The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-20 00:00:00

PROROGATION

OF
PAULI it:3IIEN T.

The KING went in state this day from St. James's

Palace to the House of Lords, and prorogued Parlia-
ment. The procession left the Palace about two
o'clock. It was preceded by the High Constable of
Westminster, carrying his staff of office, followed by
a posse of constables. The Yeomen of the House of
Peers, several servants in their state liveries, the officers
of the House of Commons, &c. ; Equerries in a state
carriage, and the Master of the Horse, drawn by six
beautiful black horses, followed ; next a carriage with
Officers of the Household, and after the LORD
CHAMBERLAIN, in a royal coach, drawn by beauti-
ful horses, richly caparisoned. The KING'S cntrane3
into the Park was announced, by a flourish of trum-
pets. His MAJESTY was preceded by the Yeomen
of the Guard in new uniforms, and the cortege closed
with a military escort of household troops. His MA-
JESTY'S state carriage was drawn by eight cream-
coloured horses, in magnificent new harnesses, deco-
rated with ribbons, and the whole of the pro-
cession had a splendid appearance. The procession
passed through the Park, the Horse Guards, and
along Parliament-street, to the House of Peers.
His MAJESTY'S entrance into the House was an-
nounced by the firing of the guns. As soon as his
MAJESTY had taken his seat on the Throne, the
Usher of the Black Rod was_desired to summon the
House of Commons.

The SPEAKER, accompanied by several Members
of the Lower House, then appeared at the Bar, when
his MAJESTY delivered the following Most Gracious

Speech :

" MY LORDS -AND GENTLEMEN,

" The state of the Public Business enables me at length
to relieve you from:further attendance in Parliament ; and,
in terminating your labours, I have again to acknowledge
the zeal with which you have applied yourselves to the
Public Business, and the attention which you have bestowed
on the important subjects which I brought under your con-
sideration at the opening of the Session.
" The assurances of friendly dispositions which I re-
ceive from all Foreign Powers, enable me to congratulate
you upon the prospect that peace will continue undis-
turbed.

" I lament deeply that the internal state of Spain still
renders that country the only exception to the general tran-
quillity which prevails in the rest of Europe ; and I regret that
the hopes which have been entertained of the termination of
the civil war have not hitherto been realised. In fulfilment of
the engagements which I contracted by the Treaty of the
Quadruple Alliance, I have afforded to the Queen of Spain
the co-operation of a part of my naval force, and I continue
to look with unabated solicitude to the restoration of that
internal peace in Spain which was one of the main objects
of that Quadruple Treaty, and which is so essential to the
interests of all Europe.

" I am happy td,be able to inform you that my endea-
vours to remove the misunderstanding which had arisen be-
tween France and the United States have been crowned
with complete success. The good offices which for that
purpose I tendered to the two Governments were accepted
by both in the most frank and conciliatory spirit, and the
relations of friendship have been re-established between
them in a manner satisfactory and honourable to both
parties.

" 1 trust that this circunjstance will tend to draw still

closer the ties which conuct this country with two great and
friendly nationi, with whith they have so many important
relations in common.

" I have regarded with interest your deliberations upon
the reports of the Commission appointed to consider the
state of the Dioceses in England and Wales ; and I have
cheerfully given my assent to the measures which have
been presented to me for carrying into effect some of their
most important recommendations.

" It is with no ordinary satisfaction that I have learned,
that you have with great labour brought to maturity enact-
ments upon the difficult subject of Tithe in England and
Wales, which will, I trust, prove in their operation equi-
table to all the interests concerned, and generally beneficial
in their results.
" The passing of the Acts for Civil Registration, and for
Marriages in England has afforded me much satisfaction.
Their provisions have been framed upon those large prin-
ciples of religious freedom which, with a due regard to the
welfare of the Established Church in this country, I have
always been desirous of maintaining and promoting ; and
they will also conduce to the greater certainty of Tithes,
and to the stability of property.
" It has been to me a source of the most lively gratifica-
tion to observe the tranquillity which has prevailed, and the
diminution of crimes, which has lately taken place in Ire-
land. I trust that perseverance in a just and impartial
system of Government will encourage this good disposition,
and enable that country to develope her great natural re-
sources.

" GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
" I thank you for the liberality with which you have
voted not only the ordinary Supplies of the year, but the
additional sums required to provide for an increase in my
naval force.

" I am also gratified to perceive that you have made
provision for the full amount of' Compensation awarded to
the owners of slaves in my Colonial Possessions, and that
the obligations entered into by the Legislature have thus
been strictly fulfilled.
" The increased productiveness of the Public Revenue
has enabled you t 9 meet these charges, and at the same
time to repeal and reduce Taxes, of which some were
injurious in their effects upon my people, and others unequal
in their pressure upon various parts of my dominions abroad.

" The present condition of manufactures and commerce
affords a subject of congratulation, provided the activity
which prevails be guided by that caution and prudence
which experience has proved to be necessary to stable
prosperity.

" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" The advanced peziod of the year, and the length of
time during which you have been engaged in Public
Affairs, must render you desirous of returning to your
respective counties. You will there resume those
duties, which are in importance inferior only to your
legislative functions, and your influence and example will
greatly conduce to the maintenance of tranquillity, the
encouragement of industry, and the confirmation of those
moral and religious habits and principles which are essential
to the well-being, of every community."

Mr. \VILKs last night presented an important peti-
tion to the House of Commons. It came from the
Protestant Society, for the Protection of the Eights
and Interests of Dissenters, a body which represents
several hundred congregations, and prayed for the re-
dress of the grievances under which Protestant Dis-
senters still labour. The Hon. Member, on presenting
the petition, gave notice of his intention to bring under
the consideration of Parliament next Session (be-
sides the total abolition of Church-rates)-1. The
refusal of the rites of burial to the children of
Baptists interred in church-yards, of the tolling
of the parish-bell, and of the admission of corpses
of Dissenters into vaults of Churches.-2. The
prevention of their ministers from officiating, as in
Ireland and Scotland, in parochial burying-grounds.
3. The liability of lay Dissenters to be appointed
ehurch-wardens. 4. The stamp duties charged on all
the conveyances and trust-deeds of their chapels, burial
grounds, and free schools. 5. The non-remission of
the timber and other duties on building materials, used
in the erection and repair of their chapels and public
edifices, remitted to the churches and schools of the
Established Church in England and Scotland. 6.
The mortuary fees, Easter offerings, garden tithes, and
other small Ecclesiastical demands, vexatiously claimed
and enforced. And, 7. Their exclusion from a full
participation in the benefits of the national Universities
of Oxford and Cambridge.
All these are just, arid some of them heavy causes
of complaint, on the part of those who cannot, with-
out a violation of their conscientious scruples, con.
form to the doctrines or practices of the legal and
state-protected religion. There is no doubt that when
the subject is brought before the Legislature, whether
by the Hon. Member for Boston, or—as we should
hope—by the Government, complete redress will be
given, as far as the House of Commons is concerned.
That House has in fact already pronounced its opinion
on the most important of the subjects above enume-
rated, by passing a Bill for the admission of Dissenters
to the Universities. On minor points of complaint
there can of course be little or no difficulty. A perfect
equality on all matters relating to the civil rights of
men is what the Dissenters claim, what they are en-
titled to, and what, we may add, if they persevere, they
must soon obtain.

The only Member who made any remark on the
notice given by Mr. Wit ics was that Northern corrus-
cation, Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR. This grave hy-
perborean personage, who has changed and chopped
about till he has fairly boxed the political compass,
observed, that the Dissenters might as well at once
complain of the existence of any Established
Church at all. Now, this is not paying Esta-
blishments a very high compliment. It is in
fact saying that they cannot exist unless they
are founded upon the ruins of civil and religious
liberty—a confession which we did not expect from a
would-be advocate of apostolical succession. If how-
ever, Sir GEORGE be right—if the Church established
by law cannot co-exist with the enjoyment of the rights
of conscience, then we say the sooner the Church
ceases to exist the better.

We shall have a few more words to say to Sir
GEORGE by and by. His memory requires a little
jog, and it may also be useful to his constituents to
bear in mind what he was, or rather what he professed
to be, when he became their representative, and what
he now is.

