The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, _LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1847.

compunction in being driven to take this step. His
system has always been to keep down every man of
talent in his dominions, and wherever, by the ful-
filment of his own wary schemes, a Minister happens
incidentally to have acquired personal weight and
celebrity, the KING of the FRENCH invariably de-
signs a pitfall for the ruin of his official victim. May
the fate of M. GUIZOT prove a salutary warning to
the future statesmen of France !

Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived. Their con-
tents are unimportant.

MADRID BOLSA, FEE. 4.—The Thre© per Cents
closed at 32i; the Five per Cents, at 20i; Coupons, 19i•

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The leading articles of almost all of them comment on
the financial state of the country as developed in the de-
bate of the day preceding.
A general feeling of uneasiness prevails in Paris on
the subject of the differences between the French and
English Governments, differences the gravity of which
have been materially aggravated by the gross
and wanton attack which M. Gni LOT thought
it right to make on the Marquis of NOR-
MANDY in the Chamber of Deputies. It was
rumoured in Paris that the Marquis of NORMANDY bad
broken off all communication with M. GUIZOT, and had
sent home to his Go►ernment requesting either to be
recalled or to be furnished with fresh instructions. The
letter of Lord NORMANDY on the subject, and the
answer of Lord PALMERSTON, will be found in another
column. The consequence of these rumours was a de-
cline in the value of public securities of every descrip-
tion. To increase the embarrassments of M. GUIZOT,
the direct contradiction made by the Marquis of MIRA-
FLORES to his statements arrived in Paris on Sunday;
and that has shaken the faith of many who, up to that
moment, believed that implicit reliance might be placed
on any statement made:by M. GUIZOT. Marshal Souvr,
it is said, has tendered his resignation, and M. Du-
CIIATEL will be the new President of the Council. This
change will necessitate the resignation of M. GUIZOT,
who had been promised the Presidency of the Council,
whenever Marshal SOULT should resign, and his place
will be filled up by Count MOLE.
Such is one of the many rumours in the salons of
Paris—rumours which, however they may differ in
other respects, all agree in representing Count MOLE as
the " coming man." It is reported that, on Tuesday,
a Cabinet courier arrived from Brussels, with a dispatch
from the KING of the BELGIANS, expressing his astonish-
ment that the relations between France and Great
Britain should be rendered additionally dificult of
arrangement by a speech from his Majesty's Minister
for Foreign Affairs, not merely because of its containing
passages capable of being deemed contradictory of cer-
tain portions of the dispatches of her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Ambassador in France, but because of the tone
and air of defiance towards England which it displayed
throughout.

The debate on the financial paragraph of the Address
was resumed on Tuesday, on which occasion M.
Gam DIN inveighed with great fury against the free-
traders, and was replied to on Wednesday by M.
BLANQUI, in a most convincing and argumentative
speech. The paragraph was ultimately adopted. In
discussing the paragraph relating to Algiers, the Mar-
quis DE CASTBLLANE demanded explanations as to the
mission of M. ALEXANDRE DUMAS, when the Minister of
War declared that the Veloce steamer had been placed at
the disposal of M. DUMAS by mistake, and the Mioister
of Public Instruction denied that he had sent M. DUMAS
on a mission either to Madrid or to Tunis—it was
to Algiers, and to Algiers alone, that he was sent.

Accounts hare been received from Toulon announc-
ing that a French beet had left that port for Tunis for
the protection of the BEY.

The Prase and the National have, in their ardour
against England, managed to place themselves in a most
ridiculous position. Our readers will recollect their
magniloquent backing up of what they considered the
protest of the Journal de la Haye against the occupation
of Labuan by England, and their indignation against
the Debats and the :Constitutionnel for not perceiving
that the Journal de la Halie was right in protesting
against it as a violation of the treaty of 1824. It ap-
pears, however, that the article of the Journal de h !Jaye
referred exclusively to Borneo, and not to Labuan. TEis
is clearly shown by an article of the Dutch journal of
the 6th, in which it corrects the error of the I'resse and
National, and adds:—" We claim our rights only where
they are well established. We have no claims over
Labuan; the English, .hereforc, are at liberty to take
possession of that island."
There is some good-humoured banter in the Constitu-
tionnel on the subject of the absurd error into which the
Presse and the National have fallen
'The Three per Cents., which fell early in the day to
77f. 20c., recovered in a slight degree, and closed at 77f.35c. ;
the Fire per Cents., 117 f. 75c. ; the Orleans Railroad
Shares, 1,2221. 50c. ' • Rouen, 847 f. 50c.; Havre, 677 f. 50c.;
Great Northern, 6051.; Avignon, 816 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 565 f. ;
liordeamx, 532 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 412 f. 50c.; Basle, 203 f.
75c. ; Dieppe, 310 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 466 f. 25c.; Tours
and Nantes, 467 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50e. ; Lyons
and Avignon, 4831.; Cette, 45.51.; Belgian Two-and-a•lialf
per Cents., 54; ditto, Three per Cents., 343/4.

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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILIVII'S AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEEZIJAIY 11.
Boulogne and Amlens, 14—Dutch Rhenish, .I%—Nainar and
Liege, 2%—Northern of France, 12—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7.