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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENLNG
Will be perfbrmed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MAID
OF Alt rots. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrani ; Jules de
Montagnon, Mr. IV. Harrison ; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet,
Mr. Weiss; Malta, Miss Isaacs; Isollne, Madame Anna Bishop.
To conclude w‘th the second Act of the popular Ballet of LA
OISELLE. The principal characters will be supported by 31d11e.
Louise, les Sceurs St. Louis, Mdmes. Giubelei and Adele ; Mr. W.
11. Payne, MM. Theodore and Adrien.

T 1 I EAT RE ROYAL, H AVM AR
Under the Management of Mr. U. Webster, s. .le Lessee,
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a New Comely, to three net', entitled QUEEN
MARY'S UO%VER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster,
Hudson, Howe, Brindal, Braid ; Miss Fortescue, Mrs. Feymour, ar.c.
During the evening the Band will p.,rforin .• Les Meusquetaires
de la Heine" (Overture) ; " Old English Airs" (Fantasia) ; and
the Musketeers" (Quadrille).

After which, the Comedy of SPItING AN!) AUTUMN; or,
The Bride at Fifty. Sir Simon Slack, nr. W. Farren ; Rattle, Mr.
Doll ; Major Osmond, Mr. Howe ;' Mrs. General Dartmouth, Mrs.
Glover; Mrs. Rattle, Mrs. Clifford; Clara, Mrs. lin kingham.
To be followed by a Seu•side Sketch, called TIIE FORTUNE
UNTE R ; or, A Morning at 31ar,:ste. Capt Lin Mount.:arret, Mr.
Ilud4on ; Griffin, Mr. Tilbury; Bompas, Mr. Buckstone ; 3liss
Griffin, Mrs. W. Clifford.
To conclude with the Farce of MAKE YOUR WILLS. Messrs.
Buckstone, Tilbury, Brindal, Miss TelbM, and Mrs. Stanley will
sustain the principal characters.
Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of
air. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley.
THIS EVENING
The last Week of " The Mag*c Horn."
The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama,
TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by
Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Wuollidge, Mrs. A.
Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a new Farce, called WHICH MISTER SMITH ?
Characters by Messrs. Vining, F. Mathews, Emery, Bollingham,
Butler, Collier, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove. and Miss Turner.
To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic,
Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon,"
entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs.
F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinlech, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Sil.•er,
Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother,
Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Mils Forster, Miss Laidlaw; Miss
Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley.

rtl EATnE ROYAL, ADELPtiI.
UNDER THE DI tECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING
WM be presentel a new doimistic drama, entitled EUGENIA
CLAI[ICILLE ; or, The New Found Home. Frederick Stan.
more, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Rugleigh, Mr. Cullemord ; Toffey, 31r. Paul
Redford ; Mr. Buzzard, Mr. Lambert ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0.
Smith ; Pegg, Mr. Munyard ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews ;
Eugeina Claircille, Madame Celeste.
After which. a new Extraragmza, in two acts, caked THE
JO, KEY CLUB. The principal characters Messrs. Paul ited
ford, Wright, Rethnend Ryan. !hy, Waye, Mitchenson, &c. ;
.511,4 Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Misses Eden Chap lift, Harding,
Flominr, Ttuner, Taylor, &c.
To conclude with the popular Eurielta of TAMING A TARTAR.
Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar ; Messrs. Patti edford, Wright,
Selby, Worrell. &c., will sustain the principal characters.

PRI:WV:4.4'A THEATRE, OXFORD-,4Thk:F.T
Last Week of Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new Comic Drama, In three acts, entitled
LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. Count Theodore, Mr. 1. Vining ; Arthur
de Solberg, Air. C. Mathews; Baron Pumpernickel, Mr. Compton ;
Princess Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Alice, Mrs. Hughes ; Mar-
guer:te, Mho; Emma Stanley.
After which, the New Drama, entitled A CURIOUS CASE.
Twiggleton, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling.
To conclude with Sheridan's Urania of Tin: CEITIC ; or, A
Tragedy Rehearsed. Sir Tretful Plagt iry and Pun, by Mr. Charles
liathews. The other principal characters by Messrs. Monner,
Ryder, Compton, o:cherry, Harris, Wynn, Conrtency; Miss Emma
Stanley, Miss Somers, Miss Homier, Lt c.

