The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-13 00:00:00

turday any further steps were taken by the KING to
torte a permanent Administration. His Majesty's
object is said to be to stagger through this Session,
as best he can, with his present advisers, and to
trust to bribery and the chapter of accidents for the
means of extricating himself out of the dilemma be-
tween the horns of which the Coalition has now fixed
him. The ordinary budget will not be refused,
and to meet extraordinary expenses it is supposed
that his MAJESTY would not object to advance the
requisite sums, on the faith of a repayment of them,
with usurer's interest, by the nation, upon the
ap-
pointment of a stronger but not less accommo-
dating Government. By those who take this view
of the question, and they are growing very nu-
merous, it is believed that the address will end in
smoke. The KING will receive the deputation
and the address very graciously, parody its expres-
sions of regret about the state of France, urge his zeal
to ascertain the national will as manifested in the
act of dissolution, and his desire to treat all parties
with impartiality, as evinced in his overtures to
MM. THIERS, GUIZOT, SOULT, and others of
every shade of politics, and finally renew his pro-
mises about unceasing endeavours to reflect in
the measures of the Crown the sentiments of the
Chamber of Deputies. Such, it is presumed, will
be the only result of the Address, which now oc-
cupies the attention of the French Chamber of
Deputies.

The Ministerial crisis in England excites much
interest in Paris. On the first news of the
dissolution of the MELBOURNE Cabinet, the Funds
Fell, but when it was known that the Tories had
no chance of assuming the reins of Government,
they rallied again on Saturday. This day being
the feast of the Ascension, there was no business
done on the Bourse.

In consequence of the resignation of Ministers
here, the Earl GRENVILLE, our Ambassador at
Paris, transmitted on Thursday to the Tuileries, his
resignation of the post of British Representative at
the French Court. It was reported, that his
Lordship would be succeeded by Lord COWLEY,
who was expected to arrive in Paris early in the
present week. We presume the failure of the
Tories to form a Cabinet, will prevent any such
change from taking place.
A Colonel of the 21st Regiment of the Line,
who has been 39 years in the service, and fought in
25 campaigns, has been dismissed by the Minister
of War for casually remarking that a continued
march of 150 leagues under a burning sun was too
much to exact from law conscripts ! This most
arbitrary and unjust sentence is loudly condemned
by most of the Opposition Journals.
The following telegraphic despatches from the
Spanish frontier contains the latest news from that
quarter :

Bayonne, May 9, Half-past Two, P. M.
The bad weather has suspended all the operations of
Espartero. There has been no new engagement since
the 30th up to the 4th. The same positions are maintained.
Other accounts state that the Carlists were com-
pelled to evacuate Ramales on the Ist, after a
very severe contest. The loss of the QUEEN'S
troops between the 25th and 30th ultimo,
in the Biscayan Provinces, amounted to
2,500, including 27 officers. Among the
wounded was General LEOPOLD O'DONNELL.
The Carlist General TA RAGUAL died of the
wounds received by him in the engagement of
he 30th.

The following extracts are from the Journals :
In the Chamber of Peers, on Friday, M. bonnier
noved for a complete reorganization of the order of
the Legion of Honour. M. bonnier proposed that
,be number of grand-crosses should not exceed fifty,
that of grand•officers 100, that of commanders 300,
hat of officers 1,000, and that of knights 15,000. (The
Princes of the Royal family and foreigners upon whom
the King should confer the order not to be included in
the above.) He proposed farther that a capital of eight
millions of francs be vested in the Three per Cents., to
constitute the dotation of the Legion of Honour; the
;rand-crosses to receive each 10,000 francs per annum ;
the grand officers 5,000 francs; commanders, 1,000 francs;
and the knights, 250 francs. Foreigners not to be entitled
to any dotation, and the native members, absent from
France without leave, would not receive their allowances
during their residence out of the country. M. Monnier's
proposition was taken into consideration, and the House
then adjourned to Tuesday, to appoint a committee of seven
members to examine and report upon it.
The father of Rossini died at Bologna on the 29th ult.,
aged 85. This circumstance prevented the return to
France of the great composer. The Gazette de France
contains respecting him the following paragraph :
" We are assured that Rossini is at present selling fish
in Italy, and that he has undertaken to supply with that
article Bologna, Orsini, and Pisa."
We hear this morning that there is no hope of recovery
of the Duke of Bassano.
We recceived the Alperin Monieuernof the 4th-.
King's fete was celebrated at Algiers with much magnifi-
cence ; unhappily the pleasures of the day were succeeded
by a dreadful accident—at eight in the evening there
were several in the crowd assembled on the spot,
desirous to escape from the rain which began to fall fast
and pressed to the gate to return into the city, with such
eagerness that they could not be restrained, and a railing
having been broken down, between twenty and thirty per-
sons fell from a height of twenty-four feet, fifteen persons
were more or less injured, three killed, and a soldier and a
sailor crushed between the two gates.— Constitutionnel.