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Below will he found an accurate and amusing description ot the opening ol the Chamber of Deputies in Paris, from a correspondent. It has been sometime tying by us, but will not be the less acceptable, we trust, on that account. When th c active, dashing Napoleon, -whose every action was <|iiiek ns light, is contrasted with the fat uninoving houis 1 8tl—it must wofully shock j imaginations so ardent and suscepti ble, as those of Frenchmen. A*. V. *lm er. Li tter from Paris 4 —The opening of the Chambers, by the King in per son, is a pageant got up with great splendour and magnificence : it is ex tremely difficult to procure a ticket, lor foreign ministers are only indulged with billets, for their ladies and secre taries, and few tickets are given away. The ceremony is held in the palace of the Louvre, in the hall of Henry 4th, a 100111 of small dimensions. The throne is erected with all regal decoration ; in front of it, is the box for Madame, Dutchess of Berri, and ladies of the court; on the tight the seats for the peers and on the left for the depu ties. The peers dressed in their rich habits of state, first make their ap pearance; then follow the deputies, not so gorgeously dressed, but wear ing a legislative livery, for in France, from die altar to the kitchen, all is theatrical. The Indies fill all the rest of the room, and, from the splendour and taste of their dress, and their dif ferent variety of beauty, being of so imlhy nations, constitute the pleasan test part of the spectacle, for there is no gating like that on the show of pre - tv women. A salvo of 100 guns an nounces that his Most Christian Ma jesty has left, his apartments in the Tuilleries. Hisapproaeh is, however in a most unkingly style, being placed in an arm chair on castors, wheeled in by the great officers ofhishoushold; the grand chamberlain, Talleyrand, limping behind, through the great gal lery of the Louvre. Meantime the marshalls of France, the ministers of war, justice, interior, and foreign rela tions, the chancellor and officers of the crown take their places on the plat form in front of the throne, over which is susj ended a silk curtain. Another salute, the curtain is drawn up and the piav begins. King Louis, dress ed in a plain blue uniform, with the simple decoration of a ribbon and a star, is pushed upon the stage. Mon sieur takes bis place on his right, the J)uke d’Angouletne on his left ; the Duke of Orleans and Monsieur le Prince Tallcvrand a little in the rear. The king commences reading his speech with an audible voice, good emphasis, and sound discretion: on finishing, the house resounds with acclamations ; the ladies, dear crea tures, rustle their silks and flirt their fans; the Deputies shout It re le Roi, and none among them so warmly as the late Minister to the United States M. de Nonville. 1 did not observe that cur old friend the General or his son -George Washington La Fayette, cither made a wave or an articulation. The ceremony of swearing the Depu ties then takes place ; the name of the individual is called over, he from his seat, and elevating his right arm ejaculates jc jure. A general shout of Vive le Hoi, vivent les Bourbons follows. Ti e chair is turned round, the King disappears, and the curtain is dropped. During the whole of the ceremony Talleyrand remained im moveable’ behind the chair of the King ■and perfectly realized the forcible description given to him by Lady Morgan, which is drawn to the life. With all this immovability of counte nance, lie is very ready, and to his deep policy the Bourbon owes more than be will allow. The King loves to joke him. Louis is now in his (>7th year, mH bears his age kindly, altlio’ he suffers much from the gout. Mon sieur, the King's brother, is a man of highly polished manners and imposing appeal an: e and is king de lacto. I lie Paviliinn Marsnn being the governing point, and the King wishing to see liov liis successor w ill act, leaves all to him and his i*rt v i.- **l s. Ramxii th.