The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1846.

duced to the embarrassment, ir stead of the perma-
nent organisation, of Spanish affairs, and has tended
to the diminution, instead of the extension, of French
influence, almost every particular circumstance that
has transpired since its announcement has demon-
strated. Hostile sentiments have been germi-
nated throughout every section of Spanish so-
ciety. Petitions have thronged in from the pro-
vinces praying for the rejection of the Orleans
suitor. With only three exceptions—the Imparcial,
the Ileraldo, and the Popular—the Madrid journals
have inveighed against the alliance in terms so
virulent and decisive as to incite the trembling
officials to cause their suppression. Even the
French postilions and navigators on the rail-
ways are assailed by the enraged population, de-
rided as gabachos, and treated with every indignity
short of corporeal punishment. The Ministerial
enunciation by Senor ISTURITZ is greeted in the
Congress with groans and hisses, which are only
suppressed by the ringing of the President's hell.
Beyond all these significant evidences of the foolish
celerity with which the obnoxious scheme has been
concocted, and of the indignation which its un-
generous secresy has aroused, we possess others of
greater consequence. Not merely does the English
Ambassador, Mr. HENRY LYTTON BULWER, protest
against the projected alliance on his own responsi-
bility and this because he recognised the pro-
bability of its ultimately disarranging the ba-
lance of the European powers—but his behaviour
receives the emphatic approbation of his own Govern-
ment. Beyond this, again, a formal protest against
the marriage (published by us in this day's impres-
sion) is forwarded to the Cortes by no less interested
a personage than one of the Spanish Princes, Don
ENRIQUE. " What belongs to me by right," says
this young Bourbon, " and that which I shall at-
tempt to do, influenced less by family views and in-
terests than by the desire to avoid the possibility of
difficult questions, and perhaps even wars of succes-
sion, which have been so fatal to Spain, is to protest
against all eventual right to the Crown which may
be granted to the children of the Duke of MONTPEN-
SIER, if he should ever be united to the INFANTA."
Upon constitutional principles, therefore, a member
of the reigning Royal Family of Spain protests against
that union. On constitutional principles the vast
bulk of the people of Spain protest against it like-
wise ; and upon the fundamental principles of inter-
national legislation, as well as upon the express stipula-
tions of the renowned treaty between " the most serene
and most mighty Princess ANNE, Queen of Great
Britain, and the most serene and most mighty Prince
Plintr V., Catholic King of Spain," the representa-
tive of the former empire at Madrid protests against
that same marriage.

Precisely at this critical juncture the Carlist
leader and the Carlist general escape from sur-
veirance, and threaten to appeal to the popu-
lation of the Peninsula a population already
prepared for any amount of turbulence, and fitted
for any number of insurrections. At a moment
when the hatred for the gabachos is so violent and
universal, any banner w, uld be acceptable so long
as it was inimical to the abhorred foreigners.
While we behold the continental Powers thus
trembling on the verge of commotion,
and see not merely Cabinets but communities
ready to be embroiled with each other, it is a satisfac-
tion to think that England has throughout kept aloof
from the subject of contention, that her dignity has
been maintained, 1-p.r rights of interference have not
been questioned, her honourable candour has not
been impeached even by a momentary suspicion,
and that thus the unselfishness of her recent
protest has been strikingly manifested. What,
however, may not be the futurity reserved for
the Peninsula! Iler population is placed be-
tween an embarrassing and momentous alterna-
tive. Is Spain to become really degraded into
the mere province of some unkindred empire ? Is
she to be again desolated by the stormy throes and
agonies of civil war ? Are the children of FERDI-
NAND to be continued on the throne to perpetuity, or
what novel phase is her history to develop ? The
solution of this problem is within the grasp of the
Spani-h people--they may prove themselves suited to
the occasion, and not unworthy of their progenitors.