The Times of this morning has an article upon the
subject of its own merits—and it certainly must have
considerable ability to be able to write anything worth
reading on suck a subject—the Times, we say, has an
article this day in praise of itself, written in the most
approved Bombastes Furioso fashion. Our Contem-
porary seems as though he would never tire of sound-
ing his own eulogium. " A few days ago," he says,
" We detected the Government, while hatching a con-
spiracy to smother the division on the Appropriation
Clause, by a point of privilege. We sent the news
throughout the country. It circulated like lightning. All
England responded to our appeal to their sense of every-
thing that was fair and honourable in revolting oppo-
sition to this pitiful and sneaking subterfuge of the Go -
vernment. The country sympathised with our address."
Here is grandiloquence for you But how the tone
lowers towards the close, dropping gracefully, and after
the most finished model of the bathos, from the lofty
" all England responded to our appeal," down to the
more sober and modest, " the country sympathized
with our appeal !" The month of March, we are told,
" comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb," and
our Contemporary appears to have fashioned his fustian
on the principle of this good old adage. Of a verity,

he is an all-powerful politician—in his own opinion
His lightest squeak affrights a Government ; but when
he roars, he electrifies a kingdom. If we may believe
him, he has already chaced the colour from the cheek
of Downing-street ; deprived the,Cabinet, individually
and collectively, of a good night's rest ; and thrown
three nations into such strong convulsions, that it is a
miracle if they ever recover their health. Really it is
high time that a stop should be put to this dangerous,
this super-human power ! What is to become of the
Government—what of the people, if both are liable
to be thus hysterically affected, by the slightest whisper
that may be breathed from Printing-House Square ?
We shall look forward with intense anxiety to the state
of the Funds this evening, under the dreadful convic-
tion, that if what our Contemporary speaks of his in-
fluence be true, they will have fallen to a degree sympto-
matic of an impromptu revolution. A joke's a joke ;
but when a Tory journalist distinctly tells us that he has
power enough to dislodge a Government, and convulse a
nation, the thing becomes too serious to be tolerated. If
not of muzzling, are there no means of buying off
such a desperate agitator ? Would not a purchase on
the part of Ministers, of the unsold copies of his
Paper of this day, have some effect in soothing him ?
We are no advocates for bribery and corruption ; but
there are cases in which even these may be lawful ;
and the present is one of them. Look to it then, my
Lord MELBOURNE! Look to it my Lord JOHN
RUSSELL ! Look to it all you who are interested in
the general tranquillity, or you will find the Times
taking the conduct of affairs into its own hands—
making a clean sweep in Downing-street—convulsing
the kingdom from one end to the other—and thrusting
the Tories into office during the confusion !

The Journal des Debuts of Thursday, which we
have received with the other Paris Papers of the same
date, contains the following significant announcement,
relative to the reports in the Journals of Wednesday
of a division in the Cabinet :

" It appears certain that grave dissensions arose during the
last three or four days in the Council of Ministers, relative to
the affairs of Spain. The two telegraphic despatches received
in the course of Wednesday had the effect of putting an end
to these differences. We are assured that an order was im-
mediately forwarded by telegraph to Bayonne to suspend the
entrance into Spain of the reinforcements destined for the
Foreign Legion."
We are at a loss to reconcile the version of the
differences in the Cabinet implied in this extract with
that which we yesterday copied from the Gazelle de
France, dated Thursday. The Gazette stated that M.
TRIERS persisted in demanding intervention even after
the arrival of the despatches of Wednesday—after know-
ing that the REGENT had accepted the Constitution of
Cadiz—and that finding himself successfully opposed
by the KING, he sent in his resignation. The
Debats, on the contrary, leaves it to be inferred that
TITTERS and the advocates of intervention in the Ca-
binet saw that it was too late to contemplate such a
measure, after the occurrences at San Ildefonso. The
latter account is the most probable. M. TIIIERS
would not, we think, presume to advise a measure
which, from a change in the relations of the Consti-
tutionalists and the supporters of the Estatuto Real,
would wear the aspect of a French intervention, di-
rected against the liberties of the Spanish nation.
It was reported in Paris on Thursday that the
Queen of SPAIN was about to call Senor AR-
GUELLES, one of the framers of the Constitution of
1812, to her Councils, and that that veteran States-
man had consented to a revision of the'Constitution,
so as to modify certain articles no longer suited to
the condition of Spain. We sincerely trust that this
report may not prove unfounded. ARGUELLES is
an old feeble man ; but his name would serve as
a banner for the honest Liberals of every shade of
opinion. As to the Constitution of Cadiz, it contains
an express provision for its revision by the Cortes once
in every ten years, so that no principle is invaded, no
previous pledge violated, by subjecting it to consi-
derable modification. It is also of some moment to
bear in mind, that the 118th Article expressly decrees
that neither DON CARLOS nor his heirs shall ever
ascend the Legitimate Throne of Spain.
GOMEZ was overtaken by ESPARTERO near Val
de Buron. The Carlists were routed with great slaugh-
ter. The fact was reported to the French Govern-
ment by General Evans.
The following are extracts from the Journals :

