The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their MAJESTIES entertained the Duke of Susstx,
Prince LEOPOLD, and a select party, at dinner, on Thurs-
day evening, at the King's Palace, St. James's. The
QUEEN had a concert in the evening, which was performed
principally by her Majesty's private band.
The Duchess of CUMBERLAND, the Duchess of GLOU-
CESTER, the Duke of SUSSEX, and Princess SOPHIA,
visited the QUEEN yesterday.
The KING and QUEEN left the Palace at St. James's at
a quarter before four o'clock, in a travelling carriage and
four, for their Palace at Windsor.
The Landgravine of HESSE HOMBURG dined with the
Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER yesterday, at Gloucester
House. . _ _

The QUEEN,
the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and the
Princess Sorina, visited the Princess AUGUSTA yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held at ten o'clock on Thursday
night at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the
whole of the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of Lord
IioLLANn, who was prevented by indisposition.
The Ministers remained in deliberation about two hours
and a half. _

Another Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at one o'clock, which was attended by Earl GREY, the
Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lord DURHAM, Viscount MEL-
BOURNE, Viscount PALMERSTON, Viscount GODERICH,
the Earl of CARLISLE, Viscount ALTHORI', the Right
Hon. C. GRANT, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and the Duke of
RICHMOND.,

Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the ATTeRNEY-GENERAL
were in attendance at the Foreign Office during the time
that the Council sat in deliberation.
The Council bruise up at half•past three o'clock.
The Russian and Austrian Ambassadors, and the
Prussian Minister, visited Viscount PALMERSTON yester-
day at the Foreign Office.
The congratulatory Address to his MAJESTY'S ➢iinisters
from the town and county of Pcole was on Thursday pre-
senter' to Earl GREY by J. TAYLOR, Esq., M.D.

RICHELIEU; A TALE OF THE COURT OF
FRANCE.—A Second Edition of this work by the author
of " De L'Orme" and " Darnley" has just appeared. The
concolrent voice of public approbation has justly stamped
it with the character of a standard work of fiction. The
portrait of the ambitious anti overbearing Cardinal, whose
despotic influence was not confined to France, but was
more or less felt by every part of Europe, is undoubtedly
one of the most extraordinary delineations given by any
modern writer.

STATE PENSIONERS.--On what principle
of common sense is it to be established, that the posses-
sion of a vast salary for a succession of years actually
forms a claim to be supported for life at the public ex-
pense? Lord SIDAIOUTH, for instance, was Speaker for
half his public life, with emoluments little short of 10,0001.
a-year. From the Speakership he was made Prime Mi-
nister, with at least the same income, and for the remain-
der of his political life was Home Secretary, at 6,0001.
a-year, with various emoluments besides. lie cannot
have received in the course of office less than 150,000/. !
yet we now have him a pensioner at 3,000/. a-year,
for the last half dozen years, and with a house in
Richmond-park besides. If we are to be told that he ex-
pended his receipts on his office, we demand the evidence
ask what instance of public liberality was ever ex-
hibited by his Lordship ? What great project of science,
what man of talents did he patronise ? What public work
bears his name ? For all those purposes he might as well
have been digging at the bottom of a Cornish mine. And
yet this man is to receive the enormous sum of 3,0001.
a-year from the pockets of a nation oppressed with a debt
of eight hundred millions ! Lord BEXLEY is a man
of large private fortune, yet his gratitude too we must
cherish at the rate of 3,0001. a-year. Then comes Mr.
Goommax, and his merits are, that after being handsomely
salaried in English office for a number of years, he was
made Secretary in Ireland, at 6,0001. a year; a calamity
which this Right Honourable person endured for three
years; and now finds his endurance, after a two years'
receipt of the salary of Chancellor of the Exchequer be-
sides, or 12,0001., entitled to the further payment of
1,0001. a-year for life ! This man's appliance to the
public purse must have been at least to the amount of
50,0001., and probably a great deal more : yet here
we have a heavy annuity to pay him still. The system
must be extinguished, whoever may be Minister.— Whit-
taker's Magazine.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, MARCH S.

