The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

hare in place of copper become the relief circulating
medium."

Hear this all ye .who, without abridging a single
comfort, or depriving yourselves of a single luxury,
could spare many times ten shillings per diem! who
waste in useless follies more than enough to afford
such comforts and advantages to thousands of your
fellow-creatures! Consider whether you would not de-
rive more real gratification in promoting such objects
than in the temporary pleasure- of useless expendi-
ture. To philanthropists it may be worthy of con-
sideration, whether the system may not be more
generally adopted, whether they are not acquainted
with localities into which it might be introduced with
the most favourable results. How many of the'
casual poor, in want of a single meal, might be re-
lieveckin such a manner? A ticket, entitling the bearer
to a loaf of bread, or a quart of soup, would be a less
objectionable mode of administering charity than in
money, which might be misapplied or wasted. The
charitable societies that abound in this country may
engraft the system on that already in use. It is de-
serving of a trial, and if it should not be found to
answer their expectations, it would at least have this
advantage, that the cost of the experiment would
be very trifling indeed.

The Levant mail brings-Malti papers to the 22d, Con-
stantinople and Smyrna journals to the 16th, and Athens
journals to the 20th. The Porte is justly indignant at
the haughty answer which M. GUIZOT has returned to
its note of remonstrance on the subject of th• reception
given by the French Government to the Bey of Thus.
The Ottoman Cabinet has returned a very proper and a
♦ery dignified reply, in which, after alluding to the in-
trigues which for years past France has been carrying
on in Africa, the Turkish Minister calls upon M. GUIZOT
to retract his note, and desist from his attempts to
detach the Bey of TUNIS• from his allegiance, if not out
of a sense of what he owes to a faithful ally,
at least out of respect to the sacredness of international
laws, and reminds the French Goiernment that the mea-
sure it has adopted in declaring a subject independent of
his sovereign will recoil upon itself whenever an oppor-
tunity may occur to enable a seeming friend, but a
secret enemy, to follow against France the example of
the French Government. From the bold tone of this
note it is conjectured that the Turkish Government
must have received assurances of support from England,
Austria, and Russia.

The SULTAN has issued an order that the streets of
Constantinople shall be lighted at night. The news of
the annexation of Cracow had produced an intense sen-
sation throughout the Ottoman empire.
There is no
.news of importance from either Athens
or Malta.

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have been received.
The Tiempo states that of the two programmes pre.
sented to the QUEEN by Senor CASTRO V OROZCO, her
MAJESTY bad chosen the combination suggested by
Senor BRAVO Mtranl.o, and that the new Ministry is
to be composed of the Duke DE RIVAS, MM. Bnivo
MURILLO, SWAS, Domoso CORTES, and ROCA DE TA,
GORES. Another list which was circulated contained the
names of the Duke DE RIVAS, MM.
TOPETE, J. DE LA CONCHA, SEIJAS, LAZANO,
and the Duke DE SOTO-
MAYOR ; the last-named personage being entrusted with
the Finances.

It was rumoured that in consequence of the appoint-
ment of the Duke DE RIVAS to the Ministry, General
PEZUELA had resigned the Captain-Generalship of
Madrid.

Senor GONZALES BRAVO has arrived from Lisbon.

The authorities of Navarre hare applied for reinforce-
ments to suppress the disturbances which hare broken
out there.

MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 27.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 32i ; the Five per Cents. at 20 15-16 ; Coupons
at 18,1.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. They
are filled with reports of the debate on the Address,
which commenced on the day preceding.
M. BILLAULT, who addressed the Chamber during the
course of the debate, was heard with marked attention.
His speech confirmed the rumours that had been circu-
lated of a schism in the Opposition camp on the subject
of the Spanish marriages. Acting upon the Yankee
maxim, "Our country, right or wrong," M. BILLAIILT
alluded not at all to the manner in which those mar-
riages were brought about. "He had considered the
question of the marriages, not as a special point, but as
an affair of which the solution might trouble their rela-
tions with Spain, and when they had seen the solution
such as they had desired they could not find it bad:.
Lie, however, censured the verbal conferences at Eu, and
considered that France had better remain isolated than
submit to the immense sacrifices which were required
fur the maintainance of the English alliance. He ad-
vised France to look for alliances on the other side of
the Rhine, not with the Sovereigns, but with the people for
the protection of the independence of nations and the de-
velopment of liberal institutions. In commenting on his
speech the Journal des Iltbats says:—
" The little event of the sitting was a speech from 31. 13i1-
lault, which is naturally more open to the comments of the
Opposition than ours. DI. Billault held a perfectly reason-
able language, and expressed sentiments which were really.
patriotic. He could not but give his approbation to the po-
licy adopted by the Government in the affair of the Spanish
marriages, and he declared that he was not one of those who
sought to give reason to a foreign Government against his
own. How will these declarations be received by certain
fractions of the Opposition? We shall see."
It would appear from this article that M. Gunn ap-
proves of these patriotic sentiments of M. BILLAULT,
and is prepared to form alliances with people against
their Sovereigns. It is not Lord PALMERSTON who is
now the brouillon of Europe. The speech of the sitting,
however, was that of M. GARNIER PAGES. After stating
that if the result of the Spanish marriages should be
the strengthening of French influence in Spain and the
Mediterranean, and the non-renewal of the entente
cordiale with England, they would meet his approval,
the Hon. Deputy is reported to have thus continued:--

