Star. — London, England, 1831-09-24 00:00:00

kf It le rd in r, oy I* s- it th 0 - en Or lin km we is is be Ve rs, as lon So- bat to tad r m . ire ble en in: in rer, as- , it Lion not tans by the in • wee any an. ere me kin ad th th: ided nee, pied B in gold uice return for their surrender. Negotiations theteafter ceased, d early en the morning of the 6th the storming began on all sides; WoLa was carried at the coat of much blood, but still more was spilt at the taking of the redoubts which de feeJed the other suburbs, and which formed the third line of fortification ; there was displayed the most sanguinary work of the first day. The morning of the 2nd wu consumed hs new attempts at negnciation, but they proved equally unsuccessful. If we may believe the Russian accounts, Paskewitch's behaviour ildi in this instance very humane. The Polish Dictator re_ mired in person to the Russian camp ; be acknowledged the •:eceseity of a surrender, bat declared that the congress alone cold pronounce it, and it wu impossible that this could be i lublbhed before one o'clock in the day. The second line of -attachment was now attacked, but before it came to a .corm, and about 4 o'clock, Pukewltsch and Gen. Prince ii.illitzin were wounded, so that they were obliged to be rzmovetl from the field of battle. Gen. Toll, in his absence, now led his battalions to the Aminit. The Russians were for a moment repulsed, but their valour and superior number at length prevailed, and trowned their efforts with success. Oa the fortifications which they had already taken they -issymbled, and bringing up the reserve, commanded it to commence anew the storm upon the Poles, who had, upon t. eir side also, obtained reinforeensents, and between the gardens and the ditches round the city, the Poles defended es cry inch of ground with unshaken bravery. The Russians were o.tce more faced to retreat, but they mustered again, fought fiercely, though, u usual with these savages, blindly ; and already had darkness spread over the field before they arrived at the last obstacles to their aeoess. the high walls .•f the city. The cry, however, was up. Lighted by the laming houses of the suburbs and the numerous wind. around Warsaw, they were enabled to turn the guns tf ill,: conquered against the unfortunate capital itself— tiltappy and fatal result ! The Polish army was beaten, but not conquered. Exhaustion on both sides demanded an it:voluntary and momentary cessation of arms ; the furious combatants rested panting on their arms, when, at twelve o'clock in the night of the seventh, a deputa- i tics was sent from the city to the conqueror, signifying that the C ogress was dissolved, and that the city and army too surrendered at discretion. Krukowiecki, who sent this mett , age, however, added that, though sole Dictator, he was b:.rdly any where safe from usassinatice. The Convention %tat brought about on the morning of the Bth.. The Polish army left, and the Russians entered the city, having appoint ed a Governor-General. The new Governor-General has Arcady shown great mildness, but, perhaps his greatest triumph is his success in preventing his soldiers from plun dtring the whole city, which they clamorously demanded. We have no good information as to the losses, but 1 am told that the Russians state their loss at about 4,000 to 5,000 men ; but private accounts compute them at far exceeding :41,000. It is said that Modlin baa also surrendered. The fate of Poland, we hope, is not yet disposed of, for the Poles though defeated, have the buoyancy to make another attempt a liberty, and despotism deceives itself if it thinks that because liberty has sustained a shock, she is, therefore, shaken. Never—Poland has sworn to be free, and sooner cr later that hallowed obligation will be discharged. The late events have not, I assure you, thrown back its consum mation. Yesterday the mansion House meeting to peti tion the Lords took place. The speakers were Mr. Joins SMITH, Mr. A. H. THOMPSON, Mr. LEWIS LLOYD, Mr. T. Tootte, Mr. P. GREw- FELL, Mr. E. FOSTER, Mr. GROTE, Mr. ISAAC SOLLY, Mr. ASHHURST, &C. The resolutions neatly expressed the sentiments of such meetings, in favour of the Bill. We forbear, but from no disrespect to the speakers, to introduce the argu ments and facts so often repeated on this subject ; and, for the same reason, we take little notice of other meetings. We concede the gratitude and homage which is due to all of them, and to their conductors; but to fill our columns with proofs of the indispensable necessity of the REFORM BILL, would be like proving the value of day-light. In fact, a bare list of the meetings, by which the people of the United Kingdom are so much ho nouring themselves, would occupy a column of our paper ; and the slightest amplification would fill it from beginning to end. In the House of Lords, last night, the bill for the Sale of Game was referred to a select com mittee. The Beer bill also advanced a stage, and no publican is to have a license who had been de prived