The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.

The Princess Clknentine of Orleans, Duchess Augustus of
Saxe-Coburg Gotha, was on Thursday morning, at a quarter-
past five o'clock, safely delivered of a Prince, who, by com-
mand of the King, received the Christian names of Philippe
Ferdinand Marie Auguste Raphael, by which he was chris-
tened, at five in the afternoon, by the Archbishop of Paris, in
the presence of the whole of the Royal Family, the Chancel-
lor, the Grand Referendary, M. Cauchy, Keeper of the Ar-
chives of the Chamber of Peers, the President of the Council,
the Keeper of the Seals, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, &c.
In the evening the King gave a grand dinner, to which all
the witnesses were invited.
The contest between the Government and the clergy on
the Education Bill becomes every day more keen. On Satur-
day, the Minister of the Interior received dispatches from the
Prefects of Morbihan and Finisterre, which give a most un-
satisfactory account of the state of these provinces. The
smaller clergy are doing all they can to excite the people ;
and a great number of instances are given in which the
priests interrupted Divine Service to harangue the people on
the attempts made to destroy religion.
The National says :—" A letter from Marseilles, which
has been communicated to us, mentions that the son of the
Austrian Admiral, M. Bandeira, has quitted Smyrna in a boat
with a few sailors of the port. It was asserted that this de-
parture was caused by certain unthinking acts, such as
young men might commit, but it is now known that the
cause was of a far graver character, and that a political
motive has caused this step."
The Civil Tribunal of Paris, on Friday, pronounced a sen-
tence of separation between an English married couple named
Langley. The suit was instituted by the wife on the ground
of adultery on the part of the husband. The wife demanded
a division of their property; but the Court, feeling itself
bound by the laws and customs of England, refused this claim,
and decreed the husband to make her an annual allowance
of 1,200 francs. The separation will, of course, hold good
only in France.
Before the Court of Assizes, on the same day, M. Dezami,
as editor of a work entitled "Almanach de la oirnmunattt4t"
was prosecuted for having therein attacked the rights of pro-
perty, committed an outrage against public morals and reli-
gion, exciting contempt against the laws and hatred between
different classes of the people. Being found guilty, he was
sentenced to four months' imprisonment, and a tine of 200 fr.
The adulteration of salt is still going on in Paris with in-
conceivable audacity. From 27 to 30 millions of kilogrammes
are used every year in the capital, and of that quantity two-
thirds are said to be adulterated. The substances used are
earth, saltpetre, sulphate of soda, sulphate of lime or plaster,
and water, to add to the weight.
The Leipsic Gazette has the following from Constantinople,
March 5 :—" Rifaat Pacha has just given the most satisfac-
tory answer to the Ambassadors of France and England on
the question of the persecution of renegades. It is not
known whether Sir Stratford Canning will insist on a formal
hatti-scheriff; but, if lie should do so, the Baron de Boor-
queney will concur with him."
The Russian Court has gone into mourning for 24 days, for
the late King of Sweden.
A letter from Vienna, March 23, in the Augsburg Gazette,
states that the report of Prince Michael of Servia, who re-
sides at the Austrian capital, having applied, in quality of an
Ottoman subject, to the Turkish Ambassador for a passport
for England, is unfounded.