The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-27 00:00:00

;SUMMARY OF NEWS

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The King of the French came to Paris on Tuesday, and
visited the Museum. After remaining there for two hours
his Majesty returned to Neuilly. In the evening their Ma-
sties received General and Madame de Cubieres, General
-Baron Deponthon, the Marquis de Pange, the Count
d'Elchegoyn, Baron LeLrgne d'ldeville, and the Duchess de
Talleyrand.
The Prince de Joinville left Paris on Wednesday for
Compiegne.
Baron de Krudener, the Russian Ambassador in Switzer-
land, has arrived in Paris from Berlin.
The funeral obsequies of Vice-Admiral Lalande were cele-
brated on Wednesday at the church of St. Louis d'Antin.
After the religious ceremony in the church the body was taken
for interment to the cemetery of Pere La Chaise. General
' Lalande, the brother of the deceased, acted as chief mourner,
and was lii-Onediately followed by the grand deputation of the
Chamber- of Deputies, numerous friends of the deceased,
amongst whom were M Thiers, M. de Cubieres, &c., and se-
veral naval officers of different ranbik
The Courrier Francais states, that eight railroad bills are
at present submitted to the consideration of the Chamber of
Deputies. Several companies are formed for the supply of
the rails and materiel. Shares have been subscribed for, and
are even now selling at a premium. Presidents, directors,
and administrators, are appointed, and are well remunerated.
In fact, all is ready but the 700,000,000 or 800,000,000 to be
furnished by the Treasury. M. Humann, with his Alsacian
frankness, spoke of the railroad bill as a great electoral juggle.
M. Lacave Laplagne is more discreet.
The
,Queen of Saxony is expected at Munich in the course
of next week, on a visit to the Queen of Bavaria, after which
her Majesty intends repairing to Berlin, to pay a visit to the
Royal family of Prussia.
We hear that his Majesty the King of Saxony and suite
are expected to pass . through Brussels on Monday next,
en route to this. country:
,On the eveningiofttos.l7th, a fishing-smack, belonging to
Panne, in the communeof-Adinkerke (Belgium), was upset
in a heavy squalVabolit" 150 metres from the sea dike, near
that village, and six out of eight men, composing the crew,
unfortunately drowned. The master contrived, by laying
hold of an oar, to keep himself above water until rescued by
the exertions of some people from the shore. An old man,
whose two sons were on board the boat, on hearing of the ca-
tastrophe, fell down dead ; one of his sons escaped immediate
death, but was taken up in a very alarming state.
A letter from Athens states, that the members of the Holy
Synod of that city had, in the first instance, refused to take
the oath to the Constitution ; but that M. Mavrocordato, the
President of the Council of Ministers, having declared that if
they did not take the oath within the space of twenty-four
hears he would dissolve the Synod andproceed to a new elec-
tion, all the bishops obeyed the injunction.

MAW AND POLICZ.
In the Court of Common Pleas Messrs. Ellis and Hicks.
parish officers of Clerkenwell, obtained a rule for a new trial
of the case in which a verdict was given against them with
beavfdamages, for confining for a short time the person of a
Mr. Elliott, an attorney and a lunatic. The grounds of the
application were, that the verdict was against evidence, and

