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vocation urged the unfortunate man to the latter
part of his offence against military discipline
we are unable to set forth ; it appears,
however, that he did not carry his threat
into execution, and we suppose he received a merciful
sentence under the same code that sanctioned one
hundred lashes on MATTIIEWSON, for calling out,
" Holloa I" to a sergeant ; or for asking th© humane
Colonel WurTE (who himself received a devilish
deal of flogging at school, and who must therefore be
fully competent to judge of its efficacy and good
results) how he was to answer for the future.
The unfortunate man, HIGGINS, was (by direction of
the surgeon) taken down after 150 lashes, as he could
not safely receive any more. Perhaps by a refine-
ment of cruelty, he will, on his recovery, be again
tied up to receive the full remainder of his sentence,
which must tell with much greater effect when
applied on the cicatrized wounds, the newly organized
skin. We are not informed of the offence for which
LEE, the other sufferer was punished with 100 lashes,
but from the lesser sentence we must suppose it to be
of a very mitigated character. Englishmen, we call on
you; to spare no exertions to effect the suppression,
the total abolition of the horrible system, to remove
the stain that must rest on our nation while the prac-
tice is sanctioned or tolerated.

Madrid papers of the 25th have been received, but
they are absolutely destitute of news. The Bolsa was
closed as it was the fete of St. Jago.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Journal des Debats, in its account of the
attempt on the KING'S life, says that two pistols
were fired at the KING by the assassin, who
made no resistance on being arrested. The
assassin is fifty-five years of age, of small
stature, and was elegantly dressed. A council of
Ministers, at which the KING presided, was held at
the Tuileries immediately after the arrest of the
assassin, at which it was dete, mined to refer the pro-
secution to the Court of Peers. The KING left for
Neuilly as soon as the council rose. An express was
sent after M. GutzoT, who had left in the afternoon,
for Val Richer. He was overtaken at St. Germans,
and immediately proceeded to Neuilly, where he was
received by the KING and Royal Family, and
arrived at half-after twelve, at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Had not the KING perceived
the assassin, and pointed him out to
the crowd, the probability is that he would
have escaped. The assassin is said to be
evidently a half idiot. It is feared, however, that
the Ministry will be forced to execute him,
as the Opposition declare the whole affair
to have been an election manoeuvre. It is
to be hoped that the KING will prevail on
his Ministers to treat these absurd insinua-
tions as they deserve, and that the life of - the
unfortunate idiot, who probably was not aware of
the magnitude of the crime which he contemplated,
will not be sacrificed because others are as wicked
as he is weak.

The KING and QUEEN left Neuilly for Eu on
Monday morning, and at the same time the Duke
and Duchess D'AUMALE left by the Northern Rail-
road for Chantilly.
In an article on the elections, the Presse taunts
M. THIERS with not daring to address a public as-
sembly of the electors of France, because he is well
aware that if he were to venture to give an exposition
of his principles, so many of his now supporters would
protest against his programme, that his alleged party
would show itself to be a confused assemblage of dis-
cordant opinions—an anarchy out of which it would
be impossible to form a homogeneous administration.
The incendiary fires still continue in the neigh-
bourhood of Troyes..
The heat in Paris, which had been so high as 89i de-
grees of Fahrenheit on Sunday,' attained to 90 degrees on
Thursday.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 83f. 35c. ; the Five per Cents., 1211. 75c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,271 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 908 f. ; Havre,
693 f. 75c. ' • Great 11,forthern, 70541; Avignon, ii77f. 50c.;
Vierzor, 612 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 550 f. ; Boulogne, 460 f. ;
Basle, 215 f.; Pails and Strasburg, 485 f. ' • Tours and Nantes,
498 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 507 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Avignon,
490 f. ' • Bordeaux and Cette, 480 t: ; Belgian Two-and- a-Half
per Cents., 5534.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 31.
Central of Spain, N —Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, s —Lon-
vain a la Sambre, 1%—Luxembourg, I%—Northern of France Con-
stituted, 13—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11%—Paris and Lyons Consti-
tuted, 51,4.

REPRESENTATION OF CLONMEL

CONFIDENCE IN MR. O'CONNELL.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
CLONMEL, JULY 30.—A large and influential meeting of
the repeal constituency of this borough was held yesterday,
for the purpose of considering the steps to be adopted in con-
sequence of the election of Mr. D. O'Connell, jun., as the
representative of Dundalk. The meeting was presided over
by Mr. Alderman Hackett, and a resolution was proposed
by Mr. O'Neill, and seconded by Mr. Brennan, calling,
in the name of the repeal constituency of Clonmel, upon
Daniel O'Connell, the liberator and political father of
his country, "in whom we place unlimited confidence" (such
are the words of the resolution), to select one as their re-
presentative in Parliament whom he may recommend as a
true repealer. The resolution goes on to express the regret
of the electors at being deprived of the honour of being re-
presented in Parliament by the son of the Liberator, now
the Member for Dundalk. This resolution was carried
unanimously, and the announcement that it was so carried
was received with rounds of enthusiastic cheering.