The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1842.

them, and thus people, with money in their pockets, are in -
some districts unable to command absolute necessaries.
In th&poorer disfricts of London it is impossible to ob-
tain change for gold, even with the temptation of con-
siderable purchases. The poor had surely enough to
trouble them, without thus unnecessarily alarming them.
They are filled with a vague sense of danger ; fancy
every one who offers them gold in payment of wages or
otherwise, intends to rob them ; and just in proportion
to the extent of their ignorance is their inquietude.
But the proposal itself recommends a robbery of the
public. A great proportion of the gold coinage was
issued under weight, to prevent its exportation, and a
vast amount is depreciated in value from being allowed
to remain too long in circulation. Nearly all the gold coins
issued in the reigns of George the Third, George
the Fourth, and William the Fourth, are in circulation.
Now, how is it to be expected that sovereigns, upwards
of a quarter of a century in circulation, should retain
their full weight ? The Government kaows right well
that they are all light, and yet seizes the mo-
ment of imposing an Income-tax for depre-
ciating, by proclamation, the recognised standard
value of them Let the present coinage of the kingdom
be called in at its nomimal value, and a currency of the
standard weight issued, with a regulation fer its re-issue
at intervals of seven or ten years, and then we shall
make no objection to Sir R. PEEL'S weighing scales.

The Moniteur of Thursday publishes the report of
the discussion in the Chamber of Peers, respecting the
want of religious education in France. Count BEUGNOT
complained of the number of legal and medical students
as being excessive. There were 3,375 medical students
in 1841, and the annual number of lawyers qualified to
practice at the French bar was 1,368. He further com-
plained that medicine was only taught practically, and
that the works of the fathers of the science of healing
were hardly ever seen in the professional schools of
France. Count de SAINT-PRIEST, and the Marquis de
BARTHELEMY expressed regret that the clergy were not
allowed a sufficient share in the education of the young
of France. The following extract from the report of
the debate will be read with some interest :

The Marqais de Barthelemy was also anxious for a bill,
which would allow children to receive a religious and literary
education, in place of a philosophy often opposed to the pre-
criptions of Christianity.
The Minister of Public Instruction denied that the State
establishments taught a philosophy contrary to Christian prin-
ciples. It the Noble Peer exam ed the programmes of the
University, he would see that this assertion was incori ect.
With respect to a bill on the subject of liberty of instruction,
he could not say that the Government could promise to present
one at any particular time, or in the Chandoer of Peers rather
than the Deputies.
Count de Alontalembert said that the system of instruction
followed in the University inspired very serious uneasiness to
that portion of the French population that were anxious about
religious instruction. In his opinion the University only re-
presented indifference and scepticism in religious matters. Yet
he should not attribute this to the University as a crime, it it
was not a monopoly, and one not justified by the actual tendency
of religious opinions. So great, in fact, was the insuffi-
ciency of religious education, that there ss ere at the
present moment not less than eight hundred French
pupils in the Colleges of neighbouring nations. The Noble
Peer then de!ended the opinion of his party with respect to
freedom of instruction, and declared that they had never, as
had been erroneously stated, wished to exclude the Govern-
ment trom the superintendence of 'public schools, and that the
clergy had never conceived the notion of substituting them-
selves for the University. He trusted that, at the approaching
elections, those who had the right to elect representatives
would distinguish between men who were anxious to preserve
the barriers existing between the evils of society and their
remedy, and those in favour of the liberty of instruction.
The Mini,ter of Public Instruction must declare that the
Noble Peer's inference, that public confidence was not vouch-
safed to the University, was erroneous. Conformably to the
principle which guided its creation, that institution paid the ut-
most attention to the religious tenets of the pupils, and never
attempted to interfere with them improperly. Napoleon, at its
creation, appointed 6,000 purses for gratuitous education, form-
ing nearly the whole number of pupils ' • but at present there
were only 1,400 purses, the free pupils amounting to 5,000.
As the latter number were sent by the public, it would follow
that the Noble Peer's argument was ill-founded. The Mi
nister here entered into the question if the scepticism attri-
buted to the University, and adduced arguments to justify that
body from the accusation.
Count de Montalembert persisted in his former assertions,
and declared that as his affirmations, and those of the Mini-ter,
were at variance, their truth could only be proved by subse-
quent facts. He had no desire to see the University suppressed,
but he thought snore religious establishments might very well
be allowed to exist collaterally.
After some other remarks the subject dropped.
We agree in the opinion that there is too little reli-
gious instruction in France. But one of the greatest
blunders made by the zealots is that of seeking to travel
too fast. Theirs is the hot-house system of improve-
ment. Now, this is neither the wisest nor the best.
The religious principle is rapidly gaining ground in
France, and will strike deeper root the less it is inter-
fered with by legislation.
Nothing is talked of in Paris but the approaching
elections. M. ()DILLON BARROT is as busy as a bee,
but his influence with the public is gone for ever.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 9.

