The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

cultivation, and a large addition -will be made to the
ment for the people.
means of permanent empiord
One instance of this liin(l. has been brought under
our notice.

An English Mi67lg Company have been working
the mines of Rillibrieken, in the barony of
Islands, county of Clare, seven miles from
Ennis. These mines produce lead and silver ores,
and about three hundred of the neighbouring pea-
santry are employed in the works during the summer
months, and the monthly expenditure for labour is
about five hundred pounds ; but as the mines are
situated in the centre of a large bog district,
when the winter rains descend the bog is
overflowed by the streams, the water per-
colates through the peat, and the mines are filled
with water. When this happens the mines cannot
be worked, and the mining operations cease from the
month of December until May—the peasantry, who,
during the summer months, have acqttired industrial
habits, are discharged, they fall back amongst the
agricultural labours, and, as at this season of the
year very little work can be given to them by the
neighbouring farmer, much want and misery is felt
by them. A sum of 3001. expended in draining the
bog, and one or two of the adjoining lakes, would
not only render nearly two hundred acres of land
available for cultivation, but would cause the Killi-
bricken mines to be worked during all seasons of the
year. Now, this is one of many cases in which an
advance by the Government of the funds necessary
for draining the bog lands would confer a permanent
benefit upon the district, for not only would three
hundred people be constantly employed, the country
permanently benefited by the increase of cultivated
surface, the habits of industry perpetuated amongst
the labourers, but, also (what is much wanted in the
western parts-of Ireland), a great increase to the
circulating capital in a comparatively poor locality.
We think this matter wants the attention of the Board
of Works.

Madrid papers of the 221 have arrived.
According to the Heraldo, the decree dissolving
the Cortes was to have been published on the 23d.
It is said that Don ENRIQUE is about to return to
Spain, and that the office of Lord High Admiral
will be conferred on him. It was reported in Madrid
that the Counts BOAIFIN and DAs ANTAS were
marching on Lisbon.
MADRID BOLSA, QCr. 22.—The Three Per Cents. were
at 3qll for cash, and the Four per Cen:r. at 211; the
Five per Cents. at 211 Z, ; the Debt without Interest at tiN ;
the Vales, 8%; and the Coupons, 201/.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Presse, the organ of the Tuileries, thus sums
up the affair of the Montpensier marriage, and gives
vent to its hatred of England, her institutions, and

