The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-30 00:00:00

MATCH AGAINST'

Townsend has achieved another victory, that of walking one
hundred miles in twenty-four hours. There was no specific
sum named, nor are we of opinion that it was even for 51.,
still there is merit in the performance. The route taken was
from tha Horse Guards, over Vauxhall-bridge, through Clap.
ham, Tooting, and Mitcham, to the 10th mile-stone at Rose-
hill, Sutton. He started at seven o'clock on Monday night,
supped at D'Almaine's, at Tooting, at half-past eight, returned
from Sutton, had some brandy, and journeyed onwards. He
took refreshment every ten miles, and at twenty-eight minutes
past six, without any symptoms of distress, he completed the
performance, taking 23 hours and 28 minutes.

THE ATTEMPT ON THE OF
THE FRENCH.

(From Galignalli'"::•lessenger of Tuesday.)
FURTHER PARTICUEAS.—We learn that after their re-
turn to Neuilly, on Sunday, the King, Queen, and Royal
Family went to the parish church, and were present at a
Te Deunt performed in thanksgiving for the preservation
of his Majesty's life. The church, and all the avenues to
it, were crowded to excess. Detachments from the Na-
tional Guards of Neuilly, Petaux, and Courbevoie attended
spontaneously ; the passage from the door to the altar was
farmed by a company of the grenadiers. The Dotnine
salvu»t fac Regum was joined in by the whole congrega.
tion with such fervour that the eyes of the whole Royal
Family were bathed in tears, and even some of the oldest
veteran officers were affected.

On Sunday most of the Foreign Ambassador.; and Mi-
nisters at Paris sent off couriers to their respective Courts,
with despatches relative to the attempt upon the King.
The vows of the atrocious deed was transmitted to the de-
partments by telegraph.
The Court of Peers is proceeding with the greatest
activity in the work of examination which is allotted to it.
The police are continuing their search at all the dealers in
arms ; and a great number of prohibited arms have been
already seized. At all times the fabrication of these arms,
as well as the selling of them, have been prohibited by the
law.

Numerous arrests, the number of which amount to nearly
eighty, were effected yesterday morning►, in consequence of
an order issued by the Prefect of Police, on account of
participation in unauthorised societies. The greater part
of the persons thus arrested are young men, belonging
mostly to the working classes, and inhabiting chiefly the
sth and 12th arrondissements.

The President of the Council gives himself up wholly to
the affair of Alibeaud. Confidential agents have boon sent
off to Lyons and Nismes to obtain information as to uis
connections in those towns. The iudieial office:i.s of the
Court of Peers and the Grand Refereadary in constant
communication with M. Thiers,

Yesterday the culprit nw)-erwent a new examination by
Boron Pasquier ; and was said that, the examining
Magistrates, fiu(l2:rig themselves sufficiently informed upon
the matter, the resolutions of the Preparatory Committee
will be transmitted on Thursday to the Noble Court ;
which ho lug assembled as a Chamber of Accusation, and
n OP supposition of no supplementary inquiry being ne-
cessary, would then decide that Alibeaud should be put
upon his trial, and would fix Monday next for the trial, in
order that, in the interval, the prisoner's Counsel might
have time to confer with him for preparing the defence.
When Alibeaud was taken into his cell at the Concier-
gerie, he amused himself with reading the incriptions Fieschi
had scratched upon the walls during his detention there,
and which have bee❑ suffered to remain on account
of their moral tendency. Alibeaud soon began to smile,
and said—" How silly this man made himself! Yet he
and I shall go clown to posterity. You will find, however,
that I shall conduct myself very differently from him ; for
he was a groat babbler, and fancied he produced a great
effect by his oily words and affectations," When conversing
with his townsfolks, M. and Madame Mercier, though he
declared that he had no accomplices, and that he dared
not confide his project to any one on account of the ego-
tism of the age ; ho asserted that there were at least 20,000
persons in Fo•ance who were as determined_ as himself,
-Ihe strait waistcoat put upon the assassin on his arrival
at the Conciergerie has been taken off since be has been
placed under the surveillance of eight persons, four of whom
are in turns constantly with him by night and by day.
These keepers have no communications with any persons
without, nor even with any in the prison.
Alibeaud received a certain degree of education. Let-
ters written by him have been found, of which the ortho-
graphy is correct. His language, without being refined, is
good and fluent. It is said that when he was a soldier he
received a sabre wound in the head, which, together with
the dissipated life he had led, and the distress to which he
has been reduced, may have caused that state of excitement
which has driven him to commit the desperate act of Sa-
turday, He was particularly fond of wine and good living.
He lids been turned away from several places in which he
was employed on account of his bad conduct.

