The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-12 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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POI;LEIGN.

His Majesty of Hanover has created a new distinction, in
honour of fifty years' military service, and given it the name
of the cross of Ernest Augustus. The first officer who re-
ceives this cross is his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge.
The Frankfort Jotanal, well informed in all Russian
movements, says that " the stay of the Emperor in England
will not exceed a week ; and that he will return to Berlin
direct by Cassel. and Webnar, to go later to Carlsbad and
Kisseugen."

The railroad from Carlsruhe to Strasburg was opened on
the 25ith of May.
The Duchess of Berri is about to remove her residence
from Gratz to Venice.

The young Queen of Spain arrived at Barcelona on the Ist
inst., and was received with great rejoicings.
It is rumoured at the Cape that the eminent French and
Swedish naturalists, Messrs. Delgorgie and Wilberg, had been
murdered by the natives in Mazilikatze country.
It appears that Lord Stanley has complied with an often-
reiterated request of the settlers in the eastern province of the
Cape of Good Hope, in giving additional powers to the Lieu-
tenant-Governor, so that he shall in future have undisputed
pre-eminence over the judiciary, and in cases of emergency
to act upon his own judgment and responsibility, without
waiting for instructions from the Governor of Cape Town.
It is said that the address to O'Connell, which has been
circulated in several towns of the province of the Rhine, has
given occasion to some discussion between the English and
Prussian Governments.

The subscription for the sword to be presented to Admiral
_Dupetit Thouars, amounts to 15,331 f.
The Hotel de Cluny, which had been purchased by M.
Belin Leprieur for 90,000 f., has been sold by that gentleman's
son, to the French Government, for 400,000 f.

LAW AND POLICE.
The sessions of the Central Criminal Court commenced
on Monday at the Old Bailey.
Johanna Carroll, a girl, above 17 years old, was charged
at Guildhall with attempting to commit suicide at Black-
friars-bridge. She has no father or mother, and was given
into the care of an aunt, with an admonition.
Ann Berry, a distressed looking female, who was described
as a shirtmaker, was charged at Clerkenwell with having
embezzelled 65 squirrel lockso.value 65., the property of Mr.
Carpenter, 'furrier, of John-street, Clerkenwell. She was
convicted in the penalty of twenty shillings for illegally
pawning the articles, and ordered to pay six shillings
their value, and in default she was committed to prison for
fourteen days. Mr. Chapman was then charged for not
having given the prisoner a duplicate, or "note," or " me-
morandum," for the pledge, and he was convicted in the pe-
nalty of 3/.
James Wing, a lad, about fourteen years of age, was charged,
at Queen• square, with embezzling various stuns of money, the
property of his employers, Messrs. Obbard and Brown, of
Little George-street, Westminster, news-agents. He was
remanded.

Mr. John Bailey, a gentleman residing in Brunswick-ter-
race, Hackney-road, and who holds a situation under Go-
vernment, was charged at Worship-street with having as-
saulted with criminal intent a very pretty and niodest-look-
ing girl, named Sarah Amelia Barber, aged 13 years. He
was. held to bail.

Frederick Macgy, a Russian sailor on board the St. James,
American line of packet ship, was charged at Lambeth-
street, with having on board that ship, with intent to
smuggle, 521bs. weight of foreign manufactured tobacco, for
which offence he was liable to a penalty of 1001. He was
convicted in the full penalty.

COURT-FASITIONABLEI.
The Earl of Aberdeen gives a grand banquet, on Thursday
next, at Argyll House, to the King of Saxony. The French
Ambassador; Duke of Wellington, -Sir Robert Peel, Lord
Stanley, Duke of Buccleucb, and the principal members of the
foreign corps diplomatique, are invited to meet his Majesty.
Viscount and Viscountess Ponsonby received a distin-
guished party at dinner on Monday, rat their residence in
Stanhope-street. •
Lord and Lady William Powlett had a dinner party on
Montlay, at their house, in Curzon-street.
His Serene Highness the Prince Alexander de Gonzaga,
Duke of Mantua, and her Serene Highness the Princess
Maria Eliza de Gonzaga, Duchess of Mantua, have arrived in
Grosvenor-square. ,
The Dowager Viscountess Torrington, the Hon. Miss
Hilare Byng, and the Hon. Janies Byng, have arrived in
Norfolk-street, -Park-lane.