The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

sures which this question demands, we assure them of our
imperial goodwill.

" NICIIOLAS."

Madrid papers of the 30th have been received.
So great has been the desertion among the
Spanish troops stationed on the Portuguese frontier,
that General VILLALOSGA has issued a bando, con-
demning every soldier who quits his post to enter
Portugal to be shot three hours after his arrest.
The Ileraldo, which has recently been publishing
fa series of articles advocating an invasion of Portugal,
and in one of which it openly and boldly defied the
powerofEngland,which would it said at once succumb if
Spain acted with proper spirit, has now, acting no doubt
upon instructions, taken upon itself the whole respon-
sibility of those articles, declaring that the opinions it
has published are not those of the Spanish Cabinet.
It appears that the propriety of an armed interfe-
rence in the affairs of Portugal has been fre-
quently discussed of late in the Spanish Cabinet,
and at length Senor ISTURITZ, who has all along been
opposed to an armed intervention, has, it is said,
brought round the majority of his colleagues to his
opinion, so that, notwithstanding the efforts of General
SANZ, backed as those efforts have been by Count
BRESSON, the French Ambassador, to whose inspira-
tion it is supposed the articles in the Heraldo are
due, there will be no invasion of Portugal after all.
According to the Clamor Publico, General RON
CALI has been appointed Captain-General of Cuba,
and Senor CARONDELET, Captain-General of the
Philippine Islands.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The elections still continue to go in favour of the
Ministers. At the time the latest accounts left Paris
the results of 446 elections were known, giving the
Ministry a majority of 102 ; the numbers being, Minis-
terialists, 276 ; Opposition, 172. It is calculated that the
Ministerial majority in the new Chamber will exceed
120. Every one of the Ministers has been elected, and
M. DE SALVANDT, the Minister of Public Instruction,
has been returnesiefor two places. Among the Depu-
ties re-elected are M. DTICHTIIAL, the banker,
the Marquis DE. MONTALEMBERT, Marshal BU-
GEAUD, and M. DUPIN. The Legitimatists and the
R-•publicans are all but annihilated, as far as the
Chamber is conurned, by these elections. There
will, in fact, be only two great constitutional parties
in it—the one led by M. GUIZOT, the other by M.
TRIERS and M. ODILON BARROT. The Oppo-
sition papers endeavour to find consolation for their
misfortunes by making much of the defeat of
H. JACQUES LEFEBVRE in the second arrondissement
of Paris. The Commerce alone honestly confesses
that the Opposition have been soundly beaten, but it
attributes the Ministerial victory to corruption.

The Moniteur announces that the Moment the
Minister of Justice was informed of the false and
alarming rumours which were circulated at Rouen
and Paris on the 2d, he gave orders to the Attor-
neys-General of those two cities to institute a
judicial inquiry to ascertain the origin of those
rumours.

The Moniteur Algerien of the 30th states that AIM.
EL-KADER, accompanied by Bou M4zA, and a smal
number of followers, who were in a state of great
distress, has taken refuge in Morocco.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday at 83f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 1221. 15c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2721. 50c.; Rouen, 975 f.;
Havre, 692. 50c. ; Great Northern, 701 f. 25c. ;
Avignon, 877 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 6151.; Bordeaux, 553 f. 75c.;
Dieppe, 3901. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4851.; Tours and
Nantes, 497 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 510 f ; Lyons and
Avignon, 490 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 486 f.