The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, DEC. 13.
CITY REGISTRY.—If the claimants for registry do not
come up to-day, the Court will close—the last day has come.
• The numbers recistered yesterday were—Liberals, 5 ;
Orangemen, 3. The Liberals remain inactive ; their apathy
cannot be accounted' for on any other grounds than those
which reflect discredit upon them.
CENTRAL INDEPENDENT CLUB.—A meeting of the re-
gistration committee of the Central Independent Club was
held yesterday at the club-house.
TRADES' UNION.—The usual weekly meeting of the body
took place at the Corn Exchange yesterday evening. The
apathy of the professors of Liberal opinions, in holding back
from the city registry, was dwelt upon by Mr. Arkins, whose
firm opinion it was, that " those persons had in their pockets
already, or expected, the Conservative money. There must
be something of the kind, or those persons would not hold
back. Those men had notices served four or five times for

sager.

them, and could not be got to come up. The Union would
serve again for them, and would not cease until they brought
them forward. There was a class of persons, whom he might
call house-jobbers, who greatly retarded the progress of the
franchise—they had their shops and houses let at enormous
rents, but they could not be got to pay the taxes for the
tenants, and thus deprived the people of their right of fran-

chile."

ELECTION OF LONGFORD.—The High Sheriff has fixed
Monday the 26th inst., for holding the election. Both
parties, judging from the tone of their respective organs, are
confident of success. The Mail relies without a doubt on
having " to record as deep and deadly a defeat to priestly
influence as has yet occurred in Ireland," and hints that Mr.
White will not dare to come to the poll. The Pilot, on
the other side, with better grounds, has " not a doubt of
victory," and says that " if there is real working a contest
may be spared." If the Conservatives are so very sure of
success, why do they talk prospectively of a petition against
Dlr. White's return. This has a suspicious air, and to our
minds the threat seems significantly conclusive of the Liberal
candidate's success.
PUBLIC DINNER.—Mr. O'Connell has accepted an in-
vitation to dine on the 19th inst. at Mayo. The Mail,
dreading the effect of this additional manifestation of popu-
lar feeling in favour of the Hon. Member, is stirring heaven
and earth to deter the men of Mayo from coming forward
on this occasion. A long and lachrymose article on the
subject concludes thus—" Let his own revolutionary
clique give him a triumph, but we shall incessantly call
upon every man, who is not willing to be numbered among
that pack, and who dislikes hypocrisy and humbug, to
prove his estimate of them and their master by leaving
them to the enjoyment of their own goodly company. The
coming of the mendicant amongst us will have the effect
of putting the principles of men to the test, and for that
reason we shall not regret his visit. The lovers of peace,
order, and justice, will have an opportunity of discerning
friends from foes, and we shall not neglect to make them
known."

PROTESTANT MEETING.—In the Mai/ of this evening
appears the following requisition, signed, it seems, by eight
Irish Peers We, the undersigned, request a meeting
of the Protestant Noblemen, Gentlemen, Clergy, and
landed Proprietors of Ireland. in the Great Room of the
Mansion-house, in the city of Dublin, on Tuesday, the
24th day of January, 1837, at twelve o'clock, for the pur-
pose of petitioning both Houses of Parliament, praying
them to adopt such measures as will give protection to the
Protestants of Ireland, and to prepare a loyal and dutiful
Address to his Majesty, calling his most serious attention
to the imminent dangers which threaten the liberties of all
classes of his Majesty's loyal subjects in Ireland, and the
attempts which are making to undermine and destroy the
Protestant religion in this kingdom :
" Downshire, f Bandon,
Farnham, Downes,
Dunsany, Enniskillen,
Roden, Glengall

