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The Sun. — 1825-04-15 (London, England)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.  ,:  DAILY Erb rats /ram the Morning Papers, Apra 15,18'25.  [Nrw -rtmrs.-1 Very important intelligence was yesterday rereivedfrom the Burman Funpire. It depends, indeed, on the personal accnracy and fidelity of an individual ; but this person is said to be one who has, on many former occasions, communicated information which has uniformly been found correct. The accounts are contained in the Cal' 'culla Gazette, and were brought by the George • Home, a private trader, which left Calcutta about the latter end of December. It is stated, that the Burrnese Monarch had been assassinated, and that his Queen, who was supposed to be itnplicated in the guilt of this murder, had fallen a 9Rcrifice, together with many of her adherents, to the indignation of the loyal party.—ln our Paper of the 21st ult. we gave a short sketch of the Burmese war, from v% hirh our readers would perceive that the Burmans in general are a barbarous, ignorant, and superstitions people, though brave in sr r, and confident from their victories over the neighbouring tribes. The present advices perfectly cnincide with this view of the Burmese character. The capture of the fort of Rangoon fell on the Burmese Government as a thunder stroke. The King's Ministers, of whom there are eight, four private and four public, concealed the fact for some time from their Sovereign. One of them at last disclosed it, and- threw the whole Court into consternation. The result was to overthrow' at once the influence of the Queen and her relations, who were previously the predominant party. The King was filled with superstitious terrors by the predictions of the 'astrologer, ; in pursuance of these fears he proclaimed his son King. This only drove the Queen's party to extremities, and led them to murder their Sovereign, an atrocity which was promptly-revenged by the partizan; of the young Prince. Much confusion appears to have ensued among the Commanders of the different troops, but finally the legitimate authority of the young King was acknowledged. Under all these circumstances it seems highly probable that some negociations for peace will he opened with the English Government, more especially as the ontrages and insults which provolied us to war, originated with the Queen's party, which has now been entirely put down. The individual who communicated the information of these occurrences, was an inhabitant of Rangoon, named Manor' Mnoon, and his deposition is said to have been taken down in had English ; nevertheless, it is so clear, distinct and particular, that we can have very little_doubt of its substantial accuracy. We have been always persuaded that the Burmese, however superior to the neighbouring nations in personal bravery, were far too destitute of military science, to stand the least chance in a contest with a power like that of our Indian Government. The war, on our part, however, was purely defensive, and as we have struck into the minds of the barbarians a salutary terror of our arms, it will probably he easy- to bring them to such terms as sound policy on our part may dictate.  [
The Sun. — 1825-06-29 (London, England)

OLANETA. Letters from Havannah to the 7th May state that the Creole populatiOn are very much dissatisfied with the existing state of things. Advices from La Guira affirm that the people of the Plains are becoming troublesome, and that several commotions have taken place in the Interior. The Church of-Petare was cntered by a banditti,-and the Alcade and 14 others murdered ; a number of young women were taken off by the robbers. Cisneros, the famous robber, in the vicinity of Caraccas, is still troublesome, and keeps the country in continual alarm.  Yesterday MOrninz Colonel ThmILTOV, One of the Commissioners who was sent by our Govetnmrnt to South America, arrived in Downing. street in a chaise and four, and alighted at the Foreign Office, accompanied by Mr. Knousr., the ErNo's Messenger. A Cabinet Council assembled in three hours afterwards, whicit sat in deliberation until a quarter past three orslock.— It is confidently reported that Col. HAMILTON brings the ratification of the Commercial Treaty with the Republic of Columbia.  The proceedings in Parliament last night were foil of interest. In the House of Lords the Writ of Error Bill was read a second time. The Lour CHANCELLOR 'objected to the Bill, although he did not oppose it. The Bubble Act 13 11 was also read a second time. 'Phis Bill is for h re peal of the Act of 43 Geo. 1., which has been the subject of so much observation lately. The LORD CHANCELLOR wished for the" insertion of a' clause declaring that the common law ,remained unah tered and untouched. Ills Lordship declared that the common law was equal to any thing contemplated in the statute. In the House of Commons the Deccan Prize Cause was taken • up.— The British Claims on Spain was also brought forward, and although little hope was given that money would be forthcoming to satisfy them, still, the claimants were assured that, on the part of-the British Government, no energy would be• left unexer•ted to procure a speedy adjustment of these claims on the one hand, and to effect a reasonable compromise on the other. KExtucles affair with MAtcriN CANFOR was resumed also, and disposed of by the follosiing resolution moved by Mr..PEEL, viz. " That this Committee, after hearing evidence brought in support of the allegations of Mr. CANFOR'S Petition, and the Counsel for Mr. KENItICK, do not think ix expedient to recommend any further proceedings in reference to that Petition." Mr. DENMAN also brought forward the case of FRANKS, but which,. however, will stand over to the next Session. If this is Mr. KENRICK'S wish; as it appears to be, no objection can be made to it.—An Address to fits 1111 JESTY, praying him to give directions for building of suitable committee-rooms and a library for the reception of the printed books and papers belonging to the House, was also agreed to. Mr. CANNING then gave notice that he would, on Thursday, move that the House should be adjourned from that 'day to I he day appOinted for the Prorogation. 'The Bill for altering the Law of Merchant and Factor was read a.third time and passed, and the House. adjourned.  1~1 iz• A
