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the 1001 rate L' udij e ved fr°' AND NIANUFJ,. Niog ° so iv" ; th ere °I e 0013' r i Jer re . 11 I bel 3"l ire dee / 'I lero r ,95P91 ' ogt ›n 0 „ rq, t al' IGN" 113 1 ,1 it b 3na 11"1' -,011 resle s C's b °lll' t Y C g ot ant 11 i jos' 5 ) , or e , ,0 61/ ro e tio 3 t)si oie si lee r v f 111 °t 0 4 , r sf (ii SUN-OIeFICI% HALV-PAST Two o'CLocK. AITEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MESSRS. B. CONSTANT We stop the Press to communicate to our Readers the Substance of a Letter from Paris, which we hive just seen. It is dated Safi lN clay, and states lh%it BENJAMIN CONSTANT and MANUEL, two leading Liberals in the Chamber Of Deputies, were attacked by some of the Garder-du-Curps, on Friday evening, but the interference of the mob prevented the assassina tion of these two celebrated men. The Journals of Saturday are silent on this subject. IV c really think that the Ultras are playing an hazardous gatne.----Tbeir iinprodent conduct, we are afraid, will produce a Revolutionary re-action. PRIVATE AND AUTHENTIC CORRESPONDENCE. Ness, Mav 26.—The struggle of Parties con tholes, and the Law of Elections still occupies th e whole of the public attention ; never was a Law so ably oppo,ed, or so feebly defended. M. PAs(auteutt has a few brilliant flashes, but M. StmeoN, and his Secretary CAPELLK, are worse than null, for the silliness of their arguments add considerably to the force of those used by their adversaries. General DEstAaCAY's Speech of yes terday, am! M. ns CONSTANT'S of the day before, were most powerful, and will make a strong and lasting impression on the public mind : for our own parts, we have uniformly expressed our sen timents on Ilte vices of the new Law, arid had it no other than the one of reducing the number "f Electors, in a population of 29 millions, to /8,000, that alone ought to make it rejected. A Law, and a strong one, is necessary to check and arrest in limine, the progress of Democracy. A Law was necessary to wrest from the Liberals their alarming preponderancy in the Electoral Colleges, but the present Law is far from being likely to attain that end, and Government inst4ad of gaining, as it supposes, additional strength, will create a powerful enemy in the Indepen dents, who count 115 votes out of 250, anti give itself a master in the Ultras, from whom it will be then obliged to receive the law, The Government wants strength, it wants a power and directing genius, it wants a tnan pot eessing the honesty of SULLY, and the talent of TALLBYRAND, who, alas, has no: been able to communicate it to his pupil, M. SIM RON. M. S. is. no doubt, a very worthy man, but his advanced age (nearly 70) renders hint unfit for a struggle, Where the vigour of youth and the ardour of ►ma trrration are highly necessary. LouveL's trial tunes on the sth of June : of the 19 pretended ac complices the Chamber of Peers have decided that 13 are decidedly innoc nt, and the other six they bids conceive to be suspicion against them suffi cient to send them to an interior Court, their crimes, if they have committed any, r,ot bearing the Character of treason ; so that Louver. is to be tried alone. GRAVIEWS affair,thon A nt to be veryserious, Is likely to turn out nothing but a ridiculous and culpable attempt to alarm the guard ;—to blow bp the Thuilleries with 2 lbs. of powder would be like attacking the Tower with a pop-gun. • PIT T CLUB.---I ie Chelmsford Pitt Club have tad their Annual Meeting in honour of our late Illu trious Statesman. THOMAS ARCHER, of that place, took the Chair for the third time, and tlischarged its honours with due spirit. The Cl "b has been established only three years, but consists of many of the most respectable cbarac t"a in the county. The gallant Admiral HAR.. 'RY is an Honorary Member ; and, indeed, it Ill ak be said of Essex, that in general loyalty and 41 Profound veneration for the memory of Mr. 1: 11 r, whose system forms the great pillar of the 1144 NP., the CHURCH, and SOCIETY itself, it ° Y 'auk with any other part of the Empire. • THE ROMAN CATIJOLICS. Tire Dublin, May 26', Five o'C'loch, m. loch, p. . a r" Common Council have this d a y d ec id e d , b y .iority neHrly three to (me, against- the : 11 "l'e Claims, there being 44 tgrtiost them, and "Illy 15 for thetn.—(Hiternian Journal ) CARLISLE ELECTION. AI r, Second Day's Po cli 11, 'tirsday. ........ -r • 4 araes .... 121 1 Sir Philip M usgra%e ll2 I .Majority f or M r. James Disputed Votes 4 :Air ,t,,onel . Third Day's Poll, Friday. 131 sPllt e d '.