The Sun.
London, England, 1817-03-07 00:00:00

THE WEATHER. AT PARIS.

PARIS, MAacit di hers of the little
carriages for Versailles out, " There is still
one seat left for Versailles ; come and sec the
spring at Versailles.— 'The crowd of curious per-
sons going thither is very great. The fact, which
lives occasion to this, is the fine sight presented
by the trees in the grand Park, which display the.
phenomenon of a vegetation, such as is seen in
the month of Alay. Several trees in the park •of
Trianon arc covered with new leaves ; the haw-
thorns in the open air are loadeflovitlr.flo%vers.--.--
May the hope which this early spring gives us not
be destroyed by frosts in the month of May !
If we have reasons for fear, we have also many
for hope. The Chronicle of Bullingner men-
tions, after a calamitous year, the summer of
1540. The fine weather and the heat lasted
from the month of February to the 19th of Sep-
tember, and during all this period it rained hut
six times. At the cod of May ripe cherries were
eaten, and grapes in July ; the '2sth of June. was
the midst of the harvests ; and at the beginning of
September, the vintage was at its height. .11fillin-
;ner adds, that this year was equally remarkable
for the extreme abundance of wine, corn, and all
sorts of fruit,

There was winch smashing of carriages in the
contests of. Whips yesterday, to take the lead in
entering_the Court-yard, at Cathon
The King of FRANCE has caused a gold snit&
box, enriched with-brilliants, to be transmitted
to Count Bueow, Finance Minister of Prussia,
in testimony of the very honotthibre part be sus-
tained in the negociations of 1814 and 1816, at
Paris, and which terminated in the Peace. •
The statue of GeneralMottsAo is one of those
which are to ornament the Bridge of Louts the
Sixtheenth at Paris.
The Rochester Election came on yesterday.
Mr. BARNETT was returned without opposition.
'Waterloo Bridge is, in be, opened on the 18th
of June, the Anniversary of the memorable and
glorious victory. Ott this occasion the. Duke of
WELLINGTON will come front Cambray, and
will .
he the first to ride over it with his ilOyal High-
ties the PRINCE REGENT.
Mr. BOOTH played Vichard last night without
opposition,, and with greater effect than hereto-
fore. Be was somewhat disconcerted in the
Tent Scene by some injudicious Freneltified ad-
mirer throwing is branch of laurel on the stage,
but speedily recovered so much as to die very
hard in the end.
The Apostate Moor is the name, of Mr. SHRIL's
new Tragedy at Covent-Garden Theatre, the re-
presekation of which is delayed by the:intlisposi-
Goo of Miss O'NEILt.. It is - stated that Mr.
Boo Tit has a part in the Tragedy.
Mr. CoNw.tv had a brilliant benefit at Dublin
on Friday last, .and of liberal support few,per-
formeri are more worthy either from histrionic
talent or private worth It is highly creditabe to
the Irish Capital, that it knows how to value whet I
the English Capital hes lost.
Mrs. GLovca is now performing at the Belfast
Thiatre, having obtained the permission of the
Dublin Manager to appear there for u few nights:
Since the tit»'e of the brewers raising the price
of Porter, and other malt liquors, in the metro.:
pas, malt has fallen 20i. per quarter, which hag
reduied it to nearly the same price as before the
addition ;, but no alteration bus taken place to the
COOSIMICT. ,
ution unquestionable authority we, have to
state, that the Mfddleton lieforni Delegate has this
,13y beet a momitied to our New Bayley prison,
upon an implication not compatible with the
.strictest morality.--r(ManchMei Volunteer;

[From Me Birminihanl Chronicle.)

On Thursday morning last, at day-break, this
town and neighbourhood experienced a most tr -
mentions gale of wind, or rather hurricane`; the
violence of which has caused 'considerable da-

mage. At about seven o'clock, during the height
of the storm, an electric body passed down a
chimney into the parlour of a house in Pros-
pect-row, where it forced out the side wall of.
the room, broke the glass of the windows,
and shattered the door to pieces. From
thence, it is supposed to have taken the. di•
rectiuu of a back room, where it escaped through
the window, carrying the glass and lead with

Happily the family had not•risen, otherwise all
within its reach must have perished, as it scorched
the wood-work of the room, and burnt a bonnet
to tinder which hung upon the door.—An
im-
nnense elna-tree was also torn up by the root, and
carried across the road leading to lluddestna
Hall, near Vauxhall, and several chimnies, &e.
blown down in various parts of the town and
neighbourhood.

