The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-03 00:00:00

ISUMMARYJF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

On Monday evening the King of the French received Lord
Cowley, the Duke d'Estissac, the Count de Villegontier, M. Dupin,
Viscounts Szbastiatii and de Ilichernont, Barons de Berthois and
Mechin, M. Conte, Director General of the Post.office, and the Pre-
fect of the Flautcs Pyrenees.
Tho Duchess of Orleans, accompanied by the Count de Paris,
went on Monday to visit the Musee des Thermeo and the Hotel de
Cluny. An immense crowd gathered round the Hotel de Cluny,
and loudly cheered the young Prince and the Duchess on their
departure.

Marshal Soult on Tuesday attended the committee on the army
estimates. The committee wished him to consent to a reduction
of 10,000 =en in the effective forre of the army, or rather to
transfer these 10,000 men to the special budget of Algeria. The
Marshal, however, refused to listen to the proposition. The cloth.
ing of the army, and more particularly the new tunic, affbrded
matter for various observations, chiefly on account of the expense
occasioned by the introduction of this new dress. " The Minister
(says the Constitulionna) endeavoured to justify this reform by
stating that the tunic was a better protection of tIsC
legs of the sof.
dier fro n the cold, and t heir pantalocuis from the mud in marching."
Gondrand, the street singer, who was condemned Jo death in.
February. for the mureer of the woman who travelled with him at
his wife, was executed at Nevers on the 26th. This man afts.‘led
insanity, and he kept up the deception to the last, but he met 111,''
fate with resignation. It is stated in a letter from Nevers that an
artist, by way of speculation, took a daugerreotype view of the ex-
ecution—the first instance, it is believed, if such an application of
this new art.

As the passage•boat was on her way from Ouchy, on the Lake
of Geneva, a few days back, having on board eight horse, and
thirty persons, a sudden gust of wind frightened one of the animals,
which jumped overboard. The other horses drawn by this act all
to one side of the boat caused it to capsize. Two boats immediately
put off from the shore, but only twenty persons were saved.
A letter from Madrid says The Queen, desiring that the ex.
hibition of the products of national industry should take place as
speedily as possible, has ordered the opening of it for the list in.
stead of the 20th of May. She has allowed 40,600 reals (4001.) to.
wards the transport of the articles for exhibition.
. .

It appears by an article in a Madrid journal that there are
nearly 800 lawyers and advocates in Madrid, and that in all the
other towns in Spain they are quite as numerous in proportion to
the population. If one-fourth of these persons get their bread by
their profession, the Spanish people enust be the most litigious in
the universe.

The exports from Austria into saitzerlond during the year 1043
amounted to 18,000,0(10 florins (48,000,000 f ), Rhile the imports
from that country were only 2,000,000 florins, or 5,333,333 f.

SAW Alee 3)
In the Court of Queen's Bench, the judgment. on Mrs. Pelham,
who had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the
alleged neglect and ill-treatmenl of her illegitimate .idiot son. Was
arrested on the ground that several of the counts in the indictment
were bad. _

A chemist and druggist was convicted and fined, in the,Excim
Court, for selling spirits of wine without a license. _ _ _

William Johnson, a young man, dressed in the garb et t
butcher, was brought up on remand, at Southwark, charged wit
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stealing a quantity of hosiery goods, consisting of silk and satin
scarfs, handkerchiefs, &e. The Court was thronged with shop.
keepers from all parts of the town, who had been plundered by him.
The prisoner, it appeared, had been in the habit of going to various
shops, dressed in the garb of a butcher, of stating that he was sent
by his master (mentioning the name of some respectable butcher in
the neighbourhood), to request that they would send certain goods
by him, from which a selection would be made, and that the re-
mainder would be returned. lie had obtained large quantities
of goods by these means. He was fully committed for trial. .
At the Thames Police-court John Jeffries, the chief mate of
the brig Chanticleer, was charged with feloniously assaulting and
wounding Charles Johnson, with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm at Port Morant, Jamaica, on the Bth of March last. Tht
prisoner, in consequence of some slight altercation, had seized ar
formidable weapon, called a " beetle" (a species of heavy mallet)
and, wedding it in both hands, struck the prosecutor
on the head four or five times, and severely wounded him. Frani
the testimony of various witnesses, it appeared that the assault was
of the most savage and ferocious description. He was committed
for trial on the felonious charge of wounding, with intent to do
some grievous bodily harm, but was subsequently admitted to bail.

COURT—FASHIONABLE.
Her Majesty held her second Drawing-room yesterday, at, st•
James's Palace.

