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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1847.

• The great press of matter occasioned by the arrival of
an American Express, and by the length of the debate
in both Muses of Parliament, render it impossible for
us to give our usual summary of Parliamentary
intelligence.

From the extraordinary majority of 164, in a
House of only 332, it would appear that our ob-
servations as to the subserviency of the French Cham-
bers to the will of their SOVEREIGN are confirmed.
Qn Friday the obsequious Deputies of France re-
sponded favourably t ) the Royal Address of King
Louis PIIIIAPPE, 248 voting for that response, and
merely 81 discountenancing its expre,:sions. Tt only
required this consummation of the recent proceedings
in connexion with the Montpensier alliance to brim
the cup of the political degradation of France to
overflowing, and to prove that the Legislature of that
country has become essentially parasitical. Talk of
the Mountainist portion of the Convention during the
dictatorship of Th-inEseirdiae, talk of the Conseil
des Cinq Cents (luring the first months of the
Directory, talk of the obedience of the legis-
lative bodies At the most potential moments
of the Empire—they are barely to be counted in
comparison with the extcessive loyalty evinced by the
present majority of the
Deputies. While Europe is
ringing with execrations at the fraudulent and dis-
courteous acts of Gallic diplomacy in reference to the
Princesses of the Peninsula--white every honest
heart revolts at the ignoble prevarication and quib-
bling practised by M. GUlZOT—wbile the solid foun-

Saturday.

In the sitting of the
day, the amendment of

dations of international friendship are crumbling from
beneath the throne of the Tuileries, solely in conse••
quence of the political offences of the present Admi-
nistration—the dutiful Deputies are reiterating their
felicitations in the ears of his MAJESTY. This, too, is just
simultaneous with the protestation against the effects
of the Spanish marriage from the Court of Berlin,
with the dignified retirement of the English Ambas-
sador at Paris, with the cordial approbation expressed
towards Lord PALMERSTON by the British Parlia-
ment, and the exposure of the double duplicity of the
French Minister by the Marquis DE MIRAFLORES.
Could any time be more inopportune for the transmis-
sion of a congratulatory address to LOUIS PHILIPPE
from his faithful Chambers, upon the security and
the propitious aspect of his foreign relations ? The
security of his foreign relations forsooth ! The very

phrase is at once an anomaly and a satire.
But that matters are assuming a somewhat serious
complexion it would be amusing to contrast

I these meek and most infelicitous felicitations
lat Paris with the various troubles which
have originated in different portions of Europe from
the very occurrences rejoiced at by the French Le-
gislature. In Spain itself we find the Government
abandoned to the discretion of an embryo and incon-
gruous Cabinet after having suffered every species of
political vicissitude. In its sister kingdom, Portugal,
we discern a civil war waging between MARIA DA
GLORIA and her subjects, partly from the oppor-
tunity afforded by,the misunderstandings between the
Courts of England, France, and Spain, and partly
from the principles of oppression infused into the
hearts of the rulers of Lisbon through the insidious
agency of DIETz and his anointed patron. In Eng-
land, again, the position of affairs in regard to France
has been for a considerable period ominous and un-
satisfactory. The indignation expressed from the
bureaux in Downing-street has received the emphatic
accordance of the popular representatives at West-
minster. Lord PALMERSTON has announced to the
Marquis of NORMANDY the " perfect confidence"
reposed in his Excelleney by himself and his col-
leagues ; and in his turn Lord PALMERSTON has been
greeted with the plaudits of the House of Commons.
Throughout the whole of this lamentable transaction,
indeed, there has been visible the same perpetual
hypocrisy on the part of France, and the same un-
swerving honesty and rectitude on the part of Great I
Britain. Pei:flie Albion sounds, especially at this
juncture, like a masterpiece of irony upon their own
country, from lips of the least patriotic Frenchmen.
Whatever may be the result of the interviews
which have taken place within the last few days be-
tween the Prime Minister and the Count ST.
.AULNIRE, and subsequently between the latter
and Sir ROBERT PEEL, the memory of the
opposite policy pursued in London and Paris
cannot very speedily decay. History will tell how
the reputation of a great King, and the character of
a great statesman, were lost from the lust of a Penin-
sular dotation, and the pandering of a heartless
courtier; it will say that the hand of an Infanta
was gained for a striping Prince, but that, in
gaining it, a venerable monarch was deprived of the
respect of millions. But, above all, it will prove
England, in her diplomatic discomfiture, to be worthy
of all admiration, and France in her triumphant in-
trigues to be entitled only to opprobrium and I
abhorrence.

