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

No. 16,860. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING SII N, OCTOBER 2, 1846.

EASE II WALKING,
WILLIAM BADDELEY, of 130, STRAND,
is induced to give publicity to his much-admired PRE:
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always ready on sale. Established in 1767.
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IAE LA RUE and Co.'s POCKET CHESS
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PACKETS.
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Passage. _ _
N.B.—No other Packets call at the GRAY'S or GREENHITHE
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FROM THE NEW TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND,

WEEK DAYS.—At 7, 71, 6M, 934, I*4, 1,2, 3, 4,5, 6, 61,2,
and 7.

SUNDAYS.—At 71, 835, 11, 12, 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 635, 7, ar.d
7%.

FROM THE BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL.

The Trains starting One Quarter of an flour before each of

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WEEK DAYS.—At 9, 934, 103¢, 11, 1134, 12, 134, 234, 334,
4N, 5,6, and 7.

SUNDAYS.—At 8%, 9,9%, 10%, 11, 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5,
0, mid 7.

Fares.—To or from London—Fore cabin, and Second Class Rail-
way, 9d. ; Saloon any First Class Railway, Is.
To or Prom Elackwall and intermediate Piers—Fore Cabin, 6d. ;
Saloon, 9d.

Tickets.—Fo Twelve months, 4/. 4s. ; Six months, V. 15s. ; Threi
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Star Office, Sept. 23, 1846.

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LEICESTER, TAMWORTH, COVENTRY,
BIRMINGHAM, AND TRENT VALLEY JUNCTION
RAIL WAY.
The Directors have already announced to the Shareholders that
arrangements were pending with the London and Birmingham
Railway Company (now the London and North-Western), having for
their object the transfer of the line to that Company, and the return
to the Shareholders in this undertaking of the whole of their deposits.
The Directors recommend the proposed arrangements to the Share-
holders, as being much to their advantage, and most calculated to
ensure the speedy completion of the line, and to afford the best
guarantee of its being efficiently worked for the publio convenience.
Those of the Shareholders who are desirous of receiving back, iu
conformity with these arrangements, the hill deposit of 91. 2s. en
each share, are requested to transmit their scrip to Mr. Henry
Casein, the Accountant to the Company, at the C,ompany's offices,
at No. 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, at any time between
the hours
the it u" of
fikeonf
October. rtnd Three, from Monday, t.q, 21st instant, to
Monday,
On the scrip, or bankers' receipts, er secretary's receipts for scrip,
being delivered up the holders thereof will receive ba^.k the full de-
posit of 21. 9s. upon each share. Those parties who (as holders of
shares in the original Coventry and Leicester and P ,ventry, Nun-
eaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Companies) have a n'y paid a de-
posit thereon of 11. is., may in like manner receive b tck 11. 6s. on
each such share.
Sept. 17, 1846. (Signed) EDMUND PEEL, Chairman,

LEEDS, WAKEFIELD, AND MIDLAND
JUNCTION. RAILWAY COMPANY.
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at the Court-house in Wakefield, on Monday, the 28th day cf Sep-
tember, 1846,
It was resolved, That Edward Few, Esq., be the Chairman of this
meeting.
It was resolved, That the report and the account of the receipts
and expenditure now read at the meeting be approved and confirmed.
It was also resolved, That Mr. Meynell, take Rogers, and Mr.
Waterhouse, be appointed the Scrutineers to the votes at this
meeting.
It was moved by Mr. ROGERS, seconded by Mr. SANDAas, and
resolved, That a deputation be appointed to negotiate with such com-
panies as have made, or may hereafter make, proposals to this Com•
pany, with a view to secure the further prosecution of the under-
taking on the best possible terms for the Shareholders
It was moved by Mr. SAMUEL HARRISON ARMITAGE, and seconded
by Mr. Janson, and unanimously resolved, That the deputatina to
wait upon the Midland Railway Company, or any other Railway
Company, consist of Mr. Few, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Meynell, and Mr.
Dawson, along with such other Members of the Executive Committee
as may think proper to attend, with power to negotiate and enter
Into such arrangements as they may think proper.
It was resolved, That the application to Parliament for obtaining
an Act for the constriction of the railway be proceeded with.
It was moved by Mr. FEW, seconded by Mr. ARMITAGE, and re-
solved, That Mr. Meynell be added to the Executive Committee of
the Company.

