The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1846.

pressed either by explicit congratulations or
apathetic silence, at the proposed m arriage of Queen
ISABELLA with the Infante Don FRANCISCO D'ASSIS,
is the excitement and disaffection aroused by the in-
tended union of her MAJESTY'S sister with
the Duke DE MONTPENSIER. The antipathy
and indignation with which this project is
regarded has been evidenced in the most
decisive manner. Facts have transpired which
testify, beyond all scepticism, that the espousal
of the heir presumptive to the Spanish throne with
the youngest son of King LOUIS PHILIPPE, is re•
garded by a vast number of the inhabitants of the
Peninsula with a deep and ineradicable repugnance.
Nevertheless, in moments of such peculiar
commotion, it becomes somewhat difficult to
discriminate between the numerous and con-
tradictory reports in circulation. Perhaps the
most remarkable testimony of the spirit with
which this masterpiece of French diplomacy is re-
garded is the extraordinary article recently published
by the Espanol, in which the legality of the pro-
jected marriage is not merely questioned, but openly
and emphatically denied. The substance of the
arguments contained in that article is, first, that the
celebrated treaty of Utrecht, dated July 13, 1713,
was a formal renunciation from the House of Orleans,
through its then representative PHILIP, of all and
every pretension to the Spanish diadem; and, se-
condly, that the third paragraph of the forty-seventh
article of the Constitution expressly stipulates that
" neither the Sovereign nor the immediate succe.,sor
to the throne can contract any marriage with any per-
son excluded by a law from the succession to the
Crown." The Espanol thereupon draws the rather
rational inference, that the House of Orleans being
explicitly excluded by international treaties
the Duke DE MONTPENSIER can scarcely be
united to the INFANTA without infringing
the constitutions of the empire. Rumour
again affords us a very dubious cognisance of the
consequences likely to result from this valiant and
epigrammatic style of reasoning. We are assured
that M. ISTURITZ was considerably disconcerted by
its perusal—dispatched messengers to search the
archives for the documents mentioned—turned pale
on beholding the authentic signatures—and ex-
claimed that the scheme had been too hastily
adopted, and that its realisation was impossible.
Much more important and decisive evidence of the
results consequent upon the logic and the dislike
employed against the acceptation of the Duke
DE MONTPENSIER has reached us since these
remarks were commenced. By the most recent
intelligence from Spain, published in another column,
it would appear that M. ISTURITZ is so impressed
with the difficulty of bringing to a conclusion the
negotiation for a marriage between the INFANTA and
the French Monarch's son, that he has resigned
his office as Prime Minister, and will forthwith
succeed the Duke DE SOTOMAYOU as Ambassador to
the Court of St. James's.

colonial system. "Free trade," he added, "annihilates
in the breasts of nations the longing thirst after terri-
torial conquests and commercial monopolies, which
have ever been more or less the cause of all the wars
of modern times. It will contribute more than any.
thing else to close that long and sad chapter of history
where we see nations disputing by brute force the
acquisition of riches. In future, societies, as indi-
viduals, can only rise by means tending towards
civilisation, by labour, by science, by genius. It is
the disciples of WATT and JACQUART, and not the
companions of warriors, who will levy inoffensive
tributes on the peaceful inhabitants of the globe.
Already does the banner of free trade float vic-
toriously in England, and, with the aid of the AL-
➢iIGHTY, nations will pass it from hand to hand, till
it wraps in its folds the whole of the civilized world."
All honour to RICHARD COBDEN !

