The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-31 00:00:00

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FOZIEIGN.
The Independent of Montpellier states, that in the Dig
storm at Cette twenty persons lost their HITS, 1,1,
vessels were sunk, and an immense number of etheor
received great damage, and 200 houses were moreto
less injured. A subscription has been opened at et
for the relief of the most needy sufferers.
The Abbe Cros, of Cette, at the moment of the -
storm in that town, was looking from the tower of to
church at the weather. He saw a black cloud, which
at first thought proceeded from a steam-boat, but, Per
ceiving vessels dashed together, and the roofs of boned
torn off, he hastened to descend. He had not retie°
wf way down, when the dome fell behind him,
burst in the roof of the church.
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The Minister of Commerce, on being informed 0; eel
calamity that has occurred at Cette, immediately Poo
at the disposal of the Prefect, a sum of 20,000 f. for
most urgent wants of the sufferers.
Lord Brougham arrived at the Hotel Ifeur;ce, Pnra
en Sunday evening.
The note, a naval journal, states from Brest t ,
several officers of that port who have been more '
twenty years in the service have written to the Milli° er a
of Marine, desiring to be placed on the retired list, °o.
that others who have not served long enough to be e-
n
titled to this have requested to be placed on half-11
This is said to have arisen from dissatisfaction at be'
passed over in the late promotion.
MM. Arago, Cousin, Gay-Lussac, Victor Hugo, 1)i;
martine, De Tocqueville, and Horace Vernet, have bar
made knights of the order of the Polar Star, at a ChsP"i
held at Stockholm in the beginning of the month, and 5
which the King presided. M. de Humboldt has bee
made a commander of the order.
The execution of Pont, who was condemned for
soiling his wife and murdering his mistress, took Po'
on Monday at Versailles, on the Place St. Antoine.
The Courrier du Gard gives a rather alarming ee.a
count of the effect of the late rains upon the Rhone sII,A
the smaller streams in the country. The Rhone.
risen to within three feet of its greatest height &..;
the inundations of 1843, and should the rain continuo
similar disasters were to be apprehended. The river bto
not yet overflowed its banks, and the road from Lyons if
Nimes was still open. The Saone had risen also 'Oral
considerably, but there was every hope that it would no
reach the height necessary for it to do any seri° s
damage. The engineers were taking every precautions%
measure. The passages of the steam-boats had not bee
interrupted.
A letter from Frankfort of the 22d mentions a vet:
r
that the Emperor of Russia is about to recognise the.„l
dependence of Belgium, and to establish diplomatic'
lations with that country.
A monument is about to be erected to the memory
William the Conqueror at Falaise, the place of his .
The Not-Mans have been a.long.time-: in thinking" ,a
about 800 yeais.
' The Clamor Madrid journal, affirms Lb s•
order had been 'dispatched-from the War-office, 1,1
Messrs. "Zurbano 'and Leinery should be immeditir
shot, wherever they might be found, as soon as
identity should be established.
A St. Petersburgh letter, of the 28th ult., WI 're
re
" Steam navigation is becoming yearly more and re°iD
extended in this empire. The first steam-boat was ties,
in 1816 in the yard of Ischora, and is of 32-horse Polio
The Baltic has seventeen steamers, of from 32 to rho
horse power. Among these are six war ships. "for
fleet in the Black Sea has thirteen steamers, and fiTei,
the service of the ports. In the Caspian there are 3etbe
Steam navigation also is carried on in the Nev he
Wolschow, the Dune, the Dnieper, the Kama, anti
Lake of Peipus. It also exists on the great SibePfliti
Lake of Baikal, and has greatly increased the inter
commerce of Siberia.

