The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vitbitc Optittoit.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

A Lisbon letter of the EtlTinsC.itsites that the Portuguese
Minister of the Interior, Senhor Costa da Cabral, has been
obliged by ill health to relinquish temporarily his official
duties, and was about to proceed to Caldas, with the inten-
tion of remaining there for some months, for the benefit of
his health. The Cardinal Patriarch died on the sth instant.
The amount of wines exported for foreign ports from Lis')on
in 1844 was 19,135 pipes, and the estimated value 229,0001
sterling.
The Moniteur Algerien of the sth says—" The Governor-
General left Algiers in the morning of the 3d, to put himself
at the head of the expedition to the Dahra. The Duke de
Montpensier left the preceding day. Arriving at Miliansh
on the 4th, the Marshal leirnt that the agitation on the two
shores of the Cheliff had not been of the serious character
they were represented to be in the first dispatches."
Letters from Zurich of the 7th instant stale that the capital
sentence pronounced against Dr. Steiger had been confirmed
by the Supreme Tribunal of Lucerne. His last hope rests in
the Grand Council, which alone can pardon him.
We read in the Quotidienne :—" The Duke de Serra Ca-
priole, the Ambassador from Naples to France, is gone from
Paris to Brussels with a mission, it is said, to come to an
arrangement with the Prince de Capua for the public acknow-
ledgment of his morganatic marriage."
The Central Agricultural Congress commenced its sittings
on Monday, in the Orangerie of the Luxembourg.
The Director-General of the Customs has sent instructions
to the several custom-houses at the several ports not to be
too rigid in opening the cases, bales, and other packages of
merchandise arriving in ships, unless there be reason to sus.
pest fraud, and that there be any extraordinary circum-
stances attending them ; but to content themselves with
comparing their marks and numbers with the captain's
manifest.

An accident, slight in itself, but which produced a most
lamentable catastrophe, happened on the 3d inst. at Valencia,
in Spain. A fire broke out in the premises of a confectioner,
but was rapidly extinguished without any serious conse-
quences ; but at a manufactory of cigars, nearly adjoining,
several hundreds of young women from Huerta, a village
near Valencia, were employed at the time. A report got
among them that the gas-pipes had burst, and that they
were all likely to be burnt alive. Under the terror of this
horrible impression they all rushed to the doors and stair-
cases, and in the tumult and confusion thus created 18 were
killed, and 50 seriously injured.
A letter from Bourges states that from 1,000 to 1,500 work-
men are at present employed on the railroad from Vierzon to
that town. It is intended, the letter adds, to double the
number, in order that the line may be terminated at the same
time as that from Orleans to Vierzon.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the sittings of the Court of Queen's Bench, in the City,
an action was brought by Mary Ann Phillips against Peter
Owen Worsley, for breach of promise of marriage. The de-
fendant pleaded that the plaintiff had conducted herself in an
improper manner. The jury, however, gave a verlict for
plaintiff, with 400/. damages.
In the case of Borlase v. Borlase, which had been before the
Prerogative Court for some time, Sir H. J. Fust decided in
favour of the validity of the will of Mr. John Borlase, who
died at an advanced age, worth a considerable amount of per-
sonal property (20,0001.), and real property of the value of
11,000/. _ _

At the New Criminal Court, William Jenkins, aged 25,
and Henry Joseph Finch, 28, both cab drivers, were indicted
for stealing, at Woolwich, a purse containing twelve sove-
reigns, six half-sovereigns, and a Bank of England note,
value 101., the property of John Mark, a private in the Royal
Artillery, from his person. The jury found both guilty, and
it was then proved that en the 18th December, 1843, Finch
was convicted at the Surrey Sessions, and sentenced to a
long " treading " at Brixton, and privately whipped. Jen-
kins was sentenced to be transported for ten years, "and,"
said the Common Sergeknt, " with regard to you, Finch,
you hare been convicted three or four times, and there is
no doubt that you train cabmen for your, purposes. The
judgment of the Court is, that you be transported for fourteen
years."
William Grace was indicted for stealing a gelding, value
8/., the property of Mr. Newett, his master. The facts were
briefly these :—The prosecutor is a town-carrier living on the
Shooter's-hill road. He sent the prisoner on a Friday to a
person named Adams, but he did not return until Sunday,
when he said he had delivered it as ordered. It was after-
wards found that he had sold it for slaughter to a knacker of
the name of Moore, for 2/. The prisoner was convicted, and
sentenced to hard labour at Maidstone for one year.
At Worship-street James Higgs, the driver of Willan's
Stoke Newington omnibus, No. 1,257, was finally examined,
charged with having caused the death of Mr. Thomas
Roberts, a retired publican, residing at King,sland. Several
witnesses proved that the melancholy event was purely acci-
dental, and the defendant was discharged.