EDWARD FEW, Chairman.
EDWARD MEYNELL, IScrutineers
JAMES ROGERS, _

Upon the motion of Mr. HOLDSVIOSTII, seconded by Mr. P•PPLE-
TON, it was unanimously resolved, That the thanks of the meeting
be given to Mr. Few fur his services as Chairman.
J. HOLDSWORTII.

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TUB U N IVE R SAL GAS BURNER.
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The Patentees beg to call public attention to the following facts,
the advantages resulting from the invention are various and
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The merits of the " Burner," its brilliancy and economy surpassing
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Extract from the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
Tuesday, 26th May, 1846, Sir Joizu Itzionn, President, in the Chair.
" A gas burner of &novel and ingenious construction was exhibited.
The principal novelty was the introduction of a stream of air to the
centre of the flame by a hollow button in the middle of the burner.
rho air passing up through the hollow stem of the button, was
heated, and passed out by two series of fire-holes around the periphery,
and impinging with force en the flame of the gas curved it outwards
in tke shape of a tulip, while the oxygen of the air, mingling with
the cerburetted hydrogen gas, produced a very perfect combustion,
The flame was quite white dowu the top of tile burner, was very steady,
as was amply demonstrated by the excellent light of the Institution,
where these burners have been used. In comparing the consumption
of these burners with that of the concentric ring burners, and trying
the power of the two lights by the photometer, the new burner gave a
better light, with a saving of rather more than one-third."
CERTIFICATI.
POLYTECHNIC Cnamicitr. SCHOOL.—" Ix testing Clark, Me Niell,
and Co,'s Universa Gas Burner with ono of the best shawdowloss
burners, it gave a more pare and brilliant light, with a saving of 20
to 95 per cent." GEORGE CRISP, Engineer,
RORT. LONGBOTTOM, Secretary,
CHRTIFICATI.
" Ia a series of experiments made upon Clark, Me Niell, and Co.'s
Patent Universal Gas Burner, its superiority was satisfactorily esta-
blished is economy and the quality of the light. Tested against
argand burners, Nos. 4 (12 holes), and 6 (lb holes), it afforded a
Baying of
at least 25 per cent., and against three fish-tail burners,
No. 4, 40 per cent. The colour and brilliancy of the flame is supe-
rior to any other burner."

T. W. XEATES, Consulting Chemist,
J. D. PALMER Mecanical Inspector.
The UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER is, h used nightly at the Poly-
technic Institution, and may be had and seen from 11 till 4, at the
Patentees, 60, St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross; and of all Gas Fitters.

Nlc HOLSON'S TABLEAUX VWANS,
LIVING PICTURES, POSES PLASTIQUES, or ANI-
MATED STATUES. Mr. NICHOLSON has the honour to announce
that it is his intention to commence on MONDAY, the sth of October,
1846, in the great room of the Garrick's Head Hotel, Ilow.street, a
series of Lectures on Poetry and Song, illustrating each subject
by groups of living Male and Female Models of the most exquisite
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Figures in which we fairly trace
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But warmly breathing, they impart
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A brighter, holier, admiration.
Deming—Doors open at Three ; Lecture from half-past Three till
Five. Evening—Doors open at Seven ; Lecture from half-past Seven
till Nine o'clock. Admission, Is. ; Reserved seats, 2s. 6.1.

BLACK LION HOTEL, BRIDLINGTON.
GEO. NICHOLSON takes this opportunity of returning his
best thanks to gentlemen who have so kindly favoured him with
their patronage since he entered upon the above Hotel, and begs to
assure them that the same attention to their comfort which has been
so highly appreciated, shall be the anxious wish and determined
object of the proprietor to give.
G. N. begs further to state that the line of railway from Hull to
Bridlington opens on the 7th of October for public business, and that
his Omnibuses and Cabs will attend every train, for the conveyance
of passengers to or from army part of the town.
Coaches and Omnibuses will run from his house and the station
every morning to Hunnumby, Filey, and Scarborough daily, and re-
turn in the evening in time to save the trains.

