The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-07 00:00:00

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

MEETING 3 or HOUNDS IN THE VitILT/Ncl WV: E IC.
Ilia slajesty's Stag hound., on 3londay, at Maidenhead
Thicket; Friday., at the Magpies, Ilounslolgeesadth.
The Earl of Derby's Stag Hounds, on' ay, at Lea.
therhead.

Jonitre, Esq.'s FOx Hounds, on Monday, at Chaldon ;
Wednesday, at the Summer's Arms, Redbill; Saturday, at
Box-hill..
The Surrey Fox Hound, on Monday, at Fairleigh-green ;
Thursday, at Crown Ash-hill; Saturday, at Hodstone.
The Surrey Harriers, on :Monday, at Foxley Hata; Wed-
nesday, at the Rose and Crown ; Saturday, at the Kennel,
The East Esrox Foxhounds, nu Monday, at the Red Lion,
Mark's 'rep' ; Thursday, at Bohner Plough ; Saturday, at
Mark's

The Conock Harriers, on Monday, at New Copse; Friday,
at Upavon Plantation. • - •
The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Bredon
Hill ; Wednesday, at Oakley Woad ; Friday, at D.:erfolds.
Mr. Boycott's !founds, on Monday, at Highgate ;
day, at the Plough Inn.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Barr Bridge ; Tues.
day, at Wrenbury Kennel; Thursday, at Iklinshull Guide-
post; Saturday, at Mere Hall. ,
The Shropshire Hounds, on Monday, at Nesseliif; Wed-
nesday, at Battlefield ; Thursday, at High ; Saturday-
at Morton Corbet.
Earl Fitzwillitini's Hounds, on Monday, at Barnwell wok! 4'
Tuesday, at Bedford Purlieus.
Lord Varborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Lacehy Villa r;.
Wednesday, at Lat?gtnere Furze ; Friday, at Ilaint ut Haus: ;
Saturday, at Kiruiington Vale.
Sir It. Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Harpswell ; Tues-
day, at Langworth-bridge ; Wednesday, at Kett lethorpe
Thursday at Nacton House; Saturday, at Legsby.
The South Wold Subscription Hounds, ou Tuesday, at
Tothill 'Wood ; Friday, at Thimbleby.
Mr. Muster's Hounds, on Monday, at Arthingworth ; Tues-
day, at Honey Hill; Thnrsday, at %start ; ' Friday, at Ecton.
The Duke of Graffon's !founds, on Monday, at Castle
Thorpe; Wednesday, at Harwood Grove ; Friday, at Whist.
lay AVood.
The Oakley Hounds, on Monday, at Odell Wood ; Thurs.
day, at Chicheley ; Saturday, at Galsey Wood.

It is currently reported on 'Change this day)
that Mr. LAIUBTON, the Member for Durham,
had paid the debt of nature; we trust the report,
will prove groundless.
LORD ARTHUR PAGLT.--restertirty, at noon,
t
the remains of young Nobleman passed
through this city, on its tvay
for interment in the
family vault at Litchfield, Staffordshire. They
were met by the Officers and men of the 7th flits.
sars, now stationed here, in II !licit his Lordship held
Lieutenant's commission, the hand playing the
Dead March in Saul ; the trumpets, drums, Sze.,
were covered with black cloth, The Earl of
Uxnatuau, brother of the deceased, attended as
chief-mourner, along with Lord M AcnoNALD,
Colonel of the Regiment ; HENRY DAVIDSON,
Esq., and several other Gentlemen. On the pro.
cession arriving at Dringhouses, a short distance
from this city, the Earl of UXBRIDGE and an.
other Gentleman went forward in their private
carriages, and the officers and men returned to
our Barracks, leaving the. procession to proceed
,to its destination.—(York Chronicle, Jan. 5.)

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN

SUBSCRIPTION ROOM, J.

