The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1846.

Congratulations are, doubtless, being reciprocated
in the Conservative Cabinet of Versailles. Never,
however, has there been less cause for congratulation
in the French Government since the glorious revolu-
tion of '3O. King Louts PHILIPPE may rejoice at the
consummation of this Spanish intrigue, but the
French people have infinite reason to deplore that in-
auspicious ceremonial. To the former the marriage
of the Duc DE MONTPENSIER is a specious assurance
of the consolidation of his dynastic interests. To the
latter those nuptials are only an augury of diplo-
matic embarrassments and disrupted alliances. A
species of fatality appears to have characterised the
recent proceedings of the GUIZOT Administration.
The French Ministers and their subordinates must
have swallowed one of those draughts of fasci-
nation familiar to Arabic literature ; the magic
rose-leaf of NOURAJAHBAD must have been
secretly conveyed to the shoulder of the Count
DE BRESSON ; or that astute ambassador and his
colleagues must have degenerated into the syco-
phantic agents of royal cupidity. Without one or
other of these preliminaries, the efficials of the
Tuileries could never have proceeded with such un-
bending pertinacity in the facilitation of a marriage
so manifestly inimical to the national interests of
France, and so opposed to the happiness of present
and prospective millions. No partialities, however,
could retard this unfortunate union ; no desires were
sufficiently powerful to diminish the anxiety for its
realisation. Much as the GUIZOT party had sacri-
ficed for, and long as they had endeavoured to perpe-
tuate the existence of the entente cordiale—the
entente cordiale was sacrificed because it was an
obstacle to the Montpensier marriage. Valuable and
protracted as had been the European peace, the Euro-
pean peace was placed in imminent jeopardy because
the Orleans family was solicitous fur the Montpen-
sier marriage. Dangerous and even fatal as French
interference in Peninsular affairs had been at the
commencement of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen-
turies, that peril was courted, because by such an in-
terference alone could the Montpensier marriage be
arranged. The dignified protests of England, the
lowering aspect of the Spanish population, the histo-
rical warnings of Louis XI%T. and NAPOLEON 1., the
dissatisfaction evinced by many Frenchmen, and the
continuance ofternational friendships, were all
equally despise And why ? Because the only
marriageable son of Lours PIIILLIPPE would thereby
obtain an opulent bride, together with the possible
reversion of a crown ; because the European
influence of that SOVEREIGN would be thereby ma-
terially enhanced ; because the old Bourbon aspiration
of virtually annihilating the Pyrenees would be
thereby accomplished, and because, forsooth, the mar-
riage of his Royal highness of Montpensier with
the INFANTA would tend very marvellously
aggrandisement of the regal importance of the Orleans
dynasty ! Surely, this sacrifice of the wishes, the
interests, and possibly the heart's blood of a free
people, simply for the domestic advantage of the
grandson of Egalite, is but a sorry consummation of
the undying principles and prodigious struggles of
the French Revolution ! Surely it is the tacit abnega-
tion of all those glorious concessions to the majesty of th
li -e'lt • . 7attiThruilre then obtained at the cost of so much
• • sio ar.tdaTiilibr exercise of such gigantic powers!
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well to see the same man gambling away the inde-
pendence of a great nation for the selfish end of his
own family emolument who, as the Due DE Cunt-
TRES, fleshed his svverd so bravely in the charges of
Jemappes under the banners of DIIMOURIER.
King Louis PUILIEPE should have conned over the
lessons imparted by the history of his own country
before be embarked upon this dangerous enter-
prise. He should, as every conscientious So-
vereign does, have read the records of his
people, and have been warned by the blun-
ders of his imperial predecessors. Had he suffi-
ciently weighed the precedents of Gallic interference
in the affairs of Spain, he would have been more
cautious in hazarding the same species of catastrophe
upon a similar enterprise. Possibly, the upholders of
the recent policy of the French.SovEnuicx may
regard these objections to that policy as of a rather
penultimate character. Not so. Ihe marriage has
undoubtedly been solemnized. Telegraphs and
couriers have unquestionably conveyed the intelli-
gence to Paris. Bonfires have been kindled round
the Pardo, gans have been fired from the
Escurial, flowers and perfumes have been
scattered upon the sacred pavements of
Atocha, in honour of this illustrious occurrence.
The Infanta LUISA is now Duchess of MONTPEN-
SIER. So far, the wishes of Louis PHILIPI93 have
been realised—so far, his insatiable lust of political
influence has been gratified. But, observe the con-
comitants of these proceedings, and behold the
prospects of woe which gloom through this
hollow jubilation. The sullen and ominous silence of
the multitude assembled in the streets of Madrid on the
entrance of the French Princes, the seizure of refrac-
tory newspapers, the bayonets and artillery that bristled
round the carriage of the foreign bridegroom, the se-
verities which preceded his arrival at the capital, the
unseemly rapidity with which the nuptials were
solemnized—everything betrays the indignation of the
Spanish populace, and the sense of insecurity
which had taken possession of the minds of
the contracting parties. Nor does the silly
attempt at assassination by OLAYARIETTA
sufficiently account for the extraordinary pre-
cautions taken by the gendarmerie for the preserva-
tion of the life of the Duc DR MONTPENSIER.
Statements the most garbled have disgraced the
Ministerial journals of Paris, evidently written with
an anxiety to delude the popular imagination. Such
incidents as the determination of the Ayunta-
mientos of Madrid to cause the marriage of twelve
orphans with liberal dotations, in commemoration of
the royal espousals, have been vaunted in terms of
amazing exultation ; while others, such as the refusal of
the Ayuntamientos of Burgos to dispatch a congratu-
latory deputation, have been slurred over as of not the
smallest importance. This ministerial hypocrisy will,
however, prove of no ultimate advantage. The desti-
tute condition of Ireland, the implied apathy of the
protesting nation, and the embarrassments supposed
to threaten our Indian possessions, will not,
as is presumed, shield France from the diffi-
culties her rulers have themselves originated.
In relation to these imaginings, we would especially
remind the Ministerial press of Paris, that churlish-
ness is not logic, that parade is not triumph, and that,
though Colonel BLOOD could bear a regalia away
in his pocket, it would be somewhat difficult fur any
one to commit a burglary upon a constitution, or to
carry off, surreptitiously, the affections and obedience
of a people.

