The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-27 00:00:00

FRENCII PAPERS.

FARIS, JULY 24.—Aniong the petitions pre.
.sented to the Chamber of Deputies in the sitting
-of the '23d instant was one by a merchant of
aria, who prayed that the newspapers should
.giNe an account of all the,petitions reported, and
flu decisions of the Chamber on them. The
Chairman, in the name of the Committee, pro-
:poste to -pass to the Order of the Day, being of
,opinion that the journals ought to give full or
concise accounts of the Sittings. The Order of
the Day was adopted.
TRIBUNAL OF FIRST INSTANCE.

CAVE Of DIVORCE.
When divorce was abolished in 1814, the project of
a law, which was intended to regulate the effect on those
eases, !n which divorces had been already pronounced, was
. presented to the Chamber of Peers and adopted by it. 'rite
second clause of this project is in the following terms:—
%•"111046 who bare been already divorced, and who are not now '
married, are at liberty to marry again ; but every other mar-
riage ie interdicted till after the decease of one of the parties." '
The same projeet was presented to the Chamber of Deputies;
a Chairman wan named, and a day fixed for discussion ; but
the Session was so far advanced at the time, that it was not,
again brought forward.
• 116 question which came before the Court for its decision
to-day, Will not whether patties already divorced could contract
a new marriage; but in consequence of the non-adoption of
the projected law, the difficulty was increased by the citcum.
• stance of4he divorced person who wished to marry again, being
.4 foreigner, and also by the dissolution of the first marriage
having hem. pronounced subsequent to the law abolishing
divorce..
Ferny briefly, related the circumstances. A young Irish
'.lady named Maria Bryan, was married in her own country to
'Sir john Milky Doyle, a Colonel in the service of his Bri-
tannic Majesty. It appears that thin was an unhappy
union ; a divorce was pronounced tin the 20th of February,
Mi. by the Conabitorial ‘:ourt of Dahlia. 'Ms divorce wan
confirmed en the Ist of*July, 1022, by the King, with the ad-
vice of the Houses of Lords and Commons. Madame Bryan,
after thin divorce, in which it was formally expressed thateither
of the parties were at liberty to marry henceforward if they
pleased, eame to Prance. I I aving been captivated with the per-
soil and talent of M. Mansion, an historical painter, both pre.
stinted themselves before M. Crate, Mayor of the third Arron.
(abatement, and requested that officer to proceed to the celebration
of the marriage. M. Crette, having been apprised of the exist.
(Iwo of a divorce, referred them to the King's Procureur.
General, who, unwilling to make any decision upon the subject
himself, advised them, m so important a matter, to take the
'judgment of the Court. M. Percy. contended that in law
:111a:dame Bryan, an Irish lady, was 3n France entirely at her
own disposal, and ought, thereibre to be considered as perfectly
free. Ile compared this case to that of a French lady, divorced
'before the law of 1010, and who, according to that law, would
• still have the right of marrying again during the lifetime of her
former husband, since the project of law which would interdict
that power was reeeted.
The King's Advocate, after complimenting the Mayor upon
his prudence, discussed the question of stolid personnel in all
its relations, and contended that Madame Bryan, though di-
vorced both in England and Ireland, could not marry in 'Prance
'to the prejudice of a former union, which our laws looked upon
.as henceforward indissoluble. lie further gave it as his opinion
that those who were divorced before 1010, could not marry
again.
The judgment of the Court was deferred to Saturday, the
31st of July.

( From the Constiptiormd:

PARTS, Juror '24.-11t was previously announ
ced, that 111. de Chateauhriand was to make a speech in
the Chamber of Peers yesterday, on the question of Supple.
mentary Credit, which was to produce a great sensation. All
the trumpets of fume were ready to carry abroad the Parliamen-
• tary phillippie of the Ex.Miruster, Vi hat happened ? Al. de
'Cliateaubriand declined to speak, and the law was adopted, after
Itsiring a single orator. Thus the Noble Peer who had con-
stituted himself the Ades of the Counter.opposition, kept silent
on an occasion whichlia might have made important. The
'mountain in labour has not even brought fotth a mouse.—The
.fluke of Batumi bait published' a jiistitleatory exposf. Several
fittictionoriga implicated tr, the IMY.IIIO%* of the administration of
writ. in Spain, have given explications; and even M. Otivrard
• 11,04 written a note proses taut to prat lie was in the right to ransom
the treasury, tool that lie very innocently gained sixty-twt»nil-
' lions or more, in nine months. At present M. Sarren, armed
only with the hive of truth, has published a pamphlet under the
title of Des Marche* Outward, et de I" Esprit Politiltse et
wander tie M. de Vfllele, which is to give explanations and re.
• veal strange things. Although the object of this pamphlet
seems prittemally to justify the Duke of Mum), and it may,
in some measure, he regarded as a supplement to his Memoir,
Sarran, however, denies every imputation of being influen-
ced by any private interest. It is difficult to defend the Duke
of Belluno without attacking de Villele, the author of his
dismissal; it is equally diflieult to denounce the contracts of M.
Ouvrerd, without blaming the AdMinistration which concluded
tinsie contracts with him. M. Sarran has not neglected any
Ppportunity of discussing the acts of the Minister of Finance,
.end his administration. Aecordingic.lll. Sarno's, M. de Villele
set, only what is certain in the present, without at all
calculating tho future; he is jealous of every thing which
does not spring front himself. Ile is both hesitating
and hold, ambitious and confined. But it is on M. Ouvrard
that M. Sarnia is most severe. This Contractor, represented
as so clever, as an indispensible and unique.person, is now for..
silken by every body. The Ministry itself, ill at ease, has
given him Up as a prey, iinagining that his adversaries would
%take their victim and be *aligned ; experiment 'gm IN aNimh
illachiavelian policy is quite worthy of the old regime,
btu it is doubtful if it will now succeed. Whatever may be
'she ed'orta of the 'Ministry, it is impossible they can shield
4ti,snitcl yen behind M. Outward; and as soon as this weak ram-
TArt is atnitaistusl, they will re-appear with their disadvan7
rages. • if the contracts signed with M. Ouvrard are exorbitant,
s.'sodslous, the result of guilty intrigues; if they ate injuridus
i., the public, •it will be more difficult to absolve the num who
, consented to theist, thud him who profited by them. If 31.
fiairan may belielieved, there was no necesuty to treat with
tint lositractor. There was plenty of provisions, and their sup.
was assured; arrivals were multiplying, and the sudden
diu,onnination to give all into the hands of Ouvrard, at a
Pius priori, was witty tit any good cause whatever. Every thing
Itimi been foreseen—every thing would have succeeded without
the assistance of the Contractur—but hl. Ouvrard would not
twee pined 02 millions (frants). and France would have ob-
maned more economical, triumph.