Star. — London, England, 1829-11-14 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE From the Times. PARIS, Nov. 11. The sport of the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies daily gains ground. It is undoubted that Ministers have sent to their nem la isuersetions with reference to this event. which sonic per sons think probable, others certain, but which, in the opinion of many, isimpossible. Will this dissolution take place after the ad dress.if it should appear too hostile, thus making trial of the Chamber, where, say our present able Ministers, they may find a majority which the =skilfulness of the preceding Ministry could OM attach to itself permanently ? However, a sadden din. missal given to the representatives of the nation, because they uttered an unbiassed opinion with respect to men and things. would rain discontent and excite public indignation to the highest degree, if it had need of being more excited than it is at present. The Ministry would thus render its situation most cri rice,. Should the act of dissolution precede the expected meeting of the Chambers, it would be more convenient, but not more pro fitable to the combinations of an Administration so unanimously condemned. The Royalists, divided under Wilkie's Ministry, are united under that of Bourdonnaye ; and from this fact the latter Mi nistry draws the consequence that it can depend on othet results. M. de la Bourdonnayc confirms, by this speculation, the opinion which ins been formed of hint since he has been placed at the helm of affairs. The ignorance which this statesmao, so vaunted by a party, daily displays respecting the condition of the country, is a sub ject of astonishment to all persons who have occasion to transact business with him. Whatever he may do, and whatever care be may take to knead the electoral matter, it will still remain the same ; and it is from amongst 16,000 of the greatest tax-payers in the kingdom that 80,000 electors, the greatest tax-payers after them, will select the deputies of the departments. Within three years the Chamber has been re-elected, and each year, by the na tural progression of time, the electoral colleges have seen disappear from amidst them old prejudices and old regrets, to make way for now ideas and new hopes. The liberal aad constitutional force is augmented by all the extinctions of the emigration, of La Vendee, and of the old Gun. We shall see what the elections will produce under the auspices of the liberty of the press and the law re specting electoral frauds, and under the direction of M. de la Boor donnaye, in the midst of Parislan,Normandy, and other associations. However confidently ft may be spoken of, Ido not believe Minis ters will hazard such an experiment : not that I believe its result would be fatal to the monarchy, whkh then, as now, would be in no danger ; but because it would establish the necessity of adopting without more evasion, all the consequences of the principles conse crated by the charter. The measure with which the present Cham ber is menaced is therefore far from alarming the constitutionalists. whose hopes, on the contrary, it raises, and whose triumph it se cures. Persons who carry their ideas further, say that if this were to happen, and in case the Chamber did not fulfil the ex pectation of the Ministry, it is resolved that in a Congress of Sovereigns the King of France should declare the necessity which exists for his re-possessing himself of the pewee which his ancestors exercised, and that be should call upon the whole of Europe to support him, by its assent to this proposition, against his subjects, if they attempted to defend their rights. and refused to bend anew beneath an absolute sceptre. These assertions are a libel upon the King,—a pious and loyal Prince, who wishes to be faithful to his oaths. It is more probable and beyond a doubt in my mind, that before the approaching Session a mo. difieation of the Ministry will be attempted. Already, for some days past, it has been said that M. de la Bourdon- 'aye will retire upon a peerage, and that M. de Bourmont will be made a Marshal of France. It would be curious enough to see in the list of our Marshals M. de Bourntont by the side of his Grace the Duke of Wellington. Your other correspondent, the echo I know not what remnant of the Villele administration, imagines he has found the solution of the problem in the recall of that statesman. He thinks that he will find Mends in the Chamber which generally recognised in him sagacity, and the principal