of his publican's license. Lord Shaftesbury moved for an address to his MAJESTY, to direct that galleries should be erected in the house for the accommodation of the public during the debate on the REFORM BILL. In the committee on the Bankrupts' Court bill, Lord Wynford objected to many of its radi cal provisions, and was answered at length by the Chancellor, who, among other points, justified the principle of compensation, to persons whose in terests were affected by reforms. In this last sen timent the Duke of Wellington concurred with him, and alluded to the case of Mr. Tharlow. Lord Eldon agreed in the same sentiment. Lord Wyntord's amendment was then negatived. In the House of Commons, Sir R. Price brought up the Report on the Pembrokeshire Election, which declared it void, and severely im plicated the Sheriff, Under-sheriff, and returning Officers. Ulterior measures were not settled ; but several Members expressed great indignation against all the parties. The Lord Advocate moved for the second read ing of the Scottish reform bill, and entered into a variety of prolix statements, in a tone and man- 1 ner which wearied the House, without any varia tion of principle from the original plan. Mr. C. Douglas moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months, which Mr. Ramsay seconded, calling the bill revolutionary. Mr. Gillon quoted 10 ►upport the popularity of the bill in Scotland, and mentioned the ludicrous instance of a Scot tibh member, though never present at a debate, had never been absent at a division; and never but once voted according to his. conscience, and then proved to be in error. Sir G. Warrender aml Nlr. Mr. H. Douglas opposed the measure; Jr. R. Ferguson, Col. Lindsay, Mr. C. Grant, Sir J. Mackintosh, Sir G. Murray, and Lord Al-' thorp successively spoke, when on a division, 209' appeared for the second reading, and 94 against it. STAR OFFICE, HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK. We learn, that during Thursday, Paris remained tranquil ; the debate on the conduct of the Minis ters relative to Poland, ended by a declaration of confidence in their measures, passed by a majority of 85—or 221 against 136. Down to this hour, there are no arrivals from Poland; but an article from the Journal des De bats of Wednesday, gives us a report that the ne gociations between the Russians and Poles had been concluded. We do not, however, trace any confirmation of this on dit in the Paris papers of Thursday. Consols dosed this afternoon at 82 h h. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols left off yesterday at 82i, and opened at the same price, since which have been done at 82i to 1, and continue steady at the latter price. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have continued the whole of the morn ing at 82} to for the Account. The Foreign Market remains in the same state of stagnation as that of the British. Prices same as yesterday. Letters hare been received from Bahia, 6th August.—All was tranquil there. THREE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, shut. Thrce per Cent. Reduced, shut. Three per Cent. Consols, 82 14. Three and a Half per Cent. 1818, shut. Three and a Half per Cent. Red. shut. Three and a Half per Cent. New, 891 4. Four per Cent. 1826, shut. Long Annuities Jan. 1860, shut. Annuities, Oct. 1859 , shut ; do. Jan. ' lB6O, —. India Stock, 198 ; do. Bonds, 2 dis par. 1.1000 Exche quer Bills, 12 10; £6OO do. 12 11; £lOO and £2OO do. 11; Advertised, —. Consols for Account, 82j _ . GENERAL LAFAYETTE, AND THE WORKING CLASSES OF LONDON. It may be recollected, that on the first of Au gust last, the National Union of the Working Classes, at a public meeting held at the Copenha gen Gardens, celebrated the anniversary of the last French Revolution; and, on that occasion, Mr. Hibbert was called to the chair, when it was una nimously agreed to, that an address should be con veyed from them to the French people, through the medium of their chairman. On last Wednesday night, Mr. Hibbert, while in the chair at the Ro tunda, Blackfriars, at a public meeting of the Working Classes, announced, that he had on the day before received an answer from M. Lafayette, of which the following is a translation :- Srot—l have received, with lively interest, and consider. able gratitude, the latter which you had the kindness to write to me, on sending me the address unanimously voted by 2,000 of the inhabitants of London. I considered it as a very agreeable duty to make the address known to my fellow citizens. Nevertheless, after having shewn it to various of my friends in the Chamber (of Deputies) and to various of my companions in the revolution of July, we were of opinion that the announcement of the address (so as to have it in serted in the newspapers) was susceptible of some modifies. don ; not certainly because the address blames some parts of our conduct, for our friends have= indubitable right to tell us, and to tell the public, what they think of us ; but be. cause, in the present