The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-03 00:00:00

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The talk at the Chamber of Deputie9 on Monday was
the quarrel which took place at 'Neuilly, at the moment
of the funeral procession, between M. Laffitte and Mar-
shal Soult. M. Laffitte is President of the Chamber of
Deputieq by right of age, no President being yet elected.
As President,he demanded to occupy the place of
honour—in holding the cords of the pall of the Duke of
Orleans. The Marshal defended himself as best he could
against M. Laffitte's ire. The other Ministers said, that
the Chamber of Deputies not being constituted yet, there
was no place for its merely temporary President.
"What 1" exclaimed M. Laffitte, " a Chamber of Depu-
ties not yet coastline, put the crown on the head of the
present King, and voted the existence of the Chamber
of Peers ; therefore, constitue or not, the Chamber of
Deputies must be represented at this ceremony, and in-
ferior to no other body. I will not walk second even to
the President of the Chamber .of Peers," added M.
Laffitte. This quarrel of etiquette was put an end to by
the putting eight cords to the pall, and giving one on
each side, in equal rank, to be borne by the Presidents
of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies.
We have received the Madrid journals of the 31st ult.
The Gazette and some other papers contain articles on
the death of the Duke of Orleans, which are remarkable
for good feeling and propriety. There is nothing very
important in the way of news in these journals. A Ma-
drid letter states that near Olot and Berge, small bands
of rebels have made their appearance ; several have
been taken and shot. The sanguinary order of General
Zurbano, at Barcelona. declaring that any person falling
into the hands of the insurgents, and paying a ransom
for his release, shall be shot, as having made himself a
party to their offence, is said to have excited such dis-
satisfaction at Madrid as to have induced the Regent to
annul it.
Great surprise is manifested in the Spanish capital
by the appointment of the Countess Montejo as lady of
honour to the Queen, in the place of Madame Beljida, as
the former is said to be notoriously of Carlist principles;
otherivise there can be no objection to Madame Montejo,
as she is the widow of a grandee of Spain, and one of the
most distinguished women at Madrid.
The commerce publishes a letter dated the 17th ult.,
from the frontiers of Prussian Poland, announcing that,
although the present harvest was most abundant and
of excellent quality, the price. of corn remained high
in consequence of the merchants of Stettin having
made large purchases at the present price to be delivered
at the conclusion of the harvest.

A letter from Frankfort-on-the-Oder, dated the 21st
ult., states that the fair of St. Maguint, which had just
concluded, was well supplied with goods, but almost
exclusively from the States forming the German Union,
which met with a ready sale, but at rather reduced prices.
Letters from Constantinople of the 13th ult., announce
that the Schah of Persia is making preparations for a
war against Turkey, and that a Persian army is to
march against Bagdad, and another against Erzerum.
Troops had already marched from Teheran to Amedan,
on their way to Bagdad. It appears that the cause of
quarrel is a disputed boundary line, and that the Schah
had forwarded an ultimatum to the Porte signifying his
intention to take possession of the. territory in dis-
pute if it were not ceded to him by the sth of October.
PARLIAMENTARY.
The Lords read the Insolvent Debtors' Relief Bill a
third time, and passed it. After Lord Brougham had, in
the name of such debtors, thanked the Lords, Lord
Campbell proposed an amendment, and was somewhat
mortified to find that the Bill had passed.
The Suspension of the Slave-trade Prohibition Act, as
relative to Portugal, was read a second time.
Lord Brougham moved a resolution that it is ea pe-
dient to take measures to prevent the employment of
British capital and British agents in the slave trade.
The Noble Lord gave an eloquent description of the in-
crease of the trade, and referred, to several instances in
which British capital had been engaged in it. The Duke
of Wellington admitted the evils, and declared they ought
to be remedied, but also said he saw no means to remedy
them. Till they were devised, the sanction of the reso-
lution was not advisable. After a short conversation
Lord Brougham withdrew bis resolution.
Their Lordships forwarded a considerable number of
measures a stage, and adjourned at Half-past Eight.
In the Commons, Sir John Easthope obtained a re-
turn, after some little bickering by the Saints, of the
amount of Church-rates in every parish. Sir R. Peel
admitted that he was not satisfied with the law, but he
could not promise a measure next session to amend it.
In answer to Mr. Cobden, Sir R. Peel stated that two
vessels were fitting out in the river for the Mexican Go-
vernment, and that our Government had refused to allow
them to be manned by British seamen. In any contest
which may take place, Sir R. Peel said, our Government
is to be strictly neutral, and no English officer is to be
allowed to serve in the Mexican fleet.
Mr. O'Connell alluded to the internal regulations of
Texas, but was told by Mr. C. Buller that the internal
regulations of a State were not to preclude us from forming
a treaty with it.
The Bribery at Elections Bill (No. 2) was read a
third time and passed.
The House was engaged, for the principal part of the
evening, in discussing the Copyright of Designs Bill on
bringing up the Report. During the discussion Sir
Robert Peel excited some amusement by adverting to
the mode by which patterns arc distinguished, se-
lecting for the purpose one marked Richard Cobden
and Co., and which he, appropriately for him, styled
an ugly pattern. The ouse sat till One o'Clock.