The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.-Their Excellencies Baron Ra-
venshaw the Danish Minister, and the Spanizh Minister,
arrived to-day at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty.
The Prince Castelcicala,- and his Excellency Edward
Everett, Minister Plenipotentiary, from the United
States, took their leave to .day for town.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, walked
on tho terrace of the Castle. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent also walked there this forenoon attended
by Lady Fanny Howard.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir
Edward Bowater, and the Hon C. A. Murray, rode to
Ascot to meet the Stag hounds. A deer was unearted.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert,
walked through the grand entrance to the new made
grounds of the Home Park and to Adelaide Cottage. In
attendance were the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady
Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, the Earl of War-
wick, and General the Hon. Sir William Lumley.
Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss, will.
have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle at the
Castle this evening.
The Earl of Gainsborough is expected to arrive to-
morrow on a visit to her Majesty.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday after-
noon, at the Council-office, to consider the manner in
which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales should
bear his Arms. The Lords present were the Lord Pre-
sident, Sir Robert Peel, and Sir J. Graham. •

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York Herald, and beputy Garter from the Herald's
College, were in attendance on their Lordships.
The meeting broke up soon after five o'clock.
An Address from the Inhabitant Householders of
Westminster was yesterday presented to her Most Gra-
cious 'Majesty, through the Home-office, very nume-
rously and respectably signed, praying for the extin-
guishment, by reasonable compromise with the Proprie-
tors, of the burdensome Tolls on Waterloo, Southwark,
and Vauxhall-bridges.
Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, Governor of Sierra
Leone, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

Th© Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary, on a Special Mission,
arrived in town yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle. _

Mr. G. Nicholls had an interview yesterday with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in
Downing-street.
Sir George Arthur, Mr. W. Holmes, M.P., and Mr.
Irving, had interviews yesterday with Lord Stanley at
the Colonial-office.
The Duke of Wellington has left town for his seat,
Strathlieldsaye' Hants.
Mr. Henry Cope, jun., Honorary Secretary of the
Metropolitan Anti-Bridge Toll Association, had the
honour of an interview yesterday with Lord Wharnclille,
Lord President of the Council, on the subject of the abo-
lition, for the benefit of the public, of the tolls on the
Metropolis Bridges.
Despatches from Sir W. Colebrook, Governor of New
Brunswick, and from Sir John Harvey,
Governor of
Newfoundland, were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday afternoon.
The Lords of the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday. The-re
were present the Lord President, Lord Brougham, Mr.
Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court..
Sir Alekander Johnston and Sir Edward East sat as
Privy Councillors.
Mr. Lloyd, for the respondent, was 'heard at great
length on an appeal from Bengal, which had been part-
heard at a former sitting, " Maharajah Mutter feet
Singh v. Heirs of Jeserunt Singh." Mr. Pemberton,
Q.C., replied for the appellant. The Court rose.
Lord and Lady Hamilton Chichester left . s
Hotel, Belgrave-square, yesterday, for Malta.