The Sun. — 1825-04-07 (London, England)

BRUSSELS, APRIL 5. Since the health of our august Monarch 'has been impaired, reports of all kinds have been spread. both here and at Paris. We alone. stated that he was. merely incommoded by the effects of a wound whfcli he received in the field. The Journal of Brit:set:4 Which had hitherto been silent, confirms what we said as follows _ •  ." The King's health never gave any ground for alarm, and though-a sore place in.: the leg, occasioned by an old wound, and fatigue, has obliged his Majesty, by way of precaution, to suspend for a period his usual promenades and weekly audiences, .he has been always in good health, and able to attend without interruption to important labours in which he is engaged; by his solicitude for the welfare of his kingdom." The marriage or Prince Frederick with the Princess Louisa of Prussia stemicto be positively fixed for the end of May.  .I,Vi!' have received Barbadoel Papers to the 10th of. February. His'Alajesty's ship Herald arrived at the island on the 28th January, having on board the Right Rev. W. H. Co LEItIDGE, anti the Right Rev. H. LIPSCOMB, _the new Bishops of Barbadoes and Jamaica. They were received on their landing with appropriate honours, and the Bishop of Barbadoes was waited on at his residence by the clergy of the island with a congratulatory address on his landing; after which his Lordship wasisworn in as a member of the Council of the island. The Bishop subsequently visited the schools at Bridgetown, with the state of which he professed himself satis,fiedi and was about to proceed on a tour through the different parishes to visit the Episcopal establishments. The Bishop of Jamaica, with his suite, had sailed for that island on board his Majesty's ship Herald. The Lady Pelham packet, from England, had arrived at Barbadoes,* and had brought out a confirrnation'of the sentence of M. D'Egville, who had been found guilty of the murder of his wife by poison; but the legality of which sentence had been referred to the Crown Lawyers of England, whohad decided that his trial, and of course sentence of death for the crime of which he had been found guilty, were perfectly legal. He wait, 'in consequence, ordered for execution on the 14th February.  It appears by accounts from Frankfort, that the purchasers of national domains in the ancient kingdom of Wesphalia; who were dispossessed of their property by ;the Elector of Hesse Cassel, on his return to his dominions, and who has rejected " their claims for an indemnity, are likelY to have justice rendered to them through the interposition of the King of PaosstA.  The celebrated GOETHE has presented an address to th'e,German: Diet for .a licence to print his works, so that. he may have a guarantee against pirated editions. It does not appear how the Diet will he .able to hinder the practice of literary piracy, which is so common in Germany. Mr. Secretary CANNING, we regret to say, is confined at Gloucester Lodge with a slight attack of the gout, which has prevented the Right Hon. Gentleman from leaving 'town as he intended.  •
The Sun. — 1825-02-25 (London, England)

SPRING GUNS.  Lord SUFFIELD rose, pur:4lant to the notice he had given .some days since, to call the attention of their Lordships-to a: sithject which, in his opinion, was one of very great imp it twice Act to declare unlawful the use of spring-guns and other instruments, which tended to, the destruction of human life, or the infliction oLother injuries. lie hadi been, informed that it was consitlerft by the House tnnre orderly to pass- by without any observations the motion for a first reading, lest replies should be invited, which would conic better at the second reading. He should, therefore, simply confine himself to stating the object of the arid the reasons that induced him to bring it forward. The object he had already stated in reading the title of the Bill ; and, if he were asked the reasons why he produced it, he should refer to the accounts that are daily contained in the public papers, of disasters that have occurred through the use of those instruments,. and of their consequences to the many persons who have been injured. Indeed, it appeared that poachers were, of all, the persons who suffered least, who were the least injured by the instruments that were used chiefly for their punishment. Gentleman's servants, even Gentlemen themselves, had been frequently sufferers; indeed, he had understood that by means of those instruments, even Royal blood had been nearly shed. He was sure that their Lordships would- hardly sanction an 'individual in taking the law into his own hands, and visiting a culprit with a capital punishment for an offence for which the law would have visited men with a punishment far lighter. He objected to the use of these instruments, more especially because of the sneaking and assassin-like manner in which the punishment was inflicted. Ile would not say that all who did so were murderers, but he was sure that no Noble Lord would wish to shed the blood of a fellow-creature who entered his grounds merely to steal. It was, however, necessary that the subject should be brought properly before their Lordships. As to the legality of spring-guns, he thought he might undertake to prove that they were illegal; he could not state that the law 'was distinctly -so ; if he could so have done, it would not have been necessary for hini to present the Bill he now held in his hand, the effect of which was to have all doubts on the subject cleared up. His mode of making out the illegality of those instruments would be by analogical arguments, at the second reading of the Bill. He would not now trouble their Lordships with any further remarks on the subject, but simply move the first reading of the Bill, and that it be read a second time this  • day senniglit. Earl GROSVENOR said, he highly approved of the Bill, and believed that it would be productive of much hood. The Bill was then read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time this day se'nnight.
