The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-09 00:00:00

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PRINCE OF WALES

AND
DUKE OF CORNWALL.

SUN OFFICE, Quarter past Three.

The following interesting intelligence reached
us in about ten minutes after the joyful event,
which we immediately published in a second
edition of The Morning Sun, and despatched

papers with the welcome news to every part
of the country. We rejoice to learn that her
Majesty and his Royal Highness, up to the hour
at which we write, are as well\ U -the most

loyal and affectionate subjects of our be-
loved Queen can wish them. The Park

were fired
the Tower guns,gunS, and also
a little after two o'clock, a striking proof

that her MAJESTY goes on favourably, and that

no fear was entertained of disturbing her rest

by this mode of announcing to the metropolis
the birth of a Prince.

At an early hour this morning. her MAJESTY
was taken suddenly ill, and it was therefore con-
sidered advisable to send summonses to the Ca-
binet Ministers and other Great Officers of
State. Sir ROBERT PEEL arrived at the Palace
as early as S o'clock. The LORD CIIA NCELLOR, the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY and the Bishop of
LONDON arrived about ten. The Duke of WEL-

LINOTON, the Earl of ABERDEEN, and other

Ministers arrived about half-past ten.

At ten minutes to eleven her MAJESTY was

safely delivered of a Prince and Heir to the
Throne. We understand that her MAJESTY IS

going on extremely well.
Information of this important and interesting

event was immediately forwarded to the LORD
MAYOR and to the various official Departments.
Most of the Ministers left the Palace shortly
after eleven o'clock; but Lord Lyndhurst and
Sir Robert Peel did not take their departure
till twenty minutes before twelve. Sir Robert
Peel and the Earl of Aberdeen left together in
the carriage of b 1 latter. Dr. Locock and Sir
James Clarke slepk at the Palace last night.
Shortly before A elve o'clock the Duke of
T
Cambridge and lii:
r
ce George of Cambridge

arrived at the Palace on foot, and stopped there
till nearly one o'clock. Prince'Ernest of Hesse
Philippsthal also called at the Palace. The
Duchess of Kent, who had been
_in constant at-
tendance on her Majesty since the commence-
ment of her illness (seven o'clock this morning),
left the Palace in- one of the Royal carriages
shortly before one o'clock. Long before this
hour crowds of persons had- collected on the
mall in front of the Palace, anxious to obtain
correct information of this most important event.
From our inquiries at the Palace we understand
that her Majesty is going on very well.
Shortly after two o'clock the Park and Tower
guns were fired, and the bells of the different
churches of the Metropolis rung a merry peal
for the purpose of celebrating the auspicious
event.

What with the birth of a Prince, and the
Lord Mayor's Show, the day appears a complete
holiday; and her Majesty's loyal subjects seem
determined to make it so.

(FROM OUR COURT NEWSMAN.)
BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
Nov. 9, 1841.
This day, at ten minutes to eleven o'clock, the
Queen was safely delivered of a Prince.

There were present on the occasion, as at the
.
birth of the Princess Royal, in her Majesty's
room, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr.
Locock, and Mrs. Lilley, the monthly nurse. In
the adjoining apartments, besides the other medi-
cal attendants (Sir James Clark, Dr. Ferguson,
and Mr. Blagden), were her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting,
on the Queen, and the following Officers of State
and Lords of the Privy Council :—The Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord
Chancellor, the Bishop of London, Sir Robert
Peel, Earl of Aberdeen, Duke of Buckingham,
Sir James Graham, and the Marquis of Exeter
(Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert)."

On the arrival of the " illustrious stranger" the
following historical account of the " state and
service" which await his Royal Highness will be
acceptable to our readers :

The Prince of Wales is the eldest son of Eng-
land. He is born Duke of Cornwall ; and im-
mediately entitled to all the rights, revenues,
&c., belonging thereto, as being deemed in
law at full age on his birth-day. His re-
venues, as Duke of Cornwall, have been com-
puted at 14,0001. per annum. The revenues of the
principality were estimated, three hundred and
fifty years ago, at 4,6801. per annum. This re-
venue is considerable now compared with what
appertained to it at the time of its first institu-
tion, for in the time of King Edward 111. the
total revenue of the principality, with the Duchy
of Cornwall and the Earldom of Chester, was
9,982/..125. 74 d.
" Prince of Wales" and " Earl of Chester',
are titles which are bestowed upon the King's
son in after years, being thus widely unlike the
title of " Duke of Cornwall," with which he is
born. On his creation as Prince of Wales and
Earl of Chester, the investiture is performed by
imposition of a cap of state, and a coronet, a
verge of gold, and a ring. He holds the Princi-
pality by patent granted him and his heirs by
the Kings of England.
Till the time of the creation of this title, the
eldest son of England was called Lord Prince.
While Normandy remained to the King of
England, the eldest son was always styled Duke
of Normandy ; since the Union his title is
Magna. Britannia Princeps.
One great reason for the creation of Princes
of Wales appears to have been, because the
Princes, getting experience by governing their
own estates, as well in time of war as in peace,
might be the fitter to govern the greater king-
dom upon the decease of their fathers. This is
very evident from the answer King Henry 111.
gave to Prince Edward, his son, when he be-
sought his father's help and assistance against
Llewellyn the last Welsh Prince. The King
made answer—" Quid ad me ? Terra tua est ex
dono meo, excita vires primitivas, fames excita
Juveniles, ut de ccetero timeant ininaicil"

From what source the title of Prince of Wales
was first transferred to the sons and heirs appa-
rent of England is well known, but when it be-
gan in them not so clearly. The Princes of
Wales—of North Wales especially—being in
the earlier times Welshmen, held the country
under the Kings of England, and their usual
title under this seignorage, was Princeps Wa
and Dominus Snowdonia.

