The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-05 00:00:00

PARIS POLICE

Duclos, a postilion of the royal mail, was charged with
refusing to obey the gend'armes in the Avenue de Neuilly
and with having insulted tam.
The officer on duty said there was a great crowd in the
Avenue de Neuilly, in consequence of the King being
expected to pass. I saw at a distance a mail-coach, drawn
by four horses, coming at a smart gallop. The people were
alarmed at the danger of being run over, and they called
to me to stop the postilion. I gave orders to stop the
passage, but Duclos disregarded what I said, and he broke
his way through my men, abusing us, and flogging his
horses the more we tried to stop him.
Duclos---Why did you attempt to stop me? As for
insult you complain of, I only told you that you did not
know your business, and that I knew mine. I must arrive
at a given time. I know nothing more than that.
The PRESIDENT—What, do you think you can laugh at
the authority of the police ? Duclos—That is your affair
and not mine. I came to the Carousel in a smart trot.
At the Arc de Triomphe I began to gallop, and on the
Quay I went as fast as I could. I saw well enough the
officer, who made signs to me to go gently ; but, bah, I
only went the faster. The more signs they made the
more I flogged the horses. A smart fellow it would have
been that could catch me. Yes, I gave them the death
triple gallop.
PRESIDENT—This is quite a novel defence. Duclos-1
only know the orders of my directors. I had 30 minutes
to go from the Rue Jean Jaques Rousseau to Courbevoie.
That is all I know. I must do it in the time ; if I take
one minute more I am turned away. I have children to
feed ; I can't to without galloping. It. is the regulation.
PRESIDENT—Your orders don't give you the right to -
ride over people. Duclos—That is very fine talking on
your part. I have but thirty minutes allowed me, and I
must do it in the time.
PRESIDENT—It is in consequence of similar orders that
an administration had lately to pay 30,000 francs. Duclos
—lt is very Fliossible, I say nothing to the contrary.
only know that I must obey orders ; and if I don't kill ten
people a-day that's their luck, and not my fault. All I
know is, that nothing will prevent me going at a gallop
when I come to the Arc de Triomphe.
The defence did not avail Duclos, and he was fined
wenty-five francs.

Sir William Molesworth, in a letter recently ad-
dressed to the IVest Briton, says—" As a member of the
Government, which has declared itself hostile to the Ballot,
I cannot support him (Sir H. Vivian) without an assurance
that Ministers will make the Ballot an open question. This
assurance, I regret to say, I have not yet obtained. The
conduct of the Government in refusing their assent to this
course is most preposterous and unjustifiable. A majority
of their supporters are in favour of the Ballot, and during
the last two sessions it was only by the aid of the Tories
that Ministers were enabled to defeat their friends. It is
nonsense to talk about union, when Ministers set at defiance
every principle of union, by acting in this manner. The
consequence is that many of those who were most favourable
to them are now becoming indifferent. I regret this con-
duct extremely, more especially as, if persisted in, it must
prevent my supporting a gentleman for whom I have so high.
an esteem as Sir H. Vivian."

REPRESENTATION OF BURY ST. EDMUND'S.--
A few weeks tince, we had occasion to make some obser-
vations on the anomalous condition in which the electors
of this borough are placed by the return of one Liberal, and
one Tory member, to represent their interests in Parlia
ment. We then called their attention to the fact, not
only to keep it before their eyes, but also to remind them
of the promises which they unhesitatingly made to Mr.
Aglionby, the Hon. Member for Cockermouth, in the pre-
sence of their own Liberal Member, Lord Charles Fitzroy,
to cast off the fetters of their benumbing thraldom, -when-
ever a fit and proper opportunity should offer itself. Onr.
present object is to remind them that that opportunity is
assuredly approaching. It is rumoured, that Earl Jermyn
intends to throw up the Representation of the Borough,
and to dare a contest for the Representation of Westera
Suffolk. But the Electors of Bury must not be lulled into
fancied security by this piece of intelligence.—Sufo/k Chro-
nicle.