The Sun. — 1852-08-19 (London, England)

FRANCE.  A military execution took place on Tuesday morning on the Polygon at Vincennes, in presence of detachments from all the regiments of the garrison of Paris and the adjacent forts, amounting to nearly 12,000 men. The crime of the prisoner, a private in bhe Sappers and Miners, was the murder of his corporal. Precisely at eight o'clock the prisoner arrived at the place of execution in a cellular van, escorted by a body of gendarmes, and accompanied by the almoner of the Military Prison. The vehicle drove up to the centre of the Polygon—an enclosed space on the large. plain southeastof the Donjon— and the criminal descended, attended by his confessor, and walked with a firm step towards the piquet of twelve men appointed to carry the sentenceinto execution. His condemnation having been read to him, he pressed the crucifix to his lips, and took leave of his confessor, who immediately retired with the officials in attendance. He then advanced to the front of the piquet, and when at a few paces distant knelt down. A bandage was placed over his eyes, and he himself gave the signal to .fire by letting fall a handkerchief. A sharp volley instantly followed, and he fell lifeless. The condemned conducted himself with perfect coolness, betraying neither the least apprehension of death nor unbecoming display of bravado. The morning was gloomy and lowering, in perfect harmony with the melancholy scene, and the grave and serious demeanour of the troops as they marched past the extended body of the criminal showed a perfect sense of the solemn and painful spectacle they bad been called upon to witness. Captain Ducrest de Villeneuve, commanding the frigate the Forte, which is at present in the roadstead at Brest, was told three days ago that a sailor, noted for his bad conduct, had refused to obey an order given him by an officer on duty. The captain ordered the man to obey ; but, instead of complying, the sailor seized a sword, and by a tremendous blow on the head felled him to the deck. He then struck him several duns. He was at length secured. The blow on the head was lessened by the captain having his pocket-handkerchief in his cap, and the blows he received when down were not serious. The crew were with difficulty prevented from doing immediate justice on the assailant. The captain i 3 the SOD .0t the wellknown admiral. A court-martial has sinc.e assem.bled, and condemned the, man to death. Iles name is La Marchadour, and he is only nineteen years of age.  ITALYThe Corriere Mercantile of Genoa quotes a letter from Turin of the 13th, in which it is stated that the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, M. En. NATI, is spoken of 1%3 certain. The reason of this Step is believed to be this ; that M. PERNATI having proposed to his colleagues to prosecute Count C jAi 13 3: 3Dt: in the Armonia upo:g:ihnostMt CivilrE l for his attack circular relative to the petitions Marriage Bill, and the Council of Ministers ha had vdecideddecid the matter in the negative, 141. PERNATI sought an opportunity of resigning.• The Countess of 00LBIS
The Sun. — 1852-01-05 (London, England)

SATURDAY EVENING.—Accounts reached town this afternoon from Dundalk, announcing that Mr. Eastwood, whose life had been attempted on Christmas-eve, near his own residence, at Csstletown, is in a hopeless state; and, in consequence, some of the unfortunate gentleman's relatives, who reside in this city, have proceeded to Dundalk. A northern landlord, in a communication to the Dublin Evening Post, says : " I have just seen a letter from the county Louth, written by a most respectable and humane agent, who says—' I propose in a few days going to collect rent in another county, if not murdered in the interval.' I ask, my dear sir, is this state of things tin a part of Ireland formerly so quiet—and I ask again and again, in the face of such horrors, is it not time, at long last, for the Irish Government to declare that it cannot be any longer carried on, if Parliament do not give new, more stringent, more terrible powers, to crush a system which is making this land a den of savages? I atk again, when, where, and how is this to end?' May God in his mercy take pity on this wretched lend." The Evening Post, in reference to the call for coercive measures, says : "It the existing lavrs ba found unavailing, and that the murder clubs cannot be eradicated by the vigilant and energetic measures of the Government, in co-operation with the local authorities and the magistracy in the disturbed districts, then it will remain for consideration whether the hands of the Executive ought not to be strengthened by measures adequate to the occasion, which