The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-03 00:00:00

HAMBURG PAPERS.

LETTER FROM ST. PETERSBUI: Gh, JAN. 1. (16).
On the Ist (13th) New Year's Day, there was the usual
masquerade in the magnificent apartments of the Winter
Palace; 30,000 tickets of admission were issued for this
fete, which is unique in its kind. The Imperial Family,
with the Princes of Orange and adenberg, and the
Foreign Ministers and the Court, appeared as usual
among the company, consisting of per eons of all ranks,
eve■ to the common people, and did nut retire till long
after midnight. Much surprise is felt here at the strange
accounts which have appeared for some time past in the
English journals respecting the pretended armaments of
Russia. The ready correspondents of the Times and
other London journals, affirm that an expedition to the
East is preparing. All the old ships, say they, are under
repair. Great exertions were making in the dockyards
of Sebastopol, Necobizeff, and other ports of the Black Sea,
as well as the Turkish porte in the governments of Odessa (!)
and Oczakoff ! !). Considerable bodies of troops and
artillery, &c &e. Of all these statements the only thing
that can be affirmed with truth is that they have
been inserted in the English papers to be laughed at and
forgotten. They may be classed with the pretended in-
corporation of six Wallachian regiments into the Russian,
and the approaching expedition to India by the Russians,
respecting which the Moscow Gazette is said to have
spoken in no measured terms, though nothing of the
kind has been heard of here, or anywhere in Russia.
The arrival of the Turkish Ambassador has given most
foreign journals an opportunity to indulge in conjectures
respecting the object of his mission; but in the best in-
formed circles of the capital we heard the repeated assu-
rance that Achmed Paella is simply commissioned to give
the thanks of the Sultan to our Emperor for the assist-
ance afforded him in his distress, and to request the Rus-
sian Government to make some changes in the time of
payment, and in the amount of the arrears due to Russia
since the last war with the Porte. .

STOCKHOLM, JAN. 17.—The proclamation for the.as-
seuabling of the Diet was publicly read yesterday by the
Herald of the kingdom.
General Count Lotrenhjilm, who is appointed Iropec-
tor of the Cavalry, being hindered from performing the
duties of that office on account of the long Ambassade at
Paris, Baron B. Cedontium will act for him in the first
district, and Count A. A. I%lorver in the other districts.
BERLIN, JAN. 25.—M. Ancillon is rapidly recovering.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, JAN. 29.-13 8 ; two months, 13 O.
BERLIN. JAN. 25.—Three months, 6 24K.
Littestc, JAN. 20.—Three months, 6 15.
—Hamburg Papers. Jan. 23.

HAMBURG, JAN. 2S.—.BOBBER HALLS, HALF-PAST
Two, p.m.—The Stock Market has been dull, and prices
somewhat lower than on Friday, _ _ _

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Discount 2% per Cent. End of January.
Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 69%

Anglo-Russian _

Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1820 92.
Ditto, ditto, 1831 9IS
Ditto, ditto, 1832. 91%
Certificates 92
Polish Bonds 125 k
Prussian Bonds, 1832
Austrian Bank Shares 1217
Ditto Aletalliques 9514
Ditto 4 per Cent..... • B5 .1.,
Spanish 3 per Cents.
Ditto 4 per Cent 42%
Dutch 2N per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents 92',¢
—Hamburg Reporter.

John Bush has been committed to our Bride-
well, charged on his own confession with being a deserter
from his Majesty's 80:h Regiment of Foot. Bush states
thas he was returning from his furlough to join his regi.
went in Ireland, when, having drunk too freely, he by
down by the side of the rod near Hounslow and fell asleep.
0 awaking he discovered that his knapsack had been
stolen. Ashamed to return to the regiment without it, he
wandered about the country for several days ; at last, being
completely dispirited and broken down, he delivered him-
self up to a magistrate in the neighbourhood of Chippen-
ham on Tuesday, by whom be was committed. Ile is in
be most abject condition.—Devizes Gazette.

FATAL DUEL BETWEEN TWO DEPU-

TIES IN FRANCE.