The Hon. Member for Limerick, the ex-martyr of
the cellar, is determined to convince the public that
he has not relinquished one single particle of that ob-
stinacy that induce] him—not only in opposition to
the advice ofevery single one of the Irish Members with
whom he had been in the habit of acting, but in
spite of the urgent entreaties, the anxious prayers of
their veteran leader—to force a collision with the
House of Commons, and peremptorily to refuse the
slightest concession. lie saw that a considerable
majority of the repeal party, all those blessed with
the slightest portion of common sense, depre-
cated the course he had adopted, and that if,
he escaped a vote of censure at Conciliation Hall
it was only because the Irish are a warm-hearted
people, who do not readily abandon the cause of a
friend, and who will be influenced by the heart to
pass, sub silentio, that which must in the strongest de-
gree be condemned by the head. The Hon.
Member had calculated on a considerable sensa-
tion being excited, which should vibrate through
the land from Cape Clear to the Giant's
Causeway, which should arouse the strongest feel-
ings of indignation throughout the nation ; and that
during his martyrdom he should (as one of the
Young Ireland gentry expressed it) act the king, re-
ceiving in regal state the deputations which would
certainly crowd in to wait upon him with addresses
from admiring and sympathising thousands. But in
vain was the hope. In rain the sojourn in the cellar—
the refusal to partake of generous fare—the protest
against Saxon ale—the stern resolution against wine;
all failed in procuring him the sympathy that he
coveted, in exciting the commotion that he desired.
It is true that a few of the very young gentlemen,
who had sufficient leisure to afford a visit to the
Saxon metropolis, visited the cellar, and in some
degree calmed by their condolence the disappointed
feelings of the martyr ; and that the same persons
also attempted to obtain a vote of the Association
approving of his conduct, and encouraging him
to persevere in his opposition of the orders
of the House. But, alas ! these exertions were
in vain. The people, who would gladly have
supported him in any legitimate contest in anything
founded on reason which could possibly prove bene-
ficial to his country, could not join him in his wild
and ridiculous attempt. lie took up a false, an un-
tenable position, and he could not expect that any
sober-minded person would do battle on his side, when
he so foolishly refused to withdraw from the unequal
contest. Hence the feeling of gratitude on his part,
the determination to support the Young Ireland
party when they, in turn, should be guilty of conduct
as absurd, as supremely ridiculous as his own. Hence
his withdrawal from the Association when a check
was interposed, and language, by which the entire
body might have been seriously compromised if it

As a testimony of the little reliance that can be re-
posed upon the information conveyed from Madrid
in this troublous and momentous junc-
ture, we may allude to the statement made
On Saturday, by the National, that Mr. BULWER
had entered a constitutional protest against the pro-
jected alliance, and which statement has subsequently
been contradicted. Similar, and even more startling
declarations have been likewise uttered and written.
The recal of NARVAEZ has been hinted at ;
the irascibility of Count DE BRESSON, the
French Ambassador has formed matter for length-
ened comment, and one of the Paris newspapers has
even exulted over the Spanish policy of Louis Pia-
LIPPE, as through the instrumentality of that policy
" Lord PALMERSTON has been treated like a numskull
and Mr. BULWER juggled like a nut !" Notwith-
standing, however, all these embarrassing observa-
tions, and all this manifestation of ill-feeling, we shall
still continue sanguine that the just and rational
balance between the continental powers may be
maintained—that the constitutional laws of Spain
may not be violated, as the subordination of her
people would thereby be endangered that
the marriage of the INFANTA may be dictated not
by expediency or profit, but by the free choice of
the Princess and the honourable advancement of the
fortunate suitor. The sagacity of King Louis
PHILIPPE, the foresight of Lord PALMERSTON,
end the firmness of the British Ambassador, form
the basis of this aspiration. The natural barrier of
the Pyrenees is another means for its realisation ;
and, beyond all, the distinct nationality of Frenchmen
and Spaniards.

had been patiently heard, was put an end to. Hence
his refusal to accept the proffered reconciliation, to
avail himself of the bridge of gold prepared for his re-
turn by Mr. O'CONNELL. His vanity has suffered a fear-
ful shock ; his self-opinion has been sadly assailed ; he
thinks it better " to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.'
He must be "nulli secundus"—he prefers to preside
over the councils of Young Ireland than be even the
second in Conciliation Hall. He has sulkily retired
to Cahermoyle to await the course of events, and he
has recently been cheered by an imposing demonstra-
tion of the physical force repealers of the county
Limerick, Who headed, we regret to say, by several
Roman Catholic clergymen, waited on him for the
purpose of presenting addresses from the repealers of
Rathkeale and Newcastle. The Hon. Member gave
a detailed account of the causes which led to his
secession from Conciliation Hall, of the differences
that arose in the Association : these, according to Mr•
O'BRIEN, were occasioned by different causes—first,
as to the propriety of the Association pronouncing an
opinion in support of himself, in his struggle with the
House of Commons, in which (as he stated) the ma-
jority yielded to the minority; secondly, as to
the propriety of repealers accepting or
holding office under the Whig Government; and
lastly, respecting the Dungarvan election. These,
according to Mr. O'BRIEN, are the real differences
that have occasioned the split in the repeal camp, and
not the question of physical force. This is the man-
ner in which he strives to persuade himself that he is
still justified in his conduct.
The chief foundation on which the Association was
erected was, that its objects were to be attained only
by moral force—by the strength of public opinion.
On this distinct pledge and understanding many of
its members joined its ranks ; and it was by a strict
adherence thereto alone that the co-operation of
others whose aid would be most desirable could be
hoped. The sagacious leader could trace to that prin-
ciple the various triumphs he had obtained, the vic-
tories he had achieved. He gained, by peaceful
means, successes which could never have been won
by force. During his entire course his great diffi-
culty has been to curb and control the ardent and
impetuous feelings of the people. It was easy to
excite them, easy to goad them on to any
pitch of enthusiasm, to induce them to brave
any dangers, to undergo any privations; but
to keep down the excited passions, to prevent any
outbreak that would effectually destroy the prospects
of a peaceful and bloodless victory, that was the task
that required extraordinary powers indeed, hic Tibor
hoc opus est. It could only be done by the constant
affirmation of the principle, by instantly putting down
any person, whoever he might be, who would -speak
even of the possibility of an appeal to arms, a re-
course to physical force. It was not the persons who
could give expression to the feeling that were t 6 be
feared, men who really mean fighting and not al-
ways speaking of it, and imagining cases when they
would be called on to do so, but it was the ignorant
multitude on whom these harangues might have the '
most injurious and demoralizing effect. He was,
therefore, right in at once checking the utterance in
the Association, and getting rid of those who infringed
the fundamental rule of the society; and in the with-
drawal with them of Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, we really
think they have experienced no great loss.

