The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-02 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF DARMES.

Since the above was written, we have received
by express, an account of the execution of
DARMES, at seven o'clock on Monday morning,
at the Barriere St. Jacques. He walked bare-
footed, in his shirt, to the place of execution, his
head being covered with a piece of black
crape, in conformity with his sentence. There
were but few spectators, owing to the early hour
at which it took place, and the almost moral cer-
tainty on the part of the citizens of Paris
the KING would commute the capital
la
to was
escorted. Luxembourg
ment for imprisonment for life. D
Anm
escorted from the prison of the -
the foot of the guillotine loy a strong military
firm, calm, and col-
force. His bearing
refused to make any con-
fession lected. To the be:,sting others, and died more nobly
tbanh hnP
he 'rived. :,stingd. The spectators were unmoved,
ex/..ibiting neither sympathy nor horror, and
when the bloody apparatus was removed, dis-
persed peaceably to their several homes.
For the KING'S sake—for the sake of France
—we deeply regret the execution of this miser-
able wretch. As the blood of martyrs is the seed
of the Church, so the blood of such criminals as
DARMES is the seed of the atrocities for which he
has suffered decapitation. The guillotine, instead
of terrifying, was the crowning gratification of
his wretched vanity. He competed the risk of
dezth with a Monarch—interested all Europe in
his trial—and left behind him a name never to be
forgotten by Kings and Crown prosecutors fur
High Treason. Where the crime of regicide
is known not to be the demoniac inspirations of
a single bosom, such an example is of fearful
moment. God grant that King Louis PHI-
LIPPE may not have cause to regret the precipi-
tancy with which he has suffered the sentence of
a most unpopular court to be carried into effect
on this memorable occasion.

The disturbances in Europintn Turkey have im-
posed upon Austria the `r:tecessity of concentrat-
iNnVg e a
trust
rcate on her Turkish frontier.
shelterita7vill not be refused to the lrg
e military
un-
happy Christ2,an refugees.
Such imriense quantities of locusts have appeared this year
in Spain., that they threaten in some places entirely to destroy
the crops. At Daimiel, in the province of Citidad-Real. 300
persons are constantly employed in collecting these destructive
insects, and though they destroy 70 or SO sacks every day,
they do not appear to diminish. There is something frightful
in the appearance of these locusts proceeding in divisions,
some of which are a league in length, and two thousand paces
in breadth. It is sufficient if these terrible columns stop half
an hour on any spo., for every thing growing on it, vines,
olive trees, and corn, to be entirely destroyed. After they
have passed, nothing remains but the large branches and the
mots, which, being under ground, have escaped their voracity.
—Le Constifrtionnel.

'1 he Journal du Havre, of the 29th, publishes the transla-
tion of an article, which, it says, was published at Portsmouth,
and dated from the Telegraph-office, stating that a despatch
had been received from Holyhead, and addressed to Sir Ed-
ward Codrington. stating that the President had arrived at
Holyhead, and that it had been blocked up in the ice. As this
news is not confirmed by th.s London letters of Friday evening,
it is feared that a crue
Hoax has been perpetrated.

A ';;.;blic meeting is to take place this day at the As-
sr..,mbly Rooms at Edinburgh, for the purpose of express-
ing sympathy with the seven Ministers of the Presbytery
of Strathbogie, and strong disapprobation of the conduct
of the majority of the General Assembly, in their at-
tempt to depose them in consequence of having yielded
obedience to the law of the land. The requisition is
most numerously signed, and contains the names of some
of the first men in Scotland. Among others, the follow-
ing Noblemen :—Lord Dunfermline, the Earl of Caith-
ness, Lord Abercromby, Lord Elcho, Lord Seafield. and
above 500 merchants, advocates, solicitors, and other per-
sons of the first respectability in Edinburgh.
REPRESENTATION OF THE TOWER ITAMLETS.—At a
very respectable meeting of the electors of this borough
last evening, it was resolved to put Colonel Fox in nomina-
tion as the candidate, in the room of Dr. Lushington, on
the principlies of free trade and civil and religious
liberty. Mr. Hume had been applied to, and had de-
clined because he had promised to stand for Leeds. The
lion. Member assured the deputation, which waited on
him, that but for the urgency of the present crisis, it
was his intention to have retired into private life. Lord
Palmerston, had also been applied to and declined, be-
cause he did not like to separate from his present con-
stituents. Colonel Fox, after taking time to deliberate,
accepted the offer, and the meeting having signified its
determination to support him, he was requested to meet
the electors this evening.