Great emergencies compel a recourse to extraordi-
nary means to overcome transitory and unforeseen
difficulties. The functions of a Government are pri-
marily of an executive character. Their next chief
duty is to take the initiative in legislating upon all
matters of important public interest. This duty is
best performed when the Executive are successful in
anticipating the wants of the people. Inasmuch as
Parliament is not always assembled, and also because,
even when it is, legislation is frequently a tardy pro-
cess, the Government are authorised in many in-
stances by orders in Council, to check an evil, which,
without such intervention, would prove highly in-
jurious to the country ; and again, such is the imper-
fection of human wisdom, that Ministers, overtaken
by unexpected embarrassments of vast national con-
cern, have frequently, and with marked wisdom,
either exceeded a particular law, or altogether set it
aside upon their own responsibility, trusting to
Parliament to indemnify them for their several or
collective acts. We have recently had a notable
instance of this policy in the conduct of Lord
BESBOROUGH. The defects of the Labour-rate
Act for Ireland were peculiarly manifest. The Lord-
Lieutenant, warmly pressed by all the leading men
in Ireland to extend its operations, has adopted the
recommendation upon his own responsibility. But,
although this is a wise resolution, yet it is not to be
doubted that it would have been infinitely better in
the Government to have concurred in the propriety
of its adoption much earlier than they did. Much of
valuable time has been lost by the delay, and we are
so much behind hand in carrying out the necessary
means for mitigating the alarming consequences of
the heavy visitation that has fallen upon Ireland.
The evils the Administration had to cope with lay
glaringly on the surface, and weeks ago not a moment
should have been lost by them, in either convening
Parliament for the necessary powers, or in assuming
them, as they have at length done, upon the faith of
future indemnity. This was precisely a state of
things where energy and boldness on the
part of a Government could have been most
happily and efficaciously exhibited ; instead of
which, the Cabinet have failed, to a great extent, in
what is an invaluable portion of their duty, the anti-
cipation of the wants of the community, first, by not
having passed their Labour-rate 13111 so as to autho-
rise and include theinvestment of capital in reproduc-
tive works in Ireland, and next by the procrastina-
tion they permitted previous to curing this defect in
the way we have alluded to. Delay is often tanta-
mount to destruction, and exigencies will not stand
still whilst numerous public meetings are being as-
sembled to indicate to the Executive the adequate
steps to be adopted for warding off great and im-
pending calamities. The celebrated PITT, was in the
habit of having closeted with him the leading mercan-
tile men, and by these means was eminently success-
ful in legislating in due season for the security of
commercial harmony. Last year Sir ROBERT
PEEL, fully alive to the then existing and
greater prospective distress in Ireland, was
prepared to open the ports, and subsequently
stated is Parliament, that had his colleagues not
coincided with his own views, he was fully prepared
to undertake the entire responsibility of that and
every other means for averting the horrors of famine
that menaced to shadow the length and breadth of
the sister isle.
We have been led to these observations in conse-
quence of an important memorial that has been ad-
dressed to Lord Joust RUSSELL by the working
classes of Manchester, at a public meeting which
they held in their Town-hall on Tuesday last. They
have entreated the Government to call an immediate
Council, to throw open the ports of the United
Kingdom to all kinds of provisions, free of duty. We
trust the Cabinet will promptly accede to their re-
quest. The rise in the price of bread has within a
short time become nearly equivalent to three-
fifths of its entire cost. The consequence is,
that the receipts of the general tradesman are
seriously diminished, and the home market for
manufactures is already in a languishing
condition. But what should determine the Govern-
ment in favour of the memorialists is, that, by the
statistics presented at their meeting, it would appear
there is an abundance of food in the country, and
that, therefore, the enhanced price of bread is attri-
butable to speculation. We blame not the mono-
polising holders of corn ; they have a right to use
their capital as they think most advantageous to
themselves; but we shall view it as a matter of
serious culpability if, when famine and crime are
haunting us on all sides, the servants of the Crewn
should not put an end to the noxious system of
gambling which is being carried on in the chief
article of human food. Let the ports be promptly
opened ; it will immediately once more place the loaf
within the reach of the starving poor, arrest the hand
of crime, enliven commerce, and speedily dispel the
gloom which is hourly pervading every portion of
her MAJESTY'S dominions.