situation of France, some of the expres sions of the address would be regarded by the public as a provocation to very great political changes, which we do not desire, and of which the party of the fallen dynasty might take advantage, against the revolution itself. This has also been the opinion of the patriotic editors of news papers, who have undertaken to publish an account of your meeting, and the expression of our gratitude. Receive the assurances of my high consideration, LAFAYETTE. At Doncaster, yesterday, the three-year-old stakes of 30 son. were won by The Saddler— Colwick was second ; the filly stake of 20 son. by Mr. Golden's La Fille Mal Gardee ; a sweep stakes of 25 son. by Mr. Petre's Rowton, against Medora and Laurel ; and the 100 son. plate by Windcliffe. A meeting was called this day of the friends to Ireland, by public advertisement, signed by Sir Wm. Brabason. Upon going to the tavern, a bill announced that the meeting bad been postponed to Wednesday next. Mr. Buckingham delivered a lecture last night at the Mechanics' Institute, in Southampton buildings ; and Mr. Detrosier another at Mr:, Owens Institution in Burton-street, on educat;on. The Manchester meeting to petition the Lords, was held in the Manor Court-house, on Thursday, and crowded to suffocation. The Boroughreeve was in the Chair; and the speakers were Mr. Richard Potter, Mr. Mark Phillips, Mr. Shuttle worth, at great length, Mr. Greg, Mr. Dyer, and some others. The resolutions were passed with enthusiasm. Mr. COBEILTT'S Register of to-dey contains some very severe strictures on Lord Melbourne's Man-trap and Spring-gun Bill. He very wisely recommends, as a more effectual remedy, than this cruel and dangerous one, the repeal of the Game Laws, and of the Select Vestry, and Hired-Over seer Bills—to which we take leave to add, an amnesty to all unprosecuted persons, concerned in the rural riots of last autumn and winter ; and if a general pardon were granted to those who were convicted under the special commission, the remedy would be complete. His second paper relates to the Mary-la-bonne determination not to pay select vestry rates, and to the roupings in Scotland, and confederacies in Ireland. The abominable case of the DascLes, and the aristocratic conspiracy in Hampshire, form his third paper; and there are some minor articles, charaoteristic of his general tone of writing and thinking. By His Majesty's packet Sandwich from Lisbon we learn that on the 10th inst. eighteen sedeants who were implicated in the recent revolt were shot at Belem Castle. A party of ten men fired with muskets double allotted. The sufferers died with the utmost fortitude, declaring to the last moment their conviction, that their tree and lawful sove reign would certainly revenge them. On the following Monday, twenty-four more of the condemned, were to share the same fate, and it was understood that the whole number to be thus butchered would amount to, between two hundred and three hundred. The British men of war had no colour eying on the day of the executions. Don Miguel is planting cannon about, and making every preparation is expectation of an attack. LORD MELBOURNE'S MAN-TRAP BILL. Whereas, by an act passed in the 7th and Bth years of his late Majesty King George IV, entitled An Act to prohibit the setting of Spring-guns, Man-traps,and other engines calculated to destroy Human Life, or inflict grievous bodily Harm," it was enacted, that from and after the passing of the said Act, if any person should set or place,or cause to be set or placed, any spring-gun, man-trap, or other engine calculated to destroy human life or inflict grievous bodily harm, with the intent that the same or whereby the same might destroy or inflict grievous bodily , harm upon a trespasse r o r other person coming in contact therewith, the person so setting or placing, or causing to be set or placed, such gun, trap. or engine as afore said, should be guilty of a misdemeanour : and whereas it is expedient in certain cases to qualify and limit the operation of the said Act, by , making it lawful to set spring-guns and man-traps in the places and in the manner hereinafter speci fied : be it therefore enacted and declared by the King's most excellent Majesay, by and with tho advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and tem poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for any two or more justices of the peace, and such justices are hereby au thorised, upon request to them for that pur -1 pose to be made, and upon examination of one or more witnesses upon oath (which oath such justices are hereby authorized and required to administer) as to the situation of the premises touching which such request shall be made, and all such other matters connected therewith, as to the said justices shall seem necessary, or upon view personally taken of such premises by such justices, to grant to any person or persons residing within the jurisdiction of the said justices, a license under their hands and seals, authorising such person or persons to set or place, or cause to be set or placed, l spring-guns and man traps in any barn, outhouse, I shed, or building, or within any yard, or in and upon any portion of any open or enclosed land which shall be fenced off and allotted for the recep tion of any stack, and in or upon which respec tively there shall be at this time of the granting of such license any stack or heap of corn, grain, pulse, hay, straw, wood, or furze, and .which shall at the time of the granting of such license be held or occupied by the person or persons to whom the said license shall be granted, and to continue such spring-guns and man• traps so set or placed for and during the period specified in such license. 