One of the highest compliments that can be offered
to a public man has recently been paid to Mr. Ser-
geant MURPHY, on_the occasion of his annual visit to
his native city. It mu-t, indeed, have been extremely
gratifying to that honourable and learned gentle-
man to find that at the first moment of his return,
after having relinquished his proud position as their
representative, the citizens of Cork, of all classes and
varieties of political feeling, should have assembled toge-
ther to do honour to their late member, to afford the
strongest testimony that could emanate from any
constituency of their entire approbation of the course
pursued by their distinguished gue;t, not only while
l.e continued a member of th- Legislature, but since
he had retired into private life, and applied himself to
the important and arduous duties of his profes-
sion. What a contrast did the meeting
afford to those which have recently taken place
in this country, where the dirge of protection
has been chanted, and gloomy prophecies for the
future have been uttered, mingled only with the
most virulent and personal abuse of the wise and
sagacious statesman through whose disinterested ex-
ertions the glorious doctrines of free trade received
the legislative sanction, and became part and parcel
of the law of the land. " On the present occasion
all ranks, all classes, all creeds, all parties, were re-
presented; and mingled together in unity and harmony,
were to be seen the ultra-Tory, the uncompromising
Repealer, the honest Whig, and the unflinching Radi-
cal. No petty difference existed, no narrow distinc-
tion was suffered to interpose." So says our re
spected Contemporary, from whose columns we ex-
tracted an account of the banquet. How gratifying
it is to record the proceedings of such an assemblage.
An oasis in the desert, a green spot where no party
feeling, no political animosity was suffered to intrude,
or to mar the festivity of the evening, where Irish-
man united with his brother Irishman in friendship
and kindliness of feeling; and the only contest was,
which could exhibit the greatest respect, and most
cordial friendship for the man of whose conduct they
were anxious to express their admiration.
The entertainment was presided over by the pre-
decessor of Sergeant Muaritt in the representation
of Cork—a gentleman whose high character, sound
political principles, and unblemished commercial inte-
grity, combined with an untiring and devoted zeal for the
interests of his country, the welfare and prosperity of
her people, have gained the esteem and regard of all
who are so fortunate as to possess his acquaintance.
Associated with him as vice-presidents were four
gentlemen, two of whom were members of the old
corporation, where strong Conservatives could only
hope for admission, and each of the others were
members of the different sections of the Liberal
party. In a party so constituted it was delightful
to witness the cordial unanimity with which
the desire and hope of the President, " that they
might again see Sergeant MURPHY filling the proud
position he had once occupied," was received and
acknowledged. It must have been a moment of un-
alloyed delight, of uniningled happiness, to the
Learned Sergeant, when he heard ringing around
him the enthusiastic cheering with which the aspira-
tion was responded to, and sincerely do we hope that
ere long it may be fully realised, his honest ambition
gratified, and that he may reap the reward of his
struggles and labours. The position of Sergeant
MURPHY was, indeed, as he truly said, a
peculiar one, and no less honourable to him than it
was peculiar. From his eafiest boyhood he gave the
most evident proof of the talent and ability apparent
throughout his entire carter, of his powers of con-
ciliating the friendship, of winning the admiration of
men of all shades of political feeling. From the time
of his entrance into the Irish univet city he never
missed an examination, and never failed in obtaining
the highest classical honours on every occasion, until he
terminated his collegiate career by securing the classical
gold medal—the greatest distinction to which his
religious opinions permitted him to Empire. During
all that period, and throughout his entire under-
graduate career, FRANK MURPHY, as he was inva-
riably called, was probably the most F ocular student
of the time; his joyous disposition, his kindness of
heart, his extraordinary talent, made him
the life and soul of every conpfvial meet-
ing, and insured the hilarity, roe enjoy -ment of
every assemblage of which he formed n
part, It was

the wonder of many who did not thoroughly know
him how he wzo always so well versed in his
collegiate business—so perfectly master of all its
details ; but those who knew him intimately ,were
aware that then, as all through his subsequent career,
although the gayest of the gay, he never suffered
business to remain neglected, but always faithfully
performed all that was required at his hands.

He had at first intended that Ireland should be the
scene of his professional labours, and was accordingly
called to the Irish bar shortly after he attained his
majority ; he, however, abandoned that intention,
and left the country, where he had influential friends
and relatives, who must have ensured his success
even were he possessed of less powers than those with
which he was gifted ; and, with a just reliance on his
own abilities and industry, he came to this country,
convinced that he would ultimately attain the posi-
tion and the distinction which in England is ever
awarded to genuine merit, talent, perseverance, and
assiduity. In that opinion he was not mistaken ; his
rapid progress in his profession, the eminence he
attained therein, attested the accuracy of his judg-
ment. We have reason to know that one of the chief
reasons by which he was actuated in coming to this
resolution was, that he might not interfere in any
the slightest degree with the prospects of a near
relative, who has recently deservedly obtained
one of the highest legal situations in Ireland,
and so divide the interest of a family which had ever
been most closely united, and which, by that union
and the rare qualities they exhibited, had gained large
fortunes for themselves, and attained the foremost
position amongst the mercantile men of their own
commercial city. Well might Sergeant MURPHY
say that " he was vouched for his sincerity and
rectitude, guaranteed by the integrity of
those who had lived long amongst them,
whose merits were known and appreciated ;"
for no family have ever gained, or more invariably
preserved, the good opinion and respect of their fellow-
citizens than that of which he is a distinguished
member. In 1841 he was invited to come forward as
a candidate for the suffrages of the people of Cork, and
by a large majority placed at the head of the poll.
His Parliamentary career is well known : a consistent
and honest politician, he ever gave his support to liberal
measures, and he not only discharged with ability and
upright zeal the duties intrusted to his care, but at-
tended to the interests of all classes without reference
to political feelings. The advice, the assistance of
Sergeant MURPHY was never withheld even from his
strongest opponent, and we have known instances in
which it has been afforded even since his retiring
from the Senate, in a manner the most creditable to
his head and heart.

