The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1841.

'.:Lt' nY had gone into- winter quarters at Coelocina.—
New York Herald.

MORE ENGLISH AGGRESSION.—A letter from Ha-
vannah says:—" A serious affair has just commenced
in the neighbourhood of Matanzas: It appears that
the English Consul went a few thi-ys , since tO a
plantation situated: that town, and attempted
to obtain tho .ehisincipation of all the slaves belong-
ing to a planter who had arrived from Jamaica
his seditious. counsels , might have occasioned a general
revolt among the coloured population of that place. As
soon as the commander of Matanzas obtained informa-
tion of this occurrence, he arrested. the Consul and sent
him back here, escorted by soldiers under the order of
the Government. We du not know what will be the
result of this affair?'

PIRATES IN NEW ORLEANS.—A New Orleans paper
says--:-On the 19th of May, 1841, Mr. Desache, while
a passenger. on board the schooner Caledonia, . Cap-
tain J. W. Potter, bound from Maryas . to St.
Thomas, was seized, together with three other
passengers, and put into a small boat at sea,
by the Captain, mate and crew, armed with pistols and
knives, in order to rob them of what property they had
on board, Desache had 470 doubloons, besides valuable
merchandize, &c. The wind blowing fresh towards the
land at the time, they were blown into Porto Rico in
twenty-four hours.
Desache who is now in this city, learned that
Captain Potter, was at this port, sailing as mate of the
ship Tirien. Yesterday morning Desache made an
affidavit of the above facts, before Recorder Bertus,
who issued a warrant for his arrest. Police officer
Hoey, with two others, • succeeded in arresting
Potter. While searching for him on board the Tirien,
Desache recognised one of the sailors, Frank Garnat, as
having been the mate of the Caledonia at the time, whom
they also arrested. They will be examined before Re-
corder Bertus this morning. One of the other passengers,
now in Havannah, will be sent for to appear on the trial.
MORE DEATHS BY SEA.—The facts so feelingly
narrated by the following extract from Captain Wil-
lard's log=book, induce the belief that some vessel
Must have been capsized or swamped in the gale,
and that the sturdy voyagers of the deep who were
seen in the boat, had escaped the fate of their com-
mits, to meet an equally gloomy one at the moment of
hoped-for Succour :—Extract from the log of the Ocean,
J. Willard, from New York, bound to New Orleans.—
Sat. Nov, 13, Ist, 38, 15 N., lon. 73 25 W.—At 8 A. m.,
strong gales, high sea, and clear weather. At ten,
discovered a boat about three quarters of a mile to
the windward, with men in her rowing to the leeward
after us ; brought the ship by. the wind immediately,
with the maintopsail aback ; the boat continued
to come towards ns until within two hundred
yards, when a very"heavy sea swamped her,
covering her - entirely. The sea was now so
high that it was impossible to lower our own boat
with any degree of safety. The ship.- now heaving
forged ahead of the boat ; we wore around • and pre-
pared ropes and spars to heave to theM, but, in the
wearing, we fell much to the leeward, and could not
fetch so near them •as --before. We continued to
make short tacks by wearing until ten minutes past ele-
ven o'clock, and could-frequently see the boat, bottom
up, far to the windward. The boat had a varnished
bottom and green streak, with four men in her. During
this time, broke slings off foresail and split reefed main-
sal and jib.—/Yew Orleans Butetin, Dec. 2.
By the packet barqUe Orb, Watts, from Kingston, Ja-
maica, we learn that the scarlatina prevails over the
whole island, arid is sweeping off great numbers.—
Baltimore American. •

Samuel APllenry, late Chief Justice of Harrison
county, Virginia, has been tried for stealing slaves, and
convicted of the offence by the jury.
General Doty has been unsuccessful in his attempt to
negotiate with the Winnebago Indians for a cession of
their lands and their removal to the north-west.

LITERATURE.

