The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

BELGIMA.

M. de Brouckere, burgomaster of Brussels, at-
tended by the Town Clerk, went to the palace in
that city on Saturday, and received the declaration
of the Duko de Brabant that the duchess had
given birth to a princess ; and he registered .the
birth in the usual form. The declaration was made
in presence of M. Tescb, Minister of Justice ;
Baron de Gerlach, First President of tiv Court of
Cassati )n ; M. Leclercq, Procureur-General of the
same Court ; Count de Marnix, Grand Marshal ;
and Count de Lannoy, Grand Master of the Home-
hold of the Duke.

The King of the Belgians, in addition to the re-
mission of punishment accorded to civilians cn the
occasion of the happy deliverance of the Duchess
de Brabant, has ordered that a pardon shall be
grsvuted to soldiers undergoing imprisonment for
petty offences.

The N6LV Zurich Gazette status that on the 16th
the French Minister at Berne proce3ded in person
to the palace of the Federal Couueil, and officially
announced to that body that henceforth the French
legation would refuse to attest any passport that
was not presented by the owner in person.

The Madrid journals of the 17th do not contain
any political news. Th© attention of the public
was absorbed by the festivities of the Carnival,

The Mazziniau journal of Genoa, the Italia, e
Popolo, was again seize 1 on the 17th, for au article
relating to foreign affairs,

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES PROM INDIA —A supp 4 uent to
Friday's Gazette was published yesterday, containing
copies of various despatches received at the East India-
house, detailing proceedings respecting Delhi, Lucknow,
and other places, the particulars of which are already
known. These documents included despatches from
Major-General A. Wilson, Major A. Ouvry, Lieut.-Col.
Grea.th,d, Major F. Turner, Capt. F. Remmington, Capt.
Blunt, and other officere. Returns are also given of
ordnance and ammunition captured from the enemy, a
return of the killed and wounded of the moveable column
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Greathead in
the affair of the 28th of Sent. at Camp Buolundshuhur,
and a return of the sick and wounded in the field force
under the command of Major-General N. Penny: There
are also despatches from Lieutenant-Colonel Seaton,
C. 8., Major-General W. R. Mansfield, Captain
Caulfield, Captain W. J. Stafford, and Captain
Ge ,rge Wardlaw. To these are added numerical
returns of killed and wounded of the moveable column
in action, under the command of Col. J. G. Gerrard,
on tha 16th of November last ; and a descriptive casu-
alty roll of Europeans of the regiment of Artillery,
from April 1 to September 30, 1357. Another return,
dated Lucknow, October 1, givas a nominal list of
killed, wounded, and missing in the Artillery Brigade
from the 19th to the 30th of September, 1857, inclusive.
LivEuroor., Feb. 20.—The Royal Mail steamship
Europa took her departure hence for New York to-day
with the mails, a fair cargo, and 53 passengers. The
Canada will sail for Halifax and Boston on Saturday
next ; and on Wednesday, the 3d of March, the rcrtw
steamer Noah American take her departure kr
Portland witiu cho Canadian snails, besides passengers.
The cl:pper ship Americana, belonging to the White
Star line, sailed to-day for Melbourne with about 120
passengers and a large cargo of manufactured goods. '

EARL COWLEY TO THE EARL OF CLARBNDON.
(Received Feb. 21.)
PARIS, FEB. 20, 1858.
My Lord,—Having learnt by telegraph that cer-
tain resolutions imputing blame to her Majesty's
Government for not having made any reply to Count
Walewski's despatch to Count Persigny, dated the
20th of January, had been affirmed by a majority of
the House of Commons, I think it a duty to your
lordships to place on record, that although I have not
been charged to make any official communication to
the French Government in answer to that despatch,
I have been enabled, by your lordship's private
instructions, to place before the French Govern-
ment the sentiments, views, and intentions of her
Majesty's Government far more fully, and I cannot
but believe more satisfactorily, than would have
been the case had my language been clothed in a
more official garb.
When Count Walewski's despatch was written,
the irritation against the supposed apathy of Eng-
land in a matter so important to France as the pre-
servation of the Emperor's life was excessive.
Rightly or wrongly, the idea prevailed that every
conspiracy against his Majesty had been organised
in England, and that the British laws gave security
to the conspirators. No counter-assertions on the
part of her Majesty's Government would have had
any effect at that moment; and any official notice
on the part of your lordship of Count Walewski's
despatch would probably have involved the two
Governments in a controversial discussion more
likely to have increased than to have calmed the
excitement which prevailed. If the object was to
soothe, it was important to let time exert its usual
influence, and to reserve the official answer to
Count Walewski's despatch until it was known
whether Parliament would answer the appeal which
was to be made to it by her Majesty's Government.
But it ought not to be ignored, that while taking
this prudent course, your lordship lost no opportu-
nity of informing the French Government, confi-
dentially, of the true bearings of the question
which had been raised. Your lordship's language
has been, from the beginning of this unfortunate
affair, clear and straightforward. I have now your
lordship's letters before me, in which, while vindi-
cating in language worthy of your lordship's name,
the right of asylum which Great Britain has ever
afforded to strangers of all ranks and nations, and
while declaring, in terms as explicit as they are de-
termined, the impossibility of infringing on that
great principle of our constitution, you show how
utterly insufficient must any enactment be, to pre-
vent men of desperate minds from entering upon
desperate undertakings. As your lordship's true,
but very inadequate organ, I have faithfully repre-
sented your principles, and could I call upon the
Emperor or upon Count Walewski, as witnesses,
neither, I feel certain, could belie my words.
I know not what may be the result of last
night's vote ; but, at all events, I lose no time in
stating my conviction that to your lordship's
judicious and prudent conduct at a very critical
moment it is owing that, without the shadaw of
the sacrifice of a single principle, our relations
with this government have not received a shock
which might have been fatal to the friendship
which yet happily prevails between the two nations.
—I have, (IN., (Signed) COWLEY.