The Sun. — 1845-05-14 (London, England)

VOREIGN. On Saturday the King of the French came to the Tuileries from Neuilly, and transacted business with several of his Ministers. In the. evening, their Majesties received at Neuilly Counts d'Houdetot, de Colbert, Merilhou, and de Montesquiou, General Schneider, and M. Joubert. On Friday the Duke de Nemours visited the establishment of M. Cave, the manufacturer of steam-engines, and examined every part of that large factory with great attention. The cylinder of the 220-horse engine, intended for the Chaptal Government steamer, which is being constructed at Asnieres, was cast in presence of his Royal Highness. The Hereditary Prince of Saxe Weimar has, on his arrival at Paris, alighted at the Palace of the Elysee-Bourbon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans intends, it is said, to do in person the honours of the capital to her young relation during his stay. On Monday the Chamber of Deputies adopted a law em • powering the Minister of Finance to melt down the silver coin of 15 and 30 sous, and the small copper pieces of two sous and six liards, marked with the letter N., which are to be withdrawn from circulation, the former on the 31st of August, 1846, and the later on ie 31st of December, 1845. The Committee of the Chamber appointed to report on the Paris and Strasbourg Railroad Bill had approved the course proposed by the Government. The Courrier du Havre states that a commission, composed of military and naval officers, has been appointed to prepare a Bill for adding to the fortifications of that town, to be presented to the Chamber in the course of the next session. These works, the estimates of which are to amount to 23,000,000 f., will consist of a fort on the Ecla, two forts on the heights above the greater roadstead, a fort on the Amfar Bank, another fort towards Nieges, a fort at St. Adresse, and a military work in front of the Mare aux Hugenots, to command the south-western passage. Count Munch Bellinghausen, President of the Germanic Diet, left Vienna on the 2d, fur Frankfort. The principal object of discussion in the Diet, during the present session, will be the religious dissensions which have arisen in Ger • many. M. Breschet, Professor of Anatomy at the Faculty of Paris, member of the Academie des Sciences, consulting physician to the King, surgeon in ordinary to the HotelDieu, and officer of the Legion of Honour, died at Paris on Saturday, in his 70th year. El Catolico, a Madrid journal, states that Monsignor Brunelli has been appointed Apostolical delegate to the Court of Spain, and that the Pope has apprised the Spanish Government that it may proceed to the presentation of Bishops. The Catolico adds that the towns of Madrid, Guadalajara, and Ciudad Real are to be erected into bishoprics. The concordat, which was believed to have been signed at Rome on the 27th of April, was expected to reach Madrid on the 7th of May. During a period of more than sixteeen years there had not been any capital execution at Munich ; but on the 3d instant a man-servant, named Eppsteiner, had his head taken off with the sword, having been convicted of cutting the throats of his mistress and her maid, and then carrying off the most valuable part of the property in the house. On this occasion the police revived an old and barbarous custom. During the three days preceding the execution, the public were admitted to see the murderer, and speak to him in the prison, on condition that cash person should, on entering, put into a box, fixed for the purpose at the door, a piece of money. The amount thus collected is to be distributed among the poor relations of the condemned man, or to be applied in payment of masses for the repose of his soul. The most influential inhabitants of Munich have joined in a petition to Government to abolish this custom for ever, as not only repugnant to civilisation and humanity, but as inflicting upon the criminal a severer punishment than the law denouncesagainst him.