The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is expected to
arrive at Clarence House, St. James's, on Friday next, from
Frogmore Lodge, on which day the Court is expected to re-
move from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of Cambridge's dinner to the Directors of the
Concerts of Ancient Music will be given on the 13th of the
ensuing month.
The Duke of Wellington will leave Apsley House to-
day for Strathfieldsaye. The! judges, Justices Cresswell and
Wightman, are expected to sleep at Strathfieldsaye previous
to opening the commission at Winchester. The Duke will
return to town at the end of the week.

The Duchesses of Hamilton and Roxburghe, the Mar-
chionesses of Breadalbane and Douglas, Countess of Caith-
ness, Lady E. Pringle, and the leading nobility and gentry
of the three Lothians, patronise the grand Celtic ball at the
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, on Friday next. The Mar-
quis of Douglas, the Earl of Caithness, Lord Berriedale, and
Colonel Mountain, 26th Cameronians, are stewards.
We have authority, says an Edinburgh paper of Saturday,
to contradict the statement which we inserted in our last,
from the Court Journal, regarding the marriage of Miss
Baillie to the Earl of Mansfield. There is, we understand,
no foundation whatever for the reports which have recently
been circulated by the public press on this subject.
Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby and family are still
at Rome, where they are expected to remain until the end of
March, anal then leave that city on their way to Paris.
The Earl and Countess of Eglintoun left the Ciarendon
Hotel on Monday, for the Earl of Sefton's seat, Crosteth
Hall, Lancashire, which is full of company, on the occasion
of the grand national steeple-chase, which is expected to be
attended by a strong muster of sporting noblemen and
gentlemen.
Sir Charles Rushout and the Hon. Lady Cockerell have
arrived at Fenton's Hotel, to be present at the solemnisation
of the nuptials of her Ladyship's sister, the Hon. Georgiana
Foley, with Mr. Montgomerie, a gentleman of property in
the county of Norfolk.

MISCELLANEOUS.
There has been another extraordinary change in the
weather within a few hours. On Monday at noon the ther-
mometer stood at 51 degrees, in the course of the night it fell
to 25, and at noon yesterday was only one degree above
freezing.
ThO gales of wind which blew heavily during the whole
of Friday night and Saturday morning from S.S.W., were,
we regret to state, productive of the most fearful results along
the coast. At Scarborough it was severely felt, and the cala-
mity that was witnessed will long be borne in recollection by
the inhabitants. Three fishing yawls were lost at the mouth
of the harbour, and fourteen persons were drowned.
The members of the Journeymen Tailors' Benevolent
Asylum, on Monday, held their seventh anniversary meeting
at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mr. W. Harrison presiding. The
capital invested in the Bank of England amounts to 11,1261.,
being an increase for the past year of 221/. The number of
the society's members now amounts to nearly 1,700. During
the day an election into the asylum of five additional pen-
sioners took place, making the total number to amount to 44.
Some of the new shops in Hungerford market, it is said,
will vie in appearance with those of Covent-garden market,
and besides being appropriated for the sale of choice fruits
and vegetables, there will be some of them fitted for what is

ermed—the "fancy" portion of butchers' and cheesemongers'
:rades.

'We have reason to believe, says the Court Circular, that
there is little truth in the report of the immense wealth said
to be left by the late reigning Duke of Saxe Gotha, and that
Prince Albert is not likely to have an increase to his fortune
by any large bequest from that quarter.

r ATROCIOUS MURDER IN FRANCE
' A threefold attempt at murder, fatal, however, in one
instance only, was made on Sunday morning last, about
five o'clock, at Perigueux, in the Loire. M. Desplat, who
kept a public- house in the town, had sold his house and
good-will, and was believed to have received a day or two
before B,ooof. or 10,000 f in part of the purchase money.
This tempted the avidity of some villains, who deter-
mined to obtain it at any sacrifice of life. Having
armed themselves with a pick-axe, which they procured
from the yard of a neighbouring house, by scaling the
wall, they in like manner, got into the back premises
of Desplat's house, which they entered by the yard
door. Their first object was to silence a young man
named Regnaud, the only lodger in the house, and pre-
vent his coming to the assistance of Desplat and his
wife. They entered Regnaud's room on the second
floor, and, finding him asleep, struck him on the fore-
head with the pickaxe, and opened his skull. The
poor youth was killed at once, without uttering a cry;
but, to make assurance doubly sure, they cut his throat
with his own razor. Desplat and his wife slept together on
the first floor, and, to execute their project with greater
security, they enticed the husband up stairs, by imitating
the voice of Regnaud, as if in pain, calling for a light.
Desplat got up and came out of his room, but had
not ascended more than three or four stairs when he
was felled by two violent blows on the head, which
stunned him, and covered him with blood. Believing
him to be dead, the assassins went into the room, and
attacked the wife ; • but her cries brought Desplat's
senses back, and, rallying all his powers, he went to her
rescue, calling out for assistance. Hearing this, the
murderers took the alarm, and fled with no other booty
than the watch of the unfortunate Regnaud, and, even if
they had fully accomplished their murderous design, they
would have gained but little more, for M. Desplat had
not received any part, of the sum they expected
to find. Some neighbours came in at the crisis, and
brought the guard. They found the house deluged with
blood. Desplat and his wife were both dreadfully
wounded, but are not in absolute danger ; the body of
Regnaud, with the head nearly severed from it, had been
covered with his own mattress and bedclothes. It was
taken to the hospital to be submitted to an autopsy
under the eye of justice, in order to obtain and preserve
legal evidence of the cause of his death. Several per-
sons have been arrested on suspicion, and every hope is
entertained by the magistrates of bringing the perpetra-
tors of this brutal crime to condign punishment.— Ga.
zette des Tribunaux.