Others place the beginning of this title !in
Ethsard, son and heir to Edward 1., from 'the
commonly accredited story of the King's senc'ting
for Queen Eleanor, who was then with child, to
be delivered at Carnarvon Castle. After she
was delivered, he summoned around him the re-
fractory chiefs of Wales, and asked them if he
brought them a Prince who was most free from
all kind of blemish upon his honour, aria could
not speak one word of English, whether they
would accept him as Prince. Their answer was
in the affirmative. The baby Prince was pro-
duced, and manhood gave him the spars, plumes,
and arms of a veritable Prince of Wales. The
words of the original Charter referring to the
creation, investiture by symbol, arid the territo-
ries appurtenant to the title, runs,:—
" De consilio et concensu Prrehtorum, Comi-
biro, Baronum, et Communitattun Regni nostri
Anglhn, in generali Parliamento nostro apud.
Westmonasterium convocato ipsum Edwardian
Principem Wallite fecimus et creavimus et dic-
tum Principatum sibi dedimus et concessimus et
per cartam nostram confirmavimus ac ipsum de
dicto Principatu, per Sertum in capite, et annu-
lum in digito aureum, ac Virgam argenteam in-
vestivimus juxta morem, habendum et tenendum
de nobis sibi et hteredibus suis Regibus Anglire
in perpetuum, cum omnibus Dominiis et terris
nostris Northwalli, Westwallite, Southwallice,
ac Dominio Castro, Villa et Comitatu de Caer-
narvan," Scc. &C. &C.

of Wales are the
crest of
dien" (I
The arms of the Prince
Royal arms, with the addition
,o,flo.ha
ostrich feathers, and the motto
serve), said to have been adopted by the Black
Prince, from a -Prince of Bohemia, whom he
slew at Cressy. But all hands are not agreed
upon this account, and a very considerable party
in the antiquarian world say that the motto arose
upon Edward the First's presenting his infant
son to the Welsh, as related above, who have
agreed to accept a native Prince from him, with
the words " Eich dyn" (This is your man).
The Prince of Wales is reputed in law the
same person with the King; to imagine his
death, or to violate his wife, and also the Prin-
cess Royal, or eldest daughter of the King, is
high treason by stat. 25 Edw. 111., as much as
to conspire the death of the King, or violate the
hastity of the Queen 5
the reason of which is

that the Prince of \Vales is next in succession
to the Crown, and to violate his wife might taint
the blood royal with bastardy. On failure of
male issue, the eldest daughter of the King is
Heiress Presumptive to the Crown, and therefore
more respected by the laws than any of her
younger sisters, insomuch that upon this, united
with other (feodal) principles while our military
tenures were in force, the King might levy an
aid for marrying his eldest daughter, and her

only.
Her Majesty is the first Queen Regnant who
has given birth to a Prince of Wales

The Morning Post will find another proof in
an article Which we insert from the Leeds Times,
that the sentiments which it desired, of course
from an upright love of truth and 'free discus-
sion, to have visited with punishment, are neces-
sarily becoming prevalent in the manufac-
turing districts. It is impossible that men
should suffer poverty, starvation, and death
from a Legislature, without inquiring into its
right to inflict them, and without coming to the*
conclusion that its authority, so long as it is thus
exercised, ought to be spurned. The meanest
thing alive resists annihilation to the -utmost of
its power, and shall " man, high-minded man,"
suffer himself to be trampled out of existence on
the plea that for him to submit to starvation now
may perchance benefit the posterity of those
who doom him to a painful and lingering
dettar)?:,:We have repeatedly informed the aris-
tocracy, and informed the clergy, that by their
leigeverance in maintaining a hideously unjust
law for their own selfish purposes, they are ex-
posing to extreme peril the-whole fabric of politi-
cal socikty.
No philosophical inquirer, whose writings we
are acquainted with—no searcher after the truth
of political systems—has come to the conclusion
that the present form of our Government is in-
dispensible to the human welfare. Society,
which has grown, increased, and flourished, un-
der every form of Government, is, in all its mul-
tiplied and essential relations, independent of
political contrivances. They have been fastened
on it, in many cases, from vile ainbitiOn, and
from no view to promote the public good. Ao,
cordingly patient investigation, in modern times,
has led, in general, to conclusions unfavourable
to most of our present institutions. The• whole
stream of modern political science and political
experience runs against them. None of them have
stood the test of investigation, and are theoretically
approved of. When such is the tendency of
opinion, it is a fatal course in our aristocracy to
hazard the violent disruption of an old rand no
longer honoured system, by persisting in a great
wrong. Political contrivances of all have
passed away, and it is no disparagerithnt to the
English Constitution to suppose that it will pass
away too. It has already undergone; most ex-
tensive changes without much violence, but im-
mense and almost unheard of mischief will ensue
if injustice be persevered in, so the the people
shall have no alternative but ruin or revolution.

