The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-29 00:00:00

BA YONN E INTELLIGENCE.

BAYONNE, JAN. 00.—We have news from
Madrid of the 15th. There are still reports in that capital of
the abdication of the King (but not voluntarily), an event which
would necessarily produce great changes in our situation in the
c,,untry ; and they even speak of our troops falling back upon
'
the Ebro. On the 13th, an Extraordinary Gazette appeared
on the organization and functions of the general Police of the
Kingdom, of which the following is the substance :
The Police will be under a superior Magistrate, called Su-
perintendant-General of the Police of the Kingdom ; in the
Provinces there will be Intendants and Sub-delegates of Police ;
their attributes shall be— _ _

To keep exact accounts of all the inhabitants. of thet.fi Com-
munes, to deliver end countersign passports, to
protection, to grant permission to sell in the
ietres *coffee-houses.'
to open inns, furnished hotels,
registersorinar all p_ubli e &e., to carry arms ; to open.
se.rNants out of place,
car-
riages, to watch over the furnished
.hotels,cotie.e-houses,
public places of diversion, sce., or
mechanics without employment, and all persons whose
means of subsistence are not well known ; to take up beggars,
' and children who are lost, abandoned or exposed, and gipseys
without a settlement ; to take care that there bs not introduced
into the country by sea or land, any work, in any language
whatever, unless the bearer presents an express order, signed
by his Majesty, or an order of the Council,
issued after the in-
spection of a copy which shall have been previously delivered
to SC:22 all books that shall have been introduced in contempt
1 of these regulations, whether they be in possession of a book-
seller, printer, a private person, or communities, however they
may be privileged, and to deliver. the. copies into the hands of
the Magistrates ; to prevent. thy
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pamphlets, and
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the reading. of periodical.publi.
other papers and prints in which the person or the prerogatives
of his Majesty are attacked, or in which the measures of the
government are rediculed or censured ; to arrest all individuals
who shall utter obscene words and insults against the King, as
well as all drunkards, professed gamblers, &c. ; to pursue
robbers, both in the town and highways ; to prevent riotous
groups and meetings . which threaten the public tran-
quillity ; to prosecute with the utmost rigour secret societies,
whether communeros, free masons, carbonari, or any other
dark sect, which does or shall exist ; to take measures, in concert
with the custom-house officers, to prevent smuggling ; also to
provide for the security and salubrity of the prisons,
hospitals, amphitheatres, manufactories, slaughter-houses,
&c. To enable the Police to execute Articles 13 and
14, relative to secret societies and smuggling, until
the law shall establish a military corps, charged with the
protection of the town and roads, the general police may
use its alguazils, and in case of need, call in the military
commanders, and the armed force under them. The remainder
of the Decree relates to the mode of meeting the expences
which this new police will occasion. This Decree, which is
certainly formed on the French model, cannot be executed in
Spain. Messrs. Cambronero and Burgos (Afrancesados) are
said to be authors of this Decree.
At Valladolid (it is reported) persons are arrested every even-
ing without any reason, and released again with as little rea-
son the following day.
It is said that the Marquess d'Almenara is going to set out
on a secret mission. The armed bands increase daily.

RUSSIA.—The following is a Copy of a Letter
from a highly respectable Correspondent, dated
St. Petersburgh, January 2 :

" The Decree, imposing heavy additional duties on articles
of Import, which has just been issued on the part of the Impe-
rial Government, is by no means a document calculated to give
satisfaction to the Mercantile Body of Russia. And practical
men are the more surprized at the promulgation of the erroneous
principles it involves, as Count LADISERT, the Minister of
Commerce, is generally held to be an enlightened Statesman.
His voice, however, may have been rendered null by a majority
of the Ministers. Be it as it may, all experience shews, that,
if by fair means, articles of luxury cannot he had—where the
people are rich—they are sure to get them by illegal traffic ; and
then all the profit attaches to the smuggler and his adjuncts, by
which means a system is engendered alike prejudicial to the
fair dealer and the State. The present winter constitutes an
anomaly in the seasons. The weather is remarkably mild : the
consequence is that the roads are incredibly bad, and al! in.
ternal traffic subject to impediments which amount almost
to the impossibile. It is deserving •of mention, as an
extraord.inary phenomenon, that at a grand entertainment
given in the country, a few miles from the residence, in
the last days of the month of October, the company vrere re-
galed with fresh green peas, kidney beans, &c.; and at the
dessert there was a profusion of the finest ripe strawberries !
Our commerce with Persia, China, :&c. is manifestly on the
increase. In the month of October a very richly laden caravan,
requiring the aid of 890 camels, passed through the Kirgisian
Steppe, destined for the interior of Asia.—On the .25th wit
the Court lost by the hand of death a valuable servant,
and a highly respected individual, in the person of Count
PETER Vozr RASUIVIOWSEW, (the High Chamberlain), e
brother of the late Minister of Public Instruction, Count
ALEXIS R. The funeral rites were performed with becoming
splendour and solemnity in the church of Saint Alexander
Newsky the day before yesterday."