--........... 210 , Sir Philip Musgrave Ala • . ........ 2 I Di,puted jority fur Mr. James ..• . flteII" noVal Ilighness :he Dochess Yortx, we h appy . l IS so tar recovere d f rom her "te se vre in u dkpositi o , Hs to b e a bl e to rake an th 11,4ier per ii n g e e very d ay in her crricle, wh en the Wed mirs. 41 Flan ders Mail h as strived, with Papers from I.ll3seis 'e to thr 27(1.1 inst Ant. They Cont a i n .+n.+n t c( "lnt of c i e.o the e xecut i on of Sandi, for tie tolluirr. kjej Kr) the A treat munt)vr of Students ttrouterg, who p.llllo,rd attendine, at th e exe d'd not arrive (lord after the fatal blow wits e. 8 the head was hehl up to t h e view of to1"1"ors• th Sevcitil of th em , h owever, steep• eir handk erchiefs in his blood. iSandt 9.01 e. 11 the scJrft..4,l, th: ttrlCti:nt costume of Grim/thy. ton THM SUN. MOST IMPORTANT! !! ROYAL TOUR OP ALDHRMAN W. Ma. EDITOR-Great news indeed Sir ! Some thing wonderful must be brewing. The man who headed the poll, as blocks do in Barbers' shops, has hopped off . to France, as we find recorded in positive terms in the patriotic Chronicle; where it is further stated, " as probable," that "he will meet" a certain great Personage on her way from Paris to Dover. Goud bye, says she, MATT. I'm not going is Dover— So there wdo an end of the Patriot gone over—" Now Sir, in addition to the " piohable" of the Chronicle, 1 can state something further, as d 1)0. Si , lye tact ; which is, that it the worthy Alderman meets her on the road, his coachman will meet her first ! r !—and that is all the meeting there will be, ii less the worthy Alderman should try to get up a ball, or a dance, or some substitute fur a Hop ! Surely the chemical Gentleman, having thus evaporated per se, does not expect to amalgamate himself with Courtly affinities —Does he hope to be Groom of the Stole, or Privy Counsellor, or to have a chance in the Royal Lottery ? Or dies he think they will be content with Wood, who wish for the Cola He may blaze indeed, for a little while; and fill a grate place in the kitchen; but such sparks soon fro out ! Lie may the' dore as we!! boy a brush at once for himself; for the Lidy of the i►uuse has gut a broom, and can twig him sooner than he expects. and sweep off all his hopes of an hereditary red hand, or a fur cap for life, instead of ‘" my Lord" for a year. But perhaps he is gone to give his potent as surance that the distresses of the Country are by no weatas so great ail the Morning Chronicle de scribes them, and therefore that the existing mo dest feelings of a certain Personage who would, herself, be content with little, are as much out of place as the Whigs art- ! You have talked much, lately, Mr. Editor, about the Duties on Foreign Timber, but as we have now exported our own Wood, without the sli;htest inconvenience, you see ii must already he a drug in the market, and enough still left to supply the Wigs instead of the poles they have lost. Your's, AN ENEMY TO THE DRY ROT. S P A 1 N. ST. SEBASTIANI, MAY 18.—Next Sunday the Deputies tor tile Cortes will be chosen in all these provinces, and as far as we are ye - t able to juege, they will be men deserving the con fidence of their Constituents. The new institutions continue to take root in the heart s of Spaniards, as their henificent operation is evinced. The few we had among us, who, influenced by prejudice, or soured by personal disappointment, had formed unfavourable notions of the recent changes, daily decrease, either shamed out of their errors by the enth , isiasm that surrounds them, or undeceived by the life and irtivity that pervade the whole country. The Biscayso provinces which have lost certain privileges the others did not possess, are pettedly satisfied at hen;; placed on the same footing, owing to the many more sub stantial advantages they have gained. BILBOA, MAT 18.—The Madrid Government is negncisting a provisional loan of forty millions of riak or two - millions of dollars, repayable in 8 and 14 months, in shares of 4,8, and 12,000 vials. This is all that will be required till the Cortes have given a vote of credit. The Government offers 10 per cent. interest, leaving it to the will of the parties to diminish this rate it they choose. It is expected the loan will be filled up in a few days at 4 or 5 per cent, We observe, that by an union of the interests of two of the Shipping Companies trading be tween London and Leith, an important improve ment is immediately to take place in the con veyance between these ports, as the Smacks be longing to tl•,e New Company will now sail nearly every other day from London and Leith. We understand that the small sized Smacks formerly employed by those Companies are to be put in the trade between Greenock and Belfast, from which ports they are to sail, on fixed days, with the same punctuality as the London Smacks now do, by which means they will greatly improve the conveyance for passengers and goods between the west of Scotland and north of Ireland.