The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-13 00:00:00

MONDAY

of VALENCIA left in high dudgeon before the arrival
of the QUEEN. SERRANO and SALAMANCA, who were
in the adjoining box, enjoyed the scene amazingly.
General ALAIx had arrived, and had accepted the
appointment of Captain-General of Madrid. GOYENA
will be the President of the Council.

The Espanol says that SALAMANCA has resolved to
proceed gradually with sweeping financial reforms,
and that one of his first measures was to be the
abolition of the salt and tobacco monopolies. The
same journal states that the new Cabinet has deter-
mined not to convoke the Cortes until the latest
period allowed by law, and then immediately to
dissolve them.

MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 6.—The Funds maintained
themselves, the Three per Cents. being done at
26 9-16 for cash, and the Five per Cents. at 17k.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The progress of ABD-EL-KADER in Morocco is
evidently creating considerable alarm in France.
The following, from the Constitutionnel, may be
considered as giving the views of the generality of
the Paris press on this subject. "The taking of
Taza," says the Constitutionnel, " warrants a fear
that ABD-EL-KADER will not be long in becoming
master of the whole of Morocco. The town is situ-
ated at the southern extremity of one of the little
chains of the Rif. Since ABD-EL-KADER has been
able to advance and take possession of that position, it
can hardly be believed that he will encounter serious
obstacles up to Fez, the religious city of the empire,
which contains ABDERRAHMAN'S treasures. It is
probable that Ann-EL-KADER will behold the popula-
tion of the country take part in his favour, that the
troops of the EMPEROR will not dare to resist, but
will fly before him. ABD•EL-KADER was most im•
prudently left to form new forces, and he employs
them to destroy the EMPEROR, whose power
we pretended to secure by treating it with
caution and consideration. What will our
Government now do ? Will it intervene ?
Will it leave events to take their course ?
There is almost equal danger in both courses. In-
tervention, under present circumstances, offers much
more serious difficulties than it did at the time of
our triumphs. Instead of an enemy in flight with
neither army nor credit, we find a powerful chief,
almost master of u vast empire, and whose popularit3
will increase still more from the day on which we
might enter the territory of Morocco. That entry
would be—we must not conceal the fact—a difficult
and expensive war, the end of which cannot be fore-
seen, and which would be the more onerous from our
finances now being in so sad a state. Let us add,
that in order to intervene efficiently in Morocco, we
should have need of the co-operation of Spain.
Now, could we ask that country in the present
situation of our political relations to open the
port of Melila to our troops and stores ? Has
the Ministry a perfect confidence as to the recep-
tion which such a proposition would receive ? Next,
would England, on her part, willingly see a French
army enter Morocco ? Would she not oppose such a
proceeding, either directly or indirectly ? Would
she not seize that occasion to take vengeance for the
Spanish marriages ? And yet, if no intervention,
take place, what will become of our African pos-
sessions ? If ABD-EL-KADER should once become
master of the whole of Morocco, or of the greatest
part of the empire, will our possessions be henceforth
free from his excursions, and if some trouble should
arise in the relations of European States should we
not have the most dangerous of neighbours for
Algeria ? Our Cabinet has conducted affairs in such
a manner, both abroad and at home, that everything
is for us obstacle and peril. To act or not to act
exposes us to similar embarrassments; and at the
present moment we want money as well as alliances.
After having, during seven years, directed all our
affairs according to the hypothesis of an eternal
friendship with Great Britain, all was suddenly
broken off by proceedings little honourable; and a
policy of hostility and struggle was then commenced
without energy and without cause. Our readers see
the results everywhere."
The National takes the opportunity of protesting
against the appointment of the Due D'AUMALE to the
Governor-Generalship of Algeria, an appointment
which, strange to say, is approved of by the Siacte:—
" Suppose," observes the National, "a General at the
age of the Prince should have the pretension to govern
Algeria, the Ministers would treat him with all the
disdain which ridiculous ambition could excite and
because this young General is called the son of the
King the choice is considered proper! What a pity
that the English never thought of entrusting the go-
vernment of Ireland to the Duke of Sussex, or still
better, to the young Prince of Cambridge. Our
neighbours, however, are sufficiently aristocratic and
liberal to pay a donation to each member of the Royal
Family. But by a perversity of understanding they
take care that the political position of their Princes
shall be null, and nobody has ever thought
of translating that term, as the Siecle has done,
by the word despised. The Government grants
them titles, money, and an honourable posi-
tion, but they are forbidden absolutely to
interfere with the government or with the administra-
tion of affairs. The English evidently understand
nothing with respect to the representative system.
We, on the contrary, possess a Ring who takes a most
active part in the Legislature, who possesses the entire
Executive power, who disposes of an administrative
centralisation of which the net covers the entire ter-
ritory, who exercises an infinite influence by his for-
tune, by the budget, and by the civil list. Well,
even that is not sufficient; his sons must have a
direct and supreme action over the administration of
affairs. And as there remains an entire country to
govern and to organize, one of his children is charged
with that duty But the Siecle finds nothing to say
against such an arrangement, and still it grieves to
find that we have courtier Ministers ! That is truly
acting the part of Brutus too much to the life ! That
journal might, however, be dynastic with a little
more moderation without exciting the displeasure of
its own party l"
In the National of Saturday we find an exceed
ingly well written and admirably argued article on
the affairs of Spain. After expressing his disbelief
of the atrocious calumnies which have been circu-
lated on the subject of Queen ISABELLA. by her un-
natural uncle, and still more unnatural and most
depraved mother, the writer condemns the prohibition
to discuss the Palace question as impolitic. He justly
remarks :

" Unfortunately this precaution comes rather late,
and we doubt whether it can be of service to those
who recommend it. In a free country the eye of
publicity ought to pierce wherever the Government is
to be found. You surrender all that you conceal to
the serpent tongue. You believe that you may rest
tranquil because you have closed the doors of the
press, but slander and calumny have entered, and that
which one has seen is exaggerated, another invents,
and the poison is distilled. The most innocent ap-
pearances are tortured into the most odious realities,
and a love of retirement and solitude is explained by
a necessity for dissimulation. How many are the
secret intrigues which an infernal policy may bring
into play ? The most skilful regard the future pros-
pect as obscure. The Spanish Ministers, in place of
commanding the journals to be silent, ought to have
grappled with the calumny."

The writer having given the new Spanish Mi-
nistry honour due for the publication of " the most
complete amnesty of which any Government has yet
given the example," thus proceeds :
"We have been informed that a decree, to be
shortly published, will establish the national militia,
which had been extinguished by a counter-revolu-
tionary reaction. The first sentiment of a nation en-
lightened by liberty is to arm itself for the defence
of its conquest at home and for the security of its in-
dependence abroad. Thus the infallible sign of an
unpopular Government is the destruction of a civic
guard wherever it exists, and when the Government
dares not disband it disorganizes them. A society
which governs itself directs public affairs by delibe-
rating and elective bodies—affairs of justice through
the jury, and the defence of its rights and its security
through the National Guard. Those are the
three great reforms at present demanded by
Italy. Those were the three great priviliges
which Christina inspired by our system hast-
enedr to dissolve and to enfeeble in Spain.
The contrary movement, which is announced at
present, must restore them. Such is the duty of
every sincere Government; but for the Cabinet of
Madrid it is, moreover, a necessity. Surrounded as
it is by the party which during four years placed all
necessary that it
should seek
consider
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its creatures in high offices, which drilled a portion of
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they can give a sufficient answer to all we have
written by exclaiming, they are about to restore the
Progressistas—that is, the English party---to power.
But that is precisely the irrecoverable condemnation