The Chamber resumed the discussion of the Electoral
Bill, and after disposing of several articles merely regulat-
ing forms, came to Article 64, which, as amended by the
Committee, declared that " The function. of Deputy were
incompatible with those of Prefect, Sub-Prefect, and cer-
tain other public offices ; but this provision was not to be
applicable to the Prefects and Sub-Prefects of the depart-
ment in which was the seat of Government."
M. Odillon Barrot did not vote, and on several of his
neighbours reminding him that he had now no interest in
the question, he could not refrain from laughing heartily.
The other branches of the Article having been adopted--
no Prefect or Sub-Prefect can in future be a Member of
the Chamber of Deputies.
M. Isambert proposed an amendment that each Member
should receive 20f. a day daring the session.—(Laughter.)
The Hon. Member proceeded to review the 'proceedings of
the Chambers throughout the period of the Restoration.
What Chambers, he said, could be more venal than those
which had succeeded each other since 1815 ?—;Here the
lion. Member was interrupted by an explosion of murmurs
from both the Centres.)
A hundred Deputies at once called aloud " Order,
order," with violent gestures. M. Agier went with haste
to M. Isambert, and made him the most earnest remon-
strances. M. Lemercier, with a voice that predominated
over the general tumult, exclaimed, " It is an indignity !
an insult ! an atrocity ! Order ! order ! order !" and even
some were beard to cry " A bus Isambert !"
M. Isambert, after the tumult had somewhat subsided,
continued—" I have said, and I repeat, what Chambers are
more venal than those sines 1815 ?"—(Here a new thunder
of disapprobation interrupted time sentence. Members from
every part of the Assembly raised their voices against the
speaker, and demanded that he should be called to order.)
The President, with some emotion, said that it belonged
to the Chair alone to call a Member to order. He then
called upon M. Isambert to explain.
M. Jacquinot de Pampelune, in speaking of the amend-
ment, animadverted on the illegality of the domiciliary
visits lately made by order of Government.—M. Cor-
cellos here interrupted the orator, and told him he was not
himself so over scrupulous when he exercised the functions
of Attorney-General, " for," said M. de Corcelles, " you
ordered me to be arrested in the most brutal manner by
your agents, who placed a naked sword at my breast."—
(The Chamber was thrown into great confusion by this
incident.)
de Montalivet, Minister of the Interior, rose to
explain. He stated that these domiciliary visits were
made with all the form of law, except in one instance,
when they were instituted by an adjoint. The Ministry
instantly requested the Mayor of the district to send in his
resignation, which was immediately accepted. He then
supported M. Dupin's amendment. He had, he said,
given orders to the Prefects to draw up the electoral lists
with as much haste as possible, and lay the time the
Chamber had voted the four-twelfths, and the Chamber
of Peers the electoral law, the Ministry would be prepared
to convoke the Colleges in the period fixed by M. Dupin.
M. Vatismenil opposed the amendment, because it
would be prolonging the present Chamber a month longer
than it was otherwise contemplated by the Ministry.
M. de Berbis said that the Ministry might be sorry to
have uttered the word " dissolution," and he was still
willing to preserve the present Chamber. lie wished the
financial laws to be voted before the dissolution took place.
M. Lepelletier d'Aulnay made a laudatory panegyric on
the present Legislature since the 3d of August last, de-
claring that it had well deserved of the country.--( Here
an ironical laughter from one of the tribunes was fixed
upon the Reporters, and their gallery was ordered to be
cleared instantly by the President. However, on the re-
monstrance of the cote gauche and the orator himself, this
measure was not carried into execution.)
(From the Courrier Francais of Wednesday.)

PA it's. —The retirement of M. slerilhou from the Ministry
gave rise to a variety of rumours respecting the formation
of a new Cabinet. It was said that the appointment of
his successor was adjourned, because the latter was making
terms before he would accept, and that M. d'Argout would
hold the portfeuille of Justice ad interim. M. Comte
has been replaced by M. Desmortiers. Meanwhile our
affairs are advancing as if the Ministry of the Centre were
installed. Carlist plots, plans of insurrection, depots of
arms and gunpowder are daily discovered ; and, by way
of removing the danger, patriots alone are arrested. This
was exactly the system followed by the Directory ;—an
absurd and fatal system, which must be productive of bit-
ter results for the Government and country.
FLORENCE, FEB. 26.—The Duchess of St. Leu (wife
of Louis 3uonaparte), expelled from Rome, has arrived
here. It would appear that Rome cannot hold out much
longer. In a few days we expect to hear that all the
Ecclesiastical States will have shaken off the yoke.

A national association has been formed, to ensure the
independence of the country, and the perpetual expulsion
of the eldest branch of the Bourbons. The following is a
prospectus of the Union :
" Considering that the partisans of the fallen dynasty
have lately attempted to brave the revolution of July in
the centre of the capital, and to perpetrate an act of au-
dacity against the national independence ; that the poten-
tates of Europe, who follow the code of the Huly
are preparing and directing formidable armaments against
us ; that the accomplishment of these impious projects
would be followed by a horrible course of revenge ; that
in the midst of a warlike population, always the bulwark
of France, there is reason to hope that the National Guards
and citizens of every class will hasten to respond to the ap-
peal now made to their patriotism :
" The undersigned make known—

" Art 1. An association has been formed in the de-
partment of Moselle, for the purpose of ensuring the inde-
pendence of the country, and the perpetual expulsion of
the eldest branch of the Bourbons.

" 2. All those shall be members of this Society who
shall subscribe their names upon a list, to be left at the
constitutional meeting.

"3. Each member shall enter into an engagement to
pay a monthly sum el 25 centimes.
" 4. All the n.letnbers shall bind themselves upon their
lives and honour to bear every personal sacrifice to oppose
foreigners and the Bourbons, and never to join with them,
no matter what extremity the country may he reduced to.

" 5. The members shall meet on the 20th of March
next, for the purpose of appointing a Committee to carry
into effect the objects of the Association, and extend it,
not only throughout the Moselle, but to the adjoining de-
partments.
" 6. The Committee will receive the subscriptions, and
render a strict account thereof."