" Now-a-days, however, matrimonial alliances between
Piinces had no influence over international relations, or, if
any, a detrimental one. The present alliance had not been
negotiated with Spain, but only with a small party in that
country, and it had thrown the two others into the arms of
England ; it had been concluded with Maria Christina, whom
the will of the nation had expelled from Spain (the Ministerial
party roared as M.Pages reiteratci it), and who, with her
party, had been restored through conspiracies and cornmo-
riot's which the French Government had connived at; all
Spain bad been thus delivered up to a party, and that party
placed in the hands of a woman, who had been easily guided
from Paris; the formatien of an anti-French party had been
the consequence, and a reaction already threatening; vet."
added M. Pages, amidst the continual clamour of the Centre,
"I am not of those, who, knowing your love of • dotation
say that you have concluded this marriage for the mere sake
of securing the Infanta's fortune. No, 1 do not think so;
and I do not think so, because her thirty millions are derives
from so impure a source that it was alone enough to make
you reject the alliance. The money was extracted from
French pockets. The Minister for Foreign Affairs seems to
deny it—well, let him answerthis:—For ten years together
the late King Ferdinand negotiated at the Paris Bourse
436,0C030C0 francs worth of bonds; and it was to this sum,
which was not paid, that Ferdinand and a rich banker were
indebted for their fortunes; it is front this sum that the In-
fanta's 30,000,000 are derived. These are undeniable facts,
and I challenge yon to stand up and tell me the con-
trary. Yes, gentlemen, this money is of so impure an origin,
that nobody in this House would avow it—if any of us had
inherited of his father a sum of money due to his creditra,
his first duty would be to return it to them, and tb.,. rx-Aroin
his honour. And, now, what lam about to say claims the
utmost attention of the Chambers; you are all aware of the
difficult financial situation in which we are placed, and of
the sufferings of industry and Commerce. Well, then, it is
at such moment that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, for-
getful of the sacred engagements entered into before the
Chamber, has authoiised at the Paris Bourse the negotiating
of the very stock that we had cbndemned. Yes, sir (tinn-
ing to M. Guizot), yon have done this, and you have done it
to procure fresh advantages to the Spanish Government at
the expense of our small Rentiers—you have thus concluded
the Spanish marriages bargain. I hear cries of Cela n'est
pas r Stand up any of ye, and tell me such is not the case
I. affirm what I advance, and M. Guizot will not dare deny it.''
The result of the day's proceedings was the postpone
meet of the vote on the paragraph on the prospect of the
preservation of peace, until after the discussions should
have taken place on the subject of Cracow and of the
Spanish marriages. In the sitting of Tuesday, the dis-
cussion of the paragraph relating to the Spanish mar-
riages was commenced by M. DE LESSEPS, who censured
the Government for the want of candour and good faith
which it had exhibited. The pretensions of England, if
exacting, should have been resisted openly, and not
by cunning and deceit. He was followed by M. DE
LA:VERGNE, who defended the Government. M. CRE-
31I1rVZ followed, in opposition to the Address, and de-
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The corn riots still continue in the departments of the
West, Centre, and the South-west, and fern are enter
tnined that the tranquillity of Paris itself may be dis-
turbed. The &forme, a Republican print, mentions
rumours as to arrests having, for some days past, taken
place at Panic, of a ferment existing in the "faubourgs"
of that capital,
and of the Government having already
adopted some formidable military measures, in order to
repress commotion.

It is possible that there may be some foundation for
these rumours of a ferment in the faubourgs, but it is
much more probable that the agents of police have re-
ceived orders to get up an emeute, in order to afford the
wily French Monarch an excuse for arming the fortifi-
cations of Paria—snl tArtitting up its inhabitants in the