The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-09 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION.

The Council of this body assembled in full force on
Tuesday evening last, at their rooms in Great Charles-
street, when, after considerable discussion on the state
of public opinion with regard to political affairs, the
following minute and resolutions were, with one dis-
sentient, adopted
. .

" This Council, professing to represent the interests and
opinions of the lower and middle classes of the people, and
having always regarded the restoration of the liberty and
prosperity of those classes as the main object of their la-
bours, and in the prosecution of this great work, having
honestly discharged their duty to the best of their abilities,
undismayed by either difficulties or dangers, and looking
back with satisfaction upon the part they have taken in
promoting a reform in the representation of the people,
but most sincerely regretting that that reform has been in-
sufficient to produce the beneficial effects which they con-
templated, and still more regretting that the existing state
of the public mind and of circumstances does not afford
the present means of producing a further and more bene-
ficial reform ; and this Council considering that as good
subjects and good citizens, it is their bounden duty care-
fully to abstain from all rash or useless proceedings ; and
considering also that the unhappy discords which have lat-
terly broken out in many parts of the kingdom between the
lower and middle classes of the people, render any com-
bined operations for their mutual benefit extremely diffi-
cult, or altogether impossible ; considering these things,
the Council of the Birmingham Political Union has re-
solved as follows:

" Ist. That it is expedient that the proceedings of this
Council, and of the Political Union, should be suspended
for the present."
[Here follow three other resolutions for minor ar-
rangements, arising out of the above ; after which the
Council resolved to adjourn, subject to the call of the
Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or any seven of its
members.]

The Marquis de Lagarde, residing at the
Chateau of Segrais, in the commune of St. Sulpice,
of which he is mayor, was robbed about two years ago
of a sum of 10,000 francs. Suspecting the son of
two of his servants to have been the thief, he sent
away the whole family. They at length became des-
titute, and the young man wishing to quit the country,
frequently applied to the marquis for a passport, and
a certificate to enable him to obtain a place. Finding
that all his entreaties were vain, the young man be-
came desperate, and having received another refusal
lately, he immediately drew a pistol from his pocket,
fired it at the marquis, and then with another blew out
his own brains. The marquis appeared to have re-
ceived merely a superficial scratch on the head from
the ball grazing it, and he was able to travel to Paris,
where, however, he died after a few days. On the
head being opened, it was found that a ball, from
having been previously cut or chewed, had penetrated
the skull, leaving scarcely any mark.— French Paper.
Lieut. John M'Clintock Clive, son of Theo-
philus Clive, of the Isle of Wight, and nephew of
Edward B. Clive, Esq., M. P., went out boating in
Berkeley Bay, Falkland Islands, accompanied by a
gunner, steward, and two young persons belonging to
the Challenger. Finding that a considerable time had
elapsed without the parties returning, the officers of
the Challenger, fearing that some accident had oc-
curred, sent another boat in the direction they had
steered. The boat was found upset, and nothing be-
longing to the party but one hat. When the boats
came off, diligent search was making for the bodies.—
Devonport Telegraph.
Dennis Collins, the old sailor who was trans-
ported to Van Diemen's Land for throwing a stone at
the King when at Ascot-heath races, two or three
years ago, died at Port Arthur on the Ist of Novem-
ber last, " in consequence (it is said) of his fixed de-
termination to refuse all necessary nourishment,
although the best diet that the settlement could afford
was daily offered to him."

It is a remarkable fact, and a very intelligible
symptom, that we have within three weeks received
letters for publication from three individuals who have
at different times taken a leading part in the trades'
unions in Yorkshire, all of them expressing the
strongest opinions as to the absolute inutility and great
mischievousness of these unions. These three indi-
viduals are men of talent and information, superior to
their fellows; they have all of them had the very best
means of knowing the constitution, objects, and work-
ing of trades' unions ; they have enjoyed great popu-
larity amongst the operatives ; they have in former
times spoken and acted very strongly against the
masters ; they still continue in the rank of workmen ;
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the coffin itself had become dust. Other human bones
were found near the same place, and another skeleton
was found on Thursday. It is probable that the place
where these skeletons were found was the site of
the burial ground attached to the chapel of the
Black Friars : and in all
Probability the bodies have
lain, where now found, for some hundreds of years.—
Carlisk Journal,