We have news from Geneva of the 12th. The
Provisional Government was conducting affairs in

the most orderly manner, and the canton was per-
fectly tranquil. The party in the a.:cendant do not
appear disposed to abuse their victory. The Revue de
Geneve, which is conducted by M. JAMES FAZY, the
chief of the revolutionists, contains an article strongly
condemnatory of a proposition which had been made
in an anonymous paper circulated through the city
for the formation of an exceptional tribunal for the
trial of those members of the ex-Government who
had ordered the troops to fire on the people.

Madrid papers of the 9th have arrived. the He-
rald() says—
" Two days ago it was reported that the British Go-
vernment had sent in another energetic note against the
consequences of the marriage of the Infante; but yester-
day we were assured on the contrary that Queen Vic-
toria had written a very satisfactory letter to Louis
Philippe, in reply to one which she had received from
him. The rise of the funds here yesterday is attriLuted
to this announcement."
The same journal, in allusion to the man who had
been arrested on a charge of attempting to shoot the
Duc BE MONTPENSIER, says there are various rumours
as to who he is, but it is disposed to attach credit to a
report that he is the brother of one of the tutors of
the daughters of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, and that
he is insane, and will probably be confined in one of
the lunatic asylums.
Mr. BULWER returned to Madrid on the evening
of the Bth, and on the same day Mr. COBDEN arrived
in that city.
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the Coupons, at 201/2.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Madrid correspondent of the Constitutionnel
gives the following account of the reception of the
French Princes in the Spanish capital :
" The-space traversed by the Princes from the Bilboa
gate to the Palace is much about the same as that from

the hotel de Ville at Paris to the PlAce du Carrousel
All the balconies and windows along their passage,
which was through the streets called Fuencaral, Mon-
tera, Puerta del Sol, Calle Mayor, Platerias, and the
Arch of the Palace, were filled with people, and yet
neither the spectators at the windows nor the crowds
in the streets made any response to the gracious sa-
lutations which the Princes incessantly directed on every
side. Not a single cry of approbation or disapproba-
tion was uttered by the populace during the whole way.
At the Calle de la Montera, in which there are many
shops kept by Frenchmen, a few women at the windows
waved their handkerchiefs, but they found themselves so
completely alone in their testimonies, that they very soon
ceased giving them. On arriving in St. Diary's-square,
at the end of the Platerias, the houses in which arc in
habited by the French and Neapolitan embassies, the
of the 11,)use of Rothschild, and by the
officers of the Palace, their Royal Highnesses were
generally saluted, but even at this point there were no
acclamations. As the procession passed the Puerta del
Sol a man, standing close to a group of police-officers,
cried Long live the Duke de Montpensier,' but this only
provoked a counter-cry of ' Spain for ever.' Ihis is
the only incident worthy of remark that occurred in the
entry of the Princes. Their reception in the capital
may therefore he said to have been circumspect and cold,
bv.t not hostile."

