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The Times, 1824-10-05T00:00:00

Yesterday afternoini at tliree o'clock, Lord Granville, our Ambasacador at the Hague, arrivedl in towin from the Con ti- ncnt, and procce(led to the Foreign-office, whiere his Lord- ship stayed with Mvr. Secretary Canning for some time. Earl Bathurst transacted businiess yesterdlay at (he Colo- nial-office. ExtrAct of a letter frorm Paris, dated Sept. 30 :-" Fhe Kiing enitere(d Paris on Monday, as you have seeu by the journals. He was well received and well soakcd. Our Loniloni Ambassador wished to returin to l'aris to enjoy the scene, hut his request 'has been formally retused. This shows Vilslle's power in the niew Court. You inay be as- sured that this Minister likewise has exerte(d lhis influenice to destioy the Cenisorshiip, antl that he succee(led in oppo- sition to the first impressions of the King. Villele wonl(l appear in this case to have been actuated by no regard to liberty, or no desire to3 benefit hlis country, but from a dres(; of the feeling of the CShamlber, andl a conviction that he was losing ground wvith the public. It is said, that at the opening of the Chambers, he means to p)ropose a law, creatIng a special tribunal tO judge of offcnces of the press. '1-his, thotigh bad, will be still better than the Censorslip." The lrussian Government, as appears by the letters re- ceiveti yester(lay from Berlin, is about to inake reductions in the amount of the national expenditure to a degree which must make the sinecurists of all nations tremble at the examnple thus set to the rest of Europe. The whole of the inilitia has beRn disbanded, and military officers of every class and in actual service have been reclucedl in their pay to one-lialf of its previous amount. A similar reduction has taken place in all the civil departments of the state, includ- ing even the King's Mlinisters. The annual saving which will be effected by this swcepinlg measure of economv is estimated to amount to 8,000,000 of rix-dollars. [Advertisement.]-Yesterday Baron Arnim, Chlarse l'Affkires of His MI&jesty the King of Prussia, johitly with Mir. N. M. Rothschild, and accompanied by Mfr. Bonnet, Notary Public, cancelledl and deposited in the Banl of England the amount of 40,7001. in Special Bonds of the Prussian Loan, negotiated by MNlr. N. M. Rothschiild in 1818, being the second half of the sum fixedI for the re- lemption of bonds in the sixth year, and also the saving of thc interest oni the 629,2001. releeme(d to the Ist of April last inclusive. The death of his Mfajesty Louis XVIIT. hlas given the nagistrates of Aix-la-Chapelle an opportunity to clairn a right rounded on an ancient usage, accorling to which the ptill of the Kings of France is the property of the cathedral of that city. This asage, the origin of which iR involved in the obscurity of remote iges, has not been obscrved since the death ot Loui Xz V., in 17174 ; when the pall of that Monarch was deposited in the vestry of the ca. thedral : it was atlorned withi riChI friilges, and etnbreidercd with (lezr delis ot'gold. 'l'he followiing is posted at Lloyd's :-" The George the Pourtk, Prissick, froni the Mauritius to l,ondon, Was dismasted luring ieavy gales trom the 27th of June to thc .5(h orf July, ancl was totally wrecked on the 15th at the Cape of Good Hope. The ilfnry, Ardlev, from Bengal to I,vndon, wras lost in Alossel Bay, Cape of Goodi H'Jope, on th1e 9th of July;* and the Coanie packet wvas lost in Algoa Bay. in July. The Star, Thomlas, frtbn Sicily, was stranded on the N4orth 'u)ll Dubtin on Thursday." The Sp>anish General Alava, who, with the Duke of Ricitiond, as l muci engaged in the service of the late Spanish npaignp is now on a visit to his Grace at Goodwootd. Mr. Alderman Snoulton, of Canterbury, has been sworin into the oflice -of Al ayor for that city for the ensuin)g year. Air. W1'. M. B3askerville was appointed Sheriff. Thio inauguration linner wvas held at the Kinig's Head in the evening, and nuinerously attended. TIho2nas Barnes, Esq., is electedl Mayor of Faversham fbr the ensuinge year. A methiodist preacher was once seized witl a fancy for converting Ite Jews, and invited them to attend his chlapel to hear him preach. Several attended the call. In the course of his serrion to them, he took occasion to describe our Saviour's entry into Jeru. salem, of which lhe gave rather a new