drat Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pm. Prig..
wench 5 per Cents ...... 119 80 119 85 ... 119 70 ... 119 70
4 per Cents. ... 101 75 ... 101 75 ... 101 75 ... 101 75
3 per tents BO Id 80 15 ... 80 SO
Lean
lint or rganc..
Gartlite Lank 1,0001. SI area 1155 .1055 ~.1e55
5,0001 Shares 5070 507) ..„5071i
7..170ari flank

Belgian 5 per Cents, ... 113% ... 1t,3% ... 11.3,,i .. ii 34,
a per Lentt., 1840 105% ... 105% ... 10..1 ... 11,514
...nigh Active 23% ... 23% ... 23% ... 23
4eapohtan
a man .... R 4% ... 114% ...1(9% ... 104%
KAILW a t aHARI.;:,
Je►saillet.K, 1-.
LB
Rouen 550 ... 53 , ... 547 50 ... 527 56
Strasburg to 8a1e...

THE QUEEN'S LETTER.—Sir Robert Peel's last hope
either has been, or will be, a failure. The opulent
classes cannot give, and they will not give, sufficient to
palliate, much less relieve, the' public distress. Why,
say 'many of them, should we subscribe to buy food fur
the people on Which the landlords levy a tax ? Our
money may relieve some distress, but it will also go to
keep up the landlords' rents ; and we will not subscribe.
There is no heart in the cause, and Sir R. Peel will get
but little money.. If Sir Robert would pledge himself
that all the money subscribed should be laid out in fo-
reign corn, and be imported, duty free, he would promote
trade, lower prices, and probably have an increased
amount subscribed. .

COURT MYSTERIES.—Some surprise has been ex-
pressed that the Premier did not accompany her Ma-
jesty to Ascot Heath on Thursday last. We, however,.
see nothing yemarkable in that circumstance, and it may
be that he was not invited. The Right Hon. Gentleman
came down with Lady Peel by the train on Tuesday
evening, and had to wait for some time at the Slough
station before his carriage could be got ready. There
were none of the Royal carriages in waiting for him. He
had in his hand an evening paper of that day, and the
Standard will be shocked to learn that the " public in-
structor" which the Premier was so carefully taking to
Windscr Castle was one of extreme Radical opinions.--
Observer.—[Why is our courtly Contemporary afraid to
mention The Sun, and anxious to impute to us princi-
ples, which, in the general sense of the word, we neither
profess nor advocate ? Is he afraid that the Radical
" public instructor" should be preferred at Court to those
tine-serving papers which are guided only by selfish in-
terests, and which would become Tory, Conservative,
Whig, Radical, or "extreme Radical," if they could better
their condition.]

METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—A deputation on
this very important subject, consisting of Mr. Ormsby
Gore, M.P., Mr. Gally Knight, M.P., the Earl of Love-
lace, Mr. John Martin, Mr. Hickson, Mr. J. Ivatt Briscoe,
Colonel Sykes, Mr. George Godwin, Mr. J. Hume, M.P.,
Mr. T. L. Donaldson, the Honourable H. Fitzroy, Dr.
S. Smith, Mr. Yowler, Mr. Elphinstone, M.P., and some
other gentlemen interested in the matter, attended by
appointment on Sir Robert Peel, at Downing-street,
on Friday morning. A Cabinet Council being unexpectedly
summoned, the conference was postponed until next
ireek. •

THE NOTTINGHAM WRIT.—Sir Robert Peel votes
against issuing the writ for Nottingham, it is said, be-
cause he dreads Mr. Walter's opposition to the Poor-
law, which might protract the session a week or two.
He voted for issuing the writ to Ipswich, because there
he was sure of obtaining two supporters, or two reason-
able opponents.
The madness of the General Assembly during the
late session, has precluded all hopes of assistance from
the Government, in settling the disputes which agitate
the Kirk of Scotland. Sir James Graham last night
said he would not characterise their proceedings by any
harsh terms, but he would be explicit on one point,
namely, that it was the intention of the Government'to
oppose Mr. Campbell's Non-Intrusion Bill. This of
course astonished "poor" Mr. Campbell, who in utter
amazement exclaimed, " I never could have expected
such an answer from the Right Hon. Baronet." What
answer did he expect ? That Sir James Graham would
give more power to men who know neither mercy nor
justice, who have defied the law, and trampled op their
unoffending brethren, whom the Government had re-
solved to protect ? Mr. Campbell must labour under
some strange delusion.
MADLLE. RACHEL AND HER CRITIC. —A dramatic
critic in a Morning Journal. while speaking of Madlle.
Rachel's excellent acting on Friday night at the Queen's
Theatre, falls into such paroxysms of admiration, as
wholly to lose sight of common-sense and meaning.
Thus, in reference to her famous scene with Valere and
old Horace, he tells us that the effect produced "is here
quite paralyzing-4t is almost dislocating !" 'l'his is the
first time we ever heard that good acting endangered the
integrity of one's limbs. We have seen Kean more than
once in Othello, yet pur joints were never dislocated in
consequence ? Even his famous curse in King Lear
occasioned no injury to our angle-bone. We had no need
to call in a surgeon to remedy the disastrous results of
our admiration. If Mdlle Rachel's acting really have
the effect of putting one's limbs out of joint, we should
decidedly recommend her being taken up for a nuisance,
and compelled to find sureties for her good behaviour,
during the period she may remain in England.
From the returns to the House of the number of officers
and men.. constituting the effective yeomanry of Great
Britain during the years 1840 and 1841,
it appears
and
that
amounted in the former, to 835
Ireltahnedy,
officers, and 13,450 men ; for the support of whom,
Parliament granted a '
sum of 92,9934 which was ex-
ceeded by an expenditure of •233 i. .14sio7d. In the fol-
lowing year, the officers numbered 840, and O. men

13,434 ; for whose support a vote of 82,266/. was granted,
over which an excess of expenditure has taken plate of
1031. 6s. Id.
SMUGGLED SPIRITS, WINE, AND SILK, 1832-41.—
From the returns to the House of Commons of the
quantities of the above articles and commodities at-
tempted to be smuggled into the United Kingdom during
the last ten years, it appears that in 1832, 42,421 gal-
lons of Brandy were seized ; in 1841, 12,639, showing
a decrease of 29,782. Of Geneva, 11,155 gallons in
1832 ; while in 1841, there were no more than 2,496.
Of Rum, 702 gallons in the former year ; in the latter,
190. Of Wines, in 1832, 86 gallons ; during the next
four years, the fluctuation is from 100 to 150 gallons,
and in 1841 it had increased to 351 gallons, though in
the preceding year, 1840, there were only 73 gallons seized.
In the articles of silk and foreign manufacture, a great
increase appears to have taken place in shoes, stockings,
and gloves : of these in 1832, only 266 pairs were seized,
and so late as 1839, only 31 pairs. During the last year,
1841, there have been 2,947. In all the other items,
such as ribbons, velvet, crapes, caps, and bonnets, &c.,
there appears a very sensible decrease, amounting almost,
comparatively, in some cases, to a nonentity. In lace
an article more extensively smuggled than any other, a
great decrease is observable. In 1832 the number of
yards returned, as under legal seizure, was 6,813 : fur
1841, 1,413 yards.
SPIRITS (IRELAND).-011 the motion of Sir Robert
Ferguson, a return has been made of the spirits taken out for
home consumption in Ireland since sth January to sth April
last, and corresponding periods of 1840 and 1841. The
decrease, as will be seen, is enormous. In the quarter ending
April 5, 1840, the number of gallons taken out for home con-
sumption was 2,212,465 ; while in the corresponding quarter
this year, it was only 1,682,548, a reduction of 529,917 gallons
in three months.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS•

