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

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

On Sunday evening, their Majesties the King and Queen
of the French received the Austrian Ambassador, Marshal
Duke d'lsly, the Prince de Montleard, Count de Bondy,
Baron de Montmorency, and General Marbot.
"Last night," says the Courriet 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, in 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 proceeding.
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 623,228 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 approved 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 honour to the Diet. The Yorort 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, atter 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
justice and equality.
In addition to the comet recently seen at Berlin, Paris, and
London, M. Colla, the astronomer of Parma, announces that
he has discovered anther; 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 17th of
October, in which he says that he has discovered the source
of the White Nile, in the Ganira country."