Tim POLES IN POSEN.—A Frankfort journal gives
the following from Posen, of the 10th inst. :—" The Countess
Kivileika, who in childhood was the companion of the
Queen of Prussia, is gone to Berlin, in spite of her grief for
the recent death of her husband, to entreat the King to recal
the oraiance enjoining the Polish refugees to leave the
province. The president of the police, M. de Minutoli, has
offered his house to Count Plater, in' case the Government
should allow him to continue to reside in the province. It is,
however, scarcely probable that these steps will be attended
with any degree of success, for the Russian Ambassador has
declared that his Government has received positive informa-
tion that revolutionary measures were being taken in Poland
and Galicia, and had every reason to apprehend that they
extended to the Grand Duchy of Posen."
Ii" THE END OF ALL THINGS AT HAND."---A Mr.
G. Dealtry is at present reaping a plentiful harvest in Stock-
port, by lecturing on the above subject, in the Temperance-
room, Lower llillgate ; a charge of one penny each being
made for admission. The various prophecies contained in
the book ofDaniel are the subjects upon which the lecturer
chiefly grounds his doctrine, and incontrovertibly proves,
according to his statements, that the world will assuredly
come to an end on the '.9th of March, or in the beginning of
April next. 'Whether or not the lecturer himself believes
in the theory we are not prepared to say; but, at all events,
he appears anxious enough to secure what cash he can; re-
gardless as to whether or not he has use for it before the end
cometh. He delivered three lectures on the subject on Sun-
day, but refused to enter into any discussion on the subject
at the close of thwa.--11f celesfield Courier. -

FOREIGN.
The French GOvernment have officially announced that
the occupation of Otaheite by Admiral Dupetit Thouars will
not be ratified, and the dominions of Queen. Pomare are to
be placed, as formerly, simply under the protection of France.
Accounts from Athens of the 9th state that the National
Assembly was still occupied with the discussion of the dif-
ferent articles of the Chamber. The country was quite quiet.
The 25th of January, which is the anniversary of the King's
arrival in Greece, was celebrated with great rejoicings at
Athens.
Sir Baldwin Walker has now been formally dismissed the
Turkish service. The Porte resists his claim to half-pay, and
a negotiation is now goink on on this subject between Sir S.
Canning and the Turkish Government.
Roncali, the Spanish General, who commands in the neigh-
bourhood of Alicant, has transmitted a military report to the
Minister of War, in which are these words :—" The officers
taken in the action of Elda have been shot—a sad but just
warning to those who, ungrateful and treacherous towards
their Queen, have followed the standard of rebellion. May
this be a salutary example for those who through ambition
have been induced to follow their steps."
The Swiss Observer says the Swiss Confederation has al-
lowed the right to an asylum to the Duke of Bordeaux, and
that the French Government has not protested against that
resolution. It has simply required that official honours should
not be accorded to the Royal Duke.
Count de Budd, the last owner of the château of Ferney,
which he purchased of the Marquis de Villette, to whom it
was conveyed by Madame Denis, the niece of Voltaire, died
lately at the age of 88.
LAW AND POLICE.
In the Common Pleas, an action on the prosecution of the
Commissioners of Customs, was brought against Williams,
Mottram, and Horsley, on a charge of defrauding the revenue,
and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence was de-
ferred.
At Judges' Chambers, Sergeant's Inn, before Mr. Justice
Cresswell, Mrs. Newton, the wife of Mr. Augustus Newton,
the barrister, was brought up, before the above learned Judge,
on a writ of habeas, in the custody of the Sheriff of Glou-
cester; in order for her discharge from a writ of capias ad sa-
tisfaciendum, et the suit of Messrs. Rowe and Norman, the
proprietors of the Cheltenham Examiner. The case was ar-
gued at length, when the Judge said there was•no irregularity
in the arrest, for the sheriff was perfectly justifiable in issuing
the warrant; but he (the learned Judge) had now no power
to detain her, she clearly having no available property. His
Lordship then made out the order for Mrs. Newton's libe-
ration from the Queen's Prison.
At the Middlesex sessions, the grand jury having found
true bills against the owners of 17 disorderly houses in the
parish of St. Clement Danes, Mr. Pashley applied for process
to issue against the parties immediately. Mr. Prendergast
said that a most important question arose out of this applica-
tion, for by a recent Act of Parliament all persons not prac-
tising as attorneys, and not duly enrolled, were strictly pro-
hibited from sueing out process or discharging any other legal
duty appertaining to the profession of a solicitor. The pro-
cess now sought was prayed for at the instance of Mr. Corder,
who was only the clerk to the board of guardians for the
Strand union. The Chairman said that he had granted the
process, but if the parties chose to resist it they might do so,
and appeal to the Queen's Bench. Before a similar applica-
tion could be again made The Court would give the objection
a careful consideration.
At Guildhall Mrs. Earnshaw, of Park-street, Camden-
town, and Miss Emma Wells, who resided with her as a
companion, were re-examined, charged with purloining va-
rious articles from jewellers' shops. The prisoners wore again
remanded for a fortnight.
A stoker named William Reid was charged before the sit-
ting Magistrate at Wandsworth, with very serious and most
unprovoked assaults upon Mr. John Pearce, the landlord of
the Watermen's Arms, 'Wandsworth, and Mrs. Mary Pearce,
his wife. Both cases were fully established; and Mr. Paynter
fined the prisoner 20s. for the assault upon Mr. Pearce, and
40s. for the assault upon Mrs. Pearce. The money was paid,
and the prisoner, having given bail to keep the peace for six
months, was discharged.
COURT—FASILIONABLE.