PARIS, JUNE 10.

It seems that the proclamations of the Spanish Regent
for money to pay the two semestres of interest were
issued on an understanding with those capitalists who
had engaged with Surra y Rull. That Minister's re-
signation will thus make no difference.
All the various parties in the Cortes were consulted,
and all agreed that faith should be kept with the Eng-
lish creditor, by whatever Minister should succeed to the
finance department. The Fives, with 11 coupons, were
31 in Madrid on the 3d. Three per Cents. 22 for time.
On the 4th, the Fives at one moment reached 35, but
almost immediately afterwards fell to 31, and not a bar-
gain done in the Threes.'

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday.)
The English Market is completely inanimate to- day, and
without business ; prices, in consequence, are not quite so good
sa they left off last evening, Consols being 913 911 for the
opening ex dividend ; 7 hree per Cents. Reduced, 913 911 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1003 1003. India
Bonds, 22 24 ; Exchequer Bills, 48 50 prem.
Nothing has been done in Foreign Securities.
The speculators in Mexican are much disappointed that the
Dee has brought no information from that country ; quotations
remain nearly as yesterday, being 363.
Business in the Shares has been very limited, and confined
to Great Western, 891; the New Shares, 623 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 93 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 513 ; Brighton, 353.
A " rig" is now going forward in Spanish, and the fluctua-
tions to-day have been from 231 to 24k, and since declined to
233. When it is remembered that no money for the next nivi-
dend is yet provided, and that the Minister, according to the last
advices, had announced his willingness to borrow it in small
suns, the rise will be seen to be merely a speculation without a
legitimate cause.
The usual return of the weekly average circulation of the
kingdom for the four weeks ending the 28th ult. shows a falling
off of 483,1221. in comparison wit', the a:t ount of the 30t1i of
April, which is composed of these items :—That of the Bank of
England is less by 513,000/, the difference between 17,891,000/.
and 18,404,000/. ; the English Private Batiks by 116,535/.,
the difference between 5,365,6541. and 5,482,1891. ; and the
Joint Stock Banks by 59,360/., the difference between
3,101,540/. and 3,160,900/. ; forming i total decrease in Eng-
land of 683,895/., the difference between 26,358,1941. and
27,047,089/. The circulation of Ireland is contracted by
154,895/., the difference between 5,057,052/. and 5,211,947/.,
of which the Bank of Ireland is less by 6,725/, the dif-
ference between 3,093,9001. and 3,100.625/, and the Pri-
vate and Joint Stock Banks by 148,1701., the difference
between 1,963,152/. and 2,111,3221. The private and
Joint Stock Banks in Scotland have enlarged their
issues by 360,6681., the difference between 2 951,3831.
and 2,590,715/. The total circulation of the three kingdoms
is now 34,666,6291. against 35,849,751/. on April 30. The
bullion in the Bank of England appears to be rapidly accumu-
lating, being now 7,383,0001., an increase of 301,000/. above
the last return, or 3,165,000/. above the lowest point in Nov.
1841. This decrease in the circulation, although indicative of
an absence of demand for industrial purposes, is not so discou-
, raging as would be supposed at first. The Bank of England,
at the commencement of April, to relieve a pressure on the
market which then existed, increased their issue by nearly
1,750,000/. above what it had been in the former month, and are
now gradually returning to their usual average. The increase
in Scotland, affords a gratifying proof that a revival of trade
there is going on ; and tne circulation, which, during some
months past, had been narrowed from 3 383,006/. t.a 2,5907151..
is now again being expanded. The stock of bullion is also sa-
tisfactory ; and which, coupled with the present state of the
foreign exchanges, would show, that if in the next two or three
months any demand for it should arise on the Continent. it will
be met, without to any great degree distressing the market.
The few letters received by the Dee, add nothing to the in-
telligence in another column.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JUNE 9.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 99k , Grand Canal 5t0ck.........
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
Ditto New 1830... 991 Ditto 4 per cent ...
Mt per Cent. Debs.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 16.—The market
exhibits no alteration since the former day, steady prices were
obtained for about 4,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 10.--There was an
improved demand for South Eastern New Shares, but nothing
of importance was done in any other description ; the sales
we'e Edinburgh and Glasgow New, 13 premium ; Grand
Junction, 185 ; New Quarters, 263 ; Liverpool and Manchester
Halves, 841,i ; London and Birmingham, 178; Manchester
and Birmingham, 263; South Eastern New, i 3 premium.
MANCHESTER STOcK EXCHANGE, JUNE 10.—We have
had a quiet market to-day. South Eastern are still inquired
for. Our quotations are—South Eastern, Scrip, 63 to 63 ;
Manchester and Leeds Quarters, 53 ; Manchester Assurance,
93; Bank of Manchester, 33 to 43.

