be made to him on the
sect.
We learn from St. Petersburgh that the Emperor of
Russia has appointed Count Orloff Commandant of the
Gendarmerie in place of Count Benkendorff, deceased.
Count Orloff, however, retains his functions as Coun-
cillor of State, Aide-de-Camp General, and General of
Cavalry.
The Paris Itioniteur publishes a return of the indi-
rect taxes for the three first quarters of the present
year, which show an increase of 16,756,0001. as cora-
Med with the corresponding quarters of 1843.
A new attempt to blow up the foundation of the Pont
tßouge has failed, and the employment of the mine has
een abandoned, it being now determined to try a diving-
ell to effect the object desired.
According to a German journal, the manufactories of
Saxony produce to the amount of 37,915,000 crowns a
400 Year. The number of workmen is 284,300. Cotton-
1/Pinning and weaving employ 30,000 hand-looms, with
Jacquards, and 4,000 worked by machinery ; there
are 1,000 for the manufacture of damask, 1,500 for
fringe, 400 silk Jacquard looms, 300 printing presses
and 64 paper-rnills.
LAW AND POLICIA,
fore James Davison, a journeyman smith, was charged be-
for. Mr. Alderman Kelly, at Guildhall, with annoying
MHovvell, a hosier in Aldeesgate-street, by claiming
to be his nephew, and as such entitled to be relieved,
was remanded.
At Bow-street, Thomas Stockes, alias Randall, a tra-
'ier to a lace manufactory, at Honiton, near Exeter,
:ortewas brought before Mr. Hall, having been previously re-
dred, charged with having caused the death of Oba-
ulah Garrett, a young man, aged twenty-eight years, a
employed in the house of Messrs. Harvey, gold-
smiths and jewellers, in the Strand. The prisoner had
-n.aed every effort to conceal his name on a previous occa-
sion, and seemed deeply grieved at his situation. The
Prisoner had, in consequence of the deceased remonstrat-
e!negverivoiyth him on his conduct in committing a nuisance
I_ll a public thoroughfare, knocked him down, and so
injured him that death ensued. He was com-
'flitted for wiLul murder.
fW Triggey and Joseph Terne, charged with having
4'audulently obtained money from a woman named
The prisoners are connected with the Kingsgate-street
Court of Requests.
An old woman, named Sarah Leaby, who for a long
Period has obtained a livelihood by 4. diving into the
ysteries of futurity," was charged at Marylebone with
av,ing obtained a gown from Mary Musgrove, a pretty-
f°°aing servant girl, under the retence of telling her
ortune. She was committed for p
fourteen days.
Herbert Holmes, late second mate of the ship Cuba,
was brought before Mr. Ballantine at the Thames Police-
court, on a charge of feloniously cutting and wounding
Captai* Matthew Macintosh, the master of the same
IVessel, on the high seas. The prisoner offered no de-
n
co to the serious charges made againt him, and it
being understood there were other witnesses to be
examined who were not in attendance, Mr. Ballantine
remanded him until Tuesday.

COVILIC-PASNIONABLII.
The Duchess of Gloucester leaves town to-morrow
morrow for
Witley Court, on a visit to the Queen Dowager. The
Royal. Duchess travels by railway to Droitwich, where
the Dowager-Queen's carriages will await her arrival, to
convey her Royal Highnessand suite to Witley Court.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have
left Moore Park, near Rickmansworth, for Eaton Hall,
Cheshire, for the winter.
i_The Dowager Countess of Sandwich, Lord and Lady
,4"Yreour the Countess of Aldborough, Mr. and Lady
ley,Lairivrence Peel, Lord H.
.Seymour, and Mrs. Ma-
,.,:xt,r
._ among the English fashionables who intend to
The 'll Paris.
beur acli of Chichester presided at the audit for la-
era hr,,,.
and pres "Lula', allotments, at Stanmore, on Thursday,
of the ente,lltecGarious premiums for the good appearance
Th,, .48'es and allotments.
tTlitite,e: ..ight Hon. H. Labouchere arrived at Taunton on
me
Inso...bnerylsviasedtn, meetetso, Sir E. Colebrooke, and both II
exceaevrielentocsattend a meeting at the Mechanics' Lista-
iB 4011113thE Ba.ron Niemann, the AustriaenhMleinaivseteerf,
absen i. e of lis departure for Vienna,
.
r t settee for some weeks. Immediately on his Excellency's
e4ll to this coant h.contemplated alliance wit
ry is c
Augusta Somerset, daughter of the Duke of Beau-
tett 'll
,wt be solemnized.
A, meeting ItEZSCILILLANMOUS.
