The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-19 00:00:00

Count Werdhelm and M. Eugene Terrisse, were
present. Count Werdhelm communicated to the
Diet the declaration of the legislative body of Neuf-
chatel, stating that though they complied with the
decree of the Diet, the legislative body insisted
upon the preservation of the sovereign rights of the
canton with regard to the integrity of its constitu-
tion, and its relations with the King of Prussia, as
Sovereign of Neufchatel. The President proposed
to the Diet a resolution relative to the troops which
had received orders to occupy the canton of Neuf-
chatel, and had marched for their destination. A
letter from the Council of State of Neufchatel was
then read. It announced the appointment of the
deputies above-mentioned, with full powers to settle
the affairs of the canton in an amicable manner.
Upon the motion of the deputies from Berne, the
troops sent against Neufchatel were ordered to be
disbanded.

PARIS, SEPT. 15.

(From the Times Private Correspondent.)

The last packet arrived from Palermo has, notwith-
standing some official previous denials, more insincere
than deceitful, brought to Naples the Duchess de Berry
and her little band of titled followers. No sooner were
her arrival and affectionate reception by her family known,
as well as the understood intention of the Government
to wink not only at her return to the Continent, but also
at her subsequent intended journey to Prague, and, i❑ fact,
to whichever place the fancied or real interests of her
son's royalty might lead her to repair, than the crowd of
courtiers and Carlists collected at Naples hurried into her
honourable presence ! Among the latter were noticed
MM. de la Ferronnays and de Bussiere,—the former a
well-known political character, add on the pension list of
France, and enjoying other little privileges reserved for
favourites at the Court of the Tuileries,—the latter a son-
in-law to AI. Human!), the present Minister of Finances
of his Majesty Louis Philippe ! Although contrary to
the usual practice of the Court, and to what had been
done on a former occasion, the several members of
the Corps Diplomatique also hastened to pay their re-
spects to the liberated Princess; and you will not be a
little shocked to hear that our Minister, Mr. Temple, was
not one of the least ready to come forward to offer his
congratulations to a woman just fresh from civil war upon
our ally, and hardly cool from an immoral infliction upon
the feelings of decent society! It is to be hoped that,
if Lord Palmerston should not visit with his Sovereign's
marked displeasure a step which I am told has caused as
much satisfaction and delight to the Carlists as it has
excited the indignation of those who trust in the sincerity
of the alliance between Eagland and France, the British
press will not fail to bring this Holy Alliance diplomatist
to a more proper sense of the duties of his situation. A
curious part of this strange affair is, that the Ambas.
sailors of Russia and Prussia absented themselves, having
alleged a pretended indisposition, while the English and
American envoys were found among the greeters of
degraded legitimacy. Be that as it may, M. de la
Feronnays, who has not ceased to correspond secretly
with the Court of the Tuileries, is just gone off to Rome,
Vienna, and Prague, for the purpose of preparing the
reception of his august mistress, who was to start within
a very few days for the abode of the exiled Bourbons, in
passing through Rome, Florence, and Bologna. Is it to
be credited that the French Government should have been
weak enough to have let her thus loose without conditions,
without taking the smallest guarantee against future aber-
rations ; and that, too, at a time which coincides with the
majority of the young pretender? Whatever may he the
conclusion one may come to upon this strange and myste-
rious subject, I have been thus particular in collecting all
the succsssive facts of the case ; because should circum-
stances ever prove favourable, it will be, I have no doubt,
one of the great sources whence the republican party
would draw to endeavour to fix hereafter upon Louis
Philippe a somewhat plausible accusation of treason. You
are aware that it is apparently only upon the King of France
having undertaken to combat revolution and anarchyat home,
and stifle propagandism abroad, that the Allied Powers
have consented tacitly to tolerate the existence of a revolu-
tionary government at Paris. In order to arrive at a prac-
tical execution of such a plan, nothing, it must be owned,
was better contrived to complete it than the erec-
tion of the fourteen forts round that capital, not
exactly to destroy, but effectually to overawe that
turbulent part of its population which took up arms in
ISM. One can easily conceive the vexation and disap..
pointment experienced by its Royal author in seeing such
a plan fail, or, at least, its execution as hardly within the
range of probabilities. The reported words of the King
to Sebastiani, on this impotent favourite setting off for
the county, he wishes to prepare for the ensuing elections,
are worth remarking :—" Should the electoral body,
through inconsiderate democratical choices, make an
opening for anarchy, and thus bring about a foreign in-
vasion of the territory, I wash my hands of it; let those
dreadful consequences fall upon their authors, as the exe-
cution of Louis XVI. has fallen upon the Convention."
I have all along maintained, you will recollect, that by
shunning war, and abandoning a dignified and national
course of policy, the French Government, notwithstand-
ing all its prudential motives, has driven inwardly into
the breast of the nation humours which sooner or later
will make their way by a democratical explosion ; and
that then France, in the ardour of democracy, will again
conquer Europe, or, weakened and disunited, will have
to encounter a foreign invasion, the disastrous conse-
quences of which will be handed about from the juste
milieu to the movement party, and from the Carlists
to the Republicans, while a third restoration will be
attempted under the protection of Russian bayonets !
All men of any reflection and foresight look now towards
the forthcoming general elections as the crisis through
which the existing monarchy will have to pass with deci-
sive results as to its durability or dissolution. It is also
well known that the ancient Royalists (Carlists) who had
absented themselves from the preceding elections will now
come in a body to the poll, and jesuitically take the re-
quired oath. They will certainly much influence the
returns, not only from their supposed numbers, but from
their apparent designs to combine with the Republicans
against the Government candidates. If the returned
House be, in consequence of such a combination, more
monarchical than the last, the Crown will willingly and
blindly follow that retrograde tendency, surround itself
with Restoration men, such as the Duke de Mortemart
and others, and accomplish the union of the white and red
roses by the marriage of the Duke of Orleans with Ma-
demoiselle, on condition that her brother should enter into
holy orders. If, on the contrary, through probably more
democratical electoral returns, Dupin's Ministry should
not be enough to dissipate suspicions, to allay the ferment,
and to disarm the movement party, the King's words to
Sebastiani then become prophetic enough.
There is a report of a conspiracy against the life of
Nicholas having been discovered at St. Petersburgh, in
which many Poles are unfortunately implicated. On
their being arrested, papers have been seized tending to
prove them emissaries sent to assassinate the Emperor by
the Central Committee sitting at Paris. It is added tha