The story of a robbery near the seventh mile stone
on the Uxbridge-road, between Hanwell and Southall, is
only the revival, verbatim, of a lie a twelvemonth old. This.
lie was discovered last year by there being no such person•
known at Kensington Gravel-pits as the one said to hale
been robbed ; and to the fact of the seventh mile stone on
the Uxbridge-road being among the houses at Ealing.
There was no particular change in the Manchester
market on Tuesday. Most descriptions of cotton goods are
somewhat dull of sale, but scarcely more so than they corn- .
moray are at this season ; twist also is in little demand, ex-
cept particular sorts for immediate shipment ; this, how-
ever, is always the case towards the close of the year.
There is certainly, in some quarters, a feeling of uneasiness
and distrust arising out of the state of the money market ;
but at the same time the best informed persons are de-
cidedly of opinion that trade is essentially in a sound core
dition, and that no perceptible danger of large failures
exists among us. It was confidently stated yesterday t',3at
another Cumberland bank had been compelled to sustain
its payments ; but, in the absence of positive information,
we abstain from more specifically alluding to the establish-
ment. —Manchester Guardian.
The legal tribunals of Berlin are at present occupied .
with a case perhaps as extraordinary as ever came within
the cognizance of a court of justice. Some months ago_
mystical sect, called by the populace the Muckers (the Sal'.
lens) was discovered at Konigsberg. Many of the adepts,
of this saturnine coterie belong to the provincial aristocracy,
and some of them are members of the Protestant clergy Their creed consists principally in the belief that the spirit
is free, and can be merely tempted, not vanquished, by the
flesh ; and, consequently, that its purity is in proportion to
its ability to resist, not to renounce, the Devil and all his
works. Unfortunately, the professors of this doctrine, to
prove that their practice was in strict conformity with their
practice, voluntarily exposed themselves to temptations of
nature too gross to be recorded even in the most licentious.
pages that ever polluted the heart. One of their late fiber"
rations consisted in the notion, that a new Redeemer was
necessary to save the world, and that the Holy Spirit must
again become flesh, and effect another miraculous coneelr
tion, could a female be found sufficiently pure to personate
the Virgin Mary. In consequence of this reasoning, the
Muckers recently proceeded to select, by lot, the female oa
whom was to devolve the office of contributing towards the
redemption of sinful mankind, and also the male member °l, e
the sect who was to play the part of Joseph, the husband
Mary. The part of the Virgin fell to the lot of an elderly:
Countess, and that of Joseph to a broad-shouldered Mail
of Dragoons. For reasons on which it is needless to dwell
too minutely, it became absolutely necessary to modify,to-
- as far as regarded the lady, and to select a net'
Virgin, the personification of whom devolved this time uP°ll-
- young Baronness, 16 years of age, who, however, formak
refused to supplant her venerable predecessor. The sec;
attempted to employ force, but the youthful Countess
nally succeeded in escaping to the residence of her broth4ro
who denounced the true blievers to the authorities. The_
latter have since arrested two ecclesiastics, and several otber,
Muckers, and have employed the necessary legal measur9s
to dissolve the sect, NI the crimes and offences of which the
Consistory and the Judicial Tribunals are now called llP°'
to decide.—Galignaas Messenger. „„,.

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BIRTHS.
At Lee, Kent, on the 28th of November, Mrs. John Grog
deri
of a son.
On the 21st ult., the lady of J. Holcombe, Esq., barrister-at-13.°f
of a son.
On the 16th ult., the lady of C. S. Medley, Esq., Farrix4Pll
Berks, of a son.
On the Ist inst., the lady of G. R. Corner, Esq., E.S.A., of
Dean-street, Southwark, of a daughter.
On the 29th ult., the lady of A. Crombie, Esq., of Thorntois
Castle, Kincardineshire, of a son.
On the 2d inst., in liryaustone.square, the lady of C. 13.. Cur"
Esq., of a son.

MARRIED.
On the Ist inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Thtmas ill. Par'
ker, Esq., to Ann, eldest daughter of Jonas Gregar.y, Esq., UPPer
Montagu-street, Russell-square.
On the 3d inst., at Bexley, Joseph Earle, of Lower Stamfortle
street, to Anna, second daughter of Joint Sim, Esq., of Belvidere
House, Lambeth.
On the 3d inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanstone-square, Chas.
and
Tvvisle!
ton Graves, Esq., Royal Irish Fusileers, nephew of Lord Saye
Cumber-,
Sele, to Louisa, daughter of John Lodge, Esq., of G
land-street.

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On the 2Sth ult., at Kivernell's, near Ly
DIED.
mington,
beth, wife of Lieut.-General Farmer, ed 82.
On the 3d inst., in Carey-street, iangcoln's Inn-fields, aged 10,
Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr. John Wilcke, cabine...-maker-
On the 29th ult., in Dalston Mr. Charles Blyth, aged 66.
On the 2d inst., in Fenchurc'h-st.reet, aged .59, P Eel
On the 24th ult., at the Sandrock Hotel, Isle of Wight, aged '
Mr. William Wheeler,son of D. Wheeler, Esq., of Shooshary
near St. Petersburgb. Hants, Eliza-
On the 2d inst , Henry,f C. Rivington, Esq., of Quert"
ry, son
square, aged threemonths. lee--
On the lb e., at Wilmer, Kent, Mrs. Gordon, relict of L
Colonel Robert. Gordon, many years Adjutant-General on the)3oo'
e
bay Establishment.____........a

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