The Sun. — London, England, 1825-12-28 00:00:00

PLURALITY OF WORLDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE,SUN. Sin—Although there were some among the philosophers of antiquity, such as Dernocritus and others, who . taught that the fixed stars were suns itlneninating systems of Varsiti - ,.. - yet the eotionsof a plurality of .worlds was not . .generally adopted by the indents. Nor can we feel surprised at Ibis, shire many ages elapsed ere astronomers could succeed in acquiring correct notions res pecting the nature, magnitudes, and distances of the heavenly bodies. Yet, without such previous knowledge, every attempt to establish, as a mat. ter of fact, the existence of other suns and other planets, scattered through the immensity of space, performing with singular precision, their vast and complicated revolutions, must appear inconsiderate and fanciful. - But when a succes sion of discoveries, accumulated by the labours of the ablestarien in each succeeding age, had at length clearly demonstrated the real state of the heavens ; when it had taught us, that the. dis tance which separates us from the fixed stars, is ,immeasurably great ; that these seeming specks scattered with such magnificent profusion, tlaroughout the firmament, were, in reality, globes inconceivably -larger .than. ours ; the idea that. such wonderful masses should be placed ut such amazing -distances for the mere purpose of orna meeting. the vaulted sky,.. and of e nlivenin g the m a gloo ottrmoonless nights, appears..contrary to asommonsSenSe, and even insultieg to the Divine wisdom that had presided . over the formation of 'the iastsoniverse. The : celebrated Dutch philosopher, Huygetts, in his Cosmotheorot, may be considered as the rst who laboured to establish the. doctrine of a plurality of worlds, for Foutenelle'a Pluraliti des ;Wonder, were published at a subsequent period. The small work of Huygens is curious and amus iug, its main object is.sto demonstrate, that the idea of the planets being filled with rational in habitants, far from being irrational, is perfectly -consonant with reason,,and still more so with the notion► we must entertain of the wisdom of the ,Creator. Ilis arguinents in support of this hy pothesis are at once forcible and convincing, as far as concerns this queStion in general.- But the .:analogy which the author strives to establish between his planetariane and the inhabitants of our globe, is, 1 am inclined to think, carried to something like an unwarrantable length. There can be now no difficulty in admitting that the planets are filled with inhabitants, and thus much being granted, it cannot be denied :that these inhabitants must be rational beings, possessing like ourselves the faculty of thought and of reflection, and capable of enjoying the beauty of c, cation,. and of admiring the wisdom which created them. Thus far I am ready to agree with the author of the Cusmutheoros, but when I find him labouring hard to prove that his pia.- snetarians are possessed of similar senses, and therefore have similar ideas, are subjected to snecessities, and 'consequently have the same arts, the same sciences, and the sane manufactures sis ourselves ; as I cannot perceive anything like the absolute necessity of such an exact re semblance, I must . lament that the learned author should have gone so far astray in the wide regions of analogy and of imaginations. The .truth of his doctrine must indeed be admitted, could we imagine for an instant, that God could not create any beings capable of knowing and of adoring him, ,without proving them upon the exact model he has chosen for - man, and subjecting them to the passions, the desires and the necessities which appertain to human na ture. That this may be the case, is certainly possible, but scarcely probable. Throughout our own globe, we find an endless variety of or ganization, carried to such an extent, that every climate has productions peculiar to itself. When, -therefore, we reflect upon the almost endless diversity of form under, which organized matter is presented to our view, and consider the immen sity of universal creation, we do not feel justified in concluding that man, the inhabitant of •one of the least among the Planets, is necessarily the most perfect model of rational creation.. Again, the immense difference. which Nee know -to exist, in the distances from the Suns the mag snitudes, revolutions of the Planets belonging to -our system, must rather induce us to believe, that similar differences are, thereby, occasioned in their respective productions and inhabitants ; and ihese'differences may even be, and probably are, -such that we can form no correct idea of them. A. P. COUNTERFEIT COIN.