The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-19 00:00:00

FRENCII PAPERS.

(From the Etoilt, dated Wednesdev, Nov. 17.)
MADRID, Nov. 11.—(By Express).—The
King and the Royal Family are still at the Escu-
rial. A Royal Decree published in the Ga-
zette of Madrid contains the following regula-
H0118:--
" Complaints beinc continually matte of the conduct observ-
ed by the officers who made part of the revolutionary army,
notwithstanding the benefit of the amnesty of the Ist of May
this year, his Majesty orders—
" 1. The Captains-General shall take out of the hands of
the said officers all horses tit for the service of .the cavalry
of the artillery, which have belonged to the army called Con.
dilunwmi.

" 2. All articles of equipment and harness shall be taken
with the horoep.

""s. These regulations are not applicable to officers who have
known means of subsistence, and whose lawful property the
horses are,"

Another Decree of Ms Majesty regulates the plan of instruc-
tion in the scuiinaries under the direction of the Bishops and
Archbishops. The ecclesiastic discipline is to be re-established
according to the precepts of the sacred Council of Trent, in the
chapter Dc Riformatione. Public instruction has been the
object of his Majesty's special attention. By, his Decrees of the
14th of October, he has just-laid down the buses of the general
organization of the system of education in the whole kingdom.
It-is the result of the labours of the Committee appointed for
that purpose by the King in the month of July last. His Ma-
jesty has ordered this new plan to be printed, that every per-
son qualified to give an opinion on this important subject may
do so in proper time.

PARIS, Nov. 16.—Several journals relate to-
day all they pretend to know of what passed in
the Cabinet Council held by the King on Sun-
day. According to the Journal du Commerce,
this Council agreed on the bases of a project of
law for the indemnity-800 millions of annuities
at 4 per cent., redeemable front year to year, be-
ginning from 1835.

•- The Courier Francais affirms, that the Spanish
Governme►►t having requested that the evacuation
should be deferred, the Council deliberated on
the application.
The Quolidicnne says, the evacuation and the
indemity were discussed ; that the President of
the Council explained the subject of the delibe-
rations; that his Majesty put the question ; that
each Member gave his opinion singly ; and that
the King said, " 1 thank you, gentlemen, I will
consider."

The incoherence and contradictions of all the
accounts suffice to prove that the Journals are
ignorant of what passed in the Council of Statv.
In fact, they ought not to know it.

(From the Consthutionnel.)
PARIS, Nov. 16.—The organization of the
French troops who are to remain in some of the
fortified places of the Peninsula is settled. They
are to form three divisions. First, the Cadiz di.
vision, commanded by Lieutenant-General Gu-
din, will be nine or ten thousand strong, and
will not occupy any post out of the. Isle of Leon
and Cadiz. Second, the division at Barcelona,
commanded by Lieutenant-General Reiset, will
consist of 5,000 men, and will occupy the line of
posts between Figueras and Barcelona. Third,
the Pampeluna division, equal in strength to that
of Barcelona, and which will occupy some places
In Navarre and Biscay. There will he no Ge-
tteralAn.Chief : each of the Generals command-
ing these divisions will correspond directly with
the Minister of War. It is calculated that the
20,000 men who are to return to France will re-
duce the expense of the occupation, which i 3
now estimated at two millions (francs) per month,
one half.

On Friday last a trial took place at Versailles before the
Court of Assizes of the Department, which excited very much
the public attention. Two proprietors in the Commune of
11-, one of whom is a member of the Municipal Council,
and both of whom belong to respectable families, and have en-
joyed hitherto a reputation without stain and an honourable
independence, appeared at the bar on a charge of fraudulent ab-
straction, qualified by the law a crime. Out of respect fur
mistbrtune we will not mention their names. A great number
of testimonies to their character were opposed to the suspicions
which had accumulated against them. The proceedings were
animated. The public prosecutor gave up the charge as to
the aggravating circumstances, but insisted that the charge of
fraud was proved. The President, M. de Mussy, summed up
with impartiality and wisdom, and the Jury acquitted the pri-
soners. This occasioned a great deal of applause among the
spectators, and their joy was soon communicated to the people
outside the Court, _ _

