The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

agreed to at a meeting of the French Cabinet held on
Sunday, and a which the KING himself presided.
By far the most important article in any of these
papers is the following from the Constitittionnel, which
may be considered not only as the manifesto of the
great party which acknowledges M. TIMERS for
leader, but an exposé on the part of that statesman
of the intrigues and manceuvres by which a pre-
' carious entente cordiale, for promoting the personal
interests of courts and of factions, has been substi-
tuted for the grand alliance of constitutional mo-
narchies, projected in 1830 by M. TIMERS and Lord
PALMERSTON. We give the article in extenso

" Since the Revolution of 1830 the whole of our
foreign policy has had for its basis and pivot the Eng-
lish aliance. At the moment when the emotion pro-
duced in Europe by our revolution separated us from
the absolute Powers of the continent, reform drove Eng-
land into the liberal path. The two nations associated
in common ideas ; they united from sympathy, and
seemed to be drawing the world towards improvement
and freedom. The Quadruple Alliance, favourable to the
establishment of a constitutional Governmeat in Spain,
was one of the first fruits of this happy accordance.
But since then, by an effect contrary to all the hopes
which had been entertained, the relations between France
and England have scarcely been anything else than vio-
lent ruptures, followed by dubious reconciliations, and
the Liberal cause has gain( d nothing from this lutte intinte
between the two Governments. It is not without interest
to examine the conduct of our Government, and, above
all, of the men who are now conducting our affairs with
Great Britain. Four times since 1830 the uncertain
union between the two countries has been broken. In

1836, by our refusal to intervene in Spain ; in 1840, by
the Egyptian policy adopted by the present Cabinet, and
which M. Guizot undertook to represent ; in 1844, by the
conquest in Otaheite over Mr. Pritchard; in 1846, by the
precipitate marriage of the Duke de Montpensier to the
Infanta of Spain. In 1836 the Whip were, as now, Mi-
nisters of England. Liberal politicians, enterprising
statesmen, they proposed to France to execute by a frank
and bold intervention on the other side of the Pyrenees
the treaty of the Quadruple. Alliance. It was an admir-
able occasion for consolidating at one stroke the revolu-