LIVERPOOL, JAX. s—Wind East, fresh breeze.;--The
packet ship Canada, Rogers, for New York, passed Holyhead
the 4th inst. (day of sailing) at 3 P.M. Wind E.S.E. ?doling
hard. Per ship Silas, Richards, Holdridge, from. New,
York, still remains outside. She weighed anchor yester-
day, and endeavoured to beat into the River; but
owing to the strong gale from the Eastward, Was
compelled to put about ; Columbian, Geddes, frinn
`Man n-
ham, off this port; Marin, Williams, Liverpool, at llfarinhatts.
Nov. 23d, Janet, Adamson, from Liverpool. for Westport,farid
the Andromeda, Wittleton, for St. John's, New Brunsriek,
put into Kinsale; the former with loss of anchor and cables,
the latter with loss of foremast and bows.

[FROM LLOYD'S.]
DEAL, JAN. 6.—Wind E. blows strong.—A brig, 'under
French colours, passed this morning for Ramsgate leaky.' The'
Admiral Cockburn, for Rotterdam, and Palafor,- for-LiShOti)
remain ; the 'former has been supplied with an anchor. and
cable.

, 4
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind E. with rain, and blowing '
strong.—A aired the Concord, Freeman, from London.
PLYMOUTH, s..—Wind E..—Sailed the Neft.9r,
Wikner, for St. Helena ; Sectors Hart, for St. Niclisol's
Hussaren, Gibson, for the Cape of Good Hope; Ceagr,
Fisher, for Sierra Leone; and the Vibelia transport, for Cork.
with other outward bound vessels.

FALMOUTR, JAN. s.—Wind E. to has blown
such strong gales, with heavy squalls for the last two days,*
the outward bound cannot get underweigh.

The James Sibbald, Forbes, from London, was on the sth of
September, in lat. ID. S. long. 52. E., and expected to reach
Bombay the end of that month, or early in October ; she apoke
the Britannia, from London to Bombay the 13th of August, in
lat. 37. S. long. 14. E.

The books at Lloyd's this morning presented the unusual ap..
pearance of only two arrivals, viz.—the Columbian, Geddes,
from Alaranham off Liverpool; and the Regent, Cole, from
St. John's, N. 11. at Hull.

CHAPEL ROYAL.---Yesterday being the Anni-
versary of the Epiphany, or the Manifestation of our Lord
Christ to the Gentiles, the same was observed as usual at the
Chapel Royal. After the Reverend Mr. Barham, who offi-
ciated for the Sub-Dean, who was absent from indisposition,
had read the proper Epstle and Gospel for the day at the
Altar, Mr. Mash, the Gentleman Usher in waiting, approachei
the Altar, and presented three boxes, according to ancient cus-
tom, containing gold, frankincense, nod myrrh; which were
rec,?.ived by the Reverend Mr. Barham in a large gold dish be-
longing to the Communion plate, in imitation of the offering
of the wise men of the East, on their discovery and approach
to our Saviour after his birth. The other part of the Church
Service was read by the Reverend Mr. Palonan ; an appro-
priate Anthem to the day was sung by Mr. Hawes and Air.
Salmon, " 0, God ! who by the leading of a star," composed
by 111 r. Attwood. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.

The three Lords Commissioners, who acted
for his Majesty to prorogue the Parliament on Thursday, unit-
ing their ages, numbered upwards of 220 years. They were
the Duke of llontrose, Lord St. Helens' and Lord Stowell,
(brother of the Lord Chancellor). The Duke of Montrose
attracted much attention, in consequence of wearing, instead of
the customary and plain cocked hat, a like shaped hat, but
feathered round the edges, somewhat in the style of the nurse
Guards band's hats. His Grace is said to have done so in
virtue of his office of Loid Justice General of Scotland.