On Friday last, whilst writing upon the grand
commercial festival at Sheffield, we cursorily ad-
verted to the formation of a Free Trade Association
in Paris, and embraced this fact as an earnest of the
rapidity with which the enlightened policy that has
recently animated our National Councils in commer•
cial matters, will diffuse itself throughout the govern-
ments of other civilised states. We enumerated, like-
wise, other striking instances of the onward progress
of the human mind in relation to this im-
portant subject. Considering how •inauspiciously,
and but a very short while since, the
League, scarcely numbering half-a-dozen members,
closeted in an obscure room, " with a dingy red
curtain," entered upon its herculean task of routing
a powerful aristocracy from their stronghold of in-

vidious monopoly—the astonishing celerity with
which they accomplished their object, astonished not
less the intrepid originators themselves, than the
thankful millions, who will speedily reap the fruits of
commercial emancipation. This political phenomenon
is attributable, first, to the intrinsic excellence of the
scheme itself, next to the sound common sense
for which the British people are remarkable,
and, lastly, to the admirable organisation, united to
the judicious zeal and untiring perseverance, which
characterised every proceeding of the renowned
League. But if such great results have flowed from
such small beginnings in this country, may we not
predicate, from what has already taken place in
France, that, advanced as she is in civilisation, her
subjects will soon be in possession of the same boon
we have so prosperously secured for ourselves?
What do we read ? The first meeting of the
free-traders (Libres Echangistes) in Paris corn-
prised twelve hundred members a vast ma-
jority of the Liberal Deputies, a great number
of Peers, as well as of the most eminent men of the
different mercantile bodies were present; a Peer of
the highest rank presided ; another Peer was selected
as the head of the managing committee ; and all the
speeches delivered partook of the same convincing
logic and philanthropic fervour that distinguished
the advocacy of our own champions in the same
cause. Such has been the invigorating influence of
our example—such the noble commencement which
France has made in a work whereof the future
benefits to herself will be illimitable.

Mr. COBDEN has acquired for himself an imperish-
able fame in his native land. It would seem as if
his expanded intellect was destined to shed its beam-
ing influence wherever he moves. A month has
scarcely elapsed since the English manufacturer, at a
banquet given expressly in honour of his arrival in
Paris, enunciated to an elevated audience the great

We learn from Geneva that the Valley of Dappes
has been ceded to France by the Canton de Vaud for
the sum of 300,000 francs. The contract of sale must
be ratified by the Swiss Diet. The inhabitants do
not object to the cession, as they will continue to
enjoy an exemption from customs' duties.

truths he had been instrumental in disseminating
among his own countrymen ; and he has no sooner
quitted that city than a powerful association for un-
shackling commerce has been summoned into
existence. Bordeaux, too, has been prompt
to emulate the example of the French me-
tropolis. Mr. COBDEN was invited to a grand
entertainment at Bordeaux on Tuesday last. The
mayor of that city was recently an eye-witness of
Mr. COBDEN in the House of Commons, and was
also with him at Manchester, where he uttered sen-
timents which won him the applause of the citizens
of our leading emporium of trade. There is a
sterling worth in Mr. COBDEN'S eloquence, which,
we hesitate not to say, is not equalled by any other
man of the present day. A racy vigour pervades his
address to the inhabitants of Bordeaux which forcibly
reminds us of the ponderous eloquence of CHAT..
SIAM. " Free trade," said Mr. COBDEN, " re-
duces the* labour of man to the lowest
scale possible, and raises the reward of his labour to
the highest by that wonderful machinery, combina-

An Imperial ordonnance of the Emperor NICHOLAS
was published at Warsaw on the 28th ult., command-
ing, that, in future, those peasants who cultivate at
least three acres of land shall, as long as they fulfil
their duties to their landlords, enjoy the free use of
their land, nor shall their landlords increase their
burdens. The peasants shall, moreover, be at liberty
to quit their landlords on giving three months' notice.
The possessors in perpetuity of the domains of the
State, and of lands belonging to public foundations,
schools, &c., shall maintain the peasants established
thereon without adding to their existing obligations.
The governor and council of administration of the
kingdom of Poland are charged with the execution of
the Imperial ordonnance.

