The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING—YEsTEED4 F.
Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft. 7 Subs..
Duke of Cleveland's f. by Emilius, out of Marie, received forfeit..
Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. it. for foalsof 1834. R.M.
3 Subs.
• Lord Chesterfield's c. by Priam, out of Octaviana, re?,eivecl for-
feit from Lord Lichfield, and Mr. Mills withdrew his stake. • •
Match, 200, h. ft. T.Y.C.—Lord Suffield's c. Caravan, by
Camel, out of Wings, Bst. 71b., received Lord Lichfield's f. by
Emilius, out of Ada, Bst. 21b.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. T. Y. C. 6 S Ths.
Colonel Peel's Castaway, 5 yrs, 9st i'avis 1
Lord Egremont's Helga, 4 yrs, 7st. 51b
Duke of Richmond's Havildar, 4 yrs, 7st. 101 b
Lord Chestel-jeld's Marchesina, 3 yrs, 6st. 31b
Mr. GI eatrex's f. by Tarrare, 3 yrs, 6st. 31b
General Grosvenor's Laod:ce, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b ti
5 to 2 ag,s+. Havildev, 3 to 1 agst Castaway, 7 to 2 agst Marche-
sina, and sto 1 apt Helga. Won by ';,wo lengths easy.
Sebzcription Plate of 50 sovs. snch. T. Y. C
Mr. Sowerby's St. Luke, yrs, Bst.
Colonel Peel's Vulture, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b
Mr. Bird's Ledshank, 4yrs, est. 71b
Mr. Wigrara's Shereen, 3 yrs, 7st ...
Sir S. Graham's Avon, 3 yrs, 7st
2to 1 on Vulture, 10 to 3 agst Redshank, and 4to 1 on St.
Luke. Won by a length.
The Column Stakes of 50 soya. each, p. p. R.M. !h.?. Subs.
Lord Exeter's Troilus, Est. 21b
Colonel Peel's Garcia filly, Bst. 41b
Lord Exeter's Velure, Bst. 41b
Mr. Cooke's Norerove, Bst. 71b - 4
Two lengths.-2 to 1 on Troilus.
Match, 3CO each, h. ft. D.lll.—Lord Lichfield's Elis, Est. 71b..
(J. Day), beat Colonel Peel's Sl-ne, Bst. (Pavis),„in a canter.-5
to 2 on Ells.
(Further particulars of Tuesday's Races.)
Race.—The Drummer made tanning from beginning
to end, and won h a center, by ten lengths. Longinus threw
Robs_ son before starting, and then the lad who was put up
on Robinson's refusal to ride so dangerous a bade cut a
n..etched figure in the race.
Second Race.—Champion appeared to have the race in
band nurly all the way. Lord Chesterfield's colt r unning in
difficulty for more than a quarter of a mile, and whiling by a
head, right on the post, by dint of gameness and whipcord.
Tuesday's Rirldlegworth.—Troilus took the lead at a od
pat e, defeated his ovonents in an attempt to go by him at
the bushes, and won cleverly by a length, Grisetta beating
Colonel Peel's colt by a neck.
Oatlands.—Turban went away in front, and cut out the
work at the top of his speed to the bushes, where LUck's All
took up the running at as good a pace as he could make it.
Alfred and Florestan laying well up ; the latter waited until
a few lengths beyond the Duke's Stand; when he ran by the'
grey, with Alfred at his quarters, increased his advantage as
he approached the end, and won very cleverly by a length.
DERBY BETTING.
Previous to the Tuesday's Riddlesworth 10 to 1 was betted
several times agst Lot d Exeter's lot, and 40 and 50 to 1 apt
Troilus ; the latter's success had some influence on the price
against him, as will be scen from the following list of the odds
at the close of the evening :-
Bit to 1 as Colonel Auson's Jereed—taken
10 to 1 agst Captain Gardnor's Bened'et—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Mango—taken
10 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Achmet—offered
14 to 1 apt Mr. S. Stanley's Rattrap—taken and afterwards
offered
15 to I apt Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahometan--offered
20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Hybiscus—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Troilus—offered
20 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Caravan— offered
23 to 1 agst .Mr. Sadler's Delender—taken
25 to 1 apt Mr., Bowes's Mickle Fe"— offered
25 to 1 ag,t Lord Chesterfield's Se obs—offered
30 to I agst Mr. Wrefurd's Win!o‘-'a a—taken
30 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Sl:ght colt—offered
33 to 1 agst Mr. Edwards's Bequest colt—offered
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES, T. P.
2 to 1 on Achmct apt Troilus—taken, not p.p.
Arrivals—Dukes of Portland and Rutland; Marquis of
Exeter; Earls of Chesterfield, Lichfield, Verulam, Orford,
Jersey, Albemarle and Suffield ; Ladies Alice Byng and Alice
Peel ; Lords G. Bentinck, J. Fitzroy, Berners, Villiers, and
Miltown ; General Grosvenor ; Sirs D. Baird, J. Shelley, and
L. Glynn ; Colonels Anson and Peel ' • Captains Byng, White,
Gardner, Pettit, and Clive ; Messrs. C. GI cville, C. Wilson,
Hawker, Worrell, Irby, Thornhill, Portman, Walker, Nor.
manby, Stenehewer, Batson, Pa: a S. Stanley, Cooke, M. P.,
Houldsworth, M. P., Crominion, Dolphin, Waddington, New-
ton, Foulis, Sowerby, M. Campbell, &c.
Departures. —Lord Albemarle, Hon. Colonel Hanson, and
HAI. Captain Byng.