It is stated in private letters received this morning from
Paris, that a rumour prevailed there that news from Madrid of
the 13th had been received, by which it appeared that in the
Council of Ministers, which was summoned immediately at
Madrid on the event at St. Ildefonso being known, Isturiz de-
clared his determination to resist the proclamation of the Con-
stitution to the last drop of his blood, declaring that the
Queen had been compelled by absolute violence to assent to it.
General Quesada professed his readiness to second the views
of the Minister, with all the force at his disposal, and it was
feared that some sad scenes of bloodshed were about to
commence.

PARIS, AUG. 17.—The resignation of several Ministers has
been talked of to-day. This report will appear improbable ;
yet we have known for some days that the question of Spain
had caused great differences in the Council. It was stated on
'Change that five Ministers had tendered their resignation,
and th funds fell a little. It is in fact not likely that the re-
tirement of M. Thiers would cause a sudden change in the
price of the funds. But this evening things have changed.
On the news that Queen Christina had accepted the Constitu-
tion on the 13th, the Ministers agreed together. Will this
continue, when it shall become necessary to take a resolution ?
The Ministerial Journal informs us that the Queen Regent has
been forced by a military insurrection to accept the Constitu-
tion of 1812 ; and we learn from the same paper, that the
Minister for Foreign Affairs disavows his pretended letter to
M. de Montebello. These two facts have perhaps some con.
nection with each other. The letter ascribed to M. Thiers
contained a menace, which, after the resolution of the
Swiss Diet, ought immediately to be carried into effect.
But to execute this menace to blockade Switzerland, to de-
clare war against it, at a moment when the revolution in
Spain may perhaps oblige the French Government to adopt
some great measure, would be carrying imprudenco beyond
every thing that can be expected from M. Thiers.
The disavowal published by the Journal de Paris is rather
tardy, and the terms are very vague. The very expressions
of the Ministerial note seem indeed to indicate that a letter
was really addressed to M. de Montebello. Was it conceived
in such terms that the French Government may consider itself
as satisfied by the resolution of the Diet, so that all cause for
dispute is done away with ? This is what should be made
known to France ; and the best way would be to publish the
original letter.—Journal du Commerce, Aug. 18.
Several journals have published a pretended letter from the
Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Duke de Montebello. We
are authorised to declare formally that this document is apo-
cryphal, and that the sense and wording of the letter, which
is thus pretended to be published, have been most materially
altered.—Moniteur.
We learn from Malaga that in the evening of the Ist inst.,
a column of 2,000 foot, with 120 horse, and four field pieces,
left that city for different parts of the province, for the pur-
pose of proclaiming the Constitution in every direction.
Galignant's Messenger.
Advices from Bucharest, dated the 2d instant, state
M. de Ruckmann sent in on the 9th (21st) July, a new de-
claration in the name of his Government, which was attended
with as little success as his previous allocutions. The Divan
of Jassy protested against his pretensions, and M. de Ruck-
mann despatched a courier to St. Petersburg ; another was
sent off from Bucharest.
Much is said in Europe about the intestine convulsions,
which will shortly end in the confiscation of the two principa-
lities ; but no allusion is made to the exactions committed
therein by the Russians, who, at thin very moment, are levying
heavy contributions in money and kind from the inhabitants.
They have, in Wallachia alone, between 7,000 and 8,000
men of infantry of the line, 1,800 light infantry, upwards of
1,000 cavalry, and 60 field pieces. The garrison of Silistria,
on evacuating that place, will be quartered in districts bor-
dering on the Danube, where extensive barracks have been
constructed on the plans formerly laid down by General Yer-
moloff.
In Servia, the Russians have at least four battalions, be-
sides the grenadiers, chasseurs, and cannoneers, serving as
instructors in the army now forming by the Prince. Two
corps have already been completely organised under tho di-
rection of the two Obrenowichs. They are commanded by
Russian officers.

