The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

vacancy recently ocuurred in the representation of Salis-
bury, and, setting aside all the repre3entatives of local
factions, rejecting all mere -party politicians, they have
declared themselves the advocates of progress in the
best sense of the term, by electing as their representa-
tive one who has proved himself an admirable public
servant—one who, by his energy, perseverance, and in-
dustry, has benefited himself, and, by benefiting himself,
has at the same time benefited his humbler fellow-subjects
by enabling them to earn the wages of honest industry :
who, as chairman of the South-Western Company, has
shown his eapacity for conducting public business: who,
as sheriff of London, has, won golden opinions from all
sorts of men. Animated by the single desire of contri-
buting to the public, they have chosen Mr. Chaplin as
their representative, irrespective of mere party conside-
rations, and we trust that, at the next general election
many constitubncies will return such men as Mr. Chaplin,
" animated by the single desire of contributing to the
public good." Such men are wanted in the House of
Commdns. All honour, therefore, to the constituency
of Salisbury for the admirable choice they have made,
and may all other constituencies following their example,
eschew political adventurers, and elect men of business.
We refer our readers to a fuller report given in another
column.

According to a letter from Berlin, in the Augsburg
Gazette, it has been resolved by the KING in Council to
have an assembly in his capital of the three orders of
nobles, burgesses, and peasants, to which are to be sub-
mitted all questions of taxation and loans. Count
n'ARNIM, the ex-Minister. will,. it is said, be appointed
President of this Chamber.

The German Journal of Frankfort states, from Vienna,
that the Archduke STEPHEN, who by a decree of the
EMPEROR has been appointed as the successor, ad interim,
of the late Palatine of Hungary, will be elected Palatine
by the Diet, most of the Hungarian nobles being favour-
able to his nomination.

A session extraordinary of the Diet of Saxony was
opened at Dresden by commission on the 21st. The
debates were to commence in the Second Chamber on
the following day.
A German journal says—" The Municipal Council of
Stutgard, having signed a petition in favour of the
liberty of the press, the Minister of the Interior of Wur-
temberg has been commanded by the KING to express to
the corporation his displeasure at this proceeding."
A letter from Munich of the 17th says—

" Hp to the present time the Government has permitted a
great number of persons, and particularly editors of news-
papers, to receive exceptionally by post foreign journals dis-
approved of by the censorship. The Minister of the Interior
has now decided that editors alone shall be allowed to receive
such journals, and on the express condition of taking an
oath not to let them leave their office —not to communicate
their contents to more of their colleagues than shall require
them for editing their paper—and to deliver them up within
a delay of twelve hours to the censor, who is to give a re-
ceipt for the same, guarding them under key for the Go-
vernment."

Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived.
The Isturitz candidates for the Vice-Presidency of the
Chamber have been defeated, and Senor SEIJAS LOZANO
and Senor JOSE CONCHA, who belong to the Moderado
Opposition, have been elected.
The Heraldo publishes the following list of those likely
to form part of the new Ministry:—

The Duke de S•tomayor, President of the Council and,
Minister of Foreign Affairs; lli. Arteta, Minister of the In-
terior; M. Bravo Murillo, of Grace and Justice; M. Sotelo,
of Marine; and M. Sierra y Moya, Minister of Finance ad
interim, it being still hoped that M. Mon would consent to
retain that department.
No Cabinet had, however, been formed on the 22d, and
it was considered not improbable that the Duke DE
SOTOMAYOR would be obliged to resign the task he had
undertaken. ,

The corps enlisted by General FLORFS to form part
of the Ecuador expedition was recently disbanded a
Santander.

The Three per Cents. were done at 31% for cash ; the
Five per Cents. at 207. ; the Coupons at 183/1 ; Vales at 8%;
and Passives, 64.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The publication of the additional dispatches on the
subject of the Montpensier marriage, more particularly
of the note of the Marquis of NORMANDY to Lord PAL-
MERSTON, has produced a great sensation in Paris. No
defence of M. GUIZOT has been attempted even by hia
own journals, and the Presse is reduced to the necessity
of protesting against the rancour of Lord PALMERSTON,
which, it says, the fall of M. Gunor,will not calm unless
it is accompanied by the fall of the KING of the FRENCH
also. One effect of the publication of these dispatches has
been to reconcile the differences which had broken out
among the members of the Opposition. The seceders
will now join M. THIERS in a vote condemnatory of the
foreign policy of M. Gunor. With the exception of
M. GIIIZOT'S own journals, which say nothing on the
subject, the papers of all shades and parties are unani-
mous in giving expression to their feelings of shame and
indignation at the disgraceful trickery of M. GuizoT.
After copying the dispatch of the Marquis of NoR•
HANDY to Lord PALMERSTON, dated Sept. 25, the Siècle
says—

