The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-13 00:00:00

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Madame Munoz, the King of the French, and Don
Carlos, have come to an understanding that, whereas a
marriage between Queen Isabella and- the Duke d'Au-
male is an impossibility, the eldest son of the Pretender
is henceforth to be regarded as the bridegroom elect of
the youthful Sovereign of Spain. This precious trio
give themselves no trouble about the opposition they are
likely to encounter on the part of the Regent and the
Cortes. In this their new career of intrigue fresh mor-
tifications and disappointments await them.
Of the bitter hostility of feeling produced in Madrid
by the recent conduct of France, some idea may be form-
ed from the following toasts drank amid loud cheers, at
a banquet of the National Guards of that capital, given
to celebrate the defeat of the attack upon the Palace :
" To the happy day when we shall drink the blood of
tyrants as easily as we do this cup of wine." "To the
advent of pure democracy." "If the Pope excommuni-
cates the Due de la Vittoria, may Spain shake off the
yoke of Rome." " May the Supreme Being soon take
into his holy keeping the King of the Barricades."
The National of Thursday has the good sense to ridi-
cule the phantasmagoria of the horrors of the dissolu-
tion of society conjured up by the Debate, to prepare
the public mind for the trial of Quenisset and his ac-
complices. The source whence the Debats drew the
materials for its terrible forebodings was the Court of
Correctional Police, before which eighteen small trades-
men appeared on Wednesday, charged with being com-
munists, and publishers and suppporters of the Journal
l'lluminaire which advocates the visible darkness of such
doctrines as a community of goods and women, and all the
other blessings of an anti-civilized, anti-religious, brutal
state. Never was there before the bar of any country an as-
semblage of smaller and more contemptible rogues. One
of the leaders, acting as ostensible editor of the paper,
amused the Court by admitting that he could neither
read nor write. When we hear the Debats exaggerating
the perils of the Government, we always know that some
piece of Court villainy is about to be perpetrated.
Spain continues the leading subject of discussion in
the French Papers, and they all unite in censuring the
Regent's abolition of the fueros of the Basque Pro-
vinces. The National attacks the measure as wrong in
principle, and as an exercise of arbitary power by the
Regent. The Courrier Ft aneais sees in the conduct of
Espartero, a manifestation of dictatorship quite at va-
riance with his duty as a constitutional chief, and ex-
tends its censure to all his recent acts. The Debats con-
tinues to approve of the principle of centralization for
Spain, but denies the legality, and above all the prudence,
of the measure by which Espartero attempts to enforce
this principle, and predicts an obstinate and perhaps
sanguinary opposition to his decree. The secret of all
this is that the abolition of the fueros is expected to in-
flict serious injury upon the contraband trade in France.
While the fueros existed French contrabandists had
nearly the entire trade from the. French frontier to the
line of the Ebro in their own hands. Now this will be
to a great extent lost to them by the establishment of a
regular line of frontier Custom-houses. If the French
Journals had the candour to admit this, we should be far
from quarrelling with them as to the principle. We
would have trade as free as the winds and waves, and are
therefore opposed to all Custom-house restrictions.
Count Pahlen, the Russian Ambassador, left Paris on
Thursday for St. Petersburgh, without waiting to receive
the English Ambassador, Lord Cowley, who on that day
arrived in the French capital. We gave yesterday the
picquante story whispered about this rather startling
movement in the diplomatic circles of Paris.