The Sun. — 1844-06-11 (London, England)

POULIGN.  The King of the French on Thursday, accompanied by Generals Athalin and De Rumigny, went to Versailles, after stopping about an hour at the Palace of Saint Cloud. His Majesty did not return to .Neuilly till eight o'clock. In the evening their Majesties received the Austrian and Belgian Ambassadors, the Wurtmiberg Minister, Marshal Vale, Counts De Breteuil, De Mornay, and De Montesquiou, Baron d'Effaudis, Generals Hecquet and De Mornay, and M. Terme, Deputy. General Prim (Count de Reuss) arrived at Bordeaux from Spain on Tuesday last, on his way to Paris and London. lle ii said to have received leave of absence for four months. The Frankfort Journal states that, according to letters from Constantinople of the 15th ult., the Porte has adopted the preliminaries of a new convention with Persia, through the mediation of England and France. Several artists are reported to have quitted Paris on a mission to Africa, for the removal of the Itoman triumphal arch of Djonisah. It is said that it is to be placed in the middle of the Place du Carrousel.  M. envier, engineer of the Ponts et Chausss, in the department of the Allier, the nephew of the great naturalist, has just put an end to his life, by means of lighted charcoal. A letter from Montlucon, of the 3d inst., which narrates this melancholy event, states that he had intended to erect his death a week before, but had been prevented by various circumstances. He was a well• conducted young man, and fond of his profession. He had left the Polytechnic chool the 12th, and entered the fonts et Chaussees in consequence, with great eclat. The cause of his suicide is supposed to be an insurmountable disgust of lifd. The French dramatic critics of the classic school have just had a signal triumph, in the complete success of Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone, or, rather, of a literal translation, represented at the theatre of the Odeon ; the celebrated actor, Bocage, played the part of Creon. The preliminary examinations into the revolting affair of the association in the rue du Pot-de-Fer Saint Marcel, which has been marked with the name.of the .Atfaire de la Tour de Nesle, have at length been gone through. Eight of the parties are to be tried before the Court of, Assizes, and seven before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, which last will be brought up on Wednesday next. The rest of the persons arrested have been discharged for want of sufficient evidence against them. A letter from Rome, of the 25th ult., says :—" The court • martial called on the 26th of August last, to sit at Bologna, has passed judgment on the persons engaged in the revolt of the Bth September last, against their Sovereign and their Government. Three are condemned to the galleys for life ; five to the same punishment for twenty years; twenty-nine for fifteen years ; one for ten years ; and three to imprisonment for three years. The property of the whole foity-one was confiscated, but the Pope has been pleased to remit this part of the sentence. The Refbrine states, that all the Parisian citadels are at present guarded by military, and their entrance forbidden to any person not furnished with a ticket of admission. Towards the close of the present summer all the detached forts will have been completed with the exception of seine barracks intended for the military. Baroness Pasquier, wife of the Chancellor of France, died at Paris, on Wednesday, in the 83d year of her age. Mr. Balfe,i the composer, received, by 'order of the King of the French, on Thursday last, the great gold medal, bearing his Majesty's effigy, accompanied by a highly complimentary letter fi o:ii Baron Pain, the King's private secretary.