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Newmarket, Wednesday Night
Dram
10 :o 1 ast Mr. Greville's Mango—taken
10 to 1 asst Colonel Acson's Jer-ced
10 to 1 22st G p:ain.pa,•drer's Beaedict
10 to 1 asst Lord Jeiscv's Aclimet
15 to 1 agst Mr. S. Stanley's Rai-trap
16 to ,1 agst Lord ENete;•'s Troilus
20 to 1 asst Lord Exeter's Hybiscus
20 to 1 zgst Mr. Bowes's Ilickle Fell
25 to 1 agst Lo Exete,''s Mirdenelles
33 to 1 asst Lord Ch:Aertield's Critic
40 :o 1 ag,t Lord E:eter's Achian—taken

THE OAKS.
6 to 1 cost Lord Exeter's Velure
6 to 1 P.-;st Loyd Vaeuna.
9 :o 1 P,st Mr. Egerio—taken
TiiE 7011,.:LAND HANDICAP.
4to 1 a2;Lt Lyn:: Llchticld's Elia •
5 to l asst Lord E3recoont's Hock
io 1 27st Mr. Dawson's Locomotive—taken
8 io I ogs t Mr. Mo.;tytt's Bit (thine
9 'o I pgst Mr. Walke_-'s Gipsey
10 to 1 a;st Mr. J. Day's Venison

The King's Stag Hounds will not hunt again this season.

THE INDEPENDENCE of CIRCASSIA.

(From the 42d Numb,ir of The Portfolio.)
The pretensions of Russia to the eastern shores of the Black
Sea necessarily affect collectively, individually, and relatively,
the whole of the European States, since the possession of the
Caucasus by Russia would not only be a violation of the Euro-
pean compact entered into at the Congress of Vienna, but it
would completely overthrow the balance of power which that
compact was intended to preserve, as the only rational basis of
general peace. The boundary of Europe on the Asiatie side
was understood, at the period of the Congress of Vienna, to
he according to the then existing treaties, which limited the
ex►ent of the Russian empire—the Kuban River. Russia herself,
in declaring war against Turkey, in 182 S, st ited to all Europe
that " the advantages of the stipulations of Turkey with the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg, and of the fundamental Treaties of
Kainardgi, yassy, and Buf;arest," ha l been " the placing the
existence of the Porte, and the i►►tegrity of its frontiers, under
the protection of the law of nations."
In all the subsequent engagements between the great Eu-
ropean States, the stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna, how-
ever scandalously they may have been violated on the part of
the despotic Powers, in the invasion of Sardinia, Naples, and
Spain, have been invariably appealed to, even by them, as tl e
only basis which could consolidate the repose of the warld.
Russia herself, whilst appealing to her allies to intervene in
pacifying the East, founds her application on the necessity ut
adhering to the stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna.
The only event which has directly tended to increase the
territorial power of England, beyond the limits acknowledged
at the Treaty of Vienna, was the spontaneous offer of the
Greek nation, in 1823, to place their independence, and even
their political existence, under the absolute protection of Great
Britain.