The greatest enemies to the Established Church
have been found within its pale; and, generally, those
from whom there was the best right to expect the
emanation of every improvement for its welfare, have
been discovered to have chiefly retarded the progress
of ecclesiastical reform. The ministers of the Church,
from the prelates downwards, who have been pampered
with wealth, and who, by reason of their educational
acquirements, must have speedily discerned, and been
fully conscious of, the existence of heavy abuses
throughout the establishment of the hierarchy, and
who ought to have taken the initiative in proposing
remedies for enhancing the spiritual well-being of the
people at large, have, for the most part—and
to their shame be it said— been the last to step for-
ward and aid in the removal of unquestionable griev-
ances. This scandalous torpor has been readily attri-
buted by their opponents, both in the doctrine and
forms of religion, to. worldly-mindedness. It must
be admitted that the imputation has not been made
without reason. Had the, appointed guardians of
the Church evinced, from time to time, the like zeal
for eradicating the chronic evils besetting the admi-
nistration of spiritual affairs, which they have
always so actively manifested whenever their per-
sonal interests have been concerned, the grave charge
of being actuated by sordid views would never have

(been preferred against them with any effect. Precept
and example have not been in unison ; and this
glaring discordance on the part of the clergy,
between their ghostly counsel on the one side,
and their public conduct on the other, has
deplorably weakened the influences of religion. For

the great and beneficial changes wrought within the
Established Church during the last fifteen years, to
whom and to what are we indebted ? To the
ministers of the same ? Assuredly not. The rapid
growth of dissent, and the great power and influence
a-quired by different bodies of Dissenters, engendered
and cemented by virtue of the remarkable and favourable
contrast which their respective ministers
.presented
in their ministrations, as compared with what was
afforded by non-resident and neglectful pluralists and
fox-hunting parsons, was one great lever by which
reform was materially advanced ; the force of public
opinion, germinated by such discreditable exhibitions,
constituted another. Thus, from compulsion, were
the mitred order and the subordinate ranks of the
clergy found reluctantly acquiescing in concessions
demanded by the spirit of the age. But, notwith-
standing the sharp lessons which have been read to
them ever since Earl GREY advised the Bishops to
" set their house in order," we have occasionally
painful instances of reproachful indifference to the
solemn duties attached to the clerical vocation.

Lord STANLEY has recently,in Parliament, brought
to light an example of this nature. The Dean and
Chapter of Manchester have for some time grasped
nearly 6,0001. a year, leaving all the heavy and
serious parochial duties to be performed by the
clergy of the district, who are miserably remune-
rated ; and the answer they give to the accusation is,
that they are no worse than their predecessors ; and
that they are privileged, by ancient charters, to ab-
scond from their work, provided they pay a daily
fine of sixteenpence! Here's morality with a
vengeance ! But they have gone even further.
They have dispatched two redoubtable canons to
this metropolis to watch Lord STANLEY'S pro-
ceedings in the Upper House, thus manifesting
that the Dean and Chapter of Manchester
are not the men quietly to put up their
swords, but are prepared to fight to the last. How-
ever, Lord STANLEY is not the man to be thus bearded
with impunity. His Lordship has already intimated
that he will move for a Select CoMMittee to inquire
whether the law is insufficient to reach these sacred
truants. Should this turn out to be the case, the
Legislature will not be slow to bring the rebellious
to their proper senses.

" Berlin, Feb. 10, A.M."

We have received the Madrid papers of the 6th and
th instant.

The QUEEN had refused her consent to the marriage
of Don ENRIQUE with the sister of the Marquis of
CASTELLANE. Notwithstanding this the marriage took
place, and the day after Don ENRIQUE was arrested by
General PEZUELA, and conducted from Madrid under a
guard. A telegraphic dispatch has, according to the
Constitutionnel, been received in Paris, which states that
he has received orders to embark at Barcelona. ; but
adds, that this is not connected with his marriage, but
s the consequence of some intrigues in which that Prince
has been engaged in conjunction with an Englishman
named MISLEv, who has been conducted to the frontiers '
of France.

