The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

the most orderly manner, and the canton was per-
fectly tranquil. The party in the ascendant do not
appear disposed to abuse their victory. The Revue de
Geneve, which is conducted by M. JAMES FAZY, the
chief of the revolutionists, contains an article strongly
condemnatory of a proposition which had been made
in an anonymous paper circulated through the city
for the formation of an exceptional tribunal for the
trial of those members of the ex-Government who
had ordered the troops to fire on the people.

Madrid papers of the 9th have arrived. The He-
rald() says—
" Two days ago it was reported that the British Go-
vernment had sent in another energetic note against the
consequences of the marriage of the Infanta; but yester-
day we were assured on the contrary that Queen Vic.•
toria had written a very satisfactory letter to Louis
Philippe, in reply to one which she had received from
him. The rise of the funds here yesterday is attributed
to this announcement."

The same journal, in allusion to the man who had
been arrested on a charge of attempting to shoot the
Duc DE MONTPENSIER, says there are various rumours
as to who he is, but it is disposed to attach credit to a
report that he is the brother of one of the tutors of
the daughters of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, and that
he is insane, and will probably be confined in one of
the lunatic asylums.

Mr. BULWER returned to Madrid on the evening
of the Bth, and on the same day Mr. COBDEN arrived
in that city.

MADRID BOLSA, Om 9.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 354 for cash ; the Four per Cents., 211/2 ; the Five
per Cents., at 22; the Debt without Interest, at 6%; and
the Coupons, at 20%.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Madrid correspondent of the Constitutionnel
gives the following account of the reception of the
French Princes in the Spanish capital :
" The space traversed by the Princes from the Bilboa
gate to the Palace is much about the same as that from
the Hotel de Ville at Paris to the Place du Carrousel
All the balconies and windows along their passage,
which was through the streets called Fuencaral, Mon-
tera, Puerta del Sol, Calle Mayor, Platerias, and the
Arch of the Palace, were filled with people, and yet
neither the spectators at the windows nor the crowds
in the streets made any response to the gracious sa-
lutations which the Princes incessantly directed on every
side. Not a single cry of approbation or disapproba-
tion was uttered by the populace during the whole way.
At the Calle de la Montera, in which there are many
shops kept by Frenchmen, a few women at the windows
waved their handkerchiefs, but they found themselves so
completely alone in their testimonies, that they very soon
ceased giving them. On arriving in St. Mars's-square,
ut the end of the Platerias, the houses in which are in-
habited by the French and Neapolitan embassies, the
representative of the house of Rothschild, and by the
officers of the Palace, their Royal Highnesses were
generally saluted, but even at this point there were no
acclamations. As the procession passed the Puerta del
Sol a man, standing close to a group of Police• officers,
cried Long live the Duke de Montpensier,' but this only
provoked a counter-cry of Spain for ever.' rhis
is
the only incident worthy of remark that occurred in the
entry of the Princes. Their reception in the capital
may therefore be said to have been circumspect and cold,
but not hostile."
The Constitutionnel remarks with much severity
upon the conduct pursued by the Spanish Govern-
ment to the Opposition press. What that conduct is
may be judged of from the following account which
appears in the same paper :
"Nothing gives so just an idea of the spirit with
which the Government is animated, as the fact that
yesterday four journals, the Espanol, the Eco del Comer.
do, the Clamor Pub lico, and Espectador were seized on
no other ground than that, in their accounts of the entry
of the Princes, they stated that it was not attended with
any enthusiasm, and that the entire ceremony bore an
official character. I cannot call your attention too
strongly to the condition to which the Government has
reduced the press. After having by four successive de-
crees changed, and by means of simple royal ordon-
nances, rendered more rigid the severe laws by
which the press was governed—a law which, in
fact, was a copy of your law of September ; after
having abolished the trial by jury, and subjected
the press to a special tribunal, composed of judges
removable at pleasure, the Government has intro-
duced the previous censorship by a process worthy in all
its points, of the maxims of Escobar. The last law on
the press prescribes that the first copy printed of every
work shall be laid before the Prefecture before it is sent
into circulation. Now, this is what the Ministry gains
by this simple provision—it is enjoined that directors of
journals shall suffer three hours to elapse between the
delivery of the first copy at the Prefecture and the send-
ing out of the impression. During these three hours a
censor named by the Prefect examines the journal, and
marks those whose publication is to be interdicted. Then
a police-officer presents himself at the office of the jour-
nal, and seizes the whole impression. It might be be-
lieved that satisfied with thus preventing the appear-
ance of such journals as are displeasing to it, and, having
thus insured the practical exercise of the previous cen-
sorship, the Ministry would rest content; but despotism
is contagious, and Governments accustomed to it, carry
their tyranny to the bounds of absurdity. After having
subjected the journals of Madrid to the censorship.
they have imposed upon them the same penal
ties and fines for their censured articles as
they would have been liable to had these
articles been published. The Eco del Comercio
and Espectador have each been just condemned
twice to pay fines amounting to 25,000 f., and this, not
for having published, but for having had the intention of
publishing articles denounced by the Public Minister,
and adjudged by men in the pay of the Government.
Such is the liberty of the press in Spain, such is the
constitutional system of our Ministers, and to which
France is about to lend the support of her strong arm.
You are now able to appreciate the accounts given by
the Herald°, and the two journals in the pay of the Go-
vernment—the Impartial and Popular—and in which it
is gravely stated that the greatest enthusiasm and
deepest sympathy attended the reception of your Princes
by our people. Nothing more effectual could be done
if it were desired to render the sojourn of the sons of
the King of the French at Madrid unpopular, and cer-
tainly their personal affability, and the private qualities
fur which they are so distinguished, would have over-
come the repugnance excited by the policy of the French
Cabinet, if the rigorous exaction of the penklties, and
the other coercions with which the Government burdens
and fetters the press, did not destroy every favourable
impression."
The organs of the Ministerial party are chuckling
vastly at the idea of the approaching ruin of England,
who, according to the Journal des Ddbats, is on the
point of losing her Indian Empire, and is disabled
from moving by the Irish famine. Thin from the
friends, supporters, and originators of the entente
cordiale is very amusing. The Sie)cle, the organ of
the O'Dillon Barrot party, has an an admirably-
written article on this same entente cordiale, for which
it would, in common with ourselves, wish to see sub-
stituted a durable alliance between the two nations
on honourable terms. We give this important article
in extenso