An individual, named Cara Mehemet Bey, has; passed
through on his way from Constantinople to Vienna ; he is
said to be charged with a mission relative to the affairs of
Bosnia, in which the Porte and Austria are supposed to be
both concerned."—Courrier Francais.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—At the opening of the Bourse
the Three per Cents. improved to 80f. 95c., which is the pre-
sent price. The Spanish Active Stock was, at the opening of

I the Bourse, as low as 30, but considerable purchases having'
been made, the price rose to 31 ; the present price is 304 to.
LAST PRICES.-Five per Cents., 109 f. -c. ; Three
per Cents., sof. lOc. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, -; Three
per Cents. Spanish, -; Cortes, -; Coupons, - Gueb-
hards, -; Differes, 11+ ; New Loan, -; Actives, 31 ; Pas,
sives, 9i ; Ducats, 100 50 ; Romans, 1024 ; Pedros, -
Belgians, 1031 • Dutch, -f. -c. ; Haytians, 385 f. -c.
Miguels, -; Brabant Bank, -; Blgian Bank, 25 ; Con
tinuation, -c. ; New Differes, 13i; Five per Cent. PQrpe
tuelles, -; Royal Loan, -.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, AUGUST IS,
ViVe per Cents., 10Sf. 85c. SOc. 70c. 75c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 40c. 25c.
Three per Cents. 79f 90c. 95c.
Bank Actions, 2,275 f.
Rente de Naples, 100 f. 25c. 15c. 20c.
Roman Five peCents., 102%.
Spanish Actives, 301,/, 31.
Spanish Differes, 131,1,
Spanish Passives, 9 9%%%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 32.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 45% 45.
Haytian Loan, 355 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 27%c. ; money, 25f. 25c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 10e.; money, 25f. 10c.
-Coors Authentigue.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Arc. 16.
Bills.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. 99
Ditto ditto 3 percent.
Ditto Bank shares 1350
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Anglo-Russian Loan lO6
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
l'ortuguese Regency Bonds. 5 per cent 75
Ditto, 3 per cent 45
Mad 2% per Cents. 55%
Ditto 5 per Cents
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 7334
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents Z
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent
Greek 4 percents. 1533, guaranteed by France -
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, AUG. 16.-131314 ; two months. 127%.
CHRISTIANIA, AUG. 6.-Three months, 5 4.
STOCKHOLM, AUG. 9.-Two months, 11 32.
BERLIN, AUG. 13.-Three m,uths, 6. 23W
-Hamburg Papers, Aug. 16.

Money.
103

100%
105%

131%
73%
101
:0 ;

New York Papers to the 23d ult. have been re-
ceived. They bring important intelligence from Texas.
Major MILLER, and Captains CARNE and TEAL,
sent by the Texians to negotiate an exchange of pri-
soners with the Mexican Government, and who, on
making known the mission, were seized and thrown
into prison, have addressed letters to their friends in
Texas, imploring the Government to carry on the war,
without regard to their fate. It is a subject of just
pride, when private citizens thus emulate the patriotism
of the illustrious Regulus. The following are the latest
accounts from Texas :

" By the arrival of the schooner Colonel Fannin, from Ve-
lasco, which place she left on the 29th of June, we learn that
the Mexicans have advanced as far as the Nueces, between
5,000 and 7,000 men, commanded by Generals Urrea and
Bravo, 200 of which had marched for San Patricio. The
Texian army were in the neighbourhood of Victoria.
" We further learn that that part of the Mexican army who
had been in Texas with Santa Anna, and had been obliged by
General Urrea to return to Texas, have refused to cross the
Nueces, stating that they will not enter Texas again.
The captive, General Santa Anna (in irons), has been
removed from Columbus to Labordie, where the main body of
the army are stationed. The cause of his removal was owing
to the late proceedings of the Cabinet, which was to the effect
that he should be discharged, but it was counteracted by the
people. There was also a rumour very current at Velasco,
that the Mexicans intended to make a deseent by sea upon
Velasco to secure Santa Anna at all events, if retained there,
but, as our informant states, if such be their intentions they
will be frustrated by the above removal."

