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London, England, 1847-01-27 00:00:00

No. 16,960. LONDON, WEDNESDAY ORNIN42I

MIDDLESEX ELECTION
The Committee for conducting the Election of Lord
ROBERT GROSVENOR sit daily at the Cntral Committee Rooms,
British Coffee House, Cockspur-street.
S. C. WHITBREAD, Chairman.
January 23, 1847.

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OcromCmAeirTceraist sNsv.—ick%
Y 114 a repots
meeting oribii
of a meeting betwixt a deputation and the members
county was read, from which we gather the 11
ChSamTbAeTrEof
for the
as to the state of the country :—Parish of Latheron—lnoingfacts
the district comprising half the estate of Dunbeath,
onwheel, and Latheron, and the greater part of Fors e,
291 families, comprising 1,499 individuals, requirine, there.
some for the whole period to next harvest, some famveeal,
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meal will be required to be stored. Parish of Lybster—Forty
families are at presentdestitute, and it is supposed that thirty
families a month, till July, will be added to the list. At the ,
same meeting, however, a letter was read from Mr. Morrison
Snody, a factor on Lybster estate, stating that " a sum of
some hundreds is about to be laid out in labour, and at this
moment (January 6th), labourers cannot be got." Ac •
counts thus differed. Mr. Snodyi however, resided twenty
miles from Lybster, and.the gentleman who made the state-
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pelled to betake themselves for support to the turnip fields.
Clyth—Employment for thirty men has been provided, but
the
if
be
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THE SPANISH MARRIAGES.
The diplomatic correspondence relating to the war'
riages of the Queen and Infanta of Spain has been pre -
sewed to both Houses of Parliament, by command of her
Majesty. Several of the communications contained in
this document have been presented by the French Go-
vernment to the Chambers, but the following additional
extracts from the correspondence are of considerable in-
terest. Our readers will bear in mind, that as the papers
we have already published formed, us it were, the French
case, so these, from which we subjoin ample extracts,
may be taken as the justification of the English Govern-
ment in the policy it has pursued towards Spain with re-
ference to the royal marriages:—
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN TO SIR ROBERT

GORDON.
Foreign-office, March 16, 1842.
The great remedy which the King of the French proposes
for all the evils of Spain, both present and future, is an agree-
ment respecting the marriage of the Queen. He declares
that he entirely renounces all pretensions for any son of his
own ; but that France will never submit to see the Queen
married to any prince but a member of the family of
Bourbon. He is indifferent respecting what individual may
be selected, or from what branch of the family ; but, according
to the expression of M. Pageot, he would place his veto upon
the choice of a prince of any other house. Should such a
marriage as that which he contemplates be effectid, he pro-
, sumes that the northern Powers would at once renew their
friendly relations with Spain ; and, that, by the cordial a!"
sistance and support of France, the tranquillity and 116Plh-
nese of the country would be secured.
To all this, and a great data more urged by M. Pageot,
in
the same sense, I replied, that I did not recognise in trance,
or in all Europe; any right whatever to dispose of the hand
' of the Queen of Spain ; that when the King of the French
acknowledged the succession of the Queen, he did so' without
any stipulation that she should marry a Bourbon Prince, and
that he must have known such an event was necessarily un-
certain; that although, for political reasons connected with
the preservation of the balance of 1'...:0pe, England would
not look with indifference on the chnice• of a French Prince,
we by no means pretended to place a veto upon the family
of Bourbon, and that if the Queen of Spain and her Govern-
ment thought tit to make such.a selection, we should readily
accept the Prince as her husband.
In trutb, we reward this question as entirely and exclu-
sively Spanish; And that it ought to be regulated by con-
siderations affecting the happiness of the Queen and the
welfare of her people. It is for the Spanish nation and Go-
tvernment to advise in a matter so important to the interests
of Spain.

(Enclosure in No. 8.)
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN TO THE DUKE OF
SOTOMATOB.

