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were considered as impossibilities. In this category we
must place the essential consolidation of constitutional I
principles in the north of Germany—a star a long time
since announced and promised, hut, -which has disap-
peared:" The President next alluiled to Lhe political con-
stitution of the cantons, which, founded on theprinciple of
the sovereignty of the people, has secured the happiness of
all separately ; but he observed that the cantons required
to be united by a new pact, which, by maintaining as
much as possible the independence of each, should create
a general confederation, affording the best guarantee for
their national independence. The President concludes
by observing that, "If—what appears to be improbable
—a foreign intervention should take place in the internal
affairs of the confederation, the world shall know that
Switzerland—strong in her right, great by the slt mpathy
entertained for her by all free nations, and by all which
expect to become free—will sacrifice the last drop of her
blood to maintain the independence achieved by her
fathers in so many sanguinary battles, and to transmit
that most precious of all blessings intact, as she received
it, and in all its integrity, as a sacred legacy to her chil-
dren. May God preserve the mother country ! I de-
clare the Diet for the year 1847 to be opened, and I in-
vite you, dear confederates, to renew the federal oath
after the custom of our fathers."

Madrid papers of the 3d instant have been received.
According to the Faro, Queen CHRISTINA has
written long letters both to the KING and the QUEEN.
The Correo denounces all the parties concerned
in bringing about the marriage of the QUEEN—a
marriage which was effected in direct opposition to
the wishes of her MAJESTY, who was forced to marry
her cousin.
The departure of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA for
San Sebastian has been delayed for a few days.
Carlist bands have appeared in Toledo, La Mancha,
and Tarragona. The Political Chief of the latter
province has been placed under arrest for not acting
with sufficient energy against the insurgents.
MADRID BOLSA, JULY 3.—The Three per Cents.
closed on the 3d inst. at 28 cash; the Five per Cents.,
17 5-16; Passives, si; and Coupons,l3 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The escape of M. PELLAPRA, and the seizure of
La Presse, are the subjects of comment in all of them,
and the wily intriguers of the Tuileries are but too
glad that these subjects occupy the attention of the
gobe-mouches of Paris, and of foreigners also, while
they pursue uninterruptedly their plots for securing
to the Duchess DE MONTPENSIER speedy possession

of the Spanish throne. It would almost appear as if
the squabble between M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN and
the Ministry was a " cross" got up after the approved
" swell mob " fashion to enable their confederates to
pursue their schemes of plunder without
interruption. We yesterday stated that CHRIS-
TINA and NARVAEZ were reconciled. Senor
SARAGOSSA has joined them in Paris, his object
being to persuade NARVAEZ to return to Madrid, to
put himself at the head of the Government, to depose
the QUEEN, and to proclaim the accession of the
Duchess DE MONTPENSIER. This scheme was, how-
-1 ever, judged to be too rash for immediate execution,
and has consequently been suspended until the pear
shall ripen. In the meantime every method is put in
practice to make the Due DE MONTPENSIER popular
with the army. No expense is spared for this pur-
pose, and Vincennes is what Versailles was in the
days of Louis XIV. It would be a curious instance
of retributive justice if the very means which are

taken to secure for the Due DE MONTPE.NSIER a

throne to which he has no right should, by their re

action, produce a directly contrary effect, if the plotters
of mischief in Spain should find their cunning plots
recoil upon themselves—if " the Engineer should
hoist with his own petard :" that such a consumma-
tion is not impossible let the following article from
the Courrier Francais attest. After describing the
last fete at Vincennes, it thus proceeds—

" We had resolved, from shame and pity, to remain
silent upon the subject of this late given so naal•i-
propos, when the public mind was absorbed with sinis-
ter apprehensions. But the courtiers have spoken, and
it is impossible for us not to protest, in the name of the
respect that w© feel for the dynasty, against their dan-
gerous adulations. Did not these persons comprehend
the cries and hootings with which the populace of the
faubourgs saluted the brilliant equipages as they passed
along towards Vincennes ? To whom, then, were ad-
dressed these exclamations which publicly rendered so
many honourable persons participators with some un-
worthy beings admitted to these galas : Down with
the aristocrats ! Down with the rubbers !' What con•

fusion of brain could have made these courtiers advise
the Duke de Montpensier to give a t'te at this moment,
when the grand monde, the only class invited to it, are
compromised by so many scandalous acts, and are seek-
ing shelter in flight and exile from the Court of Assizes
or Court of Peers ? 111-judging men describe to us this
luxurious feast as full of splendour and magnificence, at
which the Garde-Meuble of the Crown displayeed all its
resources; at which,lin the bowers and on the esplanades,
artificial bouquets of light were used to illuminate bou-
quets of natural flowers—this fete, for which the King
had given to his son an unbounded liberty to draw sup-
plies from the rich parterres of Versailles and Saint
Cloud. But did not these ill-advised chroniclers, these

