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

nation of M. ISTURITZ, and of his appointment as
Ambassador to En.gland.; and the Esperan:a repeats
the statement, ;hat there had been serious oxpiana-
tions on the suLject cf tie l‘loyrrENstEn marriage
between M. ISTURiTZ and Mr. BCLWER.
The Spanish army is henceforth to consist of
ninety- ix battalions of infantry an t battalions
of reserve.

The Heraldo announces the discovery of another
plot to disturb the peace of the capital, which being
interpreted means that it would be exceedingly con-
venient to the employers of the Keraldo to make cer-
tain illegal arrests, and that it is their intention so
to do.

MADRID BOMA, SEPT. I.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 3.541- for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 22i
cash; Passives, 61; Coupons, 201 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Spanish marriages are commented on in all
of them. The Ministry and Court of Franee look
upon the marriage of the IN with the Due DE
MOISTPENSEIR as nil juit accompli, but many persons
believed that both Great Britain and the Northern
Powers would protest against such an union. In
allusion to the provisions of the treaty of Utrecht,
which would probably form one of the grounds of
such a protest, the -ifournq des Dands, in reply to
the article in the Espanol on the subject, says : _
" A Madrid journal, the Espanol, opposed to the
marriage of the Infanta with the Duke de Montpensier,
calls to our recollection that by the treaty of Utrecht,
concluded in 1713, a public uct is annexed, by which
the family of France and the family of Orleans renounce
the Crown of Spain, which might have descended to
them under the Salic law.
" We do not see how this document can be considered
as an obstacle to the marriage of the Infanta of Spain to
one of the sons of the King of the French ; it would not
even have been an impediment in the way of an union of
the Queen with a Prince of the house of Orleans, for
the order of succession to the throne could not in any
way be changed by either the one or other of these two
alliances."
The Commerce and the Courier Francais both

controvert the argument of the Espanol ; and the
Siecle, which enters fully into the subject, says—
" It is well known that the object of this celebrated
document was to prevent the re-union of the crowns of
France and Spain. It results from it, not that a French
prince cannot marry a 'Spanish princess, but that he
cannot claim the crown of Spain in his own right. It is
the same for the princes of Spain with regard to the
French crown. But to arrive at the throne by the right
of male succession, and to bee me the husband of a
princess who occupies the throne in her own right,
founded on the ancient law of the Goths, and renewed
by the Cortes, are things essentially different. The
Espanol, which brings forward the renunciation,
forgets that it is a corollary to the establishment of
the Salic law in Spain. If it ever suited France to
establish that her crown might be filled by females, a
French Queen would be perfectly at liberty to espouse
a descendant of Philip V., provided that Prince was
not King of any other country. The renunciation is
inapplicable to the Duke de Montpensier; his wife is
heir presumptive to the throne of Spain; she may be-
come Queen of that country; but unless by the ex-
press wish of the Spaniards, declared in a sovereign
form, the husband of the Infanta Luisa would not
even hare the guardianship of his children. It would
be difficult in good faith to bring forward the renun.
ciation against the Duke do Montpen.ier in the event
of his claiming the regency during the minority of his
son or his daughter; fur the regency, although it em-
braces the functions of royalty, is not royalty, the
essential character of which is perpetuity."
The Quotidienne, the Legitimatist organ, also denies
the validity of the provisions of the treaty of Utrecht.
" If," says the Quotidienne, " the treaty of Utrecht
still subsists, with its consequences, the lawful King
of Spain is CHARLES VI.; but if it has been done
away with by the revolution of 1833, how can it be
now adduced against the descendants of PHILIP of
Orleans ?. It must either protect the Count DE
MONTEMOLIN, or open Spain to the Duke DE MONT.'
PENSIER. But we know from experience that re-
volutions care but little about being consistent."
Thus all parties in France seemed agreed to treat
the treaty of Utrecht as a dead letter.
1 he Republican National seems to enjoy the pros-
pect of a squabble among crowned heads and Mi-
nisters of State, and laughs, after its own sneering
fashion, at the intrigues and counter-intrigues of the
diplomatists of both sides :
" The double marriage," says that paper, " which
diplomacy has concluded in Spain, occupies at this
moment the entire press of Madrid, of London, and of
Paris. We admire the efforts which are ever made
when the people are suffering to exaggerate the im-
portance of Court affairs. Well ! of what conse-
quence is it whether a young woman is called Infanta
or Madame Montpensier ? Is the world, perchance,
going to change its appearance in consequence? Is it
desired to elevate t:etty monarchical intrigues to the
proportions of those grand events which pro Luce new
ideas amongst society, which give a more rapid rotation
to the fortune of nations, and which cause the axis on
which they turn to sink? Do we still live at that
period of history when a royal alliance set Europe on
fire, and disturbed during many years its security
and its international relations? There is not, at
this moment, a single potentate, however elevated
or pow, rful he may imagine himself, who could
cause any material alteration in the general position of
kingdoms because it pleased himself to marry or to
marry his children. Let us not, therefore, give this
affair a degree of importance which it does nut possess.
Tee only manner in which it regards us is that it pro-
duces the propagation of a species with which we might
dispense. It was Frederick the Great who first used, at
Potsdam, a phrase which has been frequently repeated
There is nothing more easy to replace than a
prince.' The phrase still continues true, and for tha'
reason we will not complain of those menacing mar.
riages."