requisites for an able man of business. From some attempts made towards the close of ion. at a union between M. de Vißele and M. de Lau', Casimir Perrier. M. B. de Lessert, and others, be concludes that now this Minister would not be disagreeable even to the Liberals. This is, in the first place, attaching too much Importance to the unauthorised proceeding of M. Flandin, an old Com missary of War, who introduced himself to the Minister so cleverly as to make himself believe, without confessing any thing, that he was the bearer of a proposition : and, in the next place, it is overlooking the result, which tells against the theory that your correspondent favours. In 1827, it is said, Al. de Wick entertained strong confidence of creating a majority in the Cabinet of the Constitution or Liberal party. He brought into this Administration the Royal confidence ; he accepted all the basis of the treaty. So many advantages must have darxied the new allies that he expected to make ; and still, notwithstanding, he was repulsed. M. Flandid thus threw away kis intrigue, and Vii. lel, his credulity ; and when a vote so solemnly condemnatory had branded the Administration to which M de Vilkie had given his name, when the least understanding with this statesman or his friends was sufficient to stamp with to popularity, and to cause the rejection by the electorial colleges of thaw who were suspected of having entered into the alliance, to persuade not that M. de Vilkle would obtain a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, is badly to examine the ground—is to make the most strange illusion. I should not be astonished that such a combina tion should take its rise in the Cabinet of Prince Pagan, who certainly is one of those Frenchmen who know the very least of the essence of affairs, and the opinions of kis country. Our external relations ban generally been for some time past in the bands of men, respectable, doubtless, in many points of view, but who, by their previous history, their recollections, their regrets their habits, their hopes, entertain sentiments which are no longer those of the nation, and who carry in their mission the spirit which animates them, and which renders them strangers to our new institutions. Their correspondence and their diplomatic saes have necessarily been impregnated with the colour of their minds. They see through that medium, and foreign cabinets, misled by this prism, have never well appreciated France and those new in- terests which the recent period has created. They have retro graded, while we have been progressing. The movement of the country is onward; our diplomacy marches behind, and the same spirit often directs our internal affairs. The consequence is, that with regard to foreign countries we remain in a state of weakness and insignificance, whilst our internal divisions are still strong after 15 years of the restoration. It was remarked that the King and the Dauphin gave a kind re ception to hl. de Martignac. The friends of this Minister assure us that twilling would induce him to enter the Council,—tbat, with his heart full of vexation, he would still prefer his present lot to any combination which might bring him into the new Cabinet. The trials instituted against the pre's are about to recommence. Already the war declared against the busts of the young Napoleon is in full activity, and the Prefect of Police waiting for something better to do, has become an iconoclast. Yesterday an unexpected leisure took place at the shops of all the gunners, of arms de scribed as prohibited. This qualification was applied to arms ex posed for many years past to the view of the public; and sack a sudden inroad of the police spread a lively dissatisfaction. The Court of Naples and the future Queen of Spain are travers ing our southern provinces , and are received with the greatest ho nours. The Court of Naples, it is said, will visit Paris at the time of the Carnival; and the Authorities are pressing forward the works of the Palate Royal, that this residence, now remitted so sumptuous and so brilliant, may be altogether worthy of the visit of them illustrious persons. The King of Naples will be able, oe Ms travels, to takes lesson on Representative Government. May it, in exciting his recollection, suggest to him a good thought, not coming from M. de la Boardman* and Company. Already a great number of deputies whom, the winter has brought to the capital, are assembled here. The Ministry has no ground for planing confidence in their disposition towards