—- l bis unique pro duction, with all its absurdities, is highly amusing. We do not pre tend to “fine taste,” and the pas sages which most interest us would not probably he set down by the author as the best. Did he ever, in any of hit halurinntions, dream of a mad-house ? He must he a candidate for bed'am, who can sup pose that the prevailing taste of the public will be in favor ot such a style. It may serve to amuse for a moment, and may often raise a smile, but there is nothing about ► it which can endure, it is a des cription of things in general and every thing in the world. ‘J he j Maryland Bar and Dr. Mitchill have their niches. By the way, speaking of Dr. Mitchill,s late speech at Albany, to a friend, the other day, he asked “If any phi losopher could tell what was God’s motive in making a learned fool ?” The question closed our lips, which were just then “ growing wanton in his praise.” But Randolph—he thus treats of the Maryland Bar and 1 Dr. Mitchill. Ei.oqjtr.NXE !—The Maryland Bar is, emphatically, the School of Eloquence. Let me give you two or three examples. “ Behold him! —see him !—look at him, gentle men of the jury,” said one of them, in a moment ofinspiration—“there he stands !—walking about—with the cloak of hypocricy in his mouth —trying to wire draw—three oak trees—out of my client’s pocket.” “ Sir,” said another, “ a man who could do that sir, must have a heart, sir—a heart, sir—gem’men o’ the jury—as black, sir—as black sir—”—(a by-stander saw his dis tress, and thrust out his hat toward him) —“ as black as your hat, gem’- men o’ the jury.” “ She was youthful,” said a third, “ as love—beautiful as an angel, sir”—(it was on a petition for a divorce,on the floor of the assembly) —“ and as virtuous, sir,—as virtu ous, sir—as—as—could be expect ed.” *#**#*## M Stay—l’d like to have forgot ten Dr. Mitchill. Theie was a boy here, about twelve or fourteen years old, who, of his own head, wrote a letter to l)r. Mitchill last summer, announcing that a society was just established in Baltimore, called the Newtonian Society; and that they had, unanimously, elected him an honorary member , and added, that any communication from him, would be acceptable to the society, &c. It was signed by some outlanchsh name, as secreta ry. The boy forgot the name ; and did not know for whom to inquire; until he saw the letter advertised. It was from the credulous old gen tleman. I saw it. It was in his own hand-writing ; and was, really, a speculation on matters and things, in general—alluvion ; organick re mains ; and secondary formations, ect. ect. ; with the” Doctor’s com pliments to the Newtonian Socie ty ; and information that he was going, that very night, to a confed eracy of a like character, in New- York—to which he should commu nicate the raporous intelligence, &c. &c. “ But the best of the joke was to come. This piece of childish pleas antry soon took anew shape. It was known only to the boy, (for he was afraid to tell his father;) to the light headed man ; and to Dr. Mitchill. The first kept it a secret, for his own sake ; the second out of compassion to Dr. Mitchill. But lo ! the Doctor was not so discreet —for it was soon after announced, in the Washington Gazette,that Dr. M. was appointedihonorary member of the Newtonian Society of Balti more ! And this very evening, a book is abroad, containing the re markable events in Dr. M’s life, under his own hand; in which the hoax, date and all, are distictly re corded. We are not very much surprised to hear that a son of the late Mr. Pinkney has challenged and posted a gentleman of Baltimore, suppos ed to be the author ot this work, the correspondence, we understand, will appear in a few weeks, at the end of a work now in press, entitled “ Errata, bu the author of Ran dolph: 1 7lie wooden nutmegs, which have been somewhat distinguished in the list of ingenious impositions, il not outdone, have at least been equalled ina cargo of horn gun Jlints, lately brought into South Carolina, and dis posed of as flints ol a superior order. A purchaser of some ot them, who had been attracted bv their appearance, having fixed one in his musket and having snapped it several times with out witnessing the expected results, wus induced to examine into the cause of Ids disappointment, when lie found his supposed flint to be made of horn, and to be in fact, even in collison with the most high wrought steel, as h <lllll - less as when decorating the head of the bullock from which it waa taken. One of them has been furnished us, uiul is leit at the Augusta Book Store, for the inspection of those who wish to see. this new specimen ot domestic manufacture ami pcdling ingenuity* The manufacturer wa9 probably a man of benevolent \ipws, who, desirous of removing in some measure from the individuals the means of “ trying to do each other the most harm,” concluded that horn gun flints would be sate appendages to fire arms, even in that period Vilien swords will be converted into “ ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks.” VVe presume how ever, that Hunters will not patronize the new invention, whatever encour agement would gladly be given to it by deer, squirrels ami partridges. . 