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

OILEIGN. P Ou 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 some 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 leai-e from the Viceroy to reside in Paris. It is thought at Alexandria that this is a pretext of the Paella to have a representative at Paris, without 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 execution. Hasle, who was condemned for tkelnurder of a widow and her daughter, who had given him-in 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 and copper mines, and leaves a colossal fortune. He has bequeathed above 50,000/. to various public charitable institutions. A St. Petersburg!' 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. below zero. 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 no* exist have to run :—Hombourg, twenty years ; BadenBaden, nine years ; Wisbaden and Ems, nine years ; Aix-laChapelle, eight years; Kissingen, eight years.". &AW