The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-16 00:00:00

investigating the merits of practical measures proposed
by the Government and others for the good of Ire-
land, and to the emanating of such by themselves as
they may believe would be best conducive to the
same end. Far better this than making the miserable
effort of distracting the minds of the people with the
unattainable project which Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL
says should be made the rallying cry at the forth-
coming elections.

According to the Carlsruhe Gazette his Imperial
Majesty the Emperor of RUSSIA is expected to arrive
at Stutgard towards the close of next month, and
magnificent preparations are already commenced for
his reception.
Prince TSCAERNITSIIEW, with several other emi-
nent personages, has obtained permission from the
CZAR to journey in countries beyond the Russian
frontier.

By an express which has reached us from the
Tagus, having started on the 9th instant from
Lisbon, it appears, that the squadron captured by the
British, off Oporto, has been consigned to the Go-
vernment of Queen MARIA Di GLORIA. The prize
is estimated at somewhere about 200,0001.

Report says, that all the English officers engaged
in the seizure of the troops and property of the Pro-
visional Junta, are to receive " decorations" from the
Cabinet of Lisbon. We presume that these symbols
of distinction will be distributed rather in gratitude
for the late ingenious settlement of affairs, than for
any very heroic exhibition of courage.
A Court of Inquiry has examined into the conduct
of Lieutenant CRAWLEY of the Gladiator, for having
directed shots to be fired into the Portuguese corvette
whereby the life of a Portuguese soldier was sacri-
ficed. Mr. CRAWLEY stands acquitted.
While the Junta have expressed their readiness
to accept the terms of the British intervention,
the QUEEN'S Government continues to assert its wil-
lingness to fulfil its part of the engagements.
About the only remaining obstacle to the imme-
reconciliation of the belligerent parties in Portugal is
the obstinate and gallant chieftain SA DA BANDEIRA,
who persists in holding out until he shall have re-
ceived authority for his submission.

Discount on Moidore notes has fallen 1,600 rein,

Madrid journals of the 9th have been received.
A ridiculous rumour is given utterance to in the
Faro, to the effect that ABD-EL-KADER had forwarded

an autographic letter to Queen ISABELLA, entreating
her puissant mediation between himself and his
Majesty Louis PHILIPPE. The report is most im-
probable, or, supposing it to be in any degree correct,
it could scarcely be regarded as anything more than a
pleasant piece of badinage, a sort of don't-you-wish-
you-may-get-me-joke on the part of the übiquitous
but invisible Arab.

Monsignor BRUNELLI is said to have entirely failed
in his endeavours to effect a reconciliation between
King FRANCISCO and his royal wife : the former is
agitated by all kinds of old wives' tales from
the lips of the creatures of Queen CHRISTINA, at
the head of which delectable clan is the Duke of
GLUCKSBERG.

Considerable excitement had been caused by the
publication of an article in the Tiempo (one of the
presumed organs of the Government),' which asserted
that previous to the memorable double nuptials, her
MAJESTY had emphatically expressed her personal an-
tipathy to Don FRANCISCO, and her repugnance to
any such alliance.

The entrance of the Spanish troops into Valenza
do Minho is described in almost all the Madrid
newspapers.

It is expected that General SERRANO is shortly to
receive his appointment as Captain-General of
Madrid.

A very general impression is abroad that the
mongrel Cabinet of PACidECO and SALAMANCA is
tottering to its foundations. Upon the same prin-
ciple of graduation which has latterly been visible in
Spanish politics, we shall anticipate a yet more
liberally disposed Administration.
The Three per Cents. were done at 301 for cash; the
Four per Cents. at 18; the Five per Cents. at 18; Pas-
sives, at 541; and the Coupons at 15.

Paris papers of Monday have been received.
Almost the whole of the attention of the journalists is
directed to the triple interference in Portugal, and
the Presse is especially violent in the expression of its
indignation with England. In the course of its dia-
tribe it speaks as follows :
" Many persons, perhaps, are disposed to shut their
eyes, saying that the material danger of the interven-
tion is not very great—that the Junta has already been
vanquished, or made its submission—that very little
French blood will be shed, and that the country will
probably be restored to peace, order, and durable con-
cord. But, should all this prove to be true, the inter-
vention will, nevertheless, remain to be regretted. We
have thereby virtually destroyed the moral force of our
external political policy. - 'We have restored to all the
great powers the right of interfering in their turn wher-
ever it may seem good to them, or may be induced to ex-
ercise it for their own interests, or the gratification of
their own fancy. How can we ever presume to prevent
them, after having set them the example? If it should
tomorrow please Austria to intervene in Italy, in the
Roman States, or elsewhere, upon what principle could
we attempt to arrest the march of her troops? We
should not even have the right to protest, and a new
expedition to Ancona would not only be dangerous, but
ridiculous! This is the most serious point in which to
view this affair. Whether M. Guizot has taken the
initiative, or only gone along with Lord Palmerston—a,
truly worthy associate—in this intervention, the con-
sequence is precisely the same. In either case we have
violated the principle which constituted our strength in
our foreign relations—we have served the cause of
England at the expense of our own dignity—and thus
depriving ourselves of the only means of defence left us
fur the future—the independence and freedom of the
secondary states. Never was there a fault committed so
rashly that has been so disastrous in its consequences.
It will be discovered hereafter, but unfortunately too
late I"

The Constitutionnel is yet more impassioned in the
indications of its wrath : it exclaims—
" Absolutist Governments of Europe—you, M. de
Metternich, and you, Autocrat of Russia, pardon our
Cabinet, which, as you know well, is one of you. Par-
don it for having lent itself for a moment to the preju-
dices of this mischief-maker, this revolutionist, Lord
Palmerston ! Must it not obtain permission to be
admitted' to the arrangements that may be made with
respect to Portugal 1 It solicits that grace ; you see
that it is obliged to concede something, at least in
words, to the intractable Liberalism of this English
Minister ! Pardon, then, this feebleness of M. Guizot;
he will make it up to you with usury when Switzerland
is in question."
In a similar strain the Union Illonarchique ob-
serves—