The connivance of Austria and France on the side of Tur-
key against the Greeks, at the time when that heroic people
were contending against the armies of Turkey and Egypt, and
against the fleets of the Sultan, Mehemet Ali, and the Bar-
bary States, would probably have justified England in an inde-
pendent line of policy. But a religious respect for the faith
of the treaties subsisting between herself and Turkey, and all
the European Powers, allowed of no hesitation in the course
which duty prescribed on that interesting occasion.
But, whilst imposing upon herself the rejection of the most
flattering offer ever act made to a foreign Power, England, by
the very fact of making that sacrifice, acquired and exercised
the right to impose on Russia a similar renunciation on her
part of any interested views in the arrangements for the paci-
fication of the East.

Under any other explanation than this, what can be the
meaning of the Article in the Protocol of the 4th of April,
1826, by which England and Russia bound each other "not to
seek in that arrangement any increase of territory, nor any ex-
clusive influence, nor advantage in commerce, fJr their sub-
jects, which shall not be equally attainable by all other na-
tions?"

Was it not with a view to uphold the Sultan's interests tl at
England intervened in the affairs of his empire? and was not
the ambition of Russia to make the Greek question the pre-
text of a separate war with Turkey on her owa account the
origin of the union of England with Russia, for the purpose of
binding her to seek no aggrandizement at the expence of
Vurkey?
The geographical position of Russia, Turkey, England, and
Greece, still more strongly elucidates this point. England,
as protectress of the lonian Islands, is the nearest neighbour
of Greece—Russia was the next neighbour of Turkey.
Tho Article has no meaning at all, unless it means that
England pledied herself to Russia, to Europe, and to
Turkey, to seek "no increase of territory" in the Medi-
terranean, on the condition that Russia should seek " no in-
crease of territory" on her side of Turkey—viz., the Black
Sea.

We offer this remark merely to show that, even if, as Rus-
sia mendaciously asserts, Circassia had belonged, either de
jure or de facto to Turkey, on the 4th of April, 1826, Russia
could not subsequently have extorted it from Turkey, witlicut
violating all her solemn obligations to Europe, and her special
compact with England.
Even in examining the instructions of the Russian Cabinet
to its own agents, we find the assertion that the Protocol of

the 4th of April, " far from weakening the general alliance
cemented by the transactions of Vienna, Pari,z, and Aix la
Clivelle, far from changing the policy which had gained
twelve years of peace to Europe, had given additional strength
to it ; that it infiinged no treaty, subsequent to 1814 ; that it
preserved the integrity of the Ottoman empire, by giving to it
a new guarantee."

A man named Woodhead, about 22 years of age,
was found on Thursday morning week, nearly frozen to death,
in a field near the Mountain, Queen's Head, Northowram.
Medical assistance was immediately obtained, but death shortly
ensued. The deceased was going home, at a late hour in the
night, in a state of intoxication, and roused the family of a
neighbour, desiribg to be let in ; but the inmates, conceiving
it to be merely the annoying vagary of a drunken man, refused
him admittance.—Halifax Express.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1837.

