The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-19 00:00:00

[The following appeared in our Fourth Edition of
last night

FRANCE.

At a recent dinner of compositors M. Pierre Leroux
gave the fallowing toast, which was drank with en-
h usiasmm :—" To the brewers of London, not for
having committed violence, as the calumniators of the
people say, but for having respected the life of a man
who never respected the lives of his fellow-creatures,
and for having contented themselves with marking
him with infamy and manifesting spontaneously the
horror and disgust with which his crimes had inspired
them."
We read as follows in a letter from Paris, published
by the Independance of Brussels At the death of
Louis Philippe some of his former Ministers, amongst
whom I may name MM: Guizot, D uchatel, and de Mon-
tebello, announced their intention of proceeding to
England, to be present at the funeral. The rumour of
this determination reached the Queen Marie Amalie,
and she immediately had a letter written to the ex-
Ministers, requesting them to postpone their journey.
' The obsequies of the King,' said the letter, ' must be
accomplished like his death, free from politics, and in
the midst of the tears of his family.' The ex-
Ministers understood what the Queen desired ; they
conformed to it, and it was only when the funeral
was over that they proceeded to offer the Queen and
the Orleans family the expression of their condolence.
Thus it appears certain that, when certain journals
speak of that august family being occupied with
political combinations, they are much mistaken,
for the truth is that they are altogether absorbed
by their grief. Other journals revert to
the question of the fusion, so often contradicted.
What has tended to give strength to that rumour is
the movement which a certain personage has of late
given hire.•self—an honourable man certainly, but who
has had the misfortune of making himself remarked
rather by his self .importance than his merit. The
following is the real state of the matter :—M. de
Salvandy had quitted Wiesbaden, where he had been
very well received. He had gone to Baden, where
he met M. Thiers. He was there some days, during
which he had undertaken, Heaven knows
with how little success, to convert to the
Legitimatist faith the historian of the French
revolution. Whilst he was there the news of the
death of Louis Philippe arrived, and also an account
of the mass which the Count de Chambord had ordered
to be celebrated. M. de Salvandy immediately went
back to Wiesbaden, and said to the Count de Cham-
bord, Prince, I come, in the name of France and in
my own, to thank you for the act of justice which you
have just accomplished with respect to the King of the
French.' The Count de Chambord received this solemn
declaration with great kindness, but also with that re-
serve which he had given proof of in most of the recep..
tions at Wiesbaden. He mentioned that when the dread-
ful accident put an end to the life of the Duke of
Orleans, he had not hesitated to express his grief at
that terrible event. Ha added that the death of
Louis Philippe (it is reported that he said King
Louis Philippe) was to him a cause of deep affliction.
Here M. de Salvandy exclaimed, Does -your
Highness authorise me to carry these words of affec-
tion to the Queen of the French ?' The Count
de Chambord replied that he had always considered
that his relation, Marie-Amalie (it is reported
that he said Queen Marie-Amalie), a holy woman
amongst the holiest, had soared above human af-
fairs, and that in that view she had an undoubted
right to the respect of the whole world, and that he
should be happy to send her the assurance of his
respectful sympathy. M. de Salvandy added, Does
your Highness charge me with any kind message
for your cousins ?' The Prince appeared to reflect,
and then, after a moment's silence, he replied with
a little embarrassment, that his cousins not
having sent him any message, he had no-
thing- on his side to send them, but that
he was certain that none of them could doubt of the
affectionate sentiments which he felt for all the mem-
bers of the Orleans family. M. de S ilvandy set off for
Ostend. There he embarked for Dover, where he met
MM. Guizot, Duchatel, and de Montebello. He an-
nounced to them that he was going to Claremont, 'the
bearer of the happiness of France.' At Claremont his
reception was cold, or, to speak more correctly, reserved.
It had not been forgotten that after a conversation with
King Louis Philippe, AI. de Salvandy, committing one
of those gross blunders which are usual with him,
had taken the familiar expression of personal senti-
ments for an communication. However, the
step, authorised by the Count do Chambord, had a
character of: nobleness and elevation, to which the
Orleans family could not remain insensible. Tile
Queen did not conceal that she was deeply touched
with it. The family decided that there should be
sent to the Count de Chambord an official notification
of the King's death. M. do Salvandy received the
mission of carrying this notification to Proshdorf
Sack are the facts—nothing more, and nothing less.'.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter from Hamburgh of the 14th, in the lode-
pendance of Brussels, says :—" We have received in-
telligence from Rendsburg of the afternoon of the
13;h. The Danish men-of-war returned to take up
a position in the port of Eckernfcerde, in which a ter-
rible cannonade took place between the batteries, which
the Holsteiners, after the taking of the town, had thrown
up by the side of the sea. The latter, vigorously at-
tacked, were forced to abandon the town, which had
been set fire to in different points. The flames during
the night were seen at a distance of several leagues.
It results from the ensemble of the operations, and
from communications received, that the Holstein
army, after the first success obtained on thi 12:h,
was forced on the lath to beat in retreat; that
General de Willisen, little sure of being able to
maintain communications between the different
divisions, was 'obliged to abandon the design of
advancing further into the country ; and that,
attacked on the right and left by the Danes, he
was constrained by them to abandon Schleswig a
second time, resuming his old positions in advance of
the fortress of Rendsburg. We may with some
severity demand an account from this general of
the floods of blood anew and uselessly shed; what
decisive success could he have hoped to obtain,
by ordering the army to penetrate a second time
into Schleswig, without being sure of being
able to maintain himself there and of receiv-
ing material assistance on the part of the popula-
tion, who remained completely impassible? It is
known that the Danish army in Schleswig is concen-
trated in strongly fortified positions; that at every
step, so to speak, formidable entrenchments are
raised, and that some of them, those of Danne-
wicke for example, are considered impregnable.
The past and recent checks sustained by the Hol-
stein army may, in great part, be ascribed to the
exaggerated sentiments of bravery which the chiefs
exclusively ascribe to themselves, and to the contempt
they affect for the Danes their enemies." A telegra-
phic dispatch received in Brussels says—" The
German Reform of Berlin announces from Hamburgh,
of the 14th, that the head-quarters of the Schleswig •
Holstein army had been removed to Wittense, and
that a now attack on another point was expected.
There was a talk of the loss of 2.50 men."

