The Sun. — 1844-03-05 (London, England)

iFOREIG  SUMMARY OF NEWS  AND publtt Optnton.  " Who runs may read."  WOREXGN.  The Paris papers of the 3d contain no news of interest. The Reforms states that orders have been given to complete the works of the fortification of Paris as quickly as possible. The troops of the garrison are to be employed for that purpose, and a number of labourers have been sent from the departments to assist. Several detachments of labourers had likewise arrived at Paris from Germany and Belgium. According to letters from the south of France, Queen Christina arrived on the 24th ult. at Narbonne, where she was received by all the civil and, military authorities. On Sunday she attended the church in that town in great state, and afterwards held a levee. The Baron de Meer, the Commander-in-Chief at Barcelona, arrived at Narbonne on Sunday evening, to pay his respects to her Majesty, and left the same evening. The Queen left Narbonne on the 26th, for Russian Cabinet, according to the Augsburg Gazette, has manifested an intention of joining in the views of Austria in its general policy, and especially with regard to the recognition of Queen Isabella 11., not that Russia has changed its Conservative policy, but that it begins to fear the unlimited influence of England and France in the Peninsula. The Emperor of Russia is to accompany the Empress to Toeplitz, and to proceed thence to Vienna.  LAW AND POLICE. At the Central Criminal Court, Thomas Holt, the registered proprietor of the Age newspaper, was found guilty on an indictment of libel on Lord William Paget. The libel was published in reference to the late trial between his Lordship and the Earl of Cardigan. Mr. Holt being at present undergoing a sentence of imprisonment for a libel on another person, was not sentenoed, but remanded to Newgate. He will probably be brought up for sentence at the expiration of his present term. At the Mansion-house, a respectable young man, who had acted as the chief mate of a ship called the Diana, appeared to answer a charge preferred by Mrs. May, the widow of the late captain of the same vessel, who, on the voyage from St. Heleha, was found dead in the cabin, with a pistol wound through his temples. The mate put the ship back to St. Helena, and while lying there, an explosion, which blew up the cabin, took place, by which the steward was killed. The charge was, that the mate had taken possession of and detained the property of Captain May. It was supposed that the captain had committed suicide. The Lord Mayor thought there were some suspicious circumstances in the case, and held the defendant to bail.  Two men, named Dykes and Kenward, were fined at Bowstreet, for a severe and unprovoked assault on Mr. Warburton, late Major-General of the police force in Ireland, and his son.  Alfred and James Bevis (brothers) and Joseph Murray, alias Murphy, were again examined at Clerkenwell, charged by Mr. Nathaniel Neville, boot and shoemaker, of St Johnstreet, Clerkenwell, with having burglariously entered his dwelling-house, and attempted to murder him. They were committed for trial. COURT-WASUZONALEX.E. _ _  Earl Spencer arrived at Althorp Hall, Northamptonshire, last week, from Wiseton Hall, the Noble Earl's seat in Yorkshire.  The Earl of Sefton is named in sporting circles as the successor of Mr. Appletwhaite, in the management of the Atherstone hounds, after the present season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are still detained at Paris, as the recovery of their daughter, Lady Alexandrina Vane, from the effects of severe scarlet fever, is very slow and protracted. The Earl Cathcart has arrived at Nerot's Hotel from Edin burgh. Lord Hastings has arrived at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, from his Lordship's seat in _Norfolk. The Bishop of Durham and Mrs. Maltby arrived in town on Saturday, from Auckland Castle, Durham. The Bishop of Chichester, Admiral Wollaston, and Mr. E. Gibbons have been visiting the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel Castle within the last week. IYi3sCETALaraleol7B.  Among the many instances of the present Government's attention to the commercial interests of the country, says the Herald, " We are enabled to announce that the British claims upon France, arising out of the blockade of the Portendic, are about to be adjusted by a mixed cemmission of liquidation, to sit at Berlin, with an umpire to be nominated by the King of Prussia. The investigation is to take place immediately. Mr. Ward, the British Commissioner, and M. Englehardt, who has been appointed Commissioner on behalf of the French Government, aro now on their way to the Prussian capital. Workmen have commenced pulling up the stones in the remaining part of Cheapside, preparatory to the laying down the wood pavement on the same principle as that in the Poultry. The deliveries cf tea last week were rather lower, being 453,8791b5. ; but the general consumption for the present year has been very good, having amounted to 4,351,0001b5. from London alone, or an increase of nearly 300,0001b5., compared with the corresponding period of last year. 

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