It would be impossible to attempt even a sketch of
the eloquent speech in which he returned thanks
for the compliment paid to him. It must be read to
be duly appreciated. The occasion was not a political
one, at least all topics that might have excited discus-
sion were to be avoided ; but there was ground on
which he could safely, and did most happily, expa-
tiate—that of their common country, for the benefit of
which all would gladly join, and which is looked to
and regarded as the knitting bond of unity amongst
Irishmen. His allusions to the progress and success
of the measures of free trade also showed that he was
aware there was no differerce of feeling on that im-
portant subject. Sincerely do we congratulate Ser-
geant MURPHY on the tribute he has received, and
the citizens of Cork on an exhibition which, collec-
tively and individually, redounds to their mutual
honour.

The German Diet at Frankfort came on the 17th
to a resolution on the subject of the Holstein and
Schleswig question, by which, while it reserves the
future competency and right of Germany, it refuses
in any manner to prejudge the question of the succes-
sion to Holstein.

The King of DENMARK left Schleswig on the 12th,
for Rendsburg, where he delivered a stern address to
the officers quartered there, desiring them to maintain
the strictest discipline at this period of political agita-
tion. His MAJESTY particularly exhorted the older
officers to do all in their power to rectify any erro •
neous political notions that might be entertained by
their juniors. He also recommended the new Regency
to administer the Duchy in the true spirit of his
MAJESTY'S ideas. After visiting several of the public
establishments, be gave private audiences. Count
REVENTLOW has been appointed Chief President of
the City of Altona. _

The Queen of DENMARK arrived at Kiel on the
15th. Her MAJESTY vas received at the gates by
the burgomaster, the municipal council, and a depu-
tation of the university. The burgomaster, in his
address to the QUEEN, entreated her to use her me-
diation between the KING and the people, in order to
put an end to all existing differences. Her MAJESTY
replied in the most gracious manner, expressing a
conviction that in a short time all the differences
would be at an end. The QUEEN then proceeded to
the village of Garden ; whilst there the coachman of
Count BLUCHER ALTONA, haviag for an instant
quitted the carriage, was severely reproached by
his master, on which the crowd interfered and
asked the Count what he meant by his brutal con-
duct towards an honest man. A great number
of students and others surrounded the carriage,
brandishing their sticks, and would have pro-
ceeded to excesses, but for the intervention of Count
DE PREETZ, who remonstrated with them on the im-
propriety of such proceedings in presence of the
QUEEN. The crowd then shouted "Long live the
QUEEN !" and then dispersed. The public meeting
on the 14th, at which nearly 3,000 persons were pre-
sent, went off pretty quiety, but some stones having
been thrown, the commandant of the garrison has
made this a pretext for issuing a proclamation in
which he threatens the use of force in the event of
any attempt to disturb public tranquillity. The
meeting, at the persuasion of the authorities, dis-
persed without coming to any resolutions.

In the German Universal Gazelle, of the 17th,
we find a long article on the MONTPENSIER marriage
considered in relation to the treaty of Utrecht. It
concludes by observing that, if there is nothing in
this treaty to prevent the marriage, it excludes from
the throne the children of the parties.

Madrid papers to the 16th have arrived. Their
contents have been, in a great measure, anticipated
by the telegraphic dispatch, which we published
yesterday.
The text of the address of the Deputies is given in
the Herald°. It is couched in nearly the same terms
as the address of the Senate. Some opposition is ex-
pected to Senor MoN's Taxes Bill.
The British squadron, under the command of Sir
W. PARKER, arrived at Cadiz on the 11th. The
news of its arrival caused some sensation in Madrid.
Don ENRIQUE'S protest against the INFANTA'S mar-
riage was addressed to Senor SALAMANCA, who
wished to have it read to the Cortes. The
resi dent CASTRO r OROZCO, however, pre-
vented this being done, stating that as it
had not been addressed to him as President, it would
be contrary to rule to communicate it to the Senate.
It is said that Mr. BULWER'S instructions from his
Government are, to continue to pursue the same
course he has hitherto pursued; to take every ad-
vantage of his position, but to avoid any step likely to
compromise his Government.
MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 16.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 36 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 22 ;
the Five rer Cents. at 22i ; the Di-bt without In-
terest, at 6i; and the Coupons at 204.