PARLIAMENT.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPENING OF FAR-

L IA IVIEZ;;;P:

It is understood on good authority that the
recent attack of the gout, to which the KING iS
unfortunately a martyr, has been of so slight a
character that it is by no means likely to pre-
vent his Majesty from opening Parliament in
person. Lord Gwyder and his active Secretary,
Mr.- Fellows, have been busily employed for
the last fortnight in directing the arrange-
ments necessary- to give order and splendour
to that important Ceremony. The Duke of
Wellington, as heretofore, is to bear the
sword of state on the occasion. The Royal
entrance to the House is now most conveniently
arranged. The door at which his Majesty alights
is in advance of that at which the Officers of
State and of the household descend, so that the
whole cavalcade can form immediately behind
his Majesty without any crowding or hurried
bustle. This entrance is to be lined by dis-
mounted guardsmen as far as the top of the flight
of stairs which leads to what is called the Royal
Ante room, which stairs, together with the Ante-
room, and the Gallery leading to the old Painted
Chamber, form part-of the new improvements
that have been constructed under the direc-
tion of Mr. Soane.— The flight of stairs
leading to the Ante-room strikes upon the eye
in the most imposing manner. It is, indeed,
a rciyal staircase, lofty, and magnificently orna-
mented, both as to side walls and cieling. The
Ante-room presents four pairs of Scagliola co-
!limns, each of which sustains a small gallery
handsomely and uniformly decorated. This room
leads into what is called, par excellence, the Ga-
llery, which is about SO feet in length. The roof
is sustained by highly ornamented arches, which
spring from Scagliola columns, and the view from
either extremity is perfectly superb. Between
the columns bronze tripods are arranged for
lamps, which, from their massive and classic form,
correct, in some measure, the ostentation of the
stucco ornaments. Over the centre of the gallery
is a large dome, supported by pillars, between
which tripods are also placed.—lt is worth ob-
serving, as an instance of modern expedition in
creating edifices, that not a brick of this exten-
sive building was laid till the 3d of October last.
The Painted Chamber remains as yet in static
quo, but it is to be pulled down, as is also the
present House of Lords ; and new buildings are
to be erected in their place, according as the in-
tervals between the Session will permit. The tower,
in the vault of which Guy Fawkes was found,
remains also untouched, but it will of course
disappear in due time. Ever since his attempt
to blow up the House with all its Members, it is
the duty of the Lord Great Chamberlain to in-
spect personally the vaults and passages imme-
diately before the opening of Parliament, a duty
which-Lord Gwvdyr regularly performs. The
Ante-room arid Gallery leading to the Painted
Chamber will be guarded by the Yeomen of
the Guard and the Band of Gentlemen Pen_
sinners. Before the Prince's Chamber and the
old House of Lords were pulled down, many
hundreds of spectators were admitted into
them by the Great Chamberlain's tickets. But
on Tuesday no spectators will be allowed to
enter the Gallery and Ante-room until after his
Majesty shall have left the House, as it was
wished that, in passing, to the Robing-Room, his
Majesty shall have an uninterrupted view of the
new arrangements. This we presume to be the
cause of the very limited number of tickets which
all the
have been issued, as spectators will be con-
fined within the Painted Chamber, where
seats rising row above row are now erect-
ing for their accommodation. His Majesty,
P
it is to be understood, passes from the Gallery
through thePaintedChember to the Robing-Room,
and returns by the same way. Those who have
C
tickets for the Painted Chamber are to enter by
B
the door No. 1, or the Bishop's door, as it 15
called. Those who have tickets for the Bar are
to enter by the House of Commons' passage; and
those ladies who have tickets for the body of the
House are to go in by the Peers' entrance. Those
ladies who have tickets for the body of the
dressed;
House must be fullbut a morning dress
is considered sufficient for the ladies who have'
tickets for the Painted Chamber. The gentlemen
who are to be admitted to the Painted Chamber,
and below the Bar, may also go in morning
dress. The doors will he thrown open at twelve
o'clock. It may be useful to add that an Order
will appear in the Gazette on Saturday, for all
Peeresses, who intend to he present at the House
of Lords, to give notice of their intention at the
Great Chamberlain's Office on Monday. On for- 11
mer occasions, Peers were in the habit of issuing
their own orders, both for the Bar and the House ;
but latterly, since the standing order has been
enforced, none but the Great Chamberlain's
tickets are admitted in any part of the House.
Before a prorogation, it is competent to a Peer
to move in his place, that any lady should be
admitted whom he chooses to name ; hut at the
opening of Parliament he has no such right.