ANECDOTE OF KING JAMES I.l.—The
ing anecdote is recorded as a proof of the blind credulity of
JA st ES H. Louis XIV. wrote hint a letter with his Min hand
to acquaint him that the endJarkation then preparing itt
Holland was intended against him, and in concert with
many of the principal persons in his own kingelom.—.
Louis also added, that his intelligence was of 'such a na,
ture, that he had not even trusted one of his own Minis-.
tern with it; and therefore earnestly intreated him to make
his, own proper use of it, with the same reserve, since the
least communication would not only defeat the end which
he proposed by it for his Majesty's service, but prevent
all such information for the future, by discovering the
channel from whence he received it. To this' King Jetties
sent an answer, in his own handwriting likewise, that he was.
vary much obliged to his good brother of France fir his kind.
intentions, but that he was perfectly easy himself as to the de.
I sign of the Dutch armament, and thought himself obliged
gr .titude to acquaint his Most Christian Majesty, that be bad
received certain information of its being levelled at him; had
to join his Protestant Subjects in the Cevennes fur which rea-
son he begged the French King to put himself; immediately
neon his guard against it. Louis was very much surprised
at this aoswer, and being well assured .that his brother of
England was imposed .upon, wrote him another letter, in the
sane private manner, confirming the truth of his former corn,.
munlcation, and conjuring him, in the.most pressing terms,' to
y whether he had.not,divulged the substance of it to shale of
hip dliniaters. 'King James replied, that he had rev:.'itieti it
only la one (meaning him), in whom he could repose the
,ut.. •
most confidenn. Upon reading this, c
old Louis cried out,
t: ars in his eyes, " Poor man, lie is los+, he is lost; he is tin.
dune ; nothing can save him !"

The foPowina cope I front a tomb
in the vicinity of Port Royal, Jamaica ;--- lieth, (lift
hniy of !:Quit CaldY, 'Esc. a dative of Alontpellier, in Prattee,
which country be left on account of the revot.lvtoo• tie was
wallowed up by the earthquake which occurred at this place,
in 102, but, hy the great providence of Gnu, wtr; by ;s b,coUti
"bock dung into the sea, where he (mai:o4,a' warming till
r;:scuel by a brut, and lived forty years afterward ."
CONUNTMENT or A BlSituP.--Fihni;ft,
of Rochester, in the reign of Khig Vlll.,
actually refused to be translated !o a inure VA..
luable see, from 'a• eoevelentiOtti adherence to
the injunction of st.. Paul to Timothy, whoin-he
had consecrated llisliop of ,EphesUsi•and had be:
sought still to abide there. • T

• The Scotch Parliament, immediately after they
had condemned, and ordered for execution, the
c,,tebrAted Martinis of MoNtatrq:, proceeded
w id, tln satoe,gravity to the trial and condem.
irttion of .:*,,1 poor wretches for witchcraft.
the Parliament which.met in Fehruaryi l4lti,
was called the Parliament of 1105," since the
Senators, t;cing orth to wear no swords, at.
tendud •irmed with clubs or bats. Their meet.
kg, too, as held at Leicester, to avoid the tu-
mult of .a Londuo mob.---(Antiquary's Portfolio.)
DnowNiNo..---Yesterclay morning the body of
a matt, apparently about 60 years of- tit:Te, was.
picked op-at Millhnnk, near the Chelsea Water.
works, floating on t Tic ,urface of the river. On
the corps(' being browzht to the shore, it was
discovered -.dressed in a smock.frock, +l,,f‘r.
veteen jacket, a • ChfTk shirt, sn.; if rccl4 ' ' , "
hieeehe*, blue stocking's, and shoes untied. 'l'.'n,
s. remain Wilt?' in a most' Mangled condition, and
from its distorted featores' appeared in IliVo ,liVeis
in the 'water near three weeks: The hodyWas-'
removed-to-the hone-house, :Ind in the afte'rninti.
a JitrY asSertibled at the King's dead, :.,,.,:il,i. r
G when' gae 'vs -err°dAvi c 5 t ,lirt-4 for '1
i‘c.vva' bc
n tor'ir fT. I
'
evidence, I"':;asi:-: s-t(14.*:1
turned of " Found Drowned."

'IIIE LONDON JOURNAPS
•
DAILY
tracts from the Morning opt', s, Jan. 7,1826.

