an old clothesman, who lived in a house in the
Rue de l'Hiltel de defying all attempts to arrest and secure its beautiful but transitory
hues—to-day assuming the shape of municipal reform, the next day Ville. He had been imprisoned for being engaged in a riot at of universal suffrage, then the vote by ballot; but under every shape the time of the trial of the Ministers of' CHARLES the Tenth. and disguise, and at all times, it Meant the subversion of the Irish His mistress gave warning to the owner of the house where he Church, and of the " bloodstained impost " of tithes. This bill would lodged, that CHAMPION was engaged in constructing an infernal bring no peace to Ireland. They who supported it declared that they machine, a la FIESCHI. The man wrote anonymous letters to never would be satisfied as long as one stone of the Church remained the Police, a party of whom secured CHAMPT.ON and his machine upon the other. He should oppose this bill ; for he feared it would lead early on Sunday morning. The ruffian did not deny that he to the abolition of tithes, universal suffrage, reform of the peerage, and intended to kill the King. He had procured a box with three vote by ballot, checked as the latter would be by auricular conressiol drawers, in each of which were ranges of pistol-barrels pointing He had been, humble us he was, une of the advisers of the great mea- different wa ys. This box was to have been placed on the road to sure of Catholic Emancipation ; and he could not forget the pledges Neuilly • and when the King and his escort passed, CHAMPION then given by Lord Plunket and others, that that measure would ope-
rate as a security to the Church. He now therefore felt himself espe. was to have fired off his deadly battery. This account was given chilly called upon not to turn a deaf ear to the prayers of those Pro- by CHAMPION himself, in the course of' a few minutes after he was testants who approached the House under apprehension, which be arrested, lie could not have lost much time in making his confes- knew they must really feel, that the Church was in great danger. sion, for he was carried almost immediately to prison ; and being Mr. WARD said that the present motion was the same in spirit and left alone by his keeper, hung himself to a bar of the window by in words as that of the same Member last year ; and if successful, it his cravat. Several persons supposed to be his accomplices have would produce the same results as the refusal of one branch of the been arrested. Mau:ma's trial has been indefinitely postponed, Legislature to do justice to Ireland had already produced—namely, the in consequence of fresh discoveries. It is said that the Parisian extension of irritation.
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