letters from Lafayette have been found upon their persons,
but who will believe this pure and good man capable,
even to get rid of a tyrant, to lend his countenance to
assassination. N.

THE CA LTHO PE-STREET MEETING.--Lord
MELBOURNE has considered it proper, and has, therefore,
ordered a sum of 201. each to be paid to police constables
Brooke and Redmond, as a compensation for the severe
injuries they received by the violence of the mob-meeting
in Calthorpe-street, on the 13th of May last.

BRITISH LEAs.—The mischief arising from
our system of fees cannot be better illustrated than by the
fact, that by payment of them a person can obtain a
patent to manufacture and vend a deleterious article in the
very teeth of law to prevent it.
Mr. C. Larkin died suddenly at Rochester
nn Thursday night. The " last charge" it was his fate
to make against the powers that be was moving an address
at the late meeting at Wrotham, praying, the expulsion of
the Bishops from the House of Peers. He arrived in
Rochester on Thursday evening about eight from Can-
terbury, and after conversing with a few friends, went
home, and expired between eleven and twelve the same
night. His age was 58.
SALE Of STAMPS' LICENSES.—The follow-
ing letter appears in the Suffolk Chronicle:—

" Downing-street, Aug. 30, 1633. "
Siß,—ln reply to your letter of the 26th inst., I am di-
rected by Lord Althorp to state, that the Bill for preventing
the sale of forged stamps empowers the Commissioners to grant
licenses for the sale of stamps free of expense, on the party re-
ceiving the license entering into a bond, with two sureties, and
in a penal sum of 100/,, conditioning that he shall sell none
other than legal stamps; such bond not being liable to the
Stamp Duty.—l am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
" To Mr, G. Francis."" T. DRUMMOND."
UNSTAMPED PUBLICATIONS.—The num-
ber of persons committed by INlac,istrates in the metropolis
and the country for selling unstamped publications, from
the 26th of July, 1832, to the 27th February, 1833,
amounted to 224, and the number of persons now in
prison is only seven. With one exception, all the com-
mittals took place in the metropolis ; that one was at
Newark,