Star.
London, England, 1816-12-26 00:00:00

Amterefarred to the Chs meter c.f Fraace, Wade oil
'Justice.
T..e President, upon the conclusion of the Repor-
ter at the Commission of Petitions, informed the De-
puties that the Public Sitting of Moods,' would take
place at twelve o'clock.—The Chamber separated at
three o'clock.

PARIS, DECEMBER 25
The King having taken into consideration the pro-
positiion, fora promotion
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that it shall not take place.
Yesterday morning the five regiments of Infantry
of the Royal Guard, in garrison at Paris, were re-
viewed in the great Plain between Clichi and Neuilly
by his Royal Highness Monsieur, and a brilliant,
Staff. The troops had a mock fight : the village of
Clichi was attacked and taken. His Highness ex-
pressed himself much satisfied with the precision of
their manceuvres.
Yestefday, after Mass, M. Bussy, First President of
the Royal Court of Bourbon, and M. Gilbert Barr
cher, Procureur-Geueral to the same Court, took
their oaths between the bands of the King.
The satisfactory state of the King's health makes
it to be hoped that his Majesty will be able to receive
company on the first day of the year.
After Mass, several Marshals, the Ministers, and a
reat number of Peers and Generals, and some Hew-
hers of each Chamber, were admitted to pay their re
spects to the King.
Nothing further has been heard respecting the sup-
posed loss'of a packet off Calais.
Colonel Chambure, accused of having at the head
of a party, on the high road of Rooney, in the night
of the 18th of July, robbed two Englishmen of a sum
of money and property in gold and silver, has been
condemned for contumacy to perpetual hard labour,
to the pillory, and to be branded on the back.
On the Ist of this month, several armed men, with
masks on their faces, entered at night the house of a
,rich person at Vauvent, and robbed him of 15,000
francs. A detachment of gendarmes has, it is said,
been sent in pursuit of the robbers.
Gann Coulon, ex-Conventional, ancient Senator,
and Member of the Academy, died a few days ago,
at the age of 72.
The Jesuits have re-opened their Noviciate at Ge-
neva on the 14th of November. Many of the ancient
fathers of the order have resumed their priestly habits.
The old priest at the Convent on the top of Mount
St. Bernard, well known to modern travellers, died
lately at Martigny. He has left some interesting
collections of natural history.
The two Swiss regiments attached to the Royal
Guard, and who will commence their duty on the
Ist of January, entered Paris on Saturday morning
by the Bonier of Charenton. General Despinois,
and Count Rochechouatt went out to meet them,
and placed themselves at their head, accompanied
by a numerous Staff. They afterwards passed in re-
view, at the Champs Elysees, before his Royal High-
ness Monsieur, accompanied by the Dnke of .Ragusa.
A mercantile house, the most opulent and long-
established at Barcelona, has lately failed for the sum
of three millions of francs.
The river Rhine has overflowed in such a manner,
that the streets of Strasbourg are covered with water.
Tae fell wring notice has been distributed among
the Men bi:s of the Chamber of Deputies Those
Deputies who would be inclined to contribute to the
annual collection which sill take place on the 22d of
this month, in favour of the aged priests, the infirm
and poor who cannot attend the chinch at the time i
of the collection, are requested to deposit their offer-
ings
in the box of the Chamber in the hands of the
Treasurer, who will cause it to be sent to the box of
the Diocese.",
The Minister of the Interior, in consideration of
the particularly-distressed situation of the inhabitants
of the Lower Rhine, has given authority to the Pre-
fect of that department to expend 50,000 francs for
their relief.
Letters from Frankfort, of the 17th of December,
state, that the Diet was nest day to hold its last Sit-
ting, after which it would not resume its labours till

the 20th of January.
A Nuremberg Journal announces that the King of
Panda has made a grant of four millions of riz dol-
lars (sixteen millions of francs) to those Proprietors
of East and West Prussia who have been ruined by
the late wars.
From Petersburgh we learn that 810 sail of vessels
'We this year catered the port of Cronstadt. The
number is not considerable ; but it will be recolleCted
that the importation of all articles of English manu-
facture is prohibited in Russia. The exportation of
the native products of Russia has been very consi.
derable, and will be yet greater during the ensuing
' year.
The communication with Italy, by the passage
of Saint Gothard, is entirely stopped, in consequence
of a great fall of snow.
The unfortunate mother, whose act of delirium
we noticed yesterday, only survived her children
about two hours.
The French Jews have given in to the Court df
Casiation a claim for their reestablishment in the
trigbts of Citizens, which had been accorded to
-them by the Civil Code, and of 'which they were
suddenly deprived, in 1804, by a simple Decree of
Bonaparte.