" Admission to the meeting will be by Tickets, to be is-
sued by the Committee of Arrangement, of which further
notice will be given."
The paper in whose columns the publication of this in-
tended so-called " Protestant meeting" is seen, declares that it
will be " the most numerous and important assembly of loyal
subjects that ever was held any age or country for a po-
litical purpose !!" The Insignificants whose names are ap-
pended to the requisition, we will dare' assert, were, before
this magniloquence of the Mail, ignorant of their prodigious

influence, and never could have dreamed of their vast im-
portance and coming greatness. It is but fitting that the
most " important assembly that ever was held in any age or
country" should be headed by the greatest men of the pre-
sent age in any country, and therefore we find the illustrious
Downes, Enniskillen, &c., &c.! !
APPOINTNIENTS TO OFFICE.—The Pilot and the Even-

ing Post are divided in opinion on the subject of Mr. Duffy's
appointment to the office of Filacer of the Exchequer.
The latter sees in Mr. Duffy a fitting and proper person
for the situation, whilst the Pilot thinks that there is
something anomalous in the appointment to a legal office
of an individual not belonging to the profession of the law :
and that there has been "an unprecedented misuse of
the patronage of Government, so marked as to almost
exceed belief." In reference to some other appointments,
we transfer the testimony of the Mail in favour of their
propriety :—" Mr. Murphy succeeds the late Mr. Trail
Hall, as Assistant-Barrister for Cavan—Mr. Finlay goes
to Kerry, and Mr. Kane is to be appointed to Leitrim.
The latter gentleman has as yet to be proved ; but we un-
derstand that when he acted as one of the registering bar-
risters for the county of Dublip, under the Reform Act,
his decisions were fair, and gave general satisfaction. He
is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Murphy is a professor of the
same religion ; but has the good taste and good feeling to
cease from agitation ever since the period that the Emanci-
pation Bill was carried," &e.
' It has been blowing a perfect hurricane for the last two
days. The London papers of Sunday did not arrive t:2:1
one o'clock yesterday ; and the Holyhead mail sine,
six this morning, had not reached at the time, of our going
to press (three o'clock)."
The Liberals have served My notices for the ensuing
registry, and the Tories tine, The latter will hardly at-
tend—if he does, we have reason to think his claim will be
successfully resisted. At the last sessions the Liberals re-
gistered fifty, the Toros none.—Kilkenny Journal.
TILE JUSTICE RENT.—The people of Kilkenny are pot
coming forward as they should to subscribe to%La Justice
Rent. What is the cause? Are thoy 4Vollie to Corporate
Reform ? Have they lost that, Ettrietism in a sudden ad-
miration of tltc tithe oystent ? This apathy is really tln.
worthy of' the " boys of Kilkenny"—of the constittyats of
O'Connell,—.lo/kenny_Journal.

Two hundred and Ilfty•nine notiecs of togiatry have been
served for the next Quarter Segikions, to he held on the
28th inst., at Ennistimnr, the county Clare.

The estahlishment of a college at Manchester is con-
templated,
It would appear, from the account of the disease in
Naples, which has made great ravage% that it is not the
Asiatic cholera,. because it does not possess any of the pain-
ful and agonizing, ellariworistioi of that dreadful complaint.
It i 0 1)411410e common cholera, aggravated by the ex-
treme destitution of the poorer part of the population, hud-
dled together in close alleys and narrow streets,
This day is remarkable for being the anniversary of
the day on which Cromwell was declared Protector, in
1653. It is the anniversary also of the birth-day of the
celebrated Jahn Selden, in 1584, and of the day on which
Thomas Pennant died, in 1708.
It is now fixed that the dinner to Mr. James Os-
wald, 111,11„ by the citizens of Glasgow, is to take place
on Thursday, the sth of January. The Tontine Coffee-
room has been handsomely granted for the occasion. Sir
John Maxwell, of is to be in the chair. The
cratipier4 arp A. 0, Speirs, Esq., John Dednistoun, Esq.,
Pllti W. Buchanan, Esq.--Glasgow Chronicle.
The usual convivial Meetings previous to the election
of Common Councilmen have commenced, which takes place
on Wednesday next, when great bustle will prevail in the
City and the popular Clahs, which will be crowded with
the friends of the candidates who aspire to civic honours.
Such has been the feeling of mistrust amongst the
' shipping interest, occasioned by the late storms, that a
letter has been received in this town, in answer to an
application for a policy of insurance, stating that a deter-
mination has been come to at Lloyd's not to insure any
vessel not warranted in port, except at such an enormous
premium as was not likely ever to be offered.—Liverpool
Courier.

