The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The obsequies of M. le Comte Laborde took place
at Paris, on Sunday. The deceased, in addition to
other writings, was author of the "Picturesque and
Historical Voyal in Spain." He was one of the first
to send in his resignation on the formation of the
Polignac Ministry. Addresses were pronounced on
the occasion by M. le Comte Bougnot and General
Rumigny.
Joseph Bonaparte is said to have removed the
difficulties which lay in the way of the testamentary
gifts of his uncle, the Cardinal Fesch, regarding his
legacies to Corsica, by presenting a donation equiva-
lent to them, to his native town. Among them is a
statue of the First Consul, and of the numerous pic-
tures of the rich gallery, bequeathed to him by the
Cardinal, he has given 100 to Bastia, 50 to the village
of Corte, where he was born, and 150 to different
communes of the department.
The Council-General of Corsica have forwarded an
address to the French Government, praying for a
grant of public money to complete a monument in
that country to the Emperor Napoleon.
The National, in adverting to the affairs of Canada,
says—" There never was a better opportunity than
the present for the French Canadians to assert their
independence, and separate themselves for ever from
the English."
The vines at Beaujolais answer their culture in so
prolific a, manner, that they are likely to attract more
labour than the manufactures of the place.
Several Belgian engineers are said to have been
named Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour, on the
occasion of the approaching inauguration of the rail-
road of Quievrain to Valenciennes.

Accounts from Switzerland state that the Judge
Advocate-General, Sir John Nicholl, i 3 seriously in-
disposed in that country.

MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
A meeting of the creditors of the Tweed Bank took
place on Wednesday last at Berwick, when composi-
tions for the larger debts were entered into, and finally
for the smaller.

The Tweed fisheries closed on Saturday last ; the
season has been, on the whole, productive.

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The buildings in Farringdon-street will be com-
menced in the ensuing spring. There will be 27 on
the west, and 22 on the east side ; the leases are granted
by the City for 61 years.
ELECTIONEERING.
Sir William Rae, it is reported, will be succeeded
in the representation of Buteshire by the Hon. Archi-
bald Wortley, third son of Lord Wharncliffe, and not
by Mr. Duncan M'Neill as stated.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A number of officers of the Royal Artillery as-
sembled in the Woolwich marshes yesterday to wit-
ness experiments with a new description of brass gun,
invented by Captain Grant of that corps. It saves in
metal and powder greatly, and the result of six rounds
fired showed it to be admirably adapted for field service.

LAW AND POLICE.
Police constable, Joseph Pitman, K 391, was yes-
terday charged at Lambeth-street, with assaulting
Miss Julia Briggs, the daughter of a dyer, residing in
the East India-road, Poplar. The Magistrate remarked
that he had disgraced himself as a man, and gave him
the severest penalty he could record, of a month's im-
prisonment in the House of Correction, with hard
labour.

John Smith was charged at Thames-street with a
marine burglary, in breaking into the cabin of the
schooner Ellen, with the intention of stealing watches
and wearing-apparel. He was committed for trial.
Alfred Stringle and Francis Hawes were charged
at Guildhall with stealing 281bs. of dyed silk from Mr.
Gourdain, in Milton-street. The prisoners were re-
manded till Thursday.