-NoholllSlandinp,r the nu merous examples that have been made, in order to effect the suppression of coining, the practice was never before carried to such an alarming extent. Within the last week, there • have been no less than eight capital committals. Another Concern of this nature has just been detected in Somerstown. The dis , col/cry was made in consequence of private information con , ve.yed to the Magistrates of Hatton-garden Police Office , ivho dispatched Edwards and Limbrielt,.two very active offiers, there on Friday : the principal was seized on the Spot,' in - the act of 'colouring' a quantity of bad half-crowns, by the applica tion of a chemical mixture, which is rubbed over the surface, and gives them the appearance of silver. A large box, con-' tamping nearly 401. worth of the same spurious metal, -was also Yured. The felloW has been cmornitted pro tens. us the New Prison, as the officers expect to beable to secure the remainder •of the gang. SEASONABLE WEATHER.--Yesterday the first appearance of winter' was experienced .in the metropolis.. About eleven o'clock at night a smart fall of snow descended, and the greatest inconvenience was experienced by theliackney coachmen on their return from the Theatres, by the falling of their horses. We.saw no less than five horses down at the same time in Tottenham .Court-road, between eleven and twelve o'clock. COAL.--.The persevering exertions of some . gentlemen in Lancaster to discover this inva- Actable article in their neighbourhood, merit the -highest praise. After penetrating to the: depth of 130 yards, a seam has been discovered, 16 inches thick, some say 20, but sanguine in expec tation, they are going still deeper,..in hopes of ,finding a better vein. The situation islavourable, .being at the point of land in Overton, and only a few hundred yards to the northward of Glass. Dock, on the opposite , bank of the river Lune.: . • The acquisition to the surrounding conntry. should coal be discovered here, will be almost :•incalculable.—( Westmorland Gazette.) MT We present our Reader's with the following extract of a SPEECH, d, lit red by his Excellency Major-General Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, Baronet, Lieutenant-Governor and Cot-umlautler-in-Chief of the Province of New Brunswick, to the In habitants of. Mirtonichi, on his visit to that place, in consequence of the late disastrous Fire, c2id October, 18'.5 : " So soon as the arrangements necessary for the most imme diate relief and succour of the destitute sufferers in the late calamitous conflagration had been completed, I hastened hither to do all that might further be in my power to relieve and encourage this afflicted population, and to dispel those apprehensions with respect to Want during the approaching long winter, which there was at one time too much reason to entertain. The extreme lateness of the season, limiting my stay here to a very short period, I have caused this meeting to be an nounced, to give to the afflicted and distressed an opportunity of access to their Governor, and to enable me to address to them a few words of comfort, condolence, and encouragement. But I feel that I have uttartaken what I shall not be able properly to perform. For the awful traces of havoc and devas tation which I see in this once - flourishing settlement ; that charred, blackened forest, and scorched' bank, the vast fu neral in whose flames great numbers of our fellow crea tures havo perished ; the direful, heart-rending tales of woe which I hear related, of whOle families and whole settlements annihilated, or the still more afflicting accounts of fragments saved to mourn in misery. The presence, too, of persons (and such persons!) whom thiS awful calamity has put in mourning, or reduced, from affluence, to want and difficulty ;—these al together overpower me, and I cannot proceed in speech as I purposed. " The impressions made upon me when I visited you in your prosperity have created feelings, whose impulses on this melan choly occasion, I would not, nor. could not resist, to revisit you in your calamity. How awful is the contrast ! Yoti have experienced one of the most dreadful visitations that ever fell upon the earth. If the whole Globe had been in combustion, not more of terror, and little more in effect could have been accumulated on that desolated part. Where late I witnessed prosperity, plenty, comfort, and hilarity, their abodes are prostrated into ruins. There in the foundation of a Sacred . Edifice, about to be raised, I recently placed the inscriptions and the coins which were designed to convey to remote ages how long that edifice