NARRATIVE OF THE L 4TE EXPEDITIOA
TO SYRIA. In 2 Vols. By M,P. hunter, Esq.
kmalyn, Coiburn,lB42.
The Writer or thege ekdeedititly
voluMeS accompanied the Syrian expedition ns
an amateur observer, and being on terms of inti-
macy with .Admiral Walker, and several distin-
guished officers in the Turkish, British, andAus-
trian:squadrons, bad ample opportunities :of col-
lectimr the. best information relative to the pro-
gr_:ss of the, stirring events of which he was an.
eye-witness. His narrative is full of life, and
interspersed with anecdotes of " hair-breadth
'scopes," and acts of personal prowess, such as
are usually only to be met with hi works of fic-
tion. But Mr. Hunter has kept strictly within
the bounds of truth ; so that the future historian
or thiS chapter in the world's history will meet
with-no safer guide than is supplied by his pages.
Most or the work appeared from month to north
in the "United Service Journal," and the praise
which we bestowed upon it in a detached form
renders it unnecessary that we should now do
more than congratulate the officers and men com-
posing the Syrian expedition on so ccrrect an
account of their exploits being now preSented to
the public in a more compact and accessible
shape. The volumes are embellished with por-
traits of Admiral Stopford and Commodore Na-
pier—the latter the real hero of the expedition—
and with plans of the engagements along the
Syrian coast. We had marked some extractsfor
quotation, but at present we have only space for
the following description of Izzet Mehemet
Pacha, the new Prime Minister of the Stilton.
'low strikingly it agrees with what we have writ-
ten of this Minister, the constant readers of The
Sun need not be told :

Syria began to offer temptations, and to be bid for at
the Porte. Izzet Mehemet Pacha, one of the-Old school
of three-tailed grinding Bashaws, rich as a Crcesus with
the fruits of long extortion, landed at Beyrout, rejoicing
in the grandiloquent title of Governor of- Syria and of
Egypt.• There can be no better proof of:.the watchful
surveillance ever incumbent on the European representa-
tives at the Porte, who may be true well-wishers of
Turkish ascendancy, than the appointment, at such a
moment of a man like Izzet Pacha to chief authority in
Syria. ..One of the most noted of that selfish class of
local administrators, whii have mainly contributed to the
late abject condition of the Ottoman enitiire,--a man who
has, before now, kept beck even then shirts and shoes of
his soldiers, in order to put the money allowed fur their
purchase in his pocket !
It is true he for a few clays valiantly defended Varna
against the Russians ; but he also evacuated it to her
General (well known for certain persuasive powers) at a
very opportune moment. True it is, also, that ha has
many enemies in the Divan ; but, at the same time, he
has more friends there than any other Pacha ; and a
single individual, however rich and astute, cannot pur-
chase up the good opinions of a whole Sanhedrim, such
as is the Council at Constantinople. Selim Pacha, on
old Izzet's arrival, at once became deprived of power,
although locally appointed as his lieutenant ; nay, Izzet
was placed superior even to the Commander, for the time
being, of the Sultan's forces. And what were his first
proceedings in Beyrout ? He sent for the members of
the Shorn, or municipal council, and inquired what debts
of the late government remain uncollected. On being
informed that every. pars of available taxes had pre-
viously been called in, he asked if there were not other
imposts which it had been found impracticable to realise.-
The latter was by no means difficult, for their Egyptian
rulers had ceased only to impose burdens when the acme
of their capabilities had been tested. A sum of 20,000
piastres was found to be standing against the town. " Let
that money," said the new Governor, " be collected from
the inhabitants by to-morrow at noon, and all who fail
shall stiffer forfeiture of their effects." Alas !.alas ! for
the first fruits of the vaunted reformation in Turkey.

HISTORY, ARMORIES, AND ANTIQOITIES

OF THE TOWER.
ORDNANCE OFFICE, TOWER.

