The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

troops, in consequence of which the Austrian Gene- '
ral-in-Chief, Count RADETSKI, accompanied by the
Count DE TAXIS, had repaired to Ferrara,
where they had a long interview with
Cardinal UGOLINI. The Cardinal is one of
the opponents of the measures of reform pro-
pounded by the present Pork. Endeavours are
making in every direction by the supporters of the
old regime to excite discontent against Pius IX. At
Modena, the centre and focus of Italian Jesuitism, a
clergyman preached, a few days ago,-a sermon "on
the great dangers that menace the
.Holy See." The
Jesuits and the Paradisians, a sect composed of the '
ultra-Retrogrades, refuse: to give Pius IX. the title
of Pope; they merely call him Count MASTAI. The
Pontifical Government, in the meantime, goes on with
its work of reform. It has nearly restored all the
officers of the police department, and recommended
the censors of the press to be less rigorous. It is
said that a promotion of Cardinals will shortly
take place, and amongst those about to be elevated to
that high dignity are Messrs. Boromn, BALUFFI, and
GEASSELINI, who are distinguished for their modera-
tion and enlightened minds.
The proposal for a reform in the convents has met
with a strenuous opposition from the College of Car-
dinals. The Pork, however, seems determined to
persevere in his plans. A great outcry was raised
against the Pork, because he permitted women to
attend his audiences at the Vatican, and on that point
he was obliged to give way, and return to the old
order of things. It is reported in Rome that MA-
RINI, the Governor of the city, will be shortly dis-
missed, on account of his continued opposition to the
reforms proposed by the POPE.

The intelligence from Lisbon, of the 20th, states
that the Miguelite Guerillas have entirely disappeared
from the northern provinces, and that MACDONNELL
who commanded them, is a fugitive, skulking about
the province of Minho, in quest of a place of conceal-
ment. It is expected that the elections, which take
place on the 11th October, will eventuate in a
complete change of system. The Cabralistic faction
will take no part in the contest, and the Miguelites
and Septembrists have coalesced for the support of
candidates who will pledge themselves to bring down
the expenditure of the state to a level with its re-
venue. The Marquis of SALDANHA has tendered
his resignation as Councillor of State, which the
QUEEN has refused to accept. It is strongly sus-
pected that some intrigue is on foot in the
Camarilla to upset the present Ministry and
appoint the Marquis of SALDANHA Minister,
as a warming-pan for the Cabrals. The
Marquis of SALDANHA is far too honourable a
man to lend himself knowingly to any such purpose,
nevertheless he may be made a tool of by an un-
principled Camarilla, without for one moment sus-
pecting the real state of the case. The officers of the
Albion have returned from the Spanish frontier.
Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived.

On the 21st Mr. BULWER had an interview with
the QUEEN to congratulate her MAJESTY on her ap-
proaching marriage with Don Faericisco D'Assis.
The Infanta Luisa was not present on the occasion.
In allusion to the assertion of M. ISTURITZ, that
England had intended presenting as a candidate for
the QUEEN'S hand another than Don FRANCISCO
D'ASSIS, the Espanol says :
" The words pronounced by M. Isturitz, in the sitting
of the 19th, that the Minister of Foreign Affairs in
England had the intention of presenting us the only
candidate for the band of the Queen, another Prince
than Don Francisco d'Assis, have been interpreted by
many persons that England is opposed not only to
the marriage of the Infanta, but also to that of the
Queen. It is thought that M. Isturitz alluded to a Prince
of the house of Coburg, when he spoke of another
Prince. In a question of such high importance, it
becomes necessary to a country and to history to clear
up facts, and to dissipate all errors and all doubts.
Every one knows that the idea of marrying the Queen
to a Prince of Coburg did not emanate from the English
Cabinet; on the contrary, both the Peel and the present
Ministry would not listen to that proposition when made
to them by the Spanish Minister in London, and even
through the mediation of a Sovereign allied to the reign-
ing families of France and Belgium. Never would the
English Cabinet consent to make a Coburg a candidate
for the band of the Queen. Who, then, can be the
illustrious Prince alluded to by the English Cabinet?"