MAW arm ons
In the Secondaries Court, Mr. Nicholls recovered fr.oo
a cabinet-maker named Johnson 201. as a compewss;s,
for damages done by defendant to a pony and cbs
which he had hired of plaintiff.
Yesterday James Thomas Hanratty, a clerk at 31e55J
Morrison, Dillon, and Co.'s Fore-street, was coma)"
from Guild
tree
chargedr. with embezzling 130/.
At Bow- et, M Twyford was occupied for se,
hours in hearing a complaint preferred by Viscount
nelagh against Inspector Barton of the G, or Cler"-
h,Ypn.fs,
well division of police, charging him with having eeo
mitted an assault upon his Lordship in the Stranoto
the day of her Majesty's visit to the Royal Exchange. sr,
Lordship, however, took nothing by his complaint, for 4.
Twyford, in dismissing the case, said he could not ,il
vict an inspector who had been struck at by his Lords, ns
and treated with so much disrespect as it was eviliit
was used towards him. His only wonder was that. fa
Lordship was not immediately taken into custocll
striking at a police-officer in the execution of his °at,
and he blamed the inspector for not ordering his arres f
William Edwards, who described himself as a barrisn
at-law, residing at 1, Middle Temple-lane, was charg:s
at Clerkenwell with having assaulted Mrs. Mary .1•io
Sprigge, wife of Mr. 'l'. Sprigge, a solicitor, residing $
North-place, Gray's Inn-road. The prisoner in le
drunken fit had twice attempted to strike the proseeo
trix, who was walking quietly along the street. Ile°
fined 2/.
At Marylebone, Captain Charles Irvine, R.N., Wh°,t
upwards of seventy years of age, and resides at pres,be'd
at. No. 74, Great Portland-street, was brought before_aP';
sitting magistrate, Mr. Long, by virtue of a warm,
which had been planed in the hands of Whipp, the offieete
to answer the charge of having written and sent a lets
to Edward Walter Forrester Walker, a captain hi, to
Scots Fusilier Guards, with intent to induce him to find
a duel. Captain Irvine thought that as the chalielip
was to fight in Belgium, the magistrate could take fi•
cognizance of the matter. Mr. Long, however, e°,.o
vinced him of his error by ordering him to find surety
to keep the peace for twelve months. gr.
John Morris, an elderly man, was brought before
Trail!, at Union Hall, charged with obtaining rar'f,oo
sums of money, by practicing a very gross deeePly
on the public. The prisoner, who is one of the mast 14
corrigible imposters about, has been recently hiLts
contributions in the character of a man reduced
comfortable circumstances to destitution in consecloess
of being incapacitated from holding any emploYllithe
owing to the recent rupture of a blood-vessel in
lungs. He was committed for three months. he,
A lad named Alfred Goldsmith, charged with ro
ing stones at the trains passing on the South-wested
Railway, was fined 51. at Wandsworth, and in default
payment committed for six weeks.
Thomas Robinson was committed from the wearies 0.
office, on a charge of burglariously entering the cabs o,
the schooner Mary Ann, in Union-stairs Tier, WaPP Ike
and stealing a silver watch,gold chain and seals, thejcse
perty of William Gordon Brown, a Custom house or
GOITZT—PALSIEZONA.I33IO6. gOl4
During the visit of the Queen and the Prince Ceiide
to Burghley House, the christening of the infant gaggle
ter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter willost
place, the celebration of which will be upon the '-siire
magnificent and extensive scale. From the extenoo
nature of the preparations which are in progress,,'
been found impossible to complete all the arr'-def
ments before the 12th of next month, on whien,for
every thing has bean ordered to be ready. The "0
ber, containing the gorgeous state bed in which 01,0,
Elizabeth slept nearly three centuries ago, will be WO
priated for the use of the Queen, as well as the
suite of state rooms, during her Majesty's stay at nu.'
ley House.
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The Marquis of Anglesey left Uxbridge lions°, }
gad
terday for Hinchinbrook, on a visit to the Earl
Countess of Sandwich. a
st
The Earl and Countess of Greville have arrive ivti
Brighton, and taken ap their residence at KemP To
for the winter. for
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have left town
Upton House, their seat in Warwickshire.
jot
Lord and Lady Dynevor gave a grand entertain jot
to their tenantry and a large circle of their friends ca'
week, at Dynevor Castle, near Llandilo, upon the heir
sion of completing the fiftieth anniversary of
marriage.
scloP
Lord John Russell left Wilton-crescent on xne seeS
for Dover, to join Lady J. Russell, who is at pre
staying there. ore
The Countess of Wicklow and the Ladies Howrd loble
passing the autumn at Stanmore Park, where the of the
Earl is expected to join the family in the course
ensuing month from Shelton Abbey, near ArkloW• the
Earl and Countess Bruce and family are passing
autumn at Severnake Lodge, near Marlborough- heti to
Lady Howard de Walden and suite are expected de
embark at the close of the week, to join Lord Haws-
Walden at the British embassy at Lisbon.

unsonza..autrinov
101'
The Very Rev. Laurence O'Donnell, P.P. of Get tor
and bishop elect of that diocese, having received s
from Rome, intimating that the Pope approved (;),„d at
nomination to fill the vacant see of Galway, P°57A-rch.
once to Tuam, in order to place in the hand of rOO,lB
bishop M‘Hale his resignation of the dignity. Dr' Dbut 50
expressed his determination not to accept of it, ;loft
anxious is the Rev. Gentleman to forego the „P:;bolic
that he means, at the assemblage of the Roman 'again
bishops on the 12th of November, in Dublin, t°
tender his resignation. ;Ibis
Professor Liebeg, after a lengthened sojourn .12 TV
country, left on Tuesday last for Gern3anY•der to
Learned Professor delayed his departure, in t°, lasi'
be present at the Royal entertainment on 31°°-A3fi'aoge.
on the occasion of the opening of the Royal Ex-center'
It was in contemplation, to have given a public
nece4:
taint-I:lent to that eminent savant, but from heingiature:
sitated to officiate at the Gieszen University, the wag OA'
at which foundation commenced a week ago, hie ;elle"
liged to decline the pressing invitations he had
from several scientific bodies. tro•
A new description of official books has been I not
vessels
duced into the Customs department, in which the °vessel!
is taken of merchandise, on being landed from tho.ehoase°
in the docks and river, for the purpose of being of the
under bond, or cleared immediately on parne.,nrevent
duties for home consumption, bf
repetition of the frauds which have been colunal gen°
some of the officers in collusion with dishonest
with a view pitted
otf
and others.
the of
A running match of three hundred yards cliw;o01'
near the Green Man public-house, Blackheath ;
petitors were Phillips (of Blackheath) and Greln 000
London). Preliminaries being arranged the
`rent alvsla
to the starting mark, and at the signal they rrn hundlld
at a good pace, Gregory taking a lead for oon _toe
0
yards. when his opponent came up to hiwhere
rry
him, and ran in a winner by five yards. the
good muster of spectators.
passed oP
On Friday, the Ist November, two Acts Pee"