The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-18 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read,"

FOREIGN.

The reflections to which the melancholy death of the Duke
of Orleans has given rise wholly occupy the editorial columns
of the French journals received this morning.
The advices from Madrid are of the 7th instant. The Ma-
drid papers complain of the insecurity of the highways, which
are infested with brigands in every direction. The Valencia
stage coach was stopped by twenty mounted knights of the
road, who pillaged the passengers, and took away the horses of
the vehicle.

Her Majesty's steamer Prometheus reached Constantinople
on the 25th, with the family of Sir Stratford Canning. She
brought the intelligence of the events that had taken place at
Tripoli, and which have been matter of much excitement at
Constantinople. Mehmed Pacha, the newly appointed Go-
vernor of that Regency, was to put to sea on the 28th, with a
few troops, a frigate, a corvette, and schooner.
The Courrier de Lyon of the 13th inst. announces a serious
disturbance to have broken out at Mantua between the Jews
and the Christians. The Austrian Government was obliged
to interfere by force; but the people tore up the pavement and
attacked the soldiers with stones, who fired on the multitude,
killed 50 persons, and wounded many. The disturbance still
continued, and no Jew dared make his appearance in the
streets. The Government was obliged to march troops from
Verona and Milan.

MONEY—TRADE—CONIIVIERCE.
The " strike " of the operative masons at Glasgow still con.
tinues ; it has now gone on for five weeks. The number out of
work is about 400.
The salmon fisheries in the northern rivers have been very
successful during the past week, and the quantities in most of
the streams are daily on the increase.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
The late Bishop of Meath, whose death we announced on
Friday, was in his 47th year, and one of the youngest of the
Irish Prelates ; entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1810
obtained scientific and classical premiums, and was author of
various pamphlets on ecclesiastical subjects. The annual value
of his diocese is 4,0681.

AGRICULTURAL.
The agricultural labourers in Bucks are as distressed as any
operatives of the manufacturing districts. In the parish of
Long Credon, 800 acres of good land do not employ ten labourers.
In Oakley, there arc many labourers out cf work, and distress
is rife. In Ludgershall (close to Wotton, the Duke of Buck-
ingham's residence), things are in a worse state than in any of
the preceding places. Thirty-two are there out of work de-
pending on the other villagers.

ir.avAx. .AND wrizrr.a.ny.
On Friday Captain Peter Roberts, the Alaster of the ship
Douglas, appeared at the Thames Police-office, to answer the
claims of two of his seamen in the voyage from Guernsey to
Africa and bark. The Captain refused the men payment on
the score of mutiny, and the saiiors in return accused the Cap-
tain of drunkenness and unseamanlike conduct. Mr. Ballan-
tine referred the case to be adjudicated by the Admiralty.
The entrance examinations at Sandhurst College took place
last Tuesday, when "6 passed, making 180 on the books of the
College.

LAW AND POZZCE.
Mary Robinson, the lady-thief," was on Friday brought up
at Rox.street for final examination, charged with stealing a
gold pencil-ease from the Pantheon in Oxford-street, and fully
committed to Newgate for trial.
James Edie was brought uo on Friday at the Mansion-
house by an agent of the firm of Messrs. Crawford and
Lindsey, linen merchants, of Ireland, for breaking into their
premises, and stealing goods to the amount of 2201. Several
witnesses averred to the fact of seeing the prisoner committing
the robbery, upon which he was
remanded.

Dennis Clement, a pensioner of Greenwich Hospital, was
on Friday charged at the Police-office there, on suspicion of
causing the death of Bridget flo.loway, with whom he lived,
and whose decease was supposed to have been mused by bruises
received from him. The Coroner has to investigate the matter,
and the prisoner will be called up again on Tuesday.
PINE AUTS.
From seventy to eighty cases of marbles, bas reliefs, and
statues, discovered by Mr. Fellowes, in Linea, have been safely
embarked on board the Monarch and Medea, steamer, and are
new on their road to England, to be deposited in the British
Museum.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIPIC.
At a recent meeting of the Meteorological Society, it was
stated, frons atmospheric observations made at Sandwich, that
June was remarkable for a constant stream of positive elec-
tricity, supposed to arise from the proximity of Mars to the sun.