THE INFANTA'S MARRIAGE.
OFFICIAL INTERVIEW.
The following is from the Madrid Herald() of Septem-
ber, 25:

" This was the day fixed for the audience to Count
Bresson, for his receiving from the Queens Isabella and
Christina their formal consent to the marriage of her
Royal Highness the Infanta with the Dike de Mont-
pensier. Three of the court carriages, attended by a
numerous suite of servants in their full-dress liveries,
and escorted by a detachment of cavalry, went to the
Count's hotel to bring him to the Palace. In the square
in front of the Palace trophies were raised, and on his
arriving at the foot of the staircase he was received by
all the major-domos on duty in their full costume. Their
Majesties, surrounded by Grandees, Ministers, Ladies of
Honour,!and Chamberlains, were standing on the plat-
form in front of the throne. On being introduced,
Count Bresson delivered the following address to Queen
Christina:—

" Madam,—A double joy awaits your heart as a
mother—a delightful satisfaction your heart as a Queen.
Your Majesty is about in one day to insure the happi-
ness of your august daughters, and contribute to con-
firm by their marriages, order, liberty, and union in this
noble country, whose destinies you so wisely and
courageously directed during many years. This re ward
was due to your Majesty after so many trials, and the
King my august Sovereign, in offering to you his con-
gratulations, put up vows to Heaven that in the future
your Majesty may be completely remunerated. The
King entreats you to confirm solemnly, on this day, the
consent you have already given to her Royal Highness
the Infanta.'

"Queen Christina replied:—
" The approaching marriages of my beloved daugh-
ters cause me the joy of seeing fulfilled on one and the
same day all my hopes, all my desires. By these unions
I see insured the happiness of these pledges of my
maternal love, as well as a futurity of peace and
conoord for this magnanimous nation, which I
call with pride my country. I give at the same time
to your Sovereign the most striking proof of my affec-
tion by consenting, with all the effusion of my heart, to
the marriage of my beloved daughter, the Infanta, with
the Duke de Montpensier. She will thus enter an
august family, who by their practice form an example
of every private and public virtue.'
" Count Bresson then addressed Queen Isabella in the
following terms:—

" Madam,—Your Majesty has not been contented
with insuring your own happiness and that of Spain by
giving your hand to a Prince most worthy of his high
destiny, but you have also thought of the happiness of a
beloved sister, and deigned to consent to her union with
the youngest son of a King who was already bound to
your Majesty by so many ties, and to Spain by sympathy
and his admiration for a people standing so high in his-
tory. To-day the Cortes of the kingdom, so enlightened
and so patriotic, have by their deliberations and ad-
dresses partaken in the wishes and intentions of your
Majesty, and I come in the name of the King, my
august Sovereign, to request that you will first accept
his congratulations and best wishes, and next, that you
will solemnly confirm the consent already granted by
you for the marriage of her Royal Highness the Infanta
Dona Luisa Fernanda with his Royal Highness the
Duke de Montpensier.'
"Her Majesty Queen Isabella replied:—
" ' Called by Divine Providence to fill the throne of
Spain, the happiness of this great nation has ever been the
object of all my endeavours. My heart flatters me with
the hope that I have secured it by the union I am about
to contract. The Prince, who is about to call himself
my consort is worthy of the title from his high qualities.
I am also indebted to Divine Providence for a companion
of my childhood, who has been inseparable from me from
my infancy—a sister whom I love tenderly, and whose
happiness I wished to ensure as my own. May God
grant me/ the consolation of knowing that my object
has been attained by giving her hand to the youngest
son of your King—to a Prince whose eminent merits
already recal the rare virtues of his august father.
Encouraged by the votes of the Cortes of the kingdom,
whose loyal and sincere congratulations I have just re-
ceived, I declare to you, sir, that I repeat and solemnly
confirm my royal consent to the celebration of the mar-
riage of my well-beloved sister the mists of Spain, Don",
Luisa Fernanda of Bourbon, to Prince Antoine Marie
Philippe Louis of Orleans, Duke de Montpensier. I
request, sir, that you will make this known to your So-
vereign,:my well-beloved uncle, whose congratulations
I accept with the most lively gratitude. And may the
Almighty, who so visibly guides and protects him, grant
that these two marriages may be pledges for the happi•
ness of our two families, and for the peace and prosperity
of the two nations.'

