The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-28 00:00:00

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.
On Monday afternoon the King of the French, accom-
panied by Colonel Dumas, and two orderly officers, paid a
visit to geuillv, but returned to the Tuileries to dinner. In
the evening their Majesties received the Ministers of Marine
and Commerce, the President of the Chamber of Deputies,
the Duke de Praslin, the Marquis de l'Angle, the Baron de
Bourgoing, General Daraiule, and Colonel Count d'Oraison.
"Last night," says the Ceurrier Francais of Tuesday, "the
Court treated themselves to the amusement of a visit aux
flambeaux to the Louvre galleries. Four footmen dragged
two cars with arm chairs, m which the King and the Queen
sat. Ten footmen carried reflector lanterns, placed on the
ends of long poles."
The same paper states that Louis Philippe will spend a
part of the summer at the Chateau d'Eu, where works on
an
extensive scale are proccedino-.
M. Villemain (says the Revue de Paris) has resumed his
functions of Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy.
The honourable member, in a short and lucid address, thanked
his colleagues for the very marked sympathy which they had
evinced for him on a late painful occasion, which fortunately
was now only a reminiscence.
The results of the census of Paris in the year 1841 has just
been published, from which it appears that in Paris, properly
so called, including the garrison (23,228 men), the number
of inhabitants was then 935,261. The next census. takes
place at the end of the present year.
"Government," observes the Revue de Paris, "have re-
ceived dispatches from our Ambassador in Switzerland, and
they have just sent him instructions relative to the crisis
which the Cantons are at this moment undergoing, M. Pon-
tois is instructed to declare to the Diet that, in accordance
with the other Powers, France will not interfere in the affairs
of the country, so long as they will follow their legal course,
but that she is determined on maintaining in its integrity
the constitution of the 7th of August, 1815, which was freely
assented to by the Cantons, and al proved of by the European
Powers."

A letter from Zurich, of the 20th says :—" The Executive
Council has desired the Council of War to dismiss as
promptly as possible all the troops that have been assem-
bled, with the exception of one company, to act as a guard
of honbur to the Diet. The Vorort has invited the Canton
of Lucerne to withdraw its troops from the frontier."
The King of Sweden and Norway opened the Storthing of
the latter country at Christiana on the 10th instant. In his
speech on this occasion, after paying an affecting tribute of
veneration to the memory of his father, he assured the assem-
bly that his dearest wish was to realise all the paternal views
of the deceased Sovereign for the welfare of his people, and
the cordial union of the two countries on principles of strict
ustice and equality.
In addition to the comet recently seen at Berlin, Paris, and
London, M. Coils, the astronomer of Parma, announces that
he has discovered another; and in the log of Captain Hilaire
Gautier, who has arrived lately at Marseilles, a third is
mentioned. The latter is said to be placed between the two
stars No. 11 of Eridanus, and 16 of the Atlas of Harding.
This comet disappeared at the moment when Captain Gautier
approached the equator.
The Augsburgh Gazette says :—" We have before us a letter
from Cairo, of the 21st January, announcing that a letter has
been received from M. d'Abadie, dated Aden, the lith of
October, in which he says that lie has discovered the source
of the White Nile, in the Ganira country."
.2:017 IVID POVACNI.
At the Carlisle Assizes, Thomas Robertshaw, a quack doc-
tor, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to four
months' imprisonment. Hpr
e escribed jalap and corrosive
sublimate fur a man named Coulthard, who had died from
the effects of the dose.
Matthew Paris, and his wife, Anne Paris, were jointly in-
dicted at the Middlesex Sessions, charged with having
wilfully omitted to provide sufficient meat, drink, and
sustenance far Robert Paris, their son ; and in a second
count, charging them with having confined the said
Robert Paris in a
.certain cellar, and refusing to sup-
ply him with sufficient meat and drink, between the
Ist day of August, 1844, and the 12th of February, 1845.
The jury were in the act of considering their verdict, when
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course. His Lordship then ordered Paris to enter into his
recognisance in 204, and in the same sum for his wife, to
come up for judgment when called upon ; and if he treated
his children with more kindness, he would hear no more
about it.

At Clerkenwell, Thomas Shaw was charged by Mrs. Jane
Johnson, of Gloucester-street, Gloucester-square, with bur-
glariously entering her dwelling-house. The prosecutrix, on
Tuesday night last, was alarmed by a noise, and on entering
the parlour with a female friend, they found the prisoner
concealed under the bed. They called " Murder!" and the
prisoner was given into custody. Some lucifer matches were
found in his possession, and a parcel of duplicates. He was
remanded.

covnT 1 asuxorzAT3Lz.
The Duchess of Kent will take her departure on Friday
from Frogmore House. for Clarence House, St. James's. The
Royal Duchess will be accompanied by the Countess of
Wratislau, and attended by Lady Fanny Howard, and Col.
Sir George Cowper, Bart. Her Royal Highness gave a sniall
dinner party at Frogmore House on Wednesday evening.
Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for the first of a
series of soirees, to commence on Saturday next, at her Lady-
ship's mansion on Carlton House- terrace.
Lord and Lady Charles Beauclerk have arrived in King-
street from Ankerwycke House.
Earl Fortescue has arrived in Grosvenor-square from his
Lordship's seat, Castle-hill, near Southmolton, Devon.
The Dowager Countess Fortescue is passing the winter at
her seat, Wear Gifford, Devon.

The Dowager Countess of Pembroke has arrived at Earl
Bruce's, Pall-mall, from her Ladyship's seat, Wilton Douse,
near Salisbury. The Countess will remain at the residence
of the Noble Earl, until the repairs of her Ladyship's man-
sion are completed.
The marriage of Miss Cecilia Neil Douglas, second daugh-
ter of the Commander of the Forces in Scotland, Major-Ge-
neral Sir Neil Douglas, K.C.8., ICC.H., with the lion; Au-
gustus Jocelyn, son of the late Earl of Roden, was celebrated
in the presence of a numerous and distinguished party, friends
and relatives of the bride and bridegroom, on Wednesday
last, at Edinburgh.

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