The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-22 00:00:00

from the rank of colonel downwards, and civilians
of corresponding rank. The .Populur adds that many
others of higher rank will be specially pardon el by
name. The Tiemp Fay: that the amnesty, will
h:Lve no other exceptions than Don CARLOS
and his family, and General CABRERA. Unless
the personal wishes of the QUEEN are over•
ruled by the interference of the French Ambassador,
there can be no doubt but that the amnesty will be
an extensive one, since, according to the Espanol, the
QUEEN has on mere than one occasion declared
emphatically that she will sign no stinted measure,
but will have a comprehensive pardon, or none at all.

Queen CHRISTINA was hissed on her return from
the bull fight on Tuesday. The young QUEEN was
loudly cheered.
The Cortes were to be dissolved OD the 20th, and
the new Cortes convolved for December.
The Due D'AUMALE was to leave Madrid on Mon-
day last, the 19th. The Due DE MONTPENSIER. and
his bride will not leave until the 28th.

The Mercantile Association of Madrid have given
a grand dinner to Mr. COBDEN in the Fonda del
Principe. Senor Aniceto Alviro, President of the
Association, presided, and besides Mr. Cobden and
his travelling companions, Mr. Shwabe, of Manchester,
and M. Roux, of Bordeaux, there were invited the
Duke of Sotomayor, the Count of Santa Olalla, and
Senors Luzarriaga, Florez Estrada, Barzanallana,
Teijas, Bellvan de Lis, Calderon Callantes, Moron,
J. M. de Mora, and Senor C. Marrieta, of London.
MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 15.—The Three per Cents., 35,
buyers; the Four per Cents., 211/2 ; Five per Cents., 22,
buyers, with the Coupon. Passive Debt, 63/4, sellers;
Coupons, 201/. Exchange on London, 36%.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. It
is evident that France is meditating an armed inter-
vention in the affairs of Switzerland. The Debats
says—
" Although we have not, thank Heaven, any new dis-
orders to deplore in Switzerland, we cannot dissemble
that the situation of this unfortunate country appears to
become more and more afflicting. A rumour prevailed
yesterday that Basle-country was about to attack with
:rms Basle-city, and the intelligence of that event may
ioon be expected. In another direction the free corps
are in agitation, and the league of the seven Catholic
,!antons is preparing for resistance. At Friburg already
the Council of State has decided to call into the town
three companies of infantry and a company of artillery,
o pass a review throughout the wholc canton, of the
landwehr of the first class, and of the landsturm ; to
Corm a battalion of the landwehr of the second class ;
to augment the battalions of the landwehr of the first
class by voluntary engagements ; and, lastly, to organise
in companies, and to arm with carbines, men forming
part of the landsturm and of the landwehr of the second
class. Thus fears are entertained of seeing repeated in
this canton the scenes which have just ensanguined Ge-
neva. The rabble are numerous there and in arms, and
the example of their neighbours causes a dangerous ex-
citement."

The rabble of Geneva are, if we may judge from
their acts, a much more orderly set of persons than
the respectable ultramontanists of Lucerne. The vic-
tory of General SONNENBERG in Lucerne, by which
the Jesuits obtained an ascendancy, was followed by
wholesale incarcerations, banishments, and confisca-
tions. The reverend fathers showed no mercy. The
rabble of Geneva, on the contrary, have not in any
single instance prosecuted or persecuted one of
their opponents, and even their enemies are obliged
to admit that Geneva has never been more orderly
or quiet than it is under the Provisional Govern-
ment. If the French Government will cease at-
tempting to force the Jesuits on those cantons
which reject their interference in the education of
the people, Switzerland will be tranquillised at once.
For his own sake we hope M. GUIZOT will not
attempt an armed intervention in support of the
Jesuits. The Chamber compelled him to expel the
Jesuits from France. Is it likely that the Chamber
will approve of his wasting the blood and money of
France in support of Jesuitism in Switzerland? So
intense is the hatred borne to the Jesuits by the
French people (and just cause the French people have

