The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

DISSOLUTION OF THE CHAMBERS.
The illoniteur of Saturday contains the following Royal
Ordinance for the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies:—
" Louis Phillipe, King of the French. To all present and
to come, greeting.
" Considering Article 42 of the Constitutional Charter--
conSidering the law of the 19th of April, 1831—on the Re-
port of our Minister Secretary of State of the Department of
the Interior, we have ordained, and do ordain, as follows:
" Art. 1. The Chamber of Deputies is dissolved.
" '2. The Electoral Colleges are convoked for the 2d of
March next, for the purpose of electing each a Deputy.
" The two Electoral Colleges of Corsica are convoked for
the same purpose for the 6th of March next.
" 3. The Chamber of Peers and Chamber of Deputies are
convoked for the 26th March next.

".4. Our Minister Secretary of State for the department of
,he -Interior is charged with the execution of this ordinance.
" At the Palace of the Tuileries, the 2d of Feb. 1839.

" LOUIS PHILIPPE.
" The Peer of France, Minister of the Interior,

"MONTALIVET."

,lINISTERIAL DEFENCE OF THE DISSOLUTION.
(From the Montteur.)
" France was calm and prosperous. She awaited with
security the solution of the last foreign difficulties arising from
the grand events of ]B3O. With the admission even of the
Opposition, public opinion was a stranger to the impas-
sioned discussions which characterized the commencement of
the Session in the Chambers. These discussions which have
been echoed throughout the entire country, terminated in
both Chambers in a signal adhesion to the policy of order and
peace, which for eight years has saved the throne of France
and on which the present Administration feels proud of hav-
ing impressed a peculiar character of moderation and wisdom.
In the Chamber of Peers the majority was imposing. In the
Chamber of Deputies a hostile address was demolished, para-
graph by paragraph, by a majority feeble in number, though
considerable through its union, its principles, and its courage.
The Opposition, powerful in numerical force, but formed of
different and irreconcilable elements, representing contrary
principles and hopes, and conducted by leaders who had filled
the country with the fame of their contests, was a mere assem-
blage of divergent minorities, which even in their union, and
in spite of every effort, remained to the last in a state of mi-
nority. Being in reality further removed from each other
than many of them were from the power :against which they
were leagued, they were unable to conquer the Government,
but they impeded its course. In this extraordinary situation
the Ministers, against whom the coalition had been formed,
tendered their resignations, though unconquered in the
struggle. Their principles had constantly triumphed, and
their acts had just received a signal sanction. The Crown,
covered by their responsibility to the last. heard a loyal and
dignified language from the Chambers. They were in hope
that their more fortunate successors, by continuing to lean
on the majority for support, and to defend and strengthen its
policy, would succeed in rallying to it a portion of those who
threw obstacles in the way of the Government. The King
summoned Marshal the Duke of Dalmatia, who, being a
stranger to the late contests, appeared naturally designed for
the mission which his Majesty was desirous of confiding to
him. The Marshal declined it. This situation could not be
prolonged without compromising the most precious interests
of France. The Crown had but one alternative. It was un-
der the necessity of making a constitutional appeal to the
country, of demanding from it a majority sufficiently nume-
rous to maintain towards and against all the unions of the
three powers of the State, and to ensure the definitive
triumph of the policy of conciliation, order, and peace—or
else the Royal power, by giving the leaders of the Opposi-
tion, through the exercise of its prerogative, the means of
creating in both Chambers the majority which, with their
own resources, they were unable to establish, was obliged to
pass over to the coalition—viz., to abandon the Government
to the minority, and to adopt for its political manifesto the
address the Chamber had rejected. This was still a dissolu-
tion. From that moment the Administration had not to he-
sitate. Its course was to resume the Government, and to
accept the dissolution, in order to continue its task to sup-
port the principles which it had vindicated in the discussion on
the address, to maintain and defend the majority which during
the last eight years had saved order and public liberty. The
representative system itself was at stake, for the question at
issue was to insure its fist law—the government of the majo-
rity—and to restore the respect due to its reality.- All its
conditions would be violated, if minorities, powerless to create,
united only to destroy, and if instead of conquering the Go-
vernment, by rallying the public powers to their convictions,
they devoted their entire skill to the task of dissembling,
concealing, or abjuring those convictions. Ten years ago
constitutional order was menaced by coups d'etal: France
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turn threatened it with their desperate efforts, but all the
citizens and all the powers have upheld it by their devotion
and their wisdom. On this occasion it is threatened in its
regular progress by internal dangers, the natural consequence
of the very calm we enjoy, and of the general security felt by
the public. The King's Government unhesitatingly appeals
to France, and in so doing is mindful of its origin, and leans
for support on its principle. The mutual confidence of the
throne and the country forms the strength and pride of the
monarchy of 1830. To that confidence we have been indebted
for all the prosperity of the last eight years—a revolution ac-
complished in a state of peace, and fixed amidst the turbu-
lence of civil dissensions; order conciliated in admirable har-
mony with liberty; an immense degree of prosperity, which
even the enemies of our institutions are compelled to pro-
claim ; peace honoured and consolidated by triumphs which
would suffice for the glory of warlike periods, such as the
triumphs of Antwerp, Constantine, and San Juan d'Ulloa.
A change of policy would again place all this prosperity in
question. France is about to pronounce her own fate. She
will preserve this prosperity."