The festival of St. Louis, the 25th of August, was
observed this year at Rome with much ceremony.
The cardinals, according to annual custom, attended
mass in the Church cf St. Louis of the French.
Mgr. SACRISTA chaunted the grand mass. The car-
dinals, twenty-three in number, were ranged on each
side of the choir, and at the bottom, in front of the
altar, Count Rossi, the French Ambassador, was
placed in a stall, covered with a carpet richly worked
with flour delis. After the benediction the Ambas •
sador went up to the Sub-dean of the Sacred College,

tion. To express in two words the tendencies of two
opposed principles, free trade is combination, mono-
poly is competition." Ile dwelt convincingly upon
the advantages derivable from the reduction of the
duties on foreign and colonial sugar, as showing that
it will lead to a thorough revision of our entire

g
and profoundly saluted him, .in token of his acknow- preach the Ministry of October 29 with that result; far
ledgment of the honour of his presence. Count i from reutting such a coolness, we should rather be
nowappreciated by every Cabinet, every Government,
tempted to applaud it. France, whose moderation is
Rossi afterwards paid the sarne tribute of respect to
the rest of the cardinals. In the evening, after ves- and' *
pers, the POPE, according to custom, went to St. firm towards England. Such au attitude, judicially
as,um. ed and julicioasly maint,.ined, cannot be
Louis. When he arrived at the door of the church, '
long in changing our po,ition in Europe and in r • ' .•
, , alslno
Count Rossi opened the door of the carriage, and re- in our favoUr 'S
' • sympathies which have only remained
ceived his Holiness. After remaining some time in mute, because we have not known how to make them
prayer before the altar, the Holy Father went into vibrate. Either we very much deceive ourselves, or the
marriage of the Duke de Montpensier is destined to
the sacristy, and permitted several persons to kiss his
produce a great and excellent effect in every Court.
foot, Count Rossi standing on the left side of the We have called on M. Guizot to relinquish his system
POPE'S chair. lof immobility ; he has just done so with eclat. The
favour with which this first step has been received
will, we are inclined to believe, induce him not to stop
here."

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 general 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.

Its tone, however, is somewhat changed on the fol-
lowing day.
In the Presse of Saturday we find the follow-
ing :

We have received Madrid papers of the 20th ult.
The proposed marriage of the QUEEN with Don
FRANCISCO D'Assls seems to have given universal
satisfaction. Not so, however, the proposed marriage
of the Infanta LUISA with the Due DE MONTPENSIER.
In the Clamor Publico 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 Due DE MONT-
PENSIER and the Infanta LUISA—an obstacle which
it will he very hard to overcome, taken advantage 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 Duc 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 aftQr 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 Salle 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 For,ign Affairs the oritzinal 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 of Spain,
passed on Nov. 10, 1712, before MM. LPtuoine and Le •
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. That was
exactly what Spain and Europe wanted to prevent, and
it was therefore they who demanded a formal renunci-
4tion."