than. FOR THE STAR. ON ALDERMAN CROWTHER'S BEING ELECTED LORD MAYOR. The Aaa of Goce long since in Rngland's past, The Stumm Asa but little time did last ; MUSS rul'd the roast, and 811'd an ample page, Then came the Civic Chief of lam( Aaa. Lord Tuousom 'a (1) gone ! now PAP/a (2) fills the Chair. To show what mrta• Britons are. Success to trade! exalt the Civic Sag! Live men of aaaaa •CRILOIT, and the Rao! (3) (I) Alderman Tnomsom, an ironmonger. (2) The Loan Maros, a stationer. (3) The rag—Cotarres name for a Bank-note. THE THEATRES. THE ADELPHI AND •• BILLY TAYLOR." From the sublime to the ridiculous, the transition is brief as thought :—and front the intellectual enjoyment which can be felt—and only felt—in witnessing some gifted personification of Sit a X ESPEA Iles glorious and inspired imaginings, to the very bathos of Iltirletta, there is no true medium in scenic representation. In acting, as in poetry, neither Gods, nor men, nor columns, tolerate insipid mediocrity. If the moral ex cellences of thellrama, therefore be denied us, let us find a temporary solace in looking upon the sinzulaities of mankind, and catching them in whatever form they present themselves to us.—lt has been the fashion of late r amongst the " Sir Oracles" of Cliticisai—the attachts of the " pen and paste fraternity" to he great houses—to decry that most pleasant of all rleasant little Theatres, the ADF.LPITt, as a " minor," whereas it has attained a triumphant majority in popular estimation ;—and its performances as unclasiical (monstrous assertion!) when in point of fact, these very performances present us with the sole remaining vestiges that, like the atoms of an antediluvian world, recall the wonders of that ancient school of Comedy, " of which" as DRYDEN tells us, " ARISTOPHANES was Chief, " whose purpose was "not so much to imitate a man, as to make the people laugh at some odd conceit. Thus when you see SOCRATES brought upon the stage, you are not to imagine him made ridiculous by the imitation of his actions, but rather by making him perform something very unlike himself: something so childish and absurd, as by comparing it with the gravity of the true So- CRATES, makes a ridiculous object for the specta tors." We cannot illustrate this position more forcibly than by referring to " the last new novelty," so properly set forth in the bills of Billy Taylor—in which that " perfect gentleman" is " placed in situations so ludi crous, that his gentility, like the gravity of the true So- CRATES, makes a ridiculous object for the spectators." To analyze with critical acumen, this most popular nau tical burlesque Barletta, would be— " To smooth the lee, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garaish— A wasteful and ridiculous excess !" If it be not" in Cambyses' vein," we know nothing of the matter ;—nor can we sufficiently commend the modest merit of its " talented author" following the example of OUT great dramatic poet—" Who," says Doctor PERC Y in his Essay on the Ballads that illustrate Shakespeare, " has occasionally quoted many ancient ballads, and even taken the plots of one or more of his plays fro:n among them,"—and paying homage to his mighty master—by flights of fancy which remind us of some of his most enchanting passages—such as the garden scene and other brilliant and striking situations in Romeo and Juliet, and VIOLA'S sweet tale of love. The effect of a character so full of interest as the Hero, combining all the agreeable dalliance and unso phisticated simplicity of youth, with the tenderest pathos of passion, in the hands of so accomplished and senti mental an actor as ions REEVE, may be so much more easily imagined than described, that we leave the task to the sympathetic sensibilities of the reader; but we must notice one little sally of his amiable eccentricity— the imitation of KEAN in the first act, which was excel- lent—we had almost said inimitable. As for the rest— he never rested ;—but loved " not wisely but two well"— fought with fury—danced with dexterity—died with dignity---and revived with rapture ; and all amidst the rapturous rejoicings and loud laughter of a brilliant, numerous, and deeply affected audience. The gentle JULIET was worthy of her Romeo—and MARY WAGSTAFF of her BILLY TAYLOR :—the talent of Mrs. FITZWILLIAM needs no eulogy—the baker's daughter needs no puff.