,out sixty deputies of the Left assembled yesterday at
four o'clock at the residence of M. Odillon Barrot. "It was
decided at this meeting," as the Messager informs us, "that,
should a dissolution take place, the Opposition Deputies
should take measures to ascertain and expose all bribery and
corruption at elections, and should enter into an engagement
to demand a Parliamentary investigation into all such acts
on tho meeting of the new Chamber. It was also decided
that the meeting should support the election of the 213
Deputies who voted against Ministers in the debate on the
Address. The Messager follows up this statement by an al-
phebetical list of the 213 names.
‘• It is a fact hitherto unkri.own to the public," says the
Nouvelliste, " that the Crown has its own private archives, in
which are deposited the most secret and interesting diploma.
tic papers. It was to this depot that Count Mole was obliged
to resort for the despatch from M. Tbiers relative to Ancona,
which was read in the Chamber of Deputies during the late
debates on the Address. Thus the most important diplo-
matic documents are not in the office of the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, but in the archives of the palace, under the
keeping of aM. Mariton. It may be well imagined that, as
the Ministries are renewed so frequently, it would not be pru-
dent to leave under the eyes of every one documents calcu-
lated to let them see to the bottom of aff>sirs.

RUMOURED MARRIAGE OP THIS DiJKR ox NEMOURS. —The
South German Gazette, under head Munich, states that the
general conversation of that capital has lately turned on nego.
ciations said to have been opened with the Court of Denmark
for a marriage between the Duke de Nemours and a Princess
of that Royal House, the King of the French being anxious
for a renewal of the family alliance Which existed for many
centuries between France and Denmark. " Some versions," it
adds, "give to the Duke de Nemours the Princess Sophiaßertha
Clementine Augustina, daughter of Prince Fred. Charles of Hol-
stein Sunderburg, sOenetal in theDanishaervice. The Princess
is one year younger than the Duke de Nernours,and distinguished
for her finished education, acquired under the immediate di-
rection of her father, who is one of the most learned men in
Germany. Another report points eut as the intended bride
of the Duke de Nemours the Princess Louisa of Holstein
tiltiekshurg, who iris horn on the 18th of November, 1820,
and is sister to the Prince of Holstein Glucksburg, reptesenta-
the of the king of Denmark at the coronation of the Queen
of England. It is added, that bake Aletander of Wurtem-
berg is to go to Copenhagen to use his influence in eXpedit.
Ing the negotiation: Another alliance between a Sovereign
house of Germany and the Royal iron's of Orleans is men-
tioned as likely to take plaCe es soon as the differences between
Holland and Beigiuni are Settled without hostilities."
Yesterday evening the Ambassadors of tirtig.tlei Russia,
Holland, and some other diplomatists met at Count d'Apponil.l.
This morning, at twelve, Count d'Appony came to the
office of Foreign Affairs, where he had a pretty long con-
ference with the President of the Council.
All the couriers at Paris, who are not engaged, received
orders yesterday evening to proceed to the Legations abroad,
and to several banking houses. The telegraph, too, was at
work. All the persons employed in the Royal printing-office
have received the strictest injunctions to be at their posts.
The two steam-engines employed in that vast establishment
are at work night and day,
General Gourgaud yesterday received orders to proceed to
the army of the North, to take the command of the artillery.
General Fleury goes to command the engineers.—Le Cont.
coerce.

