The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-22 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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• OILEIGN.
P
Ou Monday evening the King and Queen of the French
received the British Ambassador, the Marquis de Dalmatie,
Rear-Admiral Hernoux, General de Saint Joseph, and M.
de Givre, Members of the Chamber of Deputies.
The Committee on the Budget continued its examination
of the Navy department on Tuesday. It gave its assent to
some augmentations of salary, such as for captains of cor-
vettes, &c. It also approved of the increase of the number of
mechanicians on board steamers.
The disturbances in Switzerland continue unabated. The
Protestants and Catholics are preparing for a contest which
can only be prevented by the interference of foreign Powers.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons has, it, is said, arrived
in Paris, for the purpose of meeting the charge of abuse of
functions, in commenting upon and condemning, in his pas-
toral letter, a work by M. Dupin, on education.
A letter from Alexandria of the 26th ult. states that on a
report of his medical advisers, Sami-Pacha has obtained leai-e
from the Viceroy to reside in Paris. It is thought at Alex-
andria that this is a pretext of the Paella to have a repre-
sentative at Paris, without giving offence to the Sultan.
A man named Marchal, who was condemned to death for
the murder of his father, was executed at, Nancy on the 15th.
He walked to the scaffold in the costume of condemned par-
ricides, viz., in his shirt, and wearing a long black veil, with
his feet bare. He was full of contrition, acknowledged the
justice of his sentence, and prayed fervently up to the moment
of execution.
Hasle, who was condemned for tkelnurder of a widow and
her daughter, who had given him-in asylum for a night, was
guillotined at Rennes on the 15th.
The celebrated banker Benedicks, formerly partner in the
eminent firm of Michaelson and Benedicks,- of Stockholm,,
died recently in that city, aged eighty-three years. The de-
ceased possessed several iron and copper mines, and leaves a
colossal fortune. He has bequeathed above 50,000/. to various
public charitable institutions.
A St. Petersburg!' letter of the 6th, in the Berlin State
Gazette, informs us that the Emperor of Russia, although.
able to take exercise daily, was still indisposed, and the Em-
press was suffering from palpitation of the heart.
A letter from Amsterdam states that M.. Levi-Salomon, of
Haan, had just celebrated the 103 d anniversary of his birth-
day. This old gentleman is still robust; he reads without
glasses, and enjoys his intellectual faculties fully.
At Berlin on the- 9th, Fahrenheit's thermometer marked
3 deg. below zero.
A letter from Frankfort of the 14th says :—" It is known
that a demand was made to the Diet by several States of
Germany for the suppression of all the public gaming estab-
lishments in the Germanic Confederation. In consequence of
this demand a Committee was appointed, which decided that
all the existing contracts shall be completed; but that no new
contracts shall be entered into. Instructions to this effect
have been forwarded to all the States. The following is, an
account of the time that the different contracts which no*
exist have to run :—Hombourg, twenty years ; Baden-
Baden, nine years ; Wisbaden and Ems, nine years ; Aix-la-
Chapelle, eight years; Kissingen, eight years.".
&AW AND P0L1C22.-
In the Court of Common Pleas; Mr. Augustus Newton and
his wife brought an action for arrest and false imprisonment
against the proprietors of the Cheltenham Examiner news-
paper. The plaintiffs had brought an action for libel
against the defendants, in which they had been unsuccessful,
and the plaintiff and his wife.had been arrested by defen-
dants for their costs. Plaintiff's wife was subsequently dis-
charged, and then the present action was brought. The de-
fendants pleaded a justification, and on that plea the jury
gave them their verdict.
At the Lancaster Assizes, Thomas Donahoo was indicted
for the wilful murder of his wife, at MyerstOne, It ap-
peared that the unfortunate woman had come "'time in a
state of intoxication, which so enraged the prisoner that he
struck her a blow which terminated her existence. Ho was
found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to be transported
for life.
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A lad, named Thomas Jones, was charged at Guildhall,
with stealing four sovereigns from a bowl of money, exposed
in the shop-window at Mr. Walton's, a jeweller in Ludgate-
street. He was remanded until Saturday.
At Bow-street, Edward Spicer, a mail-guard, in the ser-
vice of the General Post-office, was charged,. before Mr. Jar-
dine, with stealing 171. 16s. from a letter which had been
posted on the 18th of January last. The charge was clearly
proved, but the prisoner was remanded for a few days in
order to complete the case.

