The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-22 00:00:00

PARIS.

JULY 20.—The feelings of the Court circle and of influ-
ential personages here offer, I can assure you, a very
striking contrast with those betrayed and avowed on the
arrival of the tidings of the brilliant reception met with by
the French. Princes at Berlin. There all was pride and
exultation. The English alliance was honoured indeed,
but all the collaterals and consequences of that alliance were
rather slighted and deferred. Spain was, I may say,
ajourne, as the expression is here. Nct a man was sent
thither, nor a franc raised, and I verily believe, that the
whole Peninsula would gladly have been exchanged for the
smile of an arch-duchess.

There is no use now in any longer concealing this, since
precisely the contrary spirit prevails. The Duke of Orleans,
who perhaps went a waverer to Germany, has returned as
liberal a partizan to the quadruple alliance, " of the whole
alliance, and nothing but the alliance," as England, and
Queens Isabella and Donna Maria could wish. Nor does
he content himself, as formerly, with passive and tacit opinions,
but the Prince exerts himself, and has exerted himself to
some purpose, in stirring the lazy nature of the War-Mi-
nistry here, and in a way that will soon be felt on the
Spanish frontier. King Louis Philippe showed himself, I
understand, at first reluctant to part with or discredit his
golden dreams. Nor would the voice of his son, perhaps,
have been alone sufficient. But the Duke of Orleans has
had a powerful coadjutor for his newly awakened liberalism
in the King of the Belgians, who has, perhaps, a keener in-
sight into the politics of Europe than even the King of the
French himself, and who certainly is less blinded and led
astray by illusions of regal vanity and self-interest. Few
have such influence upon Louis Philippe as his son-
in-law, King Leopold, and this influence, too, has
made itself telt. From this state of things I venture
to prophesy brighter prospects for the cause of the
constitution in Spain. For all the good-will and
frank co-operation of England are but weak auxiliaries
in comparison of what France could do with equally
little art and exertion to herself. For us to embark armies
would be an effort and an expense which Don Carlos
or his suppression were not worth ; but France could with
ease put forth her eagle claws over the Pyrenees, and anni-
hilate the usurper. This, I think, she will do. One thing
alone can prevent her doing so, and this would be the pre-
valence of a democratic party in Spain as the result of the
new elections. Were Isturiz overthrown, the new zeal of
the Cabinet of the Tuileries would very probably cool ;
and should Mina be appointed to the command in Navarre,
as lie well deserves, and as patriotic Spaniards desire, the
French Government, instead of increasing its co-operation,
would probably withdraw her foreign legion and aid altoge-
ther. The King of the French and his' Government are,
I have not the least doubt, mistaken, in attributing to Mina
and to others certain views of policy inconsistent with the
interests of France and monarchical rules. But such ideas;
are deeply rooted ; and Cordova, the traitor, is preferred at
the Tuileries, to Mina, the revolutionist.—Correspondent
of a Morning Paper.