The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-26 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NE S

terlia AUL OCCURIMINCE.—An inquest was held yes.
at the Portcullis public-house, Wellington
place, Clifton, on the body of James Martin, aged fifty
that th
Zat yeasts
who
died on Wednesday. It was supposed
t
ca' use of dath was attributable to a violent purg-
-1, occuioned by his taking, on the Ist instant, a
rlaatity of jitlap, given him in a frolic by some compa-
-1" of the deceased, who were drinking with him in a
public-house;
1, but the evidence of the medical man who
117,e a post mortem examination was to the effect that
e uied of fever, with inflammation of the brain and its
Th ierabranes, to which his intemperate habits predisposed
it. Verdict accordingly.—Fefix Farley's Journal.
081 Tllllllll.—This little hero is now in posses-
jslien of the outward and visible sign of a gentleman—
t e keeps ],'is carriage ; and on Saturday we were invited
insPect it. An ingenious artificer, Mr. Beaton, of
.15 ereark-street, has devoted his energies to the task of
htelildieg it, and his genius has enabled him to produce a
autiful model suitable to the dimensions of the general,
°laplete in all its parts—even to springs, window-blinds,
so`lfld folding-steps—and quite available for the purposes
keoluotion. It is a chariot about three feet and a half
"eight ; the body is of intense blue, and the mouldings
Are of silver • the wheels are elegantly picked out with
whifan ; the I; amtnercloth is of rich crimson, embroidered
elfully containing also the general's arms—a mixture
f„
CU? e heraldic symbols of England America—with the
business-like recommendation, " Go-a-head," flourishing
underneath, in the form of a motto. We are informed
fast a pair of ponies of matchable size are in training
C'r this pretty little vehicle, and that two small boys
man
been obtained to fill the arduous situations of coach-
-47:4 and footman. In this chariot the general, we pre.
Mime, intends to take the west-end air, and we may there-
et e. calculate upon ,his equipage " stopping the way,"
'alter the manner of bigger, if not better, folks.
been
Bishop of Durham and Mrs. Maltby, who have
ea visiting the Bishop of Bangor, at the Palace at
b
xt!tilLger, have left for Auckland Castle, Durham. The
ts'TP of Hereford and the lion. Mrs. Musgrave, have
,o been staying there, but left on Wenesday last.
'he Bishop of Norwich and Mrs. Stanley went in
the Norwich,
earlier part of the week to the episcopal residence at
..aerwich.
The Right Rev. Prelate was to have held an
ordination yesterday at the Cathedral.
,A. Trieste letter states that the Austrian frigate,
the Bellona, had arrived at that port on the 13th from
slllYene• As it was known that Admiral Bandiera was
.0 11.13°,11.rd, a number of persons made a point of going to
visit 'um, and expressing all the interest they took in
his late loss.
btayr* n-A- new description of goods waggon or box has
in use on the Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Asso-
tlated Railway during the last few weeks. In appear-
ance 1.4 y are very much like a cottage placed upon a
a7e about twelve feet long and six to eight feet
wg", haw', instead of the loose covers used on other
_aggens, substantial sloping roofs, are completely
hoarded up to the roof, have a door in the middle of each
chiee,fland a trap-door in the floor, They are at present
used for salt, of which each waggon is capable of
lelnifinieg six tons, but they are loaded up to four and a
Government have decided on the following places
b,ot central depots for military prisoners :—Weedon,
'at:sea Castle, and Chatham, tor England ; and the
extensive French prison, at Greeulaw, for Scotland.
The
and chaplains are to be appointed to them.
" prisons mode of punishing misbehaved soldiers in these
vrin will
have a much better effect than the mere in-
carceration in idleness which has heretofore been the
e u
,::/Vaval and Military Gazette.
Ipe Duke of Wellington is not expected to leave
Apsley House for Weimer Castle until after the proro-
-4 Nlr. Arbuthnot is still staying with his Grace
7.vlsit. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro are
malting “ tour of the cierman spas.

