The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

-following are the salaries of the members o:
the Council of State : _ _ .

The Vice-President receives a sum of 80,000 f.
Presidents of sections, each 35,000 f.
The Councillors of State, 25,000 f.
Masters of Requests, of the first class, 10,000 f.
Masters of Requests, of the second class, 6,000 f.
Auditors of the first class, 2,000 f.
The Stcretary-General of the Council, 15,000 f.

The Auditors of second class receive no salary.
The following is the letter of resignation addressed
by the Count de Montalemb*rt to M. de Casabianca :
" Paris, January 23, 1852.
"M. to Ministre,—ln consequence of the decrees
which appeared this morning, I consider myself called
on to perform an imperative. duty; and I pray you ac-
cordingly to be good enough to present, for the accept-
ance of the President of the Republic, my resignation
of the functions of Member of the Consultative Com-
mission, created on the 2d December last. Though that
Commission lags not been consulted on any of the acts
of the Executive, there does not the less exist, in the
eyes of the public, for those who compose it, a species of
solidarite with the policy of the Government, which it
becomesimpossible for me henceforth to accept. I ap-
peal to your honour, M. le Ministre, and in case of
necessity, to that of Prince Lunis Napoleon himself, to
make my resignation public through the same channel
as my nomination, hal is, by its insertion in the
Moniteur.

" Accept, M. to Ministre, &e.,
" CH. DE MONTALEMBERT.
" To M. de Casabianca, Minister of State."
The following letter, resigning his office of Pro-
cureur of the Court of Cassatioc, has been addressed
by M. Dupin to the President of the Republic :

" TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC.

" I regret exceedingly that previous to the publication
of the decree which 1 have read this morning in the
Moniteur, you had not heard my opinion with the same
benevolence you have sometimes manifested towards me.
I should have tried to demonstrate to you, not merely in
the private interest of the children, the greater part
minors, of the late King, of whom I am one of the testa-
mentary executors, but in the interest of your own Go-
verement, that those who have suggested that measure
are not acquainted with the facts; and that they have
disregarded all the rules of law and equity. In fact, there
is an extreme exaggeration (at least to the amount of
half) in the estimate made of the property of the Orleans
family. In law the decree violatsa in its essence the very,
principle of property. The right of property was recog-
nized, after a solemn discussion, in the person of the late
King, by the 22d and 23d clauses of the law of March 2,
1832; and in the person of his children by the very acts
of the Revolution of February, by the decree of the
Constituent Assembly of the 25th October, 1848, and
by the law of the National -As.seiably of the 4th Feb-
ruary, 1850, promulgated by your Government, and
authorised the loan of 20,000,000 on that property by
your Minister of Finance. Thu 3, public right,
will, special laws, contracts, all have recognised in
the hands of the Princes of the House of Orleans
their right to the property which the decree of the 22d
of January deprives them of all at once, and in a
manner so absolute that the sacred rights of the tomb,
the burial-ground of Dreux, is not even excepted. If
the Constitution of the 15‘n January was in vigour, the
Senate might be appealed to in virtue of the 26th article,
which permits that body to make opposition to the
promulgation of laws which are contrary to the invio-
lable character of property.' In the present state of
thing's, the only resource is to appeal to you, Prince,
and to invoke your wisdom and the magnanimity
ef yew' own feelings when they aro again consulted and
more dAilerately lietenc;d to. But if .11efie rigorous mea-
sures are to be maintainc,:, a great scruple arises from
the depth of my conscience. As Procureur General to
the Court of Cessation fur nearly 22 years; as the prin-
cipal organ of the law in that nigh branch of jurisdic-
tion; chargcd as I am by the Government to proclaim
the constant respect to right, and to require the reversal
and the annulling of the acts which violate the laws,
or which constitute the incompetence or the ex-
cesses of the Government, how shall I be
able henceforth to exorcise the same firmness
if acts are introduced in our legislation which are in
contradiction with those principles? I feel myself
bound, therefore, to tender you my resignation. But I
pray you, Prince, and in an earnest manner, not to
misunderstand my motives. The resolution I have
adopted has nothing to do with politics. As Presi-
dent of the late Assembly I rigorously kept myself
apart from parties and their fatal divisions, and
limited myself to maintain, as much as I indivi-
dually could, the legal and moral doctrines on which
the essential order of civilized society reposes. After
the coup d'etat of the 2d December, against which it
became my dety to protest, us I have done, I awaited
the judgment of the people appealed to by you. After
that solemn judgment I adhered frankly to the im-
mense powers which were the result of that appeal,
considering them as the strongest guarantee that could
be presented to preserve or re-establish those prin-
ciples which a wild Socialism had endangered and
menaced; and, as a public functionary, my co-
operation was loyally given to you. But, at the
present moment, sad on a question of civil right, and of
private rights, of natural equity, and of all Christian no-
tions of what is just, and unjust, and which I have che-
rished in my soul for more than 50 years as jurisconsulte
and as magistrate, I feel myself absolutely called on to
resign my functions as Procureur-General.
" Be pleased, Prince, to accept the expression of my
sentiments of respectful consideration.
(Signed)

" DIIPIN."

