The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-05 00:00:00

SU a MARY OF S

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public Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The King of the French, on Tuesday, presided at a Council
of Ministers, which lasted from twelve till half-past one.
The French funds on Wednesday rose considerably. The
Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 60c.,and the Fives at 124 f. 50e.
Cardinal Capaecini, the Pope's Intermtheio at Lisbon, was
daily expected in Madrid, to arrange the religious differences
between Spain and the Holy See.
The mortal remains of the Count of Nassau, ex-King of
Holland, arrived at Amsterdam on the 29th ult. On the 30th
the King arid the Prince Royal went to Amsterdam to see the
body, and returned to the Hague on the same day. The
funeral was to take place on Tuesday.
Gustave Alaxirnilien Juste, Prince de Croy, Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Rouen, died on Sunday night last. He was born at
Chateau de l'Hermitage (Nord) on the 12th September, 1773,
and was consecrated on the 9th January, 1820.
M. Charles Dupin has been elected President of the Academy
of Sciences, in the room of M. Dumas, and Al. Elie de Beau-
mont has been chosen Vice-President, in succession to M. C.
Dupin.
Mr. Baillie Cochrane, ALP., is returned to Paris from
Bourges, having been on a visit to Don Carlos.
The Hungarian Diet has, by a very large majority, adopted a
resolution that an address shall be pre rented to the King,
praying that his Majesty will, during this session, cause a Bill
to be presented to it, for granting electoral rights and qualifica-
tion to become candidates for seats in the Diet to advocates,
physicians, and other members of the learned professions in
general; and secondly, a Bill declaring that persons not noble
shall be qualified for the places and employments in the Go-
vernment which are now reserved for nobles exclusively.
The Commerce says :—" A workman of the Rue Vielles -
Audriettes, who for some time has attended the public lectures
on mechanics, has invented a machine, by which a man can
make 40 or 50 pairs of shoes a-day."
The French press, in 1843, brought forth 6,176 works in all
the languages, dead and living; 1,872 engravings and litho-
graphic prints; 147 maps, plans, anti charts; and 316 pieces
of music have also been published. _

In the evening of ounday and Monday, a great number of
Deputies proceeded to M. Lafitte's residence to congratulate
him on the address, so true and so well imagined, which he
pronounced on leaving the place he had filled as Provisional
President of the Chamber. On Monday, Beranger went to
felicitate M. Lafitte for the generous words which he had
uttered.

On Tuesday, at a meeting of Odilon Barrot's party they
decided that they would, in the bureax, interrogate the Minis-
ters on the subject of the reports in circulation about a dota-
tion to the Duke de Nemours. 'I hey also came to an under-
standing to oppose the exaggeration in the Speech from the
Throne relative to the prosperity of the finances of the country.
The meeting were also unanimous in opinion that the Cabinet,
in its relations with foreign Powers, had defended equally ill
the material interests of the country, and its dignity and honour.
An Algiers letter states that Colonel Charron, of the Engi-
neer?, in exploring the quarries in Algeria, which have been
recently worked, discovered veins of marble perfectly suited for
statuary and monumental sculpture.
POLICE.

The Lord Mayor, at the sitting at the Mansion-house, cen-
sured the police for the remissness with which his orders as to
the omnibus drivers and the scavengers, in the City, had 13,:en
enforced,

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A young man, highly respectably-dressed, yet covered with
dirt, was brought before Mr. Hall, at Bow-street, in a most
woe-begone plight, charged with stealing a number of cigars,
the property of Mr. Charles George, tobacconist, Long-acre.
The prisoner is well connected, but has, unfortunately, such
propensities to low habits and low company, that he is incor-
rigible. He was once before charged with robbery, but was
then discharged. He was now sent to prison for three weeks.
Three flashily-dressed young men, who gave their names
Henry Robins, Frederick Howard, and George Smith, were
charged, at Marylebone, with stealing a coat from the house of
Mr. Derbyshire, a surgeon, London-street, Fitzroy-square.
They are well-known members of the "swell mob." They were
committed for trial. _ .

Nehemiah Shakspeare, a middle-aged man, who had been
upwards of seven years resident engineer at the Lambeth Water-
works, was charged, at Lambeth-street, by Mr. Johnston, of
the firm of Johnston and Company, of Gloucester-street, Com-
mercial-road, with having wilfully and maliciously caused the
bursting of a steam-boiler on his premises on Tuesday morn-
ing last, by which the lives of upwards of 70 individuals were
placed in the most imminent danger, and property to a con-
siderable amount destroyed. There had been a difference be-
.tween the defendant and his employer a day or two previous,
but Shakspeare strongly denied the charge. He was re-
manded, but admitted to bail.
Patrick Connel, a tall, athletic Irishman, was filially exa-
mined, at Worship-street, on a charge of having assaulted and
wounded James White, aged 15 years, an inmate of St. Luke's
workhouse, whereby his life had been placed in imminent dan-
ger. On being asked if he wished to say anything, the pri-
soner launched forth a farrago of inane and incoherent ravings
indicative of insanity, which, however, it was the general opi-
nion was in part or wholly assumed. He was committed for
trial.