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

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREICSIN.

On Saturday the King and Queen of the French, their
Royal Highnesses Madame Adelaide, the Duchess d'Or-
leans, the Duchess de Nemours, the Princess de Join-
and the Duke d'Aumale, accompanied by Generals
Athalin and de Rumigny, the Count de Strada, and two
orderly ofticerF, visited Versailles, but returned to St.
Cloud to dinner. In the evening their Majesties re-
ceived the Ministers of the United States, Sweden, Chili,
and Tuscany, the Minister of Commerce, the Count de
Chabannes, Barons de BussArres and Deffaudis, M. de
Lesseps, and M. Conte, Director-General of the Poit-
office.

M. Herbet, the French Consul-General at Dublin, has
been appointed Consul at Trieste.
Dr. Bowring, M.P„ arrived in Paris on Saturday, at
the Hotel Victoria, from London. Mr. Hume, M.P.,
has also arrived in Paris.

M. Lebas, the member of the Institute, who has been
two years in Greece on a scientific mission, has lately
written to the Minister of the Interior, stating that he has
collected about 4,000 Greek inscriptions, 2,500 of which
are entirely new, and the rest corrected and ren,tered
more complete. With these he has 500 drawings of
antique buildings, statues, and bas.reliefs, besides several
pieces of sculpture in marble, which will be valuable to
the arts.

The Journal des Chemins de Fer states that it forms
part of the arrangement between the Saint Germain
Railroad Company and the Government on the atmos-
pheric railway from Nanterre to the terrace of St. Ger-
main, the various systems of Messrs. Clegg, Hallette.
Pt.rquem, Chaineroy, &c., shall be tried for a certain
time before the opening of the road to the public, in
order to test the advantages of each.
The first section of the railroad of Lower Silesia, viz.,
from Breslau to Leibnitz, a distance of about 58 English
miles, was opened on the 18th. This is part of the great
line of railway which will extend from Kiel (Holstein)
to Trieste, and thus connect the Baltic Sea with the
Adriatic.

A letter from Sarterre, in Corsica, of the 21st, states
that a man named Canazzi, who on the 13th assassinated
a medical student named Pianelli, in the commune of
Olmeto, and who had almo-t immediately afterwards
ported up a notice forbidding all persons to work on the
property of Captain hanelli, the uncle of his victim. has
paid the penalty of his crimes. The authorities, deter-
mined to seize on this man, pursued him so hotly that he
was obliged to take refuge in the arrondissement of
Ajaccio. The brother of the young man who was mur-
dered continued to pursue him unceasingly, and on the
night of the 16th he and some gendarmes succeeded in
bringing him to bay, after the exchange of a few shots.
The Marseilles and Toulouse journals contain accounts
of severe storms, accompanied with an enormous fall of
rain, in these places but it does not appear that any
serious damage was caused.
On the debate in the Portuguese Chamber of Depu-
ties on the measures of the Government during the sus-
pension of the Constitution, Ministers had a majority of
48, in a house of 100 members. The Ministry is, there-
fore, secure. Despotism is congenial to the soil of the
Peninsula. _ _

The members of the Congres Vinicole met at Bor•
deaux on the 24th for the first time this year. There
was an animated discussion on the state of the wine
trade, and the means of relieving the embarrassments of
the growers.
The Seville mail was robbed on the 22d, between Villa-
verde and Los Angelos, by six bandits.
The honours bestowed on the victors of Tangiers and
Mogadore have occasioned great dissatisfaction in the
French navy.