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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1835.

land suffered this deplorable catastrophe, it had cer-
tainly never happened. The more liberal portion of the
Press and people always mention the circumstance
with commingled sentiments of shame and sorrow
and the nation silently confesses that the downfal of
so brave and so ancient an ally reflects a stain upon
the country which can never be effaced. Smarting
under these feelings of self humiliation, the demand
of the CZAR for national blood-money is likely to pro-
duce the most serious consequences. The weight of
so vile an indignity seems too much for the temper or •
spirit of France ; and it will be well if the royal nego-
ciation does not involve the KING in a contest with
his people, which may endanger his equilibrium on
the throne of France. For own own part, we cannot
conceive a more legitimate cause of national irritation ;
and were the EMPEROR to make such a demand on
this country, we should only comply with it when in-
volved in the fate of the nation in whose name it was
demanded. In a word, his Imperial MAJESTY would
only enforce his demand successfully, when we had
joined the banished Poles in the wilds of Siberia.

We think it possible that the demand made by the
EMPEROR, on France, will accelerate the progress of
the Bill for the indemnification of the American
claims ; although it continues to be strongly opposed by a
very influential portion of the public Press, and most
of the people out of doors. A rupture with Russia
would be much more popular than a war with America
—provided the French Government had resolved upon
hazarding one or other of these events ; and in the
present state of the country, it might not be expedient
to encounter more than one enemy at a time. In the
meantime the Chamber pursues its enquiries silently ;
and appears to be influenced by no party considera-
tions whatever. The result will be rery soon manifest.
Wednesday being the anniversary of the decapita-
tion of Louis the Sixteenth, was a holiday in all
the public offices in Paris. The Chamber of Depu-
ties sat as usual, but the legitimate benches were all
deserted, no member appearing with the exception of
M. JANVIER. His presence created some surprise ;
but the motive of his attendance is manifestly a wish
to live in the gracious remembrance of M. THIERS
and his colleagues, as a person of high consideration.
The intelligence from Bayonne is to the 18th inst.
General MINA is reported to be recovering, and the
QUEEN'S troops have lately obtained some slight ad-
vantages over the junta in Navarre.

We have received intelligence from Hanover to the
15th, and from Berlin to the 17th inst. In Hanover
the meeting of the Legislative Chambers, which had
been prorogued on the 17th of September last, took
place on the date of our arrivals ; and from Berlin the
most important fact communicated is the health of the
Royal family, and .the announcement of the employ-
ment of all the Prussian Princes in the public service,
Prince HENRY alone excepted, who for some time
past has resided in Italy, generally at Rome, or in the
vicinity.

Advices from Alexandria, to the 16th of December,
have been received. IBRAHIM PASHA was then ex-
pected on a visit to Cairo, and great preparations were
being made for his reception ; it being IBRA Imes
first visit since the conquest of Syria. It is rumoured
that the Pasha has entered into a stipulation with the
SULTAN, by which he has had all his possessions se-
cured to him, except the district of Orfa, and that all
arrears of tribute shall stand commuted on payment of
10,000,000 piasters, or about 100,0001. sterling. The
money is shortly to be sent to Constantinople.

St. Petersburg was illuminated on the evening of
the 6th of January, being the anniversary of the deli-
verance of Russia from the arms of Napoleon in 1812.
The EMPEROR, EMPRESS, and most of the Imperial
Household, attended Divine Service in the morning, in
Winter Palace.

KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.)

THE KING V. THE INHABITANTS OF ST. NICHOLAS, COLCHESTER.
Mr. R 1 LAND stated this case, which involved the right of settle-
ment of a pauper. The facts were shortly these—The pauper had
taken certain premises on the 24th of March, 1831, and had sub-let
a portion of them to Mr. D. W. Harvey, for three weeks during an
election. A distress was afterwards made upon the premises for
non-payment of rent, and the points raised were first, whether
the distress constituted a payment of rent by the person hiring
the premises, as required by the Act, and second, whether the
sub-letting of a portion of the premises was not a violation
of the provisions of the Act, which required that the
premises should be actually in the possession of the
person hiring the same for the space of twelve months. The
Learned Counsel referred to several cases in support of his argu-
ment, and contended that the pauper had gained a right of settle-
ment, he having held the premises in his own possession for twelve
months.
Mr. KNOTT, on the other side, maintained that the right of the
pauper had been forfeited by his having sub-let and given up pos-
session of a portion of the premises previous to the expiration of the
twelve months required by the Act.
After a lengthened argument,
The COCKY observed that the words of the Act of Parliament were
so plain, that there could be little danger of taking an erroneous view
of it. The words were, " that no person shall acquire a settlement in
any parish unless he shall have bona
_fide rented and occupied a distinct
tenement or dwelling-house for the term of one whole •ear." This
was further confirmed by the terms of the Act Ist of William IV.,
subsequently passed. It appeared to the:Court that the sub-letting
of a portion of the premises did away with the pauper's right, inas-
much as it did not exclusively occupy the premises for one whole
year. In this case, therefore, the Court was of opinion that no
legal settlement had been gained.