FRENCit FUNDS, Palm, Nov. 10.—Five per Cents opened
at 101. ; closed at 101. 05.—Bank Stock, I.oo6.—Nea-
polimn Five per Cents. (Fslconet's Certificates,) 89.—Itentes
cl'Espagne, 14—Itoya1 Spanish Loan, 1823, 07.--Exchange
on. London, one month, 215. ; three ditto; 24. 85.--( Cour. Au.
t/

On Wednesday last, Miss Margaret Wall, of
Newtown, county Waterford, took the white veil
at the Presentation Convent, liennessy's-road.
When are these pernicious mummeries to cease ?
--(Dublin Star, Nov, 16.)
Ram :HIES OH TAVERN KESPERS.—This morn.
ing Bow-street Office was crowded to excess by
the proprietors of taverns, who preferred charges
against a young man named Banybrd, who said
he had been in the army. The prisoner was in
the habit of visiting taverns, and on entering the
parlour, on opportunity presenting itself, he
would force open the cupboards, &c. and steal
plate, glasses, or any thing near him. Mr. IVlrx-
snur.r. regretted that a person who had served
his Majesty should so far disgrace himself as to
become a.downright pilferer, which there was no,
doubt he was, and committed him for trial..
Mr. Pitt, of the Adelphi, attended at the Office,
to support an information against Mr. Sulk Ply,
the Surveyor of Pavements to the parish, for
performing Masons' work therein. We left the
parties_ in' the heat of discussion, on our quitting
the Office.

SHOCKING OCCUARENOE.---Yesterday forenoon
two lads, the one 15, and the other 18 years of
age, apprentices on board a collier lying off
Shadwell Stairs, were ordered by their Captain
to clear out the cabin, and while doing so, the
younger boy took down a loaded pistol that hung
near the Captain's bed, •and shot the other
through the body, who immediately expired.
The body was taken to the White Lion public
house in Shadwell, where a Coroner's Inquest is
expected to sit upon it this evening.—The per-
petrator of this-most horrid deed remains in cus-
tody at the Thames. Police Office until the Coro-
ner's verdict is known.—lt does not yet appear
whether. the act was done by accident or design.

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

[Prom the Barbadoes Globe.]

BAILBADOES, SEPT. 30:—Tuesday last his Ex-
cellency the Governor, attended by his body guards, went in
state to the Town-hall, and opened the new Session of Colonial
Parliament. The House having formed, unanimously called
the Honourable Cheeseman Moe to their chair as Speaker,
and then waited on his Excellency the Governor of the Council
Chamber, and presented him for confirmation, when his Ex.
cellency was pleased to make a speech, of which the following
is an extract :

44 I cannot conceal from you the great disappointment I have
experienced from the failure of a well-grounded hope that some
bill for the amendment of the Slave Laws would have been,
long ere thin, enacted. As both branches of the Legislature,
immediately after the close of the last Session, honoured me
with their separate statements in explanation of the delays
which had occurred, and as it has been, is, and ever will be,
my anxious desire that all the branches of the Legislature
should, if possible, co-operate most cordially for the public wel-
fare, and as the documents previously alluded to have both been
transmitted to Earl Bathurst for his Majesty's information, I
shall forbear for making a single comment, further than by
remarking, that it is a very great consolation to me that the
sentiments expressed in both statements lead me to expect that
every exertion will be made for the speedy completion and en-
actment of a bill for the amendment, melioration, and consoli,
dntion of the Slave Laws. Anti I now seize, with pleasure
and sincerity, this public opportunity to express those senti-
ments most unequivocally, which have long been felt, but
never called forth, that, though cases as exceptions do exist,
which, under similar circumstances, will exist in every other
part of the globe, as long as men are imperfect, and their dig-
positions differ in innumerable variety of shades, from good to
vile; yet after more than three years' constant residence on
this island, it is my firm conviction (as far as it has come with-
in my own observation to judace), that the slaves, as a body
throughout the Colony, are uniformly treated with kindness,
lenity, and libtrality ; and to which, their general appearance
of cheerfulness hnd hap'piness may be fairly attributed.
" Council Chamber,- Sept. 28,1824."