The following article, from the Clamor Publico,
sets forth in calm and reasonable language the ob
jections which not only Spanish Progressistas, but
Liberals of all countries, feel to the marriage of the
Due DE MOISTPENSISE

" We have at heart to render justice to every one,
and we cannot refrain from applauding the noble and
disinterested conduct of. the French Opposition press
with regard to the question of the marriage of the Duke
de Montpensier to the Infanta. These journals compre-
hend our well-founded repugnance to this union, and ap-
preciate the sentiments by which we are guided; it is not
against the French people—a generous people, who have
always made such enormous sacrifices for the cause of
liberty—that our language is directed. That people
knows too well the value of national independence to
pretend to arrogate in the affairs of Spain an influence
and a right of intervention humiliating for us; what we
energetically combat, and what fills us with indignation, is
the absurd pretensions of the Government of Louis Phi-
lippe—a Government, which, in our opinion, is far from
representing the sentiments of France on any of the
great questions connected with Spain. It is impossible
for the French Opposition to approve of an alliance,
having for its only object the development of a family
policy which possesses nothing of a national or patriotic
character. The union of the Infanta with the son of
Louis Philippe will n t contribute to improve the con-
dition of the French people, to enlarge the sphere of its
rights, to guarantee the integrity of their institutions,
nor to render to the representative system its purity, its
truth, and its prestige ; on the contrary, it will only
contribute to perpetuate the disastrous monopoly now
exercise d by the Government of Louis Philippe, and
which causes to weigh more and more heavily on
France the yoke of a policy which only aspires to sati- fy
dynastic or family interest at the expense of the inde-
pendence of other less powerful states, and of the dig-
nity of France herself. The Government of Louis
Philippe, as it is now constituted, is a power which
exists out of the nation, which only labours for itself,
and which in all the great questions which arise in Eu-
rope consults much more its own interests than those of
the country. The Chambers, the press, the elections,
and the Government, every day lose some part of the
elevated character which belongs to them, in order to
bend to the private views of the Ministers of Louis
Philippe. In order to penetrate to the root of the kind of
instinct which makes us oppose the Montpensier union,
the Opposition should cast a retrospective glance at the
history of the three past years; it should reflect on the at
tempts made by the dominant party in the name of French
ideas, and under the patronage of the Court of the
Tuileries. We appeal to the good faith of the French
Opposition whether the Liberal party in Spain could re-
ceive with pleasure a Prince of the house of Orleans
from the hands of men who have incurred public ani-
madversion by their abuse of authority, their violence,
and by their reactionary measures. When we see fall
under the sabre of a soldier the liberty of the press—the
rights and guarantees of the country—the reforms which
we have just acquired,—when we see men arrested and
banished by ordonnances—when the captains-general
punish- citizens and even condemn them to death on
mere suspicion, the Spanish people saw in all these
infamies the hand of the Government of Louis Philippe,
to the immediate influence of whom are submitted the
men whom M. Guizot himself has not hesitated to de-
signate before all the world under the name of the French
party. However jealous we may be of our independence
as Spaniards, the French Prince would have been well
received in our country if he had not represented a prin-
ciple of foreign domination which we cannot admit, if
he had not been for us the symbol of the continuation
of that regime of Vandalism which has cost us so much
blood and so many victims since the memorable pronun
ciamiento of 1843."

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We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Epoque is exceedingly irate with all who ven-
ture to assert that the Marquis of NORMANDY had
presented an energetic note to M. GUIZOT, protest-
ing against the Montpensier marriage.
" We do not know," says L'Epoque, " who could
have abused the credulity of Galignanis Messenger,
by inducing it to believe that the Marquis of Non-
MINDY had presented an energetic note to M. GulzoT.
We have been assured that Lord PALMERSTON has
perfectly dissembled, as a well-bred gentleman should,
his ill-humour at the marriage of the Duke DE
MONTPENSIER. His Lordship is, moreover, too able
a statesman to protest energetically without a firm
resolution not to confine himself to mere words.
Weak Governments protest; but powerful ones act."
Honest Governments, however powerful they may
be, protest before they act. Honest Governments
scrupulously observe treaties, and honest Ministers
when they have pledged their words to observe a cer-
tain line of conduct invariably keep that pledge.
L'Epoque, and those from whose inspirations it
speaks, may perhaps be tolerable. authorities as to
what is done by weak Governments; or by powerful
Governments, for they have formed portions of each in
their time; but we must demur tolheir authority when
the point in dispute is the cours6 to be pursued by
an honest Government, seeing that neither theoreti-
cally or practically have they ever bad 'the slightest