[MORNING HERALD.)
The French .boost much not only of their hu-
inanity, but the delicacy of theirrfeelings. They
considerit little better than a proof of barbarism
is an. English audience to tolerate the exhibition
of mimic slaughter on the stage, al their own
•sensibilities require . that 'the operations of tke
ii.aggar and other instruments of death, should
1)r, more decently, performed behind the scenes.
*he tenacity, however, with, which they cling to
ttte Slave Trade, shows, that .they have more
sympathy for the sufferings which dramatists de•
scribe, than for those which tyranny makes its
victims suffer. It may be said that the people,
of France are not generally chargeable with the
acts which are committed by the criminal avarice.
ofsomtnercial men. We think,, notwithstanding
that thegeneral passiveness of public opinion on the
its.bject in France, is like a tacit approbation, by
society, of this nefarious traffic. Theevil conse-:
trendy seems to increase rather than diminish.
Little dues it avail the interests of honanity that
government induced that of France to agree to
'abolish the Slave Trade. The theory was con,
4t,edeii;bilt the practice remains as obstinate as
'ever. • Indeed the unhappy beings whom we
would have saved from the most degrading con-
dition and servitude, are replaced by our inter-
Ilience in a worse state than before, for the traffic

being now illegal, the dealers in this " human
-ineschandize," cause the forlorn population which
they, crowd into their floating dungeons, to en
,Onre more privation and torment than formerly,
to prevent detection. Before the trade was clan.
'destine, the captains of vessels were sufficiently
cruel in their treatment of the kidnapped Afri-
'cans•--but now the most ingenious calculations
a►e made to ascertain the smallest quantities
'af air and space, and sustenance, which may
keep soul a►►d body together in beings chain-
ed between decks, under a tropical sun, and
concealed, during a long voyage, by various
contrivnn'ces, in a situation revolting to the
lenses—the inmates of a living tomb of men-
tal misery and bodily exhaustion. There is
scarcely .a day that we do not hear of some of
the: atrocities of those marine monsters,—the cap-
tains of French slave-ships ; and whenever a cap-
ture takes place, there is a frightful detail of the
expedients to which they can resort to make the
additio►►al torture of their victims subservient to
the secresy of the enterprise. We published
yesterday.an account of one of those vessels hav-
ing been driven into St. Ives by stress of ►►eather,
fitted up with all tl►e• dreadful apparatus of
chains, thumbscrews, &c., and having five slaves
on board, the remains of a former cargo, with

which she was proceeding again to Africa, pro.
hably intending to make them useful in coming
at more of their countrymen. It was stated in
the letter which mentions I he transaction, that Mr.
Wilberforce and Mr. Stephen, having heard of the
circumttance, had applied to Chief Justice Best
for, a Habeas Corpus to bring those five slaves to
London, which was granted. if these parti.
culars be authentic, the perpetual deriders of the
common Law of England may see one of its glo-
rious principles curried into effect, by making
those chained and tortured slaves freemen, the
moment they touch the soil of Britain. This
was a principle recognized in this country before
the abolition of the Slave Trade—no statute had
enacted it. There were SOllle, indeed, whose in-
terests led them to deny it al one time, but the
exertions of Mr. Granville Sharp, and some other
friends of humanity, placed, it beyond ail doubt.
Let those English 66 reformers," who see nothing

good but in foreign institutions, learn that, in
some points at least, the laws► of their own coun-
try may be viewed, even by 44 philosophers" with
something unlike contempt.

(BRITISH PitKlM]

The official returns of the Revenue, which we
lay befoie our readers, are by no means calcu-
lated to Warrant the apprehensions that have been
expressed by some of our contemporaries. On
the year' which has just terminated, there is, com-
pared with , the preceding one, a deciease of
i,03,9401. TMs is unquestionably much less than
wag e*Rected, considering the injurious effects
that must have resulted lately from the stagna.
tion of business and financial distress of the com-
mercial; work!. :The reduction of taxes has also
necessarily reduced the productiveness of ,the
reveling 'The loss sustained by the drawback
on winejs estimated at upwards of 1,000,0001.,
and : the' ,discotitinuanue of a portion of the
tobacco duty. does not amount to less than
300,0001, ,W hen to these we add what would have
beers yielded by the (hales remitted by various
Acts of the hit Session, it will be apparent that