Colonels, men decorated with stars and ribands, •
belonging to a class for which Governments
scarcely think they can do too much, and who
look down with contempt on spinners and
weavers. • ,
From Spain also, within a month, we have had
news of a formidable rebellion planned by a
whole army of Generals—O'DoNNEu. in.Pampe-
luna, LEON at Madrid, NARVAEZ in the South,
and begun with a cruel and bloody attack on the
Palace of an infant Queen. The outrages which
these much-honoured and highly-rewarded men
committed and instigated, were, it is true, all
professional but they were such as, we are
happy to say, have not been conceived, much
less attempted, by the suffering artisans of
England.

Besides the article we have copied from the
Leeds Times, we have to state thutt at the meet-
ing held at Manchester on this day week, a
Comsnittee was appointed to organise the means
of carrying into execution this resolution :
That with a view to its being shown, peaceably and
orderly, that there is little hope of a repeal ,of the Corn'
and Provision-laws unless the people shew their deter-
mination not to endure them, and on the p.rinciple that
taxation without representAtion is unconstitutional and
unjust, it is the opinion of this meeting that the plan of
the National Daily Bread Society should be put into
active operation in Manchester forthwith, so titat by the
time of the deputations (of working men) a s.sembling,
the results may be seen, and they, on their re turn may
spread it in their respective localities, and that this as-
sembly will strenuously exert themselves in its promul-
gation. - -

- Our readers are aware that the National Daily
Bread Society is founded on the principle of col-
lecting money to evade the Corn-laws, and -is now
a numerous body. Thus, practically, the peopi e are
resolving not to obey the law, while they are
guilty of no acts of violence in evading or resist-
ing it. While writers have shrunk from discus::-
ing the principle of obedience, the multitude
have in their hearts felt that they had trespassed
on its extreme bounds, and had reached a point
where resistance becomes a virtue.

As a confirmation of this, we may add that we
have received several communications convincing
us that opinions such as we have stated are daily
extending in the manufacturing districts. One
letter, which came yesterday from Greenock,
says,—" I also hail with pleasure those vigorous
remarks of your's, advocating the undoubted
right of the people to resist unjust and atrocious
laws whenever it is in their power." Our Corre-
spondent follows out his principle with an abun-
dance of zeal, and recommends the manufac-
turing u.nd trading classes to cease their exer-
tions, and throw the toiling millions exclusively
on the land for subsistence. Strange, but serious
and etirnest thoughts are thus forced into the
mind:; of the multitude, by being obliged
to t oil " incessantly, without being able
to procure food for themselves and their
chl'ulren," while those• who govern the commu-
niiy, chiefly for their sake, wallow in sloth and
luxury. That such things should be suffered to
r;ontinue, when every man in the country knows
as well nearly what is done, and what is its bear-
ings, as the Prime Minister himself, is, we con-
ceive, absolutely impossible. The alternative,
therefore, which is offered to the landowners is,
to change the law in due course by Parliament,
or see it and the authority of Parliament de-
stroyed by general resistance.

France, too, thoroughly imbued with the mill
tart'* spirit, and neither a manufacturing nor a
commercial country; has of late been con,picuous
for attacks on the K INC's life, for enieu tes, for un-
ruly conduct, and for gross outrages. Contrast-
ing the proceedings in other countries with
the behaviour of our own manufacturing
population under their most unmerited
sufferings, it shines out most favourably, and
should induce every Government which wishes
for peace and security to cultivate commerce and
manufactures rather than encourage the military
spirit and re•cvard military virtues. In theory it
has long been known that commerce and manu-
factures are as favourable to the internal tran-
quillity of nations as they are to preserving peace
between them ; and this practical illustration of
the theory will, we hope, incline our aristocratic
rulers, o.,re it be yet too late, to remove those re-
strictions on commerce and manufactures which
are noyv imposed on them from the grossest igno-
rance or the most stupid selfishness.
We: will, in conclusion, direct public attention
to a. communication which appears in another
part; of The Sun, from the Rev. H. PRICR, which
only does justice to the surpassing utility of the
classes which the Corn-law Tories are determined
to starve out of existence, and comes appropriately
to confirm some of our remarks.

On this day week we adverted to the Exche-
quer bills forgery, and to the destruction of the
Arsenal in the Tower, as adding to the difficul-
ties which Sir ROBERT PEEL will have to en-
counter when he meets the Parliament. His
postponement of business has not revived com-
merce nor improved the finances, but it has
given him more to provide for with diminished
means. Yesterday the Times, borrowing ap-
parently our suggestion, grounds on the fact
that Sir ROBERT PEEL will have more to
provide for in consequence of the forgery and the
burning, a defence of Sir ROBERT PEEL for not
having legislated during the present year. He
could not then know of these two disasters, and
therefore, argues the Times, it was wise in him
not to make any financial arrangements till the
next session.