The Conslitutionnel remarks with much severity
upon the conduct pursued by the Spanish Govern-
ment to the Opposition press. "What that conduct is
may be judged of from the following account which
appears in the same paper
"Nothing gives so just an idea of the spirit with
which the Government is animated, as the fact that
yesterday four journals, the Espanol, the Eco del Comer-
cio, the Clamor I'ublico, and Espectador were seized on
no other ground than that, in their accounts of the entry
of the Princes, they stated that it was not attended with
any enthusiasm, and that the entire ceremony bore an
official character. I cannot call your attention too
strongly to the condition to which the Government hat
reduced the press. After having by four successive de-
crees changed, and by means of simple royal ordon-
nances, rendered more rigid the severe laws by
which the press was governed—a law which, in
fact, was a copy of your law of September ; after
having abolished the trial by jury, and subjected
the press to a special tribunal, composed of judges
removable at pleasure, the Government has intro-
duced the previous censorship by a process worthy in all
its points, of the maxims of Escobar. The last law on
the press prescribes that the first copy printed of every
work shall be laid before the Prefecture before it is sent
into circulation. Now, this is what the Ministry gains
by this simple provision—it is enjoined that directors of
journals shall suffer three hours to elapse between the
delivery of the first copy at the Prefecture and the send-
ing out of the impression. During these three hours a
censor named by the Prefect examines the journal, and
marks those whose publication is to be interdicted. Then
a police-officer presents himself at the office of the jour-
nal, and seizes the whole impression. It might be be-
lieved that satisfied with thus preventing the appear-
ance of such journals as are displeasing to it, and, having
thus insured the practical exercise of the previous cen-
sorship, the Ministry would rest content; but despotism
is contagious, and Governments accustomed to it, carry
their tyranny to the bounds of absurdity. After having
subjected the journals of Madrid to the censorship,
they have imposed upon them the same penal
ties and fines for their censured articles as
they would have been liable to had these
articles been published. The Eco del Cornercio
and Espectador have each been just condemned
twice to pay fines amounting to 25,000 f., and this, not
for having published, but for having had the intention of
publishing articles denounced by the Public Minister,
and adjudged by mei: in the pay of the Government.
Such is the liberty of the press in Spain, such is the
constitutional system of our Ministers, and to which
France is about to lend the. support of her strong arm.

You are now able to appreciate the accounts given by
the Heraldo, and the two journals in the pay of the Go-
vernment—the Impartial and Popular—and in which it

is gravely stated that the greatest enthusiasm and
deepest sympathy attended the reception of your Princes
by our people. Nothing more effectual could be done
if it were desired to render the sojourn of the sons o!
the King of the French at Madrid unpopular, and cer-
tainly their personal affability, and the private qualities
for which they are so distinguished, would have over•
come the repugnance excited by the policy of the French
Cabinet, if the rigorous exaction of the penalties, and
the other coercions with which the Government burdens
and fetters the press, did nut destroy evory favourable
impression."
The organs of the Ministerial party are chuckling
vastly at the idea of the approaching ruin of England,
who, according to the Journal des Debats, is on the
point of losing her Indian Empire, and is disabled
from moving by the Irish famine. This from the
friends, supporters, and originators of the entente
cordiale is very amusing. The Silxle, the organ of
the O'Dillon Barrot party, has an an admirably-
written article on this same entente cordiale, for which
it would, in common with ourselves, wish to see sub-
stituted a durable alliance between the two nations
on honourable terms. We give this important article
in extenso