Foreign-oface, June 22, 1846.
M. le Duc,—You have informed me that you had been in-
structed to ascertain whether -it would call -forth the dis-
pleasure of the British Government if the Cabinet of Madrid
should' find it necessary, in the interest of the Spanish
monarchy, to select some Prince as the future husband of
the Queen other than a member of the family of Bourbon
and also whether, if France should resent this proceeding,
and attempt to coerce the free action of the Spanish Govern-
ment, it would be regarded with indifference by Great
Britain?

I can have no difficulty in answering these inquiries.
We have always denied, and still deny, the right or pre-
tension of the French Government to impose a member of
any family upon the Spanish nation as the husband of the
Queen, or to control in any manner the decision of a ques.
tion so purely Spanish. But we have felt, and have readily
admitted, that there might be various reasons which should
induce the Spanish Government preferably to select from the
house of Bourbon a Prince for this station. Of these rea-
sons, the desire on the part of Spain, and the interest of
Spain to maintain friendly relations with France, might
naturally be supposed to possess much weight. lye
therefore urged no objection against the proposal of seeking
among, the
providedde s descendants deaunc tbs
choiceo
f Philipshould Yforb e
conformable
nh
fuesrbma
en
bdl fore te
the the
Queen
inclinations of bet Majesty, and the interests of her Govern-

ment.
If it should be found that no descendant of Philip V.
can safely be chosen, consistently with the happiness of the
Queen, or with a due regard to the tranquillity of the
country, the Spanish Government, in the exercise of their
independent judgment, must act in such a manner as
may be dictated by a sense of their own dignity and in-
terest ; and, in this case, it could be no cause of displea-
sure to Great Britain if they were to select a prince from
some other family.
Whatever might be the disappointment experienced by
France at such a decision, I cannot for a moment admit the
possibility of anything so unreasonable and unjust as an at-
tempt to control the choice of the Queen in a matter of this
kind. The French Government must be perfectly aware that
no marriage which does not accord with the wishes of the
Queen and receive the assent of her people, can be at all
likely to promote the happiness of the Sovereign, or the wel-
fare and prosperity of Spain.
France is too deeply interested in the happiness of Spain,
and the Court of the Tuileries is too much enlightened and
toe just, to entertain the notion of such an interference as
that supposed. It may, therefore, be at once rejected as im-
possible. But if, contrary to all reason and probability, any
such project, that is to say, an attempt to control the wishes
and feelings of the Queen, and the clearly understood will of
her people, should be contemplated, there could be no doubt
that Spain would not only receive the warmest sympathy of
Great Britain, but of all Europe.—l am, &c.,
_ ABERDEEN.

No. 9.
LORD COWLEY TO VISCOUNTPa PALMJRSTON.
ul Ey
13, 1846.
Soon after the declaration of the Queen of Spain's majo-
rity, the French Government commenced a negotiation at
Naples, with a view to a marriage between the Count Tra-
pani, the King's brother, and the young Queen of Spain ; and
if any credit is to be given to the reports of the French Am-
bassador at that court, he had every prospect of bringing the
negOtiation to a successful issue, when the whole proceeding
was rendered fruitless by the extreme unpopularity through-
out Spain of a Neapolitan connexion, and by the determina-
tion which, as it would appear, has lately been taken to re-
sist it, if necessary, by force.
The question, therefore, of marrying the Queen to a Bour-
bon Prince of the Spanish line is now one of greater difficulty,
and has been rendered still more difficult by a proposal which
seems to have come from the Spanish Court,
with a Prince of the house of -Coburg. Supposing a Nea-
politan alliance to be out of the question, the three remaining
princes of the Spanish line are the two sons of Don Francisco,
and the Count de Montemolin, the eldest son of the Infante
Don Carlos.
The two Queens have insuperable objections to the sons of
Don Francisco, though tho Queea-Mother, as I lately learned,
has expressed a less unfavourable opinion respecting the Duke
of Cadiz. It would appear, from the language of Don En-
rique, the younger son, that he is no longer a candidate for
her Majesty's hand, and that he is rather disposed to Push
his fortunes as a partisan of the Progresiatas, with who he
is strictly united ; and an apprehension is entertained that
he will proceed from Brussels to England for the purpose of
putting himself in communication with Espartero, and con-
certing measures with him for the advancement of the pro-
jects of that party.
There is a party in Spain In favour of the Count de Monte-
molin, but he must be recalled from the
banishmby the
Cortes, and abandon his pretensions to esphuse Queen
upon equal rights to the throne, before he can offer himself
as a candidate for her Majesty's band.'
The intelligence of a proposal having been made for an
alliance with a Prince of the house of Coburg occasioned
the greatest consternation here. M. Guizot told
ins that
to if
the
the project was persisted in, he should recommend it
King to put forward the Duke de Montpen.sier as a candidate
for the Queen's hand.

