The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN,

LONDON,

e'lenl3 be deeme 14, a, :, evict! I.- v cow, T. ".. othoeize the syndics of the 4s'stss to rutin
d'etat. M. 1) tpin 7.4ndecl the 8 04. Bois as they may think fit to the queries ad-
:44le44.nbera .cteenpanied him to she Cilatnoer, but .ht: tli r 411.- seed so them by teo it4-4yai Coeseseesioners.
in coosmand of the soldiers in p sse-siou r. fth. d them To queries of the itoy3lConianasioners and the op--
entrance. Tne depilates, however, contrived to slip in nice of counsel upon the loyal Commission will he at
through sundry aide doors, which had been left accessible, the office of the University Itegistracy on Monday next,
and having got access to the body of the salle, M. Dapin hntween the hours of ten A.M. and two P.M.. and on
persevered in declaring a "séance," when a company of Tuesday next, between the hours of ten A. 31. and twelve
foot soldiers was marched in, and the whole of the repro- at noon, for the inspection of members of the Senate.
sentans forcibly expelled. It is even added that some un- Aua application was made by our correspondent to be
courteous pokes of the bayonet were employed to acce- allowed to copy the questions alluded forb for the
lerate their process, but of this I cannot be certain. oration of the non-resident membe of the Senate,
" The expelled Deputies adjourned to their habitual but the Vice-Chaneellor courteously declined to accede
place of conference, the Place des Pyramides, where M.
to his request.
F- endeavoured to prevail with them and others, who
then joined the meeting, to frame a protest, and to adopt
an attitude of opposition to the illegal acts of the Pre-
sident.
Many of the Members appeared to concur with
F--, but M. Baroche recommended "moderation" and
adjournment above all, as best adapted to the object of
avoiding a conflict. The consultation ultimately broke
up without the meeting coming to any resolution, except
that of "waiting to see what would happen." F
was, when we parted from him, going to make s fresh
attempt to rally a few men of action to the defence of the
Constitution, but he seemed far from sanguine in his ex-
pectations.' After Madame F- had related so much,
she went on to tell us a few incidental circumstances con-
nected with the great affair of the day. M. F- and
she were at the Opera Comique last evening to witness
a prEmiere representation of a new opera, and in
the loge des Ministres there were seated no less than four
of the (unsuspiciou,) Ministers of Louis Napoleon. In a
loge privet they beheld, seated side by side all the even-
ing, M. de Morny and General Changarnier, Madame
L-, the well-known chere amie of de Morny, making
a third in the box. About eleven o'clock de Morny lett
the:theatre and directed his steps to the residence of the
Minister of the Interior, where, on finding himself in the
latter'a presence, he drew forth the paper from his pocket
which nominated him Minister of the Interior, informing
the astonished occupant of that post that he was destitue,'
and that he, Moray, was now Minister of the Interior.
This was necessary in order to insure the signature of a
Minister to Louis Napoleon's proclamation which might
thus wear the outward semblance of a formal act.
No one of the existing Cabinet would, it is surmised,
have been base enough to endorse such a flagrant viola-
tion of the laws, and Louis Napoleon, therefore 'impro-
vised ' a creature Minister for the job over night. After
we had heard all this, together with some few more de-
tails, not essential to relate, I went to the post-office to
put in a letter. We then spent an hour in walking about
the vicinity of the Madeleine, observing what was going
forward. The military occupied the streets, and di-
rected carriages ands assengers how to proceed; no sort
of excitement pevled, and a vague inquiring look
which many of the lower classes wore was all the evi-
dence we recognised of interest in the matter. Tnere were
hardly any gentlefolk to be seen; the working class made
the crowd, which was far from dense. We came home
at four o'clock. Soon after that hour the cavalry took
up their position the whole length of the Champs
Elysees for about an hour and a half, after which they
were marched off, and the quartier became tranquil as
usual, no sound being heard more martial than the bulls
of the omnibus horses as they trotted to and fro with
their unwieldly machines. At eleven all was hushed;
and so ended a day pregnant with disquiet and sinister
auguries, which assuredly have seldom been better war-
ranted, for so monstrous an exercise of brute force on
the part of the Executive has few parallels in history."