tion in Spain, and the liberal alliance between France and
England. The throne of Isabella would have been firmly
fixed ; the Spaniards would have been saved from eight
or ten years of agitation by civil wars, riots, sanguinary
executions, and exhaustion. Our Cabinet, however, re-
fused to interpose. Quite opposite to the English Cabi-
net, it was afraid of acting, and revealed how slight was
its inclination towards liberal ideas. Spain was aban-
doned, and Lord Palmerston denounced as a blunderer, a
dangerous supporter ofrevolutions, an enemy to the repose
of nations, one whom Europe ought to mistrust. We can-
not discover the advantages of this conduct on the part of
our Cabinet, nor any right we derived from it to the grati-
tude of Europe. At all events, we have been obliged to
evacuate Ancona and leave Luxemburgh to her fate. Ne-
vertheless our relations with England were; renewed with
greater strength, but soon afterwards the question of the
East put the alliance to a new trial. The Whig Ministers
were again under an illusion ; they proposed to our Govern-
ment to combine the fleets of France and England that
they might together force the Dardanelles, and reconcile
conjointly the interests of the Sultan of Constantinople
and the Pacha of Egypt. Instead of entering into this
project, which might have had such great and happy
consequences, France and the Chamber of Deputies were
precipitated into a policy exclusively Egyptian, which
separated us not only from England, but from all Europe.
They were afraid to act; they found that they would be
engaged in a struggle which required the greatest
energy and every effort. Through pusillanimity they
became rash. But this did not endure. Everybody
knows the result of this second rupture with England;
that M. Guizot brought us humiliation from England—
that the Deka altered its tone and craved pardon from
those whom it had insulted. Soon after this, in order to
rebind the alliance it bad severed, our Ministry signed
the treaty of the right of visit. The English Ministry
was no longer the swee. The Tories had come into power.
Did our Cabinet make any fundamental change in its
conduct? It had previously failed on two great occa-
sions to render the alliance fi uitful and glorious. Did
it even succeed in rendering the entente cordiale a means
of peace and benefit to the two countries? Very tar
from it. Scarcely two years had passed away when it
found means to break with England a third time. With
the miserable intent of dazzling the French nation and
the Chambers, it went out to conquer the Marquesas
and Otaheite. It had to contend with the religious
passions of the Eeglish; we have no need to meal the
consequences. Sir Robert Peel demanding in full Par-
liament a reparation; the peace of the world placed in
danger; three disavowals, namely that of Admiral
Dupetit Thouars, that of M. D'Aubigny, and that of
Captain Brunt; an indemnity demanded and paid; the
partial evacuation of the Society Islands, which is being
at thi: moment r P.'eeted. Since this our Cabinet, in
in order to revive the nearly extinct entente cordiale,
signed a disgraceful treaty at Tangiers, and covered
itself with ridicule in the Texas. At last comes 1846,
and with it the hasy marriage of the Duke ee Mont-
pensier, causing a fourth rupture. In this we find all
the characteristics of the Ministerial policy, viz., a dread
of undertaking bold enterprises. Spain applied for the
hand of the Duke de Montpensier for Queen Isabella;
for three years cur Government obstinately persisted
in a refusal. Pusillanimous temerity ! It now braves
all the inconveniences which would have attended the
marriage with the Queen, without obtaining any of its
advantages. It sacrifices once more, and porlittps for
ever, the English alliance, in order to give to the Duke
de Montpensier the heiress to the throne of Spain, with
the probable chance of seeing Queen Isabella, by }morn-
ing a mother, deprive the Infanta of all hopes of sue-
eeedirg to her inheritance. Like those prudent ettleu-
lators who violate the laws of their country just so far
es not to place themselves in the hands of justice, our
Cabinet excites a lively animosity between two powerful
nations. But it is perfectly content, if war be not the
immediate consequence of its conduct. There is a re-
mark which is truly applicable to all the important acts
of our Government, viz., that their appearances are
always widely different from their reality. Appearance
is for noise and glorification—reality is paltry and
miserable. In 1210, the language of M. Guizot, of his
friends, of his journals, was bravado, and often insult
towards England—but at the bottom there was nothing
kit fear. The object of the enterprise at Otaheite was to
make the country believe that the French Ministers were
resolved to brave England, and divide with her the
empire of the seas; the positive result was the onerous
conquests of sterile rocks, the disputed protectorate of
a few savages, a considerable expenditure of lives and
money, and a very little honour gained. To -day,
if the Ministry talks to the country, it Si)s that
the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier is
glorious and a happiness for France ; that the policy
' of Louis XIV. is re-established ; that Spain be-
comes almost a proeince of France, and that the Pyre-
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' cool and indifferent. In fact, the marriage of the Duke
de Montpensier is nothing more than a family matter,
hick will in no degree augment the influence of France,
which may possibly compromise her, and which, in the
mean time, thanks to the ability of our negotiators, de-
stroys our alliance with England. Such have been the
inconsistencies of the policy of our Government and its
fruits. This simple eruposure of facts will serve us for a
unique answer to those who pretend that they have done
a great deal and compromised nothing,"
The Austrian Ambassador presented to M. GUIZOT
' a protest against the Montpensier marriage, couched
in the same terms as the protest presented by the
I Marquis of Noamminv. This would seem to cons-
' firm the truth of the following statement which ap-
' pears in the National.—
' "It is affirmed that another protest, more energetic
than the first, has been presented at Madrid by Mr.
Bulwer, and that this ultimatum is a threatening one. It
is added that England has succeeded in drawing the
Northern Cabinets into the same path. We repeat
these reports, because they come from persons who pre-
tend to bo well informed, but we cannot vouch for any-
thing on the subject."
La Presse declares that General CAnamk was still
its London, on the 4th of October, which city he had
never quitted since his first arrival. General Pono,
brother-in law to CABRERA, his aide-de-camp CHlN-
crua, and another superior officer of the old Carlist
army of Arragon, have been arrested within the
last few days at Carpentras. Two other Spanish
refugees, Abbe MASANAS and Senor CoLEI, have also
been arrested at Avignon.
No attempt had been made on Saturday and Sun-
day to renew the bread riots in the Faubourg St.
Antoine.
We stated on Monday, that there had been some-
thing like an enteute at St. Omer, in conse-
quence of the National Guard being forbidden to
carry their arms at the inauguration of the
statue of the Duke of ORLEANS. The troops were
called out, and, partly by their exertions, and partly by
a present from the Duchess of ORLEANS of 6,000 f.,
tranquillity was completely restored.
L9rd BROUGHAM left Paris for Cannes on Sunday.
By a recent ordonnance M. Pichon, Consul-Gene-
ral Charge d'Affaires of France at Monte Video, is
named Consul-General at Smyrna, in place of Vis-
count de Segur-Montaigne, retired. M. Devoize,
French Consul at Damascus, is named Consul-Gene-
ral at Monte Video in place of M. Pichon ; M. Vat-
tier de Bonneville, Consul of France at Cairo, sue-
ceeds M. Devoize
; and M. Benedetti takes the place
of M. Vattier de Bonneville. By the same ordon-
nance Count Ulyasee de Ratti-Menton, formerly Con-
sul at Canton, is appointed French Consul at Cal-
cutta, a post lately created.
Count RATTI MENTON, the newly-appointed French
Consul at Calcutta, is the person who, as French
Consul in Syria, made himself so notorious by ex-
citing against the Jews that furious persecution, the
news of which, some four years since, filled all
Europe with horror, oaci much Was only put an end