The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-12 00:00:00

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SPIRIT OF THE FRENCH PAPERS OF FRIDAY.
The Journal
with the Ir. ties journals
with Debats taunts the Opposition
anner in which they have welcomed the new
Ministry FAcceedino• to one of the Tiers Path, and the little.
sympathy
they have shown for the griefs of that
earty on
the oc:cp.
::;
sion. It adds, that if, as is stated, tl) Doctrinaires
are itch tyrants, Creeping upon the
if despotism be really
CO ontry, the remedy lies with th-, people ; the country can
-protest, can elect, and can counteract the evil. The only
'wonder is that it has no,;; done so already. However, the
truth is, that the system of Doctrinaires must be profoundly
connected with all the interests and sympathies of France ;
for it. has germinated, grown, and fructified on a volcano ;
and, with the permission of the Opposition, that volcano is
to 'be extinguished by it.
The Constitutionnel again asserts that the Doctrinaires
'cannot by any possibility have a majority in the Chamber,
and that they know it themselves. It retraces the history
of the last session, awl confirms its assertion by showing
the poor figure which that party cut on several occasions.
The Impartial observes that the first official acts of the
Queen of Spain and her new Ministers, after the events of
La Granja , have an air of firmness about them that inspires
better b-opes for the future fate of that country. It is not,
howe-,er, without alarm that he sees the Ministry endea-
wording to force a second Chamber on the nation ; it is to
feared that this measure will produce strong irritation
throughout the country, and it is perhaps impossible for the
attempt to succeed. At the same time a peerage, even
elective, would be of much service to Spain ; and if the
Constitution of 1812 were thus mended in its principal
'fault, its future existence might be more confidently hoped
for. It must be confessed, however, that the same national
enthusiasm which actuated France in 1793 is in vain sought
for among Spaniards. The success of the levy of 50,000
now ordered is more to be hoped than expected ; but the
decree for the means of paying the dividends due upon the
Spanish debt evinces a laudable respect for the previous
obligations of the country. It still remains to be seen what
effect the news of the French Ministry will have at Madrid ;
:and it is to be hoped that the Ministry of the 6th of Sep-
tember, born under the auspices of non-intervention, will be
at least faithful to its motto. It would be a great thing for
Spain if only neutrality were observed.
The National comments upon the decreed lately pub-
lished by the Spanish Ministry concerning the new Con-
stitution of that country, and warns tae Spanish nation
against trusting to the Regent, or to, irresponsible Minis-
ters. That nation, it adds, canne". forget the example of
Ferdinand VII., and it may be sure that the Regent will
act in the same way, if ever she has the opportunity. To
the Cortes belongs the ?;itfeguard of the revolution, and
they alone can give to tho Ministers authority sufficient to
resist the bad intentions of the Queen and the persons by
whom she is surrov.nded. The creation of a second Cham-
ber is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution of 1812,
and is evidentlry borrowed from the charters of France and
England. I', is not worth while discussing the question of
how far well a Chamber is compatible with the reign of a
democracy ; but the existence of a second Chamber of
Senate in the United States seems to show that such is the
case. The Spaniards should take care, however, not to
leave the nomination of the Members of this second Cham-
ber to the Crown ; for if the influence of the Crown should
become predominant in that branch of the Legislature, it
-would paralyse all the measures that might be displeasing
to it, and world speedily bring on another explosion, or
would remain master of the field of battle. A Senate
named for life is also an institution unfavourable to demo-
cratic movement ; for in that case the members of it are
removed from the influence of public opinion. All these
important questions of political organization are shortly to
be submitted to the Cortes, composed of only one Chamber.
This is as it should be ; in times of revolution the people
accept only one guide.
The Quotidienne forbodes misfortunes to Queen Chris-
tina, such as have always happened to Sovereigns kept
prisoners by their revolted subjects. People would be
much in the wrong if they were to believe in the modera-
tion of the Spanish revolutionists merely because they have
preserved to Maria Christina the title of Regent, and ren-
der her the outward homage due to that title. It is a
comedy that they are playing, but one that will end in
blood. They will keep Maria Christina in the midst of
them, but merely because they know that Sovereigns who
abandon themselves to revolutions become their most useful
instruments.

The Messager has
,the following :—" Marshal Soult is
expected at Paris to-night. We are assured that the
Government has already received news of the Marshal's
having accepted the War Department. The answer of
M. Martin (du Nord) cannot be known till Monday, but
the friends of the new Cabinet entertain no doubt of his
acceptance. The King held a Council to-day, which took
i,,,.. ~,,,iciertair,o ;:.,:s.asnres for Purifying tin, ppr.cnnnp/ ;n
the Police Department, M. Gisquet having definitively re-
signed the office of Prefect, and the nomination of Under
Secretaries of State and Secretaries-General for the dif-
ferent Ministerial departments. It is asserted also that the
convocation of the Chambers occupied attention, and that
it has been fixed for the last'fortnight of December."
