The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-16 00:00:00

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INAVAL INTELLIGENCE, JULY s.—Snres IN PORT—The
Queen, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir E. \V. C. R.
Owen:Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean; the. Howe,
120, bearing the flag of Rear. Admirai Sir F. Mason, second
in command ; Ceylon receiving-ship, bearing the flag of Hear-
Admiral sir J. Louis, superinsen•.erit or' Malta Dock-yarn ;
Impregnable, 104 ; liseintsy, 92 ; C Jcutta. 84 ; Indus, 78;
Mr des, Devastation, and Vesuvius war-steamer s, and Poly-
phemus's:it am .packet.
DISTRIBUTInN OF THE REST OF THE FLEET.—The Thnn-
darer, 84; Belvidere, 38; and Lizard steam-tender, at (rib-
raltar. The Formidable. 84, anti Jest ur, 16, on their way to
liana, from Gibraltar. L'Aigle, 24, on her way from Smyrna
to 11alta ; and the Magicieene, 24, on her way to Smyrna,
from Malta. The Stromboli war-steams r, at Constantinople ;
the Cyclops war-steamer, at Aiexsndria ; the Monarch, 84, at
the Pa mus of Athens ; and the Van card, 80, on her way
thither from Malta, to relieve her; the Cambridge, 78, on her
way to the Coast of Syria ; the Ineonafatit, 36, and Hecate
war-steamer, at listyrout ; the Vernon, 60; Snake, 16 ; alit
Locust steam.tender, at Tripoli, in Barbary ; the Savage, 10;
at Athens; the Pheeeix war-steamer, on special service; the
Prometheus steam-packet, on her way to the lonian Islands and
Petra.; the Alecto, at Marseilles, awaiting the London over-
land mail of the 4th inst. ; the Beacon and Magpie, surveying-
vessels, at Pores; the Scout, at Corfu.
MOVEMENTS OF SHIPS OF WAR SINCE JUNE 26.—The
Alecto, with the overland India mail for England, left Malta
for Marseilles on the afternoon of the 26th June ; and the
Great Liverpool contract steamer proccedral cn her voyage to
Gibraltar and England with the ordinary mail on the morning
of the 27th. The Plircenix with the mails from Patras and the
lonian Islands, arrived on the afternoon of the 26th, and after
coaling was despatched on some special service, under
sealed realms, on the 28th, on which day the Vanguard and
Cambridge were also suddenly ordered away, the first, it is
supposed, kettle Pirteus, to relieve the Monarch, which toeing
to her late service vff the river Zanthus, is very sickly, and has
lost Major Meech and Lieut. Burton, of the Royal Marines,
'from malaria fever, and several men. Ihe officers w ere interred
with military honours, the British Minister at tending the fuaeral.
A seaman of the Medea has also died at Malta from the same
fees r, and Assistant-Surgeon Webb continues in a very pre-
carious state in- the Malta hospital. '1 be Magicienne sailed for
Smyrna- to relieve L'Aigle on the '27th. The Cambridge
has proceeded, it is supposed to the coast of Syria. The Ve-
suvius returned from Marseilles after calling at Genoa and
Leghorn on the 29th ult. ; the Indus from Lisbon, on the 2d
instant ; and on the same day the Polyphemus from Gib•
,-altar, with the London mails of the 18th ult. ; and the
ProMetheus from Constantinople, where she landed Lady
Stratford Canning and family. She sailed again on the 14th
for the lonian Islands and Patras with the snails. The Drivas•
Wien returned from Tripoli on the 2d, and was sent away
again for the same place, with despatches for the Consul,
brought from the Ambassador at Constantinople (by the Pro-
metheus) on the 3d, and she is this moment signalized as re-
turning; but any intelligence she may bring will not be in
time for this post. Massacres of sheiks continue by wholesale,
units: the orders of Askar Ali, whose reign is near its close,
as his successor is known to have left Constantinople on the
28th ultimo, in a hurkish frigate, direct for Tripoli. The
°roman frigate, Chiaha Habil, and the Tunisian
corvette Elelia have both left for Tunis, and the Egyptian
eioreship Auserrerne, with coals (from Port Talbot, in Wales),
sailed tram Malta for Alexandria on the 30th uit. The 'qua-
rantine of merchant ships from Constantinople has, by a riga
latiun of the malts Beard of Health, dated .27th ult., been re-
duced to eighteen days without susceptible cargoes, and
twenty (Itt with susceptible cargoes, in lieu of twenty-five, as
heretofore: which is a step vaeards civilisation in sanitary mat-
ter,. Ships of war and passengers are relieved after fifteen
days. The ships of war in Malta Harbour, under the orders 01
Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, have been some time in ady for sea, and
it is generally supposed will leave for a short cruise about the
13th; but it would appear that there is a studied desire t' avoid
coming into contact a ith the French ships ,of war in these
parts. The Calcutta sails 1, 1. stein ant England in a day or
two, her late Captain, Sir Samuel Roberts, geintr. home as a
mere passenger, haling been placed on hill-pav by tlia Admi-
ral, for being snore that' six weeks in Malta hospital, sick.

FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER.—Monday
last will long be remembered in West Norfolk as the day on hich
the mortal remains of one of her most distinguished ch,iraeters,
the munificent' patron and frier.d of a,iliculture. the liberal
landlord, the generous master, the op-a-hearted— benefactor,
wore consigned to their final resting-place.
IA A Uvx,T.-I.'he fiist. Held of Talavera wheat
in Sussex, and, we beli4e, in Etieland, cut by N.
E q of Southwick, oA Weilnes,tay se'nnight, which will be
fit fir the initler, Monday next. 'the harvest wili corm-
tneuce genei'aliy ills, few days. The wheat is toll in the ear,
and will. w e h heavy. The b4rley and oats will be light cropi7
Brishitita /if •
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DEATH OF THE DUKE OF
ORLEANS,-

(From Galignuni's ..liesjfriger,)
the cietaiit of the calamity are as follows :—Yestetkay (July
13), at twelve o4tiott, the Duke of Orleans was to leave Paris
for St. Omer, where he wag fe /nerd several regiments in-
tended for the corps of operation on the Marne. His equipages
*efb ordered, and his attendants in readiness. Eve, y prepara-
tion was itiatie et the Pavillon Marsan for the jucuney, a'ter
which his Royal iiighttese was to join the Duchess of Orleans
at Plombieres. At eleveti the Prince got into a carriage, lire
tending to go to Neuilly to take ieefe off the King and Queen
an.! the Royal fetidly. This carriage iI t6t four-wheeled ca-
briolet, or micelle, drawn by two horses a la dertrieDattmont,—
that is. driven by a poStillion, It was the cortreyatiee usually
taken by the Prince when going short distances round Paris.
He was quite alone, not having suffered one of his officers to
accompany hint. On arriving nets the Porte Maillot, the
horse rode by the postillion took fright, and hrolte into a
gallop. 'The carriage was Soon taken with great velo-
city up 'the Chemin de la Revolt& The Prince, seeing
that the postillion was unable to master the horses, put his foot.
on the siep, which is very near the groinul, and jumped down
on he road, when about half• way along the toad which
runs direct from the Note Nfaillot. The Prince
touched the road with both feet, but the impulse was so great
that he staggered, and fell with his head on the pavement.
Thee effect of the fall was terrible, for his Royal Highness re-
mained senseless on the spot. Persons instantly ran to his as-
sistance and carried him into a grocer's by the way-side, a
short distance off, opposite Lord Seymour's stables. In the
meantime the postillion succeeded in getting command over his
horses, turned the carriage round, and came to the door of the
house where the Prince was lying. His Royal Highness never
recovered his senses. He was placed on a bed in a room on the
ground floor, and surgical assistance was sent for. Dr. Balmy,
a physician in the neighbourhood, was the first who came. He
bled the Royal sufferer, but this produced no good effect. The
news of the accident was conveyed to Neuilly. The Queen
immediately set out on foot, and the King followed her. His
Majesty was to beat Paris at twelve o'clock, to hold a Council
of elimsters. His carriages, which were ready. soon overtook
their Majesties, who entered them, with Madame Adelaide and
the Princess Clementine. They proceeded to the house to
which the Duke of Orleans had been taken. He, by that time,
was nearly lifeless. It may be easy to imagine, but it will be
iinpressible for any one to describe, the grief of their Majesties
and Royal Highnesses at the spectacle they beheld. Dr. Pas-
quier, jun., the Prince Royal's first surgeon, had just arrived.