" We defy any man of honour, to whatever opinion he
may belong, to read the account given in this dispatch
without the blood rushing into his face. Either Lord Nor-
manby is an impostor, unworthy to represent the Govern-
ment of a great country—and we are not aware that such an
accusation has ever been brought against him—or the con-
duct of NI. Guizot is sovereignly contemptible. We do not
know whether there exist in France men, a system, a party
whom it may suit to be thus represented, but we are con-
vinced that the nation will never acknowledge Ministers who,
instead of nobly upholding its rights and its interests, can
only intrigue, trick, and lie."
The Constitutionnel thus sums up the documentary
evidence which has been published on this question, and
as this article may be taken as the programme of M.
TRIERS' speech in the debate on the Address, it acquires
additional importance:—
"'Although those marriages are regarded in different points
of view, those who do not consider that a more strict union
between the reigning families of France and Spain was pur-
chased too dearly at the price of the suppression of Cracow,
as well as those who consider that the postponement of the
union would have been more advantageous for France, as
well as for the cause of liberty, are unanimous in one re-
spect. Every man feeling for the honour of France
wishes that its Government should not be accused
with justice of having violated every rule of sincerity
and good faith." " France," adds the Constitutionnel,
"is great enough that her Government, when it wishes
to attain an object, has less need than any other to have
recourse to duplicity. Let any man examine the docu-
ments which we place under the eyes of our readers, and let
him judge if the fair reputation of our country has not re-
ceived a most lamentable stain. M. Guizot never ceased to
repeat, both in writing and at the tribune of the f lumber
of Peers, that the Whig Ministry practised in the question of
the marriages a line of policy different from that of the Tory
Ministry. We have already compared the dispatch of the
19th of July, in which Lord Palmerston explained confiden-
tially to Mr. Bulwer the state of the question, with the dis-
patch officially addressed by Lord Aberdeen to the Duke de
Sotomayor to explain, on the 22d of June, 1846, the senti-
ments of the English Government with regard to the mar-
riage. Every man will see the identity of the two policies.
We reprint those two important dispatches, adding to them
a series of dispatches, addressed by Lord Aberdeen to Sir R.
Gordon, to Lord Cowley, and to Mr. Bulwer, the representa-
tives oiGreat Britain, at Vienna, Paris, and Madrid. Those
documents complete the proof of that fact. On the 6th of
July, 1846, the Ministry of which Lord Aberdeen formed
part retired from office. Lord Cowley remained, neverthe-
less, for some time, as British Ambassador at Paris. In a
dispatch, addressed on the 13th of July to Lord Palmerston,
he furnished him with the substance of Sir R. Peel's policy
with respect to the Spanish marriages. On the 19th of July
Lord Palmerston wrote to Mr. Bulwer—it will be seen that
he had Lord Cowley's letter before him, and that he con-
formed himself in all points to the opinions expressed and
to the instructions given by his predecessor. Nevertheless
the Spanish Government again addressed the new British
Ministry, the French Government, and the Prince of Saxe-
Coburg himself, on the plan of an alliance between that
Prince and Queen Isabella. M. Guizot denied in one of his
notes that the Marquis de Miraflores was charged with a mis-
sion on that subject to the French Government. A dispatch
of Lord Cowley, dated 20th July, obliges M. Guizot to ac-
knowledge that at least he was not completely informed.
The Whig Ministry replied by a refusal to the overtures of
the Spanish Government in favour of the Prince of Saxe
Coburg, the Prince having demanded as a condition the as-
sent of the French Government. Lord Palmerston declared
to Count Jarnac on the 24th of July (five days idler the date
of the dispatch so much used by M. Guizot) that the
candidate preferred by him, as well as by Lord Aberdeen,
was Don Enrique. Lord Palmerston wrote on the 3d of
August to Mr. Bulwer that one of the reasons why the
pretensions of the Prince of Saxe-Coburg were not sup-
ported by England was, that the marriage of the Queen
with this Prince would be an object of dissension be-
tween Spain and France. From that moment until the
28th of August the English Cabinet gave at London, at
Madrid, and at Paris, every proof of its desire to enter
into co-operation with France in favour of Don En-
rique. Neither M. Guizot nor M. Bresson were ignorant
of this fact. M. Guizot promised the Marquis of
Normanby, on the 28th of August, on his arrival in Paris,
that he would write to M. Bresson, in that sense. Never-
theless, three days afterwards, namely, on the Ist of Septem-
ber, M. Guizot announced to the Marquis of Normanby that
the two marriages were arranged. He declared that the two
marriages would not take place at the same time, without,
however, engaging to wait until the Queen had children.
We know that the two marriages were solemnized at the
same moment. When the Marquis of Normanby was ap-
priced of this fact, he waited on M. Guizot and
explained
him of his words. Do you know how Guizot in
them ? ' I meant to say,' replied he, ' that
ethfeNorn
Queent Yanpshhoul
be married first'—to which the Marquis
re-
plied that he had given to the wordsce of M. Guizot their
u not imagine that
natural interpretation, and that he could
Guizot wished simply to say, that the Queen should
walk first in the ceremony. These are some of the
facts re-
vealed by those documents."

The National asks—
" Had we not reason to be indignant against a Minister
declaring one thing positively, then denying his word, then
again, when driven to ackowledge them, endeavouring to
explain them by a most untenable quid pro quo? What
can be the opinion formed •f this man by an Ambassador
who detects him in a flagrant imposture ? What opinion
can Europe entertain of a French Minister who can thus deal
in the gravest affairs ?"
After recapitulating the facts of the case the Nalional
thus proceeds:—
There is but one excuse for M. Guizot ; it is tile language I