The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-02 00:00:00

NEWS FROM MOROCCO.

MARSEILLES, JULY 29, 1844.
The French steamer, La Ville de Paris, entered
this port at five o'clock, A.M. Captain Double,
orderly officer, attached to Marshal Soult, came as
passenger with dispatches from General Bugeaud.
Marshal Bugeaud informs his Government that
he had received dispatches from the Emperor of
Morocco, to the effect that he had ordered the
Calipha who had attacked the French troops to
be put into chains, and to be placed at the dis-
posal of Marshal Bugeaud. The Marshal replied that
ho should refuse receiving the prisoner until he had
received further instructions from his Government;
and that, in the meantime, he should continue hos-
tilities against the Emperor. Marshal Bugeaud, on
the 22d current, had his head quarters at three leagues
from Ouchda, and was continuing to burn the villages
and destroy the crops on the Morocco territory. The
same day (22d) the Marshal sent dispatches of a
most pressing nature to the Prince de Joinville. The
French army is well provided with provisions, and in
high spirits. Captain Double quitted Oran on the
evening of the 22d.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE
KING OF PRUSSIA.

By extraordinary express we have this moment
received the following official account of the attempt
upon, the life of the King of Prussia, as issued at
Berlin, in the form of a circular letter to the Prussian
Legations, from Baron Bulow, the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs :

" The Lord has prevented a great calamity. At
the moment that his Majesty, on his journey to Erd-
mansdorff, in Silesia, went into his carriage, in
which her Majesty was already seated, for the
purpose of driving to the railway terminus, a
madman fired both barrels of a double bar-
relled pistol at him. One of the balls missed
altogether, . and the other, without wounding,
only left a slight trace on the breast of his
Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen escaped the
imminent danger by just at the moment accidentally
leaning forward, and in this way the ball, which
otherwise inevitably would have hit the Queen,
passed behind her. Their Majesties, notwithstanding
this dreadful event, proceeded, nevertheless, on their
journey to Erdmansdorff, where, Heaven be thanked,
they arrived in safety. The perpetrator has been
arrested, and has undergone a preliminary examina-
(Signed) " BULOW.

tion.
" Berlin, July 26."
The following is an extract from a publication o
the Minister of Police on the subject :
" The perpetrator was, with a great deal of exer.
tion, saved from the rage of the populace and corn.
mitted to the watch-house. He has been identified
as a man by the name of Tscheck, formerly Burgo-
master of Storkon, and states, as the motive of his
crime, that several petitions for another appointment
had been without effect. He has been committed
for trial

" Department of Police, Berlin, July 26."—Post.

BERLIN, JULY 26.—The magistrates of the capital
have resolved to attend Divine service on Sunday
next, the 28th, in the forenoon, to return thanks to
Almighty God for the preservation of the life of our
beloved King from the danger with which the public
are already acquainted. The magistrates for the
several quarters of the city are invited to attend
Divine worship for the same purpose.
(Signed) THE CHIEF BURGOMASTER.
THE BURGOMASTERS, and
COUNCIL. OF THIS CAPITAL.

FIRST CHURCH-RATE CONTEST
AT UX BRIDGE.

just been agitated by a
-
The town of Uxbridge has
sharp contest upon the vexatious subject of church-
rates, being the first contest of the kind ever known in
that locality. A church-rate having been proposed at
the vestry, a counter-amendment was proposed by Mr.
Henry Hull, and seconded by Mr. Wilkinson, which the
Vicar, the Rev. Mr. Price, in defiance of the customary
usage, refused to submit to the meeting. Upon a show
of hands, the rate having been negatived by at least two
to one, a poll was demanded, which took place on
Monday and Tuesday last, accompanied by the
peculiar features of a Parliamentary election
under the old boroughmongering system ; the pro-
rate party having recourse to the most unscrupulous
bribery, treating, and intimidation, in which, it is to be
regretted, some of the most influential gentry of the
neighbourhood took a conspicuous part. An adjourned
vestry was held yesterday, at the Baptist Chapel, when
the numbers were announced by the Vicar :--For the
rate 178, against 1 174. Mr. Hull denounced the mode
by which the rate had been carried, and the calumnious
hand-bills circulated against its opponents, more
particularly the Society of Friends. He protested
against the obnoxious manner in which church-
rates had hitherto been levied against that body,
goods having been taken from himself to the value of
24/, in satisfaction of a rate of the amount of lot. Mr.
Wilkinson stated that, notwithstanding there was a
majority of four votes in favour of the rate, there was, in
fact a majority of fourteen voters against it.
An Anti-Church and State Association was formed in
the town the same evening ; and it has been determined
to make the illegal proceedings by which the rate has
been carried a subject of judicial investigation.