Grazing of the Northamptonshire Farming and
ti— Society Was held on Thursday, at Castle Ashby,
the
n the extensive farm of the Marquis of Northampton,
n,"11.., president of the association, who was upon
.the
'ad, attended by upwards of 200 of the principal
agriculturists. of the neighbourhood. The whole of the
111',:lhing work was much admired, and the judges had
ao_tillitle difficulty in deciding on some of the cases, in
2„un equence of its general excellence. At three o'clock
Cigeentlenien sat down in a spacious tent erected upon
pit'4o.!tutiful domain of the Noble President, who
.octeu,-,
gpok Lac chair, and upon giving " Success to the Some y,
day
he_
,most exultingly of the excellent results which that
feeiju'u appeared from its operation, and of the. kindly
at g and intercourse it was calculated to establish and
rengthen
The 4 • .
cotrvetee.,w Police-court in the Borough is now entirely
Public , ", and will shortly be opened for the dispatch of
be jai untsi.ness. Union-hall will, as a matter of course,
Stot-esi 'dlately abolished. The court is situate. at
ver :end, near the Queen's prison. The court isaat
Strikingmodious one, and the appearance is somewh
uhttitf Mr. Reeves, surveyor of the police, has lately
iti `'indent- ed designs for the erection of a new Police-court
aquernaquare Westminster, in lieu of Queen-
Co
`-'curt- A new Police-court will shortly be com-
Iv at Kennington.
tion f" metropolitan police have just received informa-
n,real
-, fourt Robert Town, New South Wales, of the escape
trati een convicts, all of whom were sentenced to be
meted,,Bl)or for life.'
..itt hdnesday, a numerous meeting was held at
pose ,erth; near the seat of Lord Radnor, for the pur-
se
iv I,'l taking into consideration the distresses
.of the
r inn,
_,__
,ermq ...Lases. The Noble Earl took the chair, and
be ro Interesting speeches were made. A report will
rtl,"(1 in another part of the paper.
tiell'itc Governor of the Isle of Wight is the present Lord
quisitenaut of Ireland, Lord Heytesbury, but the per-
death es and emoluments of office were abolished on the
A'," of the late Governor, Lord Malmesbury.
Faris Harry Wilson, of the Isle of Wight, started for
umpire un Tuesday night, to attend a second time, as
Star,:re and secretary to the English champion, Mr.
gentle kra, in the forthcoming chess match between that
eeiz alan and M. St. Amend, which is appointed to
Mance this day-

trighSPuitious GuArro.—Sol-----7-------",e farmers inp Kirkcud-
eVedtshire baying last summer imported what they be-
to be genuine Peruvian guano, and having been
,"BPpointed in the results, lately applied to Professo
ghat to analyse it for them. Mr. Johnson reports
"'at the
supposesud guano is a complete imposition—the
_ll.'lY one the kind, however, that has ever come under
his personal observation. If it contain any real guano
"t all, bee a very small proportion indeed. He thinks
it Lhas n made up by mixing coal ashes or Dutch peat
asues---tnost likely the former, from the bits of coal
'nixed with it with chalk, common salt, a little sul-
Pliate of ainnao—nia, or dried urine, and some other mat-
!'ers, to give it a smell. The smell is not that of guano,
it
. '8 more like that of the refuse of the glue manufae-
TrY• The farmers are resolved to make an example of
Le party from whom they bought the article, and endea-
vour to recover damages for the injury they have sus-
tained.--Scotsman.
t, EXETER COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—e Commissioner cow On Thursday
_n
'mined liutton to prison a bankrupt,
answers• ,a li witted
me-burner, for giving prevaricating
NT A linendraper, named Goodenough, late of
evy
the fita°tn, Abbot, had the consideration of his application
I_9r a certificate adjourned for four years from the date of
in consequence of attempted fraud.
Pg.buA PtROCIOUB PlG.—Yesterday John Billing, a
tcher, at nampstead, who was engaged to kill a
+4r
. ge sow, having entered the sty for the purpose of fixing
}ii and round the animal's mouth, she flew furiously at
it2lo, seizing him by the right thigh near the groin, tear-
uX a large piece of flesh out with her teeth, and it was
)rwith the utmost difficulty the infuriated animal was pre-
ljuln,ented from again seizing him. On being extricated
his dangerous situation, he was removed to the
hospital
and it is feared that amputation must be per-
t° the close to the hip.
i. kALTAR OCTOBER s.—Two courts-martial will sit
Ond-ss 'oon as a sufficient number of Post-Captains can be
--ene to try Lieutenant Franklin, of the Snake,
the other to try Lieutenant Lowkay, on, a
Bonetta, on
‘gtorage of drunkenness. Lieutenant Bowker, of the
Q.._ kes, summoned Mr. P. Villebois, formerly of the
h„luzd , for. insulting him, by calling him an impertinent
PUP s,
Lieutenant him,
had struck a favourite dog
e._llvillebois', and threatened to do so again ; words
:113.,
_ll. of an angry nature, which led to the offence,
41' ,V..illebois was sentenced to a fine of 31., and five
la ullivisotunant.