The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-14 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vubitr Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

On Monday evening their Majesties the Bing 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
garrison 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, for 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 Bth.
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 frames 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 6th says :—" It is asserted that li
the Or toque steamer is this day to leave for Cadiz,
with instructions to the Prince de Joinville to super-
intend himeelf the measures connected with the blockade
of Mogadure. 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 Hevolisheim, 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 Leviaun, &c., &o.
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 having removed all fears of collision or mis-
understanding between Great Britain and France, there
can no longer be any _donbt of the prompt completion
of the loan. It is believed that 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 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 (li.tre 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,insteadof 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 ull
the jewellery, gold, and notes, and escaped unperceived.
The loss of M. Delaporte is enormous, -many persons say-
-300,000f., 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 SlexiCan 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.
_ _ • LAW AND POLXIMS.

. John Ayres, Joseph Wentworth, and Thomas Cooke
were indicted, at the Middlesex Sessions, for assaulting
George Mason Pratt, on the 22d of August last. The
prosecutor, •it appeared, had been employed to serve
some Chancery notices on the prisoners' employer, a
farmer at Willesden ; and on the day when the assault
was committed, Was believed to be watching whether an
injunction granted by' the Court of Chancery against the
sale or removal of the property on the farm was carried
into effect. He was persuaded by the prisoners to go to
a public-house, and bn the way thither was thrown into
the Paddington Canal;' He escaped without more seri-
ous injury than a' good ducking. The jury returned a
verdict of acquittal on the part of Cooke, but fount,
Ayres and Wentworth guilty. They were sentenced to
one month's imprisonment.
At the Gravesend sessions, held on the 12th, James
Limbard was charged with having pursued his ordinary
calling on Sunday last; in having weighed people in a
weighing-machine for money, and thereby having vio-
lated the statute of the 29th Charles IL, which makes it
penal for any person to pursue, on the Lord's-day, their
ordinary occupation. A similar charge was made
against 'two other persons, and all the parties were fined
as. 6d each.
At the same court, two men named James Reid and
Samuel Rowe were fined 40s. each for " touting" for the
steamers oil Sunday. Their solicitor, Mr. Mathews,
immediately lodged with the town clerk notices of ap-
peal from the decision of the bench in these cases.
An elderly woman named Harding was fined 20s. at
Marlborough-street Police-court, for selling crackers "
to boyi. •
0017117-7/PASZIONALULE.
The Duchess of Kent is expected to arrive on a visit
to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Witley Court, to-
day, from Frogmore Lodge.
The Duke of Devonshire left Devonshire House for
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, on Tuesday last, for the season.
On the following day the domestic establishment pro-
ceeded to the above princely seat, in charge of the valu-
able plate. The Noble Duke commences his parties
next 'week, and a succession of visitors will be enter-
tained there until the closa of the ensuing week.
The Marquis of Clanricarde arrived from Portumna
Castle, his seat in Ireland, on Monday last. The Noble
Marquis and Marchioness, accompanied by the Ladies
De Burgh, are about to set out on a Continental tour,
proceeding by Brighton to Dieppe, and through France
to Italy, in which country the noble- family intend to
pass the approaching winter.
Earl Delawarr (Lord Chamberlain) left Upper Gros-
venor-street on Thursday, by the three o'clock train, for
Buckhurst Park, near East Grinstead, where the Coun-
tess and family are staying, with the exception of the
Hon. Mortimer West, who is gone to the north. Mr.
Hastings and Lady. Elizabeth Russell came to town
to attend the nuptials of Lord Grimston and Miss
Weyland..
The Countess of Glengall has arrived in town from
Brighton, accompanied by her family.
Lordand Lady Vivian have arrived in town.
Lord and Lady Monteagle are expected to arrive this
week at Mount Trenchard, his Lordship's beautiful seat
in County Limerick, from Westmorland.
The Marquis of Anglesey has arrived at Beau-desert,
Staffordshire, 'after having passed a few days at Malvern
Wells. The Marchioness of Anglesey and Lady Ade-
laide Paget had previously arrived there.
The Earl and Countess. 'of Manvers; accompanied by
the Ladies Pierrepont and the lion. Sydney Pierrepont,
have arrived at Wroxton Abbey, near Banbury, on a
visit to Colonel and Baroness North.

• Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone arrived at Far-
rance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, on Wednesday.
The Hon. and Rev. Granthatn Monter Yorke, M.A
brother to the Earl of Hardwicke, rector of St. Philip's
Church, Birmingham, has been appointed by the. Bishop
of Worcester one of his. Lordship's domestic chaplains.