" The news of the marriage of the Duke de Montpen-
sier with Donna Luisa has produced an incredible de-
gree of agitation in Madrid. Serious demonstrations
, have taken place. Men who, twice or thrice during
the last ten years, Lave sought in France an asylum,
welcome, and protection. men whom we have seen
eat in sadness the bread of exile, and who are
indebted to our generous support, not only for the
power of revisiting their country, but of finding their
lives, their principles, and property, newly acquired by
revolutibn, beyond the reach of danger, allow themselves
to utter insulting expressions against France, which can
only excite our pity, for there is in such conduct, more of
ingratitude than of insolence. We have often protested
against the behaviour of those men who brandished their
sabres in guiltless blood, in the antechambers of Espar-
tero; we have more than once taken to task, and recalled to
more consistent conduct, those two or three orators in
the Senate who habitually railed against France, for the
sake of interests which were not those of Spain. Those
men ought rot to forget what France has done to main-
tain Queen Isabella on the throne, and to secure the
triumph of constitutional principles. We shall content
ourselves to-day, with merely stating these facts ; on a
future occasion we shall allude to the causes of this bit-
terness against France."
This admission, that the news of the marriage had
produced an incredible degree of agitation in Madrid,
made by the organ of Queen CHRISTINA, SO soon after
" its song of triumph," is, to say the least, very
significant.
The National is by no means disposed to give to
M GUIZOT the credit claimed for him of having out-
manamvred Lord PALAIERSTON.
" It appears," says the Notional, " that we have
gained a splendid victory in Spain. Lord Palmerston
has been treated like a numskull, and Mr. Bulwer jug-
gled like a nut. We had to take our revenge for 1840,
attd we have at last perfectly succeeded. To marry at
the same time Don Francisco and the Duke de Mont-
pensier to the two sisters is a master-stroke, and Eng-
land will drink the bitter draught with a wry face, but
will do nothing against it. The journals which express
the views of .111. Gnizot had yesterday a little air of dis-
dain and provocation which calls to mind the most palmy
days of political dandyism. England, forsooth! Is it
that any thought would be given to her? She will be
angry—will show some ill-humour; well, she will be let
pout on, and matters will, notwithstanding, take their
course. There is no harm in letting Lord Palmerston
know that we can be a little more diplomatic
than he, and that, when the necessary moment comes,
others can show more boldness. But, in good
faith, is it wished to represent as a victory for France
the conclusion of the miserable intrigues that have taken
place at Madrid around Madame Munoz ? The green
of Spain does not marry the first and only candidate
of France, but tired of so much annoyance she throws
herself into the arms of her cousin, whom France sup-
ported against her will. Fine success, truly, and well
worth a flourish of trumpets ! But the Queen's sister
is promised to the Duke de Montpensier. Oh, for that
we should be intoxicated with joy !—we should dance
over the head of Lord Palmerston, caught trip-
ping! Let us celebrate France crowned with glory,
and M. Gurzot her prophet! We are going to have a
Spanish Infanta at the Tuileries ! What an honour,
and how the English will be annoyed ! However, it is
somewhat imp -I.ident to triumph beforehand with so
much noise. The marriage of the Duke de Montpen-
sier is officially announced, and even the time mentioned
for its coming off. But just see what is passing at Ma-
drid. At the first news of the marriage of the Infanta
with a French Prince, public opinion manifested but
little favour for the prof, ct. With the exception of the
Herald°, which obeys Christina, not a person was found
in Madrid to applaud the project. It is looked
on as imposed by France, as the condition of her con-
sent to the marriage of Isabella with her cousin. But
this condition offends every one ; the Moderadoes be-
hold in it peril for the future ; Castilian pride takes
alarm at the exaessive influence which is thus given to
the house of Orleans. The provision of the treaty of
Utrecht are called to mind, and fears are entertained of
the chances of a new war of succersien. The Car-
lists behold all their hopes lost. The Progressists
are not less menacing, and the support of England
gives him as much hot e as resolution. Thus, then, this
marriage of the Duke d 111-;n•pens:er, which, is in their
eyes a matter of very little importance, meets with a
strong resistance amongt the Spanish people, and the
mere announcement of it has been sufficient
to reanimate all kinds of trouble, and inspire all
parties with a desire to have recourse to arms. Cer-
tainly in this there is no cause of congratulation.
But has England, who is redresented as vanquished, and
who is so well sneered at here, has she said her last
word? We cannot believe it. Let nothing more be said
of a challenge given to Lord Palmerston, for if he should
accept, the end will be as it has always been—humiliation
and baseness from our Government."
The France, which has always been the supporter of
the rights of Don CARLOS, agrees in opinion with the
National, that England will oppose the Marriage of
the Due DE MONTPENSIER. The following is an ex-
tract of the article in question :
" In the event of the son of Don Carlos becoming the
husband of Isabella, it would have been necessary to
have revised the law of succession, and to have operated
of the fusion of rights of each of the husbands. The son
of Don Carlos could not be made the husband of the
Queen. He must have been King, and in the
event of his becoming a widower, would have
continued to wield the sceptre which his birth-
right had secured to him. With the Duke of
C.`adia there is less embarrassment ; that Prince can
only aspire to the position which Prince Albert enjoys
in England—nothing more. In the event, therefore,
of Isabella dying without children, the pretension of
Don Francisco d'Assis will cause no embarrassment,
He will be got rid of with a dotation, and the Infanta
Luisa becoming Queen, it will be arranged that the
Duke de Montpensier will not be in the same precarious
position as his predecessor. Nevertheless, England
has always opposed this arrangement. Will she
persist in her refusal ? We think she will. And this
appears to be anticipated, for the second marriage,
although formally d cided on, is reserved in pato and
will only be announced at a later period. If Spain flatters
herself that she has thus got rid of revolutions, she is
mistaken. If the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier
takes place, it will be an evident sign that England has
lost all her influence in Spanish affairs, and Lord Pal-
merston and Lord Clarendon will cut a sorry figure if
this event is accomplished in spite of them."
The Constitutionnel, which approves of the double
marriage, endeavours to make it appear that M.
GUIZOT has so bungled in the matter as to make it
next to impossible to bring the MONTPENSIER match

