The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-26 00:00:00

FRENCH CHAMBER.

As the present elections,are likely, from their in-
fluence on the policy of. the Government, to consti-
tute an epoch, not only in the history of France, but
of Europe, and as some of our readers may not be,
so well acquainted with the electoral system of our
neighbours as with rotten boroughs and pot-wallop-
pers at home, we shall make no apology for stating
in a few words such facts respecting it as may ren-
der generally intelligible the language employed
upon the subject for the last week or two. Though
the Constitution of France has only reached its teens
(being just thirteen years and a half,old) it has al-
ready undergone;_in one of its essential branches,--
the Chamber of Deputies,—more changes than that
of England for centuries. These changes have taken.
place both in' the numbers and composition of 'the
Chaniber, the term of its duration, and the mode of
its election. As it was originally constituted by the
Charter, or modified by the law of February, 1817,
it consisted of 2.58 members, who were all chosen
by one species of electoral college in every depart-
ment, composed of the whole of the citizens who
paid 300 francs (or 121. sterling) in direct taxes,
either derived from land
,or from the fruits of profes-
sional industry. The representative body thus
footled was renewed every five years by a fifth part
tne members going out, and being changed or re-
elected.every year. - It was made necessary that the
elector should vote in the department of his domi-
cile, though the lands on which he was rated might
lie in several different departments. .In 1820 the
constitution of the Chamber and of the electoral body
was found, or fancied, too democratical, and a new
law received the Royal sanction in June of that year,
for nearly doubling the number of deputies and
creating two kinds of electoral colleges. By that law
it was enacted that the former amount of representa-
tives hould continue to he chosen by district col-
leges, (of which there might be several in a depart-
ment), composed of electors who paid the old rate ;
but. in addition, 172 members were to be returned
by colleges or bodies of electors, (of which there
should be only one for every department), consist-
ing of a fourth of the electors, who•paid the highest
rate of direct imposts. This privileged Onion of
the citizens thus obtained a double vote, and the
members returned exclusively by them may be con-
sidered as the choice of .an aristocracy of property.
In order to be able to exercise this new privilege,
the colleges of department and arrondissement must
meet at different times; and this year they were
convoked for two successive Saturdays. The Cham-
ber thus consists of 340 members, a large portion
of whom must necessarily be sent thither by persons
of considerable fortune. The whole constituent
body in France is computed not to exceed 90,000
electors, the fourth of whom would not much ex-
ceed 10,000 ; who have thus the privilege of elect-
ing 172 deputies. The Ministers being defeated in
the District Colleges, naturally look to those of the
department for aid, and if worsted likewise in the
latter, will 'certainly have no right to cry out " de-
mocracy or revolution." If such a body are not too
independent to be influenced by the favours of the
fiowns of power, they must, at any rate, lie allowed
to have too great a stake in the country to profit by
anarchy, and to be too much elevated above the
mob to be guided by its passions. It will be remem-
bered that to these changes in the composition of
the Chamber was added, about four years ago, uncle'
the auspices of the present Ministers, a septennial
act-, of which they must now regret that they have
not availed themselves.

ROYAL MARINES.—The LORD HIGH AD-
MIRAL has rescinded the Order which he issued last week,
declaratory of his intention to fill up the future vacancie,
in the Royal Marine Corps, occasioned by officers being
killed in battle, by the promotion, to the same permanent
rank, of those who survive the action. This would have
operated unjustly toward those Officers who were similar])
circumstanced, but not rewarded, in the last war. The
recent deaths of Captains BELT. and Suva:is, at Navarin,
have therefore been filled up in the usual way, by seniority
—Captain Wirrtnex being called into active service, front
the unattached list, and Lieutenant BALCHILD being pro-
moted to the rank of Captain.-4.ieutenant ATAULE (for
his services in the last war) is appointed Quarter-Master
of the Royal Marine Artillery, vice BALCIIILD.

ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH.--The
greater part of the 43 Lieutenants, whose commissions are
dated previous to the Ist of January, 1812, have already
accepted the unattached rank, agreeably to the general order
of the 6th instant; and it is believed that when the answer
of the remainder are received, the whole number specified
will have acceded to it. However, should there be any
exceptions, it is understood here that the Master-General
(with a desire to promote the welfare of the Royal Artillery.
which the Marquis of ANGI.ESEA has evinced on all occa-
sions since he became the head. of the Ordnance) will thee,
offer it to
.the Lieutenants next in seniority, until the
number of unattached captains amount to 43.—Morning
Paper.