" Queen Christina afterwards sent the Marchioness
dePanta Cruz, the Camerera Mayor, to bring the Infanta,
whom the Count thus addressed:—

" Madam,—Heaven presided over your birth; and
your Royal Highness has had every gift, every grace
bestowed upon you. Happy the Prince on whom the
choice of your Royal Highness has fallen, and who is
called upon to unite his fate to yours. In saying to your
Royal Highness that already the heart of your future
husband is filled alone with this happiness, I only inter-
pret the sentiments which he himself will shortly ex-
press to you in person, if your Royal Highness shall
deign to confirm solemnly on this day the consent you
have already granted.'
" Her Royal Highness, after having obtained the con-
sent of her august mother and sister, answered :
" Intimately convinced that the counsels:of my tender
mother, and the advice of my well-beloved sister, can
have no other view than the double object of my happi-
ness and the interests of my country, I confirm, with
joy, sir, the consent ; have already given, and solemnly
accept the offer made to me of the hand of a Prince
whose qualities are so eminent. It is with happiness
that, on this occasion, I yield to the desires of my
family.'
" Before he withdrew, Count Bresson delivered to
her Royal Highness the portrait of her affianced bride-
groom, which she accepted with evident satisfaction.
On his return to the embassy he was received with
great respect by the immense crowd assembled on the
occasion. Count Bresson distributed ten thousand
francs among the poor of Madrid and the servants of the
royal stables."

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE ABERDEEN RAIL-
WAY.—About eight o'clock on the morning of Monday
last, a fearful accident occurred on the viaduct now build-
ing of the Aberdeen Railway, leading from the terminus
to the suspension-bridge across the river Dee, whereby
the lives of seven of the workmen were sacrificed, to-
gether with four others, who were conveyed in a man-
gled state to the infirmary, without hopes of recovery.
The excitement here is very great, and various rumours
have been afloat as to the cause of the accident. Mr.
Gibb, the resident engineer, was on the spot with the di-
rectors as soon:after as possible,and everything was done
tolalleviate the distress occasioned to the relatives of the
unfortunate sufferers, one of whom has left a family of
nine children. Mr. Cubitt, the engineer, had only gone
from the town a few hours before the accident, and an
express was sent to recal him, with a view of ascertain-
ing the cause of the accident, which it would be prema
ture to surmise until Mr. Cubitt's report shall be made.
LANDSMEN ADRIFT.—The pilot cutter Nettle, Win-
ter, master, of this port, returning from a cruise off
Spurn, during the late hazy weather, picked up a boat
which, on the first discovery, having a shirt raised on
an oar as a signal of distress, was supposed to contain
the crew of some vessel that had been probably run
down in the fog. On bringing the craft alongside, how-
ever, the anxiety of the pilots to assist the shipwrecked
crew was enlivened by an admixture of mirth, while
they heard and relieved the miseries of two tailors and
two shoemakers, from Saltfleet, who had a most melan-
choly tale to tell—
" Of how they had been cast away,
Far, far from love and home;
And how they wailed by night and day,
O'er the briny ocean's foam."
The parties, it appeared, after having stuck like bricks
to their lasts and shopboards all the previous week to
adorn the bodies and understandings of the lieges at
Saltfleet, started too early after their Saturday night's
cup, on probably a piscatory enterprise within reach of
the shore, but being caught in a fog, the boat taking ad-
vantage of the would-be ultra marines, turned her
stem seawards, while they, pulling, as they thought,
homewards, finally found themselves spending Sunday
night at sea. Luckily they were not teetotallers,
and endured their fate as best they could,
under a signal of distress, but another sun set
on the sufferers, when, grubless and bubless, they
sank exhausted in the bottom of their treacherous
barque, now playing the slippery trick of casting
herself away on a shoal, which, for aught the unhappy
voyagers knew to the contrary, might be some fatal knoll
in the German Ocean. By the way it was subsequently
ascertained to have been Sandhale, at the entrance of the
Humber, where the victims might have walked on shore,
at the mere risk of immersion to the waist; they, however,
lay snug in their simplicity, untildrifting to sea again their
signal luckily brought the Nettle to their relief. One
of the sons of St. Crispin, on being landed at Spurn
Point, said he would never trust the sea again—there
was nothing like leather, and he would walk home, even
if he went round by Selby Bridge, sooner than cross the
water in a boat. The other worthy of the last, and the
knights schneiderkins ventured to accompany the pilots
to Hull, and again to embark by steam to Grimsby, from
whence they reached home, to the great joy of many a
social and domestic circle, who had begun to think of
" full fathoms five" in the " deep, deep sea."—Hull
Richt.
" The Animal's Friend Society," of 18, Strand,
last week charged David Simmons (the son of the Sim-
' mons charged the previous week), before Mr. Norton,
at the LaMbeth Court, with having ill-treated the same
horse as in the former case, and with violently beating
it on the head and nose, while it was overloaded. The
father came forward and said he had sold the horse,
upon which the defendant was fined half the costs, and
reprimanded.
Tun PHEASANT SEASON.—Yesterday being the
first day of pheasant shooting, the London markets, and
many of the principal poulterer's, exhibited pheasants
for sale, although they wore scarce and insufficient for
the demand. Prime young birds made from Gs. to 7s.
and Bs. a brace, and small and inferior ditto sold at ss.
find 6s. a brace.
Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.