—Mr. 0. SMITH did honor to that much injured body of men the ancient " Char lies ;" and " the last of the watchmen" met his fate with an heroic constancy, and manly fortitude, worthy " the last of the Goths." \Ve feel, that with all our anxiety to do justice to the classic pretensions of the ADELPIII, we have fallen short of its deserts, and of our own notions of its unequalled pre tensions to the admiration of the learned, and the uni- versa' support of an enlightened public—in an age when whilst " the schoolmaster's abroad," such a dramatist as Mr. BUCKSTONE may be found " at home" in its " aca demic shades." It is not the least of Mr. BUCKSTON E'S merits, that he has so profitably, as well as practically, illustrated the very judicious observation of A ono); that " an ordinary song or ballad, that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please such readers as are not qualified for the entertainment by their affectation or their ignorance; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature which recommend it to the most ordinary reader will appear beautiful to the most refined." BILLY TAYLOR has drawn crowded houses throughout the week ; and having been " pressed into the public ser vice," the public very properly presses to do service to the liberal and enterprising patrons of dramatic talent—the matchless Managers of the ADELPRI—the Adelphi of Imitators—YATES and M ATIIEWS ••••-MA TB EWs and YATES. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. - Miss KEMBLE re peated the character of Juliet last night, for the 18th time, and went through it with her accustomed spirit and effect, receiving in every scene the warm and general applause of a crowded audience. In the Operatic En tertainment of Home Sweet Home, which succeeded the Tragedy, Miss FORDE sustained the interesting character of Madame Germance, and sung all the songs of the part with taste and ability. Miss H. CA WSE made a lively and efficient Florine, and the performances ap peared to give the greatest satisfaction... DUBLIN THEATILE.--BRAIIAM will have to tax his powers to the utmost to satisfy the taste of the musical cognoscenti, after the strong excitement lately pro duced by the Italians. We, however, hear, from all quarters, that he is in the fullest possession of his great capabilities. We find many new names in the bill, and many more are engaged, and will appear in the course of the week. The operatic strength of the Com pany is unusually great. The Lessee is right here ; Opera is, and ever will be, his staple commodity ; and the Dublin audience will never be tired of musical per formance, if they are supported by an effective company. FACTS AND FANCIES. SYSIPTOII,S." Mr. PEEL, Mr. DAWSON, and the other official men not holding Military Commissions, appeared at the late Civic Dinner at Guildhall, in the full Windsor Uniform." Truly, the military mania seems just now to infect the whole Cabinet to an alarming degree. Formerly our Ministers were not ashamed of their rank as civilians, or of appearing at civic entertain ments in the plain garb of citizens,—a costume more complimentary to their entertainers, and—we would j►.st hint to Mr. PEEL-a little more consistent in oue who appeared there " in the double capacity of a fellow free man and a guest." But we have every day some fresh indication of the blessings in store for us under a Military Government, which seems resolved to make up for its weakness and pusillanimity abroad, by its abso►ute arbi trariness at home. It is lamentable, however, to see a man of Mr. Pcra.'s intelligence and talent descend to the littleness of humouring the caprice of any Cabinet Chieftain, or of becoming the mere echo of a person so totally unqualified fur any Ministel ial station as the Duke of WF.LLINGTON. THE LIBERAL it HEIL ATOR.--D.tx [EL ()VON N rLL, " Founder of the order of liberators," has announced to Ms " seven millions" the grand object of his Parlia mentary crusade ; amongst which he declares, first and foremost, " that be goes into Parliament to seek the re demption of the West Indian Slave." It is said amongst his bosom friends, that the " liberator," with the overflowing grner.isity, and sterling disinterestedness, of his nature, means to devote the entire balance of " the Rent," and the whale amount of the subscriptions fsr the purchase of the new 'FINN ell IN ell. and the erection of " the Monument t.) his own honour and glory," to the magnanimous emancipation of these same slaves, and the formation of a fund for their future independence. But the repeated lamentation; of our friend DANIEL for " the loss of his time and of his professional fees, in the cause of the people," coupled with the fact of his hayin; suffered the expencos of his two elections to be paid by the pence of the peasantry, justify some slight doubts of the excessive sacrifices now contemplated. He cannot part with the subscription without baulking the family hopes of the estate, and the country's pride in erecting the monument ; and as for " the rent," the admission of the two accounts, (No. 1 and 2,) kept in his own nam iii the Bank, fully demonstrate the patriot's prudence in taking care of Num nt:n ONE. ELEVATED PERSON AG ES.