The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-28 00:00:00

iT TO VIRCOUNT Pl

THE XLRQVI! OF

PARIS, SEPT. 3, 1846.—(ExTitacT.)—I returned to
M. Guizot yesterday afternoon, and told him that the more
I considered the nature of the communication he had made
to me the day before, the more grave I considered its passi-
ble consequences. I would, therefore, request hi* permission
to read to him what I had written to your lordship, as the
substance of our conversation the day before. That on
such an imieZtt.'.. moat eneions !lung('
be no unintentional misrepresentation. He listened very
attentively, assenting as I proceeded, and confirming its
general accuracy; but he stated there was one accidental
omission which he considered important,—that when I
inquired of him whether there had not been an undectand-
ing with Lord Aberdeen that the marriage of the Infanta
with the Duke de Montpensier should not take place,
unless the queen had children—that, in reply, he had stated
that there had been such an understanding, but that he had
then interposed ; that in February last he had notified to
Lord Aberdeen that in the event of there appearing any
danger of a Coburg marriage, he should consider himself re-
lieved from that engagement, and that he had then gone on
to state, when he saw for the first time a Coburg prince placed
in the list of candidates, be had considered that danger
art ived, and had in consequence changed his course. I stated
if he considered this accidental mansion as important, I
would take care that it should be supplied. When I had
concluded, he said that he bad regretted the neameity under
which he had felt to act, but that whilst time elapsed, and
he received no answer to his proposal, he thought there was
serious danger of a Coburg marriage at Madrid. I replied
that he appeared to have suspected us of intentions which
had never existed, and in avoiding imaginary dangers he
might have created reel evils. I had not come there for the
purpose of further discuesiug the matter till I received in-
structions from mmsivimment, but that I feared the reason.
lag at Whisk be hie wade* woad sot be voter.
stood in Englan . He replied, that, after all, it wee of much
greaterimportanoe to France that a foreign prineeshould not
be on the throne of Spain, than any arrangement on the
subject could be to U.S,—that this had been admitted since
the treaty of Utrecht. I said, since he had referred again to
that, I could not but remark that many things had chinged
since then—the bases on which many thrones rested had
been altered ; here-ntary succession in the direct line had,
in all those countries, been then observed. He answered
that such feelings had still considerable weight ; they had
regretted when the Salic law was abolished in Spain; they
had accepted it to avoid greater dangers. We then broke
off the conversation, and, in going away, I said I
regretted the effect this was likely to produce, not only on
her Majesty's government, but upon public opinion in my
country. He replied, he hoped not; he bad great reliance
on the good sense and fairness of the English people, when
they saw the necessity of the case. I said, that necessity
was a thing I could not persuade myself they would ever
see. He said he was confident the French people would see
it. I remarked, that unnecessarily to cause the people of
the two countries to see things in a different light, was in
itself an evil, when such successful pains had been taken to
induce them to view public matters through the same
medium. I then took leave of M. Guizot till I should have
an occasion to communicate to him the opinion of her
Majesty's government on these matters.

THE INNER TEMPLE BENCHERS.—The Judges re-
cently decided in Mr. Hayward's case, that a member of the
bar acquires no legal right by being made a Queen's counsel
to be elected a bencher. As their lordships, howevt r, re-
commended an alteration in the mode of el.cting benehers
for the future, and intimated dissatisfaction at the power of
exclusion by a single black ball, at a very full assemblage of
the benchers on Friday evenins, last, it was unanimously
resolved that henceforth no one shall be elected to the bench
of the Inner Temple, unless he obtain the votes of a ma-
jority of the existing benches; and that four black balls
shall be sufficient to exclude—an arrangeinent which cer-
tainly appears unobjectionable.
BONDING PRIVILEGES.—The revenue authorities
having had under their consideration ►n application from an
eminent firm, proprietors of bonded warehouses and cuff, r-
anee wharfs, on the banks of the river, requesting that
mother-o'-pearl shells may be allowed to be landed at their
wharfs, and also the reports of the superintending officers of
the landing department on the subject, in which they recom-
mend that mother-o'-pearl shells may he landed at the pre-
mises in question, and also added to the list of articlen
allowed to be landed at all first class wharf., of a similar dol-
-1 cription, orders have been issued for the same to be permitted
in future.

MR. STANDISH, M.P.—We regret to learn that Mr.
Standish, M.P. for Wigan, is dangerously ill, and that very
alight hopes of his recovery are entertained--Manchester
Express.

DEATH OF MR. Cz.oa•es.—We regret to state that
Mr. Clowes, een., the eminent printer of Duke-street, Stam-
ford-street, diet' on Tuesday evening, after a abort but
severy 11Inino.

COMMERCIAL ti- MARKETS.

MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Hqf-past Two.—We have a remarkably quiet
market to-day in the funds. Consols opened 914 to 1 for
money, and 911 to for time, and so remain. The speeu-
littera appear to be quite at fault, since they hare been
thrown out of their reckoning about the government
loan that was to he brought into the market, by which it
was confidently expected that a constant agitation of prices
would be kept up for some time to come. The ministry
deserve, and in respectable quarters obtain, credit for the
exemplary reserve with which the secret of their intentions
was kept from transring until publicly and officially declared
in the two houses. The announcement that no loan was re-
quired, or had been contemplated, took the most knowing
capitalists in the city by surprise, for so confident were they its
the belief—whether founded on private information fr.tm
channels considered to be secure, or on calculations of their
own, based on facts accessible to all, need not be sur-
mised--that a large loan must inevitably he re-
quired, that all their efforts have beets directed for
some time past to depress the prima of stocks, so as to com-
pel the Treasury to come into the market on such terms as
they chose to exact. It is always of the greeted importance
in the public interest, and to prevent the public being vie-
timised by the arts of speculators, that the greatest reserve
should be maintained in ministerial quarters about any con t em-
plated financial or fiscal changes, for subordinate officials have
been suspected, if not known, to be diligently on
the watch to collect materials for information, and
thus abuse their position, either for their own specu-
lative purposes, or to obli.,e friends and connections, who are
thus enabli d advantageously to anticipate events. Subordi-
nate officials may, moreover, with entire absence of design or
sinister intention on their own part, be led, in the casual in-
tercourse of society, to refer to circumstances which an acute
speculator can readily turn to advantage, although appa-
rently of the most trivial importance. Exchequer Bills re-
main 4s. to Bs. premium.
Excepting an improvement in Dutch Stocks, the f Teign
market remains dull, and prices as at the opening. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are now 581 to 1; the Fours,
911 to 2. Spanish Fives, 231 to 41; the Threes, 34 to 4.
Portuguese, 33 to 5. Mexican, 22 to 1.

Book Ittoek. 2034
3 per Ct. KM., 911
per Can. Conool.,

I pet Ct. A astrtaa Bends, IS
43 per Ct. Belgian Baoets.33
23 per Cent. Ono,
3 per C,. Brunk. 84.i14 4
Ditto Pe, NI 4
per CA Inseam Ayres Bets.. 40 3
Thaw Cinliaa Ban .33 3
Ditto Calmat, Def.
Columnlan &insane lids., 33 I
3 per Ct. Daniel% Meier
33 per CI. Dutch Its., 5.5
per Ct. Dutch Cerra , 512 3