had stood ; and, as I fondly hoped, how greatly this settlement had flourished ! What a lesson this for human presumption ; what a subject for reflection and medita tion—of thankfulness from those who have escaped, and of charity and benevolence towards,t , he sufferers. " I am very sensible that the language which such reflections have prompted is not that which is calculated to excite exer tion. But I came not hither to indulge in despondency. My tears have already fallen at the recital of your sufferings, and I have poured the tribute of fresh affliction upon viewing those nismilice.aes, where the untimely ashes of the dead, and the em bers of their late habitations, lie in promiscuous heaps of ghostly ruins. I came hither to speak thW4anguage of hope, to encourage exertion and occupation ; to dispel gloom and all despondency, to assure you that the Government of your Province, the sympathies and liberality of your fellow men, the succours which your Sister Province has been prompt to throw in, and the abundant charity and benevolence which will move the Mother Countries, have already provided against the possibility of want, or will pour in more remote succours, to restore and retrieve in some degree, hereafter, what has been levelled and ruined. Losses have indeed been sustained, which no human means can restore. We cannot raise the dead ; but we can re. lieve and comfort the living. We cannot reproduce the capital which has been utterly consumed, but we can create wealth again by active enterprising industry. The Pine stands unhurt in the vast forests of the country, and the other fields for exertion, the natural resources of the Cohntry, which I have so often recommended you to cultivate more industriously, are open to you. Let no man then, yielding to groundless despondency, quit the country, but remain in confidence that, with the Bless ing of Almighty God, the Country will be carried and sup ported through its present difficulties. It is right you should know on what certainties I pronounce this, ere the approaching long winter commence. So soon as I received the communica tion of these disasters; I assembled His Majesty's Council to consult on the measures it world be expedient to adopt, when it was instantly determined to send an Agent to Quebec to purchase a supply of provisions and clothing to the amount of between five and six thousand pounds, and Mr. Joplin was re quested to take charge of this investment, to proceed to Mira michi, where he, too, had suffered considerable loss in the late fire. Large sums have been raised by the liberality and bene= volence of our fellow subjects in St. John. Two vessels laden with supplies are in voyage to this place; a convoy of cloths and blankets is in progrAs through the country ; considerable contributions have been made at Fredericton, and these will pro bably be remitted in cash, for her share in this calamity admits not of aid being sent in kind. We are greatly indebted too, tothe humane and benevolent disposition of the Lieutenant-GoVernor of our Sister Province, who supported by like sentiments of the Government and the people, has promptly dispatched eaten tensiVe succours, which I have reason to believe have ar rived in the river in one of his Majesty's ships, which Admiral Lake has, with other marks of strong feeling for your cala mities, assigned tc this service, and whose Officers undertake it with zealous good feeling to be forward on the occasion. These succours will be 'dispensed by the Committee of Ma nagement, of whose indefatigable, humane, and active exer tions I speak and feel most strongly. It isindeed a matter of great consolation, and a reflection which will ease my anxiety when I am gone, that•T have witnessed these .qualities so ge. nerally, and have observed the fortitude and resignation and magnanimity which have been so beautifully displayed upon this calamitous occasion. I cannot conceal from you that great exertions must be used, and privations endured by yourselves ; but with industry, resolution, and the succour you are receiv ing, you will prevail." POLICEMAN 3110 T.—A tan • early hour this morning a policeman was shot, under the following circum stances :—A Captain Beggs, who resided in a' small house at the top of Phibsborough Avenue, has been for some time apprehensive of an arrest for debt, and he therefore remained within doors; but at the dawn of this morning a party of the police proceeded to the house, in order to accomplish his arrest, if possible, One of them, more daring than the rest, ascended some steps, for the purpose of getting over the garden wall ; and, though cautioned by the Captain not to proceed further, he disregarded the caution, and jumped into the garden, when the Captain immediately discharged a gun, the contents of which were lodged in the neck of the policeman, and be died instantly. Captain Beggs then armed himself with a case of pistols, proceeded out of the house, and threatened to shoot the first man that approached him, by which means he escaped._ The body of the dead: policeman remained in the garden until an inquest-would be held upon it. Such are the particulars which have reached us of this affair.