AND

Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

FCASZMIC-Iff.
On Wednesday evening the King and Queen of the
French received the Danish Minister, the Minister of
Public Instruction, Count de Beauregard, attaché to the
Embassy at the Court of Sardinia, M. Boulay (de la
Meurthe), deputy, and Viscount Duchesne.
On Wednesday the Austrian Ambassador had a pri-
vate audience of the King, to deliver to his Majesty let-
ters from the Emperor of Austria, in answer to the com-
munication of the birth of his Royal Highness the Duke
d'Alesesn.
The Journal de la Ilaye of Wednesday announces the
death of the Grand Duchess Alexandra in a way which
leaves little doubt (that journal being semi-official) of the
event having taken place. It says, "It is with deep re-
gret that we announce that the Court has just received
the sad news of the death of the Grand Duchess Alex-
andra, wife of his Royal Highness Prince Frelerick of
Hesse, and niece of our august Sovereign."
A royal ordonnance has just been signed, appointing
a new branch in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to
which the direction of all business relating to America
and the East and West Indies is to be entrusted. M. de
Lavergne, maitre des reqsa tes, and already employed in
the political part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
has been placed at the head of this new department,
which is to be both political and commercial.
The Marquis of Queensberry has arrived at the Hotel
Bristol, Place VendOme.
M. de Broglie, Secretary of the French Embassy at
Madrid, arrived at Paris on Friday.
At the sitting of the Academy of Sciences on the 19th
instant, a letter was read from Baron Charles Dupin re-
lative to the dissolution of the Polytechnic School. M.
Dupin, being absent from Paris, apprised the Academy
that he was anxious to uphold its prerogatives, and re-
quested that the speech in this sense whic he had made
in the Chamber of Peers on the Ist inst. might be read
to the Academy. This was accordingly done,' and M.
Arago then stated that whilst he fully concurred with
their annual president, M. Dupin, in his desire to main-
tain the prerogatives of the Academy, he wished to cor-
rect an error into which M. Dupin had fallen. He had
said that the right of the Academy to name a single
candidate as professor and examiner dated from the Di-
rectory, and existed under the Empire and the Restora
tion. M. Arago said that this right, which would become
illusory if the view taken of it by the Government were
to be tolerated, dated from the revolution of 1830.
The report of the Emperor of Morocco having com-
plied with the demands of Spain is again repeated, but it
is on the authority of private letters which cannot be
relied on.
The Duke d'Ossuna, supposed to be one of the
wealthiest grandees in Spain, is so ill that his life is de-
spaired of. He is labouring under an attack of the
brain fever.
It is reported that the Spanish Consul at Gibraltar
has attempted to inveigle the refugees in that place to
make an incursion into Spain. If this report be true his
conduct is most atrocious.
The Observateur of Brussels of Wednesday says:—
"We are hourly expecting the return to Brussels of
M. Van Praet, the King's Secretary. It appears that
the first bases of the project of a commercial arrange-
ment between France and Belgium have been recently
considerably modified.
In one of the late excursions of General Bourjolly
against the Flittas a remarkably fine royal black eagle
was caught, and sent by him from Mostaganem to
France, and will shortly arrive at the Jardin des
Plantes. It is only six months old, but measures more
than eight feet from the tip of one wing to the other.
A letter from Tarifa states that, by the bombardment
of Tangiers, fifty guns on the Custom-house side were
dismounted by the fire of the French squadron, and that
the town suffered considerably. The letter adds that
the Prince de Joinville discontinued the bombardment
the moment that the fire of the batteries ceased.
The Courrier Charentais states that a few days back
two little girls, of six and eight years of age, having in
playing got into a kind of chest, the cover fell over them,
and shut with a spring-lock. They were alone in the
house, and when their mother returned home, not find-
ing them, it occurred to her that they must have got
into the chest, and on lifting the lid she found them
both dead.
We learn from the Toulonnais that the Egerie trans-
port has just been dispatched with a considerable store
of ammunition of all kinds for the Prince de Joinville's
squadron, and the Perdrix store-ship is about to depart
with a further supply.
The Ilambur9h Correspondent states that the King of
Hanover has concluded a treaty of navigation for ten
years with the city of Lubeck.
We find the following in the Westphalian Mercury :
" Several Sisters of Charity have lately arrived at Ber-
lin, having been conducted to the frontiers of Prussia
from their convent at Wilna, in Russia, which has been
suppressed. They are young women of education and
good families, and will return to their principal convent
in France. They were put under the charge of Cossacs,
of whose treatment they make severe complaints."
A correspondent writes on the 13th inst. from Posen.
—" The news from Poland is very sombre. Four Polish
gentlemen have been carried oft to the interior of Russia.
It is said that the chain of a secret association has been
discovered, having many and strong ramifications, and
in which the persons arrested were linked. They were,
it is reported, in a great sporting party, given some
months ago by the owner of extensive forests close to
the frontier."
The Bing of Prussia left Vienna on the morning of
the 15th, repairing to Silesia by the railroad.
LAW AND POLICE.
At Gloucester,Henry Harding was convicted of steal-
ing two sovereigns. Nine previous convictions for as-
sault were proved against him, and he was sentenced to
seven years transportation.
The case of Milne v. the Town Council of Manchester,
was tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell, at Liverpool. It
was an issue on a return to a mandamus to try the
right of the plaintiff to compensation for the loss of cer-
tain fees to which he had been entitled as clerk to the
Justices and clerk to the stipendiary Magistrates of the
division of Manchester, of a large portion of which he
had been deprived by the grant of a charter of incorpo-
ration to the borough of Manchester, and the new
ar-
rangements consequent thereon. The whole question
at issue was one of law, and the jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff—damages ls., it being agreed that the
facts should be put into the form of a special case, for
the opinion of the Court above, by which the question
will be decided.
Eliza Daley, aged 20, James Daley, aged 30, and
Elizabeth Daley, aged GO, were charged with having, at
Manchester, on the 26th of July, attempted to suffocate
and drown a newborn male child. The Lord Chief
Baron, before whom they were tried, directed their ac-
quittal, but ordered them to be detained on a charge of
exposing the child, of which the younger prisoner is the
mother.
Alfred Locke, Thomas Jennings, and Ellen Letch,
were convicted of breaking into the dwelling-house of
Deborah Taylor, and stealing upwards of 3001. in money,
and some silver spoons. The two male prisoners were
rather stylishly dressed, and appeared of a better class
than those who usually make their appearance in the dock.
William Swanton, indicted for the murder of his wife,
at Wigan, by kicking her, was found guilty of man-
slaughter.
M. A. Buller, a young girl, was indicted for an at-
tempt to suffocate a child, Rosanna Monday, by throwing
her into a privy. The prisoner, who is nearly an idiot,
was acquitted on the ground of insanity.
James Burgess was indicted for attempting to murder
his wife by strangling her. He was found guilty of an
aggravated assault, and sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment.

