The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-07 00:00:00

POPE'S chair.

Intelligence to the 30th ult. has been received from
Lisbon. On the 27th a royal decree was published,
announcing various new financial measures. The
fact of the existence of an enormous deficit is stated,
and at the same time it is admitted that the imposi-
tion of new taxes on industry is impracticable. In
order to enable the Government to keep faith with
the national creditor, a sum of 2,209 contos is neces-
sary. In order to raise this, it is proposed to impose
a new decima-tax on all salaries paid to servants of the
State, civil and military, for one year. These salaries
are already subject to a decima-tax, so that with the
new tax they will be subject to an income-tax of
20 per cent. It is likewise proposed to impose an
income-tax of two decimal (20 per cent.) on the
interest paid on the foreign debt, and a tax of an
additional decima on the interest of the internal debt,
which will be equivalent to a deduction of 20 per
cent. on the interest of the whole of the national
debt. There is also to be some slight reduction made
in the civil list. The general effect of these measures
will be to reduce the geileral expenditure of the
country 20 per cent., by deducting that amount from
all payments made by the Treasury. The wool, the
vinho verdi, and the new salt-tax are abolished.
They pressed heavily on the people, and scarcely paid
the expenses of collection. A further delay of forty
days has been granted to the Bank and Confiancee
Company for the resumption of cash payments.
Count DAS ANTAS has been appointed Commander-
in-Chief of all the troops in the northern provinces,
and has quelled a Miguellite disturbance at Braga.
He has been replaced in the command of the garrison
of Lisbon by the Count of BOMFIM.

We have received Madrid papers of the 20th ult.
The proposed marriage of the QUEEN with Don
FRANCISCO D'Assis seems to have given universal
satisfaction. Not so, however, the proposed marriage
of the Infanta LUISA with the Due DE MONTPENSIER.
In the Clamor Public° we find a formal protest made
by the Progressista party against this second marriage.
The protest congratulates the country on the mar-
riage of the QUEEN with Don FRANCISCO, and de-
clares that the party will support a marriage between
the INFANTA and Don HENRY, but that they
will oppose any alliance with a Prince
of the house of Orleans. The Espanol
has discovered a legal and constitutional obstacle to
the proposed marriage between the Duc DE MONT-
PENSIEIL and the Infanta LUISA—an obstacle which
it will be very hard to overcome, taken advanta.ge of,
as it will be, by the Progressistas, the Carlists, and the
Constitutional Moderadoes, for all these parties
being equally interested in opposing a marriage with
the Due DE MONTPENSIER, which cannot but be
offensive to the pride of the old Castilian Ilidalgoes,
seeing the manner in which it has been brought
about, will no doubt unite in urging this constitu-
tional objection. The following is the article. It is
headed " Constitutional Obstacle to the Marriage be-
tween the Presumptive Heiress to the Throne and a
son of the King of the French" :
" We maintain that after reading the international
treaty, to which we shall just now refer, nobody can
doubt that the descendants of the house of Orleans are
by the law of the kingdom for ever excluded, without
limitation or exception of persons, from all right to the
succession of the throne of Spain. The stipulations of
this treaty, which are in full vigour, would alone be suffi-
cient for the Cortes, on the one hand, and the foreign
Cabinets on the other, to oppose the marriage of a
Prince of Orleans with the heiress to the Throne of
Spain. In reality, the exclusion exists not only in the
words of the treaty, but, still more, in its spirit. Philip
the Fifth, in establishing the alic law, renounced
his rights to the throne of France ; and on their side,
the Duke de Berry, and the other grandsons of Louis
the Fourteenth, gave up any rights they might have
to the succession of Philip the Fifth. In the archives
of the department of Foreign Affairs the original of the
treaty, concluded at Utrecht, July 13, 1713, may be
found. The Ministers and M. Bresson may see in the
documents attached to it one marked No. 5, which runs
thus: (Here follows the Act of Renunciation of Philip
of Orleans to the succession of the throne or Spain,
passed on Nov. 10, 1712, before MM. Lemoine and La-
fevre, notaries of Paris). After the Princes mentioned
above had renounced, the family of Orleans remained ;
and although not succeeding directly to the throne of
France, it could, in virtue of the Salic law, be called at
some time or other to the throne of Spain. Tb.st was
exactly what Spain and Europe wanted to prevent, and
it was therefore they who demanded a formal a'enunci
ation."

The Espanol dwells for some time on the text of
the treaty, and the accompanying documents, to prove
that no Prince of the House of Orleans can. succeed
to the Spanish throne, and then refers to clause 3 of
Art. 47 of the Reformed Constitution of 1845, which
contains the following paragraph :—"Neit her the
Sovereign nor the immediate successor of th e throne
ca.o contract marriage with any person excluded by
law from succeeding to the throne." "Na w," con-
tinues the Espanol, "since the descendant s of the
House of Orleans are so excluded by into 'national
treatio, which are not only the laws of the k ingdom,
but Still more explanations of the public Eu ropean
law, the Cortes cannot authorise the marriage .of the
INFANTA
with the Duke of AIONTPENSIER without
violating the co."st4ution of the State."
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