" If we unreservedy blame the faults committed by a
Government whose d( cisions appear to bo all dictated by
egotism—if we reproach it for the honour even of our
country for those acts of duplicity of which Europe at
this moment calls on it to render an account, and of
which we regret it has not been yet able to justify itself,
we are not the less decided on supporting the right and
the cause of France. And let it not be believed that we
arc deceived, like our pretended Conservatives, as to the
state of affairs which the proceedings of our diplomatic
agents, if they are such as they are reported to be, has
created for our country. It is a gross illusion to per-
suade oneself, like the Presse, that Lord Palmerston, in
case lie should think it necessary to demand reparation
for what his journals call an act of trickery, would find
himself isolated even in England, and particularly in
Europe. It is in vain to bring forward against him.
without proof, the opinions of Lord Aberdeen and of
Sir Robert Peel ; it is in vain to say that he has ac-
quired for himself the reputation of a misehief-
maker and of a revolutionist with the European Ca-
binets, and; that if he were mad enough to carry this
affair of the marriage any further, it is well known what
would be the result of it—all this is boasting*ued
puerility. The Debuts held a nearly similar language
in 1840, and it is nevertheless known what took place.
Lord Palmerston, approved of or not by his colleagues,
was supported by them to the end of his policy.
Austria, who at first on the Egyptian question appeared
disposed to accept the arrangement proposed by France,
suddenly changed her opinion, and united herself to the
coalition already formed of the other powers, and the
Court of the Tuileries, which thought itself so sure of
overthrowing Lord Palmerston, was compelled to beat
a retreat, and bend before him. Then, nevertheless, no
hesitation was felt in denouncing Lord Palmerston as a
dangerous agitator, as an incendiary Minister ; then
also, or a little before, there were pointed out with
great outcry those appeals to revolt of subjects against
their Governments, which proceeded, it was said, from
the Cabinet of London. But, when it we's necessary
to act, the absolute monarchs did not hesitate to
range themselves on the side of the old British aris-
tocracy against the .7 rench nation, which never ceased
in their eyes, whatever ienguage its Government might
use, to represent revolution. We will say, moreover,
if the attacks of our Conservatives against Lord Pal-
merston were all merited ; if it were true that, instead
of confining himself to keeping up some miserable
agitations, sometimes in Spain, and at another
time on some other point, for an interest exclusively
English, he was really, as the Presse says, the natural
supporter of revolution in the world ; if that were true,
we should regard such attacks as a title of honour for the
representative of the Whig Cabinet, and we should re-
gret still more that instead of embroiling itself with that
Cabinetior a purely dynastic interest, Government had
not endeavoured to found with it the durable alliance of
the two nations in some grand enterprise useful to the
liberty of the people. It is in fact solely an the condition
of protecting the weak, acting in defence of right, and
promoting the development of liberty an the world,
that England and France can honourably unite to-
gether ; and we may add, that if this union he pos-
sible, it is with the 'Whigs rather than with the

Tories, whose sentiments are invincibly in favour of
alysolute monarchies. At every period, when the ill-
will of the English Government shows itseif towards
France, we are shown the prospect in perspective of
:in alliance with Russia. But, in the first place, this
alliance is not, that we arc aware of, offered to us; and,
were it even offered, it would not probably be obtained
except on revolting and im?ious conditions—the aban-
d of the Poles, of the Italians, of all suffering na-
tions, without speaking of the more or less remote
abandonment of Constantinople. At such a price
the alliance of Russia would be too dearly purchased ;
France entire would reject it. We believe in the possi-
bility of an alliance with part of Germany, when
Prussia shall have a Liberal constitution, and shall be
interested in preserving it. Until that time a serious
and sincere good understanding with Great Britain
founded, not on the exchange of some courteous words
between princes, but on the true interest of the people,
and on the community of the principles which govern
' their institutions, is what is to be desired for our
country. This understanding might have been esta-
blished after 1830, and again in the year 1836, if the
fear of the ultra-Conservatives had not paralysed all
movement. In the last ten years it has only existed in
aprearance ; now it is quite broken, broken by the advo-
cates of peace a tout pi.; for a family interes•, and, if it
must be said, for a dowry! It is a serious responsibility
which is taken before the country by those Ministers
who have so many times repeated to us that
the entente cordiale was for us a sheet anchor,
for the preservation of which no sacrifice of
power or of dignity was too great for the nation to
make. This responsibility appears to them apparently
lighter because they have not now to deal with a Tory
Ministry, with a Conservative Ministry professing like
themselves to be opposed to the most legitimate wishes
of the people. Who are Lord Palmerston and his col-
leagues? Powerless mischief-makers, who will be easily
overthrown, if they do not take part in our dynastic
arrangements. This is a sad calculation, and a dan-
gerous illusion. We are perfectly of opinion that our
Government, even after having committed a fault, should
not yield to arrogant menaces, to impmenate clamour;
that it should maintain its right when that of others has
not been violated; we do not feel the slightest sympathy
for those pretended Spanish patriots who range them-
selves behind the English Ambassador, to cry with all
their lungs, A Las la France!' But we again call on
our Government and thegreat Conservative party, before
giving way to their fits of ill. humour against the Whigs,
before denouncing them to the animadversion of the ab-
solute cabinets as the natural supporters of revolution
in the world, to look around them and to see what sup
port would remain to them in Europe on the day when,
no longer able to reckon on the British Cabinet, they
shall have turned against them all the interests of the
revolution."

