The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-13 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

ipttbltr Optnton.

" Who runs may read."

roaraoxic.

On Monday evening tlieir Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received the Ministers of the United
States and Holland, the Minister of Public Works, Ge-
neral Sebastiani, Baron d'Effaudis, and M. Vatout.
Two companies of the 12th Regiment of the line in
garriaon at Havre, left that place on Monday, for Eu,
where they are to do duty during his Majesty's residence
at the Chateau.
Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar, brother of the Grand
Duke, accompanied by Baron Vanouthon, arrived at Metz
on the 7th, fur the purpose of witnessing the grand mili-
tary manoeuvres, under the orders of his Royal Highness
the Duke de Nemours, who received his royal visitor at
the Prefecture, where apartments had been prepared for
him. The Prince of Saxe Weimar, son of Duke Bernard,
and Captain Gordon, son of the Earl of Aberdeen, were
expected on the Bzh.

The Toulonnais states that great preparations are
making in that town for the reception of the Prince de
Joinville, it having been announced by the Government
to the chief magistrate of the place, that it was at,
Toulon his Royal Highness would disembark. The
Municipal Council has subscribed 20,000 francs towards
the festivities which will take place on 'the occasion.
Triumphal arches are to be erected, a ball, an illumina-
tion, balloon ascent, and fireworks, are the splendours
awaiting the conqueror of Tangiers and Mogadore on his
arrival.

A Toulon letter of the Gth says :—" It is asserted that
the Ole! toque steamer is this day to leave for Cadiz,
with instructions to the Prince de Joinville to super-
intend himself the measures connected with the blockade
of Mogadore. The Castor has left for the Straits of
Gibraltar with letters for the French ships on the coast
of Morocco. She is also to touch at Oran to deliver in-
structions to Marshal Bugeaud."
The Castle of Hevonsheim, the seat of the Duchess
d'Alberg, near Wiesbaden, is the scene of splendid gaiety
and hospitality. The following distinguished English
families have lately been her Grace's guests :—Earl and
Countess Clarendon, Earl Bathurst, Viscount and Vis-
countess Palmerston, Lord and Lady William Russell,
Lord and Lady Sidney, Lord and Lady Villiers, Lord
De Morley, Lord and Lady Levison, &c., &c.
The Frankfort journals of the 7th announce the ar-
rival of Lord John Russell in that city.
The Paris Presse says :—" The Speech of the Queen
of England having removed all fears of collision or mis-
understanding between Great Britain and France, there
can no longer be any doubt of the prompt completion
of the loan. It is believed tlwt it will take place in Oc-
tober, and be for 300 millions of francs."
It is stated in a letter from Athens of the 26th ult. that
the Coletti Ministry would find it impossible to weather
the impending storm, and that the protecting Powers
would again b obliged to interfere, in order to save the
country from anarchy.
Watches, remarkable for their extreme thinness, are
now manufactured at Geneva. They are not thicker
than a line and the sixteenth of a line (little more than
the twelfth of an inch). This change does not, however,
militate against the full play of the movement, for that
remains the same, the thinness being obtained by
placing the hands at the side, instead of over the works.
This arrangment makes the watches rather larger in
circumference.

Yesterday, says a letter from Rouen of Monday, be-
tween six and seven in the evening, some thieves, pro-
fiting by the absence of the owner, stripped the shop of
M. Delaporte, the jeweller and money-changer, in the
Rue Grand•Pont. In a few minutes they cleared off all
the jewellery, gold, and notes, and escaped unperceived.
The loss; of M. Delaporte is enormous, many persons say
300,000 f., but this is probably an exaggeration.
Several fine exotics are now in full perfection in the
garden of the Luxembourg, and attract many visitors.
Amongst them are two bananas, the fruit of which
begins to develop itself, two Mexican plants, the stalks
of which cover an enormous surface of ground, and an
apple• tree from Brazil, the fruit of which has a skin as
dark as that of the Damascus plum.