PRICTf SD.

THE MONTPENSIER MARRIAGES.

(From the Times.)
The Montpensier marriages are pressed on with all
that delicacy and dispatch which characterised the first
stages of the affair. The word is "to strike while the
iron is hot." No party concerned, from the great
European spectator down to the helpless daughters of
Christina, is to be allowed the opportunity of a second
reflection. The time, the methods, and the ethical pro-
prieties of the story, are comprehended within the narrow
limits and rigorous conditions of an almost dramatic
unity. For two months the Jason of Paris and Medea
of Madrid were settling, or rather maturing, their plans;
for, unless we are to suppose that there were secret ar-
ticles in the treaty, which time may or may not reveal,
there was not much remaining for settlement. This
was the longest part of the business. But in politics
secresy and celerity are interchangeable terms. It is
admitted that for those two months England was put
wholly out of the question. The eyes of the British
Lion were blindfolded, and his ears stopped by treach-
erous protestations, while the conspirators snatched
away the Golden Fleece. What had England to do with
the family affairs of Louis Philippe? It was true that at
a personal interview with a neighbouring Sovereign,
joyfully hailed by both nations as the much-desired
pledge of that good understanding to which their Go-
vernments were mutually engaged, the King had agreed
to a very different arrangement. It was true that
England had protested, through her Minister, against
that other arrangement so lately revealed, so soon to
be consummated. It was true that there existed an
ancient treaty, which, at least, established a right of in-
terference ; and that England had twice interfered in
this century, at a great cost of treasure and blood, to
replace, first, Ferdinand, then Isabella, on the throne.
It was true that France had contributed to us at least a
formal co-operation at the latter contest. Bat what of
all this ? When the question was the marriage of
those royal sisters, to whom and to whose family and
nation England had been so authorised, so acknow-
ledged, se constant, and so generous a friend, what had
England any longer to do with it ? It became then
a quiet domestic affair. The labourer that had sown,
and reaped, and carried the harvest, was now dismissed ;
the King and his trusty cousin were the only persons
interested in the fruits of the political husbandry.
Thus was England thrust aside in the first stage of the
affair.