The House of Lords did not meet yesterday.
In the House of Commons, the Severn Navigation Bill was
thrown out on the second reading by a majority of 33.
The second reading of the Bath and Weymouth Railway
Bill was postponed for a fortnight.
Mr. BUCKINGTIAM moved the second reading of the Mer-
chants' Shipping Bill ; but subsequently withdrew it, in order
to rectify an informality. The object contemplated by Mr.
Buckingham's Bill is to provide against shipwrecks and loss of
life, so frequent in the Merchant service of this country.
Mr. Hums: moved the second reading of the County Rates
Bill. A long protracted discuszion ensued, the result of
which, as shown by the division that took place, was the re-
jection of the proposed measure. The object of the Bill is to
direct that a Board for the management of the County Rates
shall by elected by the rate-payers, instead of the controul of
their funds being left to the Magistrates, as at present. A
majority of 93 declared in favourof Magisterial might, assert-
ing by their votes the true Tory principle of non-elective ir-
reiponsihility, in opposition to wholesome controul and po-
pular rights.

The line of policy which the Tories have within a
few weeks adopted points out in a manner not to he
misunderstood the desperate condition to which they
are reduced, and the unconstitutional means which
they are ready to use for the sake of recovering, office.
Their plan is to rule the country by the House of
Lords, setting the voice of the people and the cgreat
urljority of their representative 3 at defiance. N,A-
withstandinq• the solemn asseveration of Sir R. PEEL
at Merchant Tailor's-hall, that the battle must be
decided in the Commons, he now turns round, as he
has turned round on every important public que,,tion,
and tells the Government and tire Com'uons of Eng-
land that a measure which they have repeatedly sanc-
tioned by majorities, varying from 55 to 86, shall not
pass in another place, unless that House of Co 7rnons
revoke a vote which they came to on due deliberation,
and en the full conviction that it was absolutely ne-
cessary for the peace of Ireland. That is the way in
which this wavering, timid, and plausible Statesman
to fight the battle of his party in the House of
Commons. Whatever he may say to the con:rary,
place is the great object of his ambition. Of this he
and his friends dream by night and speak by day, and
no event can happen but their jaundiced eyes see in it
the downfall of the Ministry, and their own darling
object in the perspective. With this House of Com-
mons, or any House that can be summoned together,
they know that the Reform Bill, and the En,Ebb and
Scotch Municipal Bills, have deprived them of all
hopes of success. On every great question, the
majority of the representatives of the people
elected under a Tory Government have been decidedly
opposed to them—they have tried the aid of the Court
in vain—they sec no chance of increasing their
strength by a dissolution—and they have come to the
unconstitutional determination of ruling by means of
the House of Lords, or putting a stop to public busi-
ness. The country in clue time will judge of their
condue : they will see what faith is to be placed in
a leader who has broken • the most solemn engage-
ment, and who, with all his hypocritical cant
about disinterested motives and sense of public duty,
is ready to make every sacrifice, and throw the
country into confusion, solely for the sake of place.
Among liberal men, among all who are not blinded by
political zeal and self-interest, there is but one opinion
of the conduct of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and of the
pitiable exhibition he made on Tuesday night, in
reply to the powerful, cutting, and unanswerable
speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL.. It was a con-
temptible imitation of Lord LYNDHURST'S speech
at the close of last session—contemptible because it
was ill-timed, not founded on truth, and had neither
the merit of force nor of originality. The ostensible
leader of a party became the miserable imitator of
a man whose violent language he had not the courage
to defend, or even palliate, in the House of Commons.
Lord LYNDHURST treated the Ministry with scorn,
with a view to show that the House of Lords was still too
powerful for a Reformed House of Commons. Sir R.
PEEL pursued exactly the same course, and treated with
similar scorn a House of which he was a Member, and
by whose decision he had solemnly avowed his deter-
mination to stand or fall. And then, what meant the
futile declamation against Ministers, because the King
of the FRENCH could not form a Ministry—because
there was a bad Government, and bad Generals in
Spain—because the three great despotical Powers in
'Europe were not favourable to a liberal Govern-
ment in England ; and—last of all—because, after
five years of unexampled prosperity—ever since
the reins of Government fell from his feeble
hands, in 1830, some commercial embarrass-
ment had arisen, from causes over which the
Administration had no controul ? Why did he not
also bring in the destitution in the Highlands—the
cold season, and the influenza ?—and why' did he not
go the whole length of his prototype, and denounce
the Irish as aliens in blood and religion ?
But Sir ROBERT PEEL iS destitute of ori-
zinality—he has been dragged along all his poli-
tical life by friend or foe—by the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON at one time, by Lord LYNDHURST at an-
other, and by the Whigs in every other great measure
carried by the House of Commons. Lord LYNDHURST