Pox .41 outif,clsfov. 24.—0 n Wednesday his Majesty's
ship Seringapatam, 46, Capt. Charles Sotheby. retune4
from three years' active service in the Mediterranean,
where she was .relievikl by the Dartmouth, Captain T.
Fellowes, C.B. She was off Navarin on the &Mb of
September, when it was understood Sir Edward Codring-
ton had no orders to enforce the Alliance Treaty by giving
battle to the Turkish fleet, nor was there the least expec-
tation existing that such an occurrence would take place.
The Turkish squadron was then lying in Navarin, in much
the same position as when the Allied squadrons went into tie
port. The Seringapatam left Malta on the 9th of October,
and Gibraltar on the 2d instant, having experienced foul
winds. She cannot therefore bring any news. The offices-a
first learnt of the action with the Turks on their arrival iu
channel soundings, and of which they were very incredu-
lous, until the Gazette account was shown them. Capt.
Fitz-Clarence,:late of the Ariadne, came passenger, to take
the command of the Challenger; also Capt. H. B. Martin
(son of Sir Byana Martin), promoted from the Brisk ; Mr.
Greenish, surgeon, and Mr. Ward, purser, of the Ariadne,
The Chanticleer, 10, Capt. J. B. Maxwell, left Gibraltar
on the 2d instant, for Lisbon and Portsmouth ; and the
Cato transport, with naval and military invalids, was to
sail in a few days.

The following. is a copy of the demi-ofticial note Which
the Seringapatam took to Malta, as to the state of affairs
at Navarin when that ship left the port :
" On Tuesday, the 25th September; 1827, the Admiral
and Rear-Admiral de Rigny had an interview with his
Highness Ibrahim Paella, at his tent, when it was deter-
mined that his .fleet and army shook! remain unmolested
in Navarin, but in a state of inaction, until he should re-
ceive answers from Constantinople and Alexandria to tie. •
representation which he made of the terms liroposetrto
him. The earliest probable period at whielrbe cith re-
ceive his answer ill the 14th of Oct.
.41114 i, • •
• e. (Ateh -A4gmwal s force was four sail Of the bus
(Trident, Brealaw, ,Provence, and Scipion, Sirene,
another frigate, brig, and schooner).
" The Turkish 'force. in ,Navarin—Throe of the
six double bankers, sixteerrlarge frigates, and'from' thirty.
to forty corvettes 'and brigs—about sixty-three men of war
in the whole."

We are informed that, should the Rase, front strong N.
East winds, not be able to reach the Dardanelles, a chin
of signals had been arranged, by which the Ainbassadoa
and merchants at Constantinople and Smyrna would be ap
prised of any thing unfavnurable occurring, and they would
embark at an hour's notice, as they were constantly reads'
for such an event. The Gannet, 18, Captain Edward
Brace, was off Navarin, during the action, beard the firing,
hut could not get into the port, on account of the wind.
The Zebra, Captain Charles Cotton; left the squadron off
Navarin, two days before the action, for Smyrna.
The following are the Names of the Officers and Mess
Killed in the action with the Turkish Fleet in Navarin
Harbour :

ASIA.—.W. Smith (2), Master; G. A. Bell, Captain of
Marines John Lewis (a), boatswain ; Peter Mitchell,
pilot; Philip Dumaresq, supernumerary mate ; Thoma.,
Loader; Joseph Antrobus, Richard' Southwell, JaMes Jones,
Henry Moore. John Wright, James Sawyer, John Andrews,
seamen; James Hutton, Thomas Truce, James Dalton,
William Spriggs, Robert Wishart, Thomas Smith, marine-,
ALBlON.—Cornelius J. Stevens, Captain of Marines ;
Edward R. Foster, volunteer, second class ; John Weakett,
William Spray; James Douglas, *limes Bowler, Frederick
Harvey, Bryan' Morgan, seamen; Thomas marina
Thomas Warren, boy.
Musx.—HeuryCatoiding, Purser.

CAMBRIAN.—PhiIip .Sturgeppi, 4,jeutenant of Marine&
DARTNOUTB.—G. W. H. ritst•oy, Lieutenant; Brown.
Smith, Midshipman ; James Moses, Quarter-Master ;
Arthur Cox,..ToseptiMigenbrooli, seamen ;- Stephen Bulling,
marine.

GlNOA.—Walter Bathurst, Captain ; Peter Brown,
Charles Bussell; Ifidshipmen-; .Alez. J.. T. Rowe,. Master-
Assistant ; James Atkinson, Charles Creech, Isaac Talbot,
Elijah Matthews, James Holmes, Thomas Morfeit, Tho-
mas Osgootl, Thos. Tisbury, Robert Forster, Geo. Gar-
clout; seamen ; Isaac Prickman, Thomas Smith,
Bewley, W. Caston, W. Hender, S. White, Henry Hopei,
W. Barnes, John Bragg, marines ; E. Fisher, Jnhn Zam-
[netts boys.
MusQuiro.—Charles Andersou, John Thompson, sea-
men.