the pre,ent account is highly satisfactory, and
justifii,s in the fullest manner the expectations
that were formed respecting it. In consequence
of the transfer of duties from the Excise to the
Costoms, we cannot accurately distinguish the
;dative inetease ,decrease of -those two great
branches of the revenue. In every inferior
source of income there was an increase during
the last year. The excess of the Stamp duties,
as compared with the previous year, was '244,1376;
in the Post.office, it was 73,0001.; and in the
Tax deportment 68,0681. The total revenue
for the year ending the oth of January, 185tH,
was 48,812,7591.; that for the year ending on the
some day 8%5, was 48,073,8106 The return for
the quarter is at first sight loss favourable than that
for the year. The apparent decrease is 1,180,906/.
Bat this is easily explained by the untoward cir-
cumstances to which we have already referred.
All of them have operated with peculiar force
during the late quarter. In the corresponding
season of jest year there were large importations
of silk, on account of which heavy payments were
made into the Treasury, while latterly, for many
months, the purchases leave been few and him).
siderable. The distilleries, also, have not been
*worked with a view to yelling themselves as fully
as posinle, when they can, of the repealed duties
en. F roci this alone the Excise has
1133.011,4 E9itcerial diminution of its usual re.
celpts. pressura in the Money-market has

unavoidably induced the ,postponement of many
other pigments,' which in the ordinary coutse of
things, would have-been included in the accounts
of the last quarter., In some cases, for the pre-
sent, 'Lis impossible that these payments tan be,
made without utter ruin to the individuals from
whom they are due ; and in such instances his
Majesty's Government have considerately, re-
frained from aggravating the then existing embar-
rassments. The same causes have disinclined
merchants from taking goods out of the warehouses
beyond the actual demand of the moment. Upon
the whole, therefore, we feel ourselves entitled to
congratulate the public that the net produce of
the revenue of Great Britain has so well main-
tained itself under the extraordinary and unparal-
leled pressure it has endured. We shall con-
clude with a piece of intelligence of the most
gratifying nature, both as regards the revenue
itself and the country, whose progress in wealth
and commerce it demonstratively indicates. We
understand that the receipts in Ireland, during
the last year, have exceeded those' of the preced-
ing twelve months.

[THE T1111:,.]
The contents of Paris papers and letters of
Wednesday set conjecture at rest with respect to
the succession to the Russian throne, end at the
same time explain the extraordinary circumstance
of its being so long vacant. It would appear
that the two imperial brothers, Constantine and
Nicholas, had vied with each other in a generous
renunciation of their respective claims—the for-
mer from a faithful adherence to an old et►gage-
meat, and the latter from respect to rights which
no engagement could cancel. Nicholas refused to
reign under the will of the late Emperor, who,
according to the uncertain rules of succession in
Russia, couhi appoint his successor; and Constan-
tine, who was bound to resign his pretensions by
a family compact, refused to make his legitimacy
available against a voluntary surrender. The
former proclaimed the absent Emperor, and took
the oaths of allegiance to,him : the latter, disre-
garding his birth-right, offered submission to
Nicholas I. Russia was thus in the strange pre-
dicameut of having two self-denying Emperors,
and no active ruler. The crown of the Czars
was in abeyance, till couriers passed between
Warsaw and Petersburgh. Each brother was in
his turn a subject and a sovereign, and both stood
at the portals of power, amicably disputing the
point of precedence. Constantine has at last
submitted to take the command of forty millious
of men ; and from ,the generous conduct of
his brother, will most likely be induced to ap.
point him his successor, to the exclusion of his
left-handed family. Probably this was all that
the deceased Emperor wished to accomplish by
stipulating for Constantine's renunciation. We
some time ago mentioned that the late judgment
iu the case of the French press, which gave so
much satisfaction to the nation, produced a con-
trary feeling at Court ; and we are informed
by one of our letters from Paris, that Charles
X., in his receptio►► of the President and Coun-
cillors of the Cour Royale, on the occasion
of the new year, testified his highest displeasure
in no unequivocal manner. 'When the Pre-
sident, M. lieguier, presented hi►nself to deliver
the complimentary address of the season, the
King listened to him with apparent disdain, re-
plied to him with unceremonious brevity, and
disitissed him' with rude abruptness. When the
her appeared, his Majesty asked particularly for
M. Bellart,.who had advised the prosecution and
drawn up the indictment. That gentleman was
absent from bad health, and his Majesty seemed
anxious, by -his kind inquiries after him, to con-
vince his courtiers that his insulting treatment of
the Judges was a designed contrast, calculated
to instruct those who desired to secure his favour.
M. de Seguier and his brother were consoled for
this neglect by the enthusiastic reception which
they met with from the Duke of Orleans, and
the constitutional friends of the monarchy,

