The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

acquaintance with the subject. L'Epoque, however, 1
is wrong (shall we say wilfully wrong—an article in
the National would almost make it appear so), for not
only was an energetic note delivered by Lord NoR.•
MANBY, but on Sunday the French Cabinet met at
two o'clock to consider of the answer to be given to it.
It is strange that the French Ministerial journals
have systematically endeavoured to mislead their
readers as to the sentiments of the British Govern-
ment and the British people on the subject of this
marriage. Can the more than insinuations, the all
but direct charges contained in the following article
from the National, be true ?
" If the Government be as easy as it wishes to appear
as to the complicated state of things which may follow
the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier," says the
National, " why seek to deceive the public as to facts
which are absolutely self-evident ? Why say, ' the re-
ports circulated, that protests, or declarations, on the
part of England have been presented cannot but be
wholly void of foundation.' We do not desire to accuse
M. Guizot unjustly. Does he know that on Friday his
words were made the foundation of gambling transac-
tions at the Bourse ? Does he know that the persons
about him take advantage of the least word that drops
from him for the most unworthy speculations? Does he
know that on Friday a letter from ono of his political
friends written to an agent de change was handed about
in which it was stated that Lord Normanby's
note contained no more than mere observations?' If M.
Guizot has said so, he has very materially perverted the
bearing of the document handed to him. This, however,
seems to be a system adopted at the Minister's office.
The papers receive every day a communication purport-
ing to be a resume of correspondence, for which they pay,
under the belief that it is true and impartial, and which,
nevertheless, suppresses with care all that appears in the
Madrid Opposition journals, which translates little more
than the effusions of the Heraldo, and which, not satis-
fied with thus following M. Guizot's fancies, gives, under
the semblance of private letters from Spain, intelligence
directly opposite to the truth. On Friday last it stated,
that M. Bulwer had not addressed any note or
protest to M. Isturitz. Yesterday it was said, that
that Ambassador had requested an audience of the
Queen in order to felicitate her on her marriage. Both
these statements are false. We received yesterday a
letter from Madrid, which gives us a complete analysis
of the diplomatic note handed to M. Isturitz, and it is
impossible that after such a note there can have been
any felicitation whatever from the Ambassador who had
to present it and to regulate his conduct in conformity
to it. The object of all these misstatements is explained,
and they are excused when the object is to quiet one's
political friends, but they serve the turn of jobbers, who
are the foremost to circulate these inventions and take
advantage of them. This is an abuse which we point
out to M. Guizot, and we beg to remind him of the
accusations to which M. Thiers was exposed in 1640 on
a similar occasion. It is in vain to seek to
disguise the fact. This paltry affair of the marriage
of a child, which ought not in itself to occupy
diplomacy a single day, has become an important question
by the discussions to which it has given rise in diplo-
macy. The long silence of the Whig Ministry had a
natural cause. Having come to the helm of affairs after
an unforeseen event ; having in the Commons but an un-
certain majority, it may have feared that by being hasty
it might have met with opponents who would reproach
them with their haste, and arrogance in 1.40.
The question of the marriage of the Queen and the
Infanta had been discussed at Eu by Lord Aberdeen
and M. Guizot, in presence of Queen Victoria and the
King of the French. It was necessary that the Whig
Ministry should precisely know what had taken place
on that occasion. It has acted only after having re-
ceived from Lord Aberdeen and Sir Robert Peel the
assurance of their and their friends' strenuous support
in their opposition to a step which those two Ministers
looked upon as a trick. (We soften down the English
word, which is something stronger.) It was after this
that Lord Palmerston drew up the diplomatic note
handed to M. Guizot. It is, as we have said, in very
polite and moderate terms. It is based on the stipula-
lations contained in the treaty of Utrecht ; but besides
this treaty, there was another, which although verbal,
ought to have been held the more sacred by Ministers,
that the witnesses and sureties to this convention were
the Queen of England and the King of the French.
Lord Palmerston insists on this fact ; he mentions that
about two months ago M. Guizot had addressed a
diplomatic note, to which the British Government had
not replied, for they wanted to know previously and pre-
cisely that which had taken place at Eu. It was during
this absence of a reply that the marriage affair was
settled, unknown to the British Minister at Madrid, and
unknown to the Ministry who had frequently given the
assurance of their friendly dispositions. After making
this statement, the note sets forth the objections to the
marriage, and however measured the note may be in its
terms, M. Guizot must have read the following words—
remonstrance' and protest.'
" We have entered into these particulars to show how
much truth there is in the assertion of the Journal des
Debats, which says positively that the statements made
by us could not but be void of foundation.' It is not
our province to seek for the worst side of a question
after the manner and with the boundless confidence of
the Journal des Debats. It is not without some
feelings of humiliation that we see ourselves compelled
to witness a family, a secondary interest, take the place
of great interests, agitate Europe, and threaten France
with some fresh degradation. The' general peace,' we
are told, will not be disturbed.' This is possible, but
we know by long experience at what price the entente
cordiale, now so completely broken, and which must be
restored, will have to be paid."
It is supposed that the answer of the French Go-
vernment to Lord NORMANDY'S protest will be that
France does not consider the marriage as contrary
to the provisions of the treaty of Utrecht; that
the English objections to it on the ground of its
affecting the balance of power are untenable. That
matters have now gone so far that it is impossible to
postpone the marriage, even should it alter in an un-
pleasant manner the existing relations between France
and England, which France would consider a misfor-
tune, but hopes that the bienveillance of her Britannic
MAJESTY and the wisdom of her Council will obviate
an evil much to be regretted. It is quite clear that
coute qui coute Louis PHILIPPE is determined to grasp
the dowry of the Spanish Princess for his son, and
for that purpose hastens on the marriage.