—The Prince and the Sweep.—lt is one thing to cherish a benevolent and ge nerous disposition in the mind of a young Prince, and another to indulge his patronising predilections at an age when he is utterly incapable of making a judicious, or even a becoming, election of the objects of his favour. Prince GEORGE Of CUM B ERE AN D may be a very dis criminating young gentleman ; and the people of England must rejoice to find that he is possessed of warm and humane feelings : but it is very possible to gratify these feelings without any affected display of romantic inci dents, or " scenes extremely touching throughout;" and the tutors of his Royal Highness might long since have directed his ingenuous disposition to objects as much in need of his compassionate assistance, and more calculated to engage his sympathies, and to interest the sympathies of the People in the dispensation of his bounty, without waiting for so extravagantly farcical an affair as tbe ad venture of " the young chimney sweep," to call forth the humanities of his nature. Nevertheless, the distinction conferred upon this sooty aspirant to worldly elevation— who has " climbed betimes" to such enviable notice— may do much for the eventual emancipation of these little domestic slaves, whose condition is much more deplorable than that of O'Cow Num.'s West Indian protegh. It is not long since a Noble Lord thought it necessary, in moving for a criminal information in a case of alleged libel, to declare upon oath thnt " he had no connection with any sweep whatever." Under the auspices of Prince GEORGE of et . ERx.ANn, the sweeps bid fair to become a fiv;hionable set of fellows, and we shall hear no more of Noble Lords' affidavits disclaiming connection with them. Prince GEORG e's young sweep seems well adapted for his new line of climbing at Court, for we are told that " he reluctantly separated from his Royal Highness." As our politicians say, " The devil doubt him." DIPLOMATIC ADVOCACY.-It is quite clear that the French correspondent of " the Times," who, under the signature of " E. E." attempted of late to bolster up the POLIO): Ac Ministry, adopted that signature with re ference to his official employment,—" E. E." being, in PalcuLoss's phraseology, " the Roman initials for English Embassy." We regret to learn that Lady COCII RA N c continues so much indisposed that she has left Paris, accompanied by his Lordship, to pass the winter in Italy .---Galignani s Messenger. The subject of the Norrisian prize essay for the ensuing year is---" The Christian Religion the last Revelation to be expected of the Will of GOD." _ _ Count MATEWSWITz, the Russian Minister on a special mission to this country, was to have left town yesterday, on his return to St. Petersburg, but, owing to the receipt of despatches from Russia on the previous. evening, he has postponed his departure. Shortly after the arrival of the messenger, the Count, accompanied by Prince LIEvEN, had a long conference with the Earl of AslltD EEN. _ This forenoon, a child, of the name of MORTI NIER, about two years old, while playing at the window of an apartment, three stories high, at the White Hart Public Hone, in Clement's-lane Strand, was precipitated into the lane,---a height of 35 feet ; and what is most mira culous, was picked up, with only a very slight external bruise. The child is likely to do very well. Mtn yet-- —We have been favoured with some num bers of the New York Morning Herald, to the 7th of last' month, from which we have extracted sonic remarks on the recognition, by the American Government, of a CHARGE D'AFFA I R ES, from the Vampire who bestrides the throne of Portugal, and gluts himself with her best blood : these remarks, in the justice of which we fully coincide, will be found in another part of our paper ; together with an account furnished to us by one of the Portuguese Emigrants lately returned from France, of the . causes which led to the intended departure of these unfortunate victims of perjury from France, for the dominions of the King of the Netherlands ; an account which will be read with deep interest, and for the accuracy of which, from our personal acquaint ance with the writer, we can safely vouch. The venal eulogists of Don MIGUEL may affect to triumph at this partial approach to a recognition of the autho rity of the tyrant ; but their triumph will be some what premature, since the reception of a mere Chargé d'Affaires, does not of necessity imply a recognition of the authority claimed by him who sent him ; but we must at the same time, however, admit that it is making a great stride towards it, and will probably be followed in the end by a formal recognition of his ill acquired and I worse employed power .