ITALY.

The Modena Messenger mentions, on the authority
of its Roman correspondent, that Mr. Freeborn, the
British Consular Agent, at Rome, would shortly
cease his functions.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states that on
the 7th the curate of Monte-acuto, near Tortona
(Piedmont), was arrested on the suit of the public
prosecutor, for having of late omitted the usual oremus
for the King in celebrating divine service, and for
having publicly declared that he would not pray for
an excommunicated King, Ministry, or Parliament.
Letters from Cagliari of the Bth, in the Risorgi-
mento of Turin, mention a serious misunderstanding
that has arisen between the authorities and the Arch-
bishop of Cagliari, and that it is likely to render a re-
conciliation with Rome more difficult than ever. It
will be remembered that a few months ago the Pied-
montese Government named a commission to inquire
into the revenues of the dioceses and churches of the
kingdom. The commission, in the fulfilment of its
duty, addressed a circular to all the prelates of the
island of Sardinia, inviting them to send in state-
ments of their revenues. All the bishops, except the
Archbishop of Cagliari, Monsignor Marongiu-Nurra,
obeyed ; the latter refused, on the ground that
the King's Government had no right to inquire
into such a matter, and that its pretension
was anti-canonical. And, in support of this view,
he published a monitory circular, dated Nov. 13,
1849, warning the public as to the excommu-
nications which would be incurred by any
person aiding in compelling him (the Archbishop)
to furnish the required information. As the
Siccardi law did not then exist, the authorities
could not prosecute the prelate; they limited
themselves to obtaining the required information at
the Archbishop's expense, who was obliged to pay
a large sum to the persons employed for the pur-
pose. But as the pious institutions of La Con-
tadoria had not yet been examined, the commis-
sion again addressed a letter to the Archbishop
on the subject, desiring him to give the neces-
sary information ; and, on his refusal, the tribunal
ordered the papers and books of La Contadoria to be
sealed—an operation.which was to be effected on the
sth inst. But on that day the judge entrusted with the
business found at the door of La Contadoria, which is
situated within the precincts of the archiepiscopal pa-
lace, an excommunication against the authors and abet-
!. Wray-clip usurpation," written in the Archbishop's
oiVa bduld,Ealald ending thus :—" Given from our
viegiateg:T?kn •le, September 4, 1850. Emmanuel,
Mehl:lls*pp°. The judge immediately caused this
document to', r• aken down and transmitted to the
public-pros- , who commenced legal proceedings
against the,, -to without delay. The matter rests
here for tha4. ent.
-The .ntese Gazette of the 13th inst. states
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