CHRONICLE.—The receipt of gold coin below the legal
weight in sums over 501. by the Bank of England at the Mint
price of 31. 171. 101 Ad. per ounce, does not remove the com-
plaints of the public. Private individuals will not be able to
take advantage of the notice, except by clubbing their gold,
and transmitting it by one party, so as to make up the required
amount. If this be done, those who end their gold to the
Bank will be paid for light sovereigns at the Mint price, but
they
.will be sufferers for the deficiency of weight. A very
large proportion of the'gold in circulation is below the legal
weight, and thus a most severe loss will be suffered by the
community by the depreciation in the coinage over which they
had no control. It was the duty of the Government to have
called in the gold before it was so reduced by abrasion as to i.e
generally below the legal weight, and it is on the Crown, and
nor en individuals, that the less should fall. The injustice in-
flicted on the country by throning the loss for deficiency of
weight on individuals is so glaring, that we cannot doubt it wiil
be made the subject of Parliamentary inquiry. Every one
must see that the silver coinage, especially sixpencies, is much
deteriorated, and that a nevi issue is requisite ; but here, again,
the old coin will be allowed to circulate until the sixpences
and shillings arc worn down smooth, and all marks of her
Majesty's countenance obliterated; then we shall have a fresh
blundering arbitrary proclamation, and individuals will be again
saddledsith the loss incurred by Government neglect. These
are fitting accompaniments for a Tory Government to adopt as
suitable introductions to the iniquities of their Income-tax.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
India Stock pm
Ditto Bonds .... 24 pm
Ditto Old Annuities ...
Ditto New Annuities...
Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 48 pm
Ditto 5001...... 50 pm
Ditto Small
Bank Stock for Acct —
India Stock for Acct —
Consols for Opg.
FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. .. 9ll
3 per Cent. C0n5....: 92i
3 per Cent. Red.• • looe
New 3i per Cent —
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ...... 12i
Oct. 1859
Jan. 18U0
FOREIGJ

Austrian, 5 per cent --
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds...

•
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
{Ditto, New Ditto
jPrussian, 5 per cent.

Buenos Ayres 6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent
Ditto, 1824

Rosman, 5 Per cent
Ditto, Metallic...;..:
Svanish, 5 per cent 22i
Ditto, Deferred.... ..

Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent 36i French, 3 per cent. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1537 Dutch, 2i per cent.
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent...... 101 i
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p)
Ditto New Shares (17i paid).. l3
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .... 9i
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 504
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares
.(50 paid) 62
_ .