We have received the French papers of Monday.
The Journal des Dads expresses the great regret
with which it observes the conduct of the English
press in relation to the MONTPENSIER marriage, and
deprecates with an earnestness that betrays it fears
anything like a national movement in Spain—any
attempt by any party to deliver her from " the yoke
which the Duke DE MONTPENSIER is about to impose
upon her." The Presse speaks of the marriage as of
a fait accorapli, while the Constitutionnel suggests that
there will he a compromise between England and
France on the subject. It says :
" The first sacrifice which it is said has been decided
upon, in order to calm the resentment of some power:,
is the renunciations of the treaty of Utrecht before the
celebration of the double marriage. It appears to us,
however, impossible to renew them without explanation.
In fact, the Duke de Montpensier cannot, on the part
of his children, renounce the throne of Spain, for that
would be, on the part of. the Infanta, his wife, a real
abdication for herself and her descendants of rights
the perfect legitimacy of which nothing can d. stroy.
It would, moreover, be to declare the Spanish suc-

cession open at the death of Isabella, who probably will
have no children; and, far from putting an end to the
difficulties of tk e present state of things, which is the
object or the pretext for this double marriage, it would
be to prepare for a not very distant future similar
complications, and a series of internal troubles. It is
then true that the Duke de Montpensier will renounce
on the part of his children all right to the crown of
France, and thus render impossible the eventual reunion
of the crowns of France and Spain on the same head.
It is not, therefore, just to say that the Infanta Luisa
becomes a French Princess; it is the Duke de Montpen-
sier who becomes a Spanish Prince."

The National declares expressly that the French
and Spanish Governments have offered to regulate
beforehand, in a treaty to be concluded with the
Powers interested in the question, the order of suc-
cession to the throne, in the event of theQvEEN dying
without issue; they have offered every possible
guarantee to prove to England that they intend to
derive no advantage from the marriage that she might
not enjoy likewise ; England has been given to
understand that France will do her utmost to
procure England ample commercial compensa-
tion ; they have, moreover, promised to obtain of
Spain positive engagements in behalf of the numerous
creditors of the Spanish Treasury ; they have further
propitiated England by deciding that the French Go-
vernment shall use its whole influence in order that
the Spanish navy, which can at present give no um-
brage, may be limited by conventions made in
common." Now, although the National is not very
high as a Court authority, yet we think
that some compromise on the part of
the French Government is about to be pro-
posed. On Monday a council of the personal
friends of the KING was held to deliberate upon the
present state of the marriage question, and it is
thought extremely probable that the Duo DE
BROGLIE will be dispatched to London, to endea-
vour to enter into some arrangement on the subject
with the English Government. The Duc DE
BROQLIE, and all the French Ministers have, it is
said, been from the beginning, opposed to the
marriage, which has been arranged exclusively by
King LOUIS PHILIPPE and Queen CNRISTINA.
If this be so, it is another proof of the danger which
must inevitably arise whenever a constitutional
Sovereign ventures to set at nought the maxim which
is the foundation of all constitutional Monarchical
Government—" Le Roi regne mail ne gouverne pas."
The departure of the Duc DE MONTPENSIER is
postponed, and it is said that he will not now enter
Spain by the Pyrenees, but will embark at Port
Vendres under the protection of Prince DE JOIN.
VILLE'S fleet, and land at Valencia. This change of
route has taken place in consequence of its having
become known that CABRERA had expressed his in-
tention of securing the Prince on his way to Madrid.
Another account states that the Duke will embark
at Nantes for Lisbon, and proceed through Portugal
to Madrid.
The Commerce states that the Prince DE Joni-
VILLE bas been ordered to cruise with his squadron
off the' eastern coast of Spain, in order to prevent
the landing of any Carlist chiefs, or of any warlike
stores for the use of the Carlist party. A French
squadron will cruise off the northern and western
coasts of Spain with a similar object.

The Gazette de France states that the Prefect of
Bourges has arrived in Paris, having been summoned
by a telegraphic dispatch, and that he has been very
ill received.

"On 'Wednesday last," says the Presse, " the
Spanish Generals ALGARA and DE MONTENEGRO, and
the Secretary of Commandment of the Count DE
MONTEMOLIN, M. MoN, left Bourges, doubtless with
the consent of the Government. There now only
remain at the Palace the GARCIMARTIN family,
Madame DE MONTENEGRO, Colonel GARJAVAL, and
the domestics."

The Prefect of the Loir et Cher, as soon as he was
informed of the evasion of the Count DE MONTEMOLIN,
addressed to the mayors of the department a circular,
containing a minute description of the person of the
Spanish Pretender as well as that of CABRERA. The
Count is described as follows
Age 28 years; height 1 metre 65 centimetres (5 feet
41 inches English); black hair and eyebrows; narrow
and round forehead; brown eyes; large and long nose, a
little bent on one side; middle sized mouth; black beard
worn en collier; round chin, oval face, and dark com-
plexion. The upper lip and the teeth slightly project,
and which is more visible when talking ; speaks French
with facility, but with a strong foreign accent ; the
knees turned in, which is more particularly apparent
when walking ; holds himself very erect ; a turn in
the left eyeball, showing at times the whole of the white;
wears his hat inclinded to the right side, and over the
eyes."
RAMON CABRERA is thus described—
" Born at Tortosa (Catalonia), aged 38 years; height
1 metre 63 centimetres ; black hair and eyebrows; ordi-
nary forehead, greyish brown eyes, middle- sized nose,
mouth rather large, beard black and rather thin, round
chin, oval face, dark complexion. His eyebrows are
bushy, and come close to each other; has a small scar on
the forehead over the left eye, legs slightly bent; never
looks a person in the face when addressing him."

