The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF ORLEANS AT

CHANTILLY.

The festivities at the chateau of Thursday evening
were kept up till an early hour on Friday. There was
a dance in the theatre after the play, and a grand supper
concluded the enjoyments of the night. The presents
given to the performers this evening by the Duke and
Duchess of Orleans were very handsome. Mdlle. Docile
and Mdlle. Balthazar received brooches set with stones.
Arnol was paid 500 f. for the evening, and his expenses.
The cost of the dramatic representation of this evening,
and the same for the other day, is estimated at 4,000 f.
On Friday evening, after the dinner given by the Duke
and Duchess of Orleans, the Gymnase company per-
formed Bocquet Pere et Fils and Les Vieux Peches. Some
elegant presents were made to the performers by their
Royal patrons. 11.Idlle. Nathalie received a rich bracelet,
Mdlle;Jullienne a gold pin, and Mdlle. Maria a gold
chain.

On Saturday there was a stag hunt in the forest, in
which the Prince took part ; and a stag, which was
driven near the chateau, was killed in the presence of the
Duchess of Orleans, and the ladies who were his Royal
HighneSs's guests. The animals'were brought into the
grand court, and reckoned over by torch-light. •
The Constitutionnel gives the following particulars of
the Duke of Orleans's hunting establishment:—
" Hunting is out of date ; our customs and the divi-
sion of estates are contrary to its continuance ; nor does
it find in the higher classes the opulence necessary to
its maintenance. The Duke of Orleans piques himself,
and with some show of reason, upon his taste for the
chase ; in this he does not bow to prejudice, but to wise
considerations. Nevertheless, he to this pleasure de-
votes only what a Prince may devote. His principal
hunting 'establishment is at St. Germain's, under Firmin,
his first whipper-in. The pack is not numerous, but suf-
ficiently well broken-in to catch a stag in two hours or
two hours and a half, the mean time. Generally the
runs take place without the Prince, M. de Cambis being
his representative. MM. de Nicolai, Beranger, de
Caumont, de Laigle, and Godefroy Jadan, often attend
them, for the purpose of choosing subjects for their
tableaux.

" The pack accomplishes its four runs or five a month,
and the result is honourable enough and positive enough
to merit some attention. A recent fact will give an
idea of the quality and ardour of the dogs. The pack
was one morning at play upon the terrace of St.
Germain's, a promenade which it patronises twice a
day regularly ; the dogs started a hare, which was
a-squat at the foot of the palings, and hunted it right
outside of the forest, through the gate Dauphine. In
the evening Mr. Birkett, an English gentleman, came by
the pack on horseback, and accompanied by a mongrel
cur, of a size and colour likely to remind the dogs of
the hare they lost in the morning. Scarcely had our
horseman passed the pack than, abruptly turning round,
he set off at full gallop without calling his dog, which was
playing very prettily with a few leaves a short distance
off. Bow-wow turning about to look for his master. saw
him already far enough away, and took to his heels after
him ; but by this precipitate departure edged on the pack,
which forthwith set off full speed too, and, in spite of
the efforts of the whipper-in, and of the hounds' valets,
who, in consequence of the mishap of the morning, were
more attentive than before, the poor wretch of a dog
was hunted full cry, and with unparalled obstinacy to the
bridge of the Picq, where he was caught and torn to
pieces.

THE CHARTISTS AND PHYSICAL FORCE
MEN DEFEATED WITH THEIR OWN WEAPONS,—A
meeting was held, on Monday evening last, at Carpcnters'
Hall, convened by a Chartist placard, to consider the
propriety of electing Dr. M‘Douall to the Convention,
for another fortnight ; and it was announced, that that
true friend of the people, C. J. Harney, would address
them. There were various prices charged for admission
to the platform. the body of the room, and the gallery.
The Chartists a.,se.illikscl and commenced ; but it appears,
that some scurrilous attacks on Mr. O'Connell, in the
Northern Star, had so aroused the feelings of his country-
men in this town, that they determined on meeting. the
Chartists on their own ground. They mustered in great
numbers, and succccth'd in displacing the Chartist chair-
man, and putting in the chair one of themselves. They
carried,of
a
by ‘a, r
(pa
e very
f the union w
decided
majority,
Chartists, endeavouring to disturb the proceedings, were
i ithlreland ; and the
a resolution in
favour
twice or thrice ejected in a body from the hail they have
looked upon as their own peculiar and exclusive ground.
They were driven down the stairs with the greatest pre-
cipation ; and showed themselves almost as good at run-
ning away, as at shcuting and brawling, when practising
on the forbearance of public
Meetings.—Manchester
Guardian.

and of Messrs. Baines
of the money was
BURGLARY.—lnfOrrnation was given at Bow-
street on Wednesday, that the premises of Messrs.
and Newsome, booksellers, Leeds.,. were on sythrday
innoWsls.,
notes,g;oid principally
Edward Baines and Sons, printers,
'•Lt brul-f-,11 and rubbed o: fre:n 12i. to 1,,0, •••
cispilavlclyr.ofAtibieouLteeldOso/13.
Banking
Company.
A reward is offered for the detection of the thieves.