EVENING suN
FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OW*„,CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, DEC. 16.—The sentence'of the• Court of Peers
is not yet pronounced on the individuals under trial be-
fore that Star-Chamber tribunal, although the evidence
and pleadings have all been gone through. It will o'o'
bably not be known for the next four-and-twentY hours, -; t,
bnt its tenour is pretty confidently anticipated. The Pir ')
secution against one of the most insignificant of the pe- '
soners, a man named Prioul, has been abandoned. and he
therefore will be set at liberty, but the rest will all Wl'
, ",ed
found more or less guilty, and condemned to various Ile',
na!ties. In his reply the Procureur-General spoke
out rather more openly about Dupoty, and those of the
prisoners who are accused of having formed a cony:et.
He admitted that the evidence might not perhaps go P
far as to show that they had all conspired in common!,
but he maintained that they had conspired by fractions—A..4'i
parately, that is to say ; and " what could they, Art
conspired for," he asked, "if not for this attempt ?' 7/1'
then reminded the Court of Peers that they had, on. A 2-0.11•;,,
better grounds, adjudged in 1834 the persons imp!cls,li
in the Lyons disturbances, to be guilty of conspiracril
and het ncouraged them to follow up their practice bY
similar verdict on this occasion ; adding, that aftelst Nlllll
they were not so much a Court as a Jury, not tied u°4
by the letter of the law, but free to act as their 101,11
sciences and opinions dictated to them. Slid' i5,141,619'i1'
state of law in France at the present moment
• practice of the Court of Peers, and the doctrines ex',.,111 ,;-0Y
French Crown lawyers at the present day, are ei"
what existed in England in the times of. Charles .1
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and the manners of the Judges are equally brutal all4‘i•
illegal. Truly the French Government is the '`Berj
of Republics 1" Every body sees clearly that the
r-
•i of M. Dupoty is desired not only as an ad°lS
able precedent for future proceedings against the "'rest° .00.;j
but also as a set-off against the continued de1ear;.,.,,,41
which the Government has been lately exposed in 11 •
secutions before Juries both in the capital and the 11.rcee
vinces. Thus, though the law officers of the Crown,l,'„ol,
obtained one verdict against the Editor of the iVati°o-A.,V°
in Paris, and though M. Ledru Rollin has been f 0,000;
guilty of sedition by a packed jury at Angers, Yet tifitoo""
Government has sustained signal defeats at Arras all ...
a,..4t0d
Evreux (where the Journal de t Eure has just heel!, of
quitted), and at Pau, when all the " cmispirators
been
Toulouse—one insignificant person excepted—hare ea.
freed from the accusations brought against...lls o.
In the capital, too, the Government has
all the leading prosecutions of the year. s°,,jc!e
something to put on the other side of the ""e'ric
is absolutely indispensable, and this piece of "tbo
the Peers are required to perform. The fact is'. ion,
they are already so " double damned" in public °flair
that any iniquities they can now commit will add but ibis
to the contempt in which they are held; and therefore bed
verdict will produce much less sensation than if it 0.1
not been anticipated. As to Quenisset,
some of the men whose guilt of the attempt at ass'q,.
tion is evident, nobody can dispute the justice coAreir
being punished : but the law of the case turns e,.,..."!hieCi,111),
on M. Dupoty, and public attention is directed -if:
almost exclusively. It has been well observen reitter
Legitimist Paper, that if the mere receipt ...)f IA eon'
by the Editor of a Journal is enough
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vict him of complicity in the opinions and 'lOl,O-
of the persons writing it, though he might not of
him even by sight or name—(and this is the ear!
Dupoty with the letter sent to him as. Edit°. f
Journal flu People by Launois), the narrow slit ,0 of it;
editor's box will become as dangerous an instrateoLit
tyranny as the brazen jaws of the Lion of St• 111
Venice.
A most amusing instance of French political
just been witnesse near Grenoble. Last sittnine,ro'rtfeei (
ing the troubles excited by M. Hurnann's Mega' . the .:!,/
for the taking of the census, search was made ;11
orlati; ytf
small town of Vizille in the Isere for a depot ee pai.O.Aol:
said to be kept there. Two brothers of arast"--
of Avril were possessors of the house. irce ;610
whatever were found, except an old fowlinglat,ig';
but there was discovered the draft of a letter witheseereed
nature, date, or address, the purport of which a.O
f„r
to be connected with some political meeting, but -to tike
object, or when, or where, or with whom, it wes „b .:1
place, no mention was make. This was quite en°, e'be
sot
found a .prosecution on : the paper was 511700 te_s
the writing of one of the brothers, Avril, who ,'„T0rt.c.4.0.,
cordingly brought to trial last week before the '.er
Lionel tribunal of the district. No witness owlet
idea&
called by the law- officers of the Crown, nor an} etivoft of
whatever offered, except the putting in cf the
the letter mentioned above. Of course as the lying ". 4
Procurator had done the tribunal the honour of gLot be .41e
cognizance of a political case, the Judges could "otioel
so unpolite as not to gratify him with a conid:erf d 3r;
and therefore without any further ado they tun"
Avril, to be guilty, of what ?—of a conspirar.riteollf
man guilty of cons it lug with himself ! and they costa`
sentenced him to a month's imprisonment, wildetoine‘`
It should be added that he had previously Lee" oths'
in prison, under accusation of the crime, for four a in
Art case parallel to this cannot perhaps be qiiot_e believe
psent century ; and we should have refused "
tot Pr
it had we not read it in the official Govertune ast be
the Moniteur. Certainly the French Charter Or
most glorious one to have produced fruits like ,11:.l Sailed
The French squadron must by this time ihdetachs
feom Toulon; seven ships of the line have been
rest',-
for troops to Algiers, and the destination of the af
if this sq:
still as uncertain as when we wrote last. A. --
dron is ultimately destined far the Levant, it is °- the
fended as a sop to be thrown to the opposition 3. fie
opening of the Chambers. The fact is that the alPe,ot,
of any French division of importance in the l'e`-bile