During the storm, on Thursday last, a chim-
ney belonging to the premises peopled by Mr.
Lawson, in Butcher-row, Coventry, suddenly fell,
forcing itself through the roof and attic, into the
room.beneath, in which Mr. L. was then in bed,
and who, it is styposed, was instantly killed,*
having a -large portion of the bricks, &c. found
lying upon hint.--. The housekeeper, who bad left
her chamber but a quarter of a hour, was at the
time of this distressing accident iu the hack
kitchen, and happily escaped without recei%ing
any injury.
Considerable damage has been done by this
storm in Liverpool. A. chimney, abut six feet
high, was blown from the top of Mr. Dyson's
house at Everton, which broke through the. roof,
fell into the chatr.ber below, and descended
on the bed where Mr. and Mrs. Dyson, and
a young child were 'at that time sleeping.
Providentially the bricks arranged themselves,
in their descent, in such a manner that none,of
the persons in the bed were materially hurt.
The same storm was experienced in Man-
chester, and threatened destruction to many
houses iu that town and neighbOttrbood. About
six o'clock it threw down three chimnies at the
house of Thomita F. Philips, Esq. at Mass Side :
one fell to the ground, another through the roof
into a spare room, and a third through the roof
into A room where four female'servants slept, one
of whom being out of bed fortunately escaped ;
her bed-fellow, wloi Was in bed, was killed upon
the spot, and the other two also escaped, being
at a distant part of the room.
The same storm was likewise experienced at
Lancaster. The I;ghtning struck and shivered the.
mast of a Scotch brig, laden with grain, lying near
the Marsh Point, in the river. Mitch glass was
broken in the town by the hail ; two barns were
blown down at Cocketham ; and, we are sorry to
add, that a woman and a child were killed at Pres-
ton, by a chimney falling upon them.

In Glasgow the lightning was very frequent and
and shattered windows in various parts
ut the city. At Hull much damage ‘Vg3 done
the roofs of houses by the falling of chimnies, &e.

FRCNCII MoNustasTs.---The Monuments which
were collected in the Muscnin of French Monu-
ments, and which au enlightened and courageous
zeal preserved from destruction in the times of
revolutionaty fury, will be restored as far as is
practicable to their first destination. The tombs
of theliings are returned already to the stately
church of St. Denis : all the other funeral monu-
ments which the Museum contained, have beets
placed at the disposal of the Prefect of the Seine,
in outer to he re-erected in the churehts of Tarim_
The ashes of Moliere and La Fontaine, which hail
been extracted train the cemetry of St. Juscpb,
will be carried to the cemetty of father La Chaise,
where repose alrea:ty Deldle, Chrnier, Laujon,
Madame Cottin=, dretry, Fourcroy, P.irmentier,
Mendlle, Madame Hardly, Mademoiselle ttatt
court, &c. thee. &c.—(French Paper.)

Five persons have been appteliended at New.
church, in Itttssendale, who have long been in
the habit of tratlieking in forged notes; '2B were
found in the breast 01 one Aall Lord, and 231 in
the pocket of Mary. Lord. Three of them havg
been committed to Lancaster Castle.

. .
Monday seimight an'industrions man, Jacob
Hale, consisting of a wife and
five children, were removing from Shipham to
Gurneyslatle, Somersct,, when the cart, which was
loaded•with housetield furniture, and on which the
wife and three children were riding, was norm,'
tunately overturned, and the woman and tier chil-
dren being entangled in the loittling, were so
crushed by the cart tailing on them, that the mo.
Cher and two ot her infants were taken up wine,
dead, and the third child so mangled anti *lured,
that little hope isientertained of its rccoery.
Tuesday last, as a poni•yorinz woman wits gild
titering sticks in the Duke of Devonshire's Park,
at Chiswick, a boy in tire. IlitploY of his Graces
Bailiff had the inhumanity' to unchain a fierce
mast* and set it at her, which lacerated her in
a dreadful manner. She WAS taken to his Grace's
fartn-house, and humanely treated by the Bailiff.
B%EcoTtoN.—Friday John Larg and James Mit •
chell were executed at Perth, pursuant to thtir sen-
tence,fOr th'terime.of robbery. They both behaved
with badoming penitence and resignation ; stud
Large addressed the spectat ors frOm the scaffold, its
an audible voice, admoniAirtg them to his dread.
Jul fate to be a caution to them all to abstain
from drinking, gambling, anti night rioting,
which had seduced hint to the commission of the
Crimes for which be was to suffer. The critninals
then, after some devotional exercises, took a me-
lancholy farewell,
_and holding etch other by the
bands, were lovochtti into eternity.