The only business transacted by the House, after the usual
forms had been one through of opening the new session, was the
reading of a petition which Mr. King presented from certain
inhabitants of Bridgetown, praying the repeal or alteration of
the Alien Act. A similar petition was presented in the last
session, but from the " unparliamentary style in which it was
couched," but which we feel satisfied was never intended by
the respectable body aho signed it, the Hon. Member who In-
troduced it felt himself under the necessity of withdrawing it in
order to avoid, a division of the House, as a Member moved
that the sense of the House should be taken, whether they
could submit to receive a petition " containing language dis-
respectful to the Legislature." Although such was the fate of
that petition, yet the Hon. Member (Mr. Cummins) who in.
traduced it obtained for the petitioners, so far as the House was
concerned, all that could be desired in removing the most
obnoxious law; for in the Police Bill which he introduced,
and which passed the House unanimously after much time had
been spent on it; all regulations necessary to the true design
of an Alien Act were embraced, and the present one repealed ;
but the Honourable Board of Council having thought fit to
reject this Bill, the inhabitants of Barbadnes and other of his
Majesty's liege subjects visiting these shores, still remain
subject, not only to all the unpleasant regulations of under-
going examination at the Alien-office, but are made to pay
the sum of 12s. fid. cash, for coining to, and the like sum for
going from, the island.. We presume that the persons who
signed the petition which Mr. King introduced cannot be aware
that this Act was repealed by the Police Bill, otherwise they
would not have troubled the House again ; for we do not think
it possible that the present or any other House of Assembly
will be more earnest than the lue House was in affording re-
lief upon this particular subject; they did all in their power ;
the continuance, therefore, of this very unjust law rests with
His Majesty's Board of linen, and to them should the pe-
titioners direct their attention. It is rather unfortunate that
the framers of the petition thus introduced by Mr. King, should
have fallen into the sanie error as those who framed the one
which Mr. Cummins introduced in the late session, by using
language of an unparliamentary nature ; although there was
no motion to reject this second petition, yet Mr. Speaker could
not help remarking that " its tone and style betrayed a want
of respect towards the Legislature which he felt it his duty to
notice."
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A N —We feel no surprise at Sir Hudson
dering the highly important office he jilted at St. Helena, upon
Lowe
IlaiGvitrn4 g'dSegclvinre;llt7h.e Government of this island. Consi-
which the peace of all Europe depended, we should hardly have
expected his acceptance of it, but we do not suppose the reduc-
tion of the island salary to be the cause of it.
The tempestuous weather which prevailed during the early
part of this month has been severely felt in the other islands,
where much damage has been dune. At Guadeloupe a vessel
of war has been totally lost, with
.a hundred men. Happily for
us, we have hitherto escaped the visitation of this scourge of
the West Indies.
ST. VINCENT'S, SEPT. 12.—0 n Tuesday an half-yearly
Court of Grand Sessions of the Peace was held at the Court-
house.

The trial of the negro man Smith, for the murder of Thomas
Adams, was the only subject of consequence that came before
the above Court ; anti from the atrocity of the crime—the for-
tunate infrequency of such offences in this cominunity—with
the place and circumstances under which it was committed
very general attention was excited towards it, and the Court
was oppressively crowded. The evidence taken on the occa-
sion did not differ materially tom that given before the Coro-
ner's Inquest, of which we published a report in our number
of the 213th ult. Most of the witnesses were examined as to
their opinion of the prisoner's sanity; and although some cir-
cumstances were mentioned from which it would seem that he
occasionally laboured under a certain aberration of mind, that
might have approached very nearly to idiotcy, still it did not
appear that lie was so affected at the time of committing the
murder, which he no doubt did in a fit of ungovernable passion.
He was accordingly found guilty, and received sentence of
death on Wednesday morning.
A Privy Council was, moreover, held yesterday, at which
this man's case was, we believe, again considered, as his Ex-
cellency the Governor's order to carry the sentence of the law
into effect was issued shortly after. The unhappy man was
therefore executed this morning, in the market-place, about
11 o'clocl. Ile denied the crime, which was proved against
him on the clearest circumstantial evidence, until the last
moment, behaved throughout will the same hardened indif-
ference that he manifested on his trial, and constantly refused
spiritual consolation from the ministers of religion, who re-
peatedly visited him in prison, and attended the execution.