The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-25 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Courricr Francais of Sunday.)

t has been resolved that, immediately after the

taking of the citadel of Antwerp, the King and the
Royal Family will repair to Lille and Valenciennes.

The Municipal Council of Nogent almost unani-
mously declined sending an address to the King on
the pistol-shot of the 19th of November.

TROYES, DEC. 21.—The first regiment of the line
passed yesterday through Nogent, on its way to
Verdun, to form part of the corps of Army of Ob..
servation. Lieutenant Montagnac, of that regi-
ment, excited a lively curiosity, and received the
congratulations of many patriots of that town, on his
disinterestedness and patriotism. It was that officer
who, at the review of the regiments of the line, after
the affairs of sth and 6th June, refused to accept the
cross of honour, saying that he could not think of
wearing a decoration obtained by shedding French
blood, and requested his Majesty to wait for a fitter
occasion to confer such a mark of distinction upon
him.

NUREMBURG, DEC. 17.—Arrests still continue
in Wurtzburg. The two printers, Uhl and Goetzel,
who belonged to the Grunen Bund (the Green As-
sociation), a society forbidden by the Government,
have been both thrown into prison. The Com-
missary of Police, Wiesend, who is also a Regency
Counsellor anda physician,has thus stopped thepub-
lication of the Popular Journal of Bavaria, which
cannot appear any more for want of a printer.
Bills, posted up to-day on the walls of Paris, an-
nounced that masked balls would take place, on
Monday next, at the Opera, the Varietes, Sic, and
the same evening, an amateur ball was to be given
at the theatre of the Palais Royal. The necessary
preparations were almost completed, and the refresh-
ments and costumes already purchased, when, at 12
o'clock, an order to prevent them was issued. For
what motive ? None is assigned. The Ministry
will not allow them : that is sufficient. The theatres
are under their control; the Opera they may
deprive of its subventions; the others they have
the power of annoying in a thousand ways ;
and, if resistance were offered, they can oppose force
in lieu of right. Since the Government intended
to forbid balls on the 24th, why was not that deter-
mination made known to the undertakers a fortnight
ago, when they published their bills for the first
time? They would have saved them considerable
expenses, which are a dead loss to them. The
Ministry probably had not bestowed a thought on
the subject at that time. The whim only occurred
to them to-day, and it must be gratified, however
prejudicial it may prove to others. A Minister
must not mind such trifles, by which his salary is
not the least impaired.

CARMARTITENSITIRE ELECTION.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

This county was most severely contested by Sir James
William•, the lite Member, who voted for the Reform
Act in all its stages; the Hon. Colonel Trevor, the former
Member, who resigned last year in consequence of having
voted against that great measure; and Edward Hamlyn
Adams, Esq., who became a candidate by invitation, to
prevent the return of the Tory, Trevor, and thereby neu-
tralizing the voice of the county, which, under the Re-
form Act, returns two Members. At the nomination on
Monday last the show of hands was decidedly in fa-
vour of Adams, but the Sheriff required a second show
before he could decide between Williams and Trevor, after
which he declared in favour of the former.

The poll commenced on Thursday, at seven different
places—was continued on Friday, and, at the close, at four
on that day, the numbers were—

Trevor
Adams
Williams

1937
17'25
1538

The two former will he returned on Monday. We
greatly regret that the Tory candidate, who voted in Par•
liament against every liberal measure, should be at the
head of the poll. There is no doubt that Sir James would
have been in that proud situation, with Mr. Adams for
his colleague, if he had adhered to his published address,
wherein he promised to vote for Mr. Adams, although he
would ❑ot coalesce with that gentleman, to whom the
county is under great obligations for his spirited conduct
as High Sheriff at the Reform meetings last year, and for
offering himself as a candidate, when no other Reformer
could be found. Sir James, however, listened to the
crafty suggestions of his Tory advisers (the conformers of
last year) who now supported Trevor, and was induced to
withdraw his support from Mr. Adams, under a silly pretence
of that gentleman's hostility to the Church. The conse-
quence was, that the Dissenters rallied round Adams's
standard, and in spite of the utmost efforts of the Ma-
gistracy and Squirearchy, influenced by Lord Dynevor, the
Lord Lieutenant, and Father of Trevor, they placed him
second on the poll. This is the last time a Tory Mem-
ber will be returned for this county ; for the Liberals and
Dissenters now know their strength, and with better orga-
nization, will undoubtedly return both:Members. They
have also eucceeded, after a desperate struggle, in return-
ing a liberal Member for the Borough of Carmarthen, so
that this county will have two stanch Reformers against
one Conservative of abuses and corruption.
[A report of this election has already appeared in The
Sun, but we are willing to oblige our correspondent, who
takes a patriotic view of the subject. We agree with him
that next time the Reformers will know better how to
act. A house divided against itself could not expect to
stand any chance.]

REPLY of the LORD BISHOP of BRISTOL

to the ADDRESS of his CLERGY.

(From Felix Farky's Bristol Journal.)