—(Dublin Correspondent, Dec. ?A.) ROYAL NAVY, &c. Captain Shortland is appointed CommissiOncr of the Navy at Jamaica, in the room of. Commissioner Ross, appointed to Malta, in the vacancy occasioned by the removal of Commis sioner Lewis to the Navy Board. The departure of Admiral Gage for the East Indies will take place about the middle of the ensuing month, in the4Varspite, of 74 guns ; and on his arrival there, Sir James Poi:Uwe, the Commodore on that station, is to proceed to Valparaiso in the 3Varspite, to relieve the Cambridge, 74. The Java, of 50 guns, is fitting at Plymouth, to proceed to the East Indies, when the flag of Admiral Gage will be hoisted in her. The Athol frigate, Captain Murray, has been removed from the coast of Attica to reinforce the squadron in the East Indies. Captain Arahin is appointed. to command the North Star frigate at Woolwich. Lord Wm. Paget is appointed Commander of the Philomel sloop of war, at Plymouth. By an Act of Parliament passed in the last session, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Na vigation," it is thereby enacted, that from and after the sth day of Jannary, 1826, no ship shall be adinitted to be a British ship, unless duly registered and navigated as such, and that every British ship registered (so long as the registry of such ship shall be in force, or the certificate of such registry re tained for the use f such ship) shall be navigated during the whole of every voyage (whether with a cargo or in bal last), in - every -part of the world, by a master who is a British subject, and by a crew whereof three-forths' at least arc British. seamen ; and if such ship he employed in a coasting voyage from one part of the United Kingdom to another, or in a voyage between the United Kingdom and the islands of Guernsey Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man,. or from one of the said islands to another of them, or from one part of either of them to another of the same, or be employed in fishing on the coasts of the United Kingdom, or any of the said islands, then the whole of the crew shall be British seamen. And if any British registered ship shall at any time have, as part of the crew, in any part of the world, ally foreign seamen not allowed by law, the master or owners of such ship shall, for every such foreign seamen, forfeit the sum of ten pounds, &e. NEW: BRUNSWICK. ST. Joux's, N.B. Nov. 7, 1825. LIST of VESSULS for the UNITED KINGDOM now in the HARBOUR, and their probable P laces of Destination. Where hound. -By whom Loading. • Ship Britannia - London IL Johnston & Co. Busiris - - - Do. Do. Brailsford . - Plymouth Do. Kirkella - Hull - Do. Valiant - - Hull Do. -Brig Beaver .- - - Londonderry Do. ail) Europa - - Bridgewater Do. Henry and Harriet Topsham , Do. Jane . - - Liverpool Do. Forth - -• Greenock Do. Hebe - - London Do. Brig Dispatch - - Limerick Do. Ship Campo Bello - Liverpool Do. Marcus Iliil - Londonderry Do. Brig Royal Oak - • Dublin - Do. Ship Zebulon - - Liverpool Do. Brig Thomson - . Limerick 13:). Ship Ilugh Johnston Liverpool Do. Ebor - - Southampton Do. Brig Thomas - Liverpool . Do. Ship John - - Bull Do. - Brig Earl Moira - ( Uncertain) Do. Ship Surrey. - • - London Do. . - - Elizabeth Do. Do. Lady Harewood Do. Do. New Ship Calista - Do. Do. New Prospect Do. Do. • Wanderer Do. Do. Brig Crusader - Do. Do. Ship Commece , - Liverpool Bowman &ffheeler Brig Grecian - London Do. Ship Euphrosyne - - Do. Do. • Jemima - Do. Do. Brig John Cullen - Liverpool. Do. Ship Sir Richard Douglas Do. - R. Rankin & Co. Ocean - - Newry Do. Brig Utility - - Lancaster Do. Ship Margaret Pollock Greenock Do. . Brig. True Blue - Liverpool ." D Do.. Ship. Huskisson •-. Hull - o. Brig. William - Liverpool . J. Siason • Ship Wanderer -- Plymouth G. Ball Countess of Morley . Do. Do. Lively - - Hull S. Wiggins Alan wood. - Do. Do. Braganza - Liverpool Do. Waterloo - Do. J. Ward & Sons Cassandra - Greenock , W. b. Kirk II ero - - ----- '' Enterprise - • Greenock Paddy Carey - - Do. • Ship II untley - Liverpool Brig Agnes - - - Do. . Ship Argyle ..