The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-02 00:00:00

Con with Great Britain, they have determined to
observe jealously the future conduct of the French
Government in the Peninsu!a.

NARVAEZ is restored to favour, and has quite inden-
tified himself with the Afrancesado party.
The Government were still endeavouring, by every
species of intimidation, to prevent persons from sign-
ing the petitions against the Montpensier marriage.
The English squadron, under the command of
Admiral Sir W. PARKER, was cruising on the 20th
off Cape Trafalgar.

MADRID BoLSA, SEPT. 25.—Despite the tranquillity
as yet prevailing, so many rumours of an unpleasant na-
ture (several of them, however, very contradictory) were
afloat, that the funds were looking downwards. Three
per Cents., 351 money ; Five per Cents., 22-1 money ;
Debt without interest, 6,i ; Coupons, 20i. Exchange—
London, 361 money.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Montpensier marriage is still the all-absorbing
subject of comment. It is evident that the opponents
of the match have by far the best of the argument,
and one proof of this is to be found in the anger, ill-
humour, and acerbity manifested by the Presse, the
Epoque, and the Journal des Debats, the only three
journals which support the marriage.
The latter paper speculates on the embarrassments
which may be occasioned to the English Government
by the famine in Ireland. In reply to the reiterated
assertions of the Ministerial journals, that the mar-
riage is popular in Spain, the National says :
" That nothing can be more unpopular in Spain than
the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier. That ques-
tion has roused all parties, and it meets with a strenuous
and warm opposition even amongst the most considerable
fraction of the Conservatives. The Tiempo and Espanol,
organs of that faction, wage as fierce a war against
it as the Progressista journals. If the Government
had been assured of the public assent, what need
had they of increasing their violence against the
press, of seizing five
.journals in one day, of
arresting one five times in a week, of sending police
agents to suppress an article at the moment of printing
it, of menacing citizens guilty of signing a petition, and
of patrolling the streets of Madrid with strong detach-
ments of infantry and cavalry ? And all that proves
that :Spain anxiously and joyously accepts your mar-
riage ! You must suppose your readers to possess an
extraordinary portion of credulity to dare to affirm it.
Revolt has not yet taken arms,' writes our correspond-
ent, • but it is to be found in every heart. I know not
at what hour it will burst forth, but I am certain that
every moment advances the hand which points to the
hour. Christina has played a terrible game, but she
shall lose it.' "
The Siecle is not so opposed to the Montpensier
marriage as some of the other Opposition papers are,
and strenuously urges the French Government not to
permit the INTANTA to renounce her right of succes-
sion to the throne. Yet, even the Slick, although
urging the Government to persist in the marriage,
now that it has been entered upon, thus foretels the
consequences of the policy of M. GUIZOT, and the
intrigues of M. BaEssoN. It asks—" Is our Govern-
ment prepared to meet all the contingencies likely to
accrue from the open or concealed resentment of Great
Britain ? Have they their eyes fixed on every snare that
she will lay for it in the Peninsula ? Do they sup-
pose that, the day after the family alliance about to be
concluded, the policy of France toward the Spaniards
will become easier ? Will they continue to aecept
in their eyes the responsibility of acts of violence-and
reaction, such as have of late disgraced the Govern-
ment of Madrid ? Will they involve the name and
the future prospects of the young Duke DR Moser.;
PENSIER, who is personally animated with widely
different dispositions, in the embarrassments of a
forced situation? Do they wish that the Prince, and
the dynasty, and France herself, should be irrevocably
engaged in thatdeplorable solidarity, of which the hatred
of all Spain will be some day the unavoidable result,
and the just expiation ? What a strange contrast in the
conduct of two rival Powers I Whilst aristocratic
England, faithful to the policy she has already
marked out for herself, supporting liberal and pro-
gressive ideas, fomenting discontent, caressing na-
tional prejudices, artfully flattering that Spanish
pride of which the susceptibilities are so warm, will
command all the passions of Spain, we shall scarcely
be able to command family and Court influences
Instead of availing ourselves of the double revolution
effected on both sides of the PyrenCes to replace the
family compact by national sympathies, we have,
adopted the contrary course, and the result will be
that an alliance which would have drawn closer the
natural ties between two nations will perhaps serve
to render them irreconcilable enemies, and will create
dangers where we should have found support and
security !"
The Constitutionnel thus alludes to the breach of
the verbal convention of Eu by M. GUIZOT
" The Journal des Debats reposed yesterday after the
effort which it made the day before. Once that the
words of the oracle have been pronounced the sybil has
become mute. After that, complain that the reply
made to the public is remarkable neither for clearness
nor even for sin verity, you will get nothing for your
pains. It is in -vain that you knock at the door of the
sanctuary—the occupant of the tripod will speak no
more. The rumours circulated a week back by foreign
journals, and alr eficly forgotten, are willingly recurred
to, but not a wcird is said about that which occupies
most deeply the. :French public. You will be told
of the file of e quipages, and the slightest details of
an itinerary alreaely so frequently traced out; but to ex-
plain why so public a departgre has not been officially
notified to the representatives of the various powers—
that will be carefnll:f avoided. If the Debats supposed
that it was satisfying the public it much deceived itself.
In its wish to systematically extenuate what it would
have done far better to expose frankly, it has let avowals
escape complete enon gh to cause attention to be directed
to what it concea. led, much more than to what
it permitted to be seen. Besides, the truth has
forced its way out on all sides. Every one is aware, in
spite of the reserve of the Debats, that Lord Nor •
manby's note was, fa unded, above all, on the convention
concluded at Eu- -a convention, the violation of which
IS the principal cc anplaint of England, and on which ex-
planations must 1
.given, for the whole truth will be
spoken in the En; dish Parliament. Every one also
knows that the w arc l" protest" is written in the note,
although the Debat's asserted to the contrary three days
back. Every one -tolows that Lord Normanby declares
himself authorised ito make the most energetic remon-
strance. It would, no doubt, be a great piece of curiosity
to ask what reply r 'has been made to Lord Normanby's
ever,o is what the public is most in-
terested in lteaartnihng":-li.NVe supposed that the departure of
the Duke de Montp er nsier has not been the only reply made
to the energetic re .1 ionstrances of the English Govern-
ment What is the' character of this reply? What is
the capital pcint, its very hinge of the whole question,
as on that reply d ep ends the turn which our relations
with England will tal ce. The Debuts affirms that these
relations will pres are e the character which they have
hitherto had. Tha,t is not what the tone of Lord Nor-
nianby's note leads .at to to suppose. It is from the reply
of our Government ; that the Debuts draws this favour-
able augury ? To a flow something to be seen would
have been the moseca rtain means of calming the public.
Meanwhile the Debut s, yesterday, copied an article from
the Standard, exceeat ugly insulting to the Whig Ministry
in general, and to L c .rd Palmerston in particular. Are
we to perceive in thi; s amiable attention of the principal
and demi-official org an of our Cabinet a first step to-
wards the good acco3 al and good intelligence of the two
Governments ?"
A telegraphic Ai 'ispatch from Angouleme an-
nounced the arrival there of the Dukes DE MONT..
PENSIER and D'Aum4 ILE, on Tuesday, at three o'clock
in the morning. TI aey were expected to arrive at
Bordeaux at four ti 'at afternoon, and were to start
for Bayonne on Wei inesday morning.
The Marquis D) Q VALDESPINA, Generals GOMEZ
and VILLAREAL, .%u d M. DE VARGA, who were resi-
dent at Bordeaux, 'wave been transferred to the chateau
of Blaye.
The Major-G e neral of the Navy reviewed at
Brest, on the :25th, the troops destined for
Oceania. These ;troops consist of 1,300 Marines,
200 soldiers of
and 50 Sappers md Miners. 50 Gendarmes wi
Artil I e ry, 50 Artillery operatives,
shortly be embarl 'ca I for the same destination.