DA.VMOF.'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances D avidge.
TIIIS EVENING
Will be performed the Comedy of THE RIVALS. Captain Ab-
solute, Mr. Cooper ; Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. Neville ; Sir Lucius
O'Trigger, Mr. Fredericks ; Acres, Mr. Webb ; Faulkland, Mr. Saville ;
Lydia Languish, Mrs. Charles Gill ; Lucy, Miss Terrey ; Mrs. Ma-
lapr,p, Mrs. Daly; Julia, Mrs. Ternan.
After which the Farce of THE SECRET. Mr. Dupuis, Mr. Fre-
dericks ; Valere, Mr. Pelham ; Thomas, Mr. Webb ; Mrs. Dupuis.
Mrs. Saville; Angelica, Miss Vaughan.
To conclude with Jerrola's Drama of JOHN OVERT, THE
MISER OF SOUTHWARK FE At Y. Principal characters by
Messrs. Saville, H. Webb, Neville, Tynlal, Fred cricks, Lewis,
Pelham ; Miss Terrey, Mrs. Saville, Mrs. Maynard, &c.
Box-office open from eleven till four o'clock.

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Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
FIRST WEEK OF THE WINTER SEASON.
Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, the Prince of Wiles, and Royal Family. By special
desire, Lord Byron's " Mazeppa," for twelve nights only.
THIS EVENING
Will t e performed the Dramatic Spectacle of MAZEI'PA, AND
THE WILD HORSE.
After which, brilliant feats of HORSEMANSHIP. Herr Amodio
Neupert, from Amsterdam, the extraordinary Bottle Equilibrist
and other Novelties.
Mr. BATTY has much pleasure In announcing that he has effecte•l
engagements with several continental artistes :—Messrs. Joseph
Paul Cone, Lorentz Wulff, Itroeline Wulff. Pulaski, with the po-
pular vaulters, 31essrs. Henderson and T. Lee, who will appear in
rapid succession. In active preparation, a new Equestrian Spec-
tacle and Dramatic Manance, of unequalled effect, perfortning with
immense success in Paris.
i,ox-calice open irom eleven till five o'clock.—Doorl ODCTI at six
a id o annence at seven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadibot.

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SECOND EDITION.

I population. This daring attempt to root the influence
of the French Government in the Peninsula, has, in
reality, done little more than brought all the
political parties of the latter country into
a collision of such violence, as renders seine
calamitous demonstration inevitable. A general and
not bloodless pronunc'ar_eida may be calculated upon
with some certainty, and the passion which will be
thereby engendered must tend rather to the diminu-
tion than to the permanent establishment of Gallic
influence. The balance upon which the continued
tranquillity, or the almost interminable disturbance,
of Spain now oscillates, is of infinite delicacy.
Every diligence is expected to bring intelligence to
Madrid of some Carlist insurrection. It is certain
that the expectations of the antagonists to the Cama-
rilla are centering in the person of the Count
DE MONTEXIOLIN. Many are undoubtedly inclined
to turn fur a co-operation to General N4TIVAEZ, but
the consummate duplicity and eminent selfishness of
the ex-Minister renders any steady reliance upon his
assistance impossible. In the second " Young Cava-
lier," the Carlists recognise the representative of an
illustrious house, and a Prince who would be insti-
gated to a resolute campaign by the very magnifi-
cence and vastness of the guerdun for which he has
already proclaimed it as his intention to struggle—
namely, the Spanish diadem. Nothing could. impart such
an extraordinary prestige to the cause of this aspirant as
the recent proceedings of the vassals of BaEssoN ;
nothing could render a coalition of the Carlists with
the Progressistas more probable than the despotic
means by which the Afrancesados have latterly en-
deavoured to compel the community to swallow the
unpalatable and deleterious draught concocted in the
Cabinet of the Tuileries.

