The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1836.

Bennett and Owen, Mr. Cumming, whO is about to pro-
ceed on a voyage of natural history to Manilla, and other
distinguished naturalists.
NEWSPAPER TA x.—The Greenock Intelligencer,
in an able article on this important question, refutes the as-
sertion that the numerous petitions sent to the House last
session were got up here by a clique ; although they and we
are aware that circulars from an Association in London,
consisting of Lord Brougham, Mr. Bulwer, and others,
were last summer sent to various places enforcing the ne-
cessity of active exertion to obtain the repeal of the tax on
newspapers. Our contemporary concludes by affirming,
that " not one of the petitions which were sent from
Greenock, for the abolition of the Newspaper Stamp Duty,
Was got up, or subscribed at the request of Lord Brougham,
or any of the gentlemen whose names were mentioned -in
the circulars referred to. Copies of these circulars did
come to this town ; but unfortunately for the argument of
our metropolitan brethren, they did not arrive until after all
the Greenock petitions had been sent off to Parliament.
We are told that not one petition against the Newspaper
Tax voluntarily emanated from persons who felt themselves
aggrieved by the duty ; and yet from the operatives of
Greenock alone no less than five petitions on the subject
were sent to Parliament during last Session, besides the
general petition of the inhabitants, adopted at a public meet-
' ing in the Townhall, with the Provost in the Chair, and
signed by nearly 2,000 persons."
TITHES.—DUBLIN, JAN. 12.--Yesterday the
Court of Exchequer was occupied almost exclusively- with
tithe cases. Mr. Sergeant Jackson made an application on
behalf of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church
of. Killaloe, against Robert Otway Cave, Esq., of the
county Tipperary, that the service of a writ of subpoena,
by posting a copy of it on the hall door of Castle Otway,
the defendant's residence, should be deemed good service.
The Learned Counsel founded his application upon various
afdavits, stating that the parties considered their lives to
be in imminent danger if they attempted to serve the writ
in the ordinary way. An individual, named Fahy, swore
that, immediately after he had served a writ upon the de-
fendant, which was issued against him on the 26th of Nov.
last, he was attacked and knocked down by two men, whom
he could not identify. • The Chief Baron expressed his opi-
nion that, under such circumstances, the defendant should
be held responsible, and that the court ought to grant a
rule nisi to show cause why an attachment should not issue
against his person, as it was impossible the outrage could
have been committed without his consent, if he afterwards
directed his solicitor to enter an appearance. The Court
ultimately granted the application in this and several other
cases of a similar description. • .
GRAND FANCY BALL AT THE COLOSSEUM.—
Last night a fancy dress ball was given at the Colosseum,
in behalf of the funds of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases
of the Ear, and to enable the Governors to enlarge the
institution, so as to receive patients at an early age, when
the prospect of an effectual cure is naturally more favourable
than at an advanced stage of life. To promote this good
Samaritan object, the entertainment of last night originated
with the Ladies Patronesses, amongst whom are included
several members of the Royal Family, and a great number
of the leading Nobility. We however think that the Go-
vernors of the Institution would have acted with greater
advantage to its finances if the ball had been given at a
more advanced period of the season, when the town would
have been fuller, and a greater number of the Nobility and
other influential persons would, from the feeling they have
expressed in behalf of the Charity, have been present. As
it was, however, the company was both numerous and re-
spectable, and included several of the Foreign Ministers and
their Ladies, the Lord Mayor, accompanied by the sisters
of the Lady Mayoress, several foreigners of distinction, &c.
The splendid suite of rooms were all thrown open, and bril-
liantly illuminated for the occasion. The fine band of the
Ist Regiment of Life Guards was in attendance, and con-
tinued to play some beautiful music during the arrival of the
company. Shortly after ten o'clock the ball was opened to
the music of Weippert's full baud, who in the course of the
evening performed a variety of new quadrilles, Prince George
of Cumberland's new and admired waltz, &c. The fancy
dresses were numerous, and, with few exceptions, of a
splendid description. There were the usual number of
Greek, Neapolitan, Highland, Spanish, Venetian, Swiss,
and Oriental costumes. Amongst those most conspicuous
for beauty and splendour were a Queen Elizabeth, accom-
panied by Amy • Robsart, a Spanish Grandee, an Indian
Prince, a Hungarian Noble, a Knight of the sable Plume,
&c. The tout ensemble within the salon de clause, at mid-
night was extremely striking. The merry dance was kept
up with spirit until a late hour this morning, and we have
no doubt the result of the entertainment must prove highly
gratifying to the numerous friends of this charitable
institution.

