The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-28 00:00:00

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On Monday evening, their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received the President of the Coun-
cil of Ministers, the Minister of Commerce, the Pope's
Nuncio, Vice-Admiral Jacob, Generals Bougenel, Pail-
loux, and Hecquet, the Marquis de Lavalette, Counts
Mole, de Bondy, d'Haubersaert, and de Montesquiou,
and the Barons de Vandceuvre and de Brigode.
The Peers assembled on Tuesday in one of the com-
mittee-rooms of their Chamber to draw by lot for the
grand deputation to receive the King on his coming on
Thursday to open the Parliamentary session.
Lieut.-Gen. Baron Vincent, Grand Cross of the Le-
gion of Honour, died on Monday evening in the rue
Tronchet, aged 69.
M. Dupoty, the liberated ex-editor of a Republican
paper, has very discreetly declined accepting a "fra-
ternal banquet" offered to him by his political friends.
We read in the Revue de Paris—" Letters from Gen.
Lamoriciere, and which are corroborated by positive
facts, announce that Abd-el-Kader is in a small town of
Morocco, under the surveillance of the troops of the
Emperor, who appears up to the present moment to have
faithfu.ly executed the clauses of his treaty with France.
lle has several times given an account of the measures
adopted by him to watch the Emir, and lately informed
the French authorities that Abd-el-Kader had sent
emissaries to the environs of Fez, but that the people
had remained deaf to his voice."

M. Cortena and M. Cantero, ex-Ministers of Spain,
and M. Pascual Madoz, one of the most influential
speakers in the Cortes last year, have established their
residence in Paris for the winter.

Pierre Ivlonguiere, one of the veterans of the armies
of the Republic and Empire, died at the Hotel des In-
valides of Paris on Monday. He had received 23 bullet
wounds, and 15 stabs and cuts inflicted with the bayonet,
lance, or sabre.

The paper manufactory belonging to Messrs. Brice
and Co., situate at La Villette, near Paris, was reduced
to ashes on Monday night. The young woman through
whose imprudence the fire originated perished in the
flames, and a corporal and a soldier of the 74th Regi-
ment died victims of their zeal whilst endeavouring to
extinguish the fire. They fell in the canal, and were
drowned.

The frost had returned suddenly and with much
intensity in Paris.
Letters from Madrid state that the motive for the sud-
den return of M. Gonzalez Bravo to Lisbon is the re-
ceipt of' intelligence from that city, stating that the
Spanish refugees in Portugal are seriously preparing fur
an attempt at counter-revolution in Spain. Whilst or-
ders are being sent to the authorities on the frontier to
be on their guard against such an attempt, M. Gonzalez
Bravo is to return to his post, in order that he may be
able to defeat the intrigues of the refugees in Portugal.
It is reported that a serious difference has arisen be-
tween M. Donoso Cortes, Secretary to the Queen of
Spain, and General Narvaez, on the occasion of the peti-
tion of the journalists in favour of Colonel Rengifo.
We are not told exactly how the Queen's Secretary has
offended the President of the Council ; but we are left
to infer that the former, either from motives of humanity
or a desire to popularise the Queen by an act of clemency,
supported the petition of the journalists, and presented it
to the Queen, without first receiving the assent of Gene-
ral Narvaez. Be this as it may, it is certain that Gene-
ral Narvaez has expressed so much anger towards M.
Donoso Cortes, that he has placed his resignation in the
bands of her :Majesty; but it has not yet been accepted.
A letter from Dresden, Dec. 16, in the Cologne Ga-
zette, states that the Saxon Government is on the point
of contracting a new loan with the house of Rothschild.
A Vienna letter says that, as the railroad between that
capital and Trieste approaches towards the sea, the new
buildings for the Custom-house at Vienna are drawing
towards a completion. To give an idea of the immense
extent of this establishment, the writer states that, in
the course of the present year, 1,500,000 quintals (the
quintal is 221ilbs. English) of merchandise arrived by
land, and 170,009 quintals by water, besides 122,000
quintals in transit, -
The litestphalian Mercury states, under its Berlin
head, that Tschech constantly refused to apply for
pardon, declaring, that as a man of birth and education,
he could not support the punishment of being shut up
in a house of correction, On the day of the execution
the King sent him word that he and the Queen forgave
him what he had done. Tschech had intended address-
ing the persons around him, but a police agent prevented
him, He therefore only cried out, " Liberty, truth, and
justice for ever." These were his last words.
The late capture in the Rue du Rampart has led to the
arrest of about twenty more delinquents, in consequence
of numerous informations having been laid before the
police, One is by a high functionary, from whom a sum
of money had been extorted by threats of charging him
with infamous practices, by two men who accosted him
one dark rainy night in the environs of the church of the
Madeleine.

A slight accident happened on Saturday afternoon last
upon the railway, between Quievrain and Valenciennes.
near Annaing. An axletree broke, and the waggons
contititted to be dragged on, before they could be
stopped, for about a thousand yards. But fortunately
no passenger, nor any one of the men employed on the
train, was hurt, nor was any considerable damage done.