Little has the hitherto sagacious Sovereign of
France benefited his position among the European
Powers by his recent attempt to gain the prepon-
derance. What.the delegated authority of Louis XIV.
had proved incapable of accomplishing, the pen and
the standing of diplomacy have surely no higher
power to realise. The obstacles which were
impossible, even before the batons of NAPOLEON'S Mar-
shals, are surely not more calculated to yield before
the thrust of a hymeneal torch. A logical exposi-
tion of this improbability is, however, rendered
wholly needless, now that occurrences are rapidly
attesting the reality. Rhetorical flourishes are
altogether superfluous at a period when the trumpet
of revolt is eagerly listened fur by the populace. Two
gigantic and neighbouring nations are already
estranged from King Louis PHILIPPE by the grasp-
' ing and insidious policy lately adopted by his Govern-
ment. Of one of these nations he is juggling away the
liberties ; the honest and constitutional remonstrances
of the other he is treating as idle garrulity. There
is so much of unnecessary rashness, and so much of
spontaneous recklessness about the Spanish policy of his
Ministry, that we should be tempted to attribute it to
a paroxysm of political insanity; nevertheless we are
persuaded that this appeArance is altogether an affecta-
tion, that the alliance is not merely a " family
affair," as the .13i esse would wish to insinuate, and
that M. GUIZOT, like HAMLET, "knows a hawk from
a hand-saw."

The sentence of the court-martial on private
MATTHEWS(); of the 7th Hussars, has at length been
promulgated. Six months' imprisonment, two of
them in solitary confinement, has been considered a
punishment only adequate for a petulant expresSion,
for words derogatory to the di2nity of a non-com-
missioned officer, and those, too, uttered in a moment
of excitement and irritation, w hen he was smarting
nndcr exasperated feelings, wh©n his simple petition
fur liberty to exchange his term of duty with a
brother private, in order that he might for a few short
hours enjoy the society of his mother and a brother-
in-law, whom he had not seen for nine years, was
contemptuously negatived, and he was told "that
the commanding officer could not grant his request,
neither would he see him ;" and when the complain-
ing sergeant threw himself in the way of the angry
man, unaccompanied by any other soldier of the
guard, thereby himself violating a regimental order,
and depriving the accused of the benefit of testimony
to which he should have been entitled, as if he sought
to entrap the poor young man into some indiscreet or
hasty expression. Taking all these circumstances
into consideration, it does appear to us, civilians, rather
a severe penalty for the offence, although it will, w(
suppose, be considered most lenient by those officers
who on a former occasion condemned the same person
to 100 lashes, every one of which was fully inflicted
without favour or affection, for calling out "IIalloa"
to another of that dignified grade.
Seriously speaking, can it be wondered at that the
people have a strong repu,nance, a decided objection
to enter into a service where such things are tolerated
It is said that our soldiers are of an inferior class, that
they are less respectable in their characters and con-
duct than the non-military part of the population ;
that they can only be acted on, their obedience
enforced, by an extraordinary degree of severity ; and
this is the attempted justification of the present
system. We believe that such an assertion is an
unjust aspersion, a gross calumny against a very large
proportion of our gallant brethren; but, were it even
the truth, is it not manifest that the superior and
better description of men are thereby deterred from
joining the ranks, that it occasions the very mischief
it proposes to remedy ?
It is the just, the humane principle of the British
law, that "it is better that ninety-nine guilty men
should escape than that one innocent man should
suffer." Every protection is given by our social law
to each person within its jurisdiction : the crimes are
fully and clearly defined, the punishments are ex-
plicitly set fjrth, and, above all, no one can be con-
victed of any crime, or subjected to any punishment,
except upon the unanimous verdict of twelve men, his
peers, before whom he has had an opportunity of
urging every mitigating and favourable circumstance
by able advocates, men whose education and pursuits
fully qualify them for the duty. With the soldier
the case is, however, very different. A wide dis-
cretion is left to the tribunal to which he is subjected.
" All disorders and neglects which officers and soldiers
may be guilty of, to the prejudice of good order and
military discipline, though not specified in the fore-
going cases, or in our Articles of War, shall be taken
cognizance of by courts-martial, according to the
nature and degree of the offs nee." So runs the
Article of War, and all that is necessary is to allege
any act whatsoever to be "to the prejudice of good
order and military discipline" to subject the person by
whom it was committed to heavy penalties; although
it was never treated or considered as a crime before,
nor violated any moral or sccial law, still it is for the
court, if they please so to do, to pronounce it an
offence. No person, therefore, can be safe under such
a code. The nature and amount of the punishment
is also entirely within the will of the court, who may
themselves be reprimanded and severely censured if
their finding and sentence does not meet the appro.
tion of the Commander-in-Chief. A bare majority
of the court is sufficient to declare the crime, and to
pronounce the punishment, except indeed in capital
cases, where two-thirds at least of the members must
concur before sentence of death can be passed. The
soldier also is deprived of the benefit of legal assist-
ance : if by a sort of pious fraud a professional man is
admitted, he is called the friend of the accused and is
not recognised as his advocate, or permitted to ad-
dress the court on his behalf. All these are serious dis-
advantages to which no person will lightly expose
himself, unless he attains some great advantage by
so doing; but this unfortunately is not the case, for
the military authorities will rely solely on punish-
ments, and resolutely refuse to give a trial to a
system of rewards, which would probably be far more
efficient for the preservation of discipline, and in
great degree would dispense with the necessity of the
present punishments.

