The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-10 00:00:00

SURIMJRY OF NEWS

AND

Vith tc Optitton.

" Who rues may read."

VOIZZZGIT.

On Thursday evening their Majesties the King and Queen
of the French received the Duke d'Estissac, General (Jour-
gaud, Colonel Dumas, Admiral Dupetit Thouars, and the
Baron de Rothschild.
The grand banquet to be given by the principal merchants
of Paris to Marshal Bugeaud, and which the Duke de
Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, the Duke d'Aumale, and
the Duke de Montpensier will honour with their presence,
will take place on Z-mday, the 16th inst., in the great Hall
of the Royal Exchange, and not at the Opera-house, as was
at first stated.
The Cl:amber of Peers, on Friday, adopted the Secret Ser-
vice Money Bill by 111 votes to 44. The sitting was in
general devoid of interest, and the calm tenour of the discus-
sion presented a very striking contrast to the agitation of the
preceding day, of which a report will be found el, ewhere.
At the commencement of the proceedings, the President in-
formed the Chamber of the course winch he had thought it
sdvisable to adopt, to prevent. any unpleasant termination to
the incident in which the Marqus de Boissy and Generals
Gourgaud and Colbert had been the chief actors the day
before. He took occasion, at the same time, to lecture the
Chamber in very serious terms on the necessity of conform-
ing most strictly to the regulations of the Chamber and to
the laws of good breeding.
The Revue de Paris states that in consequence of the last
news from Otaheite, Captain Page, one of the aides-de-
camp of the Minh ter of the Marine, left Paris on Friday to
go by the brig-of-war Duconedic to Otaheite, on a special
mission. It adds that Captain Page had a long interview
with the King before starting, and that additijnal troops
we: e immediately sent out.
By a royal ordonnance, issued upon a report of the Mi-
nister of the Marine, the Superior Central Commission on the
Composition and Organisation of the Steam Navy has been
refOrmed, and now consists of the Minister of Marine, as
President, with Admiral the Prince de Joinville, Admiral
Baron Hugon, and eleven other members belonging to the
navy and army.
The Bishop of Metz has published, in a journal of that
town, a letter addressed by him to the Cardinal Archbishop
of Lyons, expressive of his entire approbation of the pastoral
letter which has just been condemned by the Council of
State.
The Augsburg Gazette, of the 2d, says :—" We learn from
Warsaw that the prisons are becoming each day more and
more crowded. Prince Paskewitsch is at at. Petersburgh.
The surveillance is more rigorous than ever on the frontier,
and no one can venture to send a letter."
A letter from Malmoe (Sweden) states that ,information
had been received from the province of Norland, stating that
on the 11th ult., the thermometer was down as low as 26
degrees of Reaumur (26% below zero of Fahrenheit), and
that within a week eleven persons had perished from cold.
The accounts received from Switzerland are of a more sa.
tisfactory nature than those previously received from that
country. Letters from Lille, of the sth of March, state that
the troops which had been kept under arms by the Govern-
ments of Uri, Schwytz, and Unterwald, since the 20th of
February, had been sent home.
COURT-FASHIONALIME.

Her Majesty will hold her second levee for the season at
St. James's Palace on Wednesday next.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch gave a grand enter-
tainment at Montague House, on Saturday. The circle at
dinner comprised his Serene Highness Prince Edward of
Saxe Weimar, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst
and the Hon. Miss Copley, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Brougham, the Earl and Countess
of Lincoln, Lord and Lady Ashieurton, his Excellency the
Russian Minister and.l3aroness Brunnow, Lord Forester,the
Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Viscount Castlereagh,
the Hon. J. and Lady Georgiana Stuart Wortley, &c.
The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton have a grand party on
Wednesday next.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel had a select dinner party on
Sunday evening, at the family residence in Whitehall-
gardens.
Sir George and Lady Clerk had a dinner party on Satur-
day last at their residence in George-street.
The Marquis of Northampton's next soiree is appointed
for Saturday next, the 15th instant, and not the 22d, as er-
roneously stated. Previous to the soirée the Noble Mar.
quis will entertain at dinner the members of the'Council of
the Royal Society.
The Countess of lladdington has issued cards for an as-
sembly at the Admiralty on Wednesday next.
Viscountess Palmerston's assembly is announced for Satur-
day next.
Count Esterhazy has been passing some days at Bad-
minton, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort.
Lord and Lady James Stuart and family have arrived in
town for the season from Cardiff Castle.
Lord Ward, according to the provisions of the will of the
late Earl Dudley, will come of age on the 27th instant, when
the Noble Lord will take possession of the bulk of the for-
tune of the late Noble Earl.
The Earl of Ellenborough has issued cards for a grand
dinner on Saturday, the 15th instant.

MISCELLANEOUS.
In consequence of the decease of Lord Wynford and Sir
J. Gurney, pensions to the amount of nearly 7,0001. a-year
revert to the public, Lord Wynford having received a pension
of 3,5001. a-year, as late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ;
and Sir J. Gurney had just been granted 3,2501. a-year as a
retired Baron of the Exchequer.
The examination for the Newcastle Scholarship was de-
cided at Eton on Saturday. The Scholar, R. Day, K.S. ;
the Medallist, Back. The next three in merit (in alpha-
betical order), Herbert, Hornby, Wayte, ma., K.S. The
next five in merit (also in alphabetical order), Bramont,
M'Niven, Ranken, Simonds, K.S., Welby, ma. The exa-
miners were G. C. Lewis. Esq., of Christ Church, Oxford, and
the Rev. L. W. Sampson, of King's College, Cambridge.

Mr. Edward Copleston Buckland, son of Dr. Buckland,
Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of
Oxford, has. een appointed by Sir Robert Peel to the junior
clerkship in the Treasury, vacant by the retirement of Mr.
Van Spegel, who for many years tilled the responsible office
of chief clerk in that department.
Mr. F. Courtenay, son of the late Philip Courtenay, Esq.,
formerly Member for Bridgewater, has been continued pri-
vate secretary to Lord Dalhousie, on his Lordship's elevation
to the presidentship of the Board of Trade.
It is stated that the sum paid iry Colonel Meyrick, for the
spacious mansion of her late Royal Highness the Princess
Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, in Curzon-street, was 8,0001.
The building is to undergo a thorough decorative repair,
previous to its occupancy by the Gallant Officer and his
family.
On Saturday night the Right Hon. the Speaker of the
House of Commons gave his second and last levee this ses-
sion at his residence in Eaton-square. Previous to the re-
ception of Members, the Right Hon. Gentleman had a Par-
liamentary dinner, when among his guests were the follow-
ing noblemen and gentlemen :—Lord Henniker, Lord Ossuls-
ton, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount Mahon, Viscount Sandon,
Sir Thomas Dyke.Acland, Bart., &c.
During the week ending the 3d inst., the number of per-
sons passing between Calais and Boulogne and England was
—At Boulogne, 756 ; at Calais, 194*; total, 950. During the
corresponding week of last year the total was 647 ; showing
an increase in the present year of 303.