The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

( From the Paris Papers of Friday.)
On Wednesday evening their Majesties received his Ex-
cellency Lord Granville, the Austrian Ambassador, 'the
American, Spanish, Brazilian, Bavarian, Saxon, Danish,
and Swedish Ministers, the Swiss Charge d'Affaires, and
the President of the Council of Ministers. A great num-
ber of, foreigners were presented by their respective
Ministers.

His Excellency Lord Granville presented to their Ma-
jesties at the Tuileries on Wednesday evening the follow-
ing English gentlemen, to whom it was remarked that the
King showed much affability :—Lord Francis Gordon,
Lord Dinorben, the Hon. C. H. Percy, Hon. Mr. Winn,
Hon. E. Plunkett, Attache to her Majesty's Embassy, ssir
A. Malet, Sir R. Abercromby, Sir J. de Courcy Laffan,
Sir T. P. Hays, Lieut.- Gen. Sir J. Bathurst, Lieut.
Peirse, Captain Ellis, Captain Hughes, Lieut.-Colonel
Downing, Captain Carr, Colonel Saunderson, Lieut.
Ramsbotton, Rev. G. Hill, Rev. Mr. Cromie; Messrs.
Quintin Dick, M. P. ; Mackinnon, M.P. ; Milnes, M.P. ;
Hobhouse, M.P. ; T. L. Murray, Kemp, Hughes, C.
Ellis' Lloyd, Borthwiek, J. Scott, Redd, Sergeant Ga-
selee Benson, Perry, Antony FrenFls (of Florence),
Saunderson, Hamilton, Stirling, Dickinson, and Nathan
Moatefiare.
The Infante and Infanta of Spain yesterday dined with
their Majesties and the Royal family. In the evening, as
we announced would be the case, there was a dramatic
representation at Court, the company of the Opera Comique
performing the Domino Noir.
The Chambre des Mises en Accusation of the Cour
Royale has decided that there are grounds for prosecution
against the responsible Editor of the National, for the ar-
ticle inserted on the 11th ultimo, for which, as we an-
nounced, that journal was seized, and has ordered the trial
to take place before the Court of Assizes. The charge
against the printer has been dismissed.
Yesterday the Academic Francaise elected two members
in place of M. Nepomucene Lemercier and the Marquis
de Pasteret, who died last year. On a ballot for a suc-
cessor to M. Lemercier, M. V. Hugo, one of the candi-
dates had:l7 votes, and M. Ancelot, the other candidate, lb
votes. M. Victor Hugo was consequently elected. On
the ballot for the successor to the Marquis de Pastoret, the
Count de St. Aulaire, French Ambassador at Vienna, had
21 votes out of 31. His competitors, M. Aisne Martin
and M. Bouilly, had each five votes. M. de Aulaire was,
of course, also proclaimed member of the Academy. The
election for a successor to the Viscount do Bonald, de-
ceased, is postponed till the 21st instant.
Dr. Charles Cuny, who bears the title of Osman Bsy,
in the service of Mehemet Ali, has arrived in Paris from
Alexandria. The Temps states that he is said to be en.
trusted with a diplomatic mission.
The Univers states that M. Boma e, French Consul
at Beyrout, who was recalled by M. Thiess for having
supported the Syrians in their revolt, has been re-appointed
to his post by M. Guizot.
The National gives the following account of the re-
ported affair between an English and a French ship in the
Red Sea, affirmed to be authentic, and to have been trans-
mitted from Chandernagore to a Member of the Chamber
of Deputies. (We shall he glad to hear the account of
the affair given by the Elphinstone):
" A commercial vessel, belonging to Bordeaux, armed
with six guns, and laden with 4uakets, had entered into
communication with the Arabs rm.._ the east coast of the
Red Sea, when the Elphinstone,ime of the East India
Company's ships, cruising in tht lame latitude, and ac-
quainted, no doubt, with the natuig of the cargo of the
French vessel, ordered her to leaaes'the shore without de-
livering her freight. The brig .refused to desist. The
English ship, which carried 2,3 ..guns, had recourse to
force. An engagement ensued. After exchanging shots
for several hours, the Englishman drew off, and made sail
for Calcutta, leaving the Bordelais master of the field."
A St. Petersburgh letter, quoted by the Coneitution-
nel, states that the Russian cruisers in the Black Sea have
recently captured three English ships, laden with warlike
stores for the Circassian', and which had been freighted
at Bir by the British Consul of Erzeroum.
A Constantinople letter, quoted by the Constitutionncl,
says that Reschid Pacha has declared that, in case of Me-
hemet Ali being allowed to retain Egypt, the hatti-scheriff
of Gulhane should be made obligatory throughout his pa-
chalic. Mustapha Pacha, Governor of Candia, had been
officially invested with the pachalic of that island by the
Porte.