Acc.)rding to the Tiempo, orders have been given to
organise an army on the Portuguese frontier.
On the motion of Senor CORTINA. the papers relating
to the Spanish marriages were ordered to be laid on the
tab!e of the Chamber of Deputie3.
Orders have loten given to prevent General FLORES
from entering the Spanish territory.
Senor AIIETA and Senor SAL:Tor:Ins have been elected
to an the vacant Vice-Presideutshipo of the Chamber
of Deputies.

11*.Dittn Botsa, Fxn. 6.—The Three per Cents. 221/9 m6;c:la=e per Cents. 213,4.
money
Debt without interest

aye received the Paris papers of Friday and

into the European concert.' "
On the subject of the adhesion of Prussia to the views
of England with retard to the Montpensier marriage,
we find the following very pertinent remarks in the

Constitutionnel -
" Prussia has positively declared against the eventual
rights of the children of the Duke de Montpensier to the
throne of Spain. That Power no sooner entered on a more
liberal policy than it formed an alliance with England against
us, and separated from France in a permanent manner on a
question which can only be solved by futurity. Would any
one have supposed, a year ago, that the promulgation of a
constitution in the most enlightened states of Germany would
be accompanied by a rupture with France? Is not that event
the most severe condemnation of the conduct of our Govern-
ment? Will Prussia alone adopt that course? It is probable
we are told, that one of the other two great continental
Powers will also declare against the eventual rights of the
Duchess de Montpensier. There is one thing certain—
namely, that our Government is constantly menaced by
Austria, and placed in the alternative of either finding itself
alone against four—that is, altogether excluded from the
Councils of Europe—or obtaining by the most odious sacri-
fices that the menace be not executed. In this last case,
Switzerland and Italy, after Poland, will be left, without pro-
tection and defence, at the 14,rey„ of the Absolutist Powers.
Our Government must eater be completely isolated, or the
accomplice of some attempt agaiiist the independence of
nations and liberty ! Such is the situation in which the pre-
sent Ministry has placed France." -
But it is not Prussia alone which has joined England
in her views of the nature of the treaty of Utrecht. The

UnionMonarchique (formed by the junction of the France,
the Quotidienne, and the Echo de Paris, and
.the avowed
organ of the Legitimatists) says—

"The Presse announces that the Cabinet of Berlin has
given a favourable answer to Lord Palmerston's note, on
the succession to the crown of Spain.. 'We believe we may
assert that this answer, which cannot yet have been officially
transmitted, will be collectiver'foi lite-:three Cabinets of
Vienna, St. Petersburgh, and BkiiiiiMinVe agreed to act in
concert. Our information autllofised'•fi3" in saying, that the
answer will first call to .rebilAtiiiri that, as the three
Cabinetshave not acknowledged the Government of Isabella,
they did net intend to depart from the reserve they
had adopted and hitherto kept ; 'bat that they saw with full
satisfaction, that the English Cabinet' had come to a reso-
lutior, the object of which is to indace Spain, as to the
question of succession to the crown; to return to the same
position in which she stood before the list will of Ferdi•
nand VII."

The same paper states " that the Court of Madrid has
expressed a desire that the Duke and Duchess 'DE
MONTPENSIER should shortly return for a time into
Spain ; but it is said that M. BRESSON has advised that
this visit should be adjourned. The negotiations on
this subject are still going on."
Great activity prevails in the dockyard at Toulon,
where three line-of-battle ships are fitting out besides

frigates.
The business in the Chamber of Deputies on Satur-
day was confined to the monthly organization of the
bureaux. The Conservatives have the majority in the
appointments of presidents.
Co URS A UTITENTIQ UE.—PA RIS, FEB. 13.—French Five
per Cents., 118 f. 20c. 2.5 c. 30c. 35c. 54c. 50c. ; Four-and-

a-Half per Cents., 109 f. ; Four per Cents., 104 f.
Three per Cents., 77f. 60c., 65c., 60c., 77c., 75c., 70c.

