The Sun. — 1844-11-25 (London, England)

POSIMION.  On Thursday the King of the French visited Versailles, but returned to St. Cloud to dinner. In the evening their Majesties received the Portuguese and Danish Ministers, the Minister of Marine, General Ilecquet, the Prefect of the Seine-et-Oise, Baron Boissy d'Anglas, and M. Martineau de Chenetz. The pupils of the Polytechnic School, who have been excluded from it under the new organization, have addressed a petition to the King, praying him to take their case into consideration, and to grant them his royal and paternal indulgence. In the session of the Council-General of the Seine, which has just closed, the Members again declared, among other things, their wish to see the admission free of duty of lean cattle into France, and the duty upon other cattle at the frontiers levied by weight, and not by head, as at present. It also passed resolutions in favour of withdra 4.ing from circulation the six-liard pieces, tile better regulation of the quotations of the prices of corn and flour, the improvement of the Louvre and Carrousel, the speedy opening of the Canal of Soissons, and the reduction of the rates of postage. Baron Charles Dupin will, on Sunday next, at halfpast one, commence a series of lectures on the comparative commerce of France and England, at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers.  Several of the journals announce the death of the Cu: 6 Merino, at the age of seventy-seven, at Alencon. His death, it will be remembered, was falsely announced some months ago. The Engineer-in-Chief of the department of the Jura has received orders to prepare the necessary plans for making a tunnel through the mountain of the Faucille, in order to place Paris and Geneva in a more direct line of communication.  The Moniteur publishes an account of the gum trade of the river Senegal for 1844, as compared with the preceding year. In 1843 it amounted to 517,000 kilos., and in 1844 to 1,028,000 kilos., or nearly double. The Constitutionnel states, that the busts of the five deputies who proceeded to London in the year 1843, for the purpose of paying their homage to the Duke de Bordeaux, were seized a few days since at the shop of M. Je.iune, passage Choiseul. M. Jeaune has received anotice to appear before the Court of Correctional Police on the 27th inst., to answer for having exhibited those busts for sale.  A letter from Naples, of the 25th of November, in Galignani, says .—" Tho famous volcano of the Valley of Solfatara, near Puzzoli, in the kingdom of Naples, of which the last eruption took place in 1198, but which sent up in 1807 quantities of boiling water, has been for some days exhibiting the last-mentioned phenomenon. The water which it now emits is strongly charged with sulphur. It issues from the eastern crater, in jets of about fifteen to twenty feet high." The King and Queen of Prussia have left the Palace Sans Souri for the Chateau Charlottenburg, where their Majesties intend to reside until Christmas, and then repair to Berlin for the winter. The King, it is asserted, will leave at the close of the month for Hanover, to join the King of Hanover's hunting party. The Princess Dorothe4 Czartoryska, related to the princely family of Ligne, Lichtenstein, and Dietrichstein, and to many of the great houses of Gallicia, has just died, at a very advanced age, in the Ursuline Convent at Rome, where she has resided for many years. By a royal decree, signed by General Narvaez, Zurbano and his followers are declared outlaws, and as such are to be shot " without any other delay than that is necessary to enable them to die like Christians." A letter from Munich, of the 15th, says :—" A dreadful crime was committed here yesterday. Whilst Capt. N-- was attending his duties at the Ministry of War, his wife, only twenty years of age, and the female servant of the house in which she resided, were murdered. A razor, with which the crime was perpetrated, was found near them, and all the closets and drawers had been plundered of their most valuable contents. The man servant of Captain N—, who is suspected of being the murderer, has fled."