Our Contemporary also refers to the recent ac-
quittal of Mr.M‘LEon as promoting a settlement of
the dispute with America, and therefore justifying
Sir ROBERT'S delay. In another Ministerial
Paper, however, of yesterday, we are threat-
ened with another outbreak in Canada ; and the
Herald recommended the Ministry •to keep a
large army on foot in the Canadas, to be pre-
pared for the insurrection. While the acquittal
of M'LEop, therefore, on the one hand, is to
encourage Sir ROBERT PEEL to act, the appre-
hended rebellion in the Canadas, on the other,
is to keep him on the watch, and pre-
vent him from going forward. If lie could
not take his measures in August because he did
not know how the trial would terminate, he may
be unable to take them in March, because lie
may not know how soon the insurrection will be-
gin. So with the Exchequer bill forgery and the
burning of the Tower; if those events, whichwere
wholly unforeseen in September, now justify his
putting off financial and commercial reform till
February, it will be thus quite impossible to tell
what similar events may happen before the end
of the year, and the Right Hon. Baronet will
find his whole scheme of legislation paralysed
by his" ignorance.

At a meeting of the unemployed at Paisley, on
Tuesday last, (where, we regret to say, the dis-
tress continues to increase, without the means of
relieving it augmenting in a like proportion),
Sheriff CAMPBELL " passed a high eulogium on
the manner in which the unemployed had con-
ducted themselves during this unexampled stag-
nation of trade. From -his experience," he said,
" as a Magistrate for forty years, notwithstanding
all their privations, they had behaved in the most
quiet and peaceable manner."
Similar testimony can be, and ought to be,
borne to the half employed, and the unemployed,
throughout the kingdom. Though their suffer-
ings have been unexampled, their patience has
been unequalled. Not a riot has taken place—
not an outrage has been committed, to distinguish
the present from times of the greatest proSperity.
At the same time the public press has not been
dumb. Bold discussion has not been spared, and
has, perhaps, been substituted for violent actions.
We notice this feature with great pleasure, be-
cause it exists in connection with the removal of
a large portion of the stamp duties on news-
papers, and with no inconsiderable increase in
provincial journals. We are reminded, too, by
a pamphlet addressed to GEORGE BIRKBECK,
Esq., the venerable founder of Mechanics' Insti-
tutions, just transmitted to us, that the pre-
sent patience, quietness, and good order of
the people are so conspicuous, after mechanics'
institations have been established for nearly
twenty years, and have done much to improve
the morals and minds of the present generation
of workmen. It ought to be a great encourage-
ment to statesmen to remit noxious taxes, which
stand in the way of increasing knowledge, and
to philanthropists to persevere in such good works
as promoting education, when they find them
accompanied by such beneficial results.
It is instructive also, and ought to tinge the
Cheeks of some of our Contemporaries with
tAntme, to contraa the peaceable behaviour of
our suffering manufacturing population with the
conduct or some classes of men abroad, whom
in general all Governments are much more dis-
posed to honour than to honour the working
fp.reoomp e.
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case military men, out of
mere
would involve their country in wanton
nthehl ambition,o.rm.sofa
civil war. At time head of it are Generals and

The justification which the Times attempts of
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S mischievous conduct in post-
poning the relief of the people for nine months
will be found on examination, a complete justifi-
cation for never legislating at all. At no time
can a Prime Minister tell that a Tower will not
be burned, or a number of Exchequer bills not
be. forged, before the end of the financial session
for. which he provides ; and, on the principles of
the Times, he ought never to provide fbr a ses-
sion of which he cannot foresee all the demands
it -will make.

After all, the Right lion. Baronet is going to
do something; he has appointed two Commis-
sions to inquire into the practices in equity,
and the means of levying the taxes at a less
cost- He means, if his Commissioners can be
brought to recommend it, to consolidate the
Excise and Customs—a plan which the Whigs
entertained, and made arrangements with a view
of -ultimately carrying it into effect several
months ago. The Times is careful to inform us
that these are none' of the popular reforms
which the people clamour for and the Whigs
would. grant. It is quite right; the
Torii:s will never give the people what
they w'isli. They will t!q.ow out a little
bit of mock reform, a humbug consolida-
tion of offices, a new digest of equity pleadings,
or 6.ome such matter, as a tub to the whale;
but the public are no longer to be deceived by
mockeries of this sort, and the result of such a
long delay, ending in such trifling improve-
ments, will only bring the strong Government
of the Tories into contempt.

In. another part of The Sun will be found a
communication from Stoke-upon-Trent, which
will .give the public some idea how justice
is administered in the country. A respectable man,
of smie property, while removing a number of
bow Is from his own barge, was taken to the po-
lice sltation, on a charge of felony, confined for
two mights in a horrid cell, chained by the leg
like a wild beast, and treated by the Superin-
tenda It of police in a way which no degree of
crime would justify. Tho unfortunate man
was =t laSt discharged without any evi-
(lanai being brought against him. The
Supez'intendent's conduct was inquired into
by tbk Magistrates, and the only punishment in-.
fliete (1. was suspension for one month. He should
have 'been sent to the tread-mill for ayear.