—Plymouth Journal. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Mans ARAM= TINS MT.—Dublin I—Waterford 1...-France I —Sweden I—Hemburgh 2—America 1. The Nicholson, Sheffield, front Pillau to London, was on shore on Same 3d inst. Cirgo discharging. The Prancis, Gibson. from Alemel rg London, was on shore near Heleseuborg 3d inst. bet eapected to be got off. The Uvely. May, from Kiel, was at Cuxhaven on the 6th inst. leaky, and discharging, boend to London. The Thomas King, Williamson. from London to Demerara, was spoken with 29th ult. in let. 41. 46 long. 14. 30. by the Nassas, arrived in the River (ream Smyrna. Dam., Nov. 13.—Wind E.—Sailed the outward.boond. Ar rived from Landon, the Romulus, Sisk ; and Henry Wellesley, Alexander, for Jamaica ; and Bruce, Sim, for Si. Leda. Poonatourer, Nov. 14.—Wind FL.S.E.—Arrived the Union, Taylor, from Memel. Sailed the outwits d.bound. Fautotnra, Nov. 12.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Spey packet. from Bermuda—sailed the Stb uit. and from Halifax the list. The Opossum packet arrived at Halifax the 10th ult. and sailed. Arrived the Legman, Brown, front Dontingo Bawrot., Nov. 13.—Arrived the Ellen, Patterson. from the Cape; Belorey, M•liucbeson, from Faro; and Caroline. Crack. from Lisbon. STANDOATE Caere, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Whirler. Martin, from Smyrna; Triton, Prole, from Ocala ; and Swallow, Anis, from Tarragona. Cowes, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Hereford, Longcope, from New Orleans. Intathern., Nov. 12.—Arrived the Albion, SP Neil, from Ali cant, and ..--, Wright, from Miraniichi. THE DONCASTER ROBBERY. MR. EDITOR.—On my return last evening from Don caster, where the Magistrates in their discretion decided :gaimt Inv attending the examinations of Mr. Smart, I found that re pute statements bad been made by his enemies, through the tn.. dium of the press, to prejudice the public against him ; aid t. e only favour I have to request on his behalf is. that the puh;:c will su.pend their judgment on the serious charges made agati•t hint until be has an opportunity of being heard in his defence. Knowing the character which your Paper ‘ustaios ftr hop rt lAI t y I cannot doubt but that you will give this an early ime Jut, Sir, your obedient servant, J. lIENiONi. Bouverie.street, Nov. 12. Solicitor for . .111 SHISIt. BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER. When Queen Elizabeth dined with Sir TI o .tai Gee-- ham, before she proceeded to name the Royal Exchange, Sit Thi— stles pledged her Majesty in a cup containing a prail nice 4tto powder, of the value of stintO. So runs the story, but we should think Sir Thomas superior to suck a piece of ostentatious sully. The display of) his grasshopper cetr.t on the pinnacles of the Old 'Change was in much better taste. The old fashion of trammeling public businers after dinner, is sot unworthy of remark and contrast with the present custom. Iu 1696, the foundation-stone sf Greenwich Hospital was laid by John Evelyn, with a select cmimitter of Coatmirlioners. and Sir Christopher Wren, precisely at bye in the evening, a'ter they had dined together, Flamstead, the royal astronomer. cbservng the time punctually by his instruments. In our days the only public business transacted after dinner is that of parliament, and the alter ation of this to the morning has eaten been suggested ; but if tl.e motto in vino veritas hold good, it were better left as it i.. AU public business is England is an occasion of eating and drinking, which gave rise to " wretches hang that jurymen may dine." Gourmands of fruit all flock to the Horticultural Sale— m% dinner, for the sake of its ; and by a revert regulation. tea, coffee, and cakes are handed tumid at the evening'. meeting. of the Antiquarian and other Societies. Professor Jameson, in noticing the Berlin Geographical Society, says, " it does not give prize., nor publish • j.wnwl, but coedit itself to Its meetings, which. agreeably to the custom Ili Olt cow.