Nothing but imperative necessity can possibly
justify anything so much at variance with, and so re-
pugnant to, the spirit of the British Consti-
tution. Let us for a moment inquire whether
there is any such paramount necessity. We
are at once willing to admit that such a power
may be desirable in a state of war, and perhaps
i i a more modified degree when any regiment is
abroad, and out of the jurisdiction of the ordinary tri-
bunals of the country ; but we distinctly deny that at
home there is any occasion whatsoever for anything be-
yond the common laws administered by the judicial
authorities of the land. Two of the most able writers,
men who have adorned the ermine, and put forward
principles of jurisprudence that wiq ever be hailed I
with respect, have stated their opinions that military 1

liMv should be abolished in time of peace. " Martial
law,." says Sir WILLIAm linAcKsToNE, " which is
built ppon no settled principles, but is certainly arbi-
trary in its decisions, is, as Sir MArrnEw HALE ob-
serves, in truth and reality no law, but something in-
du!ged rather than allowed as law. The necessity of
order and discipline in an army is the only thing
which can give it countenance, and therefore it ought
not to be permitted in time of peace, when the
King's Courts are open for all persons to receive jus-
tice according to the law of the land." In addition to
these high authorities, let us add one of more modern
times--a distinguished soldier, who has devoted his
time to the acquisition of a thorough knowledge of
everything relating to his profession, and who has put
forward the soundest views with singular ability.
Sir CHARLES JAMES NAPIER says—" There ought to
be a military code fur peace and a military code for
war. There is a peace establishment and a war esta-
blishmeLt for most of the branches forming the mili-
tary system, and why not for military law." And
again—" If the objects to be gained by military law
in time of peace are, as I have said, different from
those demanded in time of war, and if they are also
of a gentler nature, and more approximate to those
sought for by social law, and if the soldier's life is in
peace very similar to the life led by a citizen, is it
not natural to abate that rigour of the law which in
war is necessary to attain the more urgent objects of
obedience and sanguinary results ? I think reason
tells us that this is both natural and wise."