'French Journals of Sunday have ali
reachie d us,- but they contain -no news of any
politiia -al importance. The Journal des Debats
ts long accounts froin Barcelona, evidently
design. Ito inflame the public against the Spanish
cioverAment. After giving a long account of the
state cif Barcelona, that Journal adds :
Be sides the excitement which exists at Barcelona,
there xeigns everywhere a feeling of distrust and hatred.
A member of the aguntandento at Lerida, in a banquet
given :to tle regiment of San Fernando, made use of the
most violent language, saying that they were surrounded
by to Litors, that a man must be ant. and out a true liberal,
or be :nothing. "Down With moderation,"
,shouted this
mad= in ; " down with these vipers '; he that is not for
us is tt gainst us. I have said."- •
Othv r towns of Spain vie With Catalonia in violence
and an archy. At Malaga the EmanCipacion, a paper of
that frown, calls all Spaniards to arms, to extermi-
nate etal indiffin-ent or moderate men. " Let not one of
our (*finenvies - remain alive," says this Journal ; "it is
thus- ghat liberty is insure(l. Liberty or death."
'Kato most considerable towns of Catalonia follow the
exa'ap te, of Barcelona. Juntas are forming everywhere.
At in-esa one was instituted on the 25th, and those of
Lerida ,Gerona, and Tarragona, have sent in their adhe-
rence • to r.ll the act's of the Barcelona Junta.
, Journal df•s Debuts By what precedes
one it ay form a faint idea of the present condition of
the afortunate inhabitants of Barcelona. All trade is
rani. rsed. The Exchange is deserted. Merchants dare
tow themselves in the street. No one can leave
the, tc ,wn either by land or sea."
In addition to the above, we find in the Presse the
fo flowing statement We learn with unfeigned grief
titat two French gentlemen who left Perpignan, on the
27 th, in a, post•carriage, were assailed on their arrival at
reelona,,, and barbarously massacred by the populace.
If this me_anch-oly intelligence prove true, as we have
aany reasons to fear it will, the French Cabinet will,
we dot ibt not, take every measure called for by humanity
d na demi honour."
The Gazette' de France, a Carlist paper, has
t ie fo; flowing :
Tlvo accounts from Spain arc becoming more and

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1841.

more serious. The Republican movement is spreading;
and may throw the Peninsula into another revolutionary
crisis. The Councils of Ministers are very frequent.
Cries of "Death to the French" are now heard on
the other side of the Pyrenees.
We have received the following letter from the
frontiers
" Troubles have broken out at Madrid—the cry of
4 The Republic for ever,' has been heard in all the
Streets. It is added that Espartero, on hearing this
news, set out for the capital at the head of a large force.
" The Government' is said to have ordered the levy
of 50,000 men, of which we have spoken solely, with a
view to oppose a democratic revolution. Tc.morrow
we shall doubtless know how far this news, which we
have just received, is correct."
We add an extract from another letter

" A person worthy of credit, who has arrivod this
morning from Bergara, reports that the Regent has
suddenly left Vittoria for Medrid, with the Ministers.
It is affirmed that there have been disturbances in the
capital, that the national guard refuses to act, that the
Regent is reproached with governing despotically, that
he is called upon to return within the limits of the
Constitution," &c.

Rodilis • a sanguinary and deluded man. We know
here the atrocious manner in which he behaved in
Mexico. This revolution will be the most cruel of all.

A numerous party was assembled to witness the marriage
between two young persons who had long been attached
to each other. The service was over, and the new-
married couple, with their families and friends, were
about to quit the church, when the bridegroom was sud-
denly struck with madness, and in his frenzy seized a
kiire, and threatened the lives of all around him. The
panic was so sudden, that for a moment the maniac was
deserted by every one except the father of the bride,
80 years of age, upon whom all the fury of his new son-
in-law was wreaked. The unhappy victim received
three desperate wounds, two in the body, and one in the
thigh.. His cries recalled his friends, and after a violent
struggle the weapon was wrested from the hand of the
maniac, and he was bound with cords on a table, raving
in the most appalling manner, and tearing his face with
• his nails. The bride's father was carried home, where,
after lingering twelve hours, he expired. No hopes of
the restoration of the bridegroom to his senses are en-
tertained.