The Post says :—" We announced yesterday the fact of her Ma:
jest), the Queen Dowager having issued cards for a.I evening party
on Monday next, at Marlborough House. We arc now enabled to
add that the entertainment v ill be given especially to the juvenilt
members if the aristocracy, who are invited to meet the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal."
The Duke of Wellington completed his 76th year on Thursday.
His Grace received congratulatory visits from numerous frjendi
during the day.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose's grand ball on the I2th
inst. will be preceded by a grand banquet to the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge and other distinguished personages.
The Marquis and Marchioness cf Lansdowne have left town for
Bowood. The Marchioness purposes to remain at that place
during the present month.
Earl Fitzhardinge has left his seat at Cheltenham, for Berkeley
Castle, Gloucesterhire.
Earl Fitzwilliam and the Ladies Fitzwilliam have arrived at.
Morthner House, from Milton Park. Viscount Milton has gone
to Newmarket to attend the Spring Meeting. .

Lord and Lady Stanley had a grand dinner party on Thursday in
St. James's-square. The Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and
Countess of St. Germano, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, Vie.
count Goderich, Lord Redeadale, and Lord and Lady Prudhoe,
were among the company.

The Earl of Cassilis has left for Scotland.
Count Rzewuski has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from New.
market.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The anniversary meeting of the Royal Institution was held on
Thursday, Lord Prudhoe, President, in the chair. The report of the
auditors announced the affairs of the institution in a flourishing
and prosperous state, and that the profits of the lectures during the
past year bad been 157/. 10s. The entire receipts of the year
were 2,9161. Is. 6d., and there was a balance in hand of 395/. 18s.
The laboratory and library departments afforded equally satisfae.
tory results.
On Thursday the annual meeting of the subscribers to the Percy
Society was held at the library of the Royal Society of Literature,
St. Martin's-place, Trafalgaraquare, Lord Braybrooke le -the
chair. Mr. Wright, the Secretary, read the report of the council,
from which it appeared that the following works, printed from old
manuscripts, or reprinted from hitherto almost unknown publics.
tions, had been issued to the subscribers during the past year :
" The Keen of the South of Ireland," as illustrative of Irish
political and domestic history, manners, music, and superstitions;
the " Poems of John Audeley ;" a specimen of the Shropshire
dialect of the 15th century ; " Saint Brandon," a medieval legend
of the Sea, in English prose and verse; the " Romance of the Em-
peror Octavian," now first published, from MSS. at Lincoln and
Cambridge; Six Ballads, with burdens from MSS. in Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge ; " Lyrical Poems," selected from
musical publications between the years 1589 and 1600; " Friar
Bacon's Prophecy," a satire on the degeneracy of the times, c.o.
1604 ; the " Seven Sages, from a MS. in the public library of the
University of Cambridge; " Popular Songs,' illustrative of the
French Invasion of Ireland; " Poetical Miscellanies," from a ma-
nusetipt collection of the time of James the First ; the " Crown
Garland of Roses," from the edition of 1689 ; and " Barnfield's
Affectionate Shepherd," from the almost unique copy in Sion
College. The receipts of the Socieiy amounted to 3791., and the
expenditure to 335/. The report having been adopted, and the
officers for the ensuing year appointed, the meeting separated. . .
On Thursday evening a public vestry was held in the vestry.
room of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, for the -purpose of
petitioning Parliament against the proposed line of the South.
Eastern Railway Extension, that is intended to cross the Kent.
road, but it it should be passed into a law, then that the parish and
inhabitants be protected from any loss in the rates, kc. A petition
to Parliament against the proposed line was agreed to, and the
meeting separated.
No less than fifteen vessels were repotted on Wednesday at the
Custom.house as arriving from the East Indies and China, the
same being ships of the very largest class, and bringing extensive
and valuable cargoes of every description of East India and China..
produce and manufactures.
The Archbishop of Armagh continues indisposed at the Palace'
at Armagh.
Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in an unfinished house,
used as a carpenters' workshop, and tilled with building materials
for three houses, situate in Granby street, East Indriiairnoaatde,dPionpltbare,
the property of Mr. James I.ayden.
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back part of the lower rooms, from thebeo fiingiin
The contents of the building being a
with
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than
character, the tire travelled throughout the house
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usual rapidity; and in less than a quarter of an hour after the first
discovery of the flames every portion of the premises, with the
ines soon arriv
but the house was destroYed. The t adjoining houses have tiled,
contents therein, were enveloped in fiwaomes.
wise sustained some damage.
Sir Anthony Perrier died in the South Mall, at Cork, at an ad.
vanced age, last week.
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