The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN
(From the Chronicle.)
We have received by extraordinary express from
Paris a letter from our correspondent, dated half-past
three o'clock yesterday, in which we find the following:
" Dispatches were received from Madrid this morn-
ing of a most important, and, you will perceive, of a
very menacing character, fully confirmatory of the an-
ticipation I communicated to you some eight or ten days
since, that General Narvaez meditated a coup d'etat.
"Those dispatches bring an address to the Queen,
signed by the entire of the new Cabinet, calling upon
her Majesty to suspend the Cortes, and—for it comes to
that—the liberty of the press.
" Two royal decrees followed in full compliance with
this recommendation. The first suspends the Cortes.
The second directs that for certain offences, namely, the
publication of that which may be deemed seditious
matter, the offending journal be suspended, and fora
repetition of the aggravated offence such journal be de-
finitively suspended—in other words, suppressed.
" I may be allowed to add, that all to whom this in-
telligence has become known feel intense alarm at it.
Some think that it will not injuriously affect the funds
(why always " the fends ?"), becuuse it will be held a
proof of firmness. Others, more sensibly you will think,
regard the matter as serious and threatening to the last
degree.
" You will observe that the coup d'c•tat of Prince
Polignac here in Paris, on the 251 h of July, 1830,
seems to have suggested to General Narvaez this
proceeding. The only difference between the two
acts is this, the ord.mnances of Charles X. declared
the Chamber of Deputies dissolved, and, it terms "the
liberty of the press suspended." The ordonnances of
Isabella 11. only " suspend" the Cortes, and direct that
certain, all offending journals are suspended."

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" Great fears exist that the royal steamer Virago, on
board of which was the Indian mail, had foundered, as
she left Alexandria on the 9th, and had not reached

Malta on the 18th."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Monday, at 84f. 35c., and the Fire per Cents. at
120 f. 60c., for time ; and for cash, the Three per Cents.
at 84f. 25c., and the Five per Cents. at 120 f. 20c. The
Northern Railroad Shares ended at 787 f. 50c., and those
of Bordeaux at 686 f. The Spanish Domestic Debt sold
for 301.

THE CITY LICENSING MEETING. I
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin, —Your important report of the " City Licensing Meet-
mg," which, though held only vesterday, appeared in the
Second Edition of The Sun, affords an additional proof of
your alacrity in producing the earliest information for all
classes of her Majesty's subjects; but what must have been
the disappointment of the Licensed Victuallers at finding
the report in their own paper of this morning limited to a
space considerably within an inch! Surely, if the corpora-
tion cannot afford to send special reporters on an occasion
so interesting to their whole body, the editor might, at least,
avail himielf of the published labours of others.
For my own part, I have taken in 7'he San regularly more
than sixteen years, and I shall gladly embrace every opppr-
tunity of recommending it to all who require an erening
paper, because I consider that, as a medium for disseminat-
ing early and original intelligence, no paper has equal claims
to public encouragement and support.—l have the honour to
remain, respectfully, Sir, your most obedient servant,
HENRY BRETT.
Holooru Bars, Tueslay Morning, March 24, 1846.

THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF
LIFE IN CRAWFORD-STREET.