1 Chronicle. Jlrdent Spirits. —VVe are taxed said Poor Richard, twice for our extrava gance, and thrice for our sloth ; let us see how much our tax for intemperance is. Fifty millions of dollars, it is cal culated will be spent this year in the Ignited States for ardent spirits —that will be about five dollars for each indi vidual on the average ; while our na tional tax is about two dollars. ‘But,’ says the writer, ‘ Fifty million dol lars lost is a trifle, a point of vanity, when compared with the moral influ ence of intemperance. This immense sum has poured down the throats ot about 4,000,000 men 75,000,000 gal lons of liquid lire. A quantity suffi cient to supply a constant stream of 8,000 gallons an hour—a quantity, which, if collected -nd put into a re servoir, would form a small ocean, on whose bosom might be anchored a line of war ships half a mile in length—or, if gathered into a canal, would fill one 4 feet deep, 14 wide, and 30 miles long. Cloth made by Silk Tforms!! This is said to be the era of in ventions, and so it seems to be, even among the inferior as well as the superior animal creation. While our countryman, Perkins, is aston ishing the world with his New Steam Engine, and Brewster with his Thousand Spindled Cotton Ma- few Silk Worms in Lisbon, Con. have not been less industrious in producing anew fabric from their own silken bowels; but to how great an extent they will car ry their manufacture we have no assurance. Mr. W . Bottom, of Lisbon, showed us a piece of S;lk, a yard and a quarter in length, by a quarter in width, of a beautiful yellow tinge, with a bright yellow selvage entirely around it; wove, or otherwise strongly, evenly, and handsomely connected together, with a right and a wrong, or a rough and smooth glossy side, as is usual on pieces of wove silk. It was wrought on a board in his silk house, by about twenty-five worms, in the space of three days ! ! They had commenced a second piece of a rather thicker texture; and of a whi ter color, which they seem to have left unfinished. The piece of silk may be seen for a few days at the Dry Good Store of ? r. William Rogers of this pla' - .* After which we under stan<’ [/,. Bottom contemplates ]) .ng it to the proprietor of the Ncw-York Museum. Norwich, Cun. Courier. Brick making.—A patent or pri vilege has been obtained at St. Pe tersburg for a press tor making bricks, which is not only to dimin ish the labour, but to perfect the forms of tlfe bricks. By mean sos this machine, not only bricks both solid and hollow can be made, but tubes straight or crooked, cornices, flutes for columns and other archi tectural ornaments. The patentee is a Mr. Thomas, who proposes to establish a model brick-yard with improved ovens for liaking the bricks. Three or four men can produce, it is said, with this ma chine, from 10 to 12 thousand bricks, daily, of different forms. Philadelphia Register. A Miss Ilrenglehas lately exhib ited at Georgetown, (D. C.) proofs of wonderful skill, in the use ol scissors. In a piece of paper, an inch square, she cut out the letters that compose the Lord’s prayer, in a style of elegant typography. Every letter was accurately form ed. Icthyology. —Gen. Calvin Jones, of North Carolina, has forwarded to New-York a piece of skin, with its bony and impenetrable scales, from an enormous Pike, the esox ossetts of the western waters. This fish was killed with a rifle in the Forked Deer River, near the town of Jackson, in the Chickasaw coun ty. Its length was six feet, girth three feet,and weighed 156 pounds. Mr. Webb saw him in the water the day before he was killed, and shot him ™ the slf * e r,fle but the bullet seemed to make no impressaon. The next day he got into a tree sloping over the water, and T at b* B approach, shot him at the junction near the gills, between the he- a d and body, and killed him. Mr. Webb and his father at tempted to carry the creature home by passing a handspike through the gill-ope.uings, and bearing it on their shoulders. But the length and weight rendered this underta king so difficult to accomplish, that they threw