for their hatred), that we believe, even in the present
Chambers, M. Guizor would not be able to muster a
majority to support him in an attempt to force the
Jesuits vi et arnis upon the people of Switzerland.
The recent coup d'etat in Portugal is commented on
at great length in all these papers. The National, in
the language of honest indignation, thus comments
on the more than Yankee smartness exhibited by the
Camarilla in bringing about the recent change :
"If all these wretched tricks had been employed to
overturn not a ministry, but a revolution, to deceive by
aid of the army, seduced and led astray, the manifest
wish of the country, to cover a whole city with soldiers,
:o surprise it by an Act placing it in a state of siege and
by the proclamation of the dictator, supported by
bayonets—if all that had passed in a country, called
constitutinal, by the caprice of a Queen and by the aid
foreign gold, what suitable name could be found to
qualify such infamy? Such is, however, an abridged
iccount of the last exploit of Donna Maria. She placed
herself at the head of a veritable conspiracy against
her own Ministers. Her right permitted her to change
them, but openly, in full daylight, and according to the
formalities which the law requires. She lays a snare
for them, draws them to the Palace as into a trap, and
calls on the General in command of the division of Lis-
bon to write the necessary orders for all the troops of the
garrison to be drawn up by daybreak in the open space
in front of the Palace. When she had obtained what
she desired, she imprisons the Ministers and the General,
then destroys the National Guard, suspends the consti-
tution, and arrogates to herself absolute despotism ! She
does not even give herself time to wait for her new
satellite, Saldanhe, to change the commanders of the
different corps ; she had beforehand replaced them
all, unknown to her Ministers ; she had signed
commissions for the old officers brought back
by Cabral ; she had renewed, on her own irre-
sponsible authority all the civil and military posts; and,
that being done; she had sent her agents to arrest
at the same time the persons who had not been
inveigled to the palace. We cannot say what will be the
denouement of this drama, but we were anxious to enu-
merate the facts, in order that the opinion of Europe
may judge them beforehand. And if, as we hope, this
audacious insult to a whole nation be followed by a
marked and exemplary chastisement, what political
party will there then be that will dare to find too severe
the act of justice that shall ensue ? Nations cate'see
every where at present at what sport monarchs amuse
themselves -- what importance they attach to their
declared, all kinds of
perfidies are had recourse to.
liberty—what respect they profess for their manifesta-
tions ! Where force is wanting, corruption steps in ;
where
war
falsehoods,cla res no t
andb be oppeernfil
[t is supposed, perhaps, that by such means insurrections
stratagems,
may be discouraged ; but, on the contrary, this is the
way to prepare them, to render them inevitable, and to
unwinds victorious nations that moderation which
they made use of the morning after victory ! This
lesson will one day cost dear to those who gave it, and
then it will be too late to repent of what is done."
The C'onstitutionnel thus analyses the old and the
new Portuguese Ministry :
" The names of the men who formed the late Ministry
wire so many guarantees both for liberty and the throne
of the Queen. The Duke de Pahnella, a tried Mode•
redo, but who surpassed by M. Costa Cabral as
anxious to work at the task of the Absolutists as M.
Gotiesles Bravo was at Madrid, naturally found himself
placed at the head of the Liberal reaction opposed to the
first; Viscount Sada Bandiera, the most chiva'rous Por-
tuguese of the present day, chief of the honest and per.
severing Exaltadcs; Count de Labrarlio, a Liberal, con-
stant and without stain, Minister to Donna, Maria during
the emigration; M. Aujuiar, an old Chartist; and Mo•
rinho d'Albuquerque, more strong in his opinions than
the Duke de Paltnella, and less so than Viscount Sada
Bandiera, and with a mind and character suited (gldly
to accord with both. Two worthy acts have above all
others marked this Administration—the re-establish-
ment of the National Guards, which was proposed by the
Duke de Pahnella, and the order given by M. Bernard
da Sa to the army nut to use terror in influencing the
voters in the elections—a thing never before heard of in
Portugal or Spain."
After censuring in severe terms the QUEEN'S pro-
clamation it thus proceeds :
" Let us now consider the acts of the new Ministry.
A decree for disbanding the National Guard, and ano-
ther abolishing the constitutional guarantee; despotism
and anarchy ! This is too close an imitation of Spain !
And who were the men who undertook this duty ?
What were the tools made use of in this task ? Who
were
the instruments, not of this counter-revolution—
the word is odious alihoueh not wanting in grandeur—
this intsigue ? Marshal Saldanha, the perpetual suc-
cessor of the Duke de Palmella, at one time all for the
Exaltados, and at another for the Resctionists. A
fine presence, a chivalresque attitude, as it is vulgarly
called; a body stuffed
with bran dressed in a velvet
coat ; such are his political and military qualities. A
y meg chamberlain, two men scarcely known, and two
Ministers, one or whom is absent and alio will probably
rd
not a,
h
cce
the Queen, or rather the King, or much rather the
German mentor. Of Portugal, of her interests, and of
her men, there is scarce
thought, or question,
ly more
than of the constitution. VVe cannot treat these petty
intrigues with too much severity. The Constitutiosnet.
so long asM.Costa Cabral did not make an abusive use ut
power, expressed wishes for his remaining in office.
It has desired that the successors of the Costa Cabral
Ministry, more worthy than it of inspiring confidence,
might for a long time hold the direction of the affairs
of their country. It may now be permitted to deplore
the absolutism of an enlightened Court, making itself the
accomplice and instigator of anarchy."
The Courrier Francais has a long article recom-
mending France to seek an intimate alliance with

Prussia) rather than with Russia, Austria, or

England.

The French Government is actively employed in