Bank of France Shares, 3,255 f.; Obl. of' the City, 1,320 f.;
Neapolitans (Rothschild's) Definitives, 101 f. 75c.; Romans,
10112 i lAf.; Belgian Five per Cents. (1840), 1011,4 f.;
Ditto (1842), 10214 ' • Ditto, Bank, 905 f.; Spanish Active,
331/3 ; Exchange on London—one month money, 25f. 20c. ;
three months, paper, 25f. 5c.; money, 25f. 21,4 c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 13.

Boulogne and Amiens, 1414—Dutch Rhenish, 4 —Namur and
Liege, 2%—Northern of France, 12%—Paris and Lyons, 71,4
Rogien and Havre, 26 yi e c div.—Sambre and Menu, 6%.

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 11.—A letter from Berlin, of the
Jib, says—" Yesterday public prayers were offered up
in all the churches of the capital for the recovery of the
Queen."

The Cologne Gazette publishes a long correspondence,
from Berlin, on the state of the relations of England
and of Franco with Spain. It says that Germany ought
to take advantage of this moment to renew the amicable
connexion which existed between Germany and Spain,
and which seemed advantageous to the commerce and
manufactures of both countries.
BERLIN, FEB. 1 J.—The bulletins respecting the health
of her Majesty the Tien continue to give more satis-
factory accounts, an we trust that we may confidently
expect her entire restoration, though her recovery will
doubtless be gradual. The following bulletin was issued
yesterday morning:—
" Her Majesty the Queen slept the greater part of
,he night; the fever has abated a little.
(Signed) " Dr. SCHONLEIN.
" Dr. VON STASCH.
" Dr. GRIMON.

ARREST FOR DERT.—(IRELAND.)—The Bill just
!aid before Parliament " To limit arrest for debt in Ireland."
provides, that arrest in all actions for debt, not exceeding
201. and costs, shall be abolished.
VISCOUNTESS PALNIERSTON'S SOlREE.—Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston received the Countess of Tan-
kerville, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord
Dudley Stuart, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, the Right
Hon. E. J. and Mrs. Stanley, the Hon. W. Cooper, the Hon.
Miss Edes, Mr. B. Sheridan, and a select party to dinner on
Saturday last, at their mansion in Carlton-gardens. Her
Ladyship at a more advanced period of the evening had an
assembly. Among the guests were his Excellency Count de
St. Aulaire, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Dietrichstein, his Excellency Count Kielman-
segge, his Excellency Baron de Beust, his Excellency the
Brazilian Minister and the Marchioness di Lisboa, his Excel-
lency Mr. Bancroft, his Excellency Count Schimmelpeninck,
en
his Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen,
his
t 1 Excellenceo
thet Countesshepanish MlliiindiasteßreNteundtiotltive,
CountC ntpeosstocßkei:
w, and
Baron Koller, Baron Brenner, Baron and Baroness de Lin-
den, Baron Nicholay, the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Count de
Noailles, Prince Lowenstein, Baron and Baroness L. Roths-
child, Count and Countess de Jarnac, the Princess Callimaki,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Villafranca,
the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess
of Listowel, the Earl of blink., the Earl of Auckland
and Hon. Miss F. Eden, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon,
Viscount Allison, Viscount and Viscountess Melgund, Viscount
Folkestone, and Lady Jane Bouverie, Viscount and Viscountess
Falkland, the Earl of Clare, the Lord Chancellor and the
Hon. Misses Pepys, Lord Monteagle, Lord Foley and the
Hon. Miss Foley ; Viscount Goderich, Lord Campbell and
the Hon. Miss Campbell ; Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lady
Brougham, Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady Beaumont,
Lord Seymour, the Lord Advocate, Baron and Lady Parke
and Miss Parke, Lord Brooke, the Lord Chief Justice and
Lady Wilde, Lord Harry Vane, Lady Seaford and the Misses
Hardy, Lady William Poulett, Sir Stratford and Lady Can-
ning and Miss Canning, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, Sir
John and Lady Charlotte Guest, Sir A. and Lady Duff
Gordon, Sir R. J. Murchison, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Sir
Benjamin Hall, the Hon. W. Ashley, the Hon. J. Howard,
Sir D. J. Norrevs, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Mr. Panizzi, the
Misses Drummond, Mr. and Miss Clifford, Hon. Col. Keppel,
Mr. 11. Vyner, Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, Mr. Grenfell and
Miss Grenfell, Mr. and Mrs. John Townley, Hon. Captain
and Lady Charlotte Berkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Addington, Hon.
R. and Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden, lion. Mr. Duncan, Mr.
Harcourt, Mr. and Lady Caroline Maxse, Mr. S. O'Brien,
Mr. R. M. Milnes, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. E.
Denison, Hon. Charles Howard. Captain F. Seymour, Mr.
Matheson, Hon. Mr. Grey, Mr. 11. Sullivan, &c.
TILE SPEAKER'S
—The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons entertained at his Par-
liamentary dinner on Saturday last—Lord Seymour, Lord
Harry Vane, the lion. Charles Howard, the Right Hon. Ed-
ward E!lice. the Right Hon. Francis T. Baring, the Hon.
Colonel Anson, the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, Sir T. E.
Cclebrooke, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir
Denis Le Merchant, Sir William Clay, Sir Andrew Leith
Hay, Major-General Fox, Mr. John Romilly, Mr. Wise, Mr.
E. Rice, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, Mr.
Hume, Mr. ROW, Mr. Tuite, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Tancred,
Mr. E. Denison, Mr. Loch, and Mr. Hastie.
It is reported that the Rodney has been ordered
Chamber of Deputies of Thurs. from the Tagus to Malta, in consequence of the fever on
M. " MILLEvu...LE, which was = Lmard.—United Service Gazette.