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ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
Thd engines of the brigade, parish, and county stations, were all
upon the spot very soon, and knowing that several persons were in
the building, the firemen laboured in a most
reachpraisev tvorthy
he ill-f manner in
n
trying to get the flames out before they should t
parties. In that endeavour they were foiled ; for before the Are was
extinguished, Mr. Butters and his three children were suffocated.
Their names were as follows :--Robert Butters, the father, aged 37 ;
his son Robert, aged six years and a half, and William, aged one
year and a half, and his daughter Jane, aged four years and a half.
The whole four deceased parties were got out by the firemen, and
were taken to Mr. Bateman's surgery opposite. They having been
examined, Mr. Bateman pronounced them quite dead, and they
were removed to Marylebone Workhouse. Mrs. Butters, who has
lost her husband and three children, has comnaunicated the follow-
ing :—She says that she retired to bed on Sunday night, between
ten and eleven o'clock. Her husband, at the time, was from
home. Shortly before twelve o'clock she was awakened
by the
the
return of her husband, who immediately we:Tressed
and retired to bed. They had not been in bed many
minutes, when they were aroused by a loud knocking at the street-
door. Her husband got out of bed, and on opening the window heard
a crp of "Fire r raised. So positive was he at that time that the
fire had not occurred in his premises, that he called oat to the men in
the street that all was right. He then went down stairs and opened
one of the shop doors that leads into the passage, when flames burst
forth with such violence as to nearly knock him down. He then re-
turned to try to save her and the children. Ile got a small ladder,
which he placed under the trap-door on the roof, but he was unable
to get the bolts drawn back. Ile then went to the back room, and
finding there was no escape there, they all returned tO the front
room, in the hope of being rescued by the escaPe, which they knew
was kept at Baker-street. Whilst standing at the window the mob
called to them to do something, but what she could not tell, on ac-
count of her children screaming so dreadfully. The smoke entering
husband would tehhedreohoemeaxtpelasettedinesteucthhedre
esalhed
havejumped
droppedoutof tthhee
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himself. She could not form any idea as to
how the fire originated.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE, MARCH 23.—The next mails 1
for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece., the lonian Islands, Egypt, India., China, 1
Ste., via Southampton, will bo dispatched from hence on the morning
of the 3d of April. The next mail for India, via Marseilles, will be
dispatched from hence on the evening of the 24th Instant (this day).
The Queen, for the Peninsular mails of the 27th instant. West In-
dies, &c —Teviot, for the mails of the morning of the 2d of April.
America—Caledonia, for the mails of the evening of the 3d of April.
Sydney, New South Wales—Waverley, for the mails of the evening
of the 31st instant.
DEATH OF MR. JOHN LISTON, THE COMEDIAN.—The
admirers of histrionic excellence will learn with regret that this
matchless disciple of Momus has "shuffled off this mortal coil," at
the age of 69, having been born in the year 1766, in the parish of St.
Ann's, Soho. His death took place on Sunday last, at his house,
George-terrace, Knightsbridge. ills name is associated with the
brightest recollections of the British drama, when Kemble, Young,
Cook, I.mery, Johnstone, C. Kembie, Fawcett, Mrs. Siddons, Miss
O'Neil, Mrs. Dickins, Miss Stephens, Mrs. Gibbs, and a host of others,
shed lustre on the boards of Covent-garden Theatre.
M a.SQUERADE.—M onday night a Bal Masque was given
at Covent-garden Theatre, under tke direction of Mr. Weipport.
The arrangements were in every way commensurate with the occa-
sion, and the music excellent, combining the exertions of a band of
a hundred and ten performers. A numerous assemblage of the plea-
sure-seeking portion of the public responded to the invitation of the
projectors, and the body of the house, as well as the boxes and gal-
lery, presented an animated appearance. The lighting and decora-
tions produced a brilliant and cheerful effect, and the costumes and
characters were sufficiently diversified and amusing. Dancing was
kept up with spirit till a late hour; everybody appearing to be well
satisfied with his own exertions and those of his neighbours.
On Thursday evening, between nine and ten o'clock,
a cabriolet, in which were two persons, stopped in front of the Ma-
gazin de Nouveautes of M. Talaman, in the Rue Croix des Petits
Champs, Paris, and immediately afterwards one of the persons in the
cabriolet fired off a pistol, the ball of which lodged in a piece of the
goods in the shoe, just missing one of the. persons near it. Before
the confusion and alarm created by this extraordinary and atrocious
act had sufficiently subsided for any step to be taken, the cabriolet
was driven off at a great speed, and nothing has yet been discovered
to clear up the mystery of the affair.
Thomai Dkkinsun, Esq., has presented to the Fistula
itu3nair7 >rbv morns Otsego of 30 fftliaoolS