[The following is a further account of the duel which we
mentioned in our paper of Satttrday.)
A meeting with pistols took place in the Bois de Boulogne
on Wednesday morning, between General Bugeaud and M.
Dulong, both Members of the Chamber of Deputies, which
proved fatal to the latter. The seconds of General Bugeaud
were Gen. de Rumigny and Colonel Lamy, and those of his
adversary M. Georges Lafayette and Colonel Cesar Bacot. The
parties were placed at forty paces. They were advancing and
taking aim at each other, but had scarcely moved two paces
when General Bugeaud fired, and M. Dulong fell. The ball,
which struck him in the forehead, a little above the left eye-
brow, entered, and remained in the head. He was imme-
diately bled on the ground, and afterwards conveyed home in
the carriage of M. Georges Lafayette. At two o'clock he was
again bled very copiously, but since he was wounded his senses
never returned for a single moment. He was still living at
midnight, but from the nature of his wound, no hope of re-
covery could be entertained. All his friends and colleagues
who had been informed of the deplorable event assembled
round his bed, and an express was sent off to 31. Dupont de
l'Eure, his relation and most intimate friend, with the lament-
able news, and with a letter which M. Dulong had previously
written in anticipation of the disaster.
The following are the circumstances out of which the fatal
dispute first arose :—A short time ago Marshal Soult, in viola-
tion of the military code, appointed a naval officer of artillery
to a similar department in the army. The officers of the artil-
lery regiment respectfully remonstrated at this direct breach of
justice and of military law. Of course Soult paid no attention
to their petitioning, which they repeated, and also refused to
hold intercourse with the intruding protege of the War Minis-
ter; that is, they sent him to Coventry. This roused the cha-
racteristic choler of the nick-named " hero of Toulouse," who
raved, and menaced, and employed other cogent means to
bring back the refractory officers to obedience, notwithstanding
which a very considerable portion of them still adhered to their
justifiable and legal remonstrance. Soult sent them to prison:
" There let them learn obedience," growled out the old soldier of
all the dynasties. He then wrote the following ministerial circu-
lar, which was officially read to the officers in durance vile :—" I
require (exige) that each of the prisoners shall individually ac-
knowledge in writing the illegality of their collective proceed-
ings. I require that they therein express their regret and
repentance for what they have done. I insist that they recog-
nise the rights of M. Greban, and that they renounce the right
of any kind of reclamation, even if legal. It will be a thousand
times better that the services of these officers should be lost to
the army, than to let it be supposed that I should yield in such
an occurrence. Let those who remain refractory be instantly
given up to a council of war." The illustrious disciplinarian
lately made an harangue on a public occasion, in one of the
provinces, in which he dwelt on the necessity of unlimited,
unconditional, unthinking, military obedience, making use of
the following words :—" If a superior officer orders a lower in
rank, even when off duty, to go to his quarters, and go to bed
in the middle of the day, or at any time, the inferior is bound
to obey. If a superior officer stops one below when walking,
orders him not to proceed in such a direction, and commands
him precisely in what direction he is to proceed, the inferior in
rank is bound to obey, in default of which, in all such cases, he
is amenable to military punishment."

During a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday
last, when the Ministerial party did all they could to exasperate
the Opposition, M. Larabit called upon the War Minister to
explain in regard to the circular letter attributed to him. After
a good deal of jesuitical equivocation, Marshal Soult at length
hardily denied that he had written any such a letter, at the
same time pronouncing these words—" The soldier is bound to
obey ;" soon after which Gen. Bugeaud exclaimed, " On obeit
d'abord."

M. Dulong, unable to restrain his indignation, cried,
" What I must a soldier, then, obey, even to the degradation
of becoming a gaoler ?" M. de Rumigny, Louis Philip's
favourite aide-de-camp, on dit, repeated more than the hasty
expression of his colleague to General Bugeaud, who, it
would seem, had not heard it, as it was merely an unpre-
meditated ebullition of feeling, and not delivered in a sena-
torial speech. The General approached M. Dulong, and in-
quired of him whether he had not made use of the word
infame, and whether the tenor of what he had said was meant
to be of an insulting and personal nature. M. Dulong denied
having pronounced the word infame; but for the rest, he had a
right to allude to a notorious public fact, without having the
intention of provoking M. Bugeaud attributed to him. Matters
remained thus, when the ultra-ministerial paper, the Journal
des Debats, related the incident in the following exaggerated
manner :—Marshal Soult : " A military man is bound to
obey."—M. Larabit : " The President of the Council ob-
serves that they are bound to obey. I admit it; but when
they have right on their side, and an attempt is made to force
them to draw back, then, Gentlemen, they may renounce
obedience."—(Numerous Members: "Never! never!") General
Bugeaud : " They ought in the first instance to obey I"—M.
Dulong, in the midst of the noise : " Must they obey so far as
to become a gaoler ?—(Great tumult)—even unto ignominy ?"
In consequence of explanations which this incorrect report
gave rise to, 111. Dulong had written a letter which was to have
been inserted in the Journal des Debats on Tuesday, but on
Monday evening the Ministerial Evening Journal mentioned
the circumstance in the following terms :—" The Journal des
Debats of Wednesday reported an outrageous expression ad-
dressed by M. Dulong to General Bugeaud. It was stated on
Thursday in the Chamber, that the Hon. General had demanded
satisfaction, and required a letter from M. Dulong, which was
to appear on Friday in the Journal des Debats." The manner
in which the step taken by M. Dulong was represented in this
paragraph induced him to demand of Gen. Bugeaud to give him
his letter back again, and place himself at his disposal. This
note had thus led to a renewal of the quarrel. On Wednesday,
however, General Bugeaud declared that he would accept any
explanations that the seconds would consent to, but unfor-
tunately the affair was not arranged. On the ground, before
the combat commenced, Messrs. Georges Lafayette and Colonel
Bacot demanded that the letter written by M. Dulong should
be given up, as had been agreed upon expressly. The Messager
of Wednesday evening states, that M. de Rumigny replied that
the letter was at the Tuileries, and promised to deliver it up
after the duel, whatever might be the issue of it. At two
o'clock Messrs. Lafayette and Bacot went, in consequence, to
the Tuileries; but there M. de Rumigny declared that he gave
the letter to the King, who burnt it in his presence. A written
declaration of the destruction of the letter was signed by M. de
Rinnigny.—M. Dulong breathed his last at half-past six o'clock
on Thursday morning. The National states that it was Gen.
Rumigny who burnt the letter in the presence of the King, and
not his Majesty, as stated by the Messager of Wednesday night.
Gen. Rumigny states, that M. Dulong observed, respecting this
letter being returned, that it would be the same thing to him if
it were destroyed. It may be right to mention, that General
Rumigny resides at the Palace of the Tuileries, as Aide-de.
Camp to the King.