—See Ad vertisement. In addition to three fine cutters which have been built and launched front Pembroke Dock yard, for the Revenue service, two more vessels of that description (hut of large dimensions, 163 tons each), are also to he laid down at the satne yard; front which, iii A few days, two Brigs of War, to be called the Falcon and Frolic, will be launched, and shortly afterwards the Alelampus, o very fine ideate, of 46 guns, built upon the new principle of round stern, &c., lately intro duced by Sir ROMENT SFPPINGS, Knight, one of the Surveyors at the Navy Board. PRINCELY NENEVoLENC6.—`I Mr. STRwm," says the Newry Telegraph. " intent's, we are in formed, to bestow the whole of the damages, one tho.dsand pounds sterling, awarded hint in his snit with Mr. Silent! PARKINS, on the poor pea. santry of Rosrrevor awl the adjacent district." The militaty biter not yet taken possession of their new quarters in the Royal Metes, an Charing Cross. On Saturday his Royal Highntss tot Commander in Chief, and stAetal Officers of roe Medteal Staff inspected the stiff: rent sleeping rooms, &c. and they were of opinion that they were nut yet so fficiently aired for the recerioit of the men. THE THEATRES. KING'S THEATRE.--The benefit of the veteran KELLY, 50 1011 A known to the Public, and so much esteemed among o very numerous circle ,of his friends, who Lisa been '' N one's ,rnenly but his own,'' took place last night at this Theatre, of which he is the Stage-Ma nager. There was a very numerous audience, a proof that though so long absent from the Public, he is recollected with respect, and pa tronized with liberalny. The Performers in gene ral were warmly applauded. The Magic Flute was powerfully supported by BeLLocnr, Miss Carrot, ANGEIiS4N!, ANTBRoGETTI, &c, &c. The pleasant pit:LT of Blue Devils displayed the generous feel ii!gs as well as theatrical talents of ELt.rsToN and Miss KELLY. The Corps de Ballet exerted them selves ably in the cause, and the whole must have : been as gratifying to the private feelings as ad.. courageous in point of profit to an old favourite of the Public, and a respectable individual. J DR R Y..LA N .-Tbe competition which, during the present season, has obviously exiited between the two Parent Theatres, and which, properly conducted, may lead to the improvement of the Drarrra. occasioned hst night the production of another new Tragedy on the well-known old Ro man story, at this Thezrtre. This Tragedy is entitled lir,?,inius, or the Fall of the Decemviri. Oar Country Readers may desire to know the Dramatis Persona, ‘vhich is as follows Mr. KERN. Mr. RAE.. Mr. Popg. Mr. PENLEY. Mr. raxaNa an. Virginias A ppius Claudius Aliautius Ici! i us Honitiui Caudius Numitorius Pisutia ~,• Virginia This Play differs in its conduct from that of Covent-Garden. It commences after the death of Sicinius Dentatus, and therefore a character of rugged Itoue,o energy, which might have given variety to the piece, is lost. The rest of the table is much the same as in the other Play, but the character of Virginia wants the same interest ing gentleness. As the character of Appius is so generally detested, it is not necessary that a young Lady of retired life, HS must have been tie case with the higher order of the Ito ' man terna!es, should have so strong a stamp of patriotism as to join in clamours against the ty rant, except when he obtrudes his odious gal lantry upon her, and then she should rather aim to excite his pity than to provoke his vengeance. 'There were characters enough to rail against the Tyrant, even in his presence, without making young Lady so touch of a politician. The catastrophe of the Play differs front that of the other Theatre, but is e►lually faulty ; both deviate from His tory. In the present work Virginias, after having killed his Daughter, stabs Appius, and then falls dead, overcome by the weight of his agonies.