The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-11 00:00:00

rectified another misrepresentation concerning himself,
set forth in one of the letters of Lord PALMERSTON.

General PAvis has, it is said, accepted the portfolio of
the War Department.

Intelligence from Portugal had arrived at Madrid, an-
nouncing that the Miguelites and Septembristas had
coalesced, and that Don MIGUEL W 69 to be proclaimed
King, to govern according to the constitution. This has
excessively alarmed the Spanish Ministry, and the Her aldo
urges upon the Government the necessity of interfering
on behalf of Donna MARIA, however displeasing such
intervention may be to Englind.
The funds remained stationary.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday, and,
as might have been expected, the new Prussian Consti-
tution is commented on in all of them, and, strange to
say, with one exception, they all express themselves
dissatisfied with the conduct of the King of PRUSSIA.
The National declares that the Prussian constitution is
merely a money-raising machine, nothing more. Even
the Debuts sneers at it, and says--
"This new reform bears more of an administrative than of
a political character. The States, or Provincial Diets, will
henceforth be called upon to concur in the votes for taxes
and loans. They will take their part in what, in constitu-
tional countries, is called the power of the purse. Such as it
is, this plan of reform cannot be considered as fulfilling
all the hopes which Prussia has been led to entertain for
thirty years ; it cannot be taken for more than a pledge of
the performances of the promises of royalty, and on thispoint
it deserves to be encouraged."
The Constitutionnel says—
" The new law scarcely merits the name of a representa-
tive constitution. The right to fix the budget is withheld
from the States and reserved to the Crown. The period of
meeting, the place and the time that the session is to last, are
reserved to the Royal power. The immediate object which
the Royal letter appears to have had in view is to assure to
the new loans which Prussia, it is said, is on the point of con-
tracting, the guarantee of a kind of national representation,
and thus to be enabled to obtain the money on better terms.
However that may be, it is at all events a step in advance.
The defects in the new organic law will show themselves
plainly as soon as it shall be carried into practice; and once
that public discussion shall have formed a portion of the
public habits, the omissions of the legislation must be supplied,
and the attributions of the assembly and the rights of the
constituents extended."
The 'llion Monarchique, however, which forms the
exception to which we have before alluded, is more
just to the King of PRUSSIA, and shows by its observa-
tions that it thoroughly understands the German cha-
racter. It says—
" The Prussian Government has departed from the road of
administrative reforms to enter upon the path of political re-
forms. Discussion is introduced as a necessary element,
since It is made an indispensable condition for loans and
taxes. This is a step which may lead to favourable conse-
quences if the conduct of the Government be wise and able.
Henceforth, it must take into account the tendencies of the
deliberative bodies. In Germany, it is true, all things move
slowly, and the action of the Government, from its very na-
ture, has a force which may maintain it for a long time in
the position it has now assumed ; but this first step is taken,
and there is nothing yet to announce that the experiment is
likely to produce any embarrassment to the Government."
The Presse, of course, takes up the cry of spoliation
against England, which was raised about a week since
by the National, on the occasion of our taking possession
of Labuan. The article is "full of sound and fury," but
"signifies nothing." The Constitutionnel, however, has
an admirably-written article on this subject, in which the
doctrine of the rights of civilised settlers in a savage
country is clearly and distinctly laid down, and, acting
upon that doctrine, it admits the rights of England to
not only Labuan but to Borneo also.
" The true master of a savage country is he who is able to
establish himself strongly in it, to develop the force of
civilisation, to bring it into perfect subjection, and cause to
be respected there the rights of nations. Does Holland do
this at Borneo? Evidently not. Finally, is there any
solemn treaty, any compact with the nations of Europe, such,
for example, as the treaties of 1815, assigning Borneo to Hol-
land, as Madagascar is assigned to France. It is for Holland
to furnish proofs in this respect. They will be dis-
cussed. Until that is done, let us not imitate the bad taste
of the English journals, which served as organs to the ran-
cour of the Methodists, and the inspirations of a false
patriotism, when we took possession, to our detriment be it
remarked,of the Marquisas IslandS and Otaheite. Let us form
a sound judgment of our interests; let us coagratulate our-
selves if any power whatever succeeds in opening the ports
of Borneo to the commerce of the world. In place of making
puerile protests, let us take our share of the trade to Borneo
and China. Nothing is more exclusive than the Dutch
commercial proceedings ; it would be a mere deceit to
make us the auxiliaries of the customs laws of the Dutch
possessions in India. In place of fixing our attention on the
quarrel of the English with Holland in the other hemisphere,
let us regard what is passing at home. We have estab-
lished the bases of several colonies on the western coast of
Africa. We have taken an excellent position, in a military
point of view, at the entrance of the eastern seas, at
Mayotte. It would be a strange illusion to suppose that it is
sufficient, in order to augment our possessions and seriously
increase our power, to stick up a flag and place soldiers is
different points of the globe. It is not that which ought to
be demanded from the Ministry. Let us require the Cabinet
to carry out seriously the colonization of Algeria ; let us urge
it to clear the ground of our factories on the western coast of
Africa, and render them more healthy—to colonize and for-
tify Mayotte ; let us, in fine, call on it to answer for the state
of the French colony at La Plata. This colony was prosper-
ing, becoming more numerous, augmenting the commerce
and navigation of France. It never cost us anything, and
was contributing to enrich us. The Ministry has sacrificed
it to Roses, and ruined it. It is against such acts that we
ought to protest."