version. "- He entered the citr," said he, nmounted on a magnificent charger, covered with purple housings, and decked with trappings of gold and silver." One of his flack who knew the factof f the case, could not stand this; XVh v, brother," cried he, " it was upon an ass that he rode." Anti if it was," replied the vrachCer, reddening with iindignation, "8hould .ve be the first to expose the circumstanice, and that befobe such eompany ? Frederick Ntorth, some years ago, on his return, from the Opera, fountd the house of l:is next neighbour but one on fire, and hastenied to volunteer his exertions to extinjguish it. In ortler to do this m ore efficiently, he got on the roof of his own hiouse, and crossed over to that of the house in ttanger. Here he mistook a window in the roof for lea(ds, and, unltukily, stept on it: l' coursc he broke through, andj came down through the entire house, tum- bling down the welledl staircase. He received souie fractures, and was taken nP sensrels. I.t was a long dLmc before he recovered. WYhen he did, he had totally forgotten every fhinig connected with thte accident.. tle remembered going to the Opera, atid returning from it; butthe lire, aind the fall, had totally been obliterated from his braiti Those about tim informed him of all these tings, and added, among the rest, that the gentleman in whlose house he w as hurt had been unremitting in htis visits to inquire about him. i Ay,' said North, - be wras returning nmy call for, you know, I dropped in on him the other night." I)ttEADFUL - AeCCtDI3ET.-Yesterday afternioon, about: three o'clock, a shocking accident iapplened near Waterloo-bridge, i by the falling of a treniendous waU, about 14 feet Iiigh and 20 in length, at tite etens1we soap ntanufattorv which was for manv years in the oecupation of jlMr. Pheips, but which long since was rorfeited to the Crown, -atsd lits been disused and niuchi dilapidated. It has E> ,iy been sold to different- builders, &c., whio have stipulated to take it (town in a given titne. It appeared, from the information that we derived from one of the contractors, who was an the spot at the time of the accident, that two of the extreme or lank walls of the building remained, and in order to bring them to the ground A ithi more ease, that next to Narrow-wall had been chased from time summnit to the base, and also alone the basement, except about the space of lI feet; and it is probably to this cause rhat the sudden fall and tte disastrous consequences have resulted. It appears, however, ttiat thie roof attd pritcipals had previously fallen in, hence tihere could not have been any other means adopted to cause the overthTow of the wall, as the premises were altogether in a tottering state. We new recite the dreadfal catastrophe which fol- lowed:-While a great number of men were employed moving bric;s within the comapass of cie wall, and some of titen absolmttelk under it, in tlie act of weakening the foutidation, it suddenly gave way, and fell en vwsse: thIe labourers ran as hastily as they possibly could from thi inmpending ruin, but notwithstanding time majority escaped unhurt, two men and two boys were buried beneath the ponderous Iheep, bat were promptly re.scued frot tieir dreadful situation. They all sustained desperate injuries, most of then hav- ing received fractures. After their wounds were bandaged, they were conveyed to St. Thomas's and fuvs's Hospitals, and we understanid that tbie eldest man, whose name is Brown, expired immediately he arrived at the liospital, and another was not expecled to survive the night. Tie case of the vounger naa is peculiarly distressing. Ha- ing a wife aisd large family, and being desirout of work, had jnst been with Mr. Brown, thie person engaged to hire mnen to work on tie building, who gave him employment, anid the unfortunate man hadt not been engaged more than ten minutes before the wall fell up- on him, and crushed lhim. Besides the four suff-rers we have at- teady mneationed, Alr. Brown, the principal. and several other of the workmnen,received severe contusions by the fall of time detached parts of the building, Mr. Brown was retnoved to the Feathers public-housc, where Mr. WVhite, thc uirgeon, ivas in attendance, It appeasrs that hehas received a compound frac.urein the ancle.The workmen lvhs cscaped were a l6ng timye before they could be induced to return to their occupation. -