- - - Waterford Brig Crown - - G eenock Ship Brothers - Bristol . •• William and. Alfred London, Brig Margaret - Liverpool Lord Exmouth Plymouth New Brig Alalchle,ss Liverpool Ship - Vulcan - - Greenock Hygeia - London Brig Ship Brig A. Edmond J. Robertson aria Co, Do. A. Crookshank & Co. W. Barr T. H azen Geo. Thomson Do. Geo. ()rd Stirling & Hammond W. Swallow Walker & Macara. THE ARMY. Horse Guards, Dec. 23, 1825. GENERAL ORDER. The Grant of additional Bounty of One Pound, which was limited to the 24th inst., is ex,,tended by his Majesty's Govern ment to the 24th of June next; and his Royal Highness the Con-inlander-in-Chief desires that the said addition may be given to all Recruits enlisted between the first mentioned period and the date of receipt of the present Order. . , By command of his Royal Highness the Connuander-in-Chief, H. TORRENS, Adjutant-General. The 15th, the 19th .(Ist York North Riding), and the 53d Regiments of Infantry, have completed their augmentation establishments. A Detachment belonging to.. the East India Company's Ser. vice embarked on Monday, at Billingsgate, for Gravesend, on route. taChatham.. Commissicns signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk. —George. Thomas, Esq. to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; Thomas Burch 11 estern, Esq. to be ditto ; John Read, Esq. to be ditto. • last Suffolk Regiment of Militia.—Spencer Horsy fiilder bee, Esq. to be Captain, vice Sherman ; Charles Tyrrell, jun. Esq. to be ditto, vice Hamner ; Thomas Gibson, Esq. to be ditto, vice riegus. OLD BAILEY. AnaTitAcT of the RESULT of the COMMITMENTS to the LAST OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Convicted. Acquitted. Alarlborough-street Office 25 . 4 14 Mary-le-bole - - 24 II atton-garden - 23 6 flow-street - - 18 8 Worship-street - 13 13 Thames - - n 4 Queen -square - 7 1 hitechap el - - 5 5 Coroners, &c. - 3 3 120 58 Lord Mayal. and Aldermen 23 - 12 Of the above cases— Mr. Justice Bayley tried - 10 Mr. Justice Park - - 4 Mr. Justice Gazelec - 5 The Recorder • - - 23 The Common Sergeant - 48 Sergeant Arabin - .- 83 AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—A melancholy instance of the uncertainty of human life occurred on Sunday. Mr. ROWE, one of the chief c onstables of Liverpool, and whose duty it was to bear part of the civic regalia before the Mayor to St. George's Church, was standing a few minutes before 11 o'clock; in the vestibule of the Town-hall, with his cloak on, waiting until his Worship came out of his room.— While conversing with one of his companions, Mr. Rowe turned his head a little, and suddenly fell down on his face.— He was immediately raised up •; but his eyes were fixed, and the vital spark was fled. Mr. Rowe was upwards of seventy years of age ; and had been one of the constables of the borough nearly 33. He was a man universally known and respected ; and his awfully sudden death has excited general regret.— ' (Liv:rpool Albion.) COURT OF SESSION, EDIIIBURGII, DEC. v.. FINAL DECISION OF THE FIFE CAUSE. By a verdict of a Jury, in March last, it was found that the ! Deed of Entail and Trust-Deed, which exchide the present ! Earl of Fife from a considerable part of his estates, amounting to 20,0001. per annum, and accumulated rents since 184 were NOT the deeds of the Grantee, the late Earl of Fife. This verdict proceded upon the direction in law given from the Bench, that if they, the Jury, weregiatisfied that one of,...the witnesses neither saw the Grantee sign, nor heard him ackritlw ledge his subscription, they must find these were not the deeds ' of the Grantee. The defendants excepted to this direction, and brought the cause into the Court of Law for opinion. The question of law having been ably argued on both sides of bar, the Judges gave their opinions upon Thursday last. It was held unanimously, that it is well settled in our law, and suppoted by our best authorities, as well as by a long series of consistent decisions, that a deed is null if the witnesses, or one of them, neither see the Grantee sign, nor hear him acknow ledge his subscription. And that, of consequence, it was a right direction to the Jury, that if they were satisfied the late Earl of Fife did not acknowledge his subscription to George 'Wilson, one of the instrumentary witnesses—it being admitted that he (lid not see the Earl sign—they must find that these were not the deeds of the late Earl of Fife. The defenders also excepted to another point of the Lord Chief Commissioner's charge, where he told the Jury that it was his opinion " the acknowledgment must be clear and ex plicit, and that he had not found any case in which a virtual acknowledgment or equipollent had been sustained." The Judges were also unanimous in refusing this bill; upon a