Stein afterwards the Dukes d'Aumale and Montpensier came
from Courbevoie and Vincennes. Dr. Pasquier was very soon
compelled to announce that the case was of the most serious
na-
ture, for every symptom showed that there was an effusion on the
brain, and every minute the evil seemed to increase. A few
words pronounced by the Prince in the German language gave
I a momentary hope, but this as quickly vanished. Alarslial
Soult, Marshal Gerard, the Ministers of Justice, Foreign
Affairs, the Interior, the Marine, Finances, and Public Works
arrived, and were admitted into the death bed chamber of the
Royal Duke. The Chancellor, the Prefect of Police, Generals
,1 anti Aupick, with the ethers of the households of their
Majesties and Princes, hastened to the spot, and remained out-
; site the housein a space kept clear by sentinels stationed around.
At two o'clock, as the ease became more and more desperate.
tie, King sent for the Duchess de Nemours, who had remained
at Neuilly. Sne came, attended by her Ladies ;n Wai ing.
No pen can paint the afflicted 'dent presented by the chamber
when the Duchess de Nemours came, and added her bitter
tears to those of the rest of the falsely. The Queen and Prin-
cess wet eon their knees by the bedside, praying and bathieg
welt their tears the hands of their departing eon and brother,
so intensely beloved. The Princes were speech ess, and sob-
bing almost to suffocation. The King stood by silent and mo-
tionless, watching with painful aexiety every fluctuation in the
countenance of his expiring Ile r. Outsiiie the heme the crowd
continued every minute le iecrease, every one overwhelmed with
diens; erne:ion. The Cure of Neuilly and his clergy immediately
obeyed the King's summons, aed same to Sablenvilie. Under
the influence of powerful medicaments. the agony of the dying
Prince was prolonged. Life withdrew, but very slowly, and
not without struggling powerfu ly against the utter de-truction
of so much youthful strength. For a insmeet respiration be-
came more bee, and the beating of the ',else was perceptible.
As the slightest hopes are grasped at by hearts torn with ne-
siiMr, this scene of desolation was interrupted by a momentary
calm, but the gleam seen passed away. At four o'clock the
Prince showed the unequivocal symptoms of departing fife, and
in another half-hour he rendered his soul to Goil, dying in the
arms of his King and father, who at tse last, moment pressed
his lips on the foreheed of his lost child, hallowed by the tears
of his afflicted mother, and the sobs arid lamentations of the
whole of his tenthly. The Prince being dead, the King drew
the Queen into an adjoiiiitig room, where the Ministers and
Marshals assembled, threw themselves at her feet, arid endea-
voured to offer her consulatien. Her Majesty exclaimed,
sf What a dreadful misfortune has fallen teem our family, but
how much greater is it fur France !" Her voice w s then
stopped by her sobs and tears. The King, seeing Marshal
Gerard absorbed in grief, took his hand, pressed it with
rn expression showing his sense of his bereavement, but' at
the same time a fineness and magnanimity truly royal. The
mtotai remains of the Prince were placed on a litter covered
with a white sheet. The Queen refused to t into the car-
ias e, di clarets; her resolution to follow the corpse of her son
to the chapel at Neuilly, where she wished it to be carried.
-Citti;equently; a company of the pith Light Infantry was has-
tily marched clown from Courbevoie to line the procession on
each side, amid thus those brave men who heel shared with the
Pi ince Royal in all the dangers of the passage of the Iron Gates
amid the heights of Mouzaia, in Africa, served as the escort of
his now lifeless body. Several of the men wept, and called
back to their minds the brilliant valour with which the Duke
of Orleans had assailed the enemy, anti, at the same time, the
mild and delicate beneficence with which he lad ever tempered
the necessary rigour of command. At five o'clock the mournful
provessi; n moved towards the chapel at Neuilly. General
Athaliii walked at the head of the bier, which was carried by
tour non-commissiened officers. Bellied 'followed the Kirig.
Queen, Princess Adelaide, Duchess de Nemours, Princess
Clementine, Duke d'Aumale, and Duke de Montpensier.
