The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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PubUr ®pinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Constitutionnel says, " the Budget Committee on
Monday continued its examination of the estimates of
the expenses of the Minister of the Marine and
Colonies. Several Members made observations on the
insufficiency of the number of ships for the due ser-
vice of the State, and the manner in which the grants for in-
creasing this branch of the national forces had hitherto been
applied was severely oriticised. The Committee found, that,
instead of the expected increase of the force, the money in-
tended for that object had been lavished in works for embel-
lishing the buildings at the ports."
The Flotte announces several creations and promotions in
the Legion of Honour, upon the recommendations of
Marshal Bugeaud, Admiral Dupetit Thouars, and Captain
Bruat. Among the new knights of the Legion of Honour is
a Otaheitian chief.
His Excellency Sarim Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador,
arrived at Marseilles, on his way to London, with a suite of
fifteen persons, on the 12th, and occupied apartments which
had been prepared for him at the Hotel d'Orient.
The Helretie says that the missionary societies of Geneva,
Lausanne, and Neufchatel have addressed petitions to the
President of the French Council of Ministers on the disas-

trous position of Protestantism in the island of Otaheite, in
consequence of the French occupation of the island. The
Protestant societies of German• Switzerland, and a large
part of Germany itself, have followed the example of these
societies.

The Revue de Paris announces that Count Mole had been
slightly indisposed during several days. On Monday the
king sent to inquire after the health of the Count, who was
sufficiently recovered to open his salons to his friends on
Tuesday night.
The sudden variations of temperature at Paris during some
days past have exercised a most unfavourable influence over
the health of the inhabitants. The hospitals were never
before known to be so full.

On Sunday morning a man was found frozen to death on
the road between Paris and St. Denis. He was known to
have been somewhat overcome with liquor in the evening,
and probably had fallen or laid himself down to sleep. His
body was as stiff as if it were made of wood.
The Spectateur de Dijon states that, on the 6th, a pheno-
menon took place at Flavigny, such as has not been seen
since the famous Christmas night twenty-four years back.
The thunder was heard to roll loudly, and flashes of light-
ning were seen, in the midst of a heavy fall of snow.
The Abbe Souchet was tried by the Court of Assizes of
Caen on the 15th, on a charge of having, in a pamphlet, en-
titled " Advertissement aux Catholiques sur les dangers qui
les menacent dans la personne de leurs enfans," sought to
excite hatred and contempt in the public mind against a cer-
tain class of persons, and, in particular, the members of the
University. He was found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen
days' imprisonment and 100 f. fine, with confiscation of the
pamphlet.
The Minister of the Interior has decided that, in future,
no stage performances by companies of children shall be per-
mitted either in Paris or the departments. The Gazette de
Tribunaux states that this decision has been caused chiefly
by the disclosures of an infamous nature, which took place
in a recent prosecution relative to one of the theatres of juve-
nile performers in Paris.