The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-15 00:00:00

(TO BE CONTINUED)

COURT CIRCULAR.

The band of the Ist Life Guards attend during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the
Castle.

.A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord
Cam !bell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the
Marc Luis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Macau-
lay, a rid the Right Hon. H. Labouchere.
The council sat two hours and a half.
Arc inleacon Hoare had an interview with the Chan-
cellor .of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Mr. George Alsbury had an interview with the Earl
of Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade.

Lord' Hatherton arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
nanovor-square, yesterday, from his seat, Teddesley-
path, Staffordshire.

SPORTING 'rELLIGEN CE.
TATTERSALL'S.— THURSDAY.
D ecidedly the dullest afternoon since the Houghton
Mee ling; no apology, therefore is necessary for confining
our :report to the "business done."
CRESTER CUP.
1000 to 20 sgst Mr. B. Green's The Lamb--taken
goners to take 50 to 1 each about Newcourt and Pam.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
Offers to give 18 or take 20 agst the field—(2oo was laid
on Mond between 20 and the field ; the names of the
horses did ,'tot transpire.)
DERBY.
400 to 10 agst Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken
500 to 10 . %gst Mr. W. Scott's Christopher—taken
500 to 10 a gst Mr. Mostyn'S Projectile—taken
500 to 7 at Tst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken
1000 to 10 ag: it Mr. Fuller's Oxonian—taken
Mr. Harrreave 's horses, under the care of J. Armstrong,
arrived on °Wednooday at Newmarket, where they will in
future be trained.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
BA.TH MEETING, 1847.
Handicap far the Somersetahire Stakes.
Alaric, 5 yrs, 9&"L Sib—Sweetmeat, 5 yrs, 9st 416-
-Wolf-dog, 5 yrs, Bst .121b—The Hero, 4 yrs, Bst 101b—
.Annandale, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—Grimston, 4 yrs, Bst 41b—
'Queen of Tyne, aged,. Bst 21b—Red Rover, 6 yrs, Bst--
lord Saltoun, 6 yrs, 7 fit nib—Emmeline, 4 yrs, 7st I 0 lb
.---Wit's-end, 4 yrs, 7st 1016—Refraction, 5 yrs, 7st 916
.--Miss Ells, 5:0, ist Slb—Thc Crown Prince, 4 yrs,
?st 716—Mount Callan, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Chamois, 4 yrs,
fo'st 6113--Cheveaux de Frisc, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—lliomed,
4 yrs, /Dukej, ap;ed 7st 41b—theraton, 4 yrs,
:7st 31b of Richmond, 4 7st
~ 31b—Clumsy,
t,-; yrs, ist 216--Roderiek, aged,lT yr5,216,./exterous, 4 yrs,
7st lib—Giantess, 5 yrs
4 yi's, 7st—Dic-
Tatar, 4 yrs, 7st—lluusdrutn, 4 —Pal'
7st—gow Fury fit
Deer (b. b) 4 yrs, Est 131b—R,rjorrs,,,
miss Bun-Li, aged, Est 1216—What, a' 'g: e 5( 13 r .64 12lb—
tiimon, 4 yrs, fist 1 lb—Buttress, 4 yrs, fist 3f,Slr
whelp,fist ha—Morocco, 1
31.2, Gat 1 I'-'7l'".
0— etrosqd-
pecker, 4
.)7rs, fist 101L:i—Bartana, yrs, 6,t.
Magnet, 5 vrs, 65t 91J-01d George, G yrs, fist tilis
Camera 01;.: cu:a, 4 yrs, Est 91b—Farthing Candle : 4 ?
rs, Est 916 -.kick, 4
Sr., Est 811)—Koinager, 5 yrs
bit 71b—Alliai ice, 5 yr:;, ,
fist Glb-13useot Buek, 6 yrs,
6st 61b—Fugiti 4 yrs, 6$ 2:6—Caprice, 4 yrs, 6st-
3Eiss Shirley, 4 yrs, 6.4—Trojan, 6 yrs, 6.4-I)evil-me-
-4 yrs, 5$ 1016-7-Milliner,
Care. 3 yrs, Gst —Cha.itcrbox,
4 yrs, sst 1016--Premier, 3 yrs, sst 10Ib—Crozier, 3 yrs,
bst 916—Regalia, 4 yrs, 5:4 lib—The Brave Buck, 3 pa,
sst 216—Halo, 3 yrs, .sst—Dauglitcr of the Star, 3 yrs,
55t—Moodkev, 3 yrs, sst—Rosin the Beau, 4 yrs,
Congress, 3 yrs, 5 st—Euclid colt, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b.
If the higheet weight accepting is under Sat 716, it
will be raised to that standard, &c.

HER MAJES 7Y'S THEATRE.—Signora Carolina
Rosati, one Of the liv.a principal dancers of the present season,
ba anivel inc London.