it dov vn hi the woods, where many curiou’s persons went to sec it. Three or four other bo ny-scaled pikes have b uen seen near the same place, and fire and at repeat edly by Mr. Haroldson and Dr. Collier, but without effect. Ah of them have a practice ol risix ‘g eve ry few minutes to the surface, ail <l of spouting up water, frequently to the height of ten feet; and the blow ing could be heard from one totwo hundred yards. Statesman. Remembrance —A poor man asked a miser to give him an old cloak to remember him by. • I presume von want it only to remember me, said the miser. ‘ Yes,’ replied the other. ‘ H that is the case, said the miser, I shall not give it to you—lor you will be more likely to re member a refusal than a gilt.’ ifovtifiit XntcUfgmre. From the JY. Y. Spectator, .W. 12. By the arrival of the ship Diamond, the Editors have received London pa pers of the 16th of October, and Liver pool of the 19th. SPAIN. It was before certain that Cadiz was in possession of the French, ami that Ferdinand had arrived at the head quarters of the Duke d’ Angouleme.on his way to Madrid—but we were left without the particulars of the events attending the surrender of that place —emphatically the last citadel ot Eu ropean freedom. \ hat deficiency is now in a measure supplied ; but the heart bleeds at the recitals, and huma nity shudders at the prospect. The Cortes, it appears, made no terms,and the King and Royal family left Cadiz, and joined the French, because the confusion and dismay were such that no one had authority to prevent them. The French troops entered the city on the third—three days after the King had joined his “ august cousin ;” and the Paris papers say they were receiv ed with the most extravagant demon strations of joy, although the militia had closed the gates, and refused to open them until after the positive com mands of the king. Couriers had been despatched to all the corps of the armv, with letters from the King of Spain, ordering them to lay down their arms. One account states that sixty members of the Cortes, voted to restore the King to his former power ; and that in consequence they will re ceive the loyal clemency. Fifty thou sand French troops are to occupy Spain until tranquility shall have been restored. The Regency has of course been dissolved. On concluding their labouis, they issued an address “ re markable for the curious inflation of its style and sentiment.” W'e have given be! aw the proclama tion and decree of the King, issued on the Ist of October, by which all the acts of the Constitutional government, since the revolution *f 1820, of every name and description, have been an nulled ;but, says the London Courier, “ whether this decree will be executed must be determined by r uture disclo sures—Our opinion is, knowing the iufluence under which Ferdinand is acting, there will be no compromise with the Constitutionalists.” Some of the papers, however, seem to think that the Duke d’Angouleine lias pro bably stipulated for an amnesty, tor all political offences; and that the King is to present the nation at least with the show of a Constitution. When the courier arrived in M ail rid,with the news of the capitulation of Cadiz, he cried out as he reached the city,— The King is free, and all the Royal family and the universal cry from one end of the town to the other, was ” Long live the Bourbons.” In addi tion to the decree mentioned above, another will be found among our ex tracts, dated at Xeres, October 4, to which, for the better security of his Majesty’s person, while journeying back to Madrid, no deputy of the Cor tes, for the two last )ears, may ap proach within five leagues of the road, anil all ministers, counsellors of state, and all persons of note who held offi ces under the Constitution, are prohi bited from ever entering the capital or approaching within 15 leagues.