The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Times' Private Correspondent.)

PARIS, TuvapAy FEB. 26.

You will find in the official part of this day's Moniteur a de-
claration signed by the Duchess de Berri, which will set at rest
the doubts hitherto raised by her political friends as to her
being in the family way. The Duchess has been rather more
than six months in that state, and finding that there is no
longer any chance of concealing the fact, or hope of a mis.
carriage, has chosen to send an official declaration of it to the
Government, in which she lays it to the account of a "secret
marriage," contracted while she was in Italy. The name of
her husband is not mentioned in the declaration, neither has
it been transmitted to the French Government by any other
mode of communication. Her friends, without being any
more in the secret than the Ministers, affirm that it is an
Italian prince on whom she has conferred the honour of her
hand. It is curious enough, however, that the fruits of this
alliance should have taken so much time in being brought forth,
for every one remembers that the Duchess landed on the coast
of France so long ago as the middle of May, which is now
rather more than nine months, and every one knows that
she was neither at that time accompanied, nor subse-
quently joined, by any Italian Prince. It would be strange
enough, too, that her motives for keeping the marriage secret,
however urgent they may have been, should be still of such
mighty importance as to prevent her from yielding to the ne.
cessity which has arisen of vindicating her honour and cha-
racter by declaring at once who her husband Is, and when and
where the marriage took place. The champions of the captive
Duchess, who had lately thought proper to call to account the
journalists who had stated nothing but facts when they spoke
of her grossesse, and of certain circumstances by which it be-
came known that extraordinary exertions had been made to
conceal it, will probably be made to cut a foolish figure enough
after this official declaration of the Duchess herself. I will not
repeat what is, and has been, said here in reference to the
" untoward event" which has compelled the Duchess to speak
of her " private marriage." Your extracts from the Paris
papers will probably bear quite sufficiently on the subject.
You have seen by the report of Saturday's proceedings in the
Chamber of Deputies that the motion of M. Portalis, tending to
authorize the marriage of priests, is to be taken into futurf
consideration.
Nothing more is said regarding the progress of the Bill on
the " state of siege" in the Chamber of Peers, and it is gene-
rally believed that it will be left to expire in the hands of the
committee.

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I have seen a letter from Constantinople of the 26th ult., in
which it is said that, according to the last accounts from Ko-
niah, Ibrahim intended, after the arrival of his reinforcements
and the expiration of the armistice, to go on to Broussa with
his whole army, and to negotiate from that city. He seemed
to think that he would obtain better terms from the Sultan
while encamped at a place so near Constantinople as Broussa is
(only four days' march from the capital) than at Koniah.