Sensmoluzc Goirr.---In consequence of the
notification of the cause of the death of BAMBER.
1,11
GASCOYNE, in uesdav's paper, we subjoin the
follov.ing from the Morning Post of the 20th
instant :

INTERESTING OCCURRENCE.--A distinguished Per-
sonage, very subject to the gout, which there was every reason
to fear would fly to the stomach, was lately coming to London,
in anticipation of a fit, when it attacked him by the way. He
still exerted himself to get home ; this, with the cold weather
and his own anxiety, brought on such violent spasms, that on
Netting Hill, he could proceed no further. The carriage stop-
ped at Mr. STocKDALE's ; but he was unable to alight. Mrs.
STOCKDALE therefore carried him a wine-glass of a prepara-
tion of her own, which, strange to say, gave him instant relief,
so that he was enabled to reach home, where the disorder ter-
minated most favourably in his feet_ He submitted the medi-
cine to an eminent Medical Friend, who analysed and pro-
nounced it a probably infallible remedy for gout in the stomach
and spasms. This was communicated to Mrs. S. as an import-
ant discovery, when she informed hit: that she was perfectly
aware of it, and had administered it as such for above twenty
years

MKT TO FEMALES WHOSE CLOTHES MAY TAKE
FIRE.—Do not remove from the place where you may be stand-
ing, hut have recourse to any one of your under garments, and
wrap it closely over the head or shoulders, according to where
the fire has taken place : any garment, either muslin, silk, or
calico, if even wrapped lightly round the flames, will not fail
to extinguish them.

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MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.
. ENGLAND.

Monday, Feb. 2, LoNrION, Nos. 10, 27, 39, 89, 213,
249, 289. Committee
Boy's School, at 7.
CouNTRY. Nos. 20, 64, 72, 102, 148,
191,202,219,267, 311,
368, 369, 372, 398, 423,
493, 502, 503, 509, 632,
638, 644.
Tuesday, -3, LONDON. Nos. 9, 122, 281, 237,
381, 399.
COUNTRY. Nos. 21, 127, 167, 170,
180,-184, 196, 204 385,
387, 476, 507, 512, 532,
544, 551, 557, 639.
Wednesday, -4, LoNDON. Nos. 35, 75, 220. Grand
Chapter.
COUNTRY. Nos. 84, 95, 124, 139, 146,
207, 229, 339, 465, 487,
491, 505, 513, 526, 629,
581, 585, 656, 711, 713,
725.
-5, LONDON. Nos. 61, 239, 277, 325,
409.
COUNTRY. Nos. 113, 171, 182, 234,
416, 453, 466, 469, 535,
561, 599, 627.
--6, LONDON. No. 210.
COUNTRY. Nos. 13, 30, 55, 58, 470,
538.
7, LONDON. No. 173.
COUNTRY. * * *
IRELAND. -
Monday, Feb. 2, Conn. No. 347.
Tuesday, -3, CORK. Nos. 3, 95.
Wednesday, -4, Coax. No. 1.

Thursday,

Friday,

Saturday,