We shall for the present rest on the opinion of
those eminent persons. We trust most sincerely
that what we have said is sufficient to direct the
public attention to a thorough investigation of the
subject, and that the force of public opinion, when
once fully awakened, will have the same deference
paid to it by the military authorities, and will be as
productive of a beneficial mitigation of this severity
of the code, as it has recently been in respect to cor-
poral punishment.

The following account of the revolution in Geneva
appears in the Journal des Debuts :
On the evening of the 6th the inhabitants of the
faubourg St. Gervais assembled and raised barricades at
the bridges. In the morning the militia, with the deter-
mination of destro) ing thin], fired about 200 cannon shot,
which accomplished the desired object. After this the
soldiery made attempts at two ditkrent points to enter
and occupy the faubourg, but were recAved with a gall-
ing fire from almost every window. Each of the com-
mandants marched at the head of his regiment, and as
nearly all of them were wounded, the retreat was beat,
and the troops re-crossed the bridges. Still they re
mained in possession of the lower town and the course of
the Rhone, and the insurrection was confined to the fau-
bourg. In the night, however, the insurgents set fire to
the bridges, and the inhabitants of the lower town, find-
ing that their safety was compromised, rose in
their turn. At the same time the Radical auxiliaries
of the canton of Vaud came in great force to the aid of
the insurgents. The militia, thus threatened on all
sides, began to waver, and at length yielded, and the
Council of State gave in its resignation. By the even-
ing the arsenal and the principal public establishments
were in the hands of the insurgents, who formed a Pro •
visional Government. The courage with which the
colonels of the militia were the first to meet danger was
fatal to them. The families of the highest consideration
of Geneva have to deplore losses; among these are
Colonel Chateauvieux, an old officer of the Royal Guard,
and M. Halle. The militia has lost several men killed,
and many wounded. The loss of their oproncnts is not
yet known, but it is b,lieved that it cannot be very
great, as they were well protected by their barricades.
Whilst the tattle was going on between the Governor, nt
troops and the iniurgents, 2,000 men were marching
from the canton of Vaud to the assistance of the latter;
but the aff-tir having ended in the triumph of the in-
surgents, a messenger was dispatched ti stop their
advance."

Madrid papers of the Gth and 7th have arrived.
The Espanol gives the following as the 'substance
of the note presented to M. GUIZOT by Lord Non-
:11A NBY on the subject of the Montpensier marriage:—
"England, after having remarked upon the difference
between her disinterested conduct in the negotiations,
and the recent conduct of France, and the spirit of con-
ciliation and respect w hlch she had shown towards
France in the question, observes that by an indirect
course the marriage of the Duke de Mon tpensier tends
to create fears which the King of the French had ad-
mitted it would not be just to excite, by renouncing all
pretension to the band of the Queen of Spain for one
of his sons. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Eng-
land then insists upon the fact of the exclusion, as re•
girds the throne of Spain, which has been imposed
open the House of Orleans by the renunciation of
Utrecht, and the stipulations of that treaty considered
by it as forming an integral part of the public right of
Europe, and proves in an exp;icit and conclusive mariner
th ,t, confortnt.bly with the stipulations of that treaty,
the children of a P: ince of the House of Orleans cannot
reign in Spain. The note of Lird Palmerston is so ex
plait on this point that it assorts that the treaty leaves
no doubt, and that although in conformity with its chimes
(h..re can be no doubt entertained on the subject, :he
English Government regards it as essential that no
I:reb ri,ion shall he set up which at a later period
might lead to an attempt to elude the guarantees pre-
,ented by this treaty for ti,e repose of Spain, the
balance of power in Europe. England, rel)ing on these
considerations, declares that the descendants of the
House of Orleans cannot, on any pretension, aspire
to the succession in Spain, and states that these consi-
derations compel her to protest against the consequences
•of the marriage, which, on such conditions, would com-
plicate the relations, and injure the interests of the other
powers. In conclusion, England applying to France the
principle which she has invoked relative to Spain, in the
protest addressed to our Government, declares that it is
not a petty interest of rivality which induces her to
wake these representations to the French Gorernment,
and that she considers the power, the grandeur, aid the
pro3rerity of France as one of the most essential ele-
ments of the balance of power in Europe ; but that
France is already so great a nation, and her own re-
sources are so immen.e, that the augmentation which
the would derive from the eventuality of rights acquired
by a French prince to the throne of Spain can only tend
to menace as to the future, and even now the repose and
ecurity of Europe."