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 :—" Neither the
Sovereign nor the immediate successor of the throne
can contract marriage with any person excluded by
law from succeeding to the throne." "Now," con-
tinues the Espanol, "since the descendants of the
house of Orleans are so excluded by international
treaties, which are not only the laws of the kingdom,
but still more explanations of the public European
law, the Cortes cannot authorise the marriage of the
INFANTA with the Duke Of MONTPENSIER without
violating the constitution of the State."

It is said that Mr. BULWER has protested against
the proposed marriage on his own responsibility, and
has sent home for instructions. This report of Mr.
BULWER'S protest has, however, since been contra-
Meted. Certain it is, that M. ISTURITZ has resigned,
after an angry interview with Count BRESSON, the
French Ambassador, in which it is said the Count
talked' of France supporting the pretensions of the
Duc DE MONTPENSIER by the sword. We, however,
believe that LOUIS PHILIPPE is much too wise and
astute to invade Spain for the purpose of forcing on
an alliance distasteful to the Spanish people.
The Heraldo announces that the marriages are to
take place on the 10th October. The funds fell con-
siderably, when it was known that it was the inten-
tion of the Spanish Court to endeavour to bring about
a match between the Infanta LUISA and the Duc DE
MONTPENSIER. It is expected that General NAR-
VA.EZ will, at the desire of the French Court,
return immediately to Madrid, and receive the ap-
pointment of President of the Council, vacant by the
resignation of Senor ISTURITZ. The Hemp° declares
that the country will not submit to the marriage of
the INFANTA with a Prince of ORLEANS, and the
Catolico anciEsperanza, the organs of the Legitimatist
party, express themselves as dissatisfied v%ith the pro-
posed alliance.

about.
The KING, on Thursday, received the deputation
from the Chamber of Deputies, and returned the fol-
lowing answer to the address :
" Messieurs les Deputes,—l receive with pleasure this
new testimony of the sentiments with which you are ani-
mated. It is a precious pledge for the continuation of that
happy accord between all the powers of the State, which
is at once the guarantee of our liberties, and of the repose
and prosperity of France. I deeply feel the good wishes
you express towards my family and myself. You know
that, devoted from the earliest days of our The to the
service of our country, the sweetest reward for our de-
votion is to have deserved well from her, and to obtain
From the nAtion that cot: fidenc:. of which you have just
Oven me so strong an assurance."
This speech was received with loud shouts of
Vive le Rini."
The Chambers were prorogued by royal ordon-
nance on Friday.
The Prince DE Jonivir.LE embarked at Naples on
the 28th, on board the steamer Rhamses, for Civita
Vecchia, en route for Rome.
Admiral DUPETIT TIMUARS has been promoted to
the rank of Vice-Admiral, and Captain IhtuAT to
that of Rear-Admiral, and all the French officers who
have distinguished themselves in Otaheite have ben

MADRID BOLA, Ato. 31.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 351 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 22 ;
the Five per Cents. at 221; the Debt, without interest,
at 6:2; and the Coupons at 201.

We have received the French papers of Friday and
Saturday.

The marriage of the Queen of SPAIN and of her

ister is the subject of comment in all of thew.

TheJournaldesDebutscongratulates Spain and France
on the solution of this difficult questim, which, says
the Journal des Debuts, " the French Government
had foreseen from the beginning." The Epoque
follows in the same strain, but is scarcely so
reserved as the Journal des Debuts. It chuckles at
what it conceives to be a triumph over England; fur
in that light it regards the marriage with
the Duke DE MONTPENSDER.
The Presse of Friday also exults over what it con-
siders a triumph over England. It says—
" Certainly, M. Guizot bus not undertaken to marry
the Duke de Montpensier with the Infanta Luisa—has
not signed the preliminary documents which have
already made this marriage a fait accompli. without
having beforehand reckoned on the discontent which
Hill be felt by the new Erglish Cabinet, and on the
difficulties to which that feeling may give rise. M.
G ttiz it has foreseen all these eventualities, and we
praise him the more for not having allowed himself
to bo 'rested by an exaggerated fear of displeasing
Lord Palmerston and Lord Clarendon. Besides, on
What grounds would these Nobli Lords be justified in
uttering their complaints? The Fr,tinh Cabinet, in this
affair, has only appliA the principles laid down and
recently proclaimed by the British Cabinet itself. If
it be true that Queen Isabedia pus at full liberty to
espouse a Prince of the house of Coburg, what serious
man could maintain that the Infanta Dot na Luisa
was less free to choose than her august bisect.? England
may view with displeasure the marriage of the Duke
de Montpensier, but it cannot make it an object of legs
timate complaint ; and even should the entente cordiale
be in any way cooled by it, it is not we who would re-

