The Sun. — 1844-12-24 (London, England)

PORMIGM. The Queen of Portugal prorogued the Cortes in person on the 14th. Very destructive storms had taken place off the Portugne coast, by which several lives had been lost. In the Spanish Senate the report of the Constitution Reform Bill was brought up on the 16th, the Archbishop. of Toledo having been elected president of that committee. The committee approves of the Bill. The Castellano mentions the departure of M. Gonzales Bravo for Lisbon. A letter from Logrono, of the 16th, expresses the hope that the prosecution instituted against General Iturbe, M. Gamboa, Colonel Bousingault, &c., will end in the royal mercy being extended to them. It was also expected that, in a day or two, the proclamation which had proclaimed Logrono in a state of siege, would be revoked. A letter from Turin states, that considerable sensation had been produced in that city early in the present month, by the violation of the Sardinian territory by a body of French gendarmes, douaniers, and other armed soldiers, who arrested some Sardinian subjects, and carried them prisoners to Grenoble, to answer for alleged thefts committed in a forest on the French side of the frontier. Accounts from Corstantinople announce that Dr. Wolff had arrived in safety at Teheran. His Imperial Highness the Duke of Leuchtenberg has returned to Munich from Eichstadt, where his Imperial Highness has been enjoying the sports of the field. The Duke purposes to be in St. Petersburgh on New Year'sday, which, according to the Greek calendar, corresponds with the 12th of January. The Observateur Suiesse contains the following from Lucerne :—" The Central Government was seized with the greatest alarm on learning that numerous meetings had been held at Fraubrunnen and Zofinger. It immediately called out the Landwehr and forwarded troops from Schwyz towards the frontier of the canton, in order to be able to enter Lucerne at the first signal. Numerous attempts at incendiarism have been made in the canton of Lucerne. The Pope's Nuncio has congratulated the Director of the Vorort on having overcome the party opposed to the Jesuits." The Messager Suisse, after complaining in bitter terms of the apathy of the people of Lucerne, expressed 1 indignation at the want of energy evinced in the execution of a plan of operation skilfully combined, and at the absence of the assistance promised by other cantons. 36AVir In the Court of Exchequer an action was brought by Mr. Holman, " a Lloyd's surveyor," to recover compensation from Mr. Brightman and another, representing the British Maritime Assurance Company, for a libel, imputing to him neglect, indiscretion, and misrepresentation in a report made by him respecting the condition of a vessel called the Brutus. Verdict for the plaintiff —Damages, 501. More than one-third of the number of prisoners tried at Stafford were totally uneducated, included among whom are the two youths, Downing, 19, and Powys, 19, who are condemned for the murder of the gamekeeper. At Bow-street, Ebenezer Paron Ilingston, the prosector to Dr. Todd, at King's College, Somerset-house, was brought up for final examination, charged with stealing from a cupboard in the porter's room at that place a coat and other articles, the property of Mr. John Farmer, of 11, Wellington-street, Strand. The prisoner was further remanded, to allow of other cases being inquired into, but the witnesses its three cases were bound over to prosecute.