The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vtititr Opiattett.

" Who runs may read."

On Wednesday (New-year's-day) the following were
the receptions at the Court of the Tulleries :—At
eleven in the morning the aides-de-camp and orderly
officers of the King and Princes ;at half-past eleven,
the Ministers and Marshals of France ; at twelve, the
grand deputations from the Chamber of Peers and De-
puties, deputations from the Courts of Law and Ac-
counts, the Royal Council of Public Instruction, the
Institute, the Prefect of the Seine, the Prefect of Police,
the Magistrates and Municipal Council of Paris, the
Consistories of the Reformed Church of the Confession
of Augsburgh and of the Israelites, the Prefect of The
Seine-et-Ouse, the mayors of departments, generals and
other officers not forming part of the garrison. At
half-past two the officers of the National Guards of
Paris and the banheue, Versailles, and other communes
of the Seine-et-Oise, the staff of the Invalides, the staffs
of the first division, and of Paris and of Versailles. At
four o'clock the Ambassadors and foreign resident
Ministers.
The Arab Chiefs, dressed in their richest costume,
went on Wednesday to visit the hospital of the Val-de-
Grace, accompanied by their interpreter and a young
officer of the Spahis. The military intendant and the
medical officers received them in the Cour de l'lnstruc-
tion, where a company was under arms, and flourishes of
drums and trumpets wgre sounded. They inspected the
whole of the establishment, putting from time to time
very acute questions.
The Abbe Dormancey de Fregeac was tried by the
Tribunal of Correctional Police on Tuesday, for robbing
of various articles of wearing apparel a M. Legrand, who
had taken pity on the priest's :distressed condition, and
afforded him hospitality. The prisoner was found guilty,
and sentenced to a year's imprisonment.
M. Eichrodt, who was recently appointed Minister of
the Interior in Baden, was attacked with apoplexy on
the 27th ult., and died on the following day.
A letter from Vienna of the 24th ult. says:—" It is
now certain that the Government has resolved to con-
struct a railroad through Gallacia, to be connected with
the northern railroad, either at Oderberg or Bochnia. It
is understood that the work will commence next spring,
at the same time as that of the railroad of the west, to-
wards the Bavarian frontier.
An interesting fact—the existence of cellular cavities
in the lungs—which has been denied by many anatom-
ists, has just been demonstrated by M. Rochoux, of the
Academy of Medicine. M. Rochoux estimates the num-
ber of these microscopic cavities at 600 millions, divided
in 17,790 groups.
A Hamburgh paper states that the Government of
Meclenburg has concluded a treaty of navigation with
Brazil, and that negotiations are about to be opened for
a treaty of commerce.
We learn from Berne, that the new penal code which
has been established in that Canton punishes with an
imprisonment of from six months or six years, and a
fine which may be carried up to 800 livres, the inhabitants
of the canton who took part in the expedition aganist
Lucerne. The Government of Argau has, in a long
letter, denied the right of Lucerne to punish such of its
inhabitants as have gone out of the canton and taken
part in the attack of the free corps.