A SPORTING PAUPER.—In the parish of Lion-
bistea, in the county of Radnor. a pauper keeps seven
couples of dogs ; he receives ai. a year for the rent of
his house, independent of tither relief ; since Lady-day,
to the present time, he has also received 15s. for
fhod far his dogs. He hunts bares in the autumn, and
rats at other times.—Hereford Journal.

Wit ALE SHIPS.--A letter has been received by th
owners of the Nuyidk from a gentleman in Shields, from
which the following is an extract 'r,stt The last I heard of
the Norfi4 was frqng the roaster of the Everthorpe, who
siaw Ilex in company with the Grenville Bay (lat. 74 or
75), fishing in clear water, on the 20th of August. Messrs.
Warham and Lisk are much afi aid that they twP hoot fur-
ther north this year than last, but their roam for sup-
posing thk, arivs trp tiwir ilat having been seen to the
sq4thwani ititucse the above date. Notwithstanding this, they
think they may arrive better fished than we heard of, as
there was a great run of fish to the north, when the Lady
Jane was fast in the middle ice." Not the slightest appre-
hensions are entertained by the owners of the Norfolk, as
• the provisions which she took out with i her ere amply :Ng!
•
cient, with rood manage:l:put, itct t4e crew during trhe
winter,—./Aiiia"Adverirser.

FOREIGN IN TELLIGENC E.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Drc, 14.—The Conerier says—" It was reported
this evening, in some circles, that there had been great
agitation in the Council of Ministers, in consequence of
Marshal Clausel's dispatch. Vehement reproaches, it was
said, were made to several members, on account of the re-
prisals which the Marshal had experienced, and the delays
which had been occasioned. A new Ministerial crisis seems
to be at hand."—Jvurnal du Commerce.

Lord Granville had a conference with M. Mole, yester-
day morning, in consequence, it is said, of dispatches that
had been received. Couriers were dispatched this morning
to London and Madrid. It is said that M. Salvandi, after
an interview with M. Guizot, was presented to M. Mo;e,
for an important mission to M. Latour Maubourg,.—Mes-

(From the French Papers or Tuesday and Wednesday.)
The following is the text of the letter of convocation for
the Session of 1837, dated Tuileries, Nor. 25, 1836, and
addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the Deputies :
" Sir,—We acquaint you that the opening of the Session of
the Chambers will take place in Paris on Tuesday, 27th of
December next, and that you are required to attend it.—Your
affectionate,

(Signed) " LOUIS PHILIPPE.
(Countersigned) " G ASPA INN, Peer of France, Minister-
Secretary of State for the Department
of the Interior.