It is stated that it is intended to double the number of
the Municipal Guards, who are to be divided into compa-
nies, battalions, and regiAents, defile. The latter will be
commanded by a superior officer. They will do King's
duty, and be lodger!, in separate barracks, but they are not
to have any addit=ional pay.
We have received the following details from the camp at
Compeigne :---,, The infantry are exercised every day. The
tents afford 'out indifferent shelter ; they are close and hot
in the day, and cold at night. Each tent contains 16 men,
who sleep upon straw, with their heads upon their knap-
sacks and their feet in a sack. The cavatry are quartered
in the surrounding villages within a circuit of four leagues.
Provisions are very dear. The inhabitants complain, be-
cause the officers and men are forbidden to enter the town,
except on Sundays. During the continuance of the en-
campment each superior officer receives an additional pay
of sixty francs a month, Captains forty francs, and Lieu-
tenants and Sub-Lieutenants thirty francs, and the non-
commissioned officers and men eight centimes a day.
A letter of the Ist instant from Madrid, given by the
_Me:sager, states that " the Government is sadly embar-
rassed for money, and this has strengthened the resolu-
tion, almost generally adopted by the provincial juntas., 0 retail' in their own hands the produce of the tare,-,, and
the other public revenues, to meet their own war:„. The
-people of Madrid did not expect any great 'r esults, or at
least any that were adequate to the urgs„icy
ue 30th ult. The
AL
of existing
circumstances, from the two decrees of t'
public expectations seemed to be entir
ely turned towards
Mendizabal, as the only man car.
the credit of the nation ; but It Able of re-establishingappears that there arc
some insurmountable obstacles 'against his return to office.
The French Charge d'AffaireP;has received a dispatch from
Lisbon, by an extraordinary courier, whom he kept con-
fined, as it were, in his 'notel, that the news he brought
might not transpire.
`it the same time another courier
was ordered to be in readiness to start for Paris at a mo-
ment's notice. The...e has not been the least intercourse be-
tween the En"l'Ain Ambassador and M. Bois Le Comte,
and
Charti is .7,11,c,1'r..t the English Embassy that the French
e cr-ar, Aires was sent to Madrid to be ready to receive
Don Carles.s
SP
IRIT,- OF THE JOURNALS OF SATURDAY.
The Constitutionnel has the following It was yester-
day karnt that the new Ministers, having occupied them-
selv es on the Spanish question in a council of the day be-.
fore, had decided that there was no sufficient reason for
modifying the policy followed by, the late Cabinet, and that
the only thing to do Was to maintain the stain q, Al-
though these rumours are creneralliv accreldited,-uwoe.
have
some difficulty in believing tlbiem.
ministr would be a most ex-
traordinary thing if this new
vs ere to refuse to
carry into execution the measure thatyi),
accession to power. People could
isa
P.ot '!5 occasioned their
lat cseav *
asking themselves why the late II:
mister
corr.e to do in halveoffice?
really retired
If fa.cndd
ts
what their suc9essors have
,
really are as is-stated ;if ti'e Cabinet of the 6th September
wishes
Cabinet of the 22d February for
lite as
the dissolution of the th!
srolunteers at Paris ; if it refuses to
take this step, and to proclaim its retreating in a declara-
tio
n solemnly inverted in the Moniteur, the summoning to
office of the wen, Ministers will be the most perfect contra-
diction the.c 'has ever been produced in the political world."
The emistitutionne/ goes on to observe that explanations
cannot deprive the change of conduct of the Ministers of
its character of strange inconsistency ; and that it clearly
results from it that the former Ministers retired for having
tr-ken a good view of the Spanish
successors question, and that the
only come into office from having taken a tad
one. The fact •
~, -'ne is, that when portfolios are vacant- the am-
biL'en, of certain persons prompts them to sei:e them, and
to :tin the chance of getting over the di
tl,Ation afterwards. There is no den'nt, however, that the
did eulties of the si-
discussion raised by this quest;
ions of public opinion
rya- ''...n, and the strong expres-
--Jainst any hostile manifestation I
with regard to Spain, lLave not a little contributed to forc-
ing the Ministers to, change their system.
Notwithstand;:ag this article of the Constitutionnel, we
observe that an ordonnance inserted in the Bulletin des
Lois dinktrges six companies of the Foreign Legion.
Wt hear that the new Ambassador to Spain has been
aPr.ointed, but are not able to learn who is to fill that im-
Protant post.
~ The following is from the Joarnal de Paris :
~..--„F " l the 2d instant the Re-actionaries at Valencia at-
? (!0. , let)iTite to drive out the Civil Governor, but did not suc-
-':7,.:1300k ere has been a more serious disturbance at Sueca,
- ./ete tains 5,000 inhabitants. The Revolutionary
-,:)--
V--•;'.0 mdisgen had deposed the Municipality, and placed the
Ari -1. 3
~-:-..-tetwasur state of siege. Justice is no longer administered
' ''' ivitki4his township, nor in thc-e of Cullen and Alzira.
3ddges made good their escape. It is announced that
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