In announcing' the departure of Count Pahlen for
St. Petersburgh, La France says, that the diplomatic
world is curious about the purpose of this journey—
they would discover the causes of it, and it is supposed
that the late events in Spain may very likely be con-
nected with h. Count Pahlen, who has scot and
closely observed all the events which have taken place
in France, will take to St. Petersburgh (adds that
Journal) valuable information, which will give the
Cabinet that he represents an insight into the tricks of
the double-faced policy of the Ministry of Oct. 29.
Mars'iul Clausel left Toulon for Algiers on the 2d
November, on board the Sphynx.—Contmerce.
A few days ago a person, named Martin, rather more
than fifty years of age, a native of Paris, but who .ap-
Pears to have resided some time. in London, committed
suicide in his lodging, at Graville, near Havre. He was
found in the position of a man sleeping, with a rope
round his neck, and on the table near him a prayer-
boOk, a loaded pistol, and a glass, which had contained
- laudanum, Letters were found addressed to whoever
might discover him, stating that his motives for com-
mitting suicide were his own secret—that he had never
done harm to any body in his life—and begging that a
little packet, tied round his neck, on which was written,
" Ma fille Anna," and a chain made of hair, might be
buried with him.
The Courrier du Bas Rhin of the 2d inst. states that
a serious quarrel took place on the 31st ult., in a beer-
_ house at Strasburgh, between some Foot Chasseurs and
some of the inhabitants. The Chasseurs were expelled,
but returned, says the account, with a reinforcement of
their comrades, and entered sword in hand. A vigorous
resistance was opposed to them, and, as the evening re-
treat was sounding, they retired, but not before three of
the civilians and some of the military were wounded.
The Courrier adds that the affair is in the course of judi-
cial investigation.
Not many days since a young man of Gaille-Fontaine.
in the Somme, enraged at the resolution of his father,
who was a widower, to marry again, gave 1,500 f. to a
shepherd to murder him. The crime was committed, and
both the culprits are in custody.
The Journal du Havre states that a few days ago a
sloop, the Aimable Desiree, of Cherbourg, when about
to land on the English coast a cargo of contraband goods,
was seized by some Custom-house officers, who put the
crew on shore, and remained on board to preserve their
capture. Whilst they were calculating the share of
prize-money which each would receive, a strong breeze
sprung up, the anchor gave way, and the sloop went out
to sea. In a short time the gale became almost a tem-
pest, but the officers struggled manfully against it, and
employed all their skill in manoeuvring for the English
coast. They manoeuvred so well, says the Journal du.
Havre, that in two days' time, instead of reaching Eng-
land, they entered the port of St. Waast, near Cher-
bourg, where they have been heartily laughed at for
their misadventure. . •
The beetroot sugar manufacturers of the Pas do Calais
have had another meeting at Arras, at which they have
resolved to present a separate memorial to the Minister
of Commerce, showing that at the present scale of duty
they cannot continue their manufacture without loss.
An Alexandrian correspondent of the Semaphore says
that Said Pacha was named Vice-Admiral of the Egyp-
tian fleet immediately on his arrival from Constantinople.
Another letter in the Sud says that Said Pacha and
Sarni Pacha both wore the reformed costume of the Ot-
toman Court on their arrival at Alexandria, but it was
expected that they would soon resume the usual Egyp-
tian costume. The presentation of the Sultan's Envoy
Tfilh Bey took place with great ceremony, and a con-
siderable number of Europeans were present. M. Hamon,
a French resident, who had had a fracas with Dr. Clot
Bey, had been condemned to 40 days' imprisonment, and
100 f. fine for the assault.
" As Mrs. an English lady of fortune," says
the Droit, " was, two days ago, crossing the Place de
la Concorde in an open carriage, her daughter called
her attention to a little girl who was very ill clad, and
stood crying by the roadside ; Mrs. L. stopped her car-
riage, and questioned the child, who, in her infantine
language, described the death of her mother, her being
coffined and carried away in a hearse, which she had fol-
lowed, she said, till she lost sight of it, and was waiting
for her mother to come back. Mrs. L. took the poor
little orphan to her home, which she was able to desig-
nate, but finding that she was left destitute, the. benevo-
lent lady immediately engaged to bring up and provide
fur the little unhappy orphan."
" On the 25th ult.," says the Handelshlad " there was
cast in the Atlas fOundry of Messrs. Dixon and Co., at
Amsterdam, the main piece of the iron swing-bridge,
which is to be thrown over the Spaarre, to allow of the
Amsterdam and Rotterdam railroad traversing that river.
The casting was perfectly successful, and it forms the
largest piece of iron ever made in this way in a single
mould. The length is seventy-eight feet eight inches,
and the weight nearly fourteen tons. The melting of
the metal began at nine in the morning, and the furnace
was tapped at three in the afternoon."
The 211(innheiin Gazette relates that a boy, only nine
years old, of a distinguished family of that town, has re-
cently poisoned his sister and two other children with
arsenic, which he contrived to steal from a chemist's
shop in the neighbourhood of his residence, where he
used often to go. The fact of his having used the poison
designedly is said to have been clearly proved. He is to
be confined in a house of correcdon.
A few days ago a dreadful accident occurred in the
factory of Messrs. Derosne and Co., at Molenbeck St.
Jean, near Brussels. As six young men were at work
on an iron boiler weighing 13,0001 b., it lost its balance
and fell upon them ; five out of the six were killed, and
the other was severely injured. A few days before, two
workmen in the same factory had been killed by ac-
cident.

After the occupation of the convent of Wettingen by
the Argovian and Bernese troops, the painted windows
of the chapel were found missing, and were said to have
been removed by one of the soldiers. They have, how-
ever, been discovered in Germany, as the Nouvelliste
Vitudois states, where the old gardener of the convent
was endeavouring to sell them.
" In the commune of Argoville, near Cherbourg," re-
marks the Hero of Caen, " there has not been a single
death, or marriage, for the last five years."
A man named Fourgue, as we learn from Carcasonne,
in the Aude, was condemned, some time since, to five
years' imprisonment for a violent assault on and wound-
ing his mother.. He made his escape, and, concealing
himself near Cavanac, his native place, spread terror by
his robberies and other acts through the country. For
these, he was condemned by default for an additional
ten years' imprisonment ; after a time he was caught
and confined, but again escaped and returned to has old
haunts. Having vowed vengeance against the wit-
nesses who had deposed against him, he was once
more tried in default, and sentenced to death for
an attempt to murder one of them. Parties of gen-
darmes and even detachments of troops were sent out
in search of him, but he evaded them all. On the
24th ult. he attacked two brothers, named Amigues,
one a tailor, the other a discharged soldier: The tailor
knew that Fourgue had sworn to take his life, and,
therefore, always went -armed with a brace of pistols.
One of these was carried by each of them. The soldier
accosted the bandit and remonstrated with him, but was
immediately knocked down with the butt-end of a double
barrelled gun, which the savage always carried with
him ; but recovered himself as quickly. A conflict
ensued, and Fourguc's weapon was wrested from him.
Shots had been exchanged, hut without any other effect
than -a slight wound in the shoulder of the convict,
which did riot prevent him "from gating one of his ad-
versaries down under - him; and he would no doubt have

