The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-28 00:00:00

RIBRANDMEN.

Dueux, Fun, 23 —Letters from the West Ibis
morning state, that the banditti still continue
their depredations throughout the County or Gal-
way. The system of these marauders has already
become formidable, and it is daily acquiring new
strength. A few weeks ago the nocturnal parties
did not exceed 20 or 30 men, or probably not more
than from 50 to 100 But now the banditti as-
semble in such numbers, that they resemble the
Guerillas of Spain during the late war. About
a thousand Ribbandmen visited Castle Lambert
last week, and demanded arms. Meetings and
swearing-in still go on rapidly, and it appears
that the force in Galway is not sufficient to check
the evil.

A meeing of thirty-two magistrates took place
at Athenry on the 17th, and strong resolutions
were adopted. His Grace the Archbishop of
'roam, Sir John Burke, Mr Daly, M.P., General
O'Loughlin, and other respectable gentry, at-
tended. They have sent a representation to Go-
vernment, requesting the assistance of an addi-
tional number of troops. An order has been is-
sued to prevent the soldiers from being employed
on Revenue duty, that the whole military force in
the county may be placed under the Civil Authori-
ties, for the suppres,ion of this incipient rebellion.

DESTRUCTION OF A VILLAGE.—They write front
Lausanne, under date 15th February—A deplora-
ble event occurred on the 27th of December, in
the, valley of Viso, in Valiais, by the sudden de:-
tacl►tnent of a part of the Glacier of Weiphorn,
which has destroyed a great part of the village of.
Randa. It was about six o'clock in the morning
that a frightful noise announced to the inhabi-
tants of the valley the danger in which they were
placed. Neither the glacier itself, however, nor
its fragments, touched any part of the village ;
but the pressure of the air, caused by its tna►bling
down, tore np trees, destroyed cattle, and o►er-
threw houses. Hoofs of houses, blocks of stone
and ice, were,carried away to a considerable dis-
tance. A great number of cattle, the only re.
sources of this Alpine people, perished. Twelve
individual:, were buried under ruins; ten were
extricated, living by the prompt assistance given
them ; the remaining two were crushed under a
heap of rubbish. Deplorable as is the situation
of these unfortunate persons, it is feared that
they may still suffer more severely. As the p►e-
cipitation of the glacier was confined to one
part of it, and as the ether part threatens a simi-
lar visitation to this unhappy country, the de-
struction of the remainder of the village is very
probable, and the only resource which the infra-
bitants have left is, to abanrto►n a territory, Which,
if they remain there, will becume their general
grave. -

SECOND EDITHON.

SUN-OFFICE, FOUR O'CLOCK.

SPEECH OF HIS MAJESTY'S. COMMIS-
SIONERS IN PROROGUING I'ARLIA•
MENT THIS AFTERNOON.

1' My Lords and Gentlemen,

" We are commanded by his NI/MISTY to in-
form yin', that it is a great disappointment to his
MAJESTY, that on this first and solemn occasion
he is prevented by indisposition from meeting you
in perst,n.

" It would have been a consolation to his MA-
JESTY to give utterance in this place to those
feelings with which his MAJESTY and the nation
alike deplore the lose of a Sovereign, the common
Fauber of all his people.
" The KING commands us to inform you that
in determining to call without delay the new Par-
liament,obis MAJESTY has been infloenced by the
considerwion of what is must expedient for public
business, as well as most conducive to general

convenience.

" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

" We are directed by his MAJESTY to thank
you for the provision which you have made for
the several branches of the public service, (tom
the commencement of the present year, and dur-
ing the interval which must elapse before a new
Parliament can he assembled.
" My Lords and Gentlemen,

" We are commanded to inform you, that in
taking leave of the present Parliament, his MA•
JESTY cannot refrain from conveying to you bis
warmest assurances of the sense which his MA-
JESTY entertains of the important services which
you have rendered the country.
" Deeply as bis MAJESTY lamented that de-
signs and practices such as those which you have
been recently called upon to repress, should have
existed in this free and happy country, he cannot
sufficiently commend the prudence and firmness
with which you directed your attention to the
measures of counteracting them.
" If any doubt had remained as to the nature
of those principles by which the peace and happi-
ness of the nation were so seriously menaced, or
of the excesses to which they were likely to lead,
the flagrant and sanguinary confederacy which► has
lately been detected, must open the eyes of the
most incredulous, and mast vim-Neate to the whole
world the justice and expediency of those mea-
sures to which you judged it necessary to resort
in defence of the Laws and Constitution of the
Realm."