The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

any doubt on the most evil-disposed minds. When d_
miral Dwpetit Thouars established the Prot:ciorate of
Tahiti, he stipulated by that treaty that the island,
of Tahiti and its dependencies shoultibe under the pro-
tection of the French flag. The islands connected with

Tahiti, which are depet;-dencies of the sovereignty of
Queen Pomare, were consequently assimilated to the
island itself. The notes exchanged between the Govern-
ments of England and France since 1843, prove that the
French Ministry intended to limit the Protectorate, and
not to extend it to the Society Islands, over which not
only the souverczinte, but the suzeraint6 or the Queen of
Tahiti, remained doubtful. This restriction applied
more forcibly to a group of four islands, situated
forty_ five or fifty leagues from Tahiti, viz., Iluahine,

Borabora, Raiatea, and Maupiti. These islands, which

are under a sufficiently regular Government, living
under the rule of chiefs, who are said to acknowledge the
honorary supremacy of Queen Pomare, were to remain
completely independent. This is the clear result of a
declaration addressed to the English Government by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, who knew posi-
tively that it was impossible to establish the supremacy,
whether real or merely honorific, of the Tahitian Go-

vernment over this group or four islands. During these
negotiations, which terminated in a perfect concord
between the French and English Cabinet, the Governor

of the French possessions in Oceania, resting upon

,he opinion generally diffused in the Archipelago
lint the islands of iluahine, Borabora, ltaiatea, and Mau-

piti were subject to the Queen of Tahiti, had sent an

expedition to plant upon them the flag of the Protecto-
rate. Our troops were repulsed. Our Government has
already made Captain Bruat acquainted with the ar-
rangements made with the English Government. In this
affair, therefore, there is neither evacuation of terri-
tory, nor concession of any kind to any one; the Minis-
try having from the very first entertained openly the
intention of limiting the Protectorate of France. It

decided wisely not to extend it to these islands, and
with the greater reason, as the said islands are not even
acknowledged to form part of the possessions of the
Queen of Tahiti. Moreover, in order to guarantee itself
from all dangerous neighbourhood in future, the French
Ministry has declared that these islands, being acknow-
ledged to be free and independent, could never be pos-
sessed nor protected by any European power. England
has acceded to this declaration, the justice of which it

could not but admit. To put an end to all reports, we
will add that the Government has not received any offi-
cial dispatches from Governor Bruat since those of the
14th of April last, and that the last private letters that
have been received were dated April 15."

The protest of th. Infante Don ENRIQUE is also
the subject of comment in the Presse, which in its
observations by implication repudiates the treaty of
Utrecht. On the same subject La France, the
Legitimatist organ, says :

" The protest of the Infante Don Henry gives a new
face to the Spanish question. The Infante certainly
has not acted alone in the energetic demonstration
which he has just made; it is the manifest work of
an entire party, of which this young Prince has for
a long time been either the head, the patron, or
the instrument. He consequently enters into the con-
flict recently raised by the Montpensier marriage, as a
powerful symbol, or even perhaps as a standard, around
which the Progressista party will not be long in ranging
themselves. Exiled from his country by the Camarilla
—treated in some measure as a conspirator—he has no
ceremony to observe towards the Government by whom
he has been so harshly expelled. Will he dare to go to
extremes?—to return to his native country, and place
himself at the head of any movement which may take
place? We will not prognosticate such a thing; but it
is very certain that, in the present state of the public
mind in Spain, such a demonstration would not be long
in rallying numerous partisans around it. The protest of
Don Henry has nothing hostile as far as regards the
marriage of his brother with the eldest daughter of Fer-
dinand VII. Skilful enough to dissemble his personal
discontent, he even affects to offer the betrothed pair his
best wishes. It is only the Montpensier union which
the author of the protest attacks with all his strength.
This marriage appears to him insulting to the dignity of
Spain, injurious to her independence, and contrary to
her constitution ; and this three-fold pretext serves him
perfectly well for keeping up the deep antipathy which
has just been raised against France in the minds of
the great majority of the Spanish people. There is
in the protest one passage in particular which can
escape no one's notice ; it is that where the Prince
frankly relates the different details of his journey to
Paris, and the dispositions which he thought were mani-
fested at that time at the Tuileries. This revelation is
an aggravation skilfully added to the great complaints
which the Spanish people already had against France
and her Government."
The Constitutionnel says that the Duc DE MONT.
PENSIER " will leave Paris for Madrid on Saturday,
the 26th inst. The PRINCE will be accompanied by
an aide-de-camp of the KING, General ATHALIN,
by his own aide-de-camp, Colonel TI3IERRY, several
other officers, and his private secretary. His Royal
Highness will proceed directly to Tours by the rail-
road, sleep that night at Angouleme, arrive on the
27th at Bordeaux, and depart for Bayonne on the
28th. The PRINCE will remain one day in this last-
mentioned town, and repair from thence to Madrid
by easy journeys. The Ambassador of France,
Count BRESSON, and two Grandees of Spain, with
an escort of honour, will receive the PRINCE at
Irun."