BOURSE`—PARIS, SATURDAY, PER q.
HALF-PART THREE.—The ordonnance containing the dissolution of
the Chamber of Deputies, which appeared in the Moyzifeur, wag ex.*
pectcd, and if the state of the Market is to be taken as an indication of
the opinion of the monied interest, it is favourable to the measure.
For the end of the month the Three per Cents opened at 78f. 55c., and
after having been 78f. 45c. and 78f. 70e., they closed at 78f. 65c., a rise
of 20c. The Five per Cents., from 110 f. 45c., rose to close at 110 f. 70c.,
an improvement of 30c. For Money the Three per Cents. are as yes.
terday, and the rive per Cents. are 25c. higher. The Bank of France
Shares are 51. lot,ier. The Laffitte Bank Shares are unaltered. '.fbe
Belgian Five
1),..er Cents. are higher, and the Bank Shares have

proved 25f. The Spanish Active is I better ; from it rose to 191 last
price. No material alteration in Railway Shares.
First highest I owtst Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French b ner Cents.
3pr Cents. 7850 —.7850 —.7850 —.1850
Bank of France 4600 —.2600 50 —26,0 —.2600
Lafitte Bank 5,000 f. Sh
Belgian r, per Cents.
3 per Cents. 65 75 ... 65 75 ... 65 75 ... 65 75
Bank 545 ...571 ... 545 ... 560
Spanish Active
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
Ye sallies, R.E.
-
L.B.
!CO ... 200 ... :CO ... 21;0
Charleroy 43i .t 0 ... 440 ... 432 50 ... 410
Orleans 452 50 ... 452 50 ... 4 0 ... 450
Strasburgh to Bale 342 50 ... 342 ,-vs? ... 340 ... 342 50

Seyssel (A)
Polonceau

ASPDALTEi AND BI I UMENTS.
2.3 CO ...23 0 ...2300 :23 '0
440 440 ... 440 44 0

SPAIN.

" We understand," says the Memorial Bordclais, "that
1 the Court of Madrid has addressed itself to the Cabinet of the
Tuileries, and even, it is said, to that of St. James's, since
the taking of San Juan d' Ulloa, to raise the question of es-
tablishing a Spanish prince in the empire of Mexico, in order
to form in the new world an enlightened monarchy, which
may be connected by its alliances with European policy, and
may offer solid guarantees to European commerce. The
Prince summoned to this high dignity would be supported by
French and English arms, and would be accompanied by a
Papal nuncio, in order to attract all the remaining strength
of religious feelings. To England the recognition and regular
payment of her Mexican bonds is offered, independently of a
commercial preference common to France and the original
mother country." The same journal considers it by no means
improbable that a marriage will be proposed by the great Powers
of Europe between the eldest son of Don Carlos and Queen
Isabella. It hints that, on the aide of the Queen Regent,
both her Majesty and General Espartero are agreed to support
by force of arms the decisions of the Powers to this effect; and
that, on the side of Don Carlos, the Princess da Beira is not
opposed to the union in question. "If we are not deceived,"
it adds, "the Cortes will be dissolved under the influence of
1 the Count de Luchana. The press will be kept within cer-
tain limits during the continuance of the conferences, and
Espartero, in concert with Van Helen and the Queen Regent,
and by means of the forces at his disposal, will render an im-
mense service by insuring the tranquillity of the country and
consolidating the peace of Europe. If our information is
exact, the name of Espartero will acquire an historical repu-
tation beyond what has been foreseen, aad he will become de
facto constable of Spain, proud of having pirformed a part
the most noble in the deplorable crisis that has afflicted his
country ever since the death of Ferdinand VII."