Lady Brougham and family have removed from
Great Stanhope-street, to the elegant mansion of the Earl of
Balcarras, on the east side of Berkeley-square, which resi-
dence was taken by the Noble and Learned Baron prior to his
departure for the Continent. Lord Brougham is expected to
arrive at his new residence, from his tour in the south of
France, about a week previous to the meeting of Parliament.
THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA.—The Noble
Marquis at the date of the last letters from Naples, was in good
health. He had been renovated by the aquatic trip he had
taken in his beautiful yacht the Pearl, which he has sent home
to be laid up for the winter. The approaching summer is now
talked of for the return of his Lordship and family to England.
Lord Clarence Paget, R.N., lately promoted to the rank of
Commander, with Lord George Paget, of the Ist Life
Guards, and the Ladies Mary and Adelaide, were with their
noble parents. The Earl of Uxbridge, with his Countess and
family, have been to. Beaudesert, and thence to Leamington.
The noble family-mansion in Burlington-street remains closed
up and untenanted.
The Earl of Chesterfield, the new Master of the
Buck-hounds, and his Countess, are entertaining a gay circle
at Bretby,Park, Derbyshire. Lord Albert Conyngham and
Lord Gardener are among the visitants. The family are ex-
pected at Chesterfield House, May-fair, at the end of next
week for the season. Lord C. has been sworn in a Mem-
ber of the Privy Council since his appointment to the House-
hold. Twenty-eight years ago his Lordship's father, Philip,
the fifth Earl, was Master of the Horse to King George 111.
It has been generally rumoured that Sir William
Follett is to be the Recorder of Exeter ; but we understand
that the Learned Solicitor-General is unwilling to accept such
appointment, even if offered, on the ground that the two offices
of Judge and Member of Parliament for that city might not be
considered by all so compatible as is desirable.
Mr. Justice Patteson, who bad determined upon
going the Oxford Circuit this next Spring, has consented to
take the Western, in order to accommodate Mr. Serjeant Cole-
ridge, the new Judge, who would otherwise, according to the
first arrangement, have been compelled to have gone his own
Circuit, where he is necessarily acquainted with many of the
causes which are to be tried at the ensuing Assizes.

Another " chop" is spoken of already in the new
arrangements. Lord Sandon, it is said, is to be appointed
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the place of the
Hon. Stuart Wortley, who had the place, but could not get a
seat in Parliament ; the electors of Forfarshire, where he
made an " inroad," preferring, with very proper consistency
and good taste, the former member, Mr. Hallyburton, who is
a steadfast Reformer, of the Constitutional school.

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W e regret to state that the. family and inmates of
Dynorben Castle (among whom was his Royal Highness the
Duke of Sussex) have been suddenly plunged into great
affliction by the death of Lady Dynorben, which took place,
from apoplexy, on the 21st inst. This lamented event has
thrown a melancholy gloom over the whole neighbourhood,
where the amiable and benevolent character of her Ladyship
had long endeared her name.
A RIVAL OF MATHEws.—Considerable alarm
was occasioned to the friends of Hodges and Rider, at the
lase election for West Kent, by a report that a carriage was
coming up to the booth, containing a Prebendary of Canter-
bury, a Prebendary of Lincoln, the Rector of Wrotham, the
Vicar of East Peckham, the Perpetual Curate of Sansted, the
Perpetual Curate of Woodlands, and the Registrar of the Pre-
rogative Court (together yielding little short of 8,0001. a
year), to vote for Geary. It appeared, however, that the poll
received the addition of only one vote—all these characters
being sustained by the Rev. George Moore !
The new House of Commons has been ventilated
in a manner totally different from the last, and much superior
in every particular. In the former House the current of air ad-
mitted rushed in with so much force that it suddenly chilled
the Members and the persons in the gallery, and had a dange-
rous effect. There aro several ventilators in the ceiling of
the new House, with apparatus, that will admit the air gra-
gually to cool the chamber. The apparatus for warming both
Houses of Parliament with steam is under the new House of
Commons. The reporters' gallery in the House of Commons
consists of two benches, each of which will accommodate 20
individuals. _

