The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

* A View of the Resources of all Nations. Parts I,
and 11. By H. Fraser, Esq. London : Smith, Strand
Wyld, West Strand ; Sherwood, Piper, and Co., Pater•
noster-row, &c.

-Elsewhere in our impression of this evening
will be found a rather curious chapter of Parisian
gossip, furnished by the correspondent of one of
our morning contemporaries. We have considered
it advisable to transfer the narrative to our
columns, not merely from the interest with which
our readers cannot fail to peruse any account,
however shadowy; that tends to illustrate the
family history of the house of BONAPARTE, but
also because, by so doing, we are enabled to warn
the public mind in its regard against one or two
very singular misrepresentations. It will be ob-
served that tha account transcribed from the
Morning Chronicle has reference to the expulsion
from France of the Countess de Sono and her
brother by order of the Imperial Government.
The writer therein states that the lady in ques-
tion is the daughter of LETITIA (fourth child of
LUCIEN, Prince di CANINO, brother of NAPOLEON
the Great) by her marriage with the Right Hon.
THOMAS WYSE, who has been for several years
past, and is still, accredited to the Court of
Athens as her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador.
Not long since we ourselves fell into a similar
error inadvertently. Shortly afterwards, how-
ever, we took occasion to correct the uninten-
tional mis-statement made by our journal in this
particular, by announcing, " upon authority,"
that the only offspring of those nuptials were two
sons, both still surviving, namely ALFRED NAPO-
LEON and WILLIAM BONAPARTE. Remembering
that, as we have just remarked, we were once the
means of promulgating the same error which has
now been reiterated by our morning contemporary,
we are the more anxious to avail ourselves of the
opportunity here presented tens, by again rendering,
this journal the medium of an authoritative con-
tradiction.

Besides the blunder already pointed out, it
should be observed that there are others which
have crept into the communication of this same
Paris Correspondent. ' Not merely is the writer
mistaken in stating the Countess de SoLms to be
the daughter of the English Ambassador in
Greece—his Excellency having, as already ob-
served, only the two children before particularised
—but, if our memory does not fail us very mar-
vellously, he is also misinformed in his allusions
to the wedding of the lady in question ; and this,
moreover, both in regard to the time and circum-
stances of its celebration. Unless our recollection
of events on the opposite shores of the Channel
deceives us very wonderfully, this wedding—the
wedding of MARIE STADHOLMINE LETITIA and
the Count de SoLms—instead of occurring in
1849, as stated by the Correspondent of our
contemporary, took place in 1848, being, conse-
quently, before and not after the election of the
Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON to the chief magistracy
of the Republic. Equally erroneous, if we mis-
take not, is the assertion that the marriage was
attended by the various members of the Imperial
fizaily, who thereby afforded it their countenance.
Whether this latter circumstance, however, be
accurate or not, there can be little doubt that
the incident recently described by the Morning
Chronicle is not very likely to terminate at the
point at which it has now arrived. There aro
lights and shadows in the picture dim enough
at present—that must, before long, we conjecture,
be rendered in some degree, at least, more ap-
parent. Whatever events may transpire cut of
these occurrences, we shall endeavour to place
the facts before the public accordingly as they
may arise, as befits the duty of impartial and con-
scientious journalism.

A deputation of the Board of the Atlantic and Pacific
Junction Company had an interview with the Minister
of the United States, at his official residence in Port-
land-place, on Saturday.