The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-16 00:00:00

dency more or less calculated to compromise the
spirit of impartiality in which justice should be most
jealously administered. The judge who lends him-
self to such a practice immediately drops the
ermine, and sinks into the advocate. Not the least
detracting circumstance, in the case under considera-
tion, from the confidence which some people might
place in Sir. F. POLLOCK'S judgment, is, that he had
a whole night to reflect over the language he had
used, and yet the next morning insisted that the trial
should be proceeded with. Again, on Thursday last,
the Lord Chief Baron stated that " what he said was
said only to the counsel, and could only be under-
stood by a member of the bar, and could not have
the least effect upon the minds of the jury.'
But, at the
,time when Mr. COCKBURN
pressed to have the trial put off, Sir FREDERICK
POLLOCK attacked him for so far underrating the
intelligence of a London jury as to suppose they
would be prejudiced by the expressions he (Sir
F. PoLLocx) had used. This is a palpable contra-
diction. In December, he upholds the intelligence
of a jury, when it was clear they understood what
passed between the bench and the bar, for the fore-
man spoke out very warmly upon the subject ; in
January, the Chief Baron represents the jury could
have no such intelligence. We regret to be compelled
to make these comments. For Sir F. POLLOCK indi-
vidually we entertain a very great respect; but our
personal feelings are altogether merged in the vene-
ration we feel for the high office he holds, the love of
justice, and the good of the nation.

Intelligence has been received from Friburg to the
10th. The Grand Council has conferred full powers
on the Council of State, authorising it to adopt all
necessary measures for the suppression of the insur-
rection. M. FRJELICHER, ex-Attorney-General of
the canton, and Dr. SCHALLER, a son of the late
Avoyer, are among the persons who have been ar-
rested. Fifteen prisoners taken at Morut have been
brought in chains to Friburg. Colonel COURANT, of
the Neufchatel militia, who was formerly an officer
in the English army, is one of these unfortunates.

Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived. The
Gavela publishes a decree appropriating 30,000 reals
to the construction and repair of public roads.
The Herald° notices, without contradicting it, a
rumour of an approaching change in the Ministry,
and adds, that the change will not take place until
the Cabinet'Rhall have presented its measures to the
Cortes. Senor CORTINA has arrived in Madrid, and
taken his seat as a member of the Chamber. Senor
OLOZAGA arrived at Pampeluna on the 3d, but, ac-
cording to the Clamor Public°, " in such a state of
health that it was considered necessary to call in a
physician, who declared that it would be dangerous
to confine him in the citadel ; but, notwithstanding
this opinion, a room was being prepared in the citadel
for his reception.
The Tiempo states that General PAvrA has been
appointed to supersede General VILLALONGA as Go-
vernor of Gallicia.

The Foment() of Barcelona announces that the Junta
of Direction of the Mataro Railroad had contracted
with Messrs. MACKENZIE and BRASSIE for the con-
struction of the line for 120,0001.

MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 7.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 321 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 20 ; the
Coupons at 181-; the Vales at 88; and the Debt without
Interest at 61.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Debats has a long article laudatory of the con-
duct of M. GUIZOT in the affair of the Spanish mar-
riages. It is merely a rpfaciamento of M. GUIZOT'S
voluminous note, mingled with much bitter personal
vituperation of Lord PALMERSTON. The Epoque
has an article which is the echo of that in the Daats,
and the Presse is equally exaggerated in its praises of
M. GUIZOT, and excessively violent in its abuse of
England. The National is of course delighted at the
quarrel, which by its sarcasms—and certainly some
of them are most telling—it endeavours by every
means in its power to aggravate. The National says—
"We have read with great attention the diplomatic
documents laid before the Chambers by M. Guizot. They
are very far from being complete, and although they
may suffice at a pinch to enable one to form a judgment
on the conduct of the Cabinet, we think it our duty to
reserve our opinion until we have before us the publica-
tions which, on his slap, Lord Palmerston will make
known. Another reason, which imposes on us this re-
`serve, is, that the second note of the English Minister
is not a discussion against M. Guizot, but rather against
the King. Lord Palmerston imagined, in his profound
ignorance, that M. Guizot had been only a cleric, and he
treats him somewhat as such ; it is no longer against
the Cabinet, but against the Court, that he inveighs—
an unworthy profanation, which the French Minister
repels with a certain pride. But the refutation involves
the accusation, and as Lord Palmerston inhabits a con-
stitutional country, as he ought to be aware to what a
point inviolability is a principle full of modesty, we do
not understand how he has thus brought forward the
King's person, the King's will, and the King's engage-
ments. It appears to us very necessary that Lori
Palmerston should explain what had urged him
into so wicked a mode of argument, and his official
communications will perhaps state it. What we have
sought in vain in the papers presented by M. Guizot on
the affairs of Spain, is a reason of any kind for the
marriage of the Infanta with the Duke de Montpensier.
There really is not one. To accept, without doubt, in
all its extent the resolution of M. Guizot for the
Queen's marriage, to approve highly of the policy meant
to prevent England from obtaining success for the
Coburg, nothing could be better. But to conclude
from thence that it was absolutely necessary to unite
the son of Louis Philippe to his cousin, that the solu-
tion was pressing and indispensable; and there was no
other possible and better, even in the point of view of
M. Guizot—there is not a word or motive in any dis-
patch to justify this pretension. And is it not evident
how much stronger would the French Government have
been to reject the Coburg, if the Court of the Tuileries
had been as disinterestedfor the hand of the Infanta as
for that of the Queen ? The more the dispatches are
read, the more it will be seen that they do not contain a
single reason justifying the marriage that has been con-
cluded."
The National, however, offers M. GuizoT its assist-
ance, on condition of his adopting the Bonapartist
policy of aggrandisement and conquest:—
"Is ili. Guizot firmly resolved to pursue, without
wavering, the policy which would ensure the preponder-
ance of France in the Mediterranean ? Let him say so,
and above all, let his acts respond to his sayings. Let
him announce to the Chambers and to Europe that the
time has come to turn the Mediterranean into a French
lake, let him combat with energy the influence of Eng-
land whenever she impedes our action, and we shall for-
get both the family intrigues, and the fault committed.
lie will himself feel that, for nations as for individuals,
friendship is given in exchange for services rendered, for
mutual respect, and tried devotedness. He will seek in
Spain not what passes away, but what lasts—the true
interests of the people, its desires, its wants of liberty,
good administration, regular progress ; he will know
how to cultivate and find public approbation I This
is the capital point which, in our opinion, ought to
prevail in the Spanish question ; and if SI. Guizot places
himself at that height, ho may allow all those who desire
to re-establish the English alliance, at the cost of the
eternal interests of our country, to agitate themselves at
his feet."

We give the National credit for its honesty
and boldness. It would obtain openly and by force
what M. GVIZOT seeks to obtain covertly and by
intrigue. That all future attempts at converting
the Mediterranean into a French lake will fail, as all
former attempts to do so have failed, there cannot be
a doubt ; and if, as the National desires, the cause of
progress in Spain be not impeded by French intrigue,
the chances of turning the Mediterranean into a
French lake will be more remote than ever. At the
same time, it is well to have this avowal openly made,
an avowal which is a most triumphant justification
of the policy of Lord PALMERSTON ; and which is
alone sufficient to demonstrate to any unprejudiced
mind the utter impossibility of ever renewing the
entente cordiale—an understanding, the essence of
which consisted in sacrificing every where English
interests to the personal interests of the KING of the
FRENCH and his Minister.
The Constitutionnel thus points out an unworthy
piece of diplomatic trickery practised by M. GVIZOT
in the publication of these dispatches :
" It will be seen, in perusing the documents published
by the Ministry, that M. Guizot founds nearly all his
arguments on a certain dispatch, addressed by Lord
Pamerston to Mr. Bulwer, dated the 19th of July,
1846. The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of England
and France aro at variance respecting the actual
character and meaning of that dispatch. One affirms
that it had for its object to recommend the Prince rinecteheorf
Saxe-Coburg us the English candidate, whilst t
maintains that it contained, with regard to that candi-
dature, the meta mention of a
lion
en;and that, on the
f
nr
contrary, a preference fol. Prince
part of the British Cabinet, was clearlyEique manifested'on the
by
the recal of the instructions previously
given to Mr.
Bulwer by Lord Aberdeen. Now, M. Guizot, instead of
publishing i
that dispatch in full, only extracted two sen-
tences from it.
The Chambers will, no doubt, desire a
more compete communication of that document, and will
not wait the, determination of the British Government
itself in that respect."
In relation to the Cracow papers, the Constitu-
tionnel says—

6s As respects the documents, relative to Cracow, we