Another letter of the 18th ult., given by the Univers,
states that a Commissioner would certainly leave the
Turkish capital in a few days fur Alexandria to receive
the fleet. " The question," it adds, '° is generally consi-
dered here as finished ; the representatives, however, of the
convention of the 15th of July have not yet taken any
steps in favour of Mehemet Ali, as had been said to have
been agreed on at London with France."
Extract of a Malta letter, 28th ult., in the National :
" Accounts from Alexandria represent the Egyptian ques-
tion as far from being settled. Ibrahim, far from intend-
ing to return into Egypt, is believed to be preparing to
take advantage of the ab,ence of the allied squadrons,
and attempt to recover the positions he had lost. The
forces he has to oppose to the inefficient troops of Turkey
are made to amount to 30,00) men. An idea of treating
directly with the allied Powers for the inheritance of
Egypt and Pachalic of Acre is attributed to him."
A letter from Marmorice Bay, 18th ult., quoted by the
Commerce, states that when Commodore Napier sailed in
there, on his return from Alexandria, in the Powerful, the
crews of the other ships anchored in the bay saluted him
with three cheers. The Hecate steamer had sailed with
engineer officers to repair the fortifications of Beyrout.
Advices from Frankfort, quoted by the Augsburgh
Gazette, say :—" Our last news from Berlin is very pacific
on the subject of the answer given by the French Cabinet
t 3 the demand by Austria and Prussia for explanations as
to its continued armaments. M. Guizot was much pleased
at this demand being made in a confidential manner, since
it note from the Germanic Confederation would have
threatened the existence of the Ministry of October 29,
and increased the exasperation of France. The Powers
are told that the present Ministry found affairs, and prin-
cipally the armaments, in the same state in which they
now arc; that it was impossible to suspend these arma-
ments abruptly, or to reduce the army as long as France
remained isolated ; that, convinced of the policy of pre-
saging the peace of Europe, they would use all possible
efforts to attain this object, and that they hoped above all
things, that the Chamber would make difficalties in voting
the enormous sums required for maintaining an army of
500,000 men."
The Augsburgh Gazette states that the Austrian Levant
squadron has been ordered to return to the poets of the
Adriatic for the winter.
On occasion of the fete-day of the Emperor Nicholas,
on the 18th ult., there was a grand promotion in the Rus-
sian army, by which eighteen Major-Geuerals were raised
to the rank of Lieutenant-Generals, and twelve Colonels
to that of Major-Generals.
The Treaty, concluded in September and ratified on the
15th ult., between Hamburgh and Denmark, for the adhe•
sion of the former State to the Holstein and Lubeck Cus-
toms Union, has been published in the Hamburgh papers.
The Sentinelle of Toulon says that there is a rumour
prevalent in the port of Admiral Baudin being ultimately
intended to have the command of the Levant squadron.
The trial of Darmes, it is now said, will definitively
commence on the 15th instant.

CHAMBER OF PEERS—StrTilso or JANUARY 6.
The President took the chair at two o'clock.

The Marvis de Dreux Brezc said—Gentlemen, in re-
ply to what was stated yesterday by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, I beg to say that I never intended to blame the
Duke of Orleans with respect to the change of the
succession in Spain; on the contrary, I intended to praise
it. I had not at hand the same sources of information
as the Minister for Foreign Affairs, but I can say that I
was not the first person to state what I have stated, and
which was contradicted yesterday for the first time.
Up to yesterday it had generally been regarded by
the public as an authentic fact ; and, as grand officer
df the King's house, I knew, as did also my col-
leagues, that Charles X., who had for the house of Or-
leans an affection, of which I was the frequent witness,
said to its head, when speaking of the events which had
occurred in Spain, " My cousin, these events regard you
more directly than they do me." I will not say more. I
was only anxious that the Chamber should have no doubt
of the sincerity of my intentions, and of the good faith
which lam desirous of exercising in every discussion. I
spoke also of the protest made in 1830 by my Noble and
Very Honourable Friend, the Viscount de Saint Priest.
I am able, if the Chamber will permit me, to communi-
cate this protest.
The President—l think it is foreign to the question.
The Marquis de Dreux Breze-1 have said that, in my
opinion, the protest of M. de Saint Priest oaght to have
been followed up by the Government; but I will not dwell
on that. One fact, however, has recurred to my memory,
which I must beg permission to mention. It is this :—At
the period of which I have spoken Queen Isabella was not
born. Queen Christina was then pregnant, and a Prince
might have been born, in which hypothesis the question
was undecided.