The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-25 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

POREXON.

On Saturday their Majesties the King and Queen
of the French gave a grand dinner. Amongst the
distinguished guests were the following :—The Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs, the Spanish Ambassador
to the Court of England, the Charges d'Affaires of
Russia and Spain, the Ministers of the United States
of America, Portugal, Denmark, Bavaria, Wurtem-
berg, Brazil, Chili, and the Hanse Towns. In the
evening, their Majesties received the Prince de Ligne,
Duke Decazes, the Marquis du Roure, General Ber-
thon, and Messrs. Dupin sen., Fulchiron, 'l'upinier,
and de Chasseloup-Laubat.
Twelve battalions of the National Guard of Paris,
and a squadron of the mounted guard, are ordered to
be in attendance on Thursday, the '26th, at the open-
ing of the Chambers. They are to line the streets
taken by the royal cortege. Some regiments of the
line and of the Municipal Guard will also be on duty.
The Moniteur publishes a report to the King from
the Minister of Marine, recommending the creation
of a oorps of comptrollers of the navy distinct from
the Commissariat, the latter body not being equal in
the present organisation of the navy to the discharge
of all the duties imposed upon it, and part of which it
is proposed to apportion to comptrollers. The report
is followed by a royal ordonnance to the effect recom-
mended by the Minister.
M. Dupoty, who was included in the late political
amnesty, has arrived in Paris. The Siecle says that
his health has suffered severely from his confinement.
The Cour Royale of Paris on Saturday quashed
the decision of the Tribunal of Premiere Instance, de-
claring that the new Game-law Bill did not apply to
larks, linnets, and other singing birds. The Cour
Royale now decides that, from the general tenor of
the Bill, it cannot be doubted that it was the intention
of the Legislature to include all kinds of singing birds,
and that to kill them must be deemed illegal.
The Gazette de Languedoc furnishes another in-
stance of the horrible crime of poisoning. It states
that four persons, including a woman with child, at
Boulogne, in the Haute-Garonne, were, on the 13th
inst., destroyed by poison, administered, it is be.
lieved, by one of the family, who has been arrested.
• A letter from Bellignies, a village between Valen-
ciennes and Maubeuge, states that about three on the
morning of the 14th, a band of well-mounted smug-
glers made an absolute invasion of the French terri-
tory. To the number of 90, they charged through
the village of Bellignies at full gallop, each man bear-
ing a considerable load. 'They came from the direc-
tion of Fay t-le-France, in Belgium, and proceeded
towards Houdain, where they separated into bodies of
twelve or fifteen men. The goods thus introduced
were supposed to be foreign tulles and spun cotton.
M. Barron, Catholic Bishop of the Two Guineas,
had arrived at Marseilles, accompanied by the Abbe
Maurice, the last survivor of the seven missionaries
taken out to Africa by the prelate, the others having
fallen victims to the climate of that country. M.
Barron was proceeding to Rome to give an account
of his disastrous mission to the Pope, and receive his
orders.

MAW AND POLICIA.
In the Insolvent Court the Chief Commissioner re-
manded Lewis Randall Jackson for 14 months for
fabrication and concealment of his books.
Robert Hobson, the keeper of a receiving-house for
the postage of letters, at Walthainstow, was brought
up at Bow-street for final examination, charged with
embezzling the sum of Is. 10d., being the postage of a
letter to Calcutta, and fully committed for trial.
There was another charge against him of stealing
newspapers, on which he was also committed.
At Queen-square, John Brown, a boy only thirteen
years of age, one of a formidable gang of young
thieves, was placed at the bar, charged with robbing
shopkeepers' tills. He was committed on two distinct
charges.
James Green, a well-dressed middle-aged man of
most determined aspect, and Anne Green, his
daughter, a little girl eleven years of age, were
charged before Mr. Bingham, at Worship-street, with
having been found engaged in the manufacture of a
large quantity of spurious money, and also with hav-
ing committed a murderous assault upon two officers
of police. The male prisoner was a finisher of base
coin, and the officers found him in the act of carrying
on his manufacture, assisted by the girl. The male
prisoner attacked the officers, knocked one of them
down stairs, and threw the contents of a jar of oil of
vitriol over the person of the other, seriously burning
his face and his hands. They were remanded until
Tuesday.
A shipwright and barge-builder, of Spratley's-row,
Mill-wall, Poplar, named Thomas Smith, who is in
affluent circumstances, who has long maintained the
reputation of being a respectable tradesman, was
brought before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Court,
for final examination, charged with stealing a quan-
tity of deals from the premises of two of his neigh-
bours, Mr. Thomas Fossey, timber-merchant, and
Mr. Thomas Snook, ship-builder, both of Mill-wall-
He was fully committed for trial, the magistrate re-
fusing to take bail for his appearance.