coupled with the order for reducing the artnY,,,'„wge.
England has still ten or twelve sail of the line in t"...inee
diterranean, might very well afford ground foe oPri four
to the address, and, therefore, the ordering "
or five sail of the line on a cruise without tO.t :Poe at -
object, may be alleged by Ministers, in the fibs,
°E iticit
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any better argument, as a reply to the tats mily.
adversaries. The reduction of the army is
important measure, and there is reason s'y of till
that it will carried into effect. The e3usebsinPereo
is plain : the Government is horridlYor toes, -
for money, it dares net lay on another 501.,.at pre'
by
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universal and so profound is the discontent s°.b at
and it has been forced on the King and tnettaialin' he
the obstinacy of two of the Ministers. I\-1. '"--surY ; s
Finance Minister, knows the state of the tre (dm*"
knows the real amount of the deficit (nine built r was °ire
offi•ancs before the recent loan of 150 millions, oto.
tracted for); he knows that this deficit is)eu,r and tiles
increase; that the expenses of the war in Africa't tool's
maintenance of the French in hall-a-d°,zetil nolliont
of that country, has cost France one hunare Des
tns', der
in hard cash fur this last year alone, an
..cl,lO
year it will amount to as much if not more, Abd t
the for;
being as able to continue the war as ever ;
tifications of Paris will sink twice as flinch ;"I"rircti''
the estimates are limited to ; and that under aLt raisaei
stances a fresh loan would not be very casY.. eon to
For all these causes he has insisted on a ditto
Jere,'
the war budget, and it has been accordingly or 4 )t
be cut clown for 1843 by 30 millions of fill:jet-1;0
Guizot, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, lin°l-once,ll
was able to conjure the storms raised agains.!
that Charlatan 'l'hiers, only by dint of Paci"ot, rinc°'
and that after being a year in office, lie cane
nc" ar
.pea
mon decency, continue to countenance the
being kept on a war footing. Both these p00;1..
therefore, pressed the matter strongly on Mer.jast, 511.,41°
and the King, and at length, in Septeniberi,a )ashy !piA
ceeded in extorting the Royal signature. 11,e,,. berg's
to ting, for they had nearly resigned, the .IC-1 rovihror4
afraid of doing anything to discontent the ariliY, „der
hands he and his children entirely are ; but the
)oliejsrll4
the reduction was issued only the other (13)% „ro(10;(
fancied that earlier in the autumn it would haveict '111.4
a rise in the funds, and so no doubt it won the lieto
were afraid, therefore, of having to negotiatee, a_r
loan at rather too high a price, and the ordonm`refo.,l,
consequently kept in the portfolio of the Niinist!ct befelis
to be used at a fitting occasion. As we have said
it will only come into operation in 1843, ee
Philippe may be taken off by a bullet before theta came
il
M. de Lamartine will certainly be put uP gs ties, Snbe
date for the Presidency of the Chamber of DeP• re tit
we think with no small likeliho K 1 of success. be t
contest will be bt twe,en him aad M. Sauzet ;arty, b ed .
unite the suffi ages n )t only of the Opposition Ps those of
all those of Court Mole's party also, as well a
°lvo
l 0
some personal friends amongst the u•wal stipriiri, in tulo
Ministers. We confess that we exrect to
the
chair. He will not do anything to oppose lue tor ,
he will not agree over well with either Guiz°
~00/1011,r,
main. Count Mole is still very ac ive about, "t, 0614
probably about getting into office—he is s:„Vbti-rrooio,
(excuse the pun) that he cannot le Lye u
under the ground upon which Ministers sloe to,,
matter whet may be th 3 ofinions °f
who, for the time being, held oil e. lie j'aa'ny
it should be observed, a hettar el ante thantbe
man in France of coming into offic bring mon it of
principal favourite and toady; whilst Coitn,, enotl.J.e'sro
who is grand lick-spittle to the palace, and t°
the King's ames dirmnees, is always readYl° 'le for
with him in any Cabinet he m form- 1‘ iee
reign Aftiirs, Montalivet for the luterior,--grityin,t
Philippe the! c tw-i, with any thing like a ra"j°
Deputies, and he is ready to go the whole hog•eeetitto
Every thing at the Tuileries is unconinurlY and
and dull this year. Louis Philippe is breaklnghing
not like large parties ; the Queen, too, is grey tlotth.".,;(l
Dawnhudechtmieleosrsreda,nfoyornilielaaroigifse liiii.eeart:e‘fisreleoysmiiiclmleeb•leicagti:iddoatil.t is ver'e
~ The Pik
cero,
but they can get nobody to go to them.
_toter be
dred and fifty guests are the 'nest they can w k
singing and fiddling is all over by eleven
°into
lights put out, and the guests are fiettingt.
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win
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fiacers to go home. Paris is, in general, dull ;
The French all regret Lord Grenville verY much
to 'l,;
kept open house, as an English Ainbassadoitn!.,ie,a
Lord Cowley they complain of as being lc
scrieAs (bdotictoltith. 50;
homnme, rather dull, and inclined to
ever he
once
cies
sneottti)eTiti
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uhr ig..ssottficial .
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R up. touRED • PARDON OF CONVIC A.,. ,-,nr
twhithstanding the contradiction which has bet n gl f ii, oil'
ereort which appeared in several of the nebv,r Lt• tr
stating that it was the intention, on the birth e.„vict,
Prince of Wales, to grant a free pardon to those eePtioAs
who had been of good behaviour,- numerous apc,c6„obf
are daily made and petitions sent to the Norue')"•iiiio-e
friends of prisoners on the subject. We therefore
foto :
it right to repeat that there is no intention on the Po til6 .
the Crown.gpecially to interfere in order to lese,loo
terms to wiTich convicts have been sentenced. ?mop
number of petitions haTe been presented, praYing milli"
Frost, Williams, and Jones ma be included in the '
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cipated act of Royal clemency. „n 105,.
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Que.' - tritiv
been pleased, in her Royal condescenzion, toeeoibort.
humble offering; of the poor lace-makers of W 0 col
Salterton, and vto besteNon them a munificent Pr'2°,epl
her Majesty's continued bounty, and an encourage"
to their industry.

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