killed him, had not the other brother, seizing the villain's

gun, beat his brains out with the stock. The two
brothers immediately gave an account of what they had
done to the Magistrates, and are under temporary arrest.
A young man, tamed Chair, has just been taken into
custody at Apt (Vaucluse) for the murder of his father,
a man aged '53. - It appears that the murderer, who was
living' separately from his father, had watched an oppor-
tunity of entering the house of the latter in the evening,
unseen, and had concealed himself until his intended vic-
tim was asleep; when he struck him with great violence
on the head with a flail. The father, however; was still
able to offer resistance, and a severe struggle ensued,
which ended in, his death. The miirderer then went
home, and'passed the night tranquilly with his wife. On
the following morning the house of the father was open-
ed by the police- on the application of the son, who'pre-
tended to be uneasy at
,his non appearance ; but suspi-
cion fell upon the son, and he confessed his crime, adding
that his motive was revenge for the ill-treatment which
ho had received from his parent. He has been commit-
ted for trial.

The municipal elections continue at Toulouse in favour
of the councillors of the late municipality dissolved by
the Government. M. Perpessac and M. July, a deputy
of the Extreme Gauche, have been elected, as well as
Messrs. Martin and Cayrel 'of the late council. The
Provisional Mayor, General Lejeune, only got fifteen
votes in his favour ; the others from 200 to 300.

Advices from Alexandria of the 21st ult. are quoted
by the Debats. They state that Mehemet Ali had re-
ceived the Sultan's Envoy, who had delivered a sabre
d'honneur, a decoration in brilliants, and an autograph
letter in his master's name. General Ventura bad ar-
rived at Alexandria with his family from Lahore. M.

de Rohan Chabot, the French-Consul-General ad in-
terim, had left for Cairo.
Promard, Villet, and Ador, three rogues, grown cun-
ning and adroit from long practice upon the worthy
shopkeepers of Paris, were on the look out, two days
ago, for an opportunity to transfer to themselves some
valuable lots of goods, upon the most easy terms. Strik-
ing along the Rue St. Penis, Promard perceived a worthy
wax-chandler alone in his shop, whose countenance had
an expression of simplicity, which induced the belief
that he might be easily deluded. Promard accordingly
went in, and engaged the chandler in a conversation on
the price of wax, continuing all the time to play a tele-
graphi. which the confederates had. invented for their
secret communications. This consisted of a cornet, or
piece of paper rolled up in a conical form, by which he
intimated to his associates how they were to act. He
kept it behind his back ; when the point was turned
down, it indicated that they might make a seizure with-
out fear ; but when the point was turned up, they were
to be cautious. The confederates had thus secured, as
they thought, two large cakes of wax from a shelf at the
door, when two police agents in disguise, to whom they
were all well known, came by, at once saw their
manoeuvres, and arrested the two outside, with their
booty, but the telegraph man effected his escape.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the Ist
inst., state that a communication from the Earl
of ABERDEEN was received by the Spanish Go-
vernment, denouncing the revolutionary attempt
of CHRISTINA MUNOZ. This well-timed com-
munication will do much in the way of countyr-
acting the machinations of France.
The following extract from a Madrid letter
contains all the news of any interest from the
Spanish capital :
The two brothers Fulgosios, field-officers, have been
sentenced to death, and their execution is to take place,
according to general report, jointly with that of Briga-
dier-General Quiroga, and a Lieutenant of . the regiment
of the Princesa. The two first named joined Don
Carlos, were included in the Evora Monte convention,
were parties to the Bergara treaty, and, it would seem,
had not yet had enough of trouble through mixing them-
selves up in rash undertakings ; but their mother, more
than themselves, is to blame, because she insisted, if we
are rightly informed, upon their taking up arms against
the Government, Ex-Brigadier-General Norragarry
has left Madrid, to embark at Cadiz for the Mariana
Isles, where he is to be confined during six years, and it
is believed'that he married on the very day of his depar-
, tare, and that his wife accompanies him, her father re-
siding
at present at Manilla.
The Captain Guardia of the National Guard, who so
generously petitioned the Regent to spare the life of
General Count de Belascoain, died the evening before
last of his wounds, and was buried this day with mili-
tary honours ; the whole of his comrades, with the ten
musical bands, attended, as well as the senators and de-
puties in Madrid, the alabanderos, with their Captain-
General, the Marquis Vallehumbroso, the Captain-Ge-
neral and Governor of Madrid, many general officers,
and other respectable inhabitants ; Captain-General
Palafox, Duke of Saragossa; the Madrid Municipal
Chamber and Provincial Deputation, and about 50 car-
riages ; it was dusk when the cortege reached the bury-
ing-ground ; but I understand that funeral orations
were delivered over the grave. The Queen's tutor, Ar-
guelles, was among those present.
The Ist inst., being the Feast of All Souls, and
therefore observed as a close holiday in Catholic
countries, no business was done on the Madrid
Bourse.