re warded.
The l)uc DE MONTEENSIER arrived at Baden on
the Ist inst.
Mr. COBDEN was entertained on Tuesday by the
free-traders of Bordeaux. An account of the banquet
will be f:und in another column.
The Three pea Cents, closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday at 8-If. 45e. ; the Five per Cents., 122 f. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1.2521 50c.; Rouen, 965 E
75c. ; Havre, 7171. 50e. ; Great Northern, 7231.
73c. ; Avignon, 237 E 50e. ; Vierzon, 636 f, 25c.;
Bordeaux, 5801. ; Boulogne, -192 f. 50c. ; Troyes and
Montereati, 3651. ; Basle, 2201 ; Fampraix, 4001 ; Dieppe.
3901. ; Paris and Strasburg, 5021. 50e.; Tours and Nantes,
5121. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 533 E 75c.; Lyons and Avignon,
495 E; Bordeaux and Cate, 485 E ; Spanish Active, 35i.
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 1.-Marseilles and Avignon, 9101. ;
Northern, 710 E ; Paris and Lyons, 5251.
LYONS, SEPT. 2.-Paris and Rouen, 9571. 50c. ; Avignon
and Marseilles, 9151. ; Northern, 713 f. 75c.; Paris and
Lyons, 528 E 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOR MON RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 5.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13!,i -Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), l9i -Luxembourg, 1% -Namur and Liege, 2y, ex int.
-Northern of Fran:N, Constituted, -Paris and Lyons Con-
stituted, 6g-west Flanders, 4.

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The Honourable Spencer Cowper has contributed
the reunifi:ent donation of 5001. towards the completion
of the new church of zit. Joliu, Lynn.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Lane are arrived in town from
Lord Forester's seat in Shropshire.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
In the Cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday the
sales worn 10,000 hales, including 2,000 to 3,000 on
,Teculation. The market was very firm, at full rates.
—Shars were rather inactive again.
The rice,unts rec,ired from Li-bon this morning upon
financial matters have beau read with astonishment and
reprehension by thozer who have a legal claim upon the
Treasury for dividends en account of moneys borrowed
here. We have conversed with several large bond-
holders this morning, and who consider the breach of
faith now attempted to be almost unequalled, ex-
cepting the fraud' committed by Mendizabal, in
connexion with Spanish money matters. That
some parties were aware of the contents of the report
upon financial matters now made public by the means
of the Diario di Governo, is pretty clear from the move-
ments which have just occurred in the market for Portu-
guese Bonds here. Bull operations were commenced in
this stock somewhere about a fortnight ago, and
the price of Four per Cents. gradually rose
from 41 to 48. On Saturday private sales were
made for delivery on the 15th instant, and the
market closed nearly at a fall of 1 per cent. between
bargain and bargain. This created some little surprise
on the part of those who held the stock, and who, of
course, were not in the secret that such a decree as that
which has been made nublic to-day would have been
issued, and by which the bondholders here, in Paris,
and elsewhere, will be robbed to the extent
of something about 50 per cent. Revenues peculiarly
hypothecated to the payment of interest upon loans
raised here have been seized upon, and they are asked
modestly to submit to a temporary sacrifice. The
opinion entertained by the foreign creditors of Portugal
of so unjust a proceeding will be best found by a re-
ference to our Stock Market report of this day. A sa-
crifice to some amount, it will be observed, has already
been the result of this frateltdent transaction.

Consols for Account are at 961, and for Money at
961 I. Business is slack. Exchequer-bills have fluc-
tuated from 13s. to 17s. premium. Bank Stock is lower
than it was on Saturday.
The fall in the Portuguese Four per Cents. since Satur-
day is 71 per cent. ; since midday the price has
advanced from 404 to 42 and 43. There is quite a
panic in the market from the causes above stated. Mexi
cans are at 26; Spanish Three per Cents. at 38;1;
Brazil at 881; and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 591.
Shares are in dull demand to-day.

