The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-12 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(F;(iiii'26; on7;elliste.)
The change in tl e Spat.is►b Ministry is confirmed. A
courier from Madrid yesterday, after stopping at the Spa-
nish embassy in Paris, proceeded to London with the no-
mination of M. Zea Bermudez to be Minister for Foreign
Affairs. The Count d'Alcudia is appointed Ambassador
at London in his room. The Minister Cilomarde is ba-
nished from Madrid, and was compelled to depart imme-
diately in a carriage, which was sent to his hotel for the
purpose, but it is not known in what province he is to
reside. The other inisters, B dlasteros, Salazar, and
Zatnbrano, remain at Madrid as Councillors of State. It
is also said that a great many of the persons employed in
the several offices of the Ministers have been discharged.
Amongst them Castillo, one of the chief clerks in the
ofi;•.e for Foreign Affairs, is named.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
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The Monitt.nr contains a report from the Minister of
Justice to the King on the diminution of capital punish-
ments and peineg infinnantes. It states that the capital
sentences in 1828 amounted to 114, and the executions to
75 ; in 1829 the sentences were 89, and the executions
68 ; in 1830 the sentences were 92, and the executions
38 ; and in 1831 the sentences 108, and the executions
28. A gradual decrease was also found in cases of crimi-
nals condemned to the pillory. In 1829, the number ex-
posed was 338, but in 1830 it was only 272, and was
still further reduced in 1831. In consequence of this di-
minution, and of the law of the 28th of April, 1832, mo-
difying the penal code, and abolishing branding, the Minis-
ter recommends that the executioners, who now amount to
86, should he reduced to half that number, as their plac,s
become vacant by death, and that their assistants, who
amount to 146, should be reduced forthwith to 16 ;
t hose discharged receiving a pension not exceeding 400 f.
The Minister states, that the salaries of the assistants,
which now amount to 117,600 f. may he reduced to
13,600 f. The present salaries of the chief executioners
amount to 224,000 f. per annum, which can only he re-
duced gradu illy. Upon this report the Kiog has issued a
royal ordinance, containing the following articles :—" 1,
Until the present number of executioners be reduced to
one-half, the Minister of Justice shall not appoint any
r.ne in the place of such of them as may die. 2, In fu-
ture there la, tort one assistant executioner in the de-
gat trnents of Calvados, Corsica, Eure, Ille et Vilaine,
-Manche, N, rd, Orne, Pas de Calais, Rhone, and Seine
et Oi-e. There shall be two in the Seine Inferieur, and
four in the department of the Seine. The assistant exe-
cutioners in the other departments are suppressed, nor
shall any be hereafter appointed, except in such depart-
ments in which, according to Article 1, no executioners
are to he hereafter repl iced. 3, The wages of the exe-
cutioners to be appointed after the publication of the pre-
sent ordinance shall be as follows :—For Paris, 8,0001.
r,er annum ; for Lyons, 5,000 E ; for Bordeaux and
Rouen, 4,000 f. ; in the otle-r towns wherein the popula-
tion exceeds 50,000 souls, 3.5001. ; in towns wherein
the population is more than 20,000 souls, and less than
50,000, 2,400 f. ; and in towns wherein the population
is 20,1)00 souls and under, 2,400 f. The assistant execu-
6oriers shall be nominated by the Minister of Justice.
Their wages are fixed at I,ooof. for those of Paris, and
8001. those of other towns."

We learn that the Queen of the Belgians has expe-
rienced for several days past a slight indisposition, which
is attributed by her physicians to pregnancy.—Journal
do Con.merce.