The Sun. — 1845-02-22 (London, England)

FOREIGN. On Monday evening the King and Queen of the French received the British Ambassador, the Marquis de Dalmatie, Rear-Admiral Hernoux, General de Saint Joseph, and M. de Givre, Members of the Chamber of Deputies. The Committee on the Budget continued its examination of the Navy department on Tuesday. It gave its assent to sonic augmentations of salary, such as for captains of corvettes, &c. It also approved of the increase of the number of mechanicians on board steamers. The disturbances in Switzerland continue unabated. The Protestants and Catholics are preparing for a contest which can only be prevented by the interference of foreign Powers. The Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons has, it is said, arrived in Paris, for the purpose of meeting the charge of abuse of functions, in commenting upon and condemning, in his pastoral letter, a work by M. Dupin, on education. A letter from Alexandria of the 26th ult. states that on a report of his medical advisers, Sami-Pacha has obtained leave from the Viceroy to reside in Paris. It is thought at Alexandria that this is & pretext the 'ltacha to have a representative at Paris, withont giving offence to the Sultan. A man named Marchal, who was condemned to death for the murder of his father, was executed at Nancy on the 15th. He walked to the scaffold in the costume of condemned parricides, viz.; in his shirt, and wearing a long black veil, with his feet bare. He was full of contrition, acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and prayed fervently up to the moment of ellteution. Hasle, who was condemned for the murder of a widow and her daughter, who had given him an asylum for a night, was guillotined at Rennes on the 15th, • The celebrated banker Benedicks, formerly partner in the eminent firm of Michaelson and Benedicks, of Stockholm, died recently in that city, aged eighty-three years. The deceased possessed several iron Wand copper mines, and leaves a colossal fortune.. He has bequeathed above 50,0001. to various public charitable institutions. A St. Vetersburgh letter of the 6th, in the Berlin State Gazette, informs us that the Emperor of Russia' although able to take exercise daily, was still indisposed, and the Empress was suffering from palpitation of the heart. A letter from Amsterdam states that M. Levi-Salomon, of Haan, had just celebrated the 103 d anniversary of his birthday. This old gentleman is still robust; he reads without glasses, and enjoys his intellectual faculties fully. At Berlin on the 9th, Fahrenheit's thermometer marked 3 deg. belowgero. A letter from Frankfort of the 14th says:—" It is known that a demand was made to the Diet by several States of Germany for the suppression of all the public gaming establishments in the Germanic Confederation. In consequence of this demand a Committee was appointed, which decided that all the existing contracts shall be completed, but that no new contracts shall be entered into. Instructions to this effect have been forwarded to all the States. The following is an account of the time that the different contracts which now exist have to run :—Hombourg, twenty years ; BadenBaden, nine years ; Wisbaden and Ems, nine years ; Aix-laChapelle, eight years ; Kissingen, eight years.' • zaiw AND rowels. In the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Augustus Newton and his wife brought an action for arrest and false imprisonment against the proprietors of the Cheltenham Examiner newspaper. The plaintiffs had brought an action • for libel against the defendants, in which they had been unsuccessful, and the plaintiff and his wife had been arrested by defendants for their costs. Plaintiff's wife was, subsequently discharged, and then the present action was brought. The defendants pleaded a justification, and on that plea the jury gave them their verdict. • At the Lancaster-Assizes, Thomas Donahoo was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, at lilverstone. It appeared that the unfortunate woman had come .home in a state of intoxication, which so enraged the prisoner that he struck her a blow which terminated ber existence. He was found guilty of manslaughter, andsentenced to be transported for life. A lad, named Thomas Jones, was charged at Guildhall, with stealing four sovereigns from a bowl of money,_ exposed in the shop-window at Mr. Walton's, a jeweller inLudgatestreet. He was remanded until Saturday. At Brow-street,' Edward Spicer, a mail-guard, in the service of the General Post-office, was charged, before Mr. Jardine, with stealing 17/. 16s. from a letter which had beiii• posted on the 18th of January last. The charge was deafly proved, but the prisoner was remanded for a few days in order to complete the case.