—Courrier Francais.
On Sunday, at five o'clock, the King granted an audience
to Count Mole, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. In the
evening his Excellency Lord Granville, the President of the
Chamber of Peers, Count de Bondy, and several Peers
and Deputies, had the honour of being received by his Ma-
jesty. Yesterday, at a quarter before twelve o'clock, the
King and Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Princesses Mary
and Clementine, and the Prince de Joinville, accompanied
by the Count de Montalivet, the Prefect of Pollee, the.
Aides-de-Camp of his Majesty, the Ladies of Honour of
the Queen and Princesses, went to Versailles.
The Duke of Orleans left Paris, for Brussels, on Sa-
turday night, at nine o'clock.
Prince Talleyrand arrived at Paris on Sunday, and at
five o'clock went to the Tuileries, where he had a long au-
dience of the King. M. Thiers paid a lengthy visit to the
Prince yesterday.
The Right Honourable Edward Ellice has just arrived
in Paris ; his noble brother-in-law, Earl Grey, is expected
in January.
A letter from Vannes contains fresh details respecting
the tragic event of which we have already given some ac-
count. On the Gth of December, at breakfast time, the
Sub-Lieutenant Severac, ensign bearer of the 65th regi-
ment, in consequence of some trivial remark being made,
fell, sword-in-hand, upon his comredes, who were unarmed,
and in undress. This circumstance would lead to the be-
lief that this desperate outrage was the result of premedita-
tion. Out of the six officers present five were wounded.
M. Derivaux is dangerously wounded by a cut on the head,
and has seven or eight cuts on other parts of his body.
M. Froidure is dangerously wounded ; he had a finger cut
off'. M. Baron is also dangerously wounded ; he has a
cut on the face and neck. M. Dupont is seriously
wounded by a cut on the head, and another on the shoulder.
M. Guirre is slightly wounded on the head and hand. Se-
verac was not apprehended by the Guards without a violent
struggle. Two soldiers were wounded in endeavouring; to
secure him. His resistance was not overcome before
received a bayonet stab. Severac having eominitte:i the
above-mentioned outrage, tried to blow out his brains with
a pistol, but the ball only passed through the lower jaw, and
lodged in his tongue. The Adjutants Dibos and Balazac
were obliged to cut the brachial artery tq disarm
National.
The late tempests have done Voty eonsiderable damage
to the port of Havre, and at Ingouville, Sanvie, and St.
Addresse. The sea is on the point of making its way
through the fosses of Havre on to the plain of Ingouville,
part of which is below the level of the sea, and thence
reach the plain of Le Heure, so that Havre would be com-
pletely insulated. In consequence of this apprehension the
Prefect of the Seine Inferieure has given orders for pro-
ceeding immediately to take all such steps as are likely to
prevent such a calamity.
The river continues to rise ; every hone it is higher.
Since Monday night it has increased by 'at least a foot, r.nd
is advancing in the most frightful re:annex in the Place de la
Greve and the Rue de la Mertellerie. The ground floors
of all the houses on the Quay de la Greve are two feet
under water, which has riot, wo believe, happened within
the last 60 years ; autj the inhabitants of the Rue de 1%
Boucheric and the Rue des Vierges, have been driven from
their dwelling*. All passage along the quay is stopped,
from the Rue Geoffroy Lasnier to the Place de l'Hotel de
Ville ; and all the small adjacent streets. Barriers are
erected at the two ends of the Rue de l'Hotel de Ville, at
the entrances into the Place, and at the foot of the Pont
Louis Philippe, to prevent vehicles from going along. The
flood has invaded the Rue Traversiere, as high up as No.
26, and the Rue Villiot, as far as the corner of the Rue
de Bercy. These streets are to be traversed only by boats
and flying bridges. Until Monday night the Quai St.
Paul was free ; but yesterday morning it was invaded by
the torrent, and has since been passable only by means of
planks. During Mouday night the guard-house at the
Port au Platre. WAltoverflowed, and the guard was obliged to
retire. The Port au Vin is covered with water, and there
is no poSsibility of going from the Garden of Plants to the
Ree des Fosses St. Bernard. At Berey all the wine-stores
are inundated, and the houses berd,,ering" the quay are de-
serted and closed. The res.:want called the Marroniers.
and other similar establ;:-:ments, are embanked, to exelejde
the water. The
W
fisherman atermen state that the habitats on of a
y 'near the bridge at Ivry has been swept"away le the
toremt
; that one of his children is drowned ; that r,ra himself
has had both his thighs broken by the fall of
would have perished, had not relief come.. a beam, and
at the moment it
did. Down the river the Piles of t!ee Pont des Artes are
covered above their capitals ; ;Art of Gros Caillou is also
river h:es become a frightful torrent, upon
under water. The
which not a single. leoat dare venture. It is very near, if not
quite, at the her
ant it attained in the remarkable flood of 1740.
During the, whole of yesterday morning the surface of the
river eke* covered with bundles of hay and straw, quantities
a thatch-wood, planks, and casks, mingled with dead fowls,
40 the carcase of a horse. All the wooden buildings on
the wlearfs, used by the collectors and officers of the Cus-
toir.s, are either submerged, or carried away from the
'.s'barfs. The water comes up the servers as high as the
Rue Montmartre. The Catacombs arc also filled to be-
yond the Luxembourg. The force of the stream has car-
ried away enormous pieces of the wooden frame-work which
supports the water-engine on the Pont Notre Dame ; the
building is out of its place, the wheels no longer turn round.
and alarming sounds of giving way are occasionally heard.
Vast crowds collect on the quays to view this imposing
spectacle. Above and below Paris, the country represents
immense lakes, the borders of which are lost in the dis-
tance. The accounts received yesterday from the depart-
ments, are alarming. At all points the Seine has broken
its boundaries, and threatens to spread still more widely
over the adjoining lands. The Mayor of Montereau, about
thirty leagues up the river, writes that the water was fur-
ther increased by a rise of seven feet ; and, consequently,
it was apprehended that before the close of the last night,
there might be an increase at Paris of about eighteen inches.
The communications between France and Switzerland arc
re-established on the most amicable footing. Our commercial
relations with the latter country will have suffered but mo-
mentarily from that factitious anger which the Swiss Press
had awakened against France, and which some still try to keep
up by imposture. Meantime the resolutions adopted by the
Diet against the political refugees,are being executed conscien-
tiously. A reward of 400 Swiss livres (600 francs) has been
promised by the Vorort to whoever will furnish the autho-
rities with the means of arresting any of the four principal
refugees (Rabschenplatt, Mazziiii, and the brothers Ruf-
fini) whose retreat has not yet been discovered. The Can-
tons have been recommended to adopt some punishment
against individuals who afford an asylum to refugees whose
expulsion has been ordered. Government has not yet de-
manded the extradition of the fugitives implicated in the
StrashUrgh affair, who are now concealed in the Canton of
Basle eountry.—Debsts.
M. Gutierrez d'Estrada, formerly Mexican Minister for
Foreign Affairs, who has been residing in Paris for a short
time, has been named Minister Plenipotentiary to his Bri-
tannic Majesty.—Journal des Dcbals%
Prince Talleyrand arrived in Paris on Sunday, and at
five o'clock went to the Tuilleries,where he had a long au-
dience of the King. M. Thiers paid a lengthy visit to the
Prince yesterday.—Courrier Francais.
A letter, dated Rome, Nov 26. th, in the Augsburgh Ga-
zette, shows that some alarm exists lest the cholera should
reach that city from Naples,
TILE VENDOME CONSYttATORS.—In the second day's,
sitting of the Court-martial held at Tours on the 10th ins le,
in the case of the Vendome conspirators, the examination
of the prisoners was continued. The prisoner Oudenot
declared that he looked upon Bruyant's plan as an insane
idea, and that he himself never intended. to conspire. The
whole
f ptlairetyTete Noire,
had tact the morning of October 30 at the
but merely on a party Of pleasure,
They had sung some songs, to which, however, no political
importance could be attached. Brigadier Bruyant plxided
in his defence that his object had been. merely to ameliorate
the lot of his Countrymen. The PreKt;r.ai having observed
to him that had his plan stIMA,4I, he would, no doubt,
have expected to he tpereeted to the rank of Colonel—
" Why not," ekcia,lened'Bruyant, in a tone of enthusiasm,
and tie?, teteo,ost confidence in his own merits, With re-
, gird to the assassination of Barriettx, he contended that the
! meisfortune was due to chance alone. The President (to Bru-
yaat)—Did you not, in your proclamation, allude to a gene-.
ral participation of property ? Prisoner—The territory of