At the hotel where Alibeaud lived, he never spoke to
any One, not even to the proprietor, who lived on the rez-
th'ehaussee. Whenever he went out he carried a pistol-
cane ; but by a singular distrust, and through fear, no
doubt, of some domestic in the hotel examining it, he. al-
ways bid it carefully behind a chest of drawers. One day
the servant, while sweeping the room hit it, and having
caused it to fall, took it up and examined it in the presence
of Alibeaud, who appeared mueb annoyed at its having
been found in his passession. "Itis a forbidden cane," he
observed to Alibeaud.-; " if this was seen in your hands, it
would be taken tom you." " Oh," replied Alibeaud, tak-
ing it back again, " it is good for nothing except to kill
bira:s with," On Saturday he went out at twelve o'clock,
and returned about two o'clock ; he then went out again
almant an hour afterwards, for the last time. It was just a
month since he. had been in the hotel, and it is needless to
say that he had not paid his rent. Seals were put on the
door of his room. The master of the hotel, with his wife
and servant, were interrogated yesterday, but Alibeaud
has not yet been confronted with them.

Frey, a person with whom Alibeaud lodged at one period
in the Rue Bourbon Villeneuve, has been arrested in Bor-
deaux. The police have found, at his lodgings in the Rue
Bourbon Villeneuve, letters that bad been sent to him by
Alibeaud.

It has been remarked that there is a singular coincidence
between the attempt made by Alibeaud and the conspiracy
of Neuilly last year. On that occasion, as on Saturday, the
King was to have been attacked with fire-arms in his car-
riage, on the 25th June, 1835, between five and six o'clock,
as he was going from Paris to Neuilly.
TUESDA Y, ONE O'CLOCK.—LoyaI addresses, expressive
of indignation at. the late attempt, and of attachment to his
Majesty's person, were delivered to the King yesterday by
Marshal Lobau, in the name of the National Guards ;
Count Portalis, in that of the Court of Cessation ; and
M. Pelet de la Lozere, in that of the Royal Council of
Public Instruction. His Majesty's answers, like those
given to the two Chambers, were replete with profound
sentiment, and the expression of anxiety for the prosperity
of the country.

The Chamber of Deputies has not been summoned in
consequence of the attempt of Saturday, from which it is
evident that there is no intention of bringing forward any
new repressive laws. Several of the Ministers are even
said to have told their friends that the existing laws are
sufficient, and no extrlordinsry measure is required. It is
believed that the Parliamentary session will not be closed
till after the trial of Alibeand,

(From the Impartial.)
The new regicide bas hitherto made Few avowals tending
to disclose his former life. His attitude continues the same ;
he atre:cts that fictitious dignity, that false parade, which
denotes a man prepared to enact a dramatic part.

The Earl of Eldon has greatly improved in health,
since the recent favourable change of weather.
TALES OF TILE WOODS AND EIELDs.—A Se-
cond Series of the " Two Old Men's Tales."—The forte of
this author is condensed pathos. lie (for we do not think the
work is written by a lady) tutees with power the strong emo-
tions of the heart, and slows with singular skill the play of
those deep feelitws, which agitate impassioned natures. It is
the terneerArAtkolt of the writer that makes his stories delight-
ful] cAmrtag over them a fervid atmosphere that renders them
at once poetical and true. The struggle between love and
duty in Narginie is well drawn, and takes, from the high sense
of moral virtue it discovers, a tone of great dignity and power.

THE LATE MAYOR ELECT.---The Tories must be
at a loss for a grievance whoa this State
r question is stirred.
The party here had
sutler tttkett wit is their ant,er, and thought it
better to
the katAtter to drop. Mr. Sergeant Jackson,
however, dilibred in opinion with them. Encouraged by his
successful effort to redeem Bandon from the condemned list
of Corporations to bo abolished, Mr. Deane's sufferings in the
cause are to form the subject of his neat achievement. Ile
would do better, however, to leave the respectable gentleman,
the objection to him being now removed, to take his chance
quietly on the first Monday in July, of being the last lottery-
drawn Chief Magistrate.—Southern Reporter.