French Papers.
The Times, 1824-12-03T00:00:00

2ince tha llth, the Ring, who still resides at the Escurial, has been mnore or less attacked wvith fits of the gout, Each day n bulletin has been publis4ed of his Alajesty's health. That of to-day states his aimost entire reatoration to health. The Feniximala, and the whole of Europe, have witnessed with horror tie events which took place in the castle at (orunna in the lronth`,f'July, 1823. The rebels, who styled themselves (Gonstitu. tion4iMsts, destroyed in cold blood the lives of 51 of their fellow-cti. zZns, wvhose only crime was that of fidelity to their King. So horri- lie a crinte demanded the vengeance of the laws * nnd the guiltv have nt length been punilhed. Nine of the principal assassins have been condemned to be hung. One of the.ni, a shoemaker by tratle, sung the 2'eragela at the foot of the gallows. PARIS, Nov. 30. It is not true, as stated in a morning paper, that the Al nrquis de Talarm has set out for A3 adrid. (From the Constitatuinoel of Tuesday.) Extract of a private letter, dated Madrid, Nov. 18_:-_ The In- fant Don Francisco arrived to-day itz aladrid, to make arringements for his journey to Paris." The Chevalier Heredia, brother of the ex-M1inister Count Ofalia, bas been appointed Mlinister Plenipotentiary to the United States. ROAIE, Nov. 13. There baa juatbeen published in this capital, a Pontifical Decree of the highest inmportance tp the administration of justice, the course of Iegal proceedings, anad te charges upon them. By this motu pro- prro, his Holiness. first of all reeils all that his pretecessors, epe- .iallyPitSsVl., after the ie-establishment of his authoriLv, had an. dertaken on the same'subject, for tQe sole purpose of rendering the be- nefits of justice nore acceptable to the people by simplifying the forms and diminishing the ex penses. '" Persuaded," says his Holincs,; " that in so weighty a matter we could not take too many precautions, nor avail ourselves of too much hiformration, we beean by forming a committee of Roman law. yers, the nmt respectable for their learning, their wisdom, and thoir attachment to the Hely See w e have charged them to lay betore us a plan adapted to our object, protesting beforehand that no per- zonal sacrifice would be thought too great by us to cause the execu- tion of it, whatever additional expense it might cause our Treasury, having notling so much at heart as to procure to our subjects the greatest good with the least expense to ihem." The laboaur of the committee, the examination made of it, and -the approbation given it by the consulative committee of Cardinals, a nev code has resulted, contained and published under three - heads-" Reformation of the system of public admi.n nistration ;" "Reformation of the civil procedure ;" " Reforma- itio of the taritf of taxes in juaicial proceeding." By this new plan the too great number of delegations is reduced; special .udges have been substituted to some tribunals of the first snatance; the number of magistrates has been reduced in some laces, some insignificant tribunals supprcssed, and, what Rome lisa long wanted, a tribunal of commerce has been erected. A better composition of the councils is provided for by proportioning in tbem the number of persons belonging to the different orlers of the The nobility, says the rnot? proprio, preterves in theta the des. tination which it shoald enjoy in all civilized states ; the class of propretors acquires, besides its rights of suffrage in common deli. beration, more ample and unrestricted attributes for the care of its own affiurs. " But what has chiefly excited our vigilance," continues his Holinesas, " is to maintain in all its lustre and vigour, the epLrcopal jur-sdielio,t re-established in the exercise of all its prerogatives, as it enjoyed already in the time of our prede. cessor, Benedict XiV. of blessed memory." Lastly, the costs are rendered to a certain 'and moderate standard, ecclesiastical causes are to be pleaded as hitherto in Latin, and secular causes in the valgar tongue, " in order," says the decree, " to suppress that ofrensive absurdlity, contrarv to good administratlon ofjusticein which every thing should be regular and uniform, to hear at once in the same sitting, two differetit lati. guages, when affairs of the subjects of the same Government are treated of. Tbis moltsz proprio, which will constitute an era in our judicial eginlation, is given at the Vatcan, Oct 5, with this clause-" The Anntversary of our Coronation." FREieCH FtrNns..-PAttla, Nov. 30._Five per Cents. opened at i). 50.; closed at 100. 80.; Bank (stock, 1,970. Neapolitan Rentes, 81W; Spanish ditto, 18.^. Royal Spanish Loan, 52j. Exchange or, London, I month, 25. ; 3 months, 24. 85.-Cours Autthentique. =FRkNC; PAPERS. MADARID. Nov. 25.