The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-02 00:00:00

FRENCH PA t'ERS.

rittjts,,Mf%ucn 29.-11Jc Duke de 117cheliett hat
an audience. for an hour yeiterday with his Ma
jeity. His ExCellenc.v went immediately :after
wards to. the hotel of the Duke of Wellington.
The report in one of the Journals that au.iin
portant, communication was to be made yester.
day •by Ministers to the Chambers Was un•
founded.

BQ.-.gun, ship, called the. Neptune, was
at•L'Orient on the 2,lst.
Ti e'Onke of giv'es a grand ball on
Thnrsdav next. It is said h s Glace will set Out
for London the next (lay. , • .

Seyeral persons have .been arrested in conse-
gneßee Of the investigation as to tke cause of the
'fire at l'Odeon.

A shocking accident los plungektite,inh slit ants
yillers-le-Bel (Seino et ,Oise) into the deepest
disrress. On -weaueid.a'y,' the 25th,' between 4
and ) in the evening, some workmen were .crd-
ployed in lowering from the steeple a ..large
eyachpl„frell of 6000 weight. About 60 persons
had assembled in the belfry to' whiles's' the Opera-
tion, and there were in the church about four
hundred. women, Who 'bad: also been attracted
Je-eby curiosity., A cracking of the vault, soon
began tti be heard, and 'in a ,moment the chtirch
'vas filled with enormous masses of stone,• which
'felt from .the height of 80 feet,, with a
,horrible
crash. The women rushed toward the .door„ add
wishing to. get out all at once, pressed against
each Other; On hearing their cries, a great num-
ber of the inhabitants ran to the spot'. On. enter-
ing the church they' ((mutt mortally wounded :
three died. within
.a few minutes after. The next
step to he taken Was. to assist the unfortunate per-
sons who had eemained, as it were by a miracle,
in the belfry, some suspended by the ropes, qthess
among the timbers. Zeal and courage triumphed
over every Obstacle, and they were all saved. It

appears certain that this accident was occasione(
hy'..tbe fall of the bell, which broke .the -rope bl
which it was suspended, and fell on the ,key o
the arch, instead of, keeping the direction whiei
had been given to it. The damage i4'estimated sa
LO,OOO francs The whole. Commune is in mourn.
ing. Every one has.to lament the fate of a hien(
or relative.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Saturday
Deferred Stock 77 t. 70 c.

VIENNA' MARCH 18.—We !elm from Pest,
that at the fair there; which concluded last week,
there ‘oas very little business rlone there was
an immense quantity of,goods, but veryfew
,Ving cloths hive not been so low in
price for 20 years pisr.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday a female.,, elegantly dressed, whose
face•was covered with a veil; was •obseried by
one of tile Clerks of this Office, as she was
leaving the place, with a law book (Dirker►son's
Justice), which she had • stolen from the Ma-
gistrate's- desk ; he immediately stopped her,
and. asked her what she was going to do with
the book': slit said, " What book ?" Ile replied,
" that'which you has•e under your pelisse." She
persisted •that she had not got anything belong-
ing to the office. The Clerk brought her before
the Sitting-Magistrate (THOMAS EvANca,
and informed him of the transaction ; she still
persisted that she bad not got the book under her
clot lies, and force was obliged to be resorted to
to take it fron► her person.
She was placed at the bar, anti charged with
stealing the book, the property of his Majesty.
Magistrate—" Pray who are you, Madarn?"
Prisoner—" I don't choose to say who. I am ;.
this you may know, I am an injured woman, have
lost my character, and wish to leave theeouritry."
Magistrate—" What- was your object in taking
the book ?"

,Prisonet—" took it because I thought you
would commit rue Id trial for stealing it, and (lieu
1 should tie sent out of the kingdom,"
11tagistrate---" Why du you 'want to leave the
country ?"

'N+'tsunes• I don't clime to say commit me,
you like, I took the hook."
!Magistrate—"' 1 am afraid the prisoner is

. . .
Prisoner—" I am not insane, nor have you any
reason to think str ;, I am as 'clear in 'my intellects
as you arc Stole the book-, and half my reason
for doiug so. 1 know if is the King's property,
and you klways commit for robbing the King.•: If
you do not send Me to trial, I will come and rub
you again to-morrow:.'

Magistrate—" The prisoner is evidently in-
sane, let her he discharged."
Prisoner as ,she left the Office said---" I'll visit
you again to-wonotv."