oNL► CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
dank Stock .. .2091434 2093%
3 per Cent. Reduced Ann 5........ 961/,5/s 96%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 961 1/1. 961,s
New 31j per Cent. Annuities 98%% 98%
L,ong Annuities toexpire Jan.lB6o 10A 104 A
India Stock 960 260
Consols for Account... .... ... 96Y3 961%
xchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11,0.... 15 13 17 pm. 17
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSINo
,RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Austrian, 5 per Cent .... ... 110% 11014
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Account BB% 89 89
Buenos Avres Bonds, 6 per Cent —
litto Account
Ecuador Bonds
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent —7%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto. Account
Ditto Small
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 43 42 42
Ditto, Account ... 43 403/4 43 42 42
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 271414 27
Ditto, Passive
Ditto Deferred
Ditto, Indemnity 65
Ditto. 3 per Cent —383 A
Ditto. Account ...... .........
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
PRICES 0? BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
isATLWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES,
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott , Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..... 2
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Theme.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 21/2....,.
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto New 17%
Birmingham and Ox-
cord Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4.
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ......
Bristol and Liver. June . 21/2......
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Hall Shares 2% 1%% .... •••••
Ditto Extension ... ~ 21/2 _
Cambran & Grand June 428 ......
Cambridge and Oxford.. Iy. , l%
Central irant 2% .....
Chester and Holyhead 27% •• •• •• • •••• ..
Cllurnet. and Blytly. 2
Chester and Manchester 42s —
Chelteinhain and Oxford 2 ...... .
Clydesdale Junction l5 ,
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork ar,cl Killarney
Cork and Waterford ... 11/2 —
Cornwall
Cornwall & CenelDevon 2% .
I ,erby and Crewe 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Bel-
ford, and Sheild. J ',lnc. 2% —
Direct Manchester
( Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's)...... 514...... •• ... .........
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway... . 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 71/,
Eastern Counties 141. 16s, ..... .23 223/ ... .....
Ditto New lO/. 16s. —
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......6/. 13s. 4d....
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 105....... 214
EastDereli'm andNor'ch 1
East.ern Union 35 .. ...
Ditto, Quarter Shares 834 —
Do. Exten.( Harwich ) 17/8 — ......... .....
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 214
East Lancashire
East Lincolnshire
Vast & West of England 1%......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
Ditto Half Shares

Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/ ......
Ditto, New

86:'

14 dis
157/8
1%

11/

1

-
1%

22%

-
21,4

23
%

-
18%

Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 ' - ...
.........
... _
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
......
..
......
Ely and Ihmtingdon ... 7% —
.---.
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/2 ......
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 514 2% 3 3
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 .....
Ditto, New .. 15 , _
Do., 11l Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Glone.,Abetystwith,and
Central of Wales
.•
Goole, Doncaster, he... 425. —
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn
Great Eastern &Western 21/2 — ••• ••
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. arid West.
(Ireland)
Great Munster 2l/2
Great North of Scotland 21/2.--
"jreat North of England..loo .230
Ditto New 5
Ditto, New •
Ditto, New
Great, Western 85

Ditto 14 Shares 5O

Ditto 1i Shares
Ditto Fifths -
Guildfortl,Care'm. Ports. 5 .....
....
Harwich and Eastern
Counties Junction ... 2 ......
Hull and Selby 5O
Ditto 1,1 Shares
Do. Half Shares 25
Inve.rnessand E1gin...... 2 - •••. .
jp.ilirieli & Bury St. Dim. 9
Do., do , and Norwich 2%
Irish North Midland ... 1% —
Killarne:• Junctions l4
Kendal and Windermere 11/ —
Lancaster and Carlisle... 45
00. New
Lame, Belfast, and .Bal-
lymena
Leeds and Bra Iford
Leeds and Carlisle
Lel.;est‘lr & Birmingham 225.
Leicester and Beilf.)rd . 225. %14 dis l4 dis.
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 17% —
Leieflster and Tamw., &c. 425.
Lpool., Alnelistr, & New-

214

_
701/2

castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% ...
Do. New
Ditto Extension ...... 5 ......
London and Brighton... 50
Ditto, Fifths ...... ••• 30 ••••••
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. Lid 23
Do. Gnaran. 5 per cent. 9
LgAndon and Greenwich 12115 s 4d —
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d
London, Hounslow, and
Western
.. •• •• . • •••
London and N. Westernloo 2041/2 206.........
Do Quarters
Do., ao., New Shares..
Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ...... ... .... ..
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 122 —
Do., New 14 Shares
(G. J.) ...............
Do. 40/. Shares (L.M. ) 6
Loud. & S,Western 411 6s 10d 72'o, 72%
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New
Do. New -
London and York 21,( ..... 2%...
Do. 1/2 Shares
London and Windsor . 1—
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... .......... .. 21,8......
Londonderry &Coleraine 121/.......
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 121,4
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Leeds . 82
Ditto 1~ Shares
Do. Quarters 2
-
Do. Fifths 3 . .... 11
Do. Sixteenths 614 — .....
Do. Extension 425....... "....

62%

15%

5 sa

1 6 1,4

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