At a meeting held on Thursday, of about
200 of the principal proprietors of Bank stock, several
questions affecting the prosperity of the establishment
were discussed by M. Tripier and M. de Mosbourg. For
instance, according to the accounts brought forward, the
dividends for the year 1833 amounted to 4.685,100 f. ;
but when it is considered that this dividend was composed
of 2,604,384 f. interest on Government rents, and of
1,422,465 f. arising from negotiations with the Treasury,
making together 4,026,849 f. ; there remained only a
profit of 658,251 f. arising from discounts properly so
called ; and, as the expenses for the year amounted to
914,505 f. 72c., it resulted that the only operations in
which the concurrence and judgment of the Bank Re-
gency was required cost more than they produced ; fir
it could not be pretend,d that the transactions with the
Treasury required any great exercise of time or care. The
assembly afterwards proceeded to the special object of its
meeting, and Messrs. Jacques Lefebvre, Caccia, and
Paillot, were re-elected Censors fur the next three years.
M. Delemarre Martin Didier was elected Censor in the
room of M. Guitton, and M. Bandon, Receiver-General
for the Department of the Nord, was elected Regent, in
the room of M. Sanity, deceased.—French Paper. _
ALARMING FIRE IN TOTTENHAM COURT-
ROAD.-Saturday night, about eight o'clock, the above
neighbourhood was thrown into the utmost consternation,
in consequence of an alarming fire suddenly bursting forth
at a large p 'tent mange manufactory, situated in Red
Lion-yard, John-street. From the inflammable nature of
the materials (there being a great quantity of wood on
the premises) the devouring element raged with great fury,
and in a short time the premises presented one miss of
flames. Great fears were entertained for the safety of the
Red Lion public-house, situated at the corner of the yard.
The alarm having been extensively sounded, the Globe,
Atlas, Sun, and other engines arrived in rapid succession,
and the water being turned on promptly, they speedily
commenced playing upon tha burning premises, the fire
having by this time communicated with an adjoining
carpenter's shop. By the activity of the firemen, aided
by an abundant supply of water, the progress of the
flames was fortunately arrested, and about nine o'clock
wholly subdued. The damage done, however, is consi-
derable, the mangle manufactory above alluded to being
reduced to a heap of ruins. We understand the premises
were not insured.

THE LATE WAR IN POLAND.-OUR
EASTERS POSSESSIONS.-The very interesting narrative
of the Polish struggle, commenced recently in the Naval
and Military Gazette, is continued in Saturday's Number
with a spirit which increases as it opens upon the more
active occurrences of the scene, on the approach of the
Russian force to Warsaw. The writer is an Officer who
took an active part in the operations. He has devoted the
profits of the narrative to the funrl for the relief of the
Polish refugees. The same Number of the Naval and
Military Gazette contains a very curious and comprehen-
sive tabular view of the British Colonies itt Asia, exhibit-
ing their separate and aggregate amount of commerce,
property, revenue, expenditure, population, military
strength, and other statistical features. To all persons who
are interested, commercially or otherwise, in our vast
oriental possessions, the picture thus presented must be of
considerable value.