The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-10 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Spanish Cortes are convoked for the 14th of
Norember.
The Duke d'Aumale has returned to Paris, and is
preparing to depart for Africa, where he will make
his debut as Marechal de Camp.
The Prince de Joinville resumes the command of
the Belle Poule for a long cruise, having refused the
rank of Rear-Admiral.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the French
received on Tuesday evening the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, the Chancellor of France, the Sardinian Am-
bassador, the Ministers of Prussia, Portugal, Brazil,
Sweden, Greece, Baden, Bavaria, Mexico, Wurtem-
berg, Hanover, Holland, Mecklenburg, the Pope's
Nuncio, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, the Prince de la
Moskowa, Generals de Lawcestine and Ventura, and the
Count de Sercev. In the course of the afternoon the
King went to Neuilly, and returned to Saint Cloud at
five o'clock.
A deputation from the Bureau of Longitude, with
Admiral Roussin at its head, had the honour of being
received by the King at St. Cloud on Tuesday.
The chief clerk or cashier of a great Manchester
house at Monte Video, who in August last absconded
from South America with cash and bills, it is said, to
the amount of 12,0001., has been secured at Bordeaux,
with nearly the whole of the property in his possession.
The cold, in the neighbourhood of Tournay in
France, has been 30 intense that the swallows that
have not yet migrated have fallen lifeless in the streets.
The difficulties which had arisen relative to the
testamentary intentions of the late Cardinal Fesch, in
favour of the town of Ajaccio, have been removed, by
a donation made by the Count of Survilliers (ex-King
of Spain), the universal legatee.
The King of the Belgians returned to the Palace of
Lacken on Monday, from his visit to the camp of Be-
verloo, where a grand dinner was given in honour of
him by the commanding officers and staff.
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
Reports were general in Stafford on Friday evening
that disturbances had again broken out in the Potte-
ries, and that large bodies of the workmen had again
struck for higher wages. The absence of the local
Magistrates at the Special Commissions, of which the
labouring classes have not been slow to take advan-
tage, is alleged to have been the immediate cause of
this renewed movement.
The Islington Branch of the Church Pastoral Aid
Society held its meeting on Friday. From the Re-
port it appeared that the expenditure for the parent
Society for the past year was 21,7671., and its income
only 18,9001. The Branch Society had fallen off 60/.
in its receipts since last year.
Barham Court, the Earl of Gainsborough's seat,
near Maidstone, and other of his property in the
county of Kent, is about to be brought to the hammer.
LAW AND PDX4c:E.
Miss Matilda Ann Layell, whose father holds a high
situation in her Majesty's Excise, and who, on coming
of age,will herself be entitled to considerable property,
was on Friday charged at Lambeth-street, with being
accessory to the utterance of a forged bill of exchange
for 1001. She was remanded till Tuesday, and ad-
mitted meanwhile to two sureties in 2501. each, to
appear on that day.
Richard Felton, steward of the Batavier steam-ship,
now under seizure, was charged at the Thanes police
on Friday, on a Custom-house information, with
smuggling 2131b5. of cigars and tobacco. The prisoner
was sentenced to pay a fine of 1001. to the Queen, and
in default, was ordered to be imprisoned at Clerken-
, well for six months.
Charles Gifford, apprehended and examined as the
party concerned in the alleged Chartist conspiracy at
Southampton, was acquitted unanimously by the Ma-
gistrates of that town on Thursday.
The Cheshire Special Commission opened at
Chester on Thursday last, when Lord Abinger ad-
dressed the Jury, and the trials commenced.
At an inquest held on Friday evening at the Bridge-
house, Borough- road, held for .the fourth time, to
pronounce the cause of the death of Joseph Bowler,
a chair-maker, poisoned by arsenic, the Jury returned
a verdict of Wilful Murder against Jane Bowler his
wife, who was committed to Newgate.
LITERARY &ND scxxig"rxric.
A new periodical, under the title of Zeit Regis-
trande, appeared at Weimar, the middle of last July.
It is intended to serve as an index to all newspapers
of Germany, for reference to any public document or
event.

THEATRICAL.
The theatres at Paris are opening for the winter
season. Madame Stroltz played this week brilliantly
in the Reine de Chypre. The Opera Italien will open
shortly with a new tenor, M. Corelli.
C OIIRT-I'ASBZONA.BLE.
The Dowager Countess of Essex and Miss Johnson
return home on Monday next.
Egerton are still on a visit-
Lord and Lady Francis Eg
ing tour in Lancashire.
Lord W. Russell has been passing the autumn at
Carlsbad.
Lord Cowley arrived in London on Friday from
Boulogne.
The Countess of Clare has left Mivart's Hotel for
Hentlesham Hall. near Ipswich.
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor have been staying
at Drumlanrig Castle during the week, on a visit to
the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch.
The Marquis and Marchioness o: Camden are pass-
ing the season at-the Wilderness, in Kent.
The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough returned to
town last week, from Willesbowne Castle.
The Earl of Dunmore arrived last week at Armi-
dale, Isle of Skye, on a visit to Lord Macdonald.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton commenced their
parties at Croxteth on Monday last.
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calnlfeorrdMoanjesit7hurtshdeay Qluaeest, for a sojourn in then Dowager arrived at
county of Dorset. Upwards of 5,000 persons, and
several hundred horsemen, assembled to meet her at
the entry of the village, which was decorated with a
triumphal arch.