" THE KING'S BIRTH-DAY.-Although the formal celebratioaeof his Ma- jesty's
birth.day was countermanded, the theatres, clulohouses, hotels, and houses of his Majesty's tradesmen, were very brilliantly illuminated last night.
The Princess Augusta entertained the Duke of Sussex and a select party at dinner yesterday at her residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Duke of Gloucester attended the French play last night.
PRINCE LEoPoLn.-The report is still prevalent that a recent visit of the Duke of Orleans to Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg had been made at the request of an August Personage, who declared that he should see with pleasure one of the sisters of the Duke de Chartres united to the Prince Sovereign of Greece. We believe that this visit, which has excited general notice, has been a natural and spontaneous act of the Duke, who, in fact, is supposed to have a repugnance to the marriage in question, which the known anxiety of the Prince to keep aloof from political affairs sufficiently explains. Moreover, the future Sovereign of Greece is an old acquaintance of the House of Orleans, and in the different visits which he has made to Paris, has always frequented the residence of the Duke. In many of our salons we hear of earnestness shown by M. de Polignac to bring to a con- clusionthe negotiations relative to this marriage, which are said to have been undertaken by the express desire of Royalty. The Duchess of Orleans, en the contrary, urged the difference of religious tenets which existed be- tween the Illustrious Pair ; but the advocates of the measure are stated to have replied that in matters of public concern policy should ever take pre- cedence ocreligion.-Arni de in Charts. A Berlin paper states, that Prince Leopold is to marry a daughter of the late Duke of Piacenza, the ci-deranl Consul Le Brun, who has already ar- rived in Greece with her mother. The fortune of this young lady is esti- mated at 30,000,000 of francs (1,250,000/. sterling.)-Gazelle de France.
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