a commune ought to be distributed among its inhabitants,
and those who have more than their share ought to pay a
rent. Soldiers ought to be considered as the best citizens,
and ought not to be fed like beasts. The principal hotels
and inns in Vendome ought each to lodge a squadron, and
to look for their payment to the mass. The prisoner after.
wards stated, that on proceeding to his chamber, liQ seized
his pistols and sabre ; that on the 1100:COMIllisstanal Awl
withdrawing, he took to flight ; that in thepanao ito rnvi
with Quartermaster Laudry, who fired his pistol at h;tifi
without receiving any provocation. The prisoner dented
that lie cut at Landry with his sabre, but said that 11;2 teiit3
rade Thierry had done so. " In turning into the corride,::'
added the prisoner, " I threw myself upon Barricux, and
just as he seized me across the body my two p.istok went
off. Barrieux was my comrade, my friend—iye iielonged
to the same squadron." President—" The circumstraice
that your pistols had been loaded since the morning:
proves that you intended to make use of them."
Prisoner—" I loaded them without any object in view,
without any reference to the plot of the evening." Th.::
pt isoners Marshal, Descartes, Bissiere,N4rdin, Lenoan, 11f,er-
nard, and Penoit, denied all intention of participatin,..- in .a
conspiracy. All the witnesses were heard in ti course of
this sitting, which was protracted till half-n:dst six o'clock.
The proceedings were to continue on t
llth), when the Captain-Reporter anate ensuing day (the
the Counsel for the
prisoners were to be heard. sentence was expected to be
61 the same evening. With the
pexrocnepotuinocned iorn
ttthe cou
atimination of the principal prisoner,
Bruyant, f.. 100 Vneeedings have hitherto presented but little
interzA, The Court was well attended, and the ladies
formed, no inconsiderable portion of the auditory.
A new suspension-bridge over the Loire at Digoin, on
the departmental road between Moulins and Macon, was
opened on the 22d ult. Another similar bridge at Four-
neon, between Moulins and Bale, is very nearly finished.
Extract of a letter dated St. Sebastian, Dec. 7, 1834 :
" Our town would appear threatened with a siege at. least
equal to that of Bilboa, if we were to judge from the war-
like preparations in progress here at this moment. One sees
in the streets nothing but carts and carriages filled with am-
munition, pieces of artillery, mortars, shells in immense
quantities, &c., all of which have come
_from England. A
large portion of the soldiers of the Legion are working at
the fortifications. In a month from this time St. Sebastian
will be capable of resisting the entire united force of the
Carlists. The motive of all this work is, with us, merely
conjecture ; but it would not seem exclusively in the in-
terests of the Queen."

