The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-18 00:00:00

FriANCE.

At a recent dinner of compositors M.. Pierre Leroux
gave the following toast, which was drank with en-
thusiasm :—" To the brewers of London, not for
having committed violecce, as the calumniator of the
people say, but for having respected the line 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 uchkel, 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 Atnelie,
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 end
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 himself—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 bad been
very well received. He had gone to Baden, where
he met M. Tillers. Ile was there some days, during
which he had undertaken, Heaven knows
with how little success, to convert to the
Legitirnatist 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 Sou 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. 'He added that the death of
Louis Philippe (it is reported that he said King
Louii Philippe) was to him a cause of deep effliction.
Here M. de Salvandy exclaimed, " Dees 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-Amelie (it is reported
that he said Queen Marie-Amelia), 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 Salvandy set off for
atend. 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, M. de Salvandy, committing one
of those gross blunders which are usual with him,
had taken the familiar expression of personal senti-
ments for an cffieial communication. However, the
step, authorised by the Count de Chambord, had a
character cf noblpnets and elevation, to which the
Orleans family 'could not remain insensible. The
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. de Salvandy received the
mission of carry ing this notification to Froshdorf.
Such are the facts—nothing more, and nothing less."

DENMA RIB AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter froln Hamburgh of the 14th, in the /ea-
perlance of Brussels, says :—" We have received in-
telligence from Itendsburg of the afternoon of the
131 h. • The Danish men. of- war returned to take up
a position in the port of Eckernfeerde, 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 ace. The latter, vigorously at-
tacked, were forced to abandon the town, which bad
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 the 12:h,
was forced on the 13th 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- Itendsburg. 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 atl'ect for the Danes their enemies." A telegra-
phic dizleiteh received in Brussels says—" The
German Reform of Berlin announces from Hamburgh,
of the 14th, that the head-quarters of the Schleswig•
Holstein army bad been removed to Wittense, and
that a new atteck on another point was expected.
There was a talk of the loss of 250 men."