[TUE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

We have received the Paris Papers of Wed.
nesday, and the Doile of Thursday. A letter in
the latter from St. Petersburgh, dated the 17th
ult. unravels the mystery in which the succession
to the Throne of the Czars has been hitherto in-
volved. It bears us out in our surmises, that the
report which was current on the subject was
either radically vicious; or, if the foundation had
any Solidity, that the superstructure was rotten.
1n the latter part ut our reasoning, we were per.-
reedy right ; for it appears that Constantine had,
on his second marriage, been prevailed upon to
renounce his right to the throne, io favour of
Nicholas. But as this was a sacrifice to pas,ien,
and another proof of the impetuosity of his chn.
racter, he would no doubt, under the influence of
a new and stronger passion, have retracted ; and
thus the flames of a civil war would, in all pro'
bability, have been lighted up throughout that
vast Empire, had Nicholas attempted to enforce
the agreement. The late Emperor, however, is
not free from blame, in having exacted such ,a
concession from his brother ; but this fertile sort
of mischief to the peace of the empire has been
fortunately checked in time, by the forbearance or
pusillanimity of the Prince whom he had dvsig..
nated'as his successor. We have now 'a clue to the
continued stay of COnstantine at Warsaw, which
the courtly writer in the Etoile ascribes to a mug.
nanimous determination to abide by the renuncia-
tion be bad made under the influence of an intoxi-
cating impulse. If the truth, however, were
known, it would he found perbaps, that be was,
guided- by an atWous desire alone to know how
his Brother, the Directing Senate,and the Mini.
stern of the late Emperor, Would act anti ,r the
circumstances. At Warsaw, he could attempt to
set aside the instrurrieet he had signed iu a mo-
ment of blind passlim-; :but had he proceeded at
once to St. Petersburgh, it would be a matter of
chance whether he ascended the Thione 'or met
the fate of his father. ''

[MOitI,II,NG POST.]

We rpci.ived last night,' by Express, French
Papers to the.sth inst. and the• Mode of Thurs.
day. Thu letter contains cote intelligence from
St. Peterbburgh. which, though given • in the

shape of a private letter, evidently possesses a
character of authenticity. It raises the veil
which has so long covered the real state of the
question respecting the succession to the Russian
Throne, and the first fact which it reveals
is the very one which we stated immediately
after receiving intelligence of Alexander's
death, and which had been since denied
by most papers at home and abroad as totally in-
compatible with the tender friendship which was
said .to prevail between the late Emperor and Con-
stantine. It is now openly acknowledged that by
a solemn act to which Constantine had been made
to become a party, Alexander had excluded him
from the succession to the Crown. Of this
" Secret Act" three copies were taken and depo.
sited respectively with the Senate, the Synod,
and the Supreme Council of the Empire., with
orders not to he opened till after the death of Alex-
ander. It appears, therefore, that this Monarch
had taken every possible precaution to prevent
Constantine from becoming. Emperor. The cause
assigned for this symptom of extraordinary "'af-
fection" towards •his brother is evidently inade-
quate and unfounded. lie is said to have been
rendered incompetent to reign at the instigation
of his own Mother, and because he wished to
marry the daughter of a Polish Nobleman.
This at best might have affected the claims
of his issue, but not, his personal rights ; and
to suppose that he could have be brought
to sign his own degradation without a suffi-
cient cause, is to betray a total ignorance
both of the character of the individual and
of the nature of roan. However, knowing
well the reasons which had forced him to consent
to such an act, he justly -felt that it was not in his
power after the death of Alexander to claim
openly n throne which he had renounced.—
Hence we are told arose his determination to
remain at Warsqw, and to await the course of
events. The. Secret Act was 'produced, and the
Grand Duke ' Nicholas to whom it gave the
crown, with a degree of generosity which
proved him worthy to wear it, immediately
rejected the splendid possession and was the first
to take and to make others tpke the oath of fide-
lity to his brother. This, it is remarkable., seems
to have been effected without any opposition po
the part of the Mother Empress, who, according
to the version of the ,toile, was the real author
of Constantine's exclusion. Numerous Couriers
were then sent to Wnrsaw to inform Constantine
that he was Emperor, and at Ihe date of the letter
(Dec. 17th) his arrival was daily expected.