PORTUGAL.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the

17th.

The Chamber of Deputies was constituted for le-
gislative functions on the 17th inst. Scriber Silva
Sanches was president, and Senhor de Derramado
vice-president.

The Peninsular mail steamer Madrid, which left
Southampton on the 7th inst., had not been heard of
at Lisbon up to nightfall of the 17th.

ROYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE•

The management of this theatre is evidently bent
upon sustaining the popularity already secured. Last
night a performance that might have been thought
beyond the po4er of " Marionettes" was attempted,
the success of which was as decided as that of the
previous pieces Well might the manager exchum,
in his opening address, quoting the language of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer—
" There's nothing figures can't be made to show."
An axiom the truth of which forced itself on our
minds when we saw thes3 well-dressed puppets
gutting the action to the word in that bustling
buyletta of Peak's, The Bottle Imp, missing no
point, overlooking no effect, and performing to a
nicety all those "magical tricks" which, not easy
to n'lng actors, would appear impossible to their
'mon n prototypes. The house was crowded with a
datghted audience.

CIIARIII7A3LE BEQUESTS.
By the will of Thomas Dickinson, Esq., late of Upper
1:13110way, the contingent reversionary interest of 12,000/.
(in addition to 1,0001, immediate) is bequeathed to the
Governesses' Benevolent Institution, on the death:of his
daughter, Mrs. Henry F. Richardson. Mr. Dickinson
bus alsO bequeathed (all free of legacy duty) 4,5001. to
Friend Societ
the Animals' y; 1,0004 to the London Hos-
-1 . I coo/. to the Indigent Bi.nd School; 1,0001. to
pita , ,
Orphan Asylum; the London
..1,0001. to the Infant
Orphan A--
a „°.7„hiat; 1,0001 to the Marina Society; 1,000/.
to the . .-.
National Benevolent Institution; 1,000/. to the
Destituie Sailors' Some; 1,000/, to the Deaf and Dumb
00/ to the &Tat Free u„sp,._,;
,i,at 500/. to
Asylum; 1,0 •
wary; 500/. to the Labourko- 'F ' d
a rten
the Holloway Dispe
parish, 0/ to Whitt chapel the interest to
Snciety; 400 . -
people with bread, potatoes, anc
find twenty poor
A td atdivine servic,; 4,0001. on
who are constant attenoai
way parish; 2,0001. to
similar conditions, to Hullo i
,i7tu aSociety; 1,0001 t
IdiA Asylum; 1,000/. to the .r
le ' cies are of various.)
the Charing-L-1m" Hospital. The
to g:ach relative, with
um,,unta, not exceeding 20,0001. --
001
various legacies of 10,000/. and 5
,
brnaches, with 10,0001. to his bousext'ePe each to otherr. Mr. Diekin.
hi hope!, and a
son w 33 a merchant of eminence fa —tr,,,„-any, from
member of the Court of the Draper,t' "`"'r
whom he received a testimonial, which he has be-
queathed to hi 3 daughter.

COURSE OF EXctii
•• .• •• •••• 11 17%
Ditto, threemonth3.. 11 14
Rotterdam ...• ••-••• 25 „1,9,4
Antiverp•••••••••••• •a
Bruaseis••••••••••• •6' 25 50
Fi qtBirda 13 10%

Altona•-
YnrL 3 daysisight - • 2h"
Ditto, 3 months 25 47%
25 4736
Itoordelttut...

12 40
12 43

SON
50%

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Lal~raitap 30 85
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A 01,104 •• •• •..
nc 6Alan . 2•• •• •• • • • •
Naples 40%
ealernao, pares 12C%
Messina
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Lio0oll• • • • •• • • •
OPo:rto •• • • 52
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Janeiro
EME,O3 AYrea •• • •
New yo rk, 60 daya'sight
Vekil.delphia ••
?BICE° OF BULLION, 0,4
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f 'of sign Gold in bars. •za 17 9
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tu,,,ti Gold Coin 0 0 0
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