Queen Isabella 11., is lineally descended from the same
King of France. Did it ever occur to Lord Palmerston
to question the right of Ferdinand VII. or Isabella 11.
to rein over Spain?
Lor'd Palmerston, in the 19th century, has done pre-
c:sely what had been done by his predecessors (and, in-
deed, by all Europe) during the course of the 18th. He
has not pretended, or so much as imagined, that the
right of Isabella H. (or of Ferdinand VII.) was dis-
putable or doubtful; that, by her descent from a branch
of the Royal House of France, which had renounced its
rights to the Spanish throne, she lost those rights to the
same throne which had devolved upon her as a descendant
of Philip V.
The natural and true construction of the Treaty of
Utrecht carries with it such resistless conviction, that,
till it was questioned upon the present occasion, it has
been admitted universally and without hesitation.
Not content with the misconstruction to which I have
just adverted, Lord Palmerston puts upon the treaty a
false interpretation which is more serious still, which
strikes at its fundamental purpose, or rather, I might
say, at its existence.
Lord Palmerston says, ;that the main and real object
of the treaty, besides the restoration of mace between
the contracting parties, was that for which the preceding
war had been undertaken; that the main and real ob-
ject was to avert a too close and intimate union between
the kingdoms of France and Spain; and that the history
of the last century affords many examples to show, how,
notwithstanding the Treaty of Utrecht, this intimate
union continued to subsist.
Therefore, in Lord Palmerston's opinion, the Treaty
of Utrecht did not suffice during the last century (and,
consequently, does not suffice at the present hour) to
accomplish its main and real object; and that this
object must be sought, not in the fundamental condi-
tions of the peace which the treaty established, but in
the purposes of the war by which it had been preceded.
Strange forgetfulness of the lessons of experience, and
of the warnings which it has imparted, in all ages, to
the most powerful human designs! Governments en-
gaging in a war do not attain by it all the objects with
which they had flattered themselves; and when they are
forced by necessity, or persuaded by prudence, to put an
end to the war, peace is re-established (in almost all
cases) on a compromise of their conflicting pretensions.
It was the purpose of England and her allies to prevent
the grandson of Louis XIV., and the descendants of
that grandson, from establishing themselves on the
throne of Spain ; and it was intended by
Louis XIV., when he accepted the Spanish
Crown for a branch of his family, that this
branch should retain its rights to the Crown of
France. Such, during the first periods of the war,
were the objects and aspirations of the parties to it;
but, after twelve years of sanguinary conflict, the spirit of
peace resumed its ascendancy, and the two nations came
to a compromise. England and her allies consented
on the one part, that a branch of the House of Bourbon
should sit on the throne of Spain ; and Louis XIV.
consented, on the other, that the respective rights of the
Royal Houses of France and Spain should be completely
separated. Such was the Treaty of Utrecht, and such
was its main and real purpose. Accordingly, it did not
give to any of the belligerents all the objects which had
moved them to the war ; but it gave to all parties,
through a compromise of their adverse pretensions, the
peace which all of them needed.
Those who would close their eyes to a fact so evident,
and would seek, not in the definitive conditions of the
peace which terminated the war of the Spanish succes-
sion, but in the original purposes of that war, the prin-
ciples of their pretensions and their policy—those would
in truth be the violaters of the Treaty of Utrecht, of its
spirit and of its letter, and would incur, before Europe,
now peaceful and happy, the responsibility of the can
sequences of such a violation.

Ile King's Government adheres faithfully to the
Treaty of Utrecht, since it merely wishes to maintain
the bases of the European balance of power, as that
treaty determined them. On the contrary, Lord Pal-
merston, at the very moment when he is appealing upon
a special point to the Treaty of Utrecht, rejects the
fundamental principles of that treaty, and discloses a
policy which assuredly is not one of peace and of for-
bearance.

I have now accomplished what I bad undertaken. I
have corrected the more serious of the errors contained
in Lord Palmerston's dispatch of the 31st of October,
and I have stated in their real and true light the more
important of the facts to which it relates. In a true spirit
of moderation and of peace, I abstain from every remark
which could merely tend to prolong a controversy hence-
forth without object. lam earnestly desirous of saying
nothing bat what necessity constrains me to state—no-
thing which might impede, in either country, the return
of a friendly and cordial policy—a policy (I have some
right to assert) to which no one has been, or remains,
more faithfully attached than myself. I think that the
facts have now been sufficiently brought to light to
justify me in here closing this discussion. In concluding
it, I will endeavour to replace it within its true and con-
stitutional bounds. Lord Palmerston has introduced a
name which should never have been mentioned ; my
duty commands me to express my surprise, and to recal
to his recollection, that the responsibility of the policy
pursued by the Icing's Government, in respect to this
question, rests with myself alone, as my honour and
my right.
I beg you to read this dispatch to Lord Palmerston,
and to give him a copy of it.
Accept, Monsieur le Comte, the assurance of my most
distinguished consideration.

The Queen and Prince Albert accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess
Helena, and attended by the Marchioness of Douro,
Lord Waterpark. Major General Bowles, Lord Alfred
Paget, and Colonel Seymour left Claremont, at half-past
two o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle.
In the forenoon his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at-
tended by some of the Gentlemen of the Royal suite, en-
joyed the sport of shooting.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince
Albert returned to the Castle, from Claremont, at a
(porter-past four o'clock this afternoon, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal,
and the Princesses Alice and llelena. The Royal suite
consisted of the Lady in Waiting, the Marchioness of
Douro, the Lord in Waiting, Lord Waterpark, the
Equerry in Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget, the Equerry in
Waiting to Prince Albert, Colonel Seymour, and the
Master of the Household, General Bowles:
Count Schemmelpenninck, the Netherland:: Minister
Baron de Beust, the Saxon Minister, and Baroness de
Beust, Viscount Palmerston, and Sir Hamilton and Lady
Seymour, are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day on a
visit to her Majesty.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening is
expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Excellency Count Schemmelpenninck, their
Excellencies Baron and Baroness de Beust, the Lady in
Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth,
Viscount Palmerston, and Sir Hamilton and Lady Sey.
mour.