The Due DE MONTPENSIER was to leave Paris for
Madrid on Monday. Some of his suite have already
arrived at Bordeaux, en route for Madrid. On the
30th he is expected at Bayonne, and an agent of the
Spanish post-office is at this moment organising an
extraordinary service of horses from the frontier to
Madrid for his use, and preparations are making at
Irun and Hernani, to give him a reception worthy
of his rank as he passes the frontier.

The Duke of GLUCKSBURGH arrived in Paris from
Madrid on Sunday morning, with the marriage con-

ract of the INFANTA.

Colonels MUNZANO and NOGUERUELA, Father
CABALLERO, and several other Carlist refugees, have
been imprisoned in the citadel of Blaye, by order of

;he French Government.

M. ODILLON BM:MOT has left France for Egypt,
where he will remain until the re-assembling of the
Chambers.

Rear-Admiral TREHOUART, who commanded the
French squadron at the battle of the Obligado, has
arrived at Brest in the frigate Proserpine. She left
Monte Video on the 15th of July, and Rio Janeiro on
the 30th August.

Trade of all kinds in France is represented as being
in a very depressed state. The French Three per
Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Opera on Satur-
day so low as 82 francs. The article in the Epoque
above noticed having created some doubt that Lord
NORMAND/. had "protested," they rose on Sunday, in
the same place, to 82f. 40c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Sul'Emma 28.
_ _ _ _

Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette (Espelete), 1% —Direct Bombay
and Madras, %—Dutch Rhenish, 5% —East Indian, %—Great West
ern Canada, 34—Italian and Austrian, 2—Louvain a la Sambre, %
—Luxembourg, I%—Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, % —Namur and
Liege, I % —Northern of France Constituted, 13% Orleans and
Vierzon, 14% —Over Yssel, 2% dis.—Paris and Lyons Constituted,
5% —Paris and Orleans, 48—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4%
—Sambre and Meuse, 314—West Flanders, 2%.

DEATH OF THOMAS CLARKSON, ESQ.—This illus-
trious philanthropist died at four o'clock on Saturday
morning last, at his residence, Playford Hall, near this
town. He had attained the age of eighty-six ; but his
spirit burned bright to the last, and while he ceased not
to direct his thoughts to the great question of the eman-
cipation of the human race, he calmly looked forward
to " the crown of life " laid up in Heaven for the faith-
ful followers of the cross. He was born at Wisbeach,
in Cambridgeshire, on March 28th, 1760. Ipswich
Express.
EXPLOSION OF WRECKS IN THE THAMES.—Yester-
day the following notice was issued and circulated by
the principal harbour-master of the port of London ;
" The Lord Mayor having issued directions for the re-
moval of several wrecks in the lower part of the River
Thames, by explosion of gunpowder and other means,
all steam vessels navigating where the craft are em-
ployed, viz , the westernmost end of the Blyth Sand off
Yantlett Creek and Northfleet Creek, are required to
ease their steam, and pass as far as possible well clear of
them ; it is likewise directed that no vessel will anchor
near the wrecks."

J. A. Jackson, who filled the office of Colonial
Secretary in South Australia for some time, has received
the appointment of stipendiary agent, resident in Lon-
don, for the colony of Van Diemen's Land.
EARLY CLOSING OF PAWNBROKERS' SHOPS.—This
day, the 29th inst., the new Act of Parliament comes
into force respecting the early closing of pawnbrokers'
shops. It is enacted that from the 29th of September to
the 25th of March no pledges shall be received after
seven o'clock in the evening, and for the remainder of
the year after eight o'clock.
c•-Lord Brougham left Brougham Hall on Friday
jut, for London, thence to Cannes, his seat in France.
ANOTHER RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.— Yes-
terday the bakers increased the price of their bread in
several parts of the metropolis. The price of the 41b.
loaf was increased to eightpence• halfpenny.