The Abbe Sieyes, of Revolutionary and Constitution-making cele- brity, expired
at Paris on Monday, at the age of 88. Abbe Sieyes was by turns a member of the Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention, a Director and Consul of the Republic, a Count and Peer of the empire. He voted the death of Louis the Sixteenth, for which he was proscribed from France under the Restoration. After the Revolution of 1830, lie, like all the other French exiles, returned to his native country, but he never reappeared on the political scene. It is supposed he had prepared not less than 52 constitutions ut various times for the benefit of France.
The club mania is evidently increasing. New clubs spring up, and the old revive. Of the new, there is the Reform, in Pall Mull, firmly established, and the Alliance, proceeding favourably towards esta- blishment. Of the old clubs revived, there is White's, which has been reconstructed on a less exclusive and more commodious system ; and there is the Alfred, in Albemarle Street, one of the oldest of the old clubs, bidding fair to renew its ancient reputation. The Oxford and Cambridge Club-house will be opened in 1838 at furthest.—Morning Post. The controversy between the members of the United University Club, on the question whether a smoking-room should be attached to their grand club-house, now building near St. James's Palace, Pall Mall, was decided last week. The elders of the institution expressed themselves decidedly against the custom of smoking, while the junior advocates for cigars and fuming defended the practice with great zeal and animation; and, on a division, the anti-smokers were left in a mi- nority.
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