The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-25 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

The Regency question still occupies the attention of the
Paris journals, nearly to the exclusion of every other topic.
The National, whilst it accuses the Ministers of taking advan
tage of the late disaster to strengthen their position. declares
that it should be most unwilling to see their place taken at the
present moment by the opposition party, as the latter would
thus arrive at power under such strong advantages, that no
hopes could be entertained of obtaining such reforms as the
party which the Nutiunal represents deems indispensable.
The Debats, the I onstitutionnel, and the Presse, have arti-
cles of a very opposite tendency on a phase of the Regency
question, which it was to have been expected would lead to
warm discussion. The point of controversy examined by our
Contemporaries is—whether the Regency Lill ought to be spe-
cial or general—whether drawn up to suit the present position
01 affairs in France, or to be made applicable to all circum-
stances and all t►mes.

The Courrier Francais calls on the Ministry to resign at
once, and to desist from placinr, their personal aggrandisement
in the balance with the repose of the country. M. Guizot, the
Courrier Francais remarks, may, by staying in power, bring
160 or 180 votes to the Regency question, but by resigning he
would disarm the whole opposition. "In periods of national
calm," our Contemporary says, " the obstinacy of an unpopu-
lar
Ministry may be tolerated, but at a period I.ke the present,
when the question under consideration is to strengthen the
Monarchy, by means of a Regency Bill, it is absolutely ne-
cessary that the Ministry which is about to preside over this
difficult work should be in harmony with the wishes of the
nation."
The King and Queen of the French left the Palace at
Neuilly at eleven o'clock on Thursday, but avoided the fatal
Chemin de la Revolte, and took the oAI Neuilly road. Princess
Adelaide and Princess Clementine were in the Royal carriage,
and the Dukes of Nemours, d'Atimale, and Montpensier to
another carriage. The Queen was dreadfully affected on seeing
the Pavilion Marsan, where the Duke of Orleans had resided.
The Ministers and Marshals of France received the King its
the Royal salon. At noon the King took his seat on the throne.
Baron Pasquier was in his dress of Chancellor. Tillers, Bar-
ret, Guizot, Mole, some of ail parties were present. The
officers of the National Guards were very numerous, as also
the clergy.
-A letter from Darmstadt represents all classes of the popu.•
lation of that town as being greatly affected by the news of the
death of the Duke of Orleans, who, during his visit to Luzern-
burgh, had gained all hearts by his high acquirements, his fine
tact and great affability, particularly by uniformly speaking
German when in company with persons of those States. They
all sympathise in the grief of the King, Queen, and the rest ut
the Royal Family of France, as if the deceased Prince had
been a German. . . . .

The King and Queen of Naples quitted their capital on the
7th inst. for Palermo. Previously to the departure of their
Majesties, the King paid a visit to the Prince de Joinville on
board the Belle Poule, and took leave of him. His Royal High-
ness cannot, therefore, have gone to Palermo as has been stated
by some of the journals.
The Madrid Gazette of the 14th inst. contains the decree
naming General Alcala Inspector of Cavalryvice General Rodil,
now President of the council and Minister of War, as also the
nomination of Count-Marshal Evansto San Miguel to be
Captain-General of the 12th Military District, vice Alcala.
'I he Madrid periodical press on the 14th continued in the
same state from the effect of the printers' strike. The Go-
vernment has not interfered in the dispute, and it has acted
wisely.
Senor Marliani has challenged Senor Gonzalez, the ex-
Minister for Foreign Affairs, because to the lie circumstantial
of the former he gave the lie direct. General Seoane is to act
as second to Gonzales.
tYLOICEY—TRADIE--CONLIVIER.CE.
The failure of the seal fishery was alluded to in our columns
last week : the same ships, to the number of 12, have only
bi ought home 5 whales, while the foreign vessels at dm fishery
have not captured any. As regards Peterhead, the Greenlar.d
fishery will not be prosecuted after this year.
At a meeting held at the Three Crowns, Dowgate-hill, on
Friday, it was resolved that a society, to be called " The
Lightermen's Protection Society," should be immediately
funned, in order to protect that body from the encroachments
of others.

Alr. Miller was, on Tuesday, unanimuusly.elected to the chair
of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, in the room of the
late Sir Charles sell.

1L5.A.17.7 AYIiD PO /AXIOM,
At the Carlisle Assizes on the 21st, Mary Christopherson,
her daughter, an intiresting little girl, iiged 14, and tary
illacklock, the servant, were arraigned for the crime of arson.
The mother and servant pleaded guilty, when the toimcr was
sentenced to be transported for life, and the servant, under
consideration that she, acted undt r the influence of tier mistress.
was committed ior le months. The little girl was acquitted.
The case excited great interest in consequence of the former
iespectability of the principal offender.
At the same Assizes Matthew Russell was convicted of shoot-
ing William Irving, with intent to murder him. The prose.
tutor and prisoner were well known to each other, and as the
former, with about 701. in his possession, was proceeding to his
employers to pay the workmen their wages, he was followed by
the prisoner into a lonely part of the road, and shot in the back
Kith a p,stol loaded with slugs. A struggle took ',lace, when
the prosecutor succeeded in obtaining the pistol, but the pri-
soner escaped, and was afterwards wrested in Scotland. He
was scntencvd to be transported for life.
Alr. Sergeant Adams was on Friday cl.osen Chairman of the
ensuing sessions, at a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates, by
a majority of 16 over his competitor, Mr. Witham.
R. B. Thomson, warehouseman in Wood- street, who had
been for' some time partner w h Williams, Mottram, and Co.,
and-had subsequently carried on business in the silk trade at
Coventry, appeared before the Court of Bankruptcy on Friday
011 his final examination. The claim of the Union Bank for
1,7001. was contested, but finally admitted, and further exam-
nation of the bankrupt was fixed for the '23d of August next,
the bankrupt nut being in a condition to pass, tia prepared with
certain cash accounts.
Wm. Henry Franks, charged with embezzling money to a
considerable amount belonging to the East London Burial
Society, of which he was treasurer, was ultimately remanded
at Lambeth-street on Friday for another week.
Martha Robinson, aged 19, was committed for trial at Union
Hall on Friday for the murder of her illegitimate child, and her
fattier as an accessory to the fact.

rxra 3 A.I2.TS.
The statue of Gretry, the composer, was inaugurated at
Liege, his native tow n,on the 19,h inst., with great ceremony.

lAlT)i.at.ll.l4.)t 15.1413 IG.
A further discovery of silver coin was made a few days ago
in the demesne of Lismaene, county Tipperary, consisting of
21 large pieces of the reign of Philip IV. of Spam, 1662;
David VI. of Scotland; Elizabeth, Charles 11., and James 11.