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The Constitutio) to el says :
"It is stated that. the Dugueslin, a third-class ship of
the line, now on the; stocks at Rochefort, is about shortly
:o be launched. Sisk Aug. 4,1840, when the Friedland
,00k the water at C herbourg, not a single man-of-war
has issued from oI five great building ports, At Cher-
bourg three ships 0 P the line, the Austerlitz, the Tilsit,
and the Henri IV., have been in a course of construction
for several years, ! and there is not the slightest talk of
their completion. A large steamer, the Sane, the keel
of which was lai it down immediately after the launch of
the Friedland, is left to rot in its place."
The Prince D E JOINVILLE'S squadron in the Gulf
of Spezzia has been reinforced by the steamers
Casta, Asmodee, and Descartes, which sailed from
Toulon on the 27 t h ult. They are to be followed by
the Alger ship-o. F—the-line. It is said the squadron
has been ordered bat to Toulon.
The Three per (en ts. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 82f. 2; ,c„ ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. ;
the Orleans Railroad Sh ares, 1,273 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 961 f. 25e.;
Havre, 725 f. ; Great Northern, 731 f. 25c.; Avignon,
935 f.; Vierzon, 627 f. 5( fc.; Bordeaux, 566 f. 25c.; Boulogne,
482 f. 50c.; Troyes and blontereau, 370 f.; Basle, 231 f. 25c.;
Paris and Strasburg, 1 ;03f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 508 f.
75c. ; Paris and Lyon 8,531 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon,
492 f. 505.; Bordeaux and Cette, 482 f. 50c.; Belgian Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., s6k; Spanish Three per Cents.,
37% Ditto Domestic) Oebt, 33%.