The National has an able article, from the pen of
"A Veteran Diplomatist," in answer to the arguments
of the Presse, on the treaty of Utrecht. The answer
is complete. In allusion to the slight degree of im-
portance which the National attaches to the treaty of
Utrecht the " Veteran Diplomatist" admits that " the
KING elected in 1830 has completely accepted the
treaty of Utrecht," and then proceeds to show, by
the most incontrovertible arguments, that by
the provisions of that treaty the issue of the
marriage of the Duc DE MONTPENSIER are
absolutely excluded from the succession to the
throne of Spain. With regard to the distinction
which the Presse attempts to draw between the
wording of the preliminaries of 1709, in •r.hich all
the French Princes were excluded from the throne of
Spain, by succession, marriage, convention, or other-
wise, and the text of the treaty of 1713, and from which
it draws the conclusion that in 1713 the principle of
exclusion was abandoned, the " Veteran Diplomatist"
replies —" What was in effect the question under
consideration in the preliminary negotiations of 1709 ?
It was the recognition of CitAar.Es of Austria as
King of Spain. It was very natural, under those
circumstances, to carry out the principle of absolute
exclusion as regarded all the French Princes without
exception. And you are astonished that this abso-
lute exclusion of all the French Princes
is not reproduced in the treaty of Utrecht, that is to
say in the very deed by which one of those Princes
received the crown of Spain !! ! The negotiators of
the treaty must have been idiots if they had exactly
copied the preliminaries." But the solemn renun-
ciations of 1712 are not less clear, nor less precise,
nor less obligatory. There was no n ecessity to ex-
clude Princes from the succession who, by their own
act, excluded themselves and their descendants for
ever. It was sufficient to verify these renunciations
in the treaty, and to incorporate them with it as an
integral part of it. This was done, and it was added
that the treaty should be observed scrupulously,
and with good faith. It is then to the terms of the
treaty—to the clear and precise expressions of the
documents annexed to it, that we must return •
Now, the Presse insinuates that the word mar-
riage, which it carefully underlines, is not to b
found in the text of the treaty of 1713, although it
does occur in the preliminaries of 1709. This is
puerile when we consider the words of the renuncia-
tion of the Duke of ORLEANS. The rights of our birth
or all others which may belong to us in any manner
whatsoever in which the succession may arrive at our
line. He declares himself both for himself and for
his descendants excluded, incapacitated, and abso-
lutely incapable ; and for ever. Who can maintain
after this that the case of marriage has not been
provided against as well as those of testament, con-
vention, &c.

"Besides, if the son of the Due DE MoNTPENsIER
should succeed to the throne of Spain, it would not
be by marriage, but by inheritance, and in virtue of
the rights of the INFANTA, therefore the omission of
the word marriage in the treaty of Utrecht does not
invalidate the principle of exclusion, and under exist-
ing circumstances is of no importance."
We regret we cannot find room for the whole of this
admirably written article, which proves that the Duke
of ORLEANS renounced for himself and for his children
and descendants, however distant, for ever, and what-
ever might be their sex, all right of succession to the
Spanish throne, in whatsoever manner that right
might accrue to them, and that this renunciation was
registered by the Parliaments of Prance and Spain as
a fundamental law of the two countries.

AccordinguFrancaisA at
twooi
English
missionaries Captain
B RishOtaheite and kept them prisoners until he should re-
ceive instructions from Prance.
An army of observation is to assemble on the
Swiss frontier.
the

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed-
nesday at 821. 65c.; the Five per Cents., 1171. 55c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,253 f. 75c.; Rouen, 9371. 50c
Paris and Strasburg, 495 f.; Tours
Ilavre, 707 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 700 f. ; Avignon, 8901..;
a3l9ldof.N;
Vierzon, 610 f ; Bordeaux, 5561. 25c. ; Boulgne, 475 f.;
Troyes and Montereau, 3601. ; Basle, 2221. 50c.; Fampoux,
alintieesp,pseo23l.6ssoEC. ; Paris and Lyons, 517 f. 50c. ; Lyons
and Avignon, 4851. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 477 f. 50c.;
Spanish Domestic Debt, 34i

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDONSTOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER Id.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette
Mackenzie), 114—East Indian, 14 —Namur and Liege, 13--Nortliern
of France Constituted, 12N—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7% —Row n
and Havre, 27%.

'l'ua CABINET.—Lord John Russell has issued in-
vitations to all the members of the Cabinet to a Ca-
binet dinner, to be given on the 27th of the present
month, at his residence in Chetharn place. At this
meeting the further prorogation of Parliament will
be settled, Parliament at the present time being pro-
rogued to 'Wednesday, the 4th November.