The following observations oa the conduct of the
Governments of France and England, in relation to
Cracow, are from the Journal des Debats

" The truth is that the conduct of the two Governments
has been all that it ought to be, all that it could be. Both
have been deceived. It is unfortunate and deeply to be la-
mented that sacred interests have been made to sink under a
the
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faith
policy of trickery, fraud, and falsehood; but neither the
Government of France nor that of England have to blush for
the part which has been assigned to them in this culpable
intrigue, and this is a disgrace from which they can show
clean hands in the face of the world. Governments cannot,
ranlyat'htilo?nn os. re
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Those
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are
the first to violate this commonuals,
convention, and thus destroy the basis of all society, set an
example the consequence of which must sooner or later fall
on their own heads. Under the circumstances in question,
if the Governments of France and England could have need
of any justification, we should not require one more com-
plete, more convincing, and, at the same time, . more
honourable than the publication of their correspondence
With the three Cabinets who have violated the treaty of
" We are in-
p"rice of
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capital.
in Paris, and in
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will take place from two to three
" that an excessive
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weeks, until the end of February. The hectolitre of
wheat will, probably exceed 40f., and the sack of flour
perhaps reach 110f.i as for bread it is beyond a doubt
that it will advance to lc. more on the 15th of
February, and undergo another rise on the Ist of
March. 330,000 persons, or a third of the population
of Paris, are demanding cards at the Bureaux de Bien-
faisance to enable them to buy their bread at only 2c. the
pound."
The Chamber of Deputies was engaged during the
sitting on Monday in the discussion of that paragraph
of the Address which relates to the financial state of the
country.
Couas AuTHENTIQUE.—PARis, Fes. B.—French Five per
Bank
Cents., 118 f. 30c. 25c. 30c. 25c. 20c. 25c. ; Four-and- a. Half
per Cents., 109 f. 25c. ; Four per Cents., 104 f.; Three per
3 272 f. 50c. ; Rent de Naples (Roths-
child's) 101 f. 50c. • Romans, 1.011.; Belgian Five per Cents.,
ACecntit05n.,8,738f2.75c5f..,,731,2fi0c77:.,95c., 78f. Sc., 781.,95c. ;
(1840), 10114.; 'Ditto (1842), 102%; Belgian Four-and-
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
sa-6HlAtai;fsppearnCiseinttic't9i6ehes,; 331/5 ; Spanish Three per Cents.,
341/2f.; Exchange on London—one month money, 251.
221 c.; three months, money, 25f. sc.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN HALLWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOOK EXCHANGE, FEBAusar 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14 --Dutch Rhenish, 45,6—Louvain als
Rouen and Havre, 27.
Sambre, 1% -Northern of France, 12%—Faris and Lyons, 7%

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday, ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
in a sledge, the Prince driving. Covnt Alexander Mens-
dorff, the Princess Alice, and the Hon. Miss Stanley, fol-
lowed in another sledge. Sir Frederic Stovin followed in a
third sledge. The Equerries in Wald:tag, Colonel the Hon.
Charles Grey, and Captain the Hon. A.. if. Gordon, attended
on horseback.
luncheon with her Majesty and her Royal Cona
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
dinner, Alexander
and Dleiis d
performedo rff,
tLh Lady Queen yesterday
Jyoeshtnerßduasxselalthaßducaknianugdhiaemncepoafltahcee,Queen yesterday.
The Royal dinner party yesterday at; Buckingham Palace
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his
Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe sondrt partook of
Weimar, Count
Speth, Earl Spencer, Earl Granville, Viscount Clifden, and
Sir George Couper.
The Band of the Coldstream Guincds attended during
followingdyFanny
Selection, from I. Lombardi ......Verdi.
Howard, Baroness de
Quadrille, " The British Army"...Jullien.
Fantasia, " Alma" .................... .Costa.
Waltz, " The Duoro" ..... Labitzky.
Polka, " The Cauaelia"
pieces :
Her Majesty had afterwards an .......... party. The com-
pany consisted of the Countess Jersey, and Lady Clementina
Villiers, Earl Somers, and the Ladies Caroline and Harriet
Cocks, Lady Elizabeth Dawson, Mr. G. E. Anson, Lieut.-
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lord George Lennox, and
Captain Francis Seymour.
g to her Majesty. .
The Marchioness of Douro has succeq.cled the Countess of
Charlemont as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. The Earl
of Morton has succeeded LordCamoys 113 the Lord in Wait-
iNtivgaittoinher Majesty. And Sir Frederick Stovin has
Bioerron yesterday,
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suc-
ceeded Captain the Hon Robert Boyle, as the Groom in
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
House, Windsor.
Clarence House, St. James's, at half -past twelve o'clock
Royal Higness was attended by Lady Fanny Howard,
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.:eutation from the Short Time Committees of the
West Riding of Yorkshire had an intery iewom withiitte Sir Charles
Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his
6fficial residence in Downing-street. Whe deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Matthew Bahne (Bradford), Mr. John Leech
(Huddersfield), and Mr. Charles Stout ( Halifax).
Sir Montague Cholmeley had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Stratt yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners
of Railways, in Great George-street.
Sir John Pelly had an interview with the Earl of Claren-
don yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chair' nan of the Excise,
had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday at the
office of the Board of Trade.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England bad a
general meeting yesterday at their atf,le in Whitehall-place.