The President of Texas has addressed the following
orders to the inhabitants :

" I, David G. Burnet, President of the Republic of
Texas, by and with the advice and consent of the Cabinet,
have ordered and decreed, and do hereby order and decree,
that every able-bodied man in Texas, being over the age of
16 and under that of 50 years, do forthwith report himself
to the proper muster-officer of his respective municipality,
and enrol himself for military duty ; and that so soon as a
company of 56 men shall be enrolled in any municipality, they
shall proceed to an election of their several officers, and shall
forthwith march to head-quarters, first reporting their or-
ganization, and a complete company, to the Muster-office of
the municipality.
" And it is further ordered and decreed, that the muster-
officer in each municipality shall make out a full list of the
names and ages of every male citizen in his municipality,
whether absent or present, a certified copy of which shall be
transmitted to the War Department. And he shall also keep
a list of every man in his municipality who enrols himself
for military duty, a copy of which record shall be forwarded
to the Department of War at the end of every month from
the promulgation of this decree. He shall also send to the
same department copies of the several companies returned to
him.

" It is further ordered and decreed, that all officers, non-
commissioned officers, and privates, belonging to the Texiai
army, who may be absent on furlough or otherwise, do imme-
diately repair to their respective posts, and report themselves
for duty, on pain of forfeiting their commissions, if commis-
sioned officers, and their pay and bounty, if commissioned or
privates.
" Done at Velasco, the 20th day of June, 1836.
" D. G. BURNET, President.
" A Somerville, Secretary of War.'"

WESTMINSTER SESSlONS.—Yesterday, about the
middle of the day, the venerable Chairman, F. Const, Esq.,
now in the 66th year of his age, felt so oppressed with the fa-
tigue of a second day's proceedings as to be obliged to retire.
The Chair was then taken by Charles Graham, Esq., and the
business of the Sessions brought to a conclusion.
At the last sitting of the Academie de Medicine,
Dr. Scipion Pinel related the following extraordinary case of
suicide. A lady of fortune, appearing to be in possession of
every source of happiness, suddenly, from some unaccountable
impression, was overcome by ideas of self-destruction. After
contending against them for several days in vain, she deli-
berately prepared to yield to them. She took a pair of
scissors, and made an incision with them sufficiently large to
suffer her bowels to protrude, and then, cutting them into small
pieces, made them up in a packet, concealed them under the
mattress, and then laid herself on her bed to die. Before she
expired, though in the greatest agonies, she related the cir-
cumstance herself to Dr. Pinel, who was called in to attend
ker.— Galignani's Messenger.
A new and extraordinary Member appeared in the
House of Lords a few nights ago. A black tom cat made his
entree a few minutes after prayers, and took his seat without
waiting for the ceremony of a writ, or troubling his Majesty to
order a patent of nobility. His motions were attended to with
marked attention by their Lordships. It was supposed that
puss had smelt a " rat ;" and from the evident alarm exhibited
by a learned ex-Chancellor, it was manifest that some of their
Lordships were not unaware of the danger.
A gendarme, named Faure, posted at Itimont, in
the Arriege, went a few days ago to his officer, Lieutenant
Trinque, at St. Girons, to request his permission to contract
a marriage. Lieutenant Trinqu6 was not authorized to grant
the license, and in the most friendly manner represented to
Faure the imprudence of such a step, as it would put a stop
to his promotion. Faure, instead of yielding to his advice,
became desperate, returned to Rimont, and, having put on
plain clothes, went back immediately to St. Girons, armed
with a brace of loaded pistols. He soon met the Lieutenant,
who was desiring him to take some papers to his brigadier,
when Faure presented one of the pistols at his officer's head
and fired, but missed his mark, and instantly afterwards dis-
charged the other pistol at his own heart, and fell a corpse.—
French Paper.