COVILT- PAINIXONAZIMM.
The Duke of Wellington has left Apsley House for
Strathfieldsaye' the Noble Duke having remained in
town to attend the obsequies of his sister, the late
Lady Anne Culling Smith.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have
left the Clarendon Hotel on a visit to Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster will
receive company at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, until the
27th of next month, being the birth-day of Earl
Grosvenor, when the party will break up.
The Earl of Chesterfield arrived at Chesterfield
House, Mayfair, on Sunday, from Bretby Park,
Leicestershire, and on Tuesday his Lordship again left
town for that seat, where a large circle of friends will
assemble on a visit to the Earl and Countess during
Christmas.

Viscountess Exmouth, after a sojourn of some
months at Brighton, is expected to leave this week for
Cannontign, her Ladyship's seat in Devonshire.
Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, the Hon.
Miss Coston, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish, lion.
Mrs. and the Misses Goddall, Hon. T. Cholmundeley,
Mrs. and Mrs. Lee Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. Corn-
wall Leigh, were at the Nantwich (Cheshire) ball on
Thursday evening last.
The Baroness de Clifford is passing the winter at
her Ladyship's seat, Kirkby Mallory, in Lancashire.
The Hon. C. E. Law, M.P., has left town for Cam-

bridge.
Sir Michael R. Shaw Stewart, Bart., has arrived
at Ardgowan, the residence of his mother, Lady Shaw
Stewart, from Oxford.

all SO )111XMAN1101711.
On Monday last, December the 23d, Messrs. T.
Barrett, Gammon, and Fisher, on behalf of the Cork.
cutters' Society, waited on R. Norman, Esq., Trea-
surer to the Duncombe Testimonial Fund, and handed
over to him the sum of 201., the second subscription
of the Corkcutters on behalf of the Testimonial to
Mr. T. Duncombe._

The Distin family, the celebrated performers on
the Sax Horn, have received a royal command to be
at Windsor Castle this evening (Wednesday).
The Times cautions the public against an impostor
who has been collecting money within the last fort-
night on the strength of letters which purport to be
signed by two of the Secretaries of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel and of the Church Mis-
sionary Society.
The Oberlin (Ohio) Institute embraces both sexes.
In theology it has 32 students ; in the college depart-
ment, 141, of whom 29 are females. In the female
department there are 148 ; they have altogether 292
males and 18 females. Ten professorships, one as-
sistant principal, and one assistant principal for the
females. The girls are said to be quite proficient
and ready in Latin and Greek. A majority of the
students pay their board by manual labour. All the
expenses of the institution are small, compared with
other institutions of the same standing.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 24.—The
market continues strong, and a fair amount of business
has been transacted to-day. Eastern Counties Perpe-
tual, No. 2, 24 ; Manchester and Leeds Half Shares,
51i ; Ditto, Sixteenths, 4 s.l6ths ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 521 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 5* ;
401., 5} ; Sheffield and Manchester, 97i ; Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 2/. 65.6 d.; ChurnetValley, 3k; Hud-
dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4i ; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 3* ; Leeds, Dewsbury,
and Manchester, 5-}; London and York, 4 7-16 4i: Shef-
field and Lincoln, 19s. ; Trent Valley, 10! ; West York-
shire, 6* ; Paris and Strasburgh, 3 1-16.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT LEITH.—Early on Saturday
morning the premises belonging to the Leith Candle
Company were discovered to be on fire. From the con-
fined situation of these works, it was with some diffieulty
that the town engines could be brought to bear on the
conflagration ; and, from the inflammable nature of the
materials, the work of destruction went speedily on—
vats, coolers, and tallow warehouses were soon in one
general blaze. About two o'clock the roof of the build-
ing fell in, when the scene that opened up to the spec-
tators was one of melancholy grandeur. Towering and
untamed the lurid flames rose high in the air, contrasting
beautifully with the wintry appearance of the scenery
around. The Fort engines, which are at all times
promptly turned out, had now arrived, and assisted emi-
nently in confining the fire to where it had originated,
although the main safety of the adjoining property, con-
sisting of wine vaults and grain stores, was chiefly owing
to the opening up of the fire-plugs, which are now pretty
general over the town, and attaching lengths of hose,
which,when available, offer the surest means of subduing
flames. The Edinburgh engines wen also upon the
ground, but were not required. About five o'clock the
tire was got under ; and we understand the property is
insured.—Edinburgh Journal.