The new houses erected in Piccadilly, near the
corner of Duke-street, from their singular appearance, attract
much notice. They are the most lofty in the street, and are
built of red-colour bricks, and are something of the fashion
of houses erected in the beginning of the last century in a
superior style. The windows are surmounted by heavy orna-
mental stone-work, and the architecture at the front of the
basement story is unique, but not in good taste ; and if singu-
larity in their appearance was the object of the architect by
whom they were planned, he has certainly succeeded as well as
he could have wished in his design.
THE DUCHESS DE BERRI.—The Countess Leu-
cheres (Duchess of Berri) was delivered of a daughter in
December, at Brandees, in Bohemia, but the infant died soon
after its birth, and the body is now on its way to Italy to be in-
terred in the vault of the Leucheres family.—German Paper.
We hear that Sir Charles Rowley is expected to be
member for Portsmouth after all, it being ascertained that a
scrutiny will strike off a sufficient number of bad votes to give
a majority in his favour.—Brighton Gazette.
The Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions, B.
Rotch, Esq., has suddenly lost his sight. The affliction is
similar to that under which Mr. Byng, M.P., suffers, but
there is no doubt in either case of the organ of vision being
restored.
On Friday next, being the anniversary of Kiri
Charles's martyrdom, there will be an oratorio at Covent-
garden, by the Society of British Musicians, who, it is said,
will give a series of performances during Lent at the same
theatre. As the Bishop of London interfered, and procured
the prohibition of acted oratorios on sacred subjects being per-
formed at the national theatres last year, it is not, we believe,
in contemplation to bring forward anything of the same kind.
The number of apothecaries in Russia amounts
to 487.
ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS.—The following
circular has been sent round to the parishioners of St. Mar-
tin's-in-the- Fields :—" A vestry meeting has been convened
by the churchwardens to adopt the third report of your com-
mittee regarding the parish clerk, which office is now held by
the Rev. Anthony Hamilton, archdeacon cf Taunton, residen-
tiary canon of Lichfield, rector or vicar of Loughton, in Essex,
chaplain in ordinary to the King, and librarian to St. Martin's
library, and is parish clerk to St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. The
fi:iends of cheap parochial government are called upon to at-
tend at the vestry-room to support the recommendation con-
tained in the report, as it is believed that the old Tory enemies
of church reform intend to offer all the opposition in their
power. If you on this occasion fail, when you have the power
to carry out this portion of reform connected with the church,
you. will in future have no right to complain if the Government
neglect to reform it in more important matters."
DECREASE OF CRIME.—It iS satisfactory to ob-
serve that for the last year or two, the number of committals of
prisoners for trial in this county is gradually diminishing. Up-
wards one-third more prisoners were detained in our gaol at
this period of last year, than at the present time ; or in the
proportion of 210 to 140.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
A close investigation is now going on, under the
auspices of the Bishops, into the state of the glebes belonging to
the parishes in their respective dioceses. One great object of
this inquiry is presumed to be, by sale or exchange, to facilitate
the erection of parsonage houses, with the view of compelling
residence.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 22.

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There is rather more— cotton offering to-day, though we can-
not quote any alteration in the markt. The quantity sold is
estimated at about 3,000 bales, chiefly American, from Bid.
to 191 d.
Loss OF LIFE IN ARMAGII.—A letter from
Armagh, dated the 18th of January, gives a most melancholy
picture of the state of society in that county. It had been ru-
moured that at the borough election of Armagh some Catholics
had broken the windows of those of the opposite party. On the
day of Colonel Verner's chairing, the Orangemen, who assem-
bled in great numbers, broke almost every pane of glass in
Irish-street. This injury produced retaliation, and some win-
dows of the Orange party were broken, a man named Donnelly,
of the Catholic party. was shot, and others were wounded.
Upon the return of the lodges, a district master, named Wil-
liamson, was shot, and died on Saturday last. To revenge his
death, the Orangemen on the next day assembled in vast num-
bers, went to a place called Annaghale, and burned or wrecked
nine houses (another correspondent says fifteen houses were
burnt), and the wretched people in that place, which is the
property of a Miss Waugh, were, at this terrible season of the
year, left houseless. In the absence of the army, which were
engaged at the different elections around, 130 special consta-
bles were sworn in, and they paraded the streets until morning.
Society cannot possibly be in a more disorganized state than it
is in Armagh, owing to the horrible lessons of factious intole-
rance inculcated upon the lower classes of Orangemen by those
who are their superiors in station, and ought to advise them to
an observance of the law.—Dublin Register.