The Sun. — 1825-03-22 (London, England)

MORNING POST.J Most of the' Miscellaneous Estimates were voted last night by the Commons in a Committee of Supply. In the course of the business, Mr. Hume raised his annual objection to the amount of the charge for our Diplomatic Establishment, and recommended that we should cover the expense of our new Envoys to South America bv reducing the • number of those whom we had in Europe. Mr. Secretary Canning, who we regret to say still betrayed some symptoms of illness, ably proved the impolicy and impropriety of adopting such a course. " There were," said the Right Hon. Gentleman, " Larger questions embraced in the maintenance of embassies at the smaller Courts of- Europe, than those of mere expense,—and least of all did he think the House would come to the decision that we ought to give up our amicable intercourse with the lesser States of Germany, and confine all our respect and friendship for those of preponderating power and influence." He also showed that every possible reduction had been effected ; and that in some cases the expellees of Missions had been curtailed one half. " True policy and true public economy lay not in making the emoluments of these offices exorbitant, but at the same time not such as to put them out of the reach of persons of small income but of considerable talent. Nothing could be more at "variance with the spirit of our Constitution than that high offices, whether at home or abroad, should be placed out of the reach of all but those of large hereditary fortunes. It was a principle of this Constitution, what he might term its republican principle, that the Sovereign should choose the fittest men in whatever rank of life they might be found ; (Hear, hear !)—but if the recomMendatiou of the Hon. Member was adopted,- that principle must be abandoned."—That recommendation was, of course, not adopted, and the sum was voted. as originally proposed.  An extraordinary event has happtstwd in -the neighbourhood of Bellez, in France. A travelling merchant, whose wife was lately brought to bed, asked:one of his friends to be godfather to the child. During the feastwiriCh ensued the father spoke of a journey- it would be necessary fOr;liitn to undertake; his wife said he could set out when he pleasett that the 8,000 francs were ready, and she pointed to the spot where they were deposited. On the following day the husband went to Bellez to make the necessary preparations, and during his absence the godfather went to the woman and demanded the 8,000 francs, telling her he meant to murder her, but allowing her to choose between being shot or hanged. She preferred the latter. By this she gained some time ; but the scoundrel made himself master of the money, and thn prepared very coolly to execute his victim. He got on a stool, drove-a nail into the wall and attached a rope to it which he had-bought, tied a knot, put the rope round his own neck, and thus tried if the rope would support the weight of the Unfortunate woman. Like Blueheard, he then asked her if she was ready ? Fortunately, just at this moment the joint-stool broke, and the man himself remained suspended by the rope he intended to apply to the woman. She immediately procured assistance, the -man was cut down alive, and carried to priion, where a trial, and a fate similar to that from which he was rescued, await The money, which was found at his -feet, does away with any doubt as to his motives.—( Paris Paper. )