- try. are coneluded by a jovial banquet. Thu., we are not alone in our festal predilections, and were all meetings of oar public speleties terminated like those of the Fellows of Berlin, science would become more popular, and the lovers of good living be gainers. Still, we recommend the fellows to keep out of their after-dinner conversatisos, all such topics as the . course of the Niger. or the podtion of a new magnetic pole.— !Mirror. The Lords of his lajesty's Mcst Honourable Privy Council held their first meeting for the season yesterday morning, in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. 7 h Lords present were, the Lord PRESIDENT, Lord WY N - FORD, the JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL, the PAYMASTER OF TIIE FORCES. Mr. HULLER was in attendance during the proceedings, as Clerk to the Council. Counsel were heard by their Lordships on different cases of appeal from the decisions of several of the Colo nial Legislatures, which occupied their Lordships till three o'clock, when ths,Court adjourned. Report states, that the Russian Admiral, Count Hei den, has received orders from his own Government to winter the fleet under his command in one of the ports of the Mediterranean.—Plymouth Journal. We have some authority fur stating, that it was the intention of the Heir Presumptive to have honoured the citizens of London with his preser.ce at the dinner which took place at Guildhall on the 9th inst. but front some mistake (we suppose) no card of invitation reached his Royal Highness. We can only account for this apparent mark of neglect, by a :supposition that the Invitation Committee (the Lord Mayor has no concern with this part of the arrangements) either neglected their duty, or that, commencing their invitation from the last letter in the Peerage, their cards were exhausted before they had reached the Royal Family. Perhaps it was the aversion to ask another " illustrious" personage that induced the Committee to limit their invitations.—Times Prince EsT Elt II zv returned to wen yesterday frau the Marquis of SALIB BLI RV'S. His Excellency had, in the course of the day, a conference mith the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Loan CH A NcELLon was among the fashionable pedestrians in Bond-street on Thursday, accompanied by the author of " Tremaine." The Journal des Debats of the 4th instant makes itself very merry at the expense of the Times, and the simplicity of its Paris Correspondent, who some times signs himself E. E. and whom the afore said Parisian Journalist describes as too profoundly ignorant of men and things to be in the slightest degree suspected of having any connection with the French Cabinet, as had been maliciously insinuated. The present King of France, Charles Louis Philip X. was born on the 9th of October, 1757, consequently his birth-day falls on the anniversary of that day. But his Majesty being a Christian, and moreover a Roman Catholic, he happened to be christened by the name of Charles, and the Feast of Saint Charles falling, according. to the calendar of the Romau Catholic Church, on the 4th of November, the King celebrated his name-day an the anniversary of his Saint, " more nufjorum," according. to the usage of Catholic Courts and countries ; and even our own Sovereign has of late years kept St. George's Day. Now none of the French 'Ministers, none of their Secretaries, or pettiest clerks, no, not even a messenger or door-keeper attached to any of the Secretaries of State, or other Cabinet Ministers* offices at Paris, would have been so ignorant as to mietake the Fete de St. Charles, or the King's name-day, for his birth-day ; this device, or plunder, was reserved, therefore. 'for the English or Irish Correspondent of the Times at Paris, who in Thuradav's Times, under the head of Pri vate Correspondence, dated Paris, Nov. 7, assumes the character of a Frenchman, by talking of " cur Ministry," " out Journals," and the remainder of our troops having returned from the Morea ;" after which comes the following :--" The day of the 4th (the King's Birth day) was, like his Majesty's life, very chequered, being rainy and lowering in the morning, and bright in the evening. (Signed) X." After this, we hope we shall hear no more of any close and dangerous intimacy be tween the correspondent of the " leading Journal" and the French Cabinet —Morning Herald.