[NEW TIMES.]
We yesterday received by Express the Etale;
of Thursday with the Journals of Wednesday.
We had received private intelligence from St.
Petersburgh, which the Eiaile confirms, but
which will' rank among the most extraordinary
narratives of modern times. It k briefly this.
Constantine, -some years ago, fixed his affec-
tions on the • daughter of a private gentle.
turn in Poland. According to the Russian
system, his marriage' with her would be deemed
a. mrstaleunce, and their children could not
succeed to the throne. The marriage was,
therefore opposed by the Empress Mother, and
consequently by Alexander, but at length the
latter yielded to the wishes, of Constantine, upon
the latter's signing, a document, renouncing the
tutcession in favour of the Archduke Nicholas.
The nuptials took place, and Constantine is still
doatingly fond of the Princess his consort, who,
On her part, is of
.a retired and domestic turn of
mind. When the news reached St. Petersburg!'
of the death of the Emperor Alexander,
the document, which Constantine had signed,
and attested in triplicate, was opened and
read : but Nicholas refused to uct upon its con-
ditions:: and instead of placing the Crown on his
own heath, he, and after-him the whole imperial
Family, the Senate, &c. look the oaths of fidelity
to Constantine. The latter, meanwhile, con-
scious of the solemn engagements into which he
had entered, and contemplating no violation of
them, remained quietly' at Warsaw, when he
heard of the demise of. his brother. At length,
however,cenriersdispatched from St. Petersburg to
Warsaw, apprised him of the course which events
lied taken,And yielding to the will of his august
Brother, of the Imperial Family, the Senate,' and
the constituted Authorities, he consented to
ascend the vacant throne. His pre4ence in St.
Petersburg was momentarily expected, and the
tiny or arrival Was to be the only suspension
'of that public mourning which had been ordered
for the deceased Monarch. It is quite unpre-
cedented- in history to See so great a Throne
s that of Russia yolunterily declined by
two Princes, and a contest of affection
taking place .letween two brothers, which
of them shall be permitted to yield up his
pretensions' to, the other. The Doile also
contains two remarkable letters of the now,
widowed Empress, whose exemplary affec-
tion: - for her illustrious consort must .eleVate
her character, for piety, for dornestic'virthe, end
for amiable, feeling, in the mind of every one.
'who reads them. - The strong affection of
.the wife .; spea,lo.*lse ationgly to favour of
the husband. Thit—Emperor Alexander is
Well knowrir to have possessed great affability
in his intercourse with all classes Of people : and
it would seem that this disposition became with-
in the imperial Circle an amiable and endearing
warmth. of affectiou. •

EMORNING
The transactions on the Stock Exchange yes-
terday ware not so satisfactory as on the 'pre.
ceding 'day'; and from the heaviness of the mar-
ket, there 'was a trilling decline in prices.—
The state of 'things was attributed' 'to va-
rious causes, but principally to the URN-
'vOinable state of the Revenue for the last
quarter. ' 'Other reasons were aaSiood, but they
were Vagne„ andi in many instances, merely
visionary. It was a holiday
.at the' Battli So that
the .was principally' retained to specula:
teons for tite intcre South Abterican Pund's
I - •
there was '3l tee ne of about two per ceilt:; but
nothing oCettered'in. the Share Market icorthy cif
remark. 4.private &ds, discounts are still
difficult to be obtained, but sanguine hopes are
entertained that things will lie better next

KENT WINTER ASSIZES.

MAIDSTONE, THURSDAY, JAN. 5.