historiographers of Trianon, fear that the people should
reckon up what a fete so brilliant mus t have cost. It
would be ascertained that the expenditure was greater
than all the one hundred and odd thousand francs which
the Royal Family have distributed towards the relief of
the public misery. What, in the name of heaven, was
the object of this fate ? Alas ! you have told us ! you
flatter the army, but you leave the discontented people
crying at the gate! Where was the need of this f'ête, in
which you travestied our soldiers into chamberlains of
the palace? Was not the fancy camp at Compiegne suf-
ficient for you, assembled as it is in spite of the engage-
ments entered into by the Minister of War with the
Chambers? Was it not a great honour paid by you to
Messieurs de l'Artillerie, to confine their functions for
that evening to presenting nosegays to the ladies as they
arrived!—Oh, let us perfume ourselves with essence of
benzoin and bergamot ! Let us sprinkle our shirt
frills of Meek lin-lace with Spanish snuff ! Par la Sam.
bleu ! there is nothing better to be done in these times !
Behold those girandolas filled with wax lights, those
downy sophas, those garlands of foliage interwoven into
cyphers, that profusion of flowers, those innumerable
cases of odoriferous shrubs, those Chinese and Venetian
illuminations, those festoons, those astragals, those
panoplies of every epoch arranged for the embellishment
of this showy fete, and amidst all this magnifi-
cence, those voluptuous smiles gliding with their sisters
the graces among those mysterious glades. To tell you
that this fête continued from the evening until the morn-
ing would not be assez Regence. The Marquis de Vin-
cennes tell us—" The sun gilded the last waltz with his
rays as he had saluted the first contre-danse with his
last smiles.' Could the Chevalier de Boufflers, or M.
Jean Vatout himself, have better expressed it ? And
then how you enumerate all the illustrious personages
and celebrated beauties who were saluted by the last
smile of the setting sun, and emblazoned by the first
rays of his rising. Qui nommer,' exclaims the en-
raptured chronicler, ' dans ce merveilleux Fide-mete de
beaux noms etde charmans visages ?' Lovely Chloris,
were you there ? and you, divine Aramintha ? But we
were forgetting that at half-past eleven o'clock the
supper-tent was thrown open, and continued to be inces-
santly renewed with fresh supplies with perfect order
until half-past three in the morning.' People of France,
how will you construe this ? You are told in 'engage
Pricieux' that at Vincennes they were four hours at
supper. Ma foi !' is not this admirable ? Clown you
are without bread; eat cakes. Who among these dainty
counsellors will have the courage to point out to these
young Princes the danger there is in their thus isolating
themselves from the people ?"
The Union Monorchique, in chronicling the say-
ings and doings of this file, thus remarks on the want
of feeling exhibited in making Vincennes, of all
places in the world, the scene of such orgies. It
says—

" Princes are unfortunate! They have not always
time to have memory, and their courtiers rarely attempt
to supply the detect. If some of those who surround the
Duke de Montpensier had reminded the young Duke
that the ditches of Vincennes had witnessed the murder
of the noble and unfortunate Duke d'Enghien, he
would, without doubt, have chosen another theatre for
the publicity and magnificence of his fetes, Bona-
parte made of Vincennes a prison ; this was logical;
he would never have made it a place for dancing and
banquetting."
The writer might have added, that but for the
death of the Due D'ENGMEN, the son of Louis
Piniarru would never have shared with SOPHY
DAWES the rich inheritance of the father of the un-
fortunate Due D'ENGBIEN—the still more unfortu-
nate Due DE BOURBON—the last of the CONDES.
The Duke DE MONTEBELLO, Minister of Marine
and Colonies, is attacked with an indisposition which,
without obliging him to keep his bed, is still suffi-
ciently serious to prevent him from taking part in
the debates of the Chamber.
The trial of General CUBIERES and his co-accused
commenced on Wednesday.
On Wednesday the Chancellor, on the demand of
the Procureur-General, issued against M. PELLAPRA
a warrant of arrest. This act is the commencement
byT dhefeau clot.
of the proceedings to be instituted against the accused
nstitu tionnel says—" It appears that, after
having made his preparations for departure during
the day, M. PELLAPRA left Paris in the evening, at
the very moment at which all the solicitude of the
police was directed to the ball at the Minimes. M.
PELLAPRA, it is said, addressed a letter to his advo-
cates,
M. Cirbux-D'EsT-ANGE and M. GAUTHIER, in
which he declared that his great age and state of
health would not permit him to undergo the §ittings