Then came that night. If we have the least desire
that our words should reach the ears of one unprivileged
Spaniard, we must beware how we descend into the par-
ticulars of that scene. The least minuteness of descrip-
tion or closeness of allusion may deprive Madrid of a
journal, and an editor of all further powers of political
utility. In so delicate a passage we are content that the
Journal des Debats shall be our spokesman. " Her
Majesty," says that most euphemistic of historians,
" before she withdrew to her private apartments, received
at an advanced hour of the night some persons of her
household. It was some hours after quitting her
Ministers that the Queen, who received only M. Donoso
Cortes, and afterwards waited on her mother, recalled
her inisters, to announce to them her resolution.
Several of them _ were still in the Palace at the
office of the First Secretary of State. The others
had withdrawn. All immediately assembled in
her Majesty's presence. They quitted her after
having received her orders." The Debats proceeds
to boast, with singular simplicity, that it here tells us
less than the truth, and might tell us more with advan-
tage to its cause. The boast is superfluous. The narra-
tive proclaims its imperfections. The midnight chrono-
logy of the Debats reminds one of those interesting
difficulties which beset the first book of Livy, wherein
several generations of antediluvian longevity are huddled
into the limits of one ordinary reign. The action begins
at an advanced hour of the night. Subsequent to that are
important events, consultations, decisions, assemblages,
felicitous rencontres, and great constitutional acts. " Some
hours" are confessed to in one scene of the performance,
and that of a more private character. Are there no clocks
in Madrid? Does Isabella, like the King of Egypt, turn
night into day, to double her life and to cheat the oracle?
Who has predicted that her reign will be short? When
the Journal des Debats condescends to fill up its sketch,
perhaps it will tell us, the usual length of a summer
night at Madrid, and also whether M. Bresson was at
the Palace. That gentleman, whom the Debats has en-
tirely forgotten, is the Hamlet of the play.
What follows is in character with these auspicious
begianings. England has protested firmly and tem-
perately with France, and the only answer is the depar-
ture of Montpensier. Had we dictated to Louis Philippe
his chef de cuisine, we could not have been treated with a
more contemptuous silence. He answers indeed; but
through his own organs; by his hired servants. On a
" domestic" question he vouchsafes what is virtually a
domestic reply. He communicates with England through
his valet and his steward, the Debats and the Presse.
Such civility is superfluous. Of course we know with
what amiable solicitude the affair is regarded in the
bosom of that numerous and affectionate family. What
are ancient treaties and recent understandings, the re-
collections of a century or of a twelvemonth, to the de-
voted Paterfamilias expecting a Spanish Infanta for his
daughter-in-law? For the time lay aside all national
responsibilites. Shut out all Europe. Turn a deaf ear
to remonstrant neighbours. Forget that you are a King,
that you are the King, not of France, but of the French.
It is a domestic question. Settle it in the sacred pri-
vacy of the hearth.
But is it a domestic question? Does either Spain, or
England, or France, or even Louis Philippe himself, re-
gard it as such? Or is it such on the simplest view of
its historical circumstances and antecedents? As for
Louis Philippe himself, do we not know that every
member of the house of Orleans, from the founder of the
race, is born with his right eye on the patrimony of St.
Louis, and his left eye looking towards Spain? Good
people tell us, " He wants a dotation for his son; that is
all.' But how much is involved in that modest desire?
The Spanish people are, in fact, as reluctant as the
French to accommodate themselves to the conveniences
of the royal, or rather the paternal, exchequer. Why
should the independence of Spain be jeopardised for that
which the parsimony of France declines? The unani-
mous public opinion of the three countries sees the fear-
ful possibilities of the measure. It sees nothing private
in the arrangement. It cannot partake in that soft
nuptial dream which excludes so many duties, and
perhaps kindles so many aspirations.
The wisdom of all three countries, as represented by
the unfettered portion of the press, sees a real danger in
the event. A real danger there is. They who sneer at
treaties, who deride a balance of power, and laugh at
the vagaries of matrimonial ambition, may perhaps be
roused by the reflection that what has occurred twice in
the present generation may possibly occur again. What
is the state of affairs Louis Philippe is founding at
Madrid? In a few years a French Prince, the head of a
French party, most odious to the nation, will, it is said,
most ;probably be the husband of the Queen. With
Spain such as it is, how can there fail to be a collision
between the throne and the people? Will France stand
back, on ono side? Will England, on the other? How
can this be a purely domestic question? How can a
" dotation" thus acquired be a harmless affair?

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