No. 22.
ULWER.
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO MR. B
( Extract) Foreign-office, Aug. 25, 1846.
With regard to the Queen of Spain's marriage, I have
already explained to you the opinion of her Majesty' Go-
already
vernment.
But that opinion is not given in the spirit of dictation.
The British Government has no right and no power to
dictate to the Spanish Government in this matter.
The question as to the choice of a husband for the
Queen ought to be decided by those persons in Spain who
are properly competent and entitled to decide it ; and
the only case in which, in the opinion of her Majesty'.e Go-
vernment, any foreign. Power could haree °a right to inter-
fere in that matter, would be •the case pecified in my dis-
prince so
patch to you of the 19th of July, namely, the case in which
the choice should be expected to fall upon ~ some
directly belonging -to the reign
iug family of some powerful
foreign State, that he would be likely to connect the policy
of the country of his adoption with the policy
.of the country
of his birth, in a manner that would
hbe interests of other
urious to the
balance of power, and dangerous to the
States." Lord
the 22d of
Upon these matters, then, her Majesty's Government see
no reasons to depart from the doctrines laid down in
Aberdeen's note to the Duke, of Sotomayor, of
June last, and also in the instructions which I have had oc-
casion to address you since I have held the seals Of this
1 department. --

•

ts2atT9dh, Oeell'iusgpiu6he.
Queen
TO ArlSC°ll:tiaortrirddss,nhhAeiuphlgiatuEdhslnitat
No. 25.
MR. MATER
I have now to announce toio3c•okur.
ighness Don Francisco de deared last night, at 12 o'c
mincld in favour of his Royal 13
Assis.
The Queen. I am told, took some little time to consider,
Lo t.
and then decided in favour of her cousin
I am sorry to inform your Lo
to tehritthe marriage of
tlie Duke of Montpensier, who "as that here
in
a fortnight,
warned M. Isturitz
is to take place at the saine time
have at different times, though privately,
and the Court, that this event would excite considerable
discontent in England, and produce_ a very unfavourable
instruction.
impression on the public mind there. I have also touched on
the subject with Count BreSSOn, b?t?a!t I had no
to speak to him on the question? i dlil not do more than
ex-
press my own views respecting it.
I learn that directly the Queen had signified her intention
of marrying her cousin, Count Be
hand of the Infanta for the Duke den formally asked the
Mont pensier, stating
that he had powers to enter upon and conclude that affair
and the terms of the marriage were then definitively settleil
between M. Isturitz and him.

No. 27.
THE MARQUIS OF NORMANE' TO VISCOUNT
PALMERSTON.
Paris, Sept. 1, 1846.
My Lord,--I this morning received a note from M. Guizot,
requesting to see me after his return from the Chambers, a
little before six.
Upon my keeping the appointment, he began by telling
me that he had news from Spain that the marriage of the
Queen with the Duke of Cadiz was settled. I said that
the last intelligence we had received thence had induced
as to Wilk such a result not unlikely, lie said he bad
no details, as he had received it by telegraph. He then'
adde,i, that the Queen was at the same time to give her
sanction for her sister's marriage with the Duke de Mont-
pensier. "At the same ?" I inquired. " Not at the same
time," he answered ; " not to take place at the same time."
I said I laid no stress upon that ; that, of
w".4—' I
was
entirely without instruct si itro;44 14, Govoikunent,to