A circular has just been addressed by some of the
Opposition Members of the Chamber of Deputies to
the electoral body, calling on the Liberal electors to
form permanent committees " to fight the battle of
the registration courts," so as to enable that party to
regain its lost ground. It is signed by 111.0. JhEROT,
DUVERGIER. D'HAURANNE, G. DE BEAUMONT, and
LEON DE AIALLEVILLE, and its object is thus de-
scribed by the Constitutionnel:—
" This circular is not a programme; it is an energetic
invitation addressed to ad shades of the Opposition, to
act everywhere with ensemble, to form permanent com-
mittees, to examine the lists, and to keep the public
mind in a salutary state of agitation. The Government
wish to put the country to sleep, to close its e) es on
its great interests, to divide among a small number
of families the direction of the Government, to cor-
rupt public manners in order to extinguish patriotism.
The Opposition wishes to keep France awake, to inces-
santly excite generous sentiments, to combat corruption,
and to introduce the representative system into the na-
tional habits. For this object, the committees of the
Left Centre and the Left remain constituted and active
after the general elections, and it becomes all good
citizens to imitate their example by organising perma-
nent committees, and taking, within the limits of the
laws, every possible part in the political Oaks of the
country."
The name of M. THIERS is not attached to this
circular, and it is rumoured that an intrigue is in

progress to bi ing about a coalition between M.
Tunas and M. G urzoT.
Orders have been sent to Brest to prepare three
corvettes, the Allier, the Somme, and the Loire to
take 1,600 troops to Otaheite.
The Ministers have determined that the sentence
on JOSEPH HENRY shall be carried into effect.
The Chamber of Commerce of Havre have received
the following announcement from the Minister of
Commerce :

" I have received notice from the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, that the Russian Government has suspended in
its ports of the Baltic and of the White Sea, as well as in
those of the Black Sea and of the Sea of Azof, the appli-
cation of the ukase of the 19th June, 1845, as far as
relates to French shipping arriving from the ports of
France situated on the Atlantic and on the Channel. I

pray-you to communicate this fact to the merchants a
your town."

There was nothing done in the French Funds on Sunday.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:—
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 2.—Marseilles and Avignon, 912 f.
50c. ; Northern, 710 f.; Paris and Lyons, 525 f.
LYONS,' SEpr. 4.—Avignon and Marseilles, 925 f.; Nor-
thern, 7181. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 530 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 135—Direct Bombay and Madras, %
—Dutch Rhenish, 5 "I, —East Indian, sA —Madrid and Vatentia, IIA
—Namur and Liege, '2 —Northern of France Constituted, 1352
—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% —Over Yssel, 2y2 Pari‘and Lyons
Constituted, 6—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4%—JSambre and
Meuse, 4.

MARRIED.—Sept. 1, at Castle-town, Delvin, by
the Hun. and Rev. Francis Howard, Captain John
Rodon, 44th Regiment, to Frances Alicia, third
daughter of Mr. arid Lady Eleanor Fetherstonhaugh, of
13mcklyn Castle, Westmeath.
IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. Hitherto
heat unaided by affinity has been unequal to resolving
water into its constituents; electricity has been the only
single agent by which this could be accomplished. But
we ht ar, and we have full faith in the report, that Mr.
Grove has succeeded in &composing water by heat
alone ; or, popularly to express it, he has boiled water
into its elements, oxygen and hydrogen. This, then, i,
the second grand physical discovery in England thi-
year, both of high scientific importance, and both adding
to the fame of their respective authors, Faraday anti
Grove—Literary Gazette.
Lord Henry .Bentinck has had unprecedented suc-
c2ss among the red deer, his Lordship having already
killed sixteen stags, many of them of great size.
Earl Fortescue has returned to Castle-hill, fron.
visiting the venerable Dowager Countess Fortescue,
Wear Gifford. Viscount Ebrington left Castle-hill early
in the past week, to make u tour of visits.