in effect a direct vote of want of confidence in the
Ministers, was negatived by 243 to 130, being a ma_
jority for Ministers of 113. On Friday the Address was
agreed to by 248 to 84; and on the evening of that day
it was presented to the KING at the Tuileries. The fol-
lowing is his MAJESTY'S answer :
" Messieurs les Deputes,—lt is with a very lively satisfac-
tion that I receive this address. I thank the Chamber for
the loyal co-operation which it gives to my Government in
the general interest, and, thanks to this co• operation, thanks
to our union, and the strength it insures to us, we have every
right to rely upon the maintenance of that policy, which
guarantees infernal order and the peace of the world.
Thanks also to this co-operation, we are enabled to lessen
the sufferings which weigh upon a part of our population,
maintaining at the same time public order and the security
of commercial dealings. I am much affected by the cor-
diality of the congratulations which you offer me on the
marriage of my son, the Duke de Montpensier. lam no less
so by the confidence you express in the feelings with which
we are animated, which are liaise as well as yours, and which
are also those of my sons—they will prove, as I have done,
that on every occasion their lives are devoted to France."
The Chamber, on Friday, passed a Bill, authorising
foreign vessels freighted with corn and provisions to take
part in the coasting trade of France, between the ports
of the Atlantic and those of the Mediterranean.
In alluding to the report that the Emperor of RUSSIA
had closed the ports of his dominions against the export
of grain, the Journal des Debate says—
"A report has been current for some days that the Emperor
of Russia had closed the ports of his empire against the ex-
portation of corn. The most recent letters from St. Peters-
burg do not in any way confirm this news."
The dispatch of the Marquis of NORMANBY on the
subject of M. GUIZOT'S speech, and the reply of Lord
PALMERSTON thereto, was known in Paris on Thursday
and produced a great sensation. It is said that the
Marquis was to quit Paris on leave of absence on
Monday. Meanwhile, according to the Siiele, the
French Government is driven to its last shifts to restore
the entente cordiale with England. To obtain this object
it would not hesitate to sacrifice M. GulzoT, but no one
can be found willing to be his successor. "It was sub-
sequently suggested," says the Slick, " to dismiss Lord
PALMERSTON and M. GulzoT, but letters from London
give no encouragement to that plan. It is now sug-
gested to sacrifice the Count DE JARNAC and Lord WIL-
LIAM HARVEY, but the British Government haughtily
rejects such an idea. An additional incident has aggra-
vated the position of affairs. Marshal SOULT has de-
clared his intention to resign the Presidency of the
Council. In fine, the prediction of M. GUIZOT is being
realised. Positive intelligence has been received of the
adhesion of the King of PRUSSIA to the interpretation
given by the British Government to the Treaty of
Utrecht. ' Thus the Cabinet is realising its programme,
to maintain the British alliance, and to bring France