Senor ISTURITZ has replied to Mr. BULWER'S pr.).
test, but the nature of his reply has not transpired.
The French Princes entered Madrid on the Gth.
They were received quietly. No demonstration of
any sort was made on their arrival.
MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 6 —The Three per Cents. were
chne at 34% for cash; the Four ver Cents., 21%; the Five
per Cents., at 211/i ; the Pitssives., at ; and the Coupons,

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Presse contains the following official defence
of the conduct of the French Government in regard to
the Montpensier marriage :
" While Sir Robert Peel was in office, France and
England were in perfect harmony on the subject of the
Spanish marriages. Putting aside all personal pnten
sions, France agreed, and even proposed as the best ar-
rangement, that the two Spanish Princesses should be
united to their two cousins, the sons of Don Francisco
de Paulo, in which the British Cabinet agrecd. This
arrangement, however, was rendered impessible by one
of these Spanish Princes breaking suddeely and scanda-
lously with tie Constitutional party. Then Occurred
those conversations at Eu of which so much has been
said, in which the French Minister proposed the arrange-
tnent now carried into effect. Lord Aberdeen replied
that he ShW no objection, especially (surtout) if the
Queen should have an heir to the crown at the time of
the solemnization of the marriage of thelnfanta. This was
the position of things when Sir Robert Peel resigned. On
the accession of Lord Palmerston, the French Cabinet ne-
cessarily put itself on its guard. It soon learned that Lord
Palmerston, corresponding with Mr. Bulwer, was en-
deavouring to substitute a Prince of Coburg as a candi-
date absolutely on the same footing as the sons of Don
Francisco. It was known that Mr. Bulwer had indi-
cated Don Henry as the proper husband of the Queen,
and that England was doing all that she could to bring
to a conclusion a marriage with the Prince of Coburg,
and that already the Spanish Cabinet, being reluctantly
forced to adopt a course, gave ear to the propositions
thus made to it. Under such circumstances, France was
compelled to act, and how could she act otherwise than
she has acted? She gave notice to England that the
latter was departing from the course agreed upon, and
receiving no answer, and knowing that the Coburg in-
trigue was still proceeding, she gave definite notice that
she would hold hi rselt' free to act as might seem most
conducive to her interests, and would marry the Due de
Montpensier either to the Queen or the Infanta. 'This
communication, which dates so far back as last May,
was followed by the proceedings the issue of which is
now manifested. Such are the facts, the exactitude of
which we defy the English Ministerial journals to dis-
prove, or to show that the French Government through-
out this negotiation has exceeded the strictest limits of
good faith. Let English diplomacy, caught in its own
nets, cry out against a result which it might have pre-
vented by observing the neutrality agreed on between
the two Cabinets. Let it try to distort the facts, and
to cast upon France the wrung of its own defeated du-
plicity. Nothing is more natural. Let the French op-
position journals seek satisfaction in the clamours of the
English press, and mingle in foreign declamations
against us. Nothing, to our shame, is more cirnmon
among us. But let any man of good faith and good
sense, having the facts before him, say whether the con-
duct cf England has not justified that of France ; even
admitting, which we do not, that France has need to
consult England in such a matter."

We believe that this is one of those artfully com-
pounded mixtures of truth and falsehood in the con-
coction of which, from long habit, Lours PHILIPPE
surpasses any man living. For instance, it is true,
we believe, that the Spanish marriage was the sub-
ject of conversation at Eu between M. Guizorr,
Lord ABERDEEN, and Louis PHILIPPE, but it is not
true that Lord ABERDEEN said he saw no objection I
t') the Montpensier marriage, especially if the QUEEN

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