The re-arrangement of the Tower Armories,
cousequent upon the recen t sad disaster, necessarily
calls for a new guide-book, demonstrative of their
altered localization. Mr. Hewett's brochure at
the same time' that it supplies this desideratum,
combines with itself an authenticity derived from
the Tower records. One object held in view by
the writer is to imbue visitors with a moderate
degree of understanding as to the exhibition in-
spected, so that they may judge of its merits, and
enjoy its beauties; while the critical niceties
which he undertakes to explain respecting the
panoply of our old champions, the accoutrements
of their steeds, and the uses of their war-arms,
will afford keen eyes a task of discovery at a fu-
ture visit in the originals themselves. Among
the delineations of the machines of torment
which were formerly used in the various torture-
chambers, the refined cruelty of .the " Mater
Dolorosa .' is thus described :
.This was an image of the Virgin, made of wood and
iron, and so constructed that "the victim subjected to its
embraces had by degrees his life squeezed out of his
body." The Jungfern Kuss (the maiden's kiss) was a
somewhat similar punishment ; it was inflicted by an
" Iron Virgin, seven feet high, which stretched forth
handth itssw swords
ss
swallowed by fishes in hidden waters."
hineAtVird fahrlllofintitioe: e I
littleiTi inparcems,d Is*.hiitchh broad
e
Among the antiquated relics of the gun-foun-
dry department, burnt in half by the late con-
flagration, was the following curiosity :
A brass 6 pounder gun, date 1581, with the figure of
a frog en the barrel, and the motto,
Ich sing and spring
I sing and spring -
Mein feind durch dring.
My foe transfixing.
Among those not much damaged, it is to be
rejoiced that two French brass mortars are pre-
served, if only for the sake of their fine motto—
" Non solis radios, sed Jovis fulmina mitto"—" I
dart not sun-rays, but the bolts of Jove." Much
to be regretted, however, is the loss of the Chi-
nese trophy, composed of military arms and
dresses taken at Chusan, and set up only a day
or two previously to the fire. To the many
Christmas-goers who will frequent the Tower at
the present holiday season, at the same time that
Mr. Hewitt's book is to be recommended as their
best cicerone, they should especially examine the
rich armour-suits described at page 66, made to
commemorate the unionof our Eighth Henry with
Katharine of Arragon, among the love-badges of
which the rose and pomegranate abound. Among
the many fables propagated, in early times, of the
Tower, one legend states that its foundation stones
were " cemented together with the blood of
beasts."

ethical chapters from- the pen of Madame Rio-
frey herself enjoin her salutary and efficacious
precepts

:LAYS AND I.47jaCg. llfcazics, EV17161604; 1841
The author of this V°hinie of Poems states, in
his Prefaee, that he was prevailed on to publish
them by several kind old friends; who even so-
licited him to do so by round robin, Wiiieh they
sent to him with all their signatures attached.
Such solicitations were not to be denied, and the
result is the little volume before us, Which,
though it gives few decisive, tokens of what
Wordsworth has somewhere called " the vision
and the thculty divine," yet exhibits a quick ap-
prehension of the music of verse, and abounds in
such healthy, unaffected feeling, as does great
credit to the author's head and heart. Some of
his minor lyrics, such as " Fatherland," and the
" Harp of the Troubadour," are really very cre-
ditable specimens of versification.

CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. Part IV.
MASSINGER AND FORD. Part IV. MID-
DLETON'S LIFE OF CICERO. Part 117.
IVYCHERLEY, CONGREVE, 6-c. Part IV.
Moxon, London, 1841.
These are republications of some of our stand-
ard works, in monthly half a-crown Parts, which
are got up with great care and neatness. By
issuing them in this cheap and commodious form,
Mr. Moxon is conferring a great benefit on the
reading public.

SIR WALTER SCOTS PROSE WORKS.
Cada, Ldinlnztgh, 1841.
In addition to the 'Sxtli Part of Sir Walter
Scott's Life of Napoleon, which brings down the
history to the battle of Dresden in 1813, and
General Moreau's death, we have here also the
entire novel of the " Monastery," printed first in
one octavo number; and, secondly, in a neat duo-
decimo volume. Both reprints are very cre-
ditably executed.

ASSOCIATION FOR THE RELIEF
OF THE POOR OF TIIE CITY OF LONDON,
AND PARTS ADJACENT.-COALS AND PO-
TATOES FOR THE POOR

Yesterday the Committee of this most excellent Insti-
tution, Ivhieh renders the most valuable assistance to
the poor every winter, assembled at the Mansion-house ;
Alderman Kelly in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said the general distress throughout
the metropolis required that the friends of humanity
should assemble in numberless Committees for the pur-
pose of more effectually assisting the industrious poor,
now that a severe season might be reasonably expected
to set in. The opening of the City Kitchen, in New-
stieet, Blackfriars, on last Monday week, had already
contributed, in no small degree, by the issue of tickets,
to relieve the distress of many families, who received, by
the arrangements made for their benefit coals and pota-
toes at a very low price indeed.—(llear, hear.) lie felt
great pleasure in stating, that since the Committee

had last assembled, he had received from the Goldsmiths'
Company 30 guineas, from the Mercers' Company 26
guineas, from Messrs. Truman and Ilanbury 10 guineas,
trom M. La Forest 3 guineas, besides many smaller
cont ributions.— (Cheers.)