" French diplomacy -
her people :
has accomplished a work of the
most lofty bearing. It has effected• this in the interest
of the country, in the plenitude of its right, and with all
the courtesy which a great nation owes to its allies.
In the great interest of the country—and, we may add,
in that of Spain likewise, which escap.•3 by that alliance,
or rather by the renewal of its best alliance, from that
political and commercial servitude with which England
menaced her—France no longer apprehending that the
rivalry which pursues her on the seas will place itself in
her presence at the foot of the Pyrenees and threaten to
bring down on her that spirit of revolution of which she
is the evil genius. France is sure hereafter to find in
Spain, where the worship of monarchy will long be
perpetuated, a friendly power and a faithful guardian
of her southern frontiers, and, if Spain succeed in
recovering her ancient prosperity, and in resuming her
rank in the world, an ally which may aid her some day
to maintain the balance of power on the seas, so much
compromised by the formidable force of England. France
must find henceforth in the union which has been ac-
complished an advantage which cannot but ameliorate
her position in the world. A struggle for influence has
taken place in Spain between Franca and England, and
France has been victorious. This reeeet alone would be
of the highest importance, but this importance is in-
creased still more by the dissatisfaction manifested by
England, and by the impotence of the efforts which she
mukiplied in order to avert the check which she had not
foreseen. The result is accomplished; and whatever
may hereafter ensue, the crown of Spain shall not fall
on the head of a prince devoted to the policy of Eng-
land. But France, whilst securing this result, has not
violated any of the bases of public law in Europe. She
has not interfered with that principle of the balance of
power in Europe established 150 years since to secure
the eternal separation of France from Spain. Shoutl
events, impossible as far as human foresight can
imagine, produce that confusion which Europe wished to
prevent, the renewal of the renunciations which formerly
served as a means would soon place the matter beyond
the influence of any fears, still more now that Princes
enjoy but a restricted power, and that the sovereignty
h longs
e principally to the two nations who assuredly
would never consent to abdicate or confound their nation-
ality. Their separation is secured by force of events
more powerful than any renunciation or any treaty; and
Europe, which already found a sufficient guarantee in
the fair-dealing of our Government, finds a still stronger
security in the constitutional liberty of the two nations
whose union she might fear. Nothing, therefore, has
been done contrary to the law, or contrary to the inter-
est of Europe. Nothing, moreover, has been effected in
violation of diplomatic courtesy towards England. The
French Government would have sacrificed its personal
convenience rather than depart from the provisional en-
gagements contracted with her ; but England herself
departed from them, and so dissolved those en-
gagements. The introduction of a new candi-
date, a stranger to the royal house of the Spanish
Bourbons--the efforts made by British diplomacy
to effect the success of the candidate devoted to
her interests—an intrigue on the point of being accom-
plished, promise given—this it
ent discovered at the
trustedvo in the engagements con-
tractedepvwel
ai
rssyh ewd h,
with
moment
the
hh clearlywee
when
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'Thees contempthe.h Geffect(
of that discovery was to
free her from her engagement, and permit her to oppose,
not an intrigue to an intrigue, but a negotiation as ho-
nourable as it was skilful to a manoeuvre as unskilful as
it was perfidious. That was what caused her success
and established her right, and what renders as ridiculous
as odious those declamations which the British diploma-
tists have resorted to, and the manoeuvres which they
put in practice, in order to oppose difficulties to an ac-
complished fact. What remains of all that at present ?
The alliance is concluded ; but England has protested
beforehand against the consequences of that alliance.
She has declared that she would never acknowledge (the
case arriving) the accession of the descendants of the
Duke de Montpensier to the throne of Spain. That is
' to say, that she wished to leave a perpetual menace of
war suspended over Spain and .an eventuality of universal
confusion over Europe. England loves to create situa.
fromlt opposing her usurpation
tions which cause nations to feel uneasiness respecting
their future prospects, and which, by occupying them at
throughouthom e
bases of the odious policy she pursues in Eastern
India, and even in Europe ; and the admirers
of her policy cite with enthusiasm the art with which
pre v prevent them
world.
is one of the habitual
she succeeded, in 1815, in confining the states of the
Continent within a net of internal embarrassments and
eventual conflicts which would effectually prevent them
from opposing her designs. But on this occasion this
menace, which might perpetuate agitation in Spain by
maintaining the hopes of all parties and of every pre-
i tender of every colour to the Government of that coun-
try, is so vain that England might have spared herself
the odium resulting from such an act. To believe that
Spain will force the daughter of her Kings to abandon
the rights she possesses by her birth and by the consti-
tution of the country—to believe that Europe will expose
itself to the chances of a new war of succession to re-
venge the discomfiture of a meddling Minister, whose
name will sink into merited oblivion—would be an act
Of insanity; and assuredly neither France nor Spain, nor
Europe, need trouble themselves with such pretensions.
But the most certain result, and in our eyes the best
consequence, of this struggle, is the enfeebling of that
exchisive alliance which for seine years past has placed
France at the tail of England. It is the conclusion of
all the sacrifices which the illusion of that alliance cost
us. It is a term placed to the unpopularity which re-
sulted to the Government in consequence of the tenacity
with which it adhered to that alliance. England has
proved herself throughout this affair, and in the discus-
sions which ensued from it, so haughty, so insulting,
so full of injurious and hostile intentions, that no person
in France at pfesent—neither people, nor King, nor
Minister—can retain any illusion on the impossibility of
ever establishing a cordial and sincere alliance between
France and England. The veil which covered the eyes
of the most blied has now fallen; and on the other
hand, disembarrassed from the grasp of the cordial
understanding, France comprehends that she ought to
return to her natural alliances with the states of the
Continent. And she comprehends it so much the better,
that in this affair of the Spanieh marriages, where the
interests of the nation and the interest o the dynasty
were equally engaged, she found in Europe that assent
which England disputed with her, and that sincere
benevolence of which England offered her the mere
illusion. Such, in our eyes, for the present, is the
most important result of this affair. The French
Government demonstrated that it was not, as was
believed, subservient to the will of England, and that
it could breve her anger and her hatred in presence
of a great national interest. The French Government
has elevated the policy of France in the world, by
causing her influence to prevail over that of England,
We willingly permit the Opposition journals to bewail
the rupture of the cordial understanding', so much the
more as this rupture is hailed by public opinion with so
much satisfaction, that we may defy M. 'Tiers himself
ever to re-establish an alliance whose rupture and whose
fall excite such sentiments amongst us. The Opposition,
moreover (and that is one of the results we ought to
mention in terminating this discussion), has manifested
in this struggle so little political instinct, and so few
patriotic sentiments, that it will scarcely. ever recover
from the merited discredit with which it is at this mo-
ment covered. In a word, a feet greet in its present
consequences has been accomplished—accomplished
within the limits of the law, and for the interest_ati _our
country, and with all international courtesy. lyth
vain menace for the future on the Part Qf EnZtaud—.