The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

He marched to Framlingham Castle, and hearing
i that the cause he had espoused wanted prompt assist-
( ante in Leicestershire, he directed his march towards
that part of the country, and while passing Fornham
St. Genovieve, was attacked by the Killed troops
lying at Bury St. Edmund's. The battle soon be-
came general, and the result was that the Earl lost
the day, and ten thousand Flemings were slain upon
the field. The battle took place on the 27th of
October, 1173.—Essex Herald.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
We find the following in the Courrier des Etat
Unis :—" A French broker having sold several lots of
ground to an American gentleman, and having called
upon him for the money when the promissory note
which he had given was due, the debtor said I
have great respect for you, and therefore, instead
of deceiving you by asking for time, I will be candid,
and give you my word of honour that I will never
pay either principal or interest.' The broker replied,
that in that case he would immediately go and get
judgment against him. Well,' replied the debtor,
I will show my gratitude for the way in• which you
take up the affair. A judgment will cost you 40 dol-
lars ; but if you will go to the three houses in Wall-
street, of which I will give you the address, you will
obtain judgment against me in due form for 10 dollars.'
—Another debtor implored for time from his creditor,
who consented, but added that, in order that things
might be done regularly, he would get judgment
against him, but would not put it in force. You
are so good,' said the debtor, that I will make a bar-
gain with you. If I was to oppose the judgment it
would cost you forty dollars, but by my consenting to
it you will save thirty. I will do so, and, by way of
acknowledgment, you shall send me in two tons of
coals.' "

It is stated from Barcelona that several parts of
Catalonia are invested by banditti and bands of rebels.
Near Sellera, the Alcade and a rich landowner had
been carried off, and a ransom of 1,300 ounces of
gold (about 420,000 f.) demanded for their release. At
ranadella, a diligence had been stopped and plun-
dered, and near the Seu d'Urgel, there had been
a conflict between a banditti and the inhabi-
tants of a village, who rose en masse, and ob-
tained a complete triumph. On the 27th ult.,
one of the chief leaders of banditti, named Marcos
Basan, was arrested, and thrown into the prison of
Berga. This man had for some time past held priso-
ner in a cave a youth, upon whose perty he had set
a price of 200 ounces of gold. On th6,2Bth, a Court-
martial at Barcelona, condemned four men for des?,r-
tion, pillage, and incendiarism.

As a countryman was coming into Paris from
Sceaux, about 4 o'clock the morning before last, his
attention was awakened by some feeble cries, and,
searching for the source, he found on the road side an
infant which could not have been many minutes be-
fore breught into life. He carefully wrapped the
babe in his blouse, and carried it to the found-
ling hospital. Inquiries being set on foot, it was soon
discovered that, on the same morning at a rather
earlier hour, a man and his wife, named Meunier,
were coming to Paris from Palaiseau in a cart,
with milk for sale, when the poor woman was
taken in labour, and actually delivered of a child
in the cart. The husband, in the confusion occasioned
by the distress of his wife, and the darkness, unwit-
tingly Threw the new-born child out of the cart,
and then hastened to carry his wife, in a senseless state,
back to a midwife at Palaiseau, who immediately
ascertained that the main part of her duty
was already performed, and inquired what had
become of the child. This brought the poor man to
his recollection. He hastened back on the road to
Paris, and soon learning what had been done with the
infant, went to the hospital, reclaimed it, carried it
to its mother, and, it is said, they are both likely to
do well.

Pinaud, a youth, only 16 years of age, was two days
ago brought before the criminal tribunal for a rob-
bery with false keys. Notwithstanding the evidence
wa clear and positive he pertinaciously denied its
truth, and defended himself with so much effrOntery
that the President lectured him with great severity,--
assuring him that persistence in such conduct would
ultimately lead him to the scaffold. Still he refuseJ
to make the confession the judge wished to extract;
but when the .magistrate read the articles in
the Penal Code relating to robberies with
false keys, and which in certain cases im-
pose the punishment of hard labour at the hulks for •
twenty years, the prisoner imagining that this §entene
was pronounced upon him, fell into violent paroxysm:;
of despair, threw himself on the ground, and against
every prominent angle he could find, endeavouring to
dash his brains out. It was in ,vain that the- muni-
cipal guards iii charge endeavoured to restrain him,
represe sting that his youth exempted him from this
extreme penalty of the law,-and that his punishment
was limited to four years' confinement in a Mouse of
Correction, for he continued his desperate attempts at
scl:'-destruction, until, after the guards had carried
him out of Court, which was accomplished with great
ffic ul ty.

