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TiIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
This Creulivt, MONDAY. Jan. 24. will be performed
KING RICHARD THE rump.
Doke of Giesler, Mr. Kean; Earl of Richmond. Mr. Waßack. Lady
Anne, MINI Smithson.
HARLEQUIN AND THE TALKING RIFITt.
THE SINGING TREES. AND GOLDEN WATERS.
Har:ennin, Mr. Auld; Pantaloon. Mr. Mondani; Clown, Mr.
Kirby. Columbine, Miss Barnett.
Tomorrow, Dec Freisebutz, and the Pantomime.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
This Eyes:dog, MONDAY. Jan. 24. will IN performed
HAMLET.
Hamlet. Mr. C. Zemble: Claudine, Mr. Chapman: Horatio, Mr.
Bennett First Grave-eager, Mr. Fawcett. Opheba, *se M. FM:
Gsrtrade, Mrs. Fanelt.
After which.
HARLEQUIN AND THE DRAGON OF WANYLEY ;
Or, MORE OF MORE HALL.
Ha:lequin, Mr. EllAr ; Pan talmn. Mr. Darn's: Clown, Mr. J. S. Gri-
maldi. Columbine, Mt. Romer.
To-morrow. As You Like It, and the Pantenuinw.

T. Simian PllCis commenced publishing en Saturday roam-
ing at live o'clock.
LONDON, MONDAY, JANU•kt 94, MS.

The Paris Papers of Friday anived last night. The
Chamber of Deputies was engaged the day before in hear-
ing the reports of petitions, which, as it may naturally be
supposed, were not a little various in their objects, and for
the most part quite uninteresting to the English reader.
Several of them prayed for indemnities on account of revo-
lutionary losses. It requires no depth of foresight to pre-
dict safely, that the French Government will have appeals
enough of this sort, now that they have raised the ques-
tion. Some discussion took place on the subject of the
decorations of St. Louis and the Legion of Honour. After
the Chamber had herald the several arguments on the pro-
. piety of the proposed distinet:ons, the important subject
was referred to the further consideration of the Ministers
• f War and the Interior.
A more interesting debate arose on a petition, requiring
that certificates of marriage should be granted by the
clergy. It was proposed to refer this petition to the Mi-
nisters of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice, but M. Ma-
CHIN moved its rejection, in a Breech in which he strongly
justified the existing legislation respecting marriage in
France. Nobody replied to him, but his motion was lost
by a considerable majority. The following are the most
striking passages of his address to the Chamber:—

Admission into society and admission into a religious com-
munion are two things perfectly distinct, and which cannot be con-
founded without great danger. It is not in the power of any one
whatever to act in any manner that he should not be born citizen or
siatject, and that he should not derive from the single fact of his
bittb, the effects, the advantages, or the charges of civil society.
Before being a Christian one must be born. It is impowible to be
born without twine a subject of the State ; but it is possible to be a
subject of the State without being a Christian. To cause admission
faro civil society to depend upon :onion into a religious communion,
is violence, is tyranny, is absurdity.
" The inconvenience of the areisnt state of things is still
more felt with regent to nierriagee. The Catholic religion admits
of diepensations where the civil law refuses them. Since the
alialitton of divorce, the civil law proclaims marriage to bra india.
soluble, unless in the roe of the civil death of one of the parties.
Time is another case upon v hick our new laws have kept silent,
uhieh operates before the Church the dissolution of the marriage,
ant which the modesty and humanity of the public have with
wisdom omitted, in oor codes. • %Veil, gentlemen, suppose In a
similar circumstance the Leclmiastical authority has pronounced
Ile diesel:Mon of the marriage, and admitted the panics, or one of
the parties, disjoined for ever, to contract by law another union,
what will be their positien and that of their children, looking to
Me civil effects ? (Emotion manifested in the Assembly.)
•' Think an instant ow the necessity which will be immediately
fait when you shall hare granttd the prayer of the petitioner, of
Übe re-establishment of the special mclesiastical jurisdictions, and
set all the inconveniences which wuuld result front their conflicts
with the secular authority. Cast your eves upon other countries,
*ed then tell me if you ought to repudiate laws, which, with re-
wet to the marriage contract, so advantageously distinguish you.
Will you oppose to us the usages of I:nglaad, where for all proof
is sometimes reedited the inscription of the marriage acts on the
Kirk sheet of the family Bible—where sH these who do not sub.
um to the ceremonies of the Anglican Church are excluded from
the loans!) ree,.kters. IViii you prefer the Gretna-green marriages ?
—Will von bz content with the four witnesses required in Russia ?
In ell Levey', even wet* noveneet,-nreenevrir songht to avetini-
Lite with a legislation which you show yourselves so desposed to re-
pediote." _ _

lie official part of the .lionacti- contains a Royal
• Orclinaree, authorising a Company to erect a new bridge
overthe Rhone, at Lyons, opposite the Place du Concert;
Ai:an be called the Bridge of Charles X. The Company are
to be indemnified by the privilege of levying, for ninety-
nine years, a toll, as flied by a tariff annexed to the ordi-
nar
On Friday the annual service for his Majesty Locis
XVI. was to be performed at 10 o'clock in the morning, in
the Metropolitan Church. The Archbishop of Paula
would officiate.

The ttoik was not pnblishe.l on Saturday, the office
being closed on Friday, on account of the solemnization of
the aaniversaty of the death of L. NV I.

Two Dutch Mails arrived yesterday, by which we have
received Hamburgh Papers to IVcilticEday, and the Ifagtie
Coarant of Fr day. If v:e may believe the latter, the
French Government actually traditates !mother invasion
of S. Domingo; but tie think the story is quite incre-
dible. The memory of LLet.i.r.c's expedition cannot so
ttotnpletely Lave passed away :
Svocantasm, JAW. 7.
ilia Majesty has addressed a trieuago to tile Storages of Norway,
is sdsich he provoke*. to alter the article* of the Constitution that
vitiate to the Vicurop litoet is explained the thoughts tong enter-
tained by his Majesty, to call back his son to be near him. The
fallowing are the proposed changes is the Constitution
Sect. '1,4. The Prince, ur his eldcat son, can be Viceroy
when they have utteined the age fixed for the majority of the King,
The ace of Governor tau be given sea Norwegian as to a Swede.