Intelligence from Oran, of the 10th instant, states
that some Arabs of hostile tribes had appeared at
Djemma Ghazaouat, and had exchanged shots with
the soldiers on guard over the herds. General PE'
LISSIER, commandant of the sub-division of Mosta-
ganem, had returned to his post, and was about to
march out at the head of a strong column. Accord-
ing to a letter from Algiers of the 15th, reinforce-
ments have been sent to Orleansville. General LE'
VASSEUR is to have the command of the sub-division
of Milianah.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 83f. 25c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 10c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,275 f. ; Rouen, 955 f.; Havre,
7151. ; Great Northern, 7201. ; Avignon, 920 f.; Vierzon,
6271. 50c.; Bordeaux, 5601.; Troyes and Montere am, 362 f.
50e.; Bask, 2301.; Paris and Strasburg, 500 f.; Tours and
Nantes, 5051.; Paris and Lyons, 522t'. 50c.; Lyons and
Avignon, 490 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4801.; Spanish Do-
mestic Debt, 331/s.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
MAnszn.LEs, SEPT. 17.-Marseilles and Avignon, 9371.
50c.; Northern, 732 f. 50c.
ONS, SErr. 19.-Paris and Rouen, 975 f.; Avignon and
Marseilles, 957 f. 50e. ; Vierzon, 6411. 25c. ; Northern, 746 f 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN. FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIL6

LONDoN STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—butch Ithenish, 5% —East Indian,
—ltalian and Austrian, 2%—Louvain ala Sambre, —Luxem-
bourg, 14 —Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 44—Dlortheru of France
Constituted, 13% Orleans and Bordeaux. 8%.

Sumrr oases were issued on Tuesday by Lord John
Russell to the Cabinet Ministers, to attend a Cabinet
Council at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on
Friday next.

A slight shock of earthquake was felt, says the
Observateur des Pyreneec, last week at Lottviejuzon.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—
On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Bedford held an inquest at
the Chequers, Tuthill-street, Westminster, on the body of
Thomas Double, aged 56. The deceased had been many
years waiter at Tind9ll's Hotel, Old Palace-yard, and on
Sunday night, 19th July, he was crossing Westminster-
bridge, when his foot slipped in consequence of treading
on a piece of orange peel, and he fell from the kerb-stone
into the carriage-road, and fractured his right leg. He
was removed to the Westminster Hospital, where the
limb was set ; but he gradually sank, and expired on
Saturday last, from disease of the lungs, brought on by
the injury. Verdict in accordance with the medical
testimony.
ROYAL SAFFERS AND MINERS. WOOLWICH,
SErq, 22.—Aa order arrived here on Tuesday after nine
o'clock p.m. to send a company of the Royal Sappers and
Miners from head-quarters at Woolwich to Dublin with
the least possible delay, and at twenty minutes before
eight o'clock this morning two sergeants, three cor-
porals, and forty-three privates, under the command of
Captain Wynne, with Lieut. Dawson, embarked in one
of the Watermen's steam-packets for conveyance to
London. The officers, non-commissioned officers, and
men were, on their arrival in London, to march to
Euston-square, and proceed by railway to Liverpool, en
route to the metropolis of Ireland.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 16 per milts, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. lOid, pet ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 5 !5 ; and the exchange at Paris on
London at short being 25 77i, it follows that gold
is 0.87 per cent dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Flarnburgh the price of gold is 4354
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/.175. 10i d.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10*;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 14. it, follows that gold is 0.06 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
TESTIMONIAL TO JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ., M.P.—
A paragraph has been going the round of the papers,
stating that the testimonial to Mr. Bright already ex-
ceeds 10,000! ; this statement is incorrect, the sum al-
ready subscribed does not exceed 4,0001. The Rochdale
committee, with whom the testimonial originated, ex-
pressly states in their circulars that they do not ask or
wish for larger subscriptions, their object being only to
obtain an expression of acknowledgment of the services
which their townsman has rendered to the cause of free
trade. The 4,0001. already subscribed has been re-
ceived in answer to circulars sent out, no returns having
as yet been received except from Wray, an agricultural
village, they having sent nearly 41. subscribed in shil-
lings and sixpence:).
A dreadful accident took place a few days ago
near Saint Gall, in Switzerland. A portion of rock on
which was a footpath gave way at the moment when
two young females were on it, and they were, pre-
cipitated into the bed of a torrent, where they met in-
stantaneous death.