WHAT .IS TO .BE DONE ?
Men of England! Altho'agh again disappointed,
do not despair ! We still retain much that is value-
v.ble. Our land anal minerals are still here ; our
mills and workshops are not thrown down ; much
of our capital ; yet at 'holm ; our .hard-working
men are all ready -to start labour; and thou-
sands are waiting the first gleam of hope to embark
in a variety of speculations. All We want is, to
defeat a few.selfish aristocratic obstruCtives, who have
set their interests in opposition to the people's. It is
a painful crisis, but one which we must look boldly
in the face. Nothing will remain for the peOple
but poverty, and starvation, and exile, unless they
get the mastery of the aristocracy. The Parliament
has decided that we shall have dear bread, and
that it has no remedy for our commercial •embarrass-
meats. It is not the people's Parlianient, it is- the
landlords' Parliament, and has no sympathy with the
people. Many have long since been tired of pti-
toning, but still they have done good, by them
an opportunity of mocking the people. What is wanted
now is unity and self-denial. Let all enemies of
bad government, and all genuine lovers of-liberty,
forget their animosities, and make common cause
against a common foe*. This effected, is it possible
that - empty titles can resist We. Will of 'an -united
nation ? This is a solemn. moment. There. -are
two powerful
,reforming parties in the State each,
c. teirAng fg important changes : but; being disunited,
will probably accomplish nothing. This disunion
is the triumph of the oppressor. Theie bodies are the
Chartists, -and the Corn-law repealers. The enemy;
at . present has - possession of the field ; each party may
charge in vain, for without a perfect bond, all their
valour and energy will be scattered to the winds. Im-
mortal fame will rest upon that man's memory who
can now step forward and organize such a union as
shall prove well based and permanent ; and unworthy
the name of Englishman be he who should at this
crisis be so impolitic as to impose the slightest obstacle.
Fond as I am of the sweets of domestic life,
and the comforts of home, no one has naturally a
greater reluctance to public agitation than myself.
• When at all engaged in public, I have always felt
the greatest happiness at those meetings which had
a direct tendency to improve the morals of the
people ; and this I hope I shall never abandon. But
there seems a prior question even to this, and that is,
how shall the people continue to exist ? Nobody
knows the extreme misery of the people but those
who personally visit ; nobody can imagine the
privations and hunger to , which they are ex-
posed; no man can believe,
_unless he see with
his own eyes, the shocking condition of poor
people's bedding; how wretchedly off they are for
want of clothing ; and the sickness and mortality
which are -found in their houses ; and few- can
conceive how utterly powerless • all institutions
now are for educating their children, or main-
taining any proper respect for good morals. Sur-
rounded as I am with poverty, overwhelmed with
the cries of hunger and destitution, and utterly
hopeless of any relief froth the _ legislature, I am
now ready to co-operate in any measure that
affords the slightest chance of givingg relief to our
unhappy country. A NATIONAL UNION must be
formed, a comprehensive plan of agitation must be
agreed upon ; self-denial must be practised ; every
one must forget and forgive old offences, and begin
in earnest to work out his country's salvation. In
the mean time let all Reformers be determined to
keep the peace, and to refuse the leadership of every
man who would incite them to any illegal act.—The
Struggle.

iEXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL OPERATION.—That
splendid specimen, the Royal tigress, had been suffering severely
in consequenee of one of her fore claws having grown in a circular
direction, and penetrated deeply into the flesh of the foot, produc-
ing suppuration and lameness in such an increasing degree as
called for some prompt remedial measure. The superintending
director accordingly got a large and powerful pair of cutting forceps
made, with which he made several unsuccessful attempts for the ex.
cision of the claw—the operation having failed in consequence of the
remarkable hardness of the claw, and the' difficulty of getting the
foot so conveniently placed as to enable the operator to get a firm
hold and purchase with the instrument. He then got a strong iron
hook made under his directions, having a long handle, and the in-
side circle of the hook sharpened. Watching his opportunity,
when the tigress lay with her paw near to the outside of her den,
the hook was dexterously and quickly inserted into the offending
member, and whilst twe men held on the tigress exerted her own
mighty strength, and thus, unwillingly, aided the ingenious and
benevolent plan contrived for her relief. The pain must have been
great, and her roarings were terrific, bait the relief from the ex.
traction of the claw was almost instantaneous, and in the course of
a day or two the foot will be quite sound.—Caledonian 31ercury.
The Corresponsa/ states, from Manila, that a revolt
had broken out on some point of the Philippine Islands—it does
not say which—under the following circumstances;—An adven-
turer, pretending to have a celestial mission, and to have made his
appearance for the purpose of marrying a native Princess, had
gathered round him a number of partisans, and set the forces who
were sent against him at defiance. The officer in command, after
having attempted in vain to bring this madman to reason, attacked
the point in which the insurgents had entrenched shemselves, and
carriedit aftera vigorous resistance, killing some of the rebels, and
taking others with their chief primers, I
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