Puttomet..—Philip Howell, serjeant of marines.
Rose.--Thomas I.pnnsril, George liotrasa-
Jackson, quarter-master,,
TALBOT.—W. J. Goblfinek volunteer, first class ; Wm.
Pennington, . gunner's istate; James Fry, James Smith,
John Wilson, seamen ; Yaines Pitebeii;-htly.
On Thursday the Rattlesnake, 9.8, -Captain Hon. Or-
lando Bridgman; sailed for the Mediterranean, with aliat
eighty supernumerary seamen, and a supply of spars and
stores for the squadron. Captain Bridgman has eso in
charge a handsome sword for Vice-Admiral Sir Edward
Codrington, a present to him from his Royal Highness the'
• Lord High Admiral, and 'he honorary ()Hers conferred on
the gallant Admiral, and the Officers who served under
:him in the recent battle.
We are informed, Mr. Herbert Blatchford Gray and
Mr. Fred..Fludyer Gray, the forsner Midshipman of his
Majesty's ship Genoa, the latter of his Majesty's ship A!-
bion, both of whom were severely wounded in the late
brilliant action off Navarin, are the eldest sons of the late
Lieutenant Gray, who died in 18515, while First Lieute-
nant of his Majesty's ship Bulwark, within a few days
before she was paid off. This respectable and unfortunat:!,
officer left a widow and ten orphans, who were living f
the neighbourhood of Devonport. Mr. Fred. Fludyer
Gray, the younger of the two (not Yet seventeen years uz
age), has lost his right arm. .1,17, have no doubt the bra-
very of this youth, and his severe loss, will meet with
every consideration in the proper quarter, where there
always a feeling to reWard•merit and protect the orphan.

Captain G: A. 13e11, R.M., killed in the late action
with the Turks, was the younger son of Mr. William Bell,
carpenter of his Majesty's'ship Royal William, and brother
of Mr. T. E. Bell, carpenter of his Majesty's ship Nelson.
Yesterday the Russian brigantine Mary arrived from
St. Petershorgh, with provisions for the Russian Squa-
dron in the Mediterranean. Three other vessels, with
like cargoes, are expected here, on their way to thr coasts
of the Morea.

On Sunday the Satellite, 18, Capttin J. M. Luws,
sailed for the East India station ; on Monday the Ilrittit

frigate, Captain Hon.. W. Gordon, was towed out of har-
bour by the Carron steamer, and sailed for Plymouth ; on
Wednesday the Undaunted frigate, Captain A. W. J. Clif-
ford, C.B. arrived from Chatham ; on Thursday the Sap-
phire, 2H, Captain Henry Dundas, sailed for Chatham amid
Leith ; this day the Starling, Lieutenant Moffatt, arrived
from a cruise. Remain at Spitbead—Undaunted, Se-
ringapatam, 'Tagus (Portuguese), and Starling. In the
Harbour—Victory, Melville, Revenge, Maidstone, Brito..
mart, Onyx, and Puerla (Portuguese).

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Lain Augustus Clifford, C.B„ to Plymouth, to present that
division of Royal Marines with their new stand of Colours,
His Grace the Duke of. Devonshire is expected to arrive
to-morrow on a visit to Captain Clifford. It is, expected
that the Lord'High Admiral will return to this port in the
Undaunted. '

Lieutenant Maule (for his services in the last war) is
appointed. Quarter-Master of the Royal Marine Artillery,
vice Balchild.
The steam-ship Duke of York, on her passage to Lisbon,
Cadiz, and Gibraltar, met with a gale of wind, which
lasted seven days. She -put into'' Cerunna, but finallY
reached her ulterior destination without damage.-1/avap.
shire Telegraph,

The neighbourhood of Chapel bar «-a,;
alarmed on Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, by the
sound of a pistol and shrieks of murder, from tile house of
Mr. BURTON, the tailor. On inquiry into the cause, we
learnt,- that a young:man, of the name of Jogs HeLmrs,
employed in, the hosiery warehouse of Messrs. Baarrts-
cyanic, has for some time been paying assiduous utters_
tions to Miss SARAH BURTON. On the night in question
he went up stairs as usual to the room where Miss B. „.as
at work, and soon after the sound of the discharge of a
pistol was heard, accompanied with shrieks of murder.—
Mrs. BURTON, with feelings,of distress not to be described,
ran up' stairs, and found the room filled with smoke, and
her daughter on the flour. She •lifted her' up, suppasiog
she had been shot, hut happily was found uninjured, ex-
cepting the fright. lloLuss had a pistol 'ate powder-
flask taken from him,and an explanation beivg (len:Landed, ha
said he and SARAH had had some wor6, and he had at-
tempted to shoot himself. Tliv pistol was 'faded with
shot. —Nottingham Rivir.