fair consid&ation of the whole charge, it must be considered cor rect. Any opinion in regard to virtual acknoWledgment was merely ()biter dictum , and not intended as a direction to the Jury. • The fact ofaanowledgment had been left open for their consideration in the concluding part of the passage objected to, where it is said " that it was not necessary to carry the doctrine so far in this case, as according to the evidence of the two wit " nesses, if they, the Jury, believed either of them , it did not ap pear that there was any acknowledgment either express or The Judges in the Court of Session have found that the direction, in law, was correct ; and that the verdict annulling . the deeds stands good. The Bill of Exceptions was therefore dismissed, and the Earl of Fife found entitled to expenses. Counsel for Earl of Fife—Dean of Faculty, F. Jeffrey. H. Cockburn, J. A. Murray, and George Robinson, Esqrs. Advocates. Counsel for Defendants—Thomas Thomson, J. Fullarton, and James Monerieff, Esqrs. Advocates. A en IsTivt As CA LL—The .distinguishing cha racter of Christianity is CHARITY, the bond of union between our Author and the creature, between the latter and his.fellow. being ; and if. we be indebted for existence and redemption,' and worldly comforts, to the benevolence and unlimited affec tion of the DtviNur Y, there is not one of us upon whom there is not an imperative call to be a redeemer in his turn. All men, however separated by the artificial graduations in the social family, originate in. a common mould and texture, and shall meet in indiscriminate dissolution, and - while they remem ber their common attributes, let them never forget the active principle of humanity, " Do as thoif wouldst have done to the." The poor, the feeble, the aged, reach out their hands i• an inclement season, for relief. The wants of their nature are the calls of God upon thy charit;es. From the compe tence thou hest secured, from the affluence that surrounds thee, , give to human misery, what will not diminish but enhance thy happiness—not to the healthy stroller, but to the sickly room keeper, not to the hypocritical pilgrim, but to modest and cheerless poverty; not to him that challenges thy alms - , but him that awaits thy kindness. Give crumbs from thy loaf, the famishing will bless thee—and clothing from thy - ward robes—the naked will be comforted, -and thy apparel not dii• minished. Relieve drooping and languishing penury from thy wealth, and a thousand-fold shall thy store inc rease. The keen delights of thy heart from the benefits thou conferrest, are but a fore-taste of thy pleasures, of thy permanent happi ness in a better world. WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENT9.—The only two houses which abutted on that ancient site called the Sanctuary, At the upper end of Prince's-street, leading to Tothill-street, are at length levelled with the ground. Workmen are also now employed in preparing the foundation of the intended new Parliamentary mews, by lining the excavations with lime , in order to insure its ryness and durability. It is understood, that in addition to the improvements thus proceeding in this renowned part of the metropolis, there will presently be another new square, facing the northern side of the Abbey, and cor responding in some degree with the fine enclosure which rune parallel with the entrance to the Sessions-house. Westruins' ar will here assume, in consequence, an entirely new aspect. The houses at present in Gardener's-lane, together with many now standing in King-street, are likewise to be pulled down. The FMENCII COURT of CASSATION Oil 'Friday rejected the appeal of a person condemned to capital punish m.:nt by the Court of Assizes at Cantu', for having stolen the sacred vases of a church. According to the declaration of the Jury, his punishment was only to be bard labour for life, but I the prisoner having already undergone ten years of the gallies for another offence, the Court, looking at the 56th article of the Criminal Code, sentenced him to death. The Court of Appeal has confirmed this decision. The article of the French Code referred to resembles our law which takes away, the benefit of clergy on conviction for a second clergiable offence. The CounT of ASSIZES at NANTes, on the 10th inst., tried a gendarme on a charge of murder, for having killed one of his comrades in a du el. The onl y evidence against the culprit was that of a mason who observed the combat at the distance of 80 paces, and who swore that the deceased, in his opinion, had received unfair play. The secondi of the'parties being examined, declared that the rules of duelling had been faithfully observed