The directors of the Chester and Holyhead Rail-
way Company entered into contracts, on Wednesday the
14th, fur the construction of the tubular bridge across
the River Conway, and also for the construction,of a
great portion of that across the Menai Straits, to be
called the Britannia Bridge. The Conway Bridge is to
be completed and fixed in its place in eight months from
the present time. The Conway Bridge is 400 feet span,
the Britannia Bridge 450 feet span.
The greatest span
of any rigid bridge hitherto executed, is 240 feet.
THE SOUTH- WESTERN RAILWAY EXTENSION.—
During the last few weeks very considerable progress
has taken place in carrying into effect, by order of the
directors of the South-Western Railway Company, the
Act of Parliament for the extension of the line by arches
from Nine Elms, Vauxhall, to Pedlar's-acre, adjoining
the Hungerford Suspension Bridge. There is a direct
opening made from the terminus to Vauxhall-walk, the
line being intended to pass through the large area of
ground in the front of Vauxhall-gardens. From the
Waadsworth-road to the Vauxhall-road nearly the
whole of the piers are built, and which are about four
feet in width. On some of them the arches are in course
of being turned. Between this distance there will be
three bridges, which will be constructed with strong iron
girders. On the north side of the Wandsworth•road the
level with the arches will be continued to the railway
from the viaduct by a mound of earth, which is now in
the course of formation, The occupants along the
greater portion of the remainder of the line have been
treated with, and nearly the whole of them have agreed
to terms without submitting to a jury. At the south of
the Archbishop of Canterbury's grounds, in Church-
street, several houses have been removed, and between
that part and Vauxhall the line will be rapidly extended.
The line will then, by the late Act ofParliament, after being
brought to Pedlar's-acre, be continued to London-bridge.
It is stated that on the completion of the viaduct the
effect will be a diminution of the tolls connected with the
Surrey trusts to a sum of above 8,000/.
BEQUEST TO THE BOTANIC GARDENS AT ICENV.—
The Rev. John Clowes, of Broughton Hall,
Manchester,
had in his possession a most valuable collection of orchi
daceous plants, which he has by his will bequeathed to
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where arrangements
tire now being made for their reception.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTEI? TO Tllt~l F.
The sales of Cotton at Lis crpeol yesterday were
12,0u0 hales, including 2,6u0 AnicricPn, 1,000 rirnarns
and Bahia, 500 Egyptiant2, and 500 Surat en specula-
tion. The market closed with much animation, and,
compared with last Friday's rates, prices of all descrip-
tions are fully -A-11. per lb. higher.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty yesterday
afternoon, received contracts for 100,000 gallons of rum
for the navy, at a trifle below 2s. 2d. per gallon.
There has been a full amount of business done in the
Consol Market this morning. For the Account the cur-
rent price is 951 and for Money the range taken has
been from 94i to 94. The Government brokers
bought but sparingly. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has just advanced from 14s. to 17s. Bank Stock
has receded from 2061 to 2051.
Spanish Stock is dull of sale; the Three per Cer ts. at
374, and the Actives at 264. Mexican Bonds have been
done only at 231 and the Grenada Stock at 214, and
the Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. at 581.
A very quiet market has ruled for Railway. Shares
and Set ip.
We have just been favoured with the following im-
portant litter relative to Mexican Bonds:—
" Sussex-place, Regent's Park, Oct. 16, 1846.
" Sir,—An extract of a certain document, in reference
to the late conversion of Mexican Bonds, having been
published in this day's Tines, accompanied by a letter
signed by 'B. Gomez Ferias,' I beg to state that I
shall forthwith prepare a communication which shall,
with the least possible delay, be transmitted
to the committee, for the information of the
bondholders, and which, I doubt not, will place matters
in their true light, and give full satisfaction.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " THOMAS MURPHY.
" To G. R. Robinson, Esq., Chairman of the Committee
of the South American Bondholders."
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... 94 93%
3 per Cant. Consols Anns 95% 94% 95%
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 ... 941,!
New 314 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 9%
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 lO 1-16
Consols for Nov. 26
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11%d.
1,0001.
Ditto Small — ... 14 17 pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Granada, 1 per Cent. . ..... 21%
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 23M 4
Portuguese 4 per Cents 41%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto for the Account 263%
Ditto 3 per Cent...
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 91%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Paz SLIARE.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 25 2% ~ -
Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush
Aylesbury and Thaune
...

Belfast aid Ccunty Down .. -
Bi- mingham and Gloucester..loo .....128
Do. New (i_ss,at_7%..dis.) . 171/2

.
Birmingham & exford-JunC 2 SIAVA to
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 23/4 ..... to
Boston, Stamf , & Birming... 225.
Bristol and Exeter
Do., New
Bristol and G10uce5ter......... 30

Bristol and Liverpool June... 2%
Buckinghamshire.. ......... ... 84s.
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Extension - to
Cambrian and Grand Junct.. 425.
Cambridge and Oxford
Chester and Holyhead 27% .....
Churnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 42s.
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clydesdale Junction
Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225.
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford l% — to
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares 2% — to
Cornwall and Central Devon 2% to
Derby and Crewe 2% to
Direct Lincoln, East Retford,
and Sheffield Junction • 254 — to
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich 1
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 10
Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 21,1 —
Dublin and Galway f"... ......
_4 ......