Active preparations are making in Lambeth to give
effect to the ceremony of laying the foundation of a new
school for the children of publicans, in Kennington-lane.
Viscount Melbourne is to lay the first stone on Thursday
next, and, after the business of the day, dine with the
Members for the Borough and the licensed victuallers, at
the Horns Tavern. The building is to be erected nearly
on the site of the old school, formerly the residence of Sir
Joseph Mawbey. Seats for the accommodation of at least
1,000 spectators have been erected upon the ground, in the
form of an amphitheatre.

Yesterday morning, at half-past one o'clock, a party
of smugglers attempted to run a cargo between Hove and
Copperas Gap, but were prevented by the vigilance of the
Coast Guard on those stations, who fired off their pistols,
although the. man on duty at the former place was struck
with a bat, and his pistol wrenched out of his hand, which
was much cut. The crew of the smugglers' boat, hear-
ing the report of pistols, are supposed, as it was a very still
morning, to have made off, and sunk her cargo till a more
favourable opportunity. The Coast Guard man at Cop-
peras Gap secured one of the party, but, being overpow-
ered and knocked down, the smuggler escaped. There were
fearful odds—about 40 to I.—Brighton Gazelle.
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AN AMERICAN DUEL—Copy of a letter received
in Washington, from Florida, dated November 28 :—" On
the 21st a desperate duel was fought between Captain
Everett White, brother of the delegate in Congress, and
Colonel A. Bellamy, late President of the Legislative
Council. These gentlemen were candidates for Jefferson's
County, and Captain White was returned. The duel, from
the mode of conducting it, was intended on both sides for
fatal results, which unfortunately followed. They were
stationed 60 yards apart, with four pistols, to advance and
fire. Captain White advanced and received three shots
without injury, and then fired at the distance of 15 paces.
His first shot passed through Colonel Bellamy's arm, the
next through his body, and in the act of advancing with the
other two pistols he received a mortal wound from Colonel
Bellamy's fourth pistol. Colonel Bellamy is not yet dead,
but must certainly die of his wounds. I yesterday performed
the painful office of following Captain White to the grave.
The Court adjourned, and the funeral was attended by the
bar and the grand jury in a body."—Ncw York Paper.
The diligence from Paris to Rheims, which gene-
rally reaches the latter town at five in the morning, did not
arrive one day last week till after mid-day, and the delay
excited alarm. The following was the disastrous cause :
On arriving at Soissons, seven young Alsatians, who were
going to the army as substitutes, wanted places ; but there
was room for only three who took their seats on the roof.
The coach bad got some distance on the road, when it was
discovered by the passengers in the rotonde, that the other
four young men were clinging to the outside of the carriage,
and-ere long-, one of them opened theidoor behind, and .
seated himself at the top of the steps, keeping the door
open-, and thus exposing those within to all the rigour of a
severely frosty night. An altercation ensued, the coach was
stopped, and the conductor called upon to interpose, but in
vain, the Alsatians, who by the way did not. understand a
word of French, resisted all attempts to displace them.
From words the contending parties came to blows, and
during the fray, the conductor received from M. Boulanger,
a passenger, a wound in the face by the blow of a stick,
which nearly deprived him of one eye. After a long con-
test the tumult ceased, but a more melancholy catastrophe
ensued. While conversing on what had passed, M. Bou-
langer was struck dead by apoplexy. A most distressing
scene ensued, for his daughter, who was with him, on
learning the fate of her father, fainted, and afterwards fell
into a most violent fit of hysterics. The body of the de-
ceased was left at Sermeise. In the confusion the four Al-
satians made their escape, but they have since been taken,
and committed to prison at Soissons.
BERLIN, JAN. 3.—His Majesty's permission to
make au iron railroad between Berlin and Potsdam is at
length given, but in such a manner that the work can
hardly be undertaken, for now a decree of expropriation
is annexed to it, so that the persons who undertake the
work must treat separately with all the landowners in the
direction of the road, which everybody knows is next to
impossible, and we hear that a petition for a law of ex-
propriatiori is preparing.—German Paper.
Last Thursday one of our fishing-boats landed here
a prisoner who escaped from St. Pelagic. He states that
his name is Fontaine, and that seven years ago he worked
under Sir Francis Chantrey, in London ; that he is 27
years of age, and was in the Line when the riots took
place at Lyons, but joined the insurgents, and fought with
them till all their ammunition was spent. After wander-
ing about the country a long time, he reached Dieppe,
where he remained several days, and at last agreed with
one of our fishermen to convey him across the Channel.
Fontaine says that there are from 16 to 20 of the escaped
prisoners who have not yet found means to leave the French
dominions. He quitted Brighton on Saturday for London.
—Brighton Gazette.
A number of the inhabitants of Toulouse have
formed a project for the extinction of mendieity, by the
establishment in the Landes of an agricultural colony,
to those that have been se successful in Holland.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Journal des Debats of Wednesday.)
" The. Chamber adopted to-day the eight first paragraphs
of the Address.

