The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
The Courrier Francaiscontains the following:---,, The
question upon the Peerage made some progress yesterday.
A meeting was held at the house of the President of the
Council, at which several Peers attended. The project of
the Government was taken into consideration. If the
reports on the subject are to be credited, the hereditary
right to sit in the Chamber of Peers is given up ; but the
Government persists in requiring for the Crown the pre-
rogative of direct election and unlimited angrosmtation of
the number of Peers. Such are the bases upon which it
is proposed to reconstitute the Chamber of Peers. The
only matter of difficulty is, how to obtal' a a majority in the
Chamber of Deputies, so many of the Members having
bound themselves by solemn and Ell- stinct pledges upon the
subject." The National says—"ai It is stated that the Bill
which the Government is prep' sling relative to the constitu-
tion of the Peerage, will cons'
.st simply in declaring the statu
tiro4 for three years. Ace'. ,rding to some, article 23, on the
hereditary descent, is to 1-
,e cancelled, and the King is to cre-
ate Peers for life, who w ill naturally be chosen from among
-the sons of Peers ; all the rest are to be maintained till the
session of 1834. A
.ccording to others the subject is to
be postponed to a• a indefinite period. The haste with
which the Govern' ,vent has resolved to present a Bill on
the Peerage, of v ;bids no opinion had been found at the
,drawing up the speech from the throne, leads us to think
`that something very extraordinary is about to be brought
'.i'itrivard." T' ae Quotidienne says—" According to very
confident sts!'
.ements, no fewer than 116 Peers have re-
solved to witl ,draw frora the Chamber, in case the heredi-
tary descent. ,f the Peerage should be suppressed."
We have' intelligence from Warsaw to the 4th instant.
A" officer' of the corps of General Roland, in a letter pub-
-11'1'd in e .e State Gazette, accuses General Chrapowski
r)i. being the principal cause of the unfortunate issue
of the I .ithuanian expedition. It was he who, after
the affair of Schawle, retreated, without informing any
body of it, towards the Prussian frontier, and entered
"t" nef :ociations with the Prussians. General Bo-
land, pr essed bard by the Russians, wished to join the
corps of Chrapowski, in order to increase his forces. He
;followed , but could not reach him. General Roland had
an "co unter with the Russians near Dowandyine, in which
the Litt, o• sustained considerable loss. He was at Gordzi,
half aI. 'acne front the Prussian frontier, when he heard
that GE neral Chrapowski bad induced General Gielgud to
pass th. , frontier. General Gielgud proceeded southwards,
still hot ting to hold out for several days, but pressed on all
sides b' i the Russians, was soon obliged to take refuge
likewis. !on the Prussian territory. The Generals of Bri-
gade C hi Zillowski and Romarino have been appointed Ge-
nerals i d' Division.
M. v. Cayrot, a French physician at Warsaw, has repeated.
the bo Id experiment of the celebrated Desgenettes m
Egypt. In order to ascertain the possibility or impossi-
bility 0 f the cholera being communicated by contact, he has
caned himself to be inoculated with the blood of a living
person - with the disease.
I3y a Royal ordinance, dated the 13th instant, the de-
molition of the Archbishop's Palace is averted, it being
fotund in ,possible to repair it. An hotel in the rue de
Cie is i ppropriated as a residence for the Archbishop.
Jt is iate: .Hied to form a public promenade upon the site of
eye old pi dace.
'She R. .yal court has directed M. Marrast and M. Bus-
fors of the Tribune, to be prosecuted before the
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Assizes for defamation against the President of
Court ....
cis and the Minister of War.
the Coun
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