Then came 31arshals Soult and Gerard, the Ministers, the Ge-
neral Officers, the household of the King and Princes, anti an
imniense number of other persittis. The sad and solemn proces-
sten moved along the Avenue de Sabloti-sille, and crossing the oil
Neuilly road entered the Ros al pink, and trave,sed its whole
length to the Chapel. Here their Majestie., and Princes am!
Princesses, after prostrating tiernselves More the altar, left
their beloved chill and brother under the guardianship of UM.
In the evening the Rtiyal Family remained in seclusion, except
that the King conferred with his Mihisters. At seven e'clock
M. Benin ee raux, one of the deceased Prince's nrderi1
officers, and M. Chrome!, who was his Royal Highness's fir•t
physician, set old fur Plombieres, where the Duelist's of Or-
leans is t; king the waters. Amidst ail their own :Aiello'',
during his disastrous day, the thought of the deprivation sus-
tainee by'this untOrtunate Princess was never out of die minds
of her Royal relations, and her name was repeatedly invoked
in their lamentations. At length it was resolved that the
Duchess de Nemours and the Princess Clementine should go to
her with letters irom the King and Queen. Their Royal
Highnesses commenced their journey at nine o'clock, attended
by Mademoiselle Angela and General de Runtigny. At ten
o'clock the Duke d'Aumale, aecone anied by the Count de
Montguyon, who was one ot the Prince Royal's Aides-de-Camp.
went to the Pavillon Marsan, and, in obedience to an order fsoin
the King, put seals upon alt the deceased's papers Comman•
cant Larne, one of his Majesty's orderly officers, was sent off to
the charcau d'Eu, to bring back the Count de Paris and the
Duke de Ch .rues, who had been sent there for the bathit g
season. At eleven o'clock last night the Duke d'Aumale re-
turned to the Palace at Newby, mid theme remains, as well as
the Duke de Motepensier. One courier was despatched to the
Duke de Nemours, and another to Toulon, with orders for a
steamer to be despatched to the coast of Sicily, where et es bee
Loved the squadron of Arimiral Hutson now is, and conse-
quently the Prince de Joinville will be' found.
Alta( the above full and minute details, little mere remains
to be said at present on this astounding occurrence; and, in-
deed, from other sources. we have only been able to glean
the following :--Vs hen the Prince Royal first perceived that
the postillion had-lost all cemmend over the horses, he stood
up in the carriage, arid looked with earnest alentiint along.
the road before him; hut, steins the road clear, he sat quietly
down agvin ; but, rising onee more, after running about 15e
yards. and (deserving that his valet. who was in the seat be•
hind, had disappeared, and probably fearing that the man had
been thr wu off by the shame:es of the motion, his Royal High-
'tees took the resolution of gem tug out. When Wien ns, the
Iloysl Duke was found to Ilse., oiveie contusion en the :eft
temple, amid several wounds sin his legs. The bloom was thaw-
ing from his mouth and rise, and eve') from his eye s. When
examined by the surgeons and other medical men c-lle to
him, a fracture in the shore was discovered, and left little or no
hope. The scores which the Prince uteered in German, anti
which are alluded to above, arc said to have been—" Strut the
door, there is a fire."
The following letter from Plombieres, of July 11, giving an
account of the calm and traequil mariner in which the Duchess
of Orleans passes her time, is interesting, from the strong con-
tra 4 it presents to the agony which must take possession of the
mind of the unhappy' Duchess on receiving the intell genee,
dreadful in itself, but awfully terrible from its suddenness, of
him beloved husband's death :--ff Her Royal Highness (says
the letter) has already derived benefit from the baths of Plom-
bieres. She walks out daily, and the inhabitants, though de-
lighted to see her without attendants or guard quietly passing
through the streets, have the delicacy to allow her to pass
without indulging unbecoming curiosity. She has visited the
principal shops of the place, and made several purchases of the
polished steel goods, for which the manufacture of the town is
deservedly famous. Her Royal Highness has also Leen to see
the Stanislaus Hospital, founded by the good king whose name
it beats, and expressed her satisfaction at the state in which it
is kept. There is every reason to hope that her Royal High-
ness's health will soon be perfectly restored. Iler affability
and charity make her nearly adored here ".
In consequence of the melancholy accident which has dirown
so much gleam over the.capital, orders have been given to sus-
pendlor the present the preparations in the Champs Elysees for
the fetes of July.