The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-24 00:00:00

Guizet has resolved to carry on diplomacy without diplo-
matists ?

ANOTHER ROYAL MA It ILIA GE. —Paris, it is hinted in high
quarters, is soon again to become the scene of festivity, in
consequence of the marriage of a member of the Royal Family.
The exalted personage alluded to is not the Prince de Join-
ville, with a Princess of Holland, but the Princess Clementine
with the brother of Prince Albert, Consort of the Queen of
England. The King and Queen of the Belgians are to grace
the nuptials with their presence. Their Majesties are expected
in Paris in about a month hence, and preparations are already
commenced for their reception at the Tuileries.
FEMALE HEROISM.--During afire which entirely destroyed
a boarding-school for yuung ladies at Montpellier, in the night
of the 14th instant, Mlle. de Roquefeuille, one of the teachers,
not more than 22 years of age, displayed the followin: instaree
of intrepid humanity. Soon after the first alarm she, with
great presence of mind, madeher escape with two of the younger
children in her arms. Her next care was to muster all the
pupils and call over the names to ascertain that none were
left behind. All answered but one, a little girl seven years old.
Convinced that she was still in the burning building, Mlle. de
Roquefeuille resolved to save her or perish. Obtaining a flan •
beau, she entered the house and reached an outer chrrnitory :

here the smoke was so dense that her light was extinguished
by it. Nevertheless, and although the floor had been caught
by the flames, she made her way to an inner room, where she
found the object of her anxiety still fast asleep and unharmed.
Catching up the child, she happily made her way back into the
open air unscorched, fully rewarded in her own heart, and
therefore happy, although she had lust in the fire every particle
of property she possessed.
FRENCH CONSCRIPTS.—The contingent of conscripts for
the class of 1840, being 80,000 in number, have been divided
as follows among the different branches of the public force :
Infantry, 50,451 ; foot chasseurs, 3,224; military workmen,
300 ; hospital corps, 300 ; cavalry. 8,535 ; artillery, 10,250 ;
engineers, 545: train, 670; marine infantry, 2,500; ditto
artillery, 1,225 ; sailors, 2,000.
THE BASQUES.—" The Government," according to the
Temps, "has ascertained that rumours which have been cir-
culated as to projects of a new insurrection in the Basque Pro-
vinces, ar.i not without foundation. The French officers of
the Customs have detected and seized arms, ammunition, and
accoutrements, endeavoured to be conveyed over the frontier
by agents for Don Carlos. On the 7th instant, General
Aroyo and a Colonel were arrested by the gendarmes in a
village where they had endeavoured to conceal themselves in
disguise."
THE Doc DAYS.—The Temps states that for two months
past the police have sent out carts about Paris, with persons
charged to take up every dog without a muzzle, even although
at the door of its owner. When taken, says the Temps, the
dog is put into a sack, with a mechanism by which he is
strangled in less than half a minute.
FRENCH CONVICTS.—Two bands of military convicts, con-
demned to a term of imprisonment with the boulet, escaped in
the night of February sth from the hulks at Belle Isle, and
committed robberies and other depredations in the neighbour-
ing villages. Being recaptured, they were brought to trial on
the 14th inst., before a Court-martial at Rennes. Six of them
were condemned to death, and the rest sentenced to have their
boulets doubled for the rest of their periods of imprisonment.
RADICAL DINNER.—" Yesterday," says the National,
" There was to have been a Reform dinner at a restaurateur's,
near the Barriere du Maine, but the police did not allow of
it. A formal prohibition was brought by the Commissary of
Police of Mont-Rouge, and there was a detachment of horse
and foot Municipal Guards to enforce it. The intended guests
retired." _ _

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Accounts from Vourla, in the Smyrna Journal, represent
the neighbourhood of that place to have been lately infested by
a band of brigands, some of whom, in the night of the 9th
ult., made an attack on the house of the Aga of Kouvendi,
on the sea-shore, and having forced their way in, murdered the
Aga, his wife, and child, wounded two other persons of the
family, plundered the house of every valuable, and effected
their escape. None of the malefactors had been discovered.
" The Turkish Government," says the Commerce, " has
lately issued two ordonnances, one for regulating the dress of
the male Turks, and the other recommending modesty to be
observed by the females, and enjoining them, when out of
doors, not to have the slightest communication with the Men.
Tight pantaloons, and other similar fashions, imported from
Europe, are prohibited for the men."
We learn from Munich, that, on the 7th inst., two sons of a
citizen of that town took their departnre on a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, clothed in the proper costume, and bearing the
cross. They were accompanied beyond the gates by a large
concourse of people, cheering them with loud expressions of
good wishes. The Duke Maximilian of Bavaria has caused to
be made, for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem,
a magnificent altar, which will he shortly Fent off. A repre-
sentation of the Agony in the Garden, painted by Kranz
berger, one of the best pupils of Cornelius, is to be placed over
it. The frame is ornamented with portraits of the Duke and
Duchess and their son. .

✓The Journal du Havre mentions the discovery near Okaroa,
in New Zealand, of a dangerous rock, lying in the usual course
of ships sailing for the whale fishery, and not marked on any
chart. It lies 54 miles W.N.W., hN. from the Esperance
Rock of Admiral Dumont d'Urville. It is not wider than a
vessel, and is about four feet under water. Having been dis-
covered by the Havre whaler, the name of that ship has been
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given to it.