DON ENRIQUE'S PROTEST.

The following is the protest of Don Enrique,
which was presented to the Cortes on the 10th
instant :

" The Cortes will soon be assembled, and -to that
body must a persecuted Prince elevate his voice
from his place of exile. To address the Government
would certainly be useless—to appeal to the nation
might be considered dangerous ; the Cortes alone
will know how to reconcile what is due to the
tranquillity of the country with what is due to its
Princes and to the future destiny of the Royal

" Remote from the Court and all ambitious views,
I lived exclusively devoted to the duties of my pro•
fession as a sailor, when, with the royal permission,
I repaired, towards the end of the year 1845, to
visit my revered father at Madrid. In his paternal
affection, and guided more or less by what he knew
or imagined of the Queen's wishes, he thought that I
was in a position to take some initiative in the im-
portant question of her marriage ; for myself, taking
into consideration the public opinion as unanimously
manifested by the press of all parties, I thought I
could not take such a step without declaring in
writing, and that in the most solemn manner, the
political principles which ought to be observed in a
matter so important for the security of the constitu-
tional throne and the independence of the Spanish
nation. My father undertook to present in my name
to her Majesty the expressions of my sentiments.
The circumstances which occurred at the Royal
Palace on this occasion obliged me to publish my
manifesto of the 31st of December, which could not
be understood, as the motive of its publication re-
mained unknown.

"From that moment commenced for me a period of
persecution which has hardly beheld a day pass with-
out some fresh injury being levelled at me.

" I will not descend to enumerate the various
vexations which I suffered. The most public and no-
torious will suffice to show whether or not they
ought from the past to adopt some measure which for
the future may prevent a Prince, or any other
Spaniard, from being the victim of the arbitrary will
of their Ministers.

" Having obliged me to quit Madrid immediately,
I was received and treated by the authorities of
Galicia in a way which taught me to know the other
trials to which the Ministers had resolved to subject
me. The regard of my countrymen, which, how-
ever, they were not allowed to show me, compensated
nevertheless for the vexations I endured, and never
did I enjoy greater peace of mind, and more complete
tranquillity, than during the first period of my perse-
cution. Nor did Idream of obtaining a position which
would have forced my persecutors to respect me;
on the contrary, I longed, from the bottom of my
heart, as the greatest happiness for the Queen and
for the cation, that the choice of her Majesty
should fall on my beloved brother, as more worthy
to occupy so distinguished and high a position—a
sentiment which I have ever manifested with
loyalty whenever the opportunity for so doing was
afforded me.

" After this sincere proof of self denial given by
ire at that time, and living as I was in tranquillity
and exile, I could not at that time understand the
motives of the fresh persecution which assailed me,
when, being in Ferrol, I received the order to present
myself without a moment's loss of time at Corunna,
before the Captain-General of Galicia, who commu-
nicated to me the order which I inclose, to the effect
that I should quit the kingdom in forty-eight hours,
in spite of any,impediment I might oppose to the con-
trary, even that of illness—a circumstance mentioned
in the Government order, which was communicated
to me on my embarking, but which I have not in my
possession. Out of respect for the Queen and love of
peace, I consented to this indignity, and writing to
her Majesty in fitting terms I embarked for Bayonne,
without even receiving the honours due to my rank
on leaving the shores of my country, and the object
of the cruel prejudices excited against me in the
mind of the commandant of the vessel which con-
veyed me, and who was required to give a receipt for
my person. In as far as the action and power of the
Alinisters could reach me in a foreign land, I ex-
perienced the effects of their rage. I could not
comprehend the true motive and object which they
had in view until I arrived in Paris, where I was so
kindly received by my august uncle, the King of the
French, when I perceived clearly that it was not the
act of having one day aspired to the hand of her
Majesty that was to be punished in me, but the
not continuing to do so, accompanying my desire
with submission to a certain influence, and com-
bining it with a certain condition. I never
intended to mention this, but to the National
Assembly I owe the whole truth, and I will
not fail in this duty any more than I did at Paris
in those which bind me towards my country and my
family.

"I quickly left that capital for this peaceful king-
dom, where I have lived retiredly and tranquil, al-
though caluminated, calmly awaiting the solution of
the question which was to bear so much influence
on my future destiny. Proposals from, in my eyes,
the most respectable quarter, have been made to me
to return to Spain. Had I consulted my own per-
sonal interest, I should have accepted them ; but
attentive only to my dignity, and to the severe
principles which I have laid down for my guid-
ance, I rejected them, declaring that I have a
right to require, and that I must sooner or later
obtain, reparation as complete and honourable as
the injustice of my ejection from the kingdom of
Spain was great.