— In the History Appius, for fear of popular ven geance, poisoned himself. This desperate resource holds out a good lesson to the Riders of all States to conduct themselves with a due regard to the rights and happiness of their people, that they may not he driven to so dreadful a remedy. The sudden death of Pi? ginius also takes from the patriotism of his character, for he ought to have subdued his parental feelings, in order to aid in the deliver at►ce of his conatry, With respect to the man ners of the Romans, we may fairly question whether a young Lady of a Patrician family would have been able to wander alone at mid night upon the banks of the Tyber, to keep an assignation with her lover, or, still more, that she could hare escaped the vigilance of a Tyrant with guards and spies at his command, ready to secure her person. The Tyrant wanders after her, but he must have had less restraint upon his actions. Critical justice compels us to make these observations, but we must admit that there is merit in the sentiments of the Play, and that the characters of Appius and Firginius are well drawn. The part of Vir• giaius was well sustained by KEAN bur to prove the folly of many of his admirers,' now that he acts with simplicity, truth, and energy, without those habits which are only fit for "the million"— " who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but d►tmb-spew and noise," lie by no means receives the applause to which, in general, he is much bet ter entitled. RAE, POPE, Mrs. GLOVER, and Mrs. WesT, severally exerted themselves with good effect. There was some censure pn the drop ping of the curtain, but as the play was in geniously announced for repetition through time medium of a Dialogue -Epilogue, between OXRERRY and KNIGHT, the opposition was very taint, and the farce proceeded without inter ruption. There was a senseless opposition to the warlike instruments used in a pr;)cession, though exactly conformable to Roman costume. But what will not the ignorant multitude condemn or admire ? Mr. I - FonHAN. Mr. PowELL. Mr!. (LO'. ER. . Mrs. W. IV EST. SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING-ROOM, MAY 29. ST. LEGER. to I ngst Athenian 3to agst Smolensk° c. 3 to 1 apt Arbutus :1 to I allot Monreith 115 to 1 agit Lisette OATLANDS STAKES AT ASCOT. 7to 4 agst Chalopiviton I 4 to 1 agst Sh ove ll er e to 1 agst hr. to :Miracles to 1 apt Charming. Molly The GOLD CUP•on Thursday. -5 to 4on Bat:lie^. DtsPuTr, UPON THE DERBY RACE.—There is much contro versy relative to which was the first favourite at starting* Pindarce sir Sailor. Many heavy bets were pending that Pin dares would continue to be the first favourite at starting, and it is contended that he was, and the Stewards have made him so in the Calendar, be placing the odds against him at sto '2, and 3to 1 agst Sailor. A formidable party blcked Sailor just before starting, hut Pindaree had the torn. The Jockey Club will, it is said, make another decision, which will be final. Mil, S. BooTH, of Covent-Garden Theatre, left town yesterday for Dublin, under the auspices of Mr. HARRIS, who will open the Dublin The atre in the course of next month. By the pre sent arranti,enivnt the Theatre will open on the 10th tlith the favourites ()per-, nt The Moid of the Mill—the part of .4imworth by Mr. KING'S COURT. Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, his MAJESTY it hi st Court at his Palace in Pall•mall, whirl) was at tended by most of the Cabinet Mini,ters, the Lord Chatnberlain, the Lord Steward, the Compri()ller of the Household, the Master of the Horse, the Mari:pis of Headfort, as the Lord in Wai:ing, Sir Keppel, the Groom in Waiting, Colo el Seymour, the Equerry in Wai•iog, the Page of Honour, Earl Cathcart, Gold Stick in Waiting, &c. &c. His Majesty held a Privy Council, which was attended bv— The Lord President of the Council, the 'Lord Privy Seal, the Secretarie of State for the Howe ant , Foreign I),part tnents, the ,Master-General of the Ordnance, the Archhiihap of Canterbury, the Master of the Mot, the Earl of M.-A gra% e, &C. Mr. Huller attended as Clerk of the Council. The Earl of Eg , einont was introduced to act Sovereign in Council, and s‘vorn in Lord Lieute nant of the Couniy of Sussex The Hon. Charles lie was introduced, anal re-4 worn a Member of the Most Honourable Privy Council. A deputation from the. Royal Socirry, consist ing, of Davies Gilbert, Esq. Treasurer, the Li shop or Carlisle rind Sir Everard the Vice Presidents of the Socie y, were introduced to his Majesty, preceded by the Mace-bearer, to present their Book of Records, for his Aljesty's signature as Patron of the Royal Society. wi , ich. hi s Mhie b ry graciously complied ;IA Eno wised his support to so laudable and excellent a national institution. George Rose, Esq. was infroduccd to