FRENCH FUNDS.-Pmus, DEC. 13.
Five per Cents., 1071. 40c. 30c. 4::c, 50c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 2*c. 15c.
Three per Cents. 78f. 9,.c 85c. 95c. 90c.
Hank Actions, 2,330 f.
Rente de Naples, 97f sc. 97E
Spanish Actives, 20N1,4% 14,
Spanish Passives, 5%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10114
Portuguese Three Der Cents. 29%;.4„
Dutch Two and a Half per Ceiv.s.,s4l;.
tikkytian Loan, 360 f.
ExcitANue ON I.ol.nott.
-fours Authen:,sque. '"
One
•h r erne toiniotihit,hpas,irarp,o2rs, r2Nlirfitv:e.ir
FRENCH, F'JNDS.-PAnts, Dec. 14.
Five per Ceuta.. lu7f. 40c. 45c.
Four an
Four per een ts.. 90f. 10c.
et a Palf tier Cents. 101 E 50c.
2,41''., Actions,
Cents., 78f. 80c. 85c.
2,4 u".. Actions, 2,340 f.
''_cute de Naples, 97f. 10c.
Roman Five per Cents., 1001/%%.
Spanish Actives, '2l 20% Mg.
Spanish Diftbres, 8%.
siianish Passives, 514.
Portuguese Loan, Toree per Cents, 30,
Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 55.
haytian Loan, 360 E
EXCIIANGF ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 3114 e.; money.; 25t. 31c
Three months, paper, 251. 12%c. ; mot. ey. 25t. lOc.
-('sirs AullieufiJur.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.--.T1Y,2 funds have sustained
themselves to-day, notwitlistar,dir.b the unfavourable news
from Bona. At Tortoni's thy l'iad shown a tendency to fall
(having been down so low goc.), but the improvement
in Consols in London on Mrnday caused a slight alteration fur
the better, which contir.e
Messrs. Grille and, e(i. to the close of business.
Labouglis, the manufacturers of Mul-
hauscn, whose fd.are was announced yesterday, aro defaulters
to the amount ui 2,500,000 f. (100,000/.)
LAST PRiCEs.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 65c. ; Threa
per Cents..., 78f. 10c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
V..rds, —; Differes, 81; New Loan, —; Actives, 201 ; Pas-.
sires, 5.i; Ducats, —; Romans, 100,1-; Pedros, —;
Belgians, —; Dutch, 551. ; Haytians, 3601. —e. ; Mi-
guels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 33 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, ; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —; Three per Cent. Portuguese, 3();
Bank Actions, 2,3401. ; Austrian, —; Ronte de Naples,
971. 25c.