COITAT-PiLIiNtIONALIMB.
Lord and Lady Ravensworth have arrived at Ravens.
worth Castle.
The Earl of Falmouth has left Tregothnon, his sea
in Cornwall, and is at present staying with the Dowager
Countess at Woolhampton, near Newbury.
The Earl of Ilarrowby has arrived at Port Eliot, on a
visit to the Earl St. Germains, where Lord and Lady
Jemima Eliot and a numerous family circle are assem-
bled.
The Earl of Lonsdale left Lowther Castle on Satur-
day morning for Whitehaven Castle.
Viscount Melbourne has returned to South-street from
Nuneham Park. His Lordship is expected to leave town
about the latter end of the week for Brocket Hall.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons has left Taymouth Castle, the Marquis of Bread•
albane's magnificent seat in Perthshire, for town, intend-
ing en rou to to pay several visits.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Emma
Campbell are expected to leave Connaught-place West,
to-morrow, for Inverary Castle, N. 13., which will be full
I of visitants at the end of the ensuing month.
The Duke of Roxburghe has arrived at his shooting
quarters, Byrecleugh, where his Grace and party have
had good sport since the commencement of the grouse
shooting.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and family are
passing the summer at Tunbridge Wells. The Noble
Marquis's health has of late improved.
The Marquis of Conyngham has gone on a cruise to
the eastern coasts from Southampton, in the Flower of
Yarrow yacht. The Noble Marquis was at Harwich on
Thursday last.
The Earl and Countess of Morley have received a suc-
cession of friends at Saltoun, Devon, during
.the last
week.
The Earl and Countess of Zetland arrived at Aske
Hall, York, on Tuesday last, from Kerse House, Stirling -
shire. The Countess's health has greatly improved since
her departure from town.
The Earl and Countess of Galloway have arrived at
their seatin Scotland.
The Earl of Besborough and Ladies Ponsonby have
arrived at Besborough House, Kilkenn,y, from Caven-
dish-square, at which seat the Noble Earl and family
have made arrangements to pass the autumn. The arri-
val of his Lordship at his paternal estates was welcomed
by his tenantry by every possible mark of esteem.
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Governor of Green-
wich Hospital, and Lady Stopford and family, have left
the Royal Hospital for Leamington Spa.
Colonel Peel has, we hear, taken Bagington Hall,
Warwickshire, for the winter. The Gallant Colonel and
Lady Alice are at present residing at Dover.
Viscount and Viscountess Milton have arrived at Sir
James and Lady Anne Mackenzie's seat in Ross-shire,
from visiting the Earl and Countess of Morton, at Dal-
mahoy Castle, near Edinburgh. Mr. and Lady Mary
Thompson, and the lion. Mr. Dundar, have also arrived
on a visit to Sir James and Lady Anne.
Itet:SOMX.X.A.N2IOI7I3.
The Queen has been pleased to signify, through the
Lord Chamberlain, to the respective head masters, that