would afford an effectual remedy for en evil of great magnitude, and which, by faoiliatiug the detection and punishment of till, guilty, would lead to the resto ration of tranquillity, without interfering with the privileges or the avocations of the well-disposed." The same journal adds, in respect to complaints about the operation of the Crime and Outrage Act in the disturbed districts :  "It is altogether contrary to tho fact that Mr. Eastwood will be liable to pay any portion of the police rate for lauds in his own occupation. The principle of the Crime and Outrage Aot, in this respect, is precisely the same as the practice for press ntmonts for malicioui iejurics; the district is assessed fur the amount, but the party aggrieved is exempted from the payment of any part of the levy, and Mr. Eastwood, therefore, will not be mulcted,' or charged in any way, for the lands occupied by himself in the townland where so atrocious an attempt was made upon the life of a most worthy and unoffending gentleman. The Government, we repent, have done, and are doing, all that it is possible for them to perform in restraining the murderous system of agrarian combination in the north. Not only have the police been increased, but a military force has been stationed in the disturbed districts, where the magistrates are provided with ample resources to afford efficient aid to the civil power and to individuals, in the enforcement of every legal claim, and the protection of those who have reason to apprehend violence or interruption in the exercise of their lawful duties."
The Sun. — 1852-10-14 (London, England)

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, 3 P.M. The _Melbourne mail steamer, having made good her defects, was to have sailed this morning for her destination, but in getting under way in Ilameaze this morning with the ebb tide, she ran between hulks, and fouled one of them. She carried away her jibboom, catheads, and anchor, let her chain cable run out, broke the boat davits, and did other damage, which will cause further detention t) the ship.  ,hat our neighbours prefer a positively French constituion, in accordance with their characteristic requirement  for a love of discipline, to a wretched imitation of American institutions, patched with a few English ideas, totally at variance with their social policy. The falsehoods and the slanders which have been uttered by the English press aro astounding from their magnitude and their emptiness—windbags, which are so frail, that they cannot even make a noise when they explode. Why, to instance but ono—the public has already forgotten the prodigious nonsense that was set forth by our contemporaries about the European Powers marching armies into France in the event of the re-establishment of the hereditary empire; in order to vouch for this, our contemporaries published dispatches and treaties which never had any real existence, any mcro than the truth or honour of their authors, or the sense of their publishers. But the principal of these wilful calumniators does not even confine its foul abuse to foreigners. It dares attack the loyalty and the courage of Englishmen, saying that " the great reason why Englishmen won't have a democracy is, that beyond that democracy they see a certain vision of cold-blooded despotism." Thew are the words of the Time*, and anything more stupid than this was never uttered even by the thundering stupidity of our contemporary. Where is there beyond the American democracy a vision of coldblooded despotism ? and why should not that which is good for America be good for England by the absurd rule which would insist that what is good for England is good for France? We need not point out what is apt to the sense of all, that Englishmen dislike democracy as a thing bad in itself, and not because they are cowardlike afraid of the consequences of a principle which the Times and Mr. Cobden pretend that they admire. In the same way our contemporary, falsifying all things, asserts that the present Government of France relies as much as anything upon " upholstery and stage management." Are the Four per Cents. at 106.50 upholstery, when compared with the Fives, this time last year below 90? or are hundreds of miles of new railways —solid improvements in agriculture and in all the great towns, together with relief from taxation, to be called stage management? No; such folly is fit alone for the passes of 21. Victor Hugo and of our contemporary—who, in its present notions of democracy, us in its rapid changes generally, seems likely soon to rival that miserable revolutionist, once the fulsome adulator of the Bourbons, now the defender of the impious murder of Louis