Alderman GIBBS announced that besides the sums
above-mentioned, Messrs. Willis and Co. had sent to
the charity 101. 10s., Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co.,
had sent 101. 10s., and Messrs. Whitbread and Co., had
sent 151. 155., and Alderman Kelly had paid in his
annual subscription of 51. ss.—(Cheers.)
It appears that last year the distribution of coals and
potatoes commenced eight days later than it has com-
menced in the present, and that during the interval be-
tween that time and the 22d of March, 22,516 bushels, of
coals and 268,992 pounds of potatoes were delivered to
the poor applicants by tickets from the subscribers.
The Committee consists of the following gentlemen
besides the Lord \layor the President, and Alderman
Kelly the Vice-President and Treasurer :—Alderman Wil-
son, Alderman Gibbs, Rev. John Harding, A.M., Mr. B.
Farrand, Mr. Dorneford, Mr. Hartnell, Deputy West-
wood, Mr. Simpson, Mr. J. Farrand, Mr. T. Lott, and
Mr. J. Phipp, all of whom had actively engaged in ren-
dering the charity as serviceable as possible.
The Committee, which receives vast assistance from
the benevolent exertions of the Lord Mayor, adjourned
till Thursday next, when they will assemble at the Man-
sion House.

MEETING OF SPIT ILLFIELDS'
SILK-WE AVERS.

Last night, at eight o'clock, a very numerous Meet-
ing of the Unemployed Spitaltields' Silk-weavers was
held at the Crown and Anchor, Waterloo-town, to re-
ceive the Report of the Dqutation appointed to wait on
the Lord Mayor, to ascertain when the funds in his
Lordship's hands will be distributed.
Mr. BRITTEN having been appointed to the Chair,
stated that there was but one feeling that induced him to
preside, and which was, that he should be assisting those
who, while they were honest and industrious, were in a
starving state. It was melancholy to him to see so many
men before him, who were willing to earn their liveli-
hood by their labour, appear there, and not one of them
be able to have a pint of porter before them.—(Near.)
He saw some before him without a shoe or stocking,
which would not be if they had emplo)ment. But whets
they had work, owing to the low price of wages, they
even then were scarcely able to obtain sufficient means to
I support their fiunilies ; and then they were compelled to
labour from 14 to 16 hours a day.—(Hear,) When they
last met they felt that the distresses of the weaver were
most serious, but since that day many more had been
flung out of work.
Mr. LEESON said that after the interview at the Man-
sion-house, the Deputation took immediate steps for the
purpose of having a public meeting called, and some of
them waited on Mr. Gammen, one of the Committee
which has been in communication with the Lord Mayor.
There was an idea abroad that the distress was not so ex-
tensive as had been asserted, but it was easy to show that
a large body of the weavers were out of emplinyment.
They all knew that three persons were employed at a
loom, and when it was known that there were above
8,000 looms unemployed, that would snake above 24,000
out of work.

J. BARTLETT said that he was in work, and it was
his belief that the employed were in a situation little
better than those who were out of work. He was only
able to earn one shilling a day.
After h few words from Mr. HORNSBY, one of the
Acting Committee, as to the great distress which pre-
vailed in that district,
Mr. CLARKE observed that when he and Mr. Hornsby
had finished their Report, they would present a state-
ment of the distress in the district that would be
appalling. They had that day visited the best part of
the district, and the state of the weavers there was very bad.
The Report was received, and afterwards several reso-
lutions were moved, among ethers a vote of thanks to
the Lord Mayor and Alderman Wilson, to the Acting
Committee, and to the Chairman, the meeting separated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTEIISALL'S-YESTERDAY.

The betting yesterday proved but a very sorry wind-
up to the year, we heard only three engagements, viz. :
--1,250 to 50 against Lord Verulam's Robert De Gor-
ham, 1,300 to 50 agst Mr. Gregory's two (Barrier and
Defier)' and 25 to 1 to 35 agst Lord George Bentinck's
Topsail, the latter for the Oaks.
It is not probable that we shall have any improvement
to record previous to the meeting of Parliament.

