The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-12 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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VitiOtt Optittian.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The following is the report presented by the Committee
appointed to examine the Bill relative to the railroad from
Paris to the Belgian frontier, with a branch line to Calais
and Dunkirk :—" The Minister of Public Works is au-
thorised to grant the concession of the lit e by public com-
petition, his permission, however, being . requited to enable
persons to send in tenders. The maximum of the lease
was fixed by the Government at forty-five years ; this has
been reduced by the Committee to thirty-three years. The
caution money of 30,000,000 f. required by the Government
is fixed at 45,000,000 f. by the Committee, but the latter
calls for the payment of a further sum of 9,000,000 f. within
a fortnight after the approval of the adjudication. The
responsibility of the original subscribers, carried by the Bill
to five-tenths of the amount of the shares subscribed for, is
reduced by the Committee to four-fifths."
The Chambers arc expected to close their labours this
session earlier than usual. According to the present appear-
ances they will be able to adjourn about the end of June.
The Committee on the Budget has got through its labours,
and the report will be laid before the Chamber on Wednes-
day next.
A Berne journal announces, that en the 6th instant the
Government of that Canton bad despatched N. Aubry, a
member of the Grand Council, to solicit a pardon for Pr.
Steiger, who had been condemned by the criminal tribunal
of Lucerne to be executed.
The locusts, which had appeared in swarms on different
points of the African coast, showed themselves, for the first
time, near Algiers on the 30th &A. At Khadrah, to the
west of the Fondouk, they devoured all the grass and leaves
of the trees. Several flights alighted early in the morning
of that day near the 111aison Carree, and numbers fell in the
Place Royale; at two o'clock in the afternoon, however, they
had completely vanished. Those insects are yellow, a couple
of inches in length, and maintain themselves and direct their
course in the air as easily as birds.
Mr. Bulwer was to leave Madrid for England on the 13th.
A letter from Berlin, May 2, in the Nuremberg Cor-
respondent, states that the latest news from St. Petersburgh
announce that towards the end of the month the Emperor
will accompany the Empress as far as Warsaw, whence her
Majesty is to proceed to Beriin to consult the medical men,
and learn what baths she ought to repair to. At a later
period the Emperor is to proceed to Berlin to escort back her
Majesty.
According to a Berlin letter of the 4th, in a Frankfort
journal, the northern powers, finding it impossible to induce
Don Carlos to come to any arrangement with the Spanish
Government, feel disposed to recognize Queen Isabella.
The Franconian Mercury contains a letter from Munich,
May 2, which states that a duel having taken place there
between a Portuguese and an attache of the French Em-
bassy, about a lady to whom the former was betrothed, the
attache has been suspended by M. Guizot from his func-
tions, and his passports having been delivered to him, he
had taken his departure from Munich.
COURT—FASHIONABLE.
Lady Charles Wellesley and her infant son are both pro-
gressing as favourably as could be desired.
Viscount Melbourne left his residence in South-street, on
Saturday last, for Brocket Hall, Herts, for the holiday. Vis-
count and Viscountess Jocelyn went to Brocket Hall on
Saturday afternoon, and Lord and Lady Beuvale were to
join the family party there; but his Lordship had experi-
enced an attack of gout, which obliged him to defer his de-
parture until to-day.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have gone to Broad-
lands, his Lordship's seat, near Romsey, Hants, for the re-
cess.

The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by the Marquis of
Stafford, has made arrangements to leave Stafford House at
the end of the week for Scotland, with the view of going
over his extensive estates in that country. The Duchess
and family remain in town.
The Duke of Rutland, accompanied by a family party, in-
tends to embark at the close of the ensuing month on his
Grace's usual aquatic excursion, on board the Resolution
schooner-yacht, now lying at Southampton.
The Earl and Countess of Orford and Lady Dorothy Wal-
pole, after a protracted residence at Rome and Naples, re-
turned from the Continent last week. The Noble Earl and
Countess came direct from Rome to England. Lord and
Lady Walpole, with the lion. Lady Pellew, are still residing
at Rome.

The Earl of St. Germans entertained at dinner on Satur-
day the Earl and Countess of Morley, Lord Granville Somer-
set, Sir James and Lady Graham, Lady Georgians and Miss
Stuart Wortley, the lion. Colonel, Mrs. and Miss Dawson
Darner, &c.

Sir John Cam llobhouse had a grand dinner party on
Saturday at his mansion, in Hill-street. The Russian
Minister, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Bread-
albane, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. Lockhart, were among
the guests of the Right Hon. Baronet.