"If we unreservedy blame the faults committed by a
Government whose decisions appear to be all dictated by
egotism—if we reproach it for the honour even of our
country for those acts of duplicity of which Europe at
this moment calls on it to render an account, and of
which we regret it has not been yet able to justify itself,
we are not the less decided on supporting the right and
the cause of France. And let it not be believed that we
aro deceived, like our pretended Conservatives, as to the
state of affairs which the proceedings of our diplomatic
agents, if they are such as they are reported to be, has
created for our country. It is a gross illusion to per-
suade oneself, like the Fresse, that Lord Palmerston, in
case he should think it necessary to demand reparation
for what his journals call an act of trickery, would find
himself isolated even in England, and particularly in
Europe. It is in vain to bring forward against him,
without proof, the opinions of Lord Aberdeen and of
Sir Robert Peel ; it is in vain to say that he has ac-
quired for himself the reputation of a mischief-
maker and of a revolutionist with the European Ca-
binets, and; that if he were mad enough to carry this
affair of the marriage any further, it is well known what
would be the result of it—all this is boasting and
puerility. The Danes held a nearly similar language
in 1840, and it is nevertheless known what took place.
Lord Palmerston' approved of or not by his colleagues,
was supported by them to the end of his policy.
Austria, who at first on the Egyptian question appeared
disposed to accept the arrangement proposed by France,
suddenly changed her opinion, and united herself to the
coalition already formed of the other powers, and the
Court of the Tuileries, which thought itself so sure of
overthrowing Lord Palmerston, was compelled to beat
a retreat, and bend before him. Then, nevertheless, no
hesitation was felt in denouncing Lord Palmerston as a
dsngcrous agitator, as an incendiary Minister ; then
also, or a little before, there were pointed out with
great outcry those appeals to revolt of subjects against
their Governments, which proceeded, it was said, from
the Cabinet of London. But, when it was necessary
to act, the absolute monarchs did not hesitate to
range themselves on the side of the old. British aris-
tocracy against the French nation, which never ceased
in their eyes, whatever language its Government might
use, to represent revolution. We will say, moreover,
if the attacks of our Conservatives against Lord Pal-
merston were all merited ; if it were true that, instead
of confining himself to keeping up some miserable
agitations, sometimes in Spain, and at another
time on some other point, for an interest exclusively
English, he was really, as the Presse says, the natural
supporter of revolution in the world ; if that were true,
we should regard such attacks as a title of honour for the
representative of the Whig Cabinet, and we should re-
gret still more that instead of embroiling itself with that
Cabinet for a purely dynastic interest, Government had
not endeavoured to found with it the durable alliance of
the two nations in some grand enterprise useful to the
liberty of the people. It is in fact solely on the condition
of protecting the weak, acting in defence of right, and
promoting the development of liberty in the world,
that England and France can honourably unite to-
gether ; and we may add, that if this union be pos-
sible, it is with the Whigs rather than with t 49