" The silence which followed these communications
might naturally have been expected to be the fore-
runner of some catastrophe, and such, indeed, it has
proved—the marriage of her Majesty the Queen with
my beloved brother, an I that of the Infanta with the
Duke of Montpensier, agreed upon at the same time,
although not published in the same form, solemnly
announced to Spain. The first accomplishes my
wishes so often manifested, and the second discovers
to Spain and the whole of Europe that which I was
given to understand during my short residence in
Paris. Of the use which Spain and Europe may
make of this discovery I have nothing to say, nor
does it belong to me to examine whether a clause in-
serted in the Constitution in the year 1845 opposes
this union. What belongs to me by right, and
that which I shall do, influenced less by family
views and interests than by the desire to avoid the
possibility of diffleut questions, and perhaps even
wars of succession, which have been so fatal to
Spain, is to protest against all eventual right to the
Crown which may be granted to the children of the
Duke of Montpensier, if he should ever be united to
the Infants.

" The renunciation which the family of Orleans
made by the treaty of Utrecht would annul before-
hand any right of this kind which might be declared
or supposed, and my family being the one moat in-
jured, I protest before the Cortes against any preju-
dice which may arise.

" Thus, the present document, which I respectfully
address to the Senate, will serve at the same time to
enable the Cortes to adopt the necessary measures
that for the future, and by their orders, the antecedent
rights of all and such of the individuals of the Royal
Family should be respected as the basis of the tran-
quillity and independence of the nation, which, where-
soever I may be, is, and will remain, the idol of my
heart, as it is of every good Spaniard, no matter what
may be his party.
" ENRIQUE DE BOURBON.
" Ghent, Sept. 9th, 1846."

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—In the great
hall of this establishment there is now exhibiting a most
admirable contrivance for the purpose of night signals,
and thereby prevent the frequent and lamentab'e colli-
sions at sea. These signals are shown and explained at
this institution by Mr. Crisp, in nearly the following
words:—The Distress Signal not only shows a vessel to
be in distress, but also whether she be sailing or steam
by the position and colour of the light. Steamers are
designated by a red light at the cross-trees; sailing
vessels by a green light at the cross-trees, and a bright
light at the topmast. The lamps are fitted into a box
which contains oil, matches, and every requisite, so that
if were necessary to abandon the ship, the lamps might
be handed into the boat and serve the purpose not only
of signals of distress, but also afford warmth and comfort
to the crew during the night, and we are informed by
Mr. Kittler, tt.e inventor, one of these lamps can be kept
alight the whole night for the trifling expense of six-
pence. We trust that this plan may be adopted, as
scarcely a wet k passes without some vessel being run
down, and entirely for want of some means, by light,
so as to show the position of each vessel.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
In the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday the
sales were about 6,000 bales, including 2,500 American
en speculation. Prices were fully supported.-6harea
were very dull.

The parties connected with Spain here, as merchants,
have been placed in a state of anxiety by the rumours
(which there is too much reason to believe are correct),
that the 25th of the present month is the day named
for a general rising or revolt, against the marriage
of the. Infanta and the Duke de Montpensier; at any
rate it is considered certain that, should the marriage
be performed, a state of excitement and slarm will pre-
vail for a considerable time to come, by which the com-
mercial intercourse with that country must he most
materially impeded.
The private letters by the mail from India and China
have been delivered this morning, but they contain little
information, except upon business matters, that has
already been made public. The s'ate of the money
market is represented to be improving rather than other-
wise. We learn from Assam that the cultivation of the
tea plant there was on the increase.
As there seems likely to be an attempt to found a
minor Share-Exchange in London, it IA ouldseem a fitting
time for the "old house at home" to offer a few extra
facilities to the public at large in the conduct of
their business, which would add to the security at pre-
sent afforded a good deal of satisfaction at the know-
ledge of the terms upon which sales or purchases were
made. In short, as at Paris, the public, or
at least those dealing and giving orders, should be al-
lowed, it is thought, to see their business done from a
gallery or .screened apartment, where the prices
called out could be distinguished. No doubt,
the brokers generally do their best for their
clients, but still there are jobbers to be favoured, who
would not be so exclusively dealt with, perhaps, were
there a more open market. Perhaps the following
account of the mode of doing business in the Boston
rnaiket may afford a hint:—
"Forty members, more or less, assemble daily between
the hours of eleven and twelve, when every stock on
the list is called over consecutively by the presiding
officer. Each broker has a printed sheet before
him, and records the sales, the price offered, the
prices asked, and the number of shares in each
case. Ret resenting, as they do, the great mass
of buyers and sellers, are thus made acquainted with
the state of the market, and are then prepared to execute
the orders of their clients understandingly, for buying or
selling either at the board or in the street. The board
is a useful association, and numbers in its ranks gentle-
men of business talents, integrity and wealth."
The English Stock market has been heavy again, and
there has been very little doing. Consols have been
95+ for present transfer, and 95i 1 for Time. The
premium on Exchequer-bills is I ls. to 14s. Bank Stock
is at 211 for Account.