2. That it shall and may be lawful to and for any person cr persons to whom any such license shall have been granted by two or more justices of the peace, to set or place spring-guns or man traps, and to continue the same so set or placed, at any time after the hour of four in the afterno n and before the hour of seven in the morning be tween the 28th day of September and the 28th of March, including the said days, and after the hour of eight in the evening and before the hour of five in the morning during tho remainder of the year, in such place or places and for and during such pe riod as shall be specified in the said license ; any thing in the said recited Act, or any former Act or Acts, to the contrary, hereof in anywise notwith standing. 3. That no person or persons to whom such li cense shall have been granted as aforesaid, shall set or place, or cause to be set or placed, or continue so set or placed, any spring gun or man trap, in or upon any place or places specified in such license, unless he or they shall fix, or cause to be fixed, on some conspicuous part of the place in or upon which any spring gun and man trap shall be set or placed, a notice in large legible letters, purporting in plain and intelligible language that spring guns or man traps are set there, and shall keep the same fixed for so long as any spring gun or man trap shall continue set or placed there ; and if any person shall set or place, or cause to be set or placed, or shall continue so set or placed, any spring gun or man trap without any such notice fixed as aforesaid, such person shall, upon a conviction before a justice of the peace, either by the con fession of the party so offending, or by the oath of one or more credible witnesses (which oath such justice is hereby authorised to administer), forfeit for each offence the sum of —, one moiety thereof to be paid to the informer or person suing for and recovering the same, and the other moiety to the overseers of the poor of the parish in which such offence shall have been committ• d, to be by them applied in aid of the rate for the relief of the poor of the said parish ; and in default of payment of such penalty, or of any part thereof, by the party so offending, the same shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chat tels of such offender, by warrant under the hand and seal of such justice (which warrant the said justice is hereby authorised and required to grant) ; and if no sufficient distress can be had upon such warrant then it shall be lawful for such justice, and he is hereby required, by warrant under his hand and seal, to cause such offender to be committed to the common jail or house of correction of the county, riding, or place where the offender shall be or re side, there to remain for any - time not exceeding —, unless such penalty, and all reasonable charges attending the same, shall be sooner paid and satisfied. 4. That nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to affect any provision of the said re cited act u to any person who shall set or place, or cause to be set or placed, any spring gun, man trap, or other engine calculated to destroy life er inflict grievous bodily harm, in places or at time 4 other than those specified in any such license as aforesaid, or any other provision of the said re cited act. The sth clause contains the form of license. The 6th provides, that copies of licenses be pre served. And the 7th and last proposes to enact, that the act shall continue and be in full force for one year, and from thence until the end of the then noxt session of Parliament. serennemenememe Mr. Kean appeared on Wednesday night at the . Haymarket, as Eustache de St. Pierre, in the Sur render of Calais. NEW CITE THEATRE, Mii..rox-rrazirr.