Dundalkland Enniskillen ... 10 ......
Eastern Counties 141. 16s 2114%... to
Do. New l2l. 16s

Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., d 0....... N 0.2,61. 138.4 d...
Do., York Extension 105....... 134 %... to
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Eastern Union 35 — to

Ditto, Quarter Shares B% to
Do. Extension to Harwich 1% to
Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 21,(2 — to
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
East Lincolnshire ll4 1 to
East and West of England... 1% — to
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto, Hall Shares

Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% to
Edinburgh and Northern ... 10 ......
Edinburgh and Perth 3 -
to

Ely and Huntingdon
4% to
Enniskillen and Sligo ..... -.. 2% — to
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 514 — to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — to
Ditto, New
Do. 14 Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12% ..... ..
Glouc., Aberyatwith, and Cen.
of Wales
Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 42s —

Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn) 1% — ... .. to
Great Eastern and Western—. 2% ..... to
Great Grimsby and Sheffield 10
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 271
Great Munster
Great North of Scotland 2% - to
Great North of England 100 ......235
Ditto, New 5 — to
Ditto, New
Ditto, New
Great Western B5 — to
Ditto, Half Shares 5O
Ditto, Quarter Shares lO
Ditto, Fifths 20
Do. New
Harwich and E. C. Junction 2 .... .
Hull and Selby 5O ...... ...... to"—
,
Ditto, Quarter Shares ..12% — to
' Ditto Half Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 1114 —„.„„ to
Do. do. and Norwich 2% to
Killarney Junctions ............ 114 — ...... to
Kendal and Windermere ..... 11,!
Lancaster and Car1i51e....... 45
Do. New 5 ......
Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena 425....... .. .
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester and Birmingham... 225.
Leicester and Bedford 22s.
Leeds and Dewsbury ......... 22% — ...... to
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 2% to
Liverpool and Bury l4
London 1!..- Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d — to
Do. New . 3 — to
Do. Extension
London and Brighton
Do. Fifths
London and Croydon...l3/. 15s. 9d — to
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . .....
London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d...
Ditto Preference ..... ...18/ 17s 2d...
L,ondon,Hounslow.&We,stern 2 . .... ---- to
London and North Western..loo 194 193... to 195
Do. Quarter Shares
Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Eighths G. J. 12% — to
Do. New Quarters ...G. J. 5
Do. 401. Shares.....L. &M. 8 — to
London and S. Western.... 41/. 6s. 10d. 69 to
Do. Ne w consolidated 8 ths.. 40
Ditto New
Do. New ...... .. •• 18
London and York... ..... ...... 2% — ... •to
Ditto Half Shares
London and Windsor ......... 1% — to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 12% — to
Londonderry and Enniskillen 12%
Lynn mai Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Leeds B2 .. ...
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Qaarters
Ditto Fifths 3 — to
Ditto Sixteenths .. ... 614 — to
Do: Extensica
Mauchester and Birmingham 40 72% to
Ditto Quarters (A)
Ditto Quarters (1)

Ditto Quarters (C) 1
Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 425.
Manchesto, Birmingham, and
MouldJunction
Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland 100 .....135
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo lO9 ...... to
Midland and Eastern Counties 2% — to
Midld. Great Western (Irish) 15
Newcastle and Berwick
Do North Shields
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ....„
Newmarket and Chesterford 2/. 12s .....: to
Newport and Abergavenny. . 21% — to
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 41,1
Newark, Sheffield, and Bost-- 15,-

,on A•••••• ....•• to
Siorfolk

Do. Half Shares
.... 10M to
Ditto Extension
North British
Ditto Half Shares.
Ditto Fifths
Do. Quarters ll4 2% .... to
Ditto, Extension
% l% ........ to
50
Northern and Eastern — ...... to
Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)
Ditto Quarter Shares
North Staffordshire 42s. ...... IyB 2 p to 1:!4 p
North Wales 3% ••••• ...... to
Earth. & South. Connecting 2%. .... _ •
...... t,
Northampton, Banbury, and
Cheltenham ... .. .......
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham Ir.. .
... ...._.
-)ortsmouth Direct ~9
4 ......

Preston and Wyre ............
25 374 ......
pato, Half Shares ...... ...... to
......