COURT-FASHIONABLE.
Instructions have been received at Windsor Castle for the
private apartments to be prepared for the reception of the
Court by Wednesday, the 19th of March, on which day her
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied
by the Royal Family, are expected to arrive at Windsor fur
the Easter holidays.

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The Duchess of Kent will proceed to Witley Court, Wor-
cestershire, early next week, to pay a visit to her Majeity
the Queen Dowager, where the Royal Duchess will remain
for ten days or a fortnight.
The Duke of Wellington is expected to leave Apsley
House on Tuesday, for Strathfieldsaye, where. his Grace will
give his annual banquet "to the judges going the Westdrn.
Circuit, on Wednesday.
The DUke and Duchess of Sutherland, and the Ladies Le-
veson Gower, who are still staying on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, are expected to re-
turn to 'Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, and. do not come to
Stafford House for the season until early in APril.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are not expected to ar-
rive in Belgrave-square, from Woburn Abbey, for the season.
until after Easter. Lord and Lady Alexander Russell are
staying in the Isle of Wight, where the depot of his regiment,
the Rifle Brigade, is quartered.

MXSCELLASTEOI3I3.
The structure for the fountain in the eastern reservoir in
Trafalgar-square, is completed. It is constructed entirely of
beautiful red granite, so highly polished as to appear like
marble. The base is an octagon, and the pedestal, which is
of a similar form, diminishes gradually to the lower basin,
which is an immense block of the same material. On four
sides of the pedestal are elaborately carved dolphins' heads,
through which the reservoir will be filled—the fountain has
two basins, the upper one much smaller than. the lower.
A cheque for 101. from T. S. G. has been received by the
magistrates at Marlborough-street Police-court, for the relief
of the poor; and the following donations have been received
at Clerkenwell Police-court :-1/., in a note dated the 13th
inst., no name ; a letter containing a cheque for '5/. ss. ; 8.L.,
ss. ;S. G., 10s. ; Post-office order for 1/. ; Eliza G. W., 1/. ;
and a Post-office order for 1/., Highgate post-niark.
The Hon. R. H. Clive has been adopting the 'allotment
system, and has set apart about thirty acres, which he hat
divided among the poor labourers of Catshill andthe Lickey,
Worcestershire. They have a quarter of an acre each, at
the cost of about eight shillings annually.
On Thursday a fatal accident occurred to Mr. James Hulme,
a young gentleman, 22 years of age, residing• at Acton. He
and his brother-in-law were skating on the Paddington
Canal, near the Old Oak- common, when the ice suddenly
broke, and Mr. Hulme fell in and was drowned. He has
left a widow, only 19 years of age, to whom he had been mar-
ried three weeks. _ _