tli;it. the damages were excessive.
The Lord Mayor held a conference at the Mansion House
with Mr. Goldham, the clerk of Billingsgate market, on the
means of preventing the fearful overcrowding of passengers
on board the Greenwich steamers that may be expected
during the coming fair. There is every reason to fear some
terrible catastrophe, accompanied with great loss of life, in
consequence of the enm mous traffic on the River, and the
overcrowded state of the boats, into which the public rush
with a heedless disregard of their own safety, amounting
almost to insanity. Cautionary placards to the masters of
the boats are to be distributed, but the power of the civic
authorities to repress the evil is very imperfect.
Mr. Reeve, a pawnbroker, in Redcross-street, Cripplegate,
was charged at Guildhall with haying taken threepence in-
terest for the loan of three shillings for four months, instead
of twopence-halfpenny, the proper interest, if the calculation
be made not month by month, but for the whole number of
days ; and not to the nearest farthing, or fourths of a penny,
but to the tenth of a penny, a nicety required to be observed
by pawnbrokers, according to a legal decision of Lord Den-
man. The complaint was lodged by a common informer,
whose evidence was found so unworthy of belief, that the
summons was dismissed, and he himself turned out of the
Court.
Martin Noed, gold-lapper, of St. John's-square, Clerken•
well, was charged at Clerkenwell police-office, by Martin
Noed, his son, a fine-looking, intelligent boy,. between 12
and 13 years of age, with having cruelly assaulted him. The
parish officers of Clerkenwell were in attendance to prosecute
the case. The evidence disclosed a shocking course of vin-
dictive and causeless brutality on the part of the father. Mr.
Greenwood committed tke prisoner ti take his trial at the
Middlesex Sessions, intimating that he would accept bail
for his appearance, himself in 1001., and two sureties in
501. each.
A young man of very respectable appearance, who gave
his name Daniel Wright, but refused to state where lie re-
sided, was, together with a showily -dressed female, named
Sarah Cox, charged at Marylebene with having, by means
of a forged cheque, uttered by him, obtained 3901. from the
banking-house ol Sir Claude Scott and Co.,Cavendish-square,
and the latter on suspicion of being an accessory after the
fact. Wright was remanded, but the female was discharged.
Carl Christoph Kipp, second cabin steward of the Batavier
steamer, appeared at Lambeth-street, to answer to an infor-
mation charging him with smuggling 221bs. of foreign ma-
nufactured tobacco, for which he was liable to a penalty of
100/. He was convicted in the full penalty, and ordered to
be imprisoned till it should be paid.
Two fashionably-dressed men, named Daniel Rodriguez,
alias Rogers, said to be a Portuguese Jew, and Charles Ste-
wart, aScotchman, were charged at Worship-street with bur-
glariously breaking into the, premises of Mr. Peter Hay, a
jeweller and watchmaker, in Leith-street, Edinburgh, and
carrying off plate, jewellery, and watches, of the value of
more than 1,5001, A reward had been offered for the appre-
hension of the parties committing the robbery, and the Ma-
gistrate being satisfied as to their being the men, remanded
them for a week.
COMM —PASTECONABLZ.

At Windsor the bells of the Royal Chapel of St. George and
the parish church rung merry peals in honour of the Queen's
birthday at intervals, from an early hour in the morning
until the close of the day. At one o'clock a royal salute was
tired frost the borough ordnance. There was a public dinner
at the Royal Adelaide Hotel, and in the evening the houses
of the Royal tradesmen were illuminated.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Emma Camp-
bell are expected to arrive in Connaught-place West, early
in the ensuing month, from Naples.
The Duke-of Devonshire left Devonshire House on Friday
morning, for Bolton Abbey, the Noble Duke's seat in York-
shire. His Grace returns to town after the holidays.
The Marquis Conyngham, the Earl of Tyrconnel, Capt. C.
N. Williams, Mr. Smith Pigot, Mr. Meiklam, &c., have
ordered their respective yachts to be got ready for sea at
Cowes, where many'of the yacht squadron have already ar-
rived at the station.
The Countess de St. Aulaire, we hear, quits the French
Embassy early in June for Paris, in order to pass some months
in France. His Excellency does not contemplate -leaving
this country on temporary absence before August.
Countess Cadogan and Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cado-
gan arrived at the family residence, in Piccadilly, late on
Thursday' night from Italy. The Noble Earl, shortly before
the Countess and daughters left Rome, departed for Naples,
and purposed making a hasty tour through Sicily. He is ex-
pected home in the course of next week.
The Earl of Lichfield, who has been again suffering from
gout at Graefenberg, is convalescent.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On Friday forenoon a numerous meeting of the copyholders
and resident gentry of the manor of Hampstead took place
at the Parochial Committee- rooms, New End, for the purpose
of considering the provisions of a Bill recently introducted into
Parliament for the purpose of enabling Sir Thomas Maryon
Wilson, the lord of the manor, to effect the sale of certain
lands, the result of which would be the destruction and in-
closure of Hampstead-heath. Mr. S. Hoare, the banker, was
in the chair. After some brief observations from Mr. Hoare,
the Rev. Mr. Burgh, and others, a petition to Parliament
against the Bill was adopted, and a Committee was appointed
to oppose the measure in every stage.
The Dowager-Countess of -Essex has enlivened the beau
monde by a series of dramatic entertainments, at her Lady-
ship's residence, in Belgrave-square. On Thursday last, and
on the previous Thursday, there was a representation, on
each occasion about 100 fashionables assembling to witness
the performances.
The nomination of candidates for South Lancashire took
place at Newton on Friday, when a poll was demanded on
the part of Mr. Brown. The poll will commence this morn-
ing. and close to-morrow afternoon.
The Bill before Parliament (brought in by Mr. Stafford
O'Brien and Mr. Beckett Denison) for prohibiting the hold-
ing of vestries in paish churches, provides that vestries shall
not be held in churches, but in some other convenient place,
to be named by a vestry meeting, to be hired or rented by
the parish. All proceedings contrary to this to be null and
void.
It appears from a Parliamentary return just printed that
the amount of duty on patent medicines, in the ten years
ending on the sth January, 1844, was on an average nearly
30,0001. a year.
Since the commencement of last winter, scarcely a week
has passed without the commission of one or more incendiary
outrages in Suffolk. Many have been attended with serious
loss of.property, and all, from the derangement of husbandry
operations, must lessen the demand for labour. In the month
of May these horrible crimes seem to be on the increase.
Several associations are in the course of formation for the pro-
tection of property against incendiaries.
NATIrAti3ENEFIT SOCIETY and
MUTUAL INSURANCE INSTITUTION FOR
THE MIDDLE- CLASSES.