is now the star of attraction ; with that consistent
personage as his leader, they are now to involve the
KING in difficulties, and then attempt to recover office
aVeirtlfiliwke of public duty."
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..,---jl44.4:3ti's County-rate Bill, was discussed at
-I.;t''onles',-10.4.iii-ift, the House of Commons last night, and
*tsitte.49% ja pregnant example of the happy effect
groyi,,,t.
$.l /making men judges in their own case.
v<syA;,
AL a

-When a culprit is arraigned before himself, there is a
singularly cautious tenderness in dealing with the evi-
dence, and such a thing as a conviction is so rare,
-that we never recollect to have heard of one solitary
:instance. 'We suppose there must be some foundation
:in the constitution of human nature for this propensity
:in favour of self, and that therefore the framers of our
British Constitution laid it down as a fundamental
:maxim, that the judge, the jury, and the delinquent
:should always be three separate and distinct parties.
:Let us see how the opposite principle has worked in
:the case before us.

Great complaints have been made of the heavy bur-
den imposed in the shape of County-rates upon a
considerable portion of the community. So severely
has this pressure been felt by the agriculturists, that
they have made it a specific cause of the distress for
•which they claimed Parliamentary relief. Now, this
County-rate differs in this respect from all other
Rates, that those who pay it have no voice,
either in laying it on, or laying it out. The
:Magistrates—the great unpaid as they are called—
, assess, levy, and expend the money required for
County purposes, without being responsible to any
'ut themselves. Is this a safe practice ? Why,
it may be asked, is the great Constitutional principle
.of " no taxation without representation" here set at
nought ? Has any reason been assigned, or can any
reason be assigned, why there should be a special ex-
emption in this case ? We have heard of none—
most certainly there was none struck out in the edify-
ing collision which took place last night among the
Representatives of the people. When Mr. HUME
proposes to give the rate-payers some controul over
the expenditure of their own money, what is the
reply ? This—it is an insult to the magistracy of
England to suppose that they do -not economise the
funds of the tate-payers as carefully, as scrupulously,
as they themselves would do ! And those who give this
reply are the magistrates, who choose to be thus insulted.
We have here a second edition of the Corn-law busi-
ness, with this difference in favour of the framers of
the bread-tax, that they, when they made a law to
take money out of the pockets of the people to put
into their own, though nominally the representatives
of the people, were only the representatives of their
own breeches' pockets ; whereas those, who last
night denied the right of the people to call them
to account for the way in which they have spent
the public money entrusted to their charge, are
the Members of a reformed Parliament I I

There were some Hon. Gentlemen who on this oc-
casion pretended that they quite approved of the
principle of Mr. HumE's Bill ; but yet must vote
against it on account of the details. This is by-
pocris:i of the worst stamp. It is a mean
and cowardly attempt to disguise their hostility
to the principle under a false pretence ; because the
second reading, which was the point at issue, went no
farther than to establish the principle, and did not
bind them to one single matter of detail. The plain
and obvious course of every sincere well-wisher to the
principle was to have voted for the second reading of
the Bill ; and if the details could not he so adjusted
as to satisfy him in the succeeding stage, he
would have been at perfect liberty to have opposed the

measure.

We cannot omit noticing the more than usual de-
(Tree of spite towards his former colleagues, which the
Nob:e Dilly-driver manifested in his opposition to this
measure. It is, however, to be borne in mind that a re-
negade is always the most rancorous in his hatred of
those who adhere to the principles which he him-
self has deserted. Mr. E. STANLEY gave tins very
pert and equally shallow personage a very exemplary
strianning.