CALEDONIAN CANAL.—According to the annual
Report, just published, the Canal dues for last year amounted
to 6651., which exceeds the dues of the previous year by 432/.
The Commissioners think the introduction of steam tugs " ab-
solutely indispensable, to give a fair chance to this great under-
taking." This has long been the opinion of the northern
public, and we hope it will now be carried into effect. —lnver-
ness Courier.

THE MOORS.—The weather has been favourable
for grouse-shooting, but hitherto there has been little sport—
the birds are small and scarce. Very few boxes have been
sent south ; but among the number was one, addressed to his
Majesty, at Windsor.—lnverness C'ourier.
AWFUL EVENT.—A young man of the name of
!heard, an artist, residing at Hampstead, had been for some
time attached to a female of the same place, but peculiar eir-
curnstances, joined to his ill state of health, had retarded their
union. Pittard was in the last stage of consumption, and had
been confined within doors nearly 12 months, and to his bed
several weeks. His speedy dissolution appeared certain.
Nevertheless, on Monday evening he determined on being
united to the object of his affections on the ensuing morning.
Accordingly, about nine o'clock, he was with difficulty dressed,
and, assisted by the arm of his intended brother-in-law, pro-
ceeded towards the church with a firmness which astonished
all his friends and neighbours. Just, however, as lie arrived
at the lodgings of his intended bride exhausted nature could
do no more—the bridegroom sank lifeless in the arms of his
relatives. He was immediately conveyed home, and every
restorative medical aid could suggest was ineffectually admi-
nistered—the vital spark was totally extinguished. He had
long supported, with the fruits of his ingenious labours as a
miniature painter, an aged and widowed mother.
Considerable alarm has existed during the last two
days at Kensington, for the safety of two youths, about 14
years of age, named George Hedges, residing at No. 22,
Young-street, Kensington-square, and Henry Thomas, of
No. 3, Trafalgar-place, Kensington-square, who both left
their homes about 8 o'clock in the evening of Wednesday last,
to view the illuminations in the High-street, on the occasion
of the birth-day of the Duchess of Kent, and have not since
been heard of. Every station house, police office, and hospi-
tal in the metropolis has been searched by their relatives, but
without obtaining any tidings of them ; and all the inquiries
made along the shores of the Thames and the different canals,
have been attended with no better result. Hedges is of a fair
complexion, very thin, with light hair, and was dressed in a
black jacket, cord trousers and cloth cap. Thomas is also of
fair complexion, with sandy hair, and was dressed in a fustian
jacket, cord trousers, and blue cloth cap,

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice WILLtAms. )
Mary Jones and Matthew Feaks, who stood indicted for un-
lawfully conspiring together to seduce and decoy Elizabeth
Vale and Mary Vale from their home, and to induce them:
become common prostitutes, applied this morning to the Court
to traverse their trials to the next session.

Mr. Baron GURNEY granted the application, ordering the
female prisoner to give bail, herself in 2001. and two sureties
of 1001. each, and the waggoner, himself SOL, and two sureties
of 40/. each.

Isaac Norton, aged 63, a coach-maker, and Thomas Pearce,
a baker, aged 19, who were indicted for intent to commit ae
unnatural crime, also applied to traverse their trials until the
next session.

Mr. Baron GURNEY ordered Pearce to give bail, himself in
5001., and two sureties of 250/. each, and Norton, himself in
801., and two sureties of 40/. each.
MANSLAUGHTER.—Edward Boyd, 17, was convicted of
maliciously cutting and maiming Eliza Hawes.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner, who 1121
known the prosecutrix about seven months, wished to pay his
addresses to her. The prosecutrix said she was afraid her
father would think she was too young : this exasperated the
prisoner, who it appeared was determined to be revenged on
her. On the Bth of August, the prosecutrix was in Bethnal
Green, in the neighbourhood of which her father resided,
together with some other females, when the prisoner came
suddenly behind her, cut her throat with a common pocket
knife, threw her down, and knelt upon her, saying Now I
think I have done for you."
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was very much exas-
perated, and was in liquor.