The Foreign Investments are flat also. Spanish Five
per Cents., 264 and the Three per Cants., 37 to 37i.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 411 to 41. Brazil
Bonds have been marked 88i. Mexican Stock has been
neglected at 244 to 25.
Shares have been dull, but at about former rates.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95%141Cz
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 lO 146
India Bonds, 1,0001
South Sea Stock
_ _

CLOSING
riticEs.
95%
10 1-16
22 p

New
Ditto Annuities
Bank Stock for Account ... ...... 211 211
Consols for Account... ... 951 A 15% 9558
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11Ad. ... 14 11 pm. 11
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

ONE
O'CLOCK

..._ „..... .. ___...
Brazilian Bonds ... _ ____....
83 lA
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto. Account 25 243/4
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Russian Bonds • •• ••• 111
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 26%14
Ditto. 3 per Cent 37116
Ditto, Account ..,.. 37% 37 37%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41, per Cant
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 95

CLOSING
PRICES
881 X!
43
24'4
2474

2614
371 A
37%
97

94 'j,

PRICES 0?' PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2% 2IA
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Thame..
Belfast & County Down 2%
Birrnin. and Gloucester. 100 l3O
Ditto New l7l/2 ...• ......
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ...... ....... .......
Bristol and Liver. June
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares 2% — .....
Ditto Extension
Cambrian & Grand June 42s
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% —
Central Kent
C'iester and Holyhead... 27% 24% ••
C iurnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 — •
Clydesdale J unction ..... 15
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork end Killarney ...
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Cornwall

Ditto, Half Shares ... ......
Cornwall & Cent'lDevon
I,erby and Crewe ...
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
ford, and Sjieffd. June. 2% —
Direct Manchester
( Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's) — ........
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
andGalway...
Dundalk & Enniskillen 7%
EastemCounties 141. 16s. 21%%
Ditto New lOl. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1. 61.135. 4d —
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d -
Do., York Extension.. 10s 2 1%
EastDereh'm andNoech 1 -
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares 83j4 •
Do. Exter.(Harwich) 1743 — .........
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% —
East Lancashire
East Lincolnshire
Vast & West of England lA.._
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .....•
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/ ......
Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% •
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ......
Ely and Huntingdon ... 71/2 5 tz2%
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
Exeter, Ycovi I, & Dorset 5,4
Glasgow, Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 .....
Ditto, New
Do., 14 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) ...... 12%.....•
Gloue. ,Abe ystwith, and
Central of Wa1e5...... Ixi ••
•••
Grand Union uni
(m Doncaster,(s 0 ttci
n.
g. 425.
and Lynn ... l% —
Great Eastern &Western 21/2... ••• ••
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great. South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great Munster. ...... —
Great North of Scotland 21/2
t4reat North of England..loo
Ditto New 5
Ditto, New
Ditto, New
Great Western B5 137

15 ',7
-
_
_

24%
13/4

--
1%

21%
1%

221 h,

181,

58

Ditto % Shares
Ditto 14 Shares
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New •••
Guildford, Fare'rn,Ports. 5 ... .. ... .........
Harwich awl Eastern
Counties Junction ... 2 ......
Hull and Selby SO
_ _.,

Ditto 1% Sitam
Do. Half Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. &Int.

Do., do, and Norwich 2V2
Irish North Midland ... 1%......
Killarney Junctions l 4 -
Kendal and Windermere lix,
Lancaster and Carlisle... 45

Do. New
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
Jvmena
4`2e•
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ... ....... ...
Leicester and Bedfjrd... 22s
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 171/2
Leicester and Tam w., &c. 425.
Lpool., Illnchstr, & New-

castle Junction
......
Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. ...
Londen and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d. 71%.5/8 7%
Do. New
Ditto Extension
M 4 L ndon and Brighton 5O ..... 591/2 ..... .. 591/2
Ditto, Fifths
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 213% 213%
Do. G,,:a.ran. 5 per cent. 9
London andGreenwtch 121 15s 4d
Do. Preference ...18/17a 2d
London, Hounslow, and

Western
Lo idon and N. Westernloo 200%
Do. Quarte's
Do., do., New Shares.. 2
Ditto Fifths .... 2
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% —
Do., New 14 Shares
(G. J.)
Do. 401. Shares (L. 111.) 8
Lond. & &Western 41/ 6s 10d 69%
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New

200%
174
20!,4

Do. New
London and York 2l/(2 —

Do. % Shares
London and Windsor . • ."
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ...... 2%••••••

....
ma..
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