and the prisoner was acquitted. Thus com mon soldiers are allowed their " affairs of honour" in France, without any fear of consequences from the tribunals. .The Coutt ROYALE of • RouEs lately decided a case of some interest to the liberties of the Subject. A Mayor of a commune in the neighbourhood of that city, having heard that a great number of robberies of hen-roosts had taken place within his jurisdiction, and • being unable to detect the plun derers, thought of the notable expedient of making adomiciliary visit at midnight to the house of such persons as he suspected. Ile accordingly went -his round, accompanied by a gendarme and .a constable, knocking at the doors of those whom he wished to honour with his visit, and, leaving his escort without, he entered under the pretext of obtaining evidence, but,. in fact, to to detect the plundered poultry. None of the inhabitants refused to open their doors, or to admit their magistrate ; but a few days atter, one of them, not liking to he taken . for a thief, and suspecting in his tarn that the Mayor's zeal had outrun his discretion, preferred a complaint against him to the Royale Pr o cureur for violation of domicile. The Mayor was in consequence brought before one of - the Civil Chambers of the Cour Royale, sitting on correctional cases. his defence was, that his domi ciliary visits had not been of a vexatious nature, and that he had used no violence in entering the houses of the persons whom he suspected, they having opened them without offering any resistance. The Court, however, refused to allow the in nocent or even laudable purposes of a public functionary so be • pleaded in justification of a breach of law, but condemned the Mayor to the minimunz of penalty (a fine of 16 francs) in con sideration of the palliating circumstances of the case. The Principle on which the Judges proceeded in their decision was, that wherever the house of a citizen is entered, except in cases provided for in law, and without the requisite formalities, there is violation of domicile. FALL OF IlousEs.—Wednestlay afternoon a dreadful occurrence took place in Nelson-street, Birmingham, by the falling of two houses recently erected, in consequence of which one person was killed, and four others more or less injured. The houses had' been very slighly built, and about nine weeks ago an arch, which had been run over a cellar, gave way. The accident was repaired, and the building run up and closed in. A few days since the same arch a second time gave way and fell into the cellar. The building, however, was still considered safe, and on Wednesday five persons were at work in various parts of it; two of them in the cellar, cleaning and bring ing out the bricks, when about four in the afternoon the whole building suddenly gave way and fell with a tremendous crash, burying in its ruins all the persons on the premises. Four of the men succeeded in making their way out without receiving any material injury, but the other remained beneath the rubbish. A number of persons immediately set to work to remove the mass of timber and bricks by which the unfortunate man was over whelmed, but near an hour and a half had elapsed before he could be found, and he was at that time quite dead. The name of the deceased is Philip Haines. The buildings are entirely destroyed, all the walls having fallen completely level with the gfound.—(Birminghairt Journal.) DA Y AT ONE O'CLOCS• PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red B l;i4 3 per Cent. Cons. — 3A per Cent. Ditto Red. 4 per Cent. New Bank Long Ann. India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities ............... New Ditto . ................ -:-... Ex.Billsloool. lid. 14 dis. 2 dis. Ditto 5001. lAd. ... par 4 dis• 1011 44 Ditto Sin 11d.... 23 5 pra. Ditto Adv ed ............ --. Bank for Ac .. India for Acct:. Cons. for Acct. ERIC FS OF FOREIGN F Austrian 'Ms, 5 per cent Brazilian Bds 1825 15 dis. Buenos Ayres Bds Chilian, lids, 6 per cent.... Colombian WA 6O Do. do. 1824 614 1 60i Danish,.6 per cent. Do. 1825 Greek 11(18 Do. 1025 Guatimala Alexican 13ds Do. 1325 ......821 .... -- a 2 NDS AT ONE O'CLOCIi• Mexican Scrip ... 65ii 6 63 1 Neapolitan; 5 per cent. ••• 1' Neapolitan do. 1324.•••.•••' --- Peruvian Bonds ......... 43i 2 Do. Scrip ...... ........... Portuguese Bonds ....... Prussian, 5 per cent. ...... Ditto New ................. New, 5 per et. .9 ii Spanish 1821, 5 per ct. ..• 1-- ' 1 1823 .............. t. French Renter, 5 p. c. 95f. - Exchange 25f. 25;. 3 per cent. ... Exchange --c* PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE Q'CLOC I C• Per 1* 411 1 " 433 0 Anglo-Mexican Mining Company Arigna Iron and Coal Mining Company --- Bolivar Mining Company Chilian Mining Company I I ?