The sixth repot t of the Committee on public peti-
tions presented to the House of Commons made the
, number of petitioners against the abolition of Church-
rates amount to 9,595, and the petitioners against
Church-rates to 190,981. The seventh and latest
report makes the former amount altogether to 73,941,
and the latter to 309,959—thereby showing that not-
withstanlng the influence of the bishops, the exertions
of the clergy, and the disgraceful nodes of getting
up petitions, the number of petitioners in favour cf the
Bill has been nearly the double of those opposed to it.
The number of petitions on each side is pearly equal,
while the signatures of those who petition voluntarily
exceeds the signatures of those interested in abuses,
or deceived )v the Clergyman, in the proportion of
four to one. Can a stronger proof be required
of the state, of public feeling on the question ?
-If we throw out of account all those who signed,
because they did not wish to sec the parish church
in ruins, and the graves of their forefathers desecrated
—all those who share in the plunder of the rates—
that plunder amonnting to about 300,0001. a year,
and those who have an interest in Church lands,
or who are keeping their eyes fixed on the vast patro-
nege of the Bishops, what a miserable list of
names would be exhibited to the public I As it
is, not one parish in ten has yet sent up Pe-
titions, and these Petitions are signed at an ave-
' rage by about eighty persons each. If the Church
really is in danger, as the Bishops say, how few arc
prepared to come forward for her protection ? But this
shows, beyond the possibility of doubt, that the great
body of the people v.ew the question in its proper
light—that they see no danger to the Church of Eng-
land or the interests of religion, but that they consi-
der the Church property sufficiently ample to provide
for the Establishment without a yearly tax on the inha-
bitants of half a million sterling.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday have
been received. France is still without a Ministry.
On Monday evening Marshal So ULT and M. THIERS
had a second interview with the KING, which is sup-
posed to have terminated in an abrupt breaking off of
all further negotiations for the re-construction of the
Cabinet. According to the Opposition Journals M.
THIERS insisted on so many concessions being
made to him, before he would take charge of the
Portefeuille of the Interior, that the KING lost
his temper so far as ironically to thank the ex-
Premier for not making his abdication one of
the conditions of his service. We vouch not for the
authenticity of this anecdote, nor for that of any of
the various rumours which the visits of M. THIERS
at the chateau have put in circulation. That M.
TRIERS will impose hard conditions upon the KING
is no more than the latter must be prepared to expect.
THIERS was duped, betrayed, and sacrificed before by
his Royal Master ; and with the experience he has
had of the little reliance that can be placed on the KING'S
word, it would be passing strange did he not insist upon
such conditions as would serve ter shield him-
self from the further effects of Royal duplicity. When
Minister of the Interior, he was, by the KING'S or-
ders, kept in ignorance of the affairs of his department,
which were secretly transacted in private interviews be-
tween his MAJESTY and M. GASPARIN, then Minis-
ter of Police. As Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the
KING thwarted every liberal measure he proposed,
and only permitted him to make promises, with a
view to convince Europe that he lacked the power
of performing them, and that, in fact, Louis
PHILIPPE was both King and Cabinet. M.
TRIERS has forgotten nothing of all this. He
knows too, as well as any man in France, that
the KING dislikes and fears him, and he returns
the royal aversion with a Jew's per tentage of interest.
It is reported that (luting his interview with the KING
on Monday, he refused to enter the Cabinet except on