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

Oa Sunday morning a sermon in aid of the funds of
this valuable institution was preached at St. Philip's
Church, Regent-street, by the Rev. F. Hessey, D.C.L., in
the presence of B. Hawes, Esq., :en., the treasurer, and
several of the supporters of the society, as also Lady
Otwey, Sir 'l'. Cochrane, &c., &c. The Rev. Gentle-
man took his text from 16th chapter of St. Matthew
and 27th verse—" For the Son of man shall come in
the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he
shall reward every man according to his works." He
commenced by stating that ho should have occasion to
appeal to the congregation on behalf of one of the noblest
and most useful of the many metropolitan societies. In
his opinion there was no period of the year more fitting
for such an appeal as the present, for in a short period
the basins of ornamental waters in the Royal parks
would probably be covered with ice, and many parsons
who ventured thereon would be in danger of losing their
lives suddenly. There was, however, a society which
had for nearly a century been actively engaged
in preventing such calamities with the most sig-
nal success, and that was the Royal Humane
Society for the recovery of persons apparently drowned
or dead. After alluding to the vast numbers who
resorted to the Serpentine for the purpose of bathing or
skating, according to the season, the Rev. Gentleman
eulogised the prompt and energetic measures which the
society, at considerable expense, invariably adopted to
prevent accidents, in addition to those for the restoration
of suspended animation. As a proof of their great
success in prevention, out of no less than 200,000
bathers this season there had been but 24 accidents, and
of these, from the prompt attention and medical skill,
but one fatal, while no fewer than 18 persons who had
attempted suicide had been rescued. He exhorted each
of the congregation to feel as though some one of those
who had been saved were their nearest and best friend or
relative, who might be exposed to danger, and he felt as-
sured they would not hesitate to contribute to their funds.
But if by withholding such support the society should
be compelled to contract the sphere of its usefulness, and
a single life of any friend should be thereby lost, the
omission to contribute would doubtless be an endless
source of regret. The eloquence of the rev, minister
produced a liberal collection.

OPTIONAL PAYMENT of LETTERS 70R SARDINIA.
As the Regulations, announced in June last, with
respect to the optional payment of the postage on letters
addressed to Sardinia, appear to be not generally known,
it has become necessary to give further notice, that
letters for Sardinia may now be forwarded by way of
France, either unpaid or wholly paid to destination, at
tho following rates of postage, viz.:—
Weighing under a Oz.—British, 51., foreign, 81—to-
tal, Is. Id.
Weighing I- Oz. and not exceeding Oz.—British, 5d.,
foreign, Is. 4d.—total, Is. 93.
Exceeding Oz. and under Oz.—British, 10d., foreign,
2s.—total, 2s. 10d.
Weighing 4 Oz. and not exceeding 1 Oz.--British, 10d.,
foreign, 23. Bd.—total, 3s. 6d.
Exceeding 1 Oz. and under 11 Oz.—British, Is. Bd.,
foreign, 33. 41—total, 55.
and so on, the British Postage increasing according to
the scale in operation for charging Inland Letters, and
the Foreign Postage increasing one rate for each quarter
of an ounce.
I' must be clearly understood by those parties who
wish to pay the postage on their letters, that they must
pay the whole postage to destination. If only a portion
of the proper postage be paid, the letters will be sent
forward as unpaid letters, and treated as if no portion of
the postage had been paid upon them.

DESTRUCTION OF UNION HALL.
This edifice, situate on the south side of Union-street,
Borough, was, late on Saturday, totally destroyed by
fire. For many years it was the chief police-office for
the Surrey and Southwark district, and, since the re-
moval of the magisterial business to the new office at
Stone's-end in the Borough, the premises have been oc-
cupied jointly by Messrs. Pickford and Co., the railway
carriers, and by Messrs. Smith and Co., hat and csp
manufacturers, of Trinity-square, Southwark.
The outbreak was exceedingly sudden. The clerks
of Messrs. Smith were engaged in the counting-house,
when they were startled by a flash of light on the oppo-
site side of Union-street, and going out to ascertain the
cause, they were astonished to find that their own place
was on fire. So Tepid was the work of destruction,
th it it was impossible even to save the books, and in
less than a quarter of an hour the whole building was in
flames. A number of engines were quickly on the spot,
but it was some time before a supply of water could be
procured. The firemen succeeded in preventing an ex-
tension of the filmes, but all effects to save the Union
Hall proved abortive, and it was completely consumed
by eleven o'clock.
The following is Mr. Braid wood's report :
" Union-street, Borough—Messrs. J. Smith and Co.,
cap-manufacturers, front warehouse burnt out, bauk
workshop seriously demsgcd, end three-fourths of the
roof off. Cause of the fire not known. Insured for the
contents in the Atlas, the Hand-in-Hand, and the San
fire-offices.

" Ditto, Messrs. Pickford and Co., railway-carriers,
&c., stock and building on ground floor seriously da-
maged by water; insurance not known.
" Ditto, No. 189, G. Martyr, ironmonger, stock in
trade in shop damaged by water, and roof by breakage;
insured in the Rival Exchange.
" Ditto, No. 8 (opposite), J. Bear, capmaker, front
scorched; insurance not known.
"Ditto, Nos. 9 and 10 (opposite), T. Smith, coffee-
shop-keeper, front of premises damaged by fire, &c.;
insurance unknown."