• Hibernian Mining Company a . . , . - . Pasco Peruvian Mining Company ......... 5O Real del Monte Mining Company • ..... '''. 4 3 t Rio de la Plata Mining Company - • 27i United Mexican Mining Company ' ' I:4_ Welch Iron and Coal Mining Company .. . ............ pi Australian Company 13i British Iron Company tii- British Rock and Patent Salt Company ..... : ............ 1 Devon Haytor Granite Company Patent -Bricks PRICE 01 , IRISH Bank Stock 246 Gov. Deb. 3. per cent. 90i# 90 4 per cent. New do. 98iai Gov. Stock, 3i;per ct. 87i 8 op. Consols 3 per cent Bl op. Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock ............. Ditto Loan, 4 per cent. ... Ditto Ditto, 6 per cent. ... T. ll 1 C 11 1 1 ( n 8 ; Co D n E ip C a ' n ' ; 4 .•........ St. Patrick Insurance flibernian Joint Stock Hibernian Bank ..... 3 i . Fish Shares ... ... ... ..... ...... ayw Patriotic ditto ..... .. Or. S Royal Irielt Mining New Brighton .......... ✓ Hibernian Gas Comp FOLtEIGN MALLS. Guernsey and Jersey pus. Lisboa liamburgh - Malta ARRIVED. 1011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-510ft . t 4 r , Nforning, 36 minutes after 4.1 Evening, 54 'pinatas .L....e.,fter 114 1 S N • SOLEM QUIS DICERE FA LSUM .111DICAr • LONDON, nc, TVEDNESDAY EVENI2VG, DECEMBER We have received at a late hour to-daY Etoile of yesterday's date. The only in" , Ds 10 genre of the least interest it commu nica ' — f r the departure of the Emperor CorrsTANTINg ' Warsaw. to St. Petersburgh on the 17th instant'ia The French Funds on Monday at three o'4lQc were as follow For the end of the month. Five per Cent. Three per Cent. The following are extracts:— 05 f. 75 e. 64 f. 35 c. 06; PARIS, LB , ' f i t The Emperor Constantine left 'Warsaw fo r St. Petersburt'. on the 17th of this month. g A letter from Leghorn announces that M iaulis had Leo the vigilance of the Egyptians, and placed hi s fleet bet,.e.. • the Turkish and Egyptian fleets, in such a manner, as to ift 01- 13. vent the former receiving any assistance from the l a tter tb e e • event of an attack. Ibrahim has assembled all his arm/ tre neighbourhood of Navarino, where be proposes to I ° winter. The land forces of. Ibrahim in the Mona, on the Ist °t :,. 9e v i ; tember, consisted, according to M. Accou rti, of 15,33° '4l tians, of which 80 are artillery,3sl sappers, an d 1,3 85 c31 ,: o o exclusive of the Turkish garrisons which w ere in the contl°.' his arrival. He has lost in action 1,400 men, and 300 bY c 19' ,m• a 0 The newszt Abe death of Alexander ha s not pro duce oar great a sensation on the exchange at Berlin as b e°. l it Funds, however, are rising little by little. We esPe ct f ve m ►viclt stant an express from the Emperor of Russia. Oar 34e — were this day 91, and Bank Stock 1165. ,;; The French Papers of Sunday, receiced day, have no intelligence of moment. The cleat 1,. of the Emperor ALEXANDER , and the °°c jobbing rumours this event g ives rise to, sact o ccupy their columns. The following e'itiroft will spew the origin of these reports, °ld little credit is due to them : i (From the Journal d os D:bals.) r tbe' The Bull: have made every effort to raise the price ' 9 ' or p th e e r cents., and with this view they read with a nlysleri°°o4 contents of certain letters from Amsterdam, irieriPa'lol6 Frankfort, said to have been received from the most re‘i' e l;4 ol o houses. These letters have but one object, viz. , t ° " i ; it , the death of Alexander and the accesson of COa stsl3 ,:; fte ° . ch a manner as to raise the three per cents. The l et— pl o o Frankfort describes the death of Alexander as an ev t t 0 1( 1 fortunate for the peace of Europe, because that EroPer°l -° O ll not regard the misfortunes of Greece without c onWiL -95i° , 11 :, 0' was c therefore about to take up arms in favour of the "": 0 0, a d nstantine, on the other hand, abominates thei r % v s. The I ' lio d n considers them in the light of insurgents. letter represents Constantine, instead of beinf orelvilielettrt with grief at the death of his brother, as to ° l oi n to Prince Metternich, expresSive of his desire to 11 ', 11' i ts is e peace of Europe. The improbability of all th esg rer ril (ef manifest, for we can hardly believe that Constantine, the write t ° . I 'l4 ful Sovereign of all the Ilussias, would rather than to St. Petershurgh to a subject of a tle i g l" Power, rather than to his own. Ot" The Austrian Observer of the 15th lin-bijoint" December, received this day, has t® s u sc co intelligence from Constantinople. I he o r ei 4 the pr d it gives is by no means favour able to he cause, and represents this as the eft 9f t