Bcfore'llfr. Barbs Ilutr.oc x.
Joseph Blundell and Samuel Knight were indicted under
Lord Ellenborohgh's Adt, for maliCiously cutting George Pear-
son, with intent to murder him, at East Farleigh, on the 22d
of November last. The prisoners had been committed under
the Poaching Act, 57 Geo. 111.
lt appeared in evidence that the prosecutor, who is a servant
in the employment of a gentleman of fortune, named Charlton,
at East Farleigh, was out in one of his master's woods, on the
night of the 22d November, for the purpose of protecting the
game, and whilst in the act of preventing some pheasants from
settling on the trees, the prisoner Blundell came up and struck
him. A violent'scuffie ensued, and the prosecutor received
several blows from a gttn which the prisoner had in his hand,
the butt-end of which broke off: There was: another man in
the prisoner's company, who could not be identified. The pri-
soner and his companion; after the scutil:., ran off, leaving the
prosecutor senseless, on the ground. - An assistant of the pro-
secutor had left him when the affray commenced, for the pur-
pose of procuring assistance. When the prosecutor came to
himself, he found that he was desperately wounded in the left
thigh, with a knife, or some other sharp instrument. The
wound penetrated to the bone. On the scene of action were
left a clasp knife, and the fragments of a gun, the latter of which
formed part of a gun which the prisoner Knight had got re-
paired at Maidstone on the 23d of Nov, Positive evidence
was given of Blundell's identity, but the case against Knight
rested only upon circumstances of strongs suspicion. A stir-
geon, who had examined the prosecutor's wounds, proved that
the wound on his thigh must have been inflicted with a sharp
instrument. He had sustained other bodily injuries.
The prisoners denied their guilt, but the Jury, under the
Learnd Judge's directions, found Knight Not Guilty, and
Blundell Guilty, against whom sentence of death was re-
corded.

George Lawrence was indicted for assaulting John Hawley,
an infant of the tender:age of two years, at Gravesend, on the
bth November, with intent to murder hint.
The prisoner, by trade a shoemaker, had married the mo.
ther of the little boy, and lived with her at Gravesend. In the
course of October and November, the next-door neighbours had
their attention aroused on several occasions by the brutal ill-
treatment of the child by the prisoner. They remonstrated
with him upon his misconduct, but he reproached them for'
interfering with him the management of his own family. On
the night of the sth of November, Mrs. Armstrong, a next-
door neighbour, heard the violent cries of the child, and the
splashing of some water in the prisoner's sitting-room. She
looLd out at the window anti saw the prisoner immersing the
child in a tub of water, itti voice being nearly stifled in its
struggles for life. Upon calling to the prisoner, he abused her
in violent terms, and told her that he had' a right to do
what he pleased with his own. He said that the child was
dirty in its habits, and that he only wanted to cure them. Next
day the prisoner was taken up, and on examining the child's
body, it was found marked in several places with severe bruises
from the blade.bones to the legs. When taken before the Ma-
gistrates, the prisoner admitted that he had struck the child
once in a passion, and put him into the water once, merely to
cure him of certain offensive-habits.
The prisoner now declared that lie had had no intention of
injuring the child beyond moderate correction.
The Jury, under the learned Judge's direction, acquitted the
prisoner of the intention to murder the child, hut convicted him
of an assault, anti he was sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment in the county gaol.
John Wilson Ward was indicted for violating the person of
Maria Smith, at Dartford, on the 2d October. This case ex-
cited considerable interest.
The prisoner was a married man, and carried on the business
of a hair-dresser at DarttOrd. The prosecutrix, an orphan, 12
years of age, resided with her step-mother, who carried on the
business of a baker in the :tame town. On the day in question
the prisoner came into Mrs Smith's house, to spend the evening
with her journeyman and an uncle of the prosecutrix. In the
course of the evening the uncle and the journeyman left the
bakehouse, where they had been sitting with the prisoner and
the girl, leaving both the latter together. In the interval the
prisoner effected his purpose, under every circumstance of vio-
lence, as sworn to by the child, who was a girl of healthy con.
stitution. On the part of the prisoner, the journeyman swore
that he never left the bakehouse during the whole evening, and
that it was impossible the offence could have been committed.
It appeared that the girl never mentioned the transaction until
three days after it occurred.
The Jury, after an elaborate summing up, found the pri-
soner—Not Guilty.