In the same journal we find the following :-
" Amongst the rumours which were current yesterday
at the Bourse, and which tended to revive the funds, the
most accredited was the announcement of the approach-
ing departure for London of the Duke de Broglie. It
was said that he was present on Monday at the Council
of Ministers summoned by his Majesty, and that he is
to leave this day for London, with an autograph letter
from the King of the French to the Queen of England,
containing a formal renunciation in the name of the
Duke de Montpensier. This declaration has been con-
sidered as of a nature to put an end to all the difficulties
that have taken place between France and England. It
was added that the Duke de Montpensier is to renew
this declaration officially and publicly at Madrid."
Galignani's Messenger, in observing upon this
paragraph, says that the Duc DE BROGLIE was not
present at the council ; and that, so far from setting
out for England, he has left Paris for one of his
estates in France.
The National publishes a letter from Catalonia,
which represents the whole province as ripe for in-
surrection.
The Ulloa and Darien steamers have been ordered
to be prepared as packets to run between Cherbourg
and New York. Four companies of Marines stationed
at Cherbourg have been ordered to Guadaloupe, to re-
inforce the garrison of that island.
It was reported on the Paris Bourse on Wednes-
day, that the Count DE MONTEMOLIN had safely
reached Navarre, where he had been joined by ELIO,
EGUIA, EL RAYo, and VILLAREAL, and that CABRERA
had sailed from Southampton. The fall which took
place in the funds towards the close of business was
caused by those rumours, aided, however, by large
sales made by German houses, and by the hostile
articles contained in some of the London journals of
Tuesday, which had been received by express. Our
correspondent adds, that after business closed on the
Bourse the Three per Cents. fell to 83f. 121 c.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 83f. 25c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 40c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,275 f. ; Rouen, 9561. 25c.;
Havre, 726 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 727 f. 50c.; Avignon,
927 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 630 f. ; Bordeaux, 568 f. 75c.; Boulogne,
4851.; Troyes and Montereau, 370 f. ; Basle, 2301. ; Dieppe,
3851. ; Paris and Strasburg, 503 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes,
511 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 5271. 50c. ; Lyons and Avignon,
49X. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 482 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three
per Cents., 361/2 ; Ditto Domestic Debt, 33%.
LYONS, SEPT. 21.-Avignon and Marseilles, 942 f. 50c.;
Northern, 733 f. 75e. ; Paris and Lyons, 531 f. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SLPTESIBEII 24.

Boulogne and Amiens, 14% —Direct Bombay and Madras, %
Dutch Rhenish, s—ltalian and Austrian, 214,—Luxembourg, 1
Namur and Liege, 1% —Northern of France Constituted, 13%
Orleans and Bordeaux. 04—Paris and Rouen, 37% —Tours and
Nantes Constituted, s—West Flanders, 31/4.

TUE CABINET COUNCIL.—Lord John Russell, Lord
Palmerston, and Lord Clarendon, arrived in town this
morning, for the purpose of attending the Cabinet
Council appointed to be holden at three o'clock this
afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street.
The Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, Lord Auckland, and other Members of the Ca-
binet were expected to arrive in town this afternoon in
time for the meeting.

CASE OF MR DYCE SOMBRE.—We understand that
Drs. Bright and Southey proceeded toDover on Monday,
by direction of the Lord Chancellor, for the purpose of
examining Mr. Dyce Sombre, and reporting to the Lord
Chancellor as to the state of mind of that gentleman.
Their report will be presented to the Lord Chancellor
next week. His Lordship was induced to order this
inquiry on the affidavits of some of the principal medical
men of Russia, Belgium and France, and of three emi-
nent London practitioners, all of whom declared their
belief that Mr. Dyce Sombre was quite sane.
THE COMMANDER OF THE ALECTO STEAM-
SLOOP. —Among the squadron employed in the Parana,
the Alecto has been of late the most distinguished in
the events that have occurred in that river, having
been closely and successfully engaged with the enemy's
batteries on three different occasions. We therefore
look with confidence to find her gallant commander's
name amongst the early promotions for those services,
and the more so as his conduct whilst a lieutenant in the
suppression of the slave-trade—in which service he was
badly wounded—obtained for him the highest com-
mendations of his captain and of his commander-in-
chief, together with his ;promotion to the rank of com-
mander.

SOUTH-SEA HOLSE.—Yesterday a quarterly Ge-
neral Court of Proprietor's was held at the Company's
House, in Threadneedle-street. Charles Franks, Esq.,
the sub-governor, in the chair. The minutes of the last
court were read and confirmed. An account of the
company's bond debt was read by the secretary. The
committee of by-laws were re-elected, and there being
UP other business, the court, on the question adjourned.