his Ma jesty upon his erriv.tl in England from his ern bassy to the Court of Berlin, upon which neca. sion his Majesty was , n9l y pleased to coulee the honour of Knighthood on Lin ) His Majesty held an Investiture .1 the Or‘ter of the 13ath, upon which occa s ion the Knights Grand Crosses present were— His Royal Highness the Duke of York, his Royal High ness the Duhe of Clarence, Lord Henley, Earl Whitworth, Visconnt Keath, Sir Alured Clarke, Lou' Howtlen, the Dui,: of Wellington, Earl of Nortbesk, Viscount, Strangford, and Loud Hilt. The Officeis of the Order present were— Dr. Ireland, the Dean of the Order ; Sir George Nayier, Genealogist ; tunes Pulnutn, Eq. Deputy, King of Arms ; J. C. Herries, Esq. Registrar Secretary ; anti G. P. Beltz, Esq. Gnu' lenian Usher of the Red Rod. A procession was formed, as usual, into the 'Royal presence, when Admiral Sir Win. Dornt-tt, late Knight Cot»mander, was invested ny his Ma jesty with the ensigns of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order ; Admiral (now Sir Benjamin) Cald. well, Admiral (now Sir Ridtard Rodney) Bligh, General the Earl of Mitsgtave, Genet 4 Lord Harris, General Sir George He , l ett, Baronet, General the Earl of Roslyn, and Lientenant-Ge.. neral Sir Hildebrand Oakes, Baronet, were se verally introduced between tie two jnnior Knights Grand Crosses present, preceded by Deputy Bath (bearing the ensign) and the Gentleman Usher, and Knighted ; also invested by his Majesty with, the ensigns of Knights Grand Crosses of the Or der.---Sir Robert Barlow, Vice -Admit al Sir J. Wells, and the Hon. Sir George Grey, were in• vested by his Majesty with the usual ceremonies of Knights Commanders.—His Majeity gave au. diences to the Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Std., mouth, the Earl of Coventry, Lord Kingston, &c. —Yesterday being a Collar day, all the tnembers of the distingniOied Orders wore their splendid Collars, which gave the Court a very magniiicenC bppetirance. REGISTER OF FASHION. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Montrose entertained a select party with an elegant dinner, at their house in Grosvenor square. Yesterday the Earl and Countess Grosvenoc gave a grand dinner, at their elegant mansion, Grosvenor Howie, Upper GroevenotThstreet. The Earl of Carnarvon gave another grand en. tertainment, yesterday, to a large patty of distin• gu i s b e d pci t ion ages , at his house in Grosvenor., square._ Mei Countess of Jersey's root yesterday evening,' ins Berkeley-square, was very numerously and fashionably attended. Yesterday Viscount and Viscountess Hampden gave a grand dinner to 'Viscount and Viscountess Bulkeley, and a large pKrty of distinguished per sonages, at their house in Green -street, Grosve- nor-square. Yesterday tot-- Earl and Countess of Harewooll entertained ►he Earl and Countess of Ve•rulaw, the Archbishop of York, Lady Anne Vernon, and a select party of distinguished personages, with a grand dinner, at Harewood House, Hanover-. square. The infant son and heir of the Count and Countess Westerholt was baptized last week at Petersham. The sponsors %vete his Royal High ness the Duke of York, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir Henry C. Englefield, Bart., and the Countess of Besborough ; the venerable Lord C. Spencer, maternal great grandfather to the infant, assisted at the ceremmv. FASHIONABLE AftittvAt.s.—The Countess de Grey, in St. James's-square ; Lord Boston, in Lowvr Grosreuor•street ; Admiral Sir D. Gould, at Blake's Hotel. DEPAIITURE9.—'rhe Countess of Westmeath, for Bognor; Mr. I'. Grenville, for Bucks; V. De Windt, Esq. from (Aim cester-place, for Plymouth, Devon. The failure of two old-established bankin g houses in Cork was announced yesterday on the Royal Exchange. The intelligence produced a great sensation. Front the Provincial Papers it appears that se veral parts of the country were visited last week by thunder and lightning, but we do not learn that any lives hate been lost, Four fine deer were killed in Hagle y ar k (hiring the thunder -storm, a few days ago, by the electric fluid. About six o'clock on Saturday evening, a fine ch , ld of iVir. J. Rolls, nursery-man, King's-road, Chelseet, was found drowned in a tank in the, garden, the door of which happened accidentally to be left open; the child was accustomed to play of fin evening in the garden ; he had no' been tuising more than ten minutes when he was discovered Two medical Gentlemen attended, and every means for his recovery .sere used tor upwards of three hours, but vi:hout SUCCe39.