A R.E•ACTION.—The election of a minister
took place at Old Monkland church, on Thursday, the
23d instant, and the right of patronage being vested in
the Heritors and Kirk-Session, the election might b e
considered a popular one. About 150 voters attended
the meeting, and a decided wish having been expressed
by, it is understood, the whole of the heritors, that no
candidate known to be connected with the Non-Intrusion
party in the Church should be chosen, the meeting, net-
mg upon this principle, unanimously agreed to elect the
Rev. Mr. Johnston, Greenock, as minister of the parish.
Considering the number of voters, the unanimity that
prevailed among the electors, it is belie Ted, is without
precedent., and strongly marks the sentiments and feel-
ings of a large and very populous parish on the present
proceedings of the dominant party in the Church: Mr.
Johnston was proposed by General rye Douglass, of
Rosehall, seconded by Mr. M`Ca.ul, of Daldowdie, and
unanimously elected.—Reformers' Gazette.
A note in the Debuts, from M. Dumeril,:of the
Museum of Natural History, Jardin des Plantes, states
that the presents of lionS and an ostrich from the Bey of
Tunis have proved desirable additions to the menagerie,
the losses of animals by death having been rather great
within the last few months. Thus two lionesses,' a lion,
and two jaguars died recently within a few days of each
other ; and last winter the only royal tiger which was in
the collection died, and has not yet been replaced. Out
of the thirteen lions and lionesses brought to the mena-
gerie after the capture of Algiers, only two lionesses sur-
vive. Great store is placed on the ostrich, which is a
female ; but as the menagerie unfortunately does not
possess a male bird of this species, there is no chance of
reproduction. At the present moment there are some
curious instances in the collection of animals and birds
that have changed their original colours for pure white.

The Journal de Rouen gives the following new
instance of the undue precipitation with which interments
are liable to be made :—" A few days ago a woman was
delivered of twins, but the infants were both so debili-
tated that, after lingering for a day in an apparently
dying state, they were believed to have expired. The
family applied for the usual authority to bury them, but
the Commissary required the certificate of a physician,
and one was accordingly called in. To be certain that
life was extinct he applied galvanism to the children, and
one of them was so tar revived that it lived ten hours
more, though at the end of that time it ceased to breathe."

THE, BANK AND THE TREASURY.—The
Bank receives Exchequer bills for the funding ; when
this operation is complete, there will be found among
them many that are fratidulent. The question will then
arise whether- these shall be received ; and it will be
maintained on the part of the Bank that as that body
acts in the affair only as the agent of the Government,
the latter must bear the loss incurred by the forgeries.
Those who paid in their forged bills have placed them-
selves in a much better position than those who did not,
for the Scrip continued to be delivered by the Bank un-
til by an order from the Treasury the Scrip Was with-
held, but bills to a large amount had already gone in
before this precaution was adopted. It is generally
considered that the Bank ought not to suffer ; but it is
argued on the part of the Treasury, that though Ex-
chequer bills are receivable for funding, the forged do-
cuments were not bills at all, and that the Bank was not
authorised in taking them..