" The only one of those paragraphs that gave"rise to
any thing like warm discussion, referred to the maintenance
of the balance of power in Europe, and to the execution
of treaties. It is evident to every body, that if Poland
was not named in that paragraph, it was Poland neverthe-
less that the Committee had in view: Hence this very
natural question. If it was intended to speak of Poland,
why not call her by her name? For whom is this in-
tended to be a secret ? For France ? For Russia? In
the present time, secrets are difficult to be kept, even those
confided to a very limited number of persons. Every thing
now is public ; but we confess it frankly, we cannot see the
use of a secret that is to undergo a public discussion, and
to have the world for its confidant. It was necessary either
to suppress the paragraph or render it more explicit, not to
appear to be afraid Lb say what was meant to be conveyed
to every body.
" We aye not surprised, for our part, that the Chamber
adopted an amendment which, after all, will not say more
than the discussion of yesterday and to-day. All agree on
the main point. So far from making ,a mystery of the in-
terest which the unhappy Polish nation inspires it, the
French Government takes a pride in that feeling. France
has protested against the union of Poland to Russia ; those
protests she is determined to maintain ; and, this very day,
.the Minister of. Foreign Affairs has renewed them, in the
presence of the Chambers and of all Europe: Why should
not the Address contain the expression of sentiments and
opinions, which no one hesitates to publish from the tribune.
If certain circumstances had not lately occurred to awaken
public sympathy for the miseries of the Polish nation, the
Chamber might have remained silent on the subject. The
Speech of Warsaw excited universal indignation ; the
Chamber could not sanction, by its silence, an usurpation
which Russia had loudly proclaimed.. The Address of the
Chamber is a just satisfaction given to public indignation.
In such cases, France has always set the example. We are
happy to repeat it—if there was any difference of opinion
in the Chamber, it was respecting the opportunity of a new
protest, and not at all on the main point."

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-WEDNESDAY.

At'half-past one o'clock, M. Dupin, the President, took
the Chair.

M. Felix Real having read the proas verbal of the pre-
ceding meeting, M. Hector d'Aulnay, communicated to the
Chamber a proposition, approved of by the Bureaux, for an
alteration in the internal regulations of the House.

The discussion of the address was then resumed.
M. Gauguier proposed the following amendment to the
Bth paragraph of the address :
" It is with pain, Sire, that the Chamber sees men,holding
public situations under Government, called upon as Depu-
ties to control and vote the Buda-et of the State.
" Is it not nadir and dangerous for the public revenues,
that these men should continue to receive the salaries at-
tached to those situations, during the Legislative Sessions,
while it is impossible for them to discharge the duties of
their functions."

. M. Gauguier exposed to the Chamber his.. reason for
moving that amendment. He contended that it was im-
possible for Legislators, dependent on the Ministry, to vote
with the freedom required by the 16th. article of the Char-
ter, the Budget of the State. The- Hon. Member read a
voluminous manuscript in support of his amendment, with-
out an instant captivating the attention of the Chamber.
When he had concluded, M. Jollivet ironically sug-
gested the propriety of including the forge-owners among
the public functionaries to be excluded from the Chamber,
for if a Judge-Deputy, he said, received 3,000 francs from
the State, the former lost it, perhaps, forty times that
amount by the prohibition duties imposed on the importation
of iron.—(Laughter.)
The President here interfered, and said he could not
sanction such a personality.
M. Gauguier said he was a forge owner, and that no one
was more anxious than be was for the reform of the Cus-
toms-tariff, as regarded the introduction of foreign iron.
He then withdrew his amendment, and the President read
out the ninth paragraph of the Addre'ss.
To the; other laws announced by your Majesty, the
Chamber will devote the attention which their importance
deserves. The quettion relates to the organization of the
Municipal liberties, on which the political existence of na-
tions is founded, to the ministerial responsibility by which it
is secured, to the instruction by which it is perpetuated.
We must deliberate on administrative and judicial reforms,
on the increase and regularity of our internal communica-
tions, on the serious questions which relate to our foreign
commerce. It is, especially at a period of security, that
public liberties can be consolidated without. the dangers
arising 'either from distrust or from a too precipitate con-
fidence. At such a moment a character of duration may
be imparted to social improvements undertaken with pru-
dence."
M. D'Harcourt moved an' amendment in favour of free
trade, which he was developing when our reporter left the
House.