. ,
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
Ditto Loan Notes (74 paid)
London and South Western (431 15$ Odpd) 63
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Thirds ( paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 264
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

REPORTED DISTURBANCE AT BARNOLDSWICK.—
On Wednesday last there was a report current on 'Change and
elsewhere, that the relieving officer of the Skipton Union,
while relieving the poor at Barnoldswick, a small place on the
borders of Yorkshire, about four miles from Colne, had been
attacked by a numerous body of paupers, the money taken
from him, and divided by the plunderers amongst themselves,
and the officer thrown into a ditch ; that the military were
consequently sent for, and speedily arrived, from Eurtiley anti
Colne; and one report stated that several lives were lost. On
inquiry, we have reason to believe that there is no truth in the
story, the fact being, that there having been some demand,
on the part of a number of ratepayers of Barnoldswick, to be
present at, a distribution of the money, and the Guardians
declining to comply with such a demand, some disturb-
ance was apprehended, anti a few troops Ns ere ordered to
proceed from Colne to that place, with a view to pre-
serve the peace; and we believe that their presence
proved effectual, and that not the slightest disturbance took
place, and the troops returned to their barracks, at Colne, the
same evening. A Chartist, namel Mooney, who has of late
been seeking to distinguish himself in that quarter, proceeded
with the troops to Barnoldswick, and shortly afterwards re-
turning to Colne, which was left for a short time without mili-
tary, be sprung a rattle by way of assembling his brother
chartists, and then harangued them, declaring, amongst other
• things, that one or two soldiers had been killed. However, the
Chartists speedily dispersed on the arrival in Colne, of some
cavalry from Burnley barracks ; and the return of the soldiers
from Barnoldswick, soon sufficed to expose Mooney's falsehood.
It is not difficult to see how, from these materials, the story
gathering as it rolled, was swelled into a tale at Manchester.
of nine men being killed. The Chartist meeting of Sunday
next, we believe, is•-to be held at Accrington, and will be
addressed by Dr. Alacdotiall, Mooney, and others of that claw..
...Manchester Guardian,

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der=g

AND
Vitbitt Optittoxt.

" Who runs may read."

FOILEXGINT.
The elections and the linen thread que,tion are the only

matters that excite any interest among the French journias.
The National publishes a long article to prove that linen
thread impaled from Belgium ought not to be subjected to
the increased duty about to be laid on the same article imported
from England. " Between Belgium and us," observes the
National, "there exist an identity of position, a community
of interests, a similarity of tradition and recollections, and ten-
dencies in common. Between Great Britain and us no com-

munity of feeling, no point of contact exists during past ages ;
and at present, more than ever, when the two nations meet
they annoy, injure, and offend each other."
The Courier Franrais says :—" By raising the duty on fo-
reign thread, the Ministry will not satisfy any party. The
National thinks it not enough, and demands a prohibitive
duty, as if a duty of 20 per cent., added to the expenses of
commission and carriage, was riot, in fact, a prohibition. The
consequence will he, that our merchants will be supplied by
smugglers, and the only party who will suffer by this arrange-
, ment, except the consumer, will be the Treasury, which will
lose two or three•millions of revenue."

We quote the following important announcement from the
Commerce. We fear withal that it is but a trick to lull the
suspicions of the Regent :—" A rumour is current that a defi-
nitive rupture has taken place between Queen Christina and
the heads of her party. • '1 hey, seeing that for some time past
they had been the dupes of promises which were not kept, at
last determined formally to demand from the Queen an effec-
tive support to a new attempt in Spain, and they allowed her
four days to consider the application. At the end of that
period, Queen Christina having again given an evasive reply,
her partisans, the report says, broke off all political connection
with her. The purchase of Alalmaison, after that of the hotel
in the rue de Courceiles, may have contributed to convince her
partisans that she has given up all political projects."
La France states, that the contemplated journey of the
Dukes of Orleans and Nemours to Luxemburg had been ar-
ranged between Louis Philippe and General Fagel, and relates
to a marriage between the rrincess Clementine and a Pi ince
of the House of Orange.