The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-31 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read"

POREIGN.

On Sunday evening their M2jesties the King and
Queen of the French received the Marquis de Dal-
matie, the Counts de Bondy, de la Villegontier, and
de Salyandy, and MM. Vatout and Sapey.
The company of the French Opera on Tuesday
evening were to perform the opera of La Muette
before-the Court at the Tuileries.
The Globe says :—" We learn that after the si

ting of the Deputies on Monday, the King, sur-
rounded by his family, declared his perfect concur-
rence in the policy of his Cabinet, and fully approved
of the resolution of his Ministers to continue in the
management of public affairs, at the head of a com-
pact and convinced majority which nothing can dis-
unite!"
The Constitutionnel gives the following analysis
of the Members of the Chamber of Deputies on the
occasion of the vote of Monday. The votes amounted
to 418 ; Members present who abstained from voting,
9 ; absentees, 27 ; places not represented, by reason
of deaths, resignations, or annulments of returns,
5 ; making together, 459, the total number of the
Chamber.
A convict, named Georges, who had murdered a
sentinel whilst the latter was endeavouring to prevent
him from making his escape from the Bagne, was
executed at Brest on the 18th, pursuant to sentence.
Three thousand convicte were drawn out to witness
his execution. After the passing of the sentence
Georges evinced great repentance, and devoted himself
assiduously to religious duties.
The lena, 90-guns, launched in 1844 at Brest, is at
present being remodeled, as well as the Jupiter, 90-
guns, launched in 1831. The Bieuveillante, 60-gun
frigate, has been condemned, and two new sailing
frigates will be launched this year—the Clorinde at
Cherbourg, and the Pomone at Lorient. Seven Go-
vernment steamers are also to be completed this year.
It results from new observations that the comet re-
cently discovered at Berlin will be visible to the naked
eye in February next, being then distant from the
earth only 6,000,000 of leagues (about 15,000,000 of
miles. It diameter is estimated at 7,000,000 of
leagues, or 2,500 leagues larger than the earth.
Messrs. Vacquerie and Meurice, the translators of
the " Antigone" of Sophocles, having dedicated their
work to the King of Prussia, his Majesty has just
sent to them through Baron de Humboldt two large
gold medals, with an autograph letter, in which his
Majesty states that he offers the medals "as a
souvenir, the only value of which is that of reminding
them of a country where an attempt has been made
to render public homage to the powerful genius and
immortal glory of Sophocles." The King adds :
" The composition of Antigone,' which you have
had the merit of bringing out in Paris, and to have
caused it to be applauded with emotion, exercises its
empire through ages and through all generations; it
does this because, at once simple, sublime, and hu-
mane, it goes back to the eternal source of perfection
and moral grandeur."
The following is a statement of the Bumber of
travellers between England and some of the conti-
nental ports, in 1842, 1843, and 1844. In 1842-
13oulogne, 48,254; Havre, 23,471 ; Dieppe, 3,199;
Calais, 20,728 ; Ostend, 13,70; in all, 109,432. In
1843—Boulogne, 56,868; Havre, 21,380; Dieppe,
5,631 ; Calais, 19,079 ; Ostend, 13,857 ; Antwerp,
9,677 ; total, 126,492. In 1844—Boulogne, 75,790 ;
Havre, 19,477; Dieppe, 9,323; Calais, 18,563;
Ostend, 22,472 ; Antwerp, 7,308 ; total, 153,034.
A letter of Jan. 10, from Arsendal (Norway),
speaks of a violent storm, which suddenly arose about
ten o'clock on the Saturday before, accompanied by a
heavy fall of snow. The tempest ceased about twelve,
and the air became warm as summer. About three in
the morning four shocks of an earthquake were felt,
and the last was accompanied by a detonation. About
seven in the morning the cold which existed before
returned. This is the seventh time that shocks of an
earthquake have been felt within eighteen months in
that Fart of the country.