The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-09 00:00:00

PHILIPPE.

Last night a letter, of which the following is a transla-
tion, was deHvered at our office:—

" South-Eastern Station, April 8, Bridge llotel.

" SlR,—Yesterday, about four o'clock, the King was
suddenly attacked with illness. Fortunately M. Pas-
quier, his Majesty's surgeon, happened to be at the
Palace of the Tuileries. He saw that the face was dis-
torted, and deemed it necessary to proceed without delay
in bleeding the patient copiously. The state of the King
having become worse, M. Pasquier ordered two consecu-
tive operations of cupping. At half..past five, the time
of my departure by the special train, there was no change
in the alarming condition of his Majesty, who had not
then recovered his consciousness. The members of the
corps diplomatique were arriving at the Tuileries iu order
to ascertain the real state of the King.
" I have the honour, &c.,
n*** * * * *

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 9.—Wind W.S.W., fresh gale and
sgnally.
OTF MARGATE, APRIL B.—Oriental, Wilson, Calcutta.
OFF RAMSGATE, APRIL B. Susan King, St. Lucia.
DEAL, APRIL B.—Wind W., strong and squally.—
Arid. Alice, Jamaica; Sarah Birkett, Puddow, Porto
Rico. Arrd. from the River, John, New York. Put back,
Isabella, Quebec.
COWES, APRIL B.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Claudius
Civilia, Ingeman, Batavia.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. John
Bull, Crawt.Ard, New Zealand and Girk; James Camp-
bell. Graham, London—crew in a state of mutiny.
ihrilanNt.,sWon.,,freshantl
Calcutta; s gsuaeirlay.
—Arrd-LiN-E
la°bLe'l l APRIL
Watson, ITT
phina, Taylor, Paraiba, sailed 7th ult.; Reliance, Bed-
ford, ditto; Walton, St. Domingo; Albama, 3l'Bride,
Ps° I.R t
Laguna; Belinda, Kelly, New Orleans; Sisters, Christen,
Mobile; Mersey, Collin, Apalachicola; Marmion, Ed-
wards, New York. Off port, Lord Ashburton, New
Orleans; nry Gardner, ditto ; Queen Pomare, Ara-
mints, and Prince of Waterloo.
MARGATE, APRIL B.—The Baptiste Marie, Charente
to London, got on the Mitigate Sand this morni •
ng, but
assish d off, very leaky, &c.. after partly discharging.
LIMERICK, APRIL 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Car-
mcly Farahan, Bruinholrn, New York.
LERWICK, MARCH 24.—Sid. Resolution, Davis's
Straits ; Joseph Green, ditto.
t•IIIELDS, APRIL B.—Wind W.N.W., strong gales.—
Sld. Hong Kong.
IJARTLEPOOL, APRIL B.—Wind W., strung.--Bids
Esoina, Montreal ; Percy, Quebec.
CLYDE, APRIL 7.—Wind S. Arrd. Medora,
M‘Pherson, Trinidad ; Mary, Harrison, Havannati.
KINGSTOWN, APRIL 7.—Wind W.N.W. Arrd.
Glarnmis Castle, Duncan, New York.
IIAJITLAND QUAY, APRIL B.—The Native, of Cork,
went on share last night a mile to the westward, and is
expected to heck me a wriek. Crew and passengers
saved.
A SNAKE FANCIER.—We were not a little cur- LEITH. A 7 cznl P • George,
A,PRlLQuebec.
prised on Saturday last to see a man with a bundle of I IIuLL, APRIL B.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Ross, Quebec.
snakes which he had turned to a singular state of doci- FALMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind W., squally.—Arrd.
lity. He spread them out on a table and took every Rio Packet, Harry, P,ri:ambuco, sld. 18th February ;
kind of liberty with them, twisting, and turning them Ellen Bryson, Jones, Honduras, sld. 16th February, with
about at pleasure without the animals aPPe9ring to be in &c., boats stove, and logs of bulwark-.
any way annoyed. It did not appear that the sting of BRISTOL, APRIL B.—Arrd. Brilliant, Evans, Pore
the reptiles had been extracted, and we are informed Rico. Sid. 6th, lt• ltaucv, Boston.
that the person is a regular snake fanci,r, and that he
..ARTLEPooL, APRIL B.—'l lac Ellen Murrray,
has some secret by which he has obtained the command Jersey, has put in here, with loss of foremast, &c., hav-
over those reptiles.—Port Philip Gazette.
jog been in contact this morning of Whitby.

The writer of the letter adds his name, but it is one
with which we are totally unacquainted. Our own ex-
press, which left Paris at five, P. M., on Wednesday, is
silent on the subject; and on inquiry at the French Em-
bassy at a late hour, we were informed that no intelli •
Bence of the sort had arrived there. We submit the
communication, nevertheless, to our readers, because we
do not feel justified in suppressing it, though we have no
means of verifying the statement it contains.—Post.

An exact copy of the above letter was left at our
office at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon. We
immediately instituted inquiries in various quarters, and
having ascertained that no special train had recently
arrived at the South Eastern station; and that the
various authorities, who must have been aecre of the
fact of the illness of the King of the French, had such
an occurrence taken place, had received no information
on the subject, we concluded that the whole affair was
either a stupid attempt at a hoax or a fraud concocted
for stock-jobbing purposes, and theraore took no notice
whatever of the letter or its contents.—[ED. Sun].