— Riego has been condemned to death, but. tins was the act of the Regency. Tims, to borrow the language of the British Traveller ol the Kith, Ferdi nand is pursuing his career “ right Royally.” No weak words of forgiv ing and forgetting—every sound is denunciation and threat. ,-\- serines all the Cortes, “ why j ‘ not proscribe all the persons by wi* * the Cortes were elected— the vi"? population in Spain? Why ha Spain one ve.ck, to enable him n venge adequately “the horrible";*’ suits” offered to his Royal person \’ restraining the absolute exerciJ • the Royal will ? The spectacle !1 triumphant royalty, the meanness J cruelty of a man whom the Coiu. treated with too much lenity f ur j* 1 past crimes and constant treache !S this renewed instance of violated o;2’ and disappointed hopes, will neii,.,' 5 have ultimately an effect on K Ur almost as beneficial as the imtnedr r establishment of liberty in 1 Those wlio hereafter attempt, the r T ormation or inveterate political iC'i es, and the taming of unreclaimed rants, will have many things to from the conduct and late ot ih e Sn ai * ish Cortes. Spain now enjoys the pel section of bad government; a ferocioui rabble, directed by a ferocious kin>, against most of the persons of proper ty, and all the people of intelligence ur this country. The effect of these events at di z, on the troops and (l f Catah/nia, are not known, though t\. said Mina will keep the field, ami hold out to the last. It is also said that he had written to the Regency previously to its dissolution, that the lives of a French lieutenant, of a great number of superior officers, and 0 f two Bishops, who are in his power, shall answer for that of Riego. A deep interest is felt for that part of Spain, and lor Mina, Milans, Rotten, Llubei ras, the brave commanders, who al most alone are entitled to our praise and whose fate will probably excite the sympathies of the public. If the example set by the force in Catalonia and its leaders, had been followed in the rest of Spain, we should not non have to speculate on the degree of jus tice and mercy to be expected at the hands of Ferdinand. Besides Barce lona, Lerida, Hostalrich, and Tarn gona, and the Seu d’Urgel, are in the hands of the Constitutionalists in Catalonia. ‘There are also on the coasts ol the Mediterranean the strong fortresses of Cartliagena and Alicaut, and the minor one of Peniscola, vet unsubdued ; aud Ceuta, the impregna ble fortress opposite Gibraltar is also garrisoned by a Constitutional force.— On what terms these places will sur render, remains to be seen.* But from this picture of human wretchedness, w here bigotry and pusillanimity united with cowardice and treachery,seem to have done their worst, wc turn our eves to GREECE, where we find enough to warm and animate every patriotic bosom. Hi ving witnessed with melancholly dis appointment, the want of principle and energy in the Spanish population, it is with feelings of indiscnbable satisfac tion that we direct the attention ot the reader to a subsequent article de tailing the overthrow of the third and greatestexpedition of th e Turks against the Morea.—The death of the celebra ted Greek Chief Bozzaris, is an event deeply to be deplored : but he fell oa the bed of glory, and his last exploit seems not to have a parallel since Gi deon anil his little band, armed in the panoply of the Almighty, rushed upon the sleeping camp of the legion?ot Moab. in addition to the interesting narrative referred to, it is said that the Greeks have brought the Mussel men to a bloody battleuetween Thebes and Gitoui, in which the latter hat 4000 men in killed and wounded,and 400 prisoners. In a second battle at Maratia.near Volo, the Turks lost 600 prisoners, although their army ,a§ 15,000 men, and that of the Grecks only 7000. The Musselmen, alter the action, were obliged to retire to wards Thessaly, and take refuge i' l Larissa. These splendid successes" 1 the Greek arms, it is supposed, have a powerful effect upon the policy of the European Cabinets. One p states, that the Courts of St. Peters burg, Vienna and London,are at leng" l agreed on the principle that Clirisu® nations ought mutually to succouroi* another against the Mahometans. single word, pronounced to the feeble government of the Forte, from , ' ie “Holy Alliance,” would at once de termine the fate of Greece. Thiswii'y it is added, will now be pronounced* it is said lord Strungford i9 to rep il,r to Czci nowitz, to agree on the defi ll1 ’ tive declaration to he made in r naive of these powers, and on tlicpf 111 ’ ciplcs on which they will ncgoci**® with the Turks. Accounts from f |)( ’ stantinople, of Sept, fl, say that cun’ ferences commenced on the 30th 0 Align ,t, between lord Strangfonb R ” the Reis Etlenui, which have hail 1118 most iiappy result. The Porte “ s declared that the passage ot the Sea shall be free to all Christian ti"Us, without distinction; and 8 * , j! the affairs of Greece it was dec"’ hat tluv should be discussed at*'” hi r nomcit; which wps cimf ,)rr