The new Currency measure and the Bill for future Joint -
stock Companies, while they will have the highly desirable
effect of checking mushroom projects and projectors, will pro-.
mote sound and honest undertakings fur the public good, or
the good of particular classei, the Institution which is low in
the course of formation, under the title of," The Tradesman's
and General Mutual Life Insurance Institution, and National
Benefit Society," appears from the prospectus to be calculated
to effect a great desideratum for the middle classes. We have
often wondered Why the principle of benefit societies has not
been appliedln persons and families, a step above mere work-
ing men. 'That -the '
.system of Troviding for sickness, and
other evihilo which "alt flesh is heir," bas been, in spite of
monstrous druvrticks; eminently advantageous, is proved by
its contimied: popularity and almost universal application
among the. onerati4 classes.; yet in how Many. cases is tha t
system rendered unavailable, or positively pernicious, owing
to the present clefectsZ., According to the plan now sue;-
guested for tradesmen:lnd Ohersd limited means, there ct.n
be no drunkenness, as there mill ie neither weekly, monthly,
nor annual orgies; andfss ,for*shamming Abraham" to g et
hold 'of "thefunds, the Petty esti zouly cheat himself, for all
payments are to be made, out of his own particular invest-
ments. In the Insurance department, as this is to bfi a
mutual office, no person can be profited save the memt ers
themselves—there are no hungry shareholders to seize annual
dividends, often out of the very capital, s 6 .as to raise• the
price of shares, with which they part, leaving the ultiu mate
buyer,' and the original assured, swindled and, peril aps,
ruined alike. Altogether this appears to be a sound and use-
ful Joint-stock Company (for it is one) of modern ti mes.
"Measures, however, without men," as Lord Bacon i iays,
"are dead images." We shall look with some solicitor le to
see the names associated with this national undertaking . It
requires no pompous patrons as decoy ducks, inasmue h as
there can be no plunder—honesty and energy will di all ;
and from whit we have heard, we entertain no doubt that
neither will be found wanting.

SERIOUS ROBBERY. LIVERPOOL, THUR MAY
EVENING.—The out-door clerk of the Royal, Bank of )t.iver-
pool was robbed, in the .course of to-day, of notes o the
amount of 1,5001., which he had just obtained fro m the
Branch Bank of England, and it is suipposed that he ha d been
watched from there. The usual steps have been take; t.