The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

1"021.311IGN.

On Thursday evening their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received the Sardinian Ambassador,
M. Bois-le-Comte, Minister of France in Holland, the
Prince of Salm-Dyck, Lord Brougham, the Counts de
Mercy-d'Argentan, d'Aunemont, Rohan-Chabot, and de
Saint Mrurice.

The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance confirming
the contract made with Messrs. Vauthier and Co., for
the line of railroad between Montereau and Troyes.

The report of the Minister of Finance on the manu-
facture and sale of tobacco and snuff during the year 1843
was distributed on Thursday, V) the Members of the
Chamber of Deputies. It appears from it that the con
sumption had increased, and that the net profit to the
Government in 1843 was 3,500,000 f. more than in 1842.
The Moniteur contains the returns of the importations
into France in December last, the duties on which pro-
duced 13,399,399 E, showing an increase of 2,861,379 f.
as compared with those of December, 1843. The Cus-
toms' receipts amounted, in 1844, to 152,117,309 f. ; they
were 143,054,703 f. in 1843, and 137,434.593 f. in 1842.
It appears from an official return, which has been just
made, that the consumption of gunpowder in France in
1843 had diminished by 114,754 kilogrammes. The net
profit to the Governmeßt was 2,593,386 f., being 436,136 f.
less than in 1842.

Duvergier de Hauranne has brought into the
Chamber of Deputies, and laid upon the table, the pro-
position that he introduced two years ago, for doing
away with the ballot, and making the votes public.
The Seine continued rising on Thursday. The scale
at the Pont Royal marked 3i metres, at which point the
river becomes unnavigable.
A letter from Wiesbaden, of the 28th ult., announces
the death, on the morning of that day, of Elizabeth,
Duchess of Nassau, and Grand Duchess of Russia, after
her accouchment on the preceding day of a still• born
infant. She was born in 1826, and married on the 31st
of January, 1844.
A Berlin letter, dated the 25th, in the Journal de,
Franhfo, t, declares in the most positive manner that the
Empress of Russia is seriously
The Journal de l'Ain, of the 29th ult., says :—" The
Jura and a part of the surrounding country are entirely
covered with snow. The mail from Paris to Geneva
finds great difficulty in crossing the Pastille ; it loses
every day four or five hours."
At about one o'clock on Thursday morning, a fire
broke out in the tan and flour mills of Mr. Robinsoi,, at
Essone. The Sub-Prefect of Corbeil and the Mayor of
Essone were immediately on the spot, and by their ju-
dicious directions and the activity of the firemen of Cor-
beil, the fire was got under, but not until damage to
the extent, it is said, of 100,000 f. had been iufficted.
- According to a letter from Alexandria, of the 6th, the
disease in horned cattle, which was some time ago so
general in Egypt, has again broken out, and caused
great ravages.
A letter from Vienna, of the 20th, states that the
Prince and Princess of Salerno, the Prince and Princess
de Joinville, and the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, are
expected there in the spring, on a visit to the Emperor
of Austria.
The France says:—" We learn from a certain source
that the King and Queen of Prussia, and the Prince de
Metternich, will, in the month of June, proceed to the
banks of the Rhine, the King of Prussia to inhabit the
Chateau of Stolzenfels, near Coblentz, and the Prince de
Metternich his Chateau of Johannisberg."