the following conditions :-1. That he should be Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs. 2. That France should
adopt a policy towards Spain as liberal as that of Eng-
land, and as constitutionally efficacious. 3. That he
should be allowed to declare in his public capacity
that France would never permit Don CARLOS to
ascend the Spanish Throne. 4. That he should have
for his colleagues SOULT, HUMANN, PASSY, and
some others whom he named, provided they were
willing to take office with him. And, finally, that he
should be free to inform the Chambers of the condi-
tions upon which he accented office ; the policy he
proposed to pursue ; the measures past or pending
of which he disapproved; and the conditions upon
which he would consent to retain the direction of pub-
lic affairs. The KING could not stomach such hard
terms as these, and in a moment of passionate excite-
ment is reported to have addressed M. TRIERS in
the terms quoted above.
M. DUPIN, President of the Chamber of Deputies,
had an interview with the KING on Monday. That
it had relation to the re-construction of the Cabinet
was generally believed ; but it is more likely that it
was connected with the arrival in Paris of M. DE
LUTTEROTH, First Secretary of the French Embassy
at Berlin, with the ratification Of the marriage con-
tract between the Duke of ORLEANS and the Prin-
cess Of MECKLENBURGII SCHWERIN. Whatever
was the subject of conversation between his MAJESTY
and the President, the latter left the Palace in a fit of
ill-humour. This is nothing remarkable. M. DUPIN
is proverbial for the testiness of his temper, and the
bitterness of his sarcasms. The KING humours him
a good deal, and no man understands. how to do so
more successfully ; but there are occasions when it is
impossible to avoid displeasing him.
The following extracts from the Journals contain
the only intelligence received this morning from the
North of Spain. Theteather is dreadfully severe in
the Basques. On Monday there was a heavy fall of snow
in Paris, which recommenced with increased severity
on Tuesday, at noon. The vine-growers anticipate
a bad season ; and in every part of France, the bad-
ness of the weather for so many months has greatly
depressed the hopes of the agricultural population.

Marshal Soult and M. Thiers have had to-day another con-
ference at the Tuileries. Their combination has failed, as we
predicted. It seems, however, that the Crown does not de-
sire to have recourse to the Doctrinaire Ministry, at least for
the moment ; and M. Mole is commissioned to attempt some
new combination. The marriage contract of the Duke of
Orleans and the Princess Helen has been received to day,
signed by the Princess and her family. M. Dupin was sum-
moned to the palace at one o'clock, to be made acquainted
with it. The Council of Ministers met this evening for the
same purpose.—Jovnal du Commerce.
The Constitutionnel say s that the " Marshal and M. Thiers,
taking leave of the King, said that their mission was fulfilled,
and that they had nothing to add to what they had said. His
Majesty declared that he must consider further. He had not
taken any resolution this evening. lie desired to see Marshal
Soult to- morrow, at ten o'clock."
A letter from Pampeluna, of the 4th, says—" The offen-
sive movements of our army are decidLd, but the excessive cold
which prevail delays the execution of it. General Irribaren is at
the ads anced p-sts ; he continues to station his troops at intervals
on the line of Val Carlos. Brigadier- General Conrad's Le-
gion, which forms the left of th; line, is placed on the two
sites of the road from Uarte to Puente la Reyna ; its outposts
extend to the place where that road meets the road from
Estella. Irribaran's intention is to advance towards Irun,
and thus connect his operations with those of Evans. This
combination will shortly lead to the attack on Elisondo, the
basis of the operations on the f. ontier line.
Saarsfield hrs recovered from his illness, but says that re-
taining the vice- royalt.: of Navarre, be leaves to Irriblrren
the command of the Corps of Operations, which, however,
will remain subject to his orders —Journal du Commerce.

/IIENCH FCNDS.—Pskis, APRIL it
Five per Cents., (ff. ;Pc. 6,:c. 9. c. 80c.
Feur per Cents., 9,f. Pec.
Three per I ,nt. 74f. 93c 79f.
Bank Actions, 2,41;1 50C.
Rente re Nal,!e2., 901 9.f. Inc sc.
Roman live pCI Cents., 10:34
Spinisli Actives, '24 Z4!,i3,,i7i.
Spanish P,ssivcs, t;
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, ICI%
Portuguese Thre, per Cents. :311.%.,4 !.4
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three tyt.tnti.s, 2ar. 30c.; mo..ey,3St. 2714 e
LAST PRICES.
Five per Ccitts., 1551.
Three pert eats. :tit' sc.
Bank Actions,
Rente 9df.
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Belgian Loin, 10 %.
Brussels rank, 1,3 e 2f 50c.
Pertuguese Three per Cents., SCS.
Nr‘tiv:..,3, 24'r1.
Spanish Pas Aves,
1) ffe.ee,
Belgian Society, !pall:

Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have
been received. The former state that letters from St.
Petersburgh announce that the EMPEROR has con-
ferred the highest mark of his personal regard on M.
de BA RANTE, the French Ambassador, by allowing
him to lead out the EMPRESS at a ball given at the
French Legation. This most important fact—worthy
of being chronicled among the Court records of the
cple,tial empire, had the event taken place in Pekin
—is followed by a fulsome string of compliments, hay-
or intended to have, reference to the ability, dig-
nity, patriotism, and what not of the French Ambas-
sador who, it appears, is more than a match for the
imperial Cabinet.
On the 8111 instant, a deputation from both Cham-
beriwaited on King LEOPOLD, to congratulate him
on the birth of the young Prince. The QUEEN is
doing well.

The snow was so deep in Belgium as to stop the
running of the diligcnces between Brussels and Na-
mur. In the neighbourhood of Liege, the snow was
twelve feet deep, and continued to fall without inter-
mission. Trade of every kind was stopped, and it had
become necessary to employ a company of Sappers and
Miners to recover vehicles lost on the roads. The
oldest inhabitants do not remember such a dreadful
a storm at so advanced a season of the year.
The German journals contain no news of any in-
terest. In one we find a long article in defence of the
political system of the reigning Dpke of MoDENA,
upon which we are not disposed to offer any comment.
The Duke may be an excellent private individual; but
he is only known in England for the countenance
which a venal press received from him when attacking
the free institutions of this country.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 13.-
Notice is hereby given that his Majesty will hold a Levee at
St. James's Palace on Wednesday next, the 19th instant, at
two o'clock, and on every succeeding Wednesday, till further
orders.

THE LATE LADY DE L'ISLE AND DUDLEY.—
The wedding of this much-regretted lady with Lord de L'lsle
and Dudley, then Capt. Philip Sidney, was solemnised on
the 13th August, 1825, and the ceremony was graced by the
presence of the Dukes of York and Sussex, and the fair bride
was given away by his Royal Highness the Duke of York.
Such was the anxiety of her ladyship's illustrious relatives at
Windsor Castle to learn her state, that expresses were sent
off on Monday night from Kensington Palace, when it became
evident that she was in imminent danger; and at nine P.M.,
on Tuesday, the medical gentlemen► in attendance on her
ladyship arrived at the Castle with theynelancholy intelligence
of her demise. Lady de L'lsle was said to be the favourite
daughter of her Royal father, and occasionally, it is stated in
the circles of the court, acted as his amanuensis. She has
left a numerous family of infant children to deplore her loss.
Lord de L'lsle is descended through his grandmother from the
celebrated house of Sydney, Earls of Leicester, whose gene-
alogical roll exhibits two of the brightest names in English
history, Sir Philip and Algernon Sidney. It having been re-
ported that the late Lady de L'lsle died from the effects of
her confinement, which took place five weeks ago, we are en-
abled to state that she had recovered remarkably well from
her accouchement, and was able to see her friends in her
drawing-room. Repeated attacks of influenza had weakened
her lungs and left a cough, which the state of the atmosphere
suddenly aggravated in the middle of last week, and fatal
effusion into the chest rapidly took place on Monday morning.
Lord De Grey received, on Monday last, the mem-
bers and friends of the Institute of British Architects, as Pre-
sident of that Society. His Lordship had also invited several
of the nobility and gentry distinguished by their love of archi-
tecture, who were present, as also the leading members of the
other scientific institutions of the metropolis. The whole suite
of rooms, both on the entrance and principal floors, were thrown
open on this occasion, and were admired for the ability and taste
with which they had been arranged and fitted up.
The health of the Duchess de St. Leu is not in so
alarming a state as has been reported. Dr. Lisfranc enter-
tains hopes that the painful operation be was sent for to per-
form will not be necessary.