LITERATURE IN FRANCE.
(From the Times.) . _

We are gradually becoming inoculated by the French
and German taste for cheap bibliopolism. Perhaps our
fresh issues of books of sterling and recognised merit
are almost as cheap as they could be made, consistently
with careful production, with the supply of a service-
able paper, and with the excessive duty to which that
artic!e (of downright necessity) is in this country ridi-
culously subject. But the prices of all new books
among at us, are perfectly enormous compared with
those which prevail on the Continent. Every one who
llda been to Germany, knows what the fair of Lcipsic
producess. In France the business of publication is car-
ried on with perhaps still less expense to the public ; im-
mense editions are sold, and author and bookseller are
both of them well remunerated. Fads in these cases
ate the only arguments. During the last eiglteen
months a servos of little works, entitled " Physiologia,"
as " Physiologie du Tailleurr " Physiologic de l'Etudi-
ant," " Physiologie I'llorrne a Bonnes Fortunes,"bas
issued from the Parisian press--not very voluminous cer-•
taiely, but excellent in quality, and copiously illustrated
by Gavarni and all the most eminent caricaturists of
France. For these little works, for which a crown at
least tvou'd be charged itt London, with probably some
lying nonsense in the trade puffs about " unprecedented
cheapness," a single franc is charged its Pang. Let the
London trade look to this. If they are ism prepared
to treat the public with liberality, with what face do
they complain of want of encouragement ? So long ;as
they publish their books at unpurchaseable prices, that
they should break by dozens is only a natural cunse•
quence. A " Bibliotbeque Francaise" is now being
published in Paris, in thirty volumes, presenting, for
three or four francs a volume, the works of the most
celebrated writers of France, illustrated by learned
notes and a selection of the most esteemed commen-
taries. The publisher (it is no fulsome falsehood to
call him " spirited") deals with nothing but chefs-
d'wuvre, and has literally realized his promise that" leur
extreme wodicitc de prix " would place these volumes
in a state of the most satisfactory completeness, " a la
peace de toutes les fortunes." • There is a splendid
work called "La Jardin des Plantes," with richly
coloured engravings of the highest excellence, zoologi-
cal, floricultural, and botanical, portraits of Cuvier,
Buffos, and the other naturalists of France, views and
plans of the gardens, &c., now going through the
press in thick and voluminous parts, for 30 centimes
(3d.) each ! If it must be our fate (which seems ex-
tremely probable) to be speedily outstripped in informa-
tion and intelligence by our neighbours of the Outre-
Manche, let the shame rest upon monopolising money-
grinding booksellers. Let not penny magazines and cyclo-
pmdias for the diffusion and confusion of " useful know-
ledge" he flung in our teeth as an answer to these remarks.
They are no answer; letterpress and illustrations are both
the work of inferior men,incapable of awaking the popular
mind or inspiring popular interest. But the illustrations
of animal and vegetable nature to which we have alluded
above are the productions of the first artists of France ;
and elegance and exactitude of outline are rendered
complete by the most magnificent colouring after na-
ture—what a contrast to the stark and staring woodcuts
by which foreigners are to much diverted in our " penny
literature !"

In addition to the vast fecundity of the Parisian press
in novels, romances, and tales interminable, bristling in
feuilletons, and packed into library volumes, there is
likewise a translation-factory from the English kept
pretty briskly at work. The lingual steam-engine is
driven by M. Defauconpret, who has translated the
works of Sir W. Scutt for the Cabinets de Lecture. Tnis
gent!eman has also translated several copies of Cooper's
novels, and some of Captain Marryat's—the prefer-
ence of selection being unquestionably accorded to
them in consequence of their " naval" character—a
school of art in which France is extremely backward.
These translations, as may well be conceived, are truly
Frenchified affairs ; even the very names being cu-
riously and ridiculously metamorphosed ; thus we have
" Monsieur le Midshipman Easy" for one title, " Le
Mar in a Terre" (•' The Middy Ashore") for another,
and the last issued figures as " Joseph Rusbbroock.'
But no Frenchman ever yet could spell an English name.
The most noticeable thing about these publications
is the remarkably cheap price at which they are sold.
Each volume is charged only 30., whilst the pal-
triest translated trash that goes into our c:rculating
libraries here is impudently priced at half a guinea
a volume. The most splendid works of original
fiction, witness Eugene Sue's " Mathilde," are pub-
lished at the same price as Defauconpret's translations.
Observe how by this liberal arrangement author and
public (and the bookseller himself in the long run) are
benefited. Cheep reprints of " standard" English
works, from French presses, abound ; and Galignani's
establishment has been cut out in some directions, and
forced in others to reduce its expensiseness, by which it
rivalled even London humbug. There is scarcely a
short book of acknowledged merit in the circle of Eng-
lish literature that you cannot purchase, reprinted in
Paris by Frenchmen, yet with great accuracy, for 83.,
101, or, at the very utmost, 15d. In this most asto-
nishing act►vity of the publishing world a very marked
preference is given to English literature, the German
being little cultivated.

STRANGE EXECUTION OF THE

LAW IN GREECE.