—An operatic comedy, called Ceartiteg by Mistake, or a Trip to tie Coronation,• has been produced with success at this Theatre. Miss Fords page- it, both by her performance and singing; Bir.Wysse is queerly natural ; and Mr. Macarthy, Miss. Ap john, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Selbl g credit. •-- 1 we this at on- Bred Wes ions t in 7tb, kith Go. ristd obi I At' rn; DONCASTER RACES. Thursday Night The second horse for the St. Lever, The Saddler, was sold yesterday evening to Mr. Wagstaff for 3,000 guineas; no. thing but the excellence of his blood, which will make him a fashionable stallion, can justify 60 enormous a price ; he is of the best south country stock, bis sire Waverley, being a son of the celebrated Whalebone, and his dam, Costrellina, by Castrel, little inferior. It is curious that the second horse for the Derby fetched 3,500 guineas, and the second for the St. Leger 3,000, while neither of the winners would proba. bly fetch more than 2,000; thus it is that in these great races the best horse seldom wins. Chorister, winner of the St. Le ger, was got by Lottery, dam by Chorus, grandam by Orville, out of Anticipation (Ulla', is Dyke's dam) by Benirg brough, her dam Expectation (sister to Telemachus), by Herod—Skim, &c. His first race was for the two-year old stakes at York Spring 1839, which he won by a head, beating Victoria and several others ; he ran for the Cham pagne Stakes same year, and was not placed ; at the time he was dead amiss. In the York Spring, 11131, he was butch cleverly by The Saddler; and in the August Meeting won the Renewed Subscription, beating Fut titude and three others very easy. His portrait (by Herring) will be added to the " Great St. Leger Winners." We understand that it is in contemplation to assimilate the St. Leger to the Derby by making it 50 soca. each, half forfeit. The racing this afternoon was remarkably fine, nor was the interest created by it at all inferior to any Cup Day for some years past. The Grand Stand was c , owded, and the number of spectators generally, was much lsrger than' we had ventured to calculate upon. The weather was fa vourable in the extreme ; indeed, throughout the meeting, it has been as propitious as the best trends of the races could have desired. The day's sport commenced with the Gascolgoe Stakes, which, for a wonder, produced a race, and, which is not a wonder, the defeat of the winner of I the St. Leger ! The running attogether tends to confirm our expressed opinion, that The Saddler was the bt , st horse in the St. Leger. We subjoin particulars. The Gascoigne Stakes of 100 rots. each, 30 ft, for 3 yrs ell colts, fiat 61b; fillies, Bst 31b. The winner of the S. Leger to carry fb extra. St. Leger Coure. II Subs. Mr. Robinson's Liverpool, 11,t 61b (Scott) 0 I Lord Cleveland's Chorister, Bst 101 b...... Betting :-3 to lon Chorister. Both jockeys had re. ceived waiting orders, and, neither being inclined to make first running, they walked from the starting post to the gra. vel toad, where Chorister increased his walk to a canter, Liverpool, as a matter of course, finding it necessary to at tend upon him; front the hill to the Red House their pace was moderate enough to allow a hack to keep company; I they then went a trifle faster, but nothing like racing took place till they got to the distance, where Chorister commenced a killing pace. Liverpool collared him half way between the distance and the stand ; the rest of the ground was contested with extraordinary severity, and ended in a dead heat. After the cup, the deciding heat was run, the odds, notwithstanding the 41h continuing on Chorister, dimi nished, however, to 6 to 4 ; he made the running till within the distance, when Liverpool challenged, headed him in a stride or two, and won very cleverly by a good length. Scott rode the winner exceedingly well. Three year old Stakes of 200 sots each h ft. St. Leger Course. Nine Subscribers.—Mr. Hickardson's Lady Elisabeth walked over. Two year old stakes of 20 son each ; colts, Bst Slb ; fillies, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. 51 Subscribers. Marquis of Sligo's b e Fang, brother to Felt .. I Mr. Powlea's ch cby Whisker, dby Blacklock .. 2 Mr. Vansittart's cby Whisker, out of Danoletta 3 GLOUC HST BR RACES. sema• DAY.—Wednesday, Sept. 21. The Hartpur) Stakes of 5 bOVS. each, with 30 son. added from the Race Fund. Two mile heats. Mr. I. Day's b f out of Sloe's dam, 3 yea, 7st 21b 41 1 Lord 6egrave names b g Harry, by Master, 7st 131 b 1 2 2 31r. Sadler's b h Sinbad, 3 yrs old, 7at 31b... ..... . 2 3 3 Mr. Davis's Granby, aged, 9st Glb ........ ..•• ..... 3 4 4 The City Members Plate, value 501. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 son. each. Two mile heats. Mr. Griffith.'. b c Tborngrove, 4 yrs old, B.t 71b .. 1 1 Mr, Sadler's ch m Design, 4 yrs, Bst 2 2 Mr. Davis's b f Amelia, by Filbo da Puta, 3 yrs, 6*t 1211► .. 