The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

On Monday evening their Majesties received the Bri-
tish Ambassador, the Danish and Mecklenburgh Mi-
nisters, the Ministers of Commerce and Marine, and M.
Baude, Deputy.
Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, nephew of
the King and brother-in-law of the Queen of the Bel-
gians, arrived at Brussels on Monday, on a visit to their
Majesties.
Lieutenant-General Count Dejean, Peer of France,
President of the Commission of Cavalry, and formerly
Aide-de-Camp of the Emperor Napoleon, died in Paris
on Monday, of an illness of nearly a year's duration.
The new trial of Walker and his confederates before
the Cour Bo; ale, upon the charge of cheating at cards,
terminated on Tuesday. The Court pronounced them all
guilty, and sentenced Walker, Peyronnet, Fraser, Lam-
bert, and Drummond Baring (the last in default of ap,
pearance), to imprisonment for to o years, and Ogilvie
and Emma Caye for one year.
In the Chamber of Peers, on Wednesday, M. Teste
presented the report of the Committee appointed to exa-
mine Count Daru's proposition to prevent gambling on
the Stock Market in railroad shares. The Noble Peer
stated that the Committee adopted the principle of the
proposition, but differed from it on certai❑ points. The
Committee n.comm(nded to have all shares inscribed by
numbers in a register, and the shareholders to receive a
receipt, which should serve them as a guarantee of the
bond fide nature of the enterprise. Amongst other penal-
ties established by the Committee, the subscribers are to
have liberty of suing .ariminally all dishonest speculators.
The Chamber adjourned for the holidays to the 25th.
In consequence of the result of the duel between M.
Dujarrier and M. Heauvallon, telegraphic orders to arrest
the surviving combatant and the four seconds were sent
off in every direction, in case they should attempt to get
out of the ki»gdt.m. The news reached the shores of the
Mediterranean on the 12th, but a Valenciennes
states that the order did not reach that place till the 13th,
by which time the fugitives might have got into Belgium,
if they took that road.

The Journal de Lille announces that M. Wicart, Grand
Vicar of the Archbishop of Cambra and Archdeacon of
Lille, has been nominated Bishop of Frejus.
The Madrid litraldo publishes a letter from Xeres,
stating that, in consequence of the considerable ship
ments of wine made from England to China and India,
the exportation of that article from Andalusia had
greatly increased. In tie month of February last
33,438 arrobas were exported to England from Xeres,
and 32,997 from Puerto de Santa 111 aria.
A letter from Moscow, of the 221 ult., states that at a
late ball, given for the benefit of the charitable fund for
the relief of the indigent French in that city, the net re-
ceipts, after payment of all expenses, amounted to up-
pards of 20,00011, being a much greater sum than has
been obtained by this means for several years. It was
patronised not only by the authorities of Moscow, but by
the Emperor himself. More than 4,000 persons attended,
and the magnificent ball of the nobility's assembly pre-
sented a most brilliant spectacle.
A Madrid journal of the 12th states, on the authority
of a letter from Lisbon, that M. Rodriguez, of Barcelona,
a partisan of the Ex-Regent of Spain, and who had taken
refuge in Portugal, committed suicide in one of the
squares of Lisbon, on bearing of the execution of Zurbano.