ATHENS, DEC. 10.—A fe.w days since two of the
most desperate brigands that have appeared of late
years in Greece, were ordered to be executed in the
neighbourhood of the capital, although they had been
tried and condemned by the tribunal at Negropont ; the
guillotine was erected close to the Phalerum, and the
condemned were escorted from the Athens prison to
the place of execution by a troop of lancers and a large
body of gendarmes. As the• Government had been
foolish enough to allow their French Bourreau to be
assassinated in Egina, without punishing the murderer,
it was with the greatest difficulty they could find any-
body to perform the duty ; however, after a great deal
of trouble, one of the prisoners volunteered, on condi-
tion of being liberated, and immediately shipped off in
a Government vessel for Turkey (knowing the danger'
he ran by remaining in Greece), besides receiving
the usual enormous fee. Arrived, however, at the
place of execution, the man made a formal demand
for the written orders for his liberation, and
openly expressed the little faith he reposed in such a
Government. After a great deal of discussion, the
Procureur du Roi was obliged to send back to Athens
for the necessary documents, which naturally took a
great deal of time. Every thing being at length set-
tled to their mutual satisfaction, one of the condemned
was taken from the carriage, and led into the square
formed by the military, where his fetters were taken
off, and he was ordered to march up to the guillotine,
a distance of some thirty paces ; but as a Greek is
naturally inclined to disobey orders, he walked round,
instead of up to the guillotine. The executioner en-
deavoured, then, to lead him to the place, when a
violent struggle ensued between them ; both the mili-
tary and policemen present refused to interfere, and
they were obliged to lead the man back to the
carriage, and the other was brought out. Having had
such a good example before his eyes, he naturally pro-
fited by it, and being a younger and stronger man, he
fairly gave the executioner and his aid a good drubbing,
so that, after a struggle which lasted three-quarters of
an hour, the executioner gave it up as a bad job. The
crowd, which was immense for this part of the world,
highly enjoyed the fun, and loudly applauded the con-
demned ; the authorities were excessively embarrassed.
What was to be done? The day had been spent in a fruit-
less effort to execute a couple of brigands. To take them
back to Athens would be too publicly publishing their
shame; they were after a great deal of discussion taken to
the Piraeus, and sent on board of a Government vessel.
For three ays a Council of Ministers was held to see what
was to be done. The whole town was in an uproar ; the
weakness of the Government had never been more ap-
parent. At last it was settled in a Council of Minis-
ters that a ruse should be employed, and a detachment
of recruits were marched down to the burying-eround
of the Piraeus, and the gendarmes having brought the
condemned from the ship without their having the least
idea of their going to be executed, as they had been
led on board to hope they would be sent to the fortress
of Palamide, in Nauplia, as had been the case last
year with two others, suddenly the gendarmes opened
to the right and left, and they were shot by the detach-
ment of recruits. As this was done at a very early
hour, and as secretly as possible, for fear of refusal on
the part of the military, very few were present. M. Gui-
zot must now be delighted at his protege's progress in
Administration.

trainer, died on the 29th ult. at
Chudleigh, the youngest son of M. H. Percy,
five stone eight poguonnd
year. The deceased may be Pimperne, in his 19th
considered to have been
the prince. of light weights, havin recent occasion
ridden only sa
fe
fortunate rider,*and the winner of many celebrated races.
Amongst which may be noticed the Goodwood and
Ascot Stakes for 1840, &c. his last performance was
was a very
at the recent lloughton Meeting, when he rode Lord
Exeter's Scarf. After the race, being much exhau ited,
a reviving draught wa; administered to him, which
enabled him to ride Lord Eglintoun's Young 'lin. lie
was conveyed home as soon as possible, and gradually
sunk under his complaint, which was an affection of the
heart and lungs. The kindness and gentleness of his
disposition had endeared bins' to all who knew him.—_
Plymouth Journal.
A. new system of paving has been invented by
M. Palonccau, and will no doubt be tried in Paris. it
consists of a kind of artificial stone formed of clay, sand,
pulverised charcoal. This mixture is baked,
cement, and
and forms an exceedingly hard substance with a rough
surface ; and the stones are so formed, as not only to be
placed with symmetrical order, but also to give a hold to
the feet of horses.
Many important improvements in the Post-office
department :ire in contemplation by the Right Hon. Lord
Lowther, the Postmaster-General, not only with respect
to the transmission of letteri and newspapers to foreign
parts, but also inland by railways trains, morning and
evening, to districts where there vs at present only one
delivery every other day, especially in several small
towns and villages not Post-office stations.