3 4 Mr. L Day's Shark, 4 yrs, Bst. Mb 4 6 THE ART OF CUTTING CLOTHES TO THE Hume Flamm—We have witnessed a Course of Lec tures on this subject, delivered at the Mechanics' Insilco dos, by Mr. Walker, the tailor and draper of Southampton street, Bloomsbury-square, who in a most comprthensive and satisfactory manner, demonstrated his theory and prac tice, clearly shewing his scientific and peculiar method, of admeasurement of the body, and by which alone as his guide formed nut every put of the garments which were cut out, and by his assistant, the different parts put together and placed on the busts measured, which Sued In the most cor rect manner, and, we must add, that a more beautiful style of coats, habits, ew we never beheld ' • calculated to give at once an elegant and graceful effect to the noble symmetry of the humane figure. Mr. W's. talents in this way have not been confined to this Course of Lectures, he having pre viously published a work called the" Tailor's Masterpiece," in which he lays down, in the clear est m anner , e l uc id ate d with Engravings, the peculiarities of his system. L. Grehan, P. P. of Rathmalion, writes that Ireland is become one vast mendicity—and, for the information of government, 1 average, says he, the number of poor in this unhappy country, at the fair standard of four millions! Hear this ye Tory and absentee landlords—ye harpies, having " ears that hear not," and " eyes that do not behold." The accounts from Tampico are to the 23d July ; a conduct& with 700,000 dollars, and 38 bars of silver, had arrived at Tampico, and two other conductas with 100,000 were expected. The country was tranquil. PEMBROKE ELECTION COMM ITT EE.—IIIPOR TANT DECISION.— Yesterday the Committee upon the merits of the Pembroke election petition deci- I ded, Ist. That the election was void ; 2d, That Sir John Owen, Bart. was unduly returned; that the petition was nut frivolous or vexations, nor the opposition to it ; that the conduct of the High Sheriff was highly culpable—that the Under Sheriff acted with gross partiality—that the conduct of the; Assessor was marked with striking incapacity— aud the Chairman be instructed to make a special report to the House to the above effect. DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE.—The Com mittee ballotted for on Thursday, to try the merits of the Dublin election assembled yesterday at half past two. Mr. Sergeant Heath appeared on be ; half of the petitioners ; and Mr. Harrison for the ; sitting Members, Lord Ingestrie and Mr. Shaw. The petition was read. It is of considerable length, containing allegations of bribery against the members, and incapability on the pars of Mr. Shaw, by reason of his holding a judicial office, &c. The lists of witnesses were exchanged ; and an intimation was given that none of those witnesses would be examined who might be pre sent at any of the• proceedings, with the exception of three legal gentleman from Ireland. In the month ending Sept. 1, there were im ported 368,572 qrs. of corn and grain, and 142,861 cwt. of dour ; the quantity taken out of bond was only 77,745 of corn and grain, and only 15,248 cwt. of flour. The stock in warehouse amounts to the enormous quantity of 925,325 qrs. of corn and grain, and 466,062 cwt. of meal and flour. Two families of corn have been forwarded to our office from Prestonpans, which the obliging agri culturist describes thus :—" I herewith send you two roots, each the produce of one pickle; the one with 84, the other with 73 separate stalks! There were in the same field several more of needy equal magnitude. The crop was raised in a dry sandy link park, which has not been ploughed, ex cepting this season, in the memory• of the oldest person living here." Averaging the pickles at I only 100 on each stalk, the produce of the two IParent ones amounts to 15,700 I—Scisisman. EXECUTION OF A MURDERER IN FRANCE. Peter Hebard, an inmate of a condemned cell in the prison at Alby, in France, was for five months expecting the final order for his execution. The crime of which he was convicted was a murder committed under most aggravated circumstances. He was allowed to indulge in hopes of a reprieve, and even encouraged to it by the turnkeys, when, one morning, at 10 o'clock, his door was opened by the commissary of police, and he was told to pre pare for death at roar in the afternoon of that day. The murderer was a man whose nerves were well strung. He bowed in acquiescence of the fatal mandate, and showed that he had made up his mind to the worst. All the request he made was, that a priest should be sent for, to whom he made a confession of his crime, and desired that it should he disclosed to the public. At the exact hour he was conducted from his dungeon, and placed on the fatal car ; but he was scarcely seated thereon, when he was informed that time execution was put off for two hours. The unfortunate man imagined that'a respite had been received, but this KU not the case. For nearly five years an execution had not taken place in this department. The scaffold was partly broken ; one of the executioner's assist ants was accused of having done it in order to play a trick upon his master. The King's Procureur gave immediate orders for its being repaired, and it was :bought that as soon as the carpenter had finished his work the execution would take place. The prisoner was again brought, at six o'clock, in the midst of an immense cone Atria of people ; the 2endarmes, with their swords drawn, kept back the crowd, and cleared an extensive space around the scaffold. • The prisoner' walked up with a firm step, and was bound to the board laid across the scaffold. The