LONDON GAZETTE
EXTRAOREaI'‘,TARY,

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, -,';ov. 9, 184

This morning, at twelve minutes before eleven,
the Queen was happily delivered of a Prince.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, several Lords of
her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council,
and the Ladies of her Majesty's Bedchamber,

being present.
This great and important news was immediately
made known to the town By the firing of the Park
and Tower Guns ; and the Privy Council being as-
sembled, as' soon as possible thereupon, at the
Council-Chamber, Whitehall, it was ordered, that
a Form of Thanksgiving fur the Queen's safe
delivery of a Prince be prepared by his Grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be used in all
churches and chapels throughout England and
Wales, and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
on Sunday the 14th of November, or the Sunday
after the respective ministers shall receive the

same.

Her Majesty and the Infant Prince are, God
be praised, both doing well.

LORD MAYOR'S DA V.

This being the day appointed for the swearing in of
the Chief Magistrate of the City of London at West-
minster Hall, as might have been expected every street,
square, court, and alley, from London-bridge to that of
Westminster, Were crowded by anxious persons, of both
sexes, to witness the imposing procession by water and
land. About twelve o'clock the able caterer in proces-
sional departments made his arrangements in Guild-
hail-yard. His Lordship, in his state coach, drawn by six
horses, was preceded by the Bands of 11 th Hussars, Prince
Albert's Own, the 2d Life Guards, and that belonging to
the 72d Foot, the recent Royal Infantry Guard at
Windsor. The various City Companies took water in
their State barges at various stairs, accompanied by
bands composed of the Grenadier, Coldstream, and
Scots Fusilier Guards, who played the most modern
music in their usual effeetive style. The boats of the
Thames Police and London Fire Establishment were
also decorated in their gayest colours in honour
of the day. The land procession was as usual grand in
the extreme, as the cockneys believe, composed of the
usual number of heralds, • men in suits of
brass, steel, and copper armour, escorted by a
guard of his Royal Highnes: Prince Albert's Regiment.
According to annual custom, the state barge belonging
to the worshipful CoMpany of Stationers was rowed over
'to the Palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the
company on board received from his Grace the annual
gift of a hamper of claret. The river Thames, from the
fineness of the day, was crowded with boats of various
sizes, in which were elegantly'dressed females, and the
best order was kept to prevent accidents.

The report that a sister of Mr. G. E. Anson
was killed by a fall from her horse is incorrect.
DESTRUCTION OP BAWDSEY n
Friday, the sth instant, the ehdreh of this village was
burned to the ground. The aecident was caused by two
men going on the steeple with a turpentine-ball, which
they set on fire, and a part of the ball falling on the
thatch of the church it immediately ignited. All exer-
tions to put out the fire were fruitless. The men were
taken on the following day before It N. Shawe, Esq.,
and Mr. Norton, and after undergoing a long examina•
tion they were liberated, upon condition that they would
appear at the Wdodbridge Petty Sessions on Wednes-
day (this day).—lpswich Express.
Sir Arthur Aston, it is said, has presented to
Queen Isabella an autograph letter from her Majesty
Queen Victoria, congratulating her on the failure of the
attempt of the 7th. The young Queen, it is stated, was
most sensibly affected at this mark of affection on the
part of our most gracious Sovereign.
WATCHMEN WANT WATCHING.—It is said
by a writer in the Times, in commenting on the late fire
at the Tower, that the experience of the great insurance
offices has induced them to charge a higher rate of in-
surance for buildings in which a private watchman is
kept, than for those left without any such safeguard !
• The Earl of Ripon arrived in town on Satur-
day from his seat in Yorkshire.
FRICEMASONRY.—Sir Ralph Abercrombie,
when a young officer, was initiated in the Canongate
liilwinning, May, 1753.. It is not a little remarkable
that four of the greatest commanders of modern times
should have been members of the peaceful Masonic Fra-
ternity—namely, Abercromby, Nelson, Moore. and Wel-
lington. Scotland can boast of two of these heroes, Sir
John Moore having been initiated in the St. John's
Lodge, Haddington. Ireland claiins her Wellington ;
England her Nelson.—Freemason's Quarterly Review.

The Dieppe papers state that the herring fishery has
commenced under the most favourable auspices. The
boats bring in full cargoes every day, and the quantity
taken by fishermen of that port, between the 21st and
30th ult., is estimated at 24;483 measures.
Three days ago a house, five stories high, at Lyons,
fell down. The foundations had been undermined by
the floods. Fortunately, the inmates were all fore-
warned,'and were out of the building when the accident
happened, so that no one was injured.
The Sentinelle of Toulon states that a fire broke out
some time since on board the Inflexible of the line on
the Levant station, and was not got under for three
hours. The accident, the precise date of which is not
mentioned, was caused. by a man having imprudently
allowed the flame of a candle to catch some spirits which
he was drawing off from a cask. It is not said how much
damage was done, but no lives were lost.
A frightful tragedy. was enacted in the church at
Juzieres, near Mantes Seine et Oise), a few days ago.