The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-09 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Opinion.

,6 Who runs may read."

FOjitEIGIDT.

On Tuesday afternoon, at three o'clock, the King of' the
French left the Tuileries for St. Cloud, attended by General
Friant and two orderly officers, and returned to dinner. In
the evening their Majesties had a select party to dinner.
The subscription for M. Dupetit Thouars amounted on
Thursday to I,ooof. or 401. The National publishes a list ex-
tending to two columns, at the head of which are 250 students
of the Polytechnic School, who subscribe 125 f., or 10 sous
(5d.) each.
The Archimede, which sailed from Brest on the 20th ult.
with part of the mission for China, was obliged to put into
Lorient by contrary winds ; she, however, soon after took her
departure, and was seen on the 24th off Cape Finisterre.
Count de Lurde, Minister Plenipotentiary of the French at
Buenos Ayres, has just been recalled, and M. de Marennes,
appointed to replace him. For a length of time M. de Lurde
acknowledged that he was unable to obtain satisfaction from
Rosas, since the Guizot Ministry, refused him the means of
acting with vigour.
It is reported at Munich, according to a letter of the 2d
inst., from that city, that in case .King Otho should happen
to die without an heir, the young Duke of Wurtemberg,
grandson of Louis Philippe, will be made successor to the
Greek throne.
The Gazette des Tribunaux contains the following relative
to the murder in the Rue d'es Londres :—" The unceasing
researches instituted by the auth6rities to pierce into the
mystery attending the murder of the late Mr. Ward, have
brought to light some circumstances that may lead to a dis-
covery of the truth. It appears that two days before the
crime, the deceased passed the night in a lodging-house of
bad character, and inhabited by men suspected of immoral
practices. All those men, to the number of fourteen, have
been arrested. They have undergone one examination, but
all that we can say at present is that they protest their inno-
cence."
On Sunday last the -motker of a young mantuamaker,
living in the Rue de Valois, Palais Royal, came to Paris to
visit her daughter, but could not gain admittance, though
there was every reason to believe the young woman was in
her room. The Commissary of Police having been sent for,
ordered the door to be forced open, and the poor girl was
found dead, and by her side the lifeless body of a non-com-
missioned officer of a regiment quartered at Meaux. They
had stifled themselves by means of charcoal.
A farm-labourer, named Robichon, has been condemned to
death by the Court of Assizes of the Seine-et-Marne, at Me-
lun, for murder and robbery. During the absence of his mas-
ter and mistress, named Maltaverne, who resided at the farm
of La Mare-Rouge, he broke open a cupboard, and stole a
sum of 130 f., and in order to prevent evidence of his crime
murdered three of Maltaverhe's daughters, aged 19, 14, and
I 1 years, by beating in their skulls. A fourth child, an in-
fant of two years. was sitting at the door in tears, when
another sister, who had been absent in the fields, returned to
the house. Suspicion having fallen upon him, he was ar-
rested, and confessed his crime. _ _

The Augsburgh Gazette contains a letter from Constanti-
nople, Feb. 14, which states that a letter from Adrianople had
been received there, announcing that a sudden thaw had
caused a great inundation, which had destroyed 3,000 houses,
and carried away a considerable quantity of goods. The loss
is estimated at 3,000,000 piastres.
A letter in the same journal, from the frontiers of Turkey,
of February 21, gives the following :—" All the coasts of the
Black Sea,. and particularly the ports of Sebastopol and
Odessa, are in the greatest movement. It is supposed that
the Emperor will himself direct the operations in person.
Amongst others, General Yermoloff is named. The opera-
tions are not to be commenced until the arrival of the Em-
peror on the Kuban. A letter from Constantinople states
that Circassian agents are purchasing up ammunition at any
price."
The General Diet of Hungary had adopted, by a majority
of 41 votes against 8, a motion for the emancipation of the
Jews.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Central Criminal Court, Sarah Dickenson, charged
with the murder of her two children at Deptford, was tried
and acquitted, as being of unsound mind. She is to be de-
tained in safe custody during her Majesty's pleasure.
Yesterday Mr. Wm. Read, an extensive ship-builder of
Ipswich, and a member of the Town Council for that place,
was brought before Sir Peter Laurie. at the Mansion-house,
in custody of Daniel Forrester the officer, charged with
having combined with Charles William Simpson, the master
of the Colina brig, to cast away that vessel, with the view of
defrauding the Marine Alliance Assurance Company of the
amount of property for which she was insured. The case
was remanded for a week.
Mr. Crawley, proprietor of the York Hotel, Albemarle-
street, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick, for refusing to
supply "proper accommodation" to Sergeant-Major Jones, of
the London Recruiting Staff, who had been billeted upon him.
He was fined 3/. _ . . _ _

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A person named Edward Harpond, living in Park-road,
Greenwich, and described as a gentleman, was charged at
Worship-street with setting a ferocious dog at several chit-,
dren, by which two of them were severely injured. Through
his solicitor he expressed his regret at what had happened,
and offered to pay the medical expenses. Mr. Bingham,
however, would allow no compromise, and sent him for one
month to the House of Correction, in addition to a fine of
405., at the expiration of the month to be brought up on a
second charge. The prisoner appeared astounded at the de-
cision.