executioner and two assistants had taken their places close to the unfortunate criminal. Upon the usual signal the convict's head was placed between the lunette. The knife fell, but with a trembling motion, and did not touch the criminal. A cry of horror arose from the crowd. The knife was again lifted ; it fell a second time, but without reaching the criminal's neck ; he then uttered piercing cries. A volley of stones was discharged at the executioner and nis men : they attempted for the third time to execute the sentence of the law, but without effect ; the knife inflicted only a slight wound, and the reitera ted shrieks of the ill-fated man excited %thrill of horror in the spectators. • The executioner and his assistants, alarmed for their own safety, having been wounded by the missiles, were obliged to quit the scaffold, and take to flight. Hebard continued all this time with his bead fastened to the frightful lunette (block). In this cruel situation lie remained for some minutes scarcely without a wound. The chief executioner once more mounted the scaffold, but without his attendants; lie made another at tempt io separare the criminal's head from his body ; he twice lifted the knife, but it fell wavering as before, and missed the criminal's neck. It should be stated that the last time (the fifth), the knife, on being elevated, deranged. The crowd continued throwing stones at the scaffold, and the executioner was forced to seek safety in flight. The block being now partly removed, Hebard felt his head disengaged, and lifted it as from the tomb. Some of the populace cried out " Bravo r such was their astonishment at seeing a human being stand up after escaping the instrument or death no 111 , / than five times. The unfortunate man now begged for assistance. A workman ap proached the scaffold, but was afraid to ascend it. After a lapse of a few minutes the youngest of the executioners, defying the threats and missiles of the crowd, mounted the scaffold, and had a short conversation with Hebard. It would appear that the latter said to him " Free me from those cords !" for he was still fastened to the plank. The assist ant told him to turn his head, and at the same time seised him by the neck, and gave him several wounds with a shoemaker's knife. Hebard's head, nearly half off, hung on his left shoulder, and the executioner was obliged to leap from the scaffold, and make his escape amongst the gendarmes. It was now ten minutes past six. Hebert!, who, in all probability, still breathed, remained in dsicsitua tion for two hours, exposed to the gaze of the spec tators. Some persons declared that they could perceive him move for more than half an hour, dur ing which time he frequently opened his mouth. It was impossible to remove the corpse without the aid of a strong escort of the military ; and in the course of the evening the crowd sur rounded the executioner's house and broke all the windows. It is but justice to state, that the executioner was not at fault, as it appears, from a report of scien tific persons appointed by the Procureur du Itoi, that the scaffold was intentionally damaged ; and 1 strong suspicion attaches to a former assistant who had been dismissed by the executioner for some improper conduct. Hebard was not guil lotined ; be was stabbed standing up, and with a shoemaker's knife. It would be utterly impossible to give a description of the above scene. The tumultuous cries of the people were heard at a considerable distance out of the town. In fine, so horrific a spectacle was never before witnessed in this pace. The advrcates for the punishment of death may acquire a salutary lesson from the scene of the 12th of September. A base assassin (Hebard) exited pity in every breast ; and if Roussille, who fell a victim to his atrocious act, h id not been a person universally ereemed through out the country, the people would have rescued Iris murderer from the fatal sword of the law.— Gazette de Tribuneau.r. A numerously signed requisition bas been pre sented to the Mayor of Nottingham to call a meeting of the inhabitants to petition the Lords to pass the bill. FATAL RewcoNTau.—On Thursday evening an inquest was held at the London Hospital, before T. Stirling, Esq. on the remains of William Shenstone, aged forty years, who died in that institution on Wedenesday last, from injuries he received in a pugilistic rencontm with a coal-heaver, named Cannon. From the evidence it appeared that on Wednesday week, a pile passing through Union-street,Wapping, he •truck a boywho had been impertinent t.s him, and Cannon coming up at the time, he told him his conduct was unman!, ; a quarrel ensued, iu which the deceased was knocked down, and in ir a fall he broke his leg, of wh ch in . Jury he subsequently died.—Tbe Jury, after hesriug• the evidence, returned a sonnet of " M sawing hter," against Cannon; and the Coroner made out a war rant for his commitment to Newgate to taste his , trial on the charge. f• ;-.- 4 . • . • • 1 I I I • I, • I .4 1 I ' e j I I