The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-05 00:00:00

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Citizens are no longer admissible to the august pre-
sence of the Citizen King, without disfiguring them-
selves with the mummer costumes of old monarchies.
Thus, on New Year's day a deputation of citizens was
denied access to the King because they did not wear
court dresses ! There were no Court dresses in fashion
during the Three Glorious Days. !
The absence of all the Members of the Russian Lega-
tion from the King of the French's Levee on New Year's
day, has greatly irritated and annoyed not only the
French • Court, but the French Ministerial Press.
The following remarks. of the Courrier Fran-
cais embody the • sentiments of the Court :
" The Emperor of Russia has adopted a singular method
for showing his political p.ntipathy for the French Go-
vernment. The Russian Minister excused himself from
attending the King's levee with the other members of
the diplomatic body under ihe plea of indisposition, but
Was that a reason why no other member of the Russian,
Embassy could be present ? Was it on account of indis-
position that the Russian residents in Paris, so numerous
last year at the Tuileries, refrained from showing them-
selves this year ? Or was it not in consequence of orders
received from their Sovereign ?"
The Ministerial Presse has the following upon the same
subject :—" M. de Kisseleff was not among the members
of the corps diplomatique who went to the Tuileries on
Saturday. This absence has given rise to interpretations
which, if they had any foundation, would he too puerile !
France and Russia cannot forget that they are in the
first rank of the Great Powers, and that the whole world
has its eyes constantly fixed on them both."
The Constitutionnel, M. '!'biers' organ, thus notices
the slight offered to the King :—" The absence of the
Russian Minister from the presentation of the address of
the corps diplomatiqUeoccasioned much surprise. The
Minister had excused him Self on the ground of indispo-
sition ; but what is no less surprising is, that no member
of the Embassy was sent to supply his place, 'nor did any
Russian subject require to be presented to the King.
"These facts have given rise to numerous comments.
The most accredited version is that the Minister's in-
disposition and the conduct of the Russian subjects
were both prescribed by instructions from St. Peters-
burgh."
• AL Gaugain, the editor and proprietor of the Pilots de
Calvados, has been sentenced by the Police Court of
Caen to pay a fine of 500 f., and to imprisonment for one
month, fur having published in his journal an account of
the deliberations of the Court of Peers !

The National states that the receptions at the Tuile-
ries on NeW Year's Day were cold beyond example. It
was remarked, according to that journal, that the visi-
tors were less numerous than on any preceding year,
and that there was less enthusiasm than usual even
amongst the. official attendants. " The King himself
appeared affected at this change, end at the absence of
Members of_ the Chamber of Deputies, of whom not
more than folly wi-rr pre,.•mm I,,sid,,s hose who attended

i-qtltl.lLi 01-411V1014.

The Times contains a leading article on the subject of
African slavery, the object of which is to show that by
not taking a decided part, America renders herself
liable to the charge of being friendly to the disgraceful
traffic, notwithstanding the bouncing disclaimers of her
Ministers in Congress. " Should America," adds the
Times, "unhappily determine neither to exert her own
powers, nor to co-operate with other countries in sup.
pressing the abominations of the slave trade, she may
rely on it that the common object of the European States
will not brook to be thwarted by any ordinary restive-
ness. A s:ngle war with Great. Britain she has already
tried; a war on lier part with all Europe will be a novelty."
The Post labours hard to prove, in an article suggested
by some comments that recently appeared in a French
print respecting Puseyism, that Mr. Newman, and the
Puseyites generally, so far from being favourably dis-
posed towards the Church of Rome, are, in fact, strongly
opposed to its tenets, and have earnestly protested in
their "Tracts for the Times " against the Romish errors.
The Herald, referring to a strange article that ap-
peared in its columns on the 21st ult., respecting the
Exchequer bill fraud, and in which it spoke of rumours
implicating certain distinguished and noble individuals in
that fraud, now makes its retractation in the following
terms :—" The result of inquiries which we subsequently.
instituted on the subject, now leads us to the conviction
that we have been imposed upon, and that such rumours
had gained no such circulation as our informant confi-
dently stated."
The Chronicle, in an article on the subject of Lord
Ashburton's proposed mission to the 'United States, 'ob-
serves that the objections in the City to his Lordship's
appointment, so far'. from abating, are urged with more
force than ever.

Alluding to the Government Commission on the Ex-
chequer bill affair, the Advertiser states :—" We find
everything being done by the Government to render the
promised investigation as fruitless as possible."
znoNzie-Titaroz-COMMEINLOS.

Two million dollars, a portion of the Canton ransom,
arrived on Monday at Portsmouth, from China, by the
Ship Conway.
From the annual report of tl% City of Westminster
Savings' Bank, it appears that the last year has_ brought
644 new depositors, and the total increase of the year
is 5,0301.

At a meeting of the Directors of the Colonial Bank
yesterday, the surplus profits fur the half-year were
stated at 3,067/. 13s. and a similar rate of dividend to
the last was declared.