The members of the Surrey
Club dined together at the
Clarendon Hotel on Wednesday evening. when there were
present—Lord Grantley, Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., Sir
Richard Frederick, Bart.. Sir W. H. Jolliffe,Bart„ M.P., Mr.
Holme Sumner, Mr. Denison, M.P., rM. Trotter, M.P., Col.
Challoner, Mr. Allcock, Mr. Strahan, &c.
Letters have been received at the residence of Sir Wil-
liam Follett, in Park-street, dated Lyons, Tuesday last.
When those letters were sent off, the Attorney-General was
in good health and about-to proceed to Paris in a few days.
It is expected that Sir William and Lady Follett and family
will arrive in England on Saturday or Monday next.
By the death of the Marquis of Westminster the two
following horses are disqualiged for the ensuing Derby, Oaks,
and St. Leger :—Br c Falstaff, by Touchstone, out of Decoy,
and b fby Touchstone, out of Laura, besides many valuable
two-year old horses in other great stakes.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST. INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrival at Patna—Clarke, from China, at Liverpool, sailed Oct.
12, and St. Helena, Jan. 8.
Arrivals at St. Helena—/Etna, Thomson, Jan. 1, from Calcutta,
and sailed 3d, to Newcastle; Magnet, Veale, from Ichaboe, and. sailed
3d, to London; Wild Irish Girl, Graham, 2d, front Bombay, and
sailed to Liverpool; Heroine, Todd, front Singapore, and sailed Gth,
to Liverpool ; Globe, Briolle, from, Batavia, and sailed 3d, to Bor-
deaux; Rockliffe, Garrick, from Colombo, and sailed ad, to London;
West Indian, Chapman, front Ichaboe; Sarah Murray, 3d,
from Ichaboe, and sailed Gth, to Cork ; Eliza, Jones, from
Ichaboe, and sailed 6th to Cork ; Emma Eugenia, Kquewai, from
Mauritius and Cape, and sailed Gilt to London ; Medusa, Purdle, 4th;
from China ; Brookline, from Ichaboe to Boston; Thomas Winslowe.
from Ichaboe to West Port ; James, Williams, • tom Ichaboe, and
sailed Gth to Falmouth ; Tanjore, Stewart, from Calcutta to London ;
Jane Blain, Reid, from Penang to London ; Marchioness of Douro,
Woodnorth, sth, from China ; Young England, Fretwell, from Ichaboe ;
Colombo, Thompson, from Calcutta, and sailed 7th to London ; Cynthia,
from Ichaboe ; Perseverant, from Bourbon, and sailed 6th to Marseilles ;
Hugo Grotius, from Batavia, and sailed Gth to Rotterdam; Brothers,
Walton, front Ichaboe, and sailed to Falmouth; Earl of Liverpool,
Wilson, front China, and sailed Bth to London ; Belle Creole, Purchase,
from Mauritius, and sailed to Cape and London ; Duke of Portland,
Hamlin, from Madras, and sailed 7th to London ;Elora, Turnbull, 7th,
; and sailed 7th
from Ichaboe; Chateaubriand, Hardy, from Bourbou
to Nantes; Sucrier, from Bourbon to Marseilles; Washington, West-
lake, from Mauritius, and sailed Bth to London;
~.instrel, Bth, from
Calcutta. - •

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THE PHCENDE STEAmER.—The first trial of this
1 war steamer was made down the river on 'Monday, last,
ower. makin g
when, drawing 12 feet 9 inches fore and 13 feet 9 inches
aft, her speed was found to average
.9.616 miles' per
hours, her engines, of 2601 hope
22.75 revolutions per minute (their e num-
ber), and her propeller (Mr. Steinfiran's patent
56.875. This same invention when tried a second
time in the " Rattler" war-steamer gave, drawing
10 feet 8 inches fore and 12 feet aft, a speed of 9.457
knots per hour, the engines, of 220 horse power (with
25 revolutions), making 25.244 revolutions per minute,
and the propeller 100.896, whilst that of Mr. Smith's,
when tried. a 25th time, in the ,same vessel, and under
the same circumstances, attained a speed of 9.638 knots,
the engines making 26.98 revolutions, and the propeller
107.92, thus showing an increase of .181 of a knot (little
more than a sixth) in 9.638 knots in favour of the latter,
when assisted by 1.756 additional engine revolutions, per
minute, or 15 horse extra power.
Snir-MuTILATION. A.
somewhat extraordinary
act of self-mutilation took place in Aberdeen Gaol on Mon-
day night. A person of the name of Williain Fentie, jun.,
from New Deer, who has been indicted to stand his trial at
the ensuing Circuit Court of Justiciary on a charge of sheep-
stealing, while in the act of cutting oakum with a small
hatchet, most unaccountably laid his hand upon
the block
on which he was doing so, and snapped it off by the wrist
No reason that we have heard can be assigned for his doing
so. Fentie, it appears, never seemed to feel the pain cone
quent upon the act, and his arm having been immediately
dressed, he is now doing well.--ilbet ad
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