The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Count Alexander Mensdorf left Frogmore House,
Windsor, the residence of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, yesterday. for the Isle of Wight.
Sir Henry Pottinger, the Governor of the Cape of
Good Hope, had an intervisw with Earl Grey yesterday
at the Colonial-office.

Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, is
slowly recovering from his long and painfully severe
illness. Mr. Aston Key continues to attend the Baron,
together with other medical gentlemen.
The Marquis of Clanricarde, Postmaster-General,
arrived in town yesterday. His Lordship had an inter-
view with Lord Juhn Russell at his official residence in
Downing street, and also visited the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
The Earl of Zetland had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Home• office.
The Marquis of Lorn had an interview yesterday with
Earl Grey. Sir De Lacy Evans had also an interview
with the Noble EarL

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing•street. Major
Brandreth had also an interview with the Right Hon.
Gentleman yesterday.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office, for the Governor of the Faulkland
Islands. _ _ _

Lord and Lady John Russell returned to their resi-
dence in Chesham-place yesterday afternoon, from a
visit to the Duke of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle Susses.
Lord and Lady Alan Churchill have arrived at Far-
ranee Hotel, Belgravc-street, from Blenheim.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday, and concluded the hearing of an appeal from
Bengal " Rewun Persad v. Mossumat Radha Beeby"
An appeal from Jamaica, " Gordon v. Horsfall," was
opened. The case was adjourned.

Triennial Stakes are beginning to spread, and in a
few years will, we have no doubt, be found in the pro-
gramme of every respectable meeting in the kingdom.
Newmarket, Ascot, and Liverp.,ol,- have already been
advertised, and Catterick comes out this week with the
Easby " Triennial," and a li.t of forty- five subscriptions.
A similar stake is opened at Newcastle, and several other
Places are about to " pronounce" in favour of this novel
engagpment.
CARRIER PIGEON.—A paper was on Friday after-
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TrIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
TUN EVENING

Will be performed the grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL
Count Arnheim, Mr. Borraai ; Florestein, Mr. llarley ; Thaddeus.
Mr. Rafter ; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mrs.
Hughes; Arline, Miss Rainforth.
After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called
THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at the Academie Royale'
Paris, under the title of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdlles.
Sophie Fuoce, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Baguet,
Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
tinder the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE
YOU LEAP ; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W.
Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. 801 l ;
Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe; Mr.Harelman, Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs,
Mr. Webster; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs.
Glover; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Ilary Oddington, Miss
P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman,
Miss Julia Bennett.

After which an original Operatic Drama, called TLIE YOUNG
PRETENDER. Captain O'Neal, Mr. Iludson ; Captain Cocker,
Mr. Buckstone ; Chevalier Charles Edward Stuart, Mr. Braid ; Davy,
Mr. Coe ; Mrs. Craggie, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Armadale, Miss Horton.

During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Pre
aux Clercs," " Clementinen" (Mazourka); " Camelllon" (Galop);
the " Esterhazy" (Walzer); and a New Overture.

To conclude with a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord
Courtington, Mr. Holl ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup,
Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup,
Miss Julia Bennett.

Boa-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of
Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet
of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the
Wilis Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford.
Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Collentbrd, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor,
Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws.
After which the original Domestic Drama, called THE WRECK
ASHORE ; or, The Bridegroom or the Sea. Marmaduke Magog,
Mr. Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates.
To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS.
GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs.
Cullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss 31. Taylor,
and Miss Ellen Chaplin.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts,
entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of
" Giselle." The principal characters personified by Miss Georgians
Smithson, Miss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses
Marshall; Messrs. Leiner, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Homier,
l'eren, &c.

After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled TIIE TWO
RAINBOWS.

In the course of the Evening the Band will perform " The Perlen
Waltzes."

To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SITE STOOPS TO
CONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr.: Wynn ; Young Marlow, Mr.
Vining; Hardcastle, Mr. Granby; Tony I.umpkin, Mr. Compton;
Hastings, Mr. Hoxby ; Diggory, Mr. Cowell ; Miss Hardcastle, Mrs.
Stirling; Miss Neville, Mrs. Hughes; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Fosbroke.

FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell.
ON MONDAY EVENING
Will be performed the Comedy, entitled L'HOTEL GARNI. Cha-
racters by MM. Langeval, Berou, Cartigny ; Madame Deluc, and
Mdlle. Cordely.
After which, Moliere's celebrated Comedy of LE BOURGEOIS
GENTI LHOM ME. M. Jourdain, M. Perlet ; Nicole, Mdlle. Brohan.
To conclude with LE MARI ET L'A M ANT. Col. Saint Leger,
M. Langeval ; Ernest, 31. Berou ; Frontin, M. Dumery ; M. Motus,
M. Tourtillim; Madame Saint Leger, Madame Adele Deluc; Lisette,
Mdlle. Brohan.
Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at
half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a New Drama, called PASSION'S SLAVE :
or, The Outcast Son. Supported by tho principal talent of the
Company.
Atter which the popular Farce of THE WET NURSE. Mr.
Grubb, Mr. Neville; John Pry, Mr. Lewis ; Tom Chirp, Mr. Webb t
Mrs. Grubb, Mrs. Lewis ; Patty Crimp, Miss Terrey.
To conclude with the favourite Nautical Drama of MY POLL
AND MY PARTNEIt JOE. Messrs. lieslop, Webb, Johnson,
Lewis, Phelps, Pelham, Neville, Saville ; Miss Terrey, Mrs. Daly,
&c., will support the principal characters.

ASTLEY'sI ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, and Royal Family.
Mr. BATTY respectfully begs to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and
the Public that, in addition to his present extensive Establishment,
he has purchased the whole of Mr. White's trained Lions, Tigers,
Leopards, &c., being the same beautiful animals that the cele-
brated Mr. Carter, the American " Lion King," performed with in
lithe principal towns in England and on the Continent.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en-
titled THE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the
Charmed Bit.
New and entire change in the Scenes of the CIRCLE.
To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal.
,:ox -office open from eleven till tiva o'clock.—Doors open at six
art I elmmerice at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.
Broadfoot.

or destitution will be impossible. The whole nation
will receive an impulse which cannot be resisted;
they will be carried away in the whirl of commerce;
the blood of the world—money labour, and provisions,
will circulate freely and generously among them ;
they will be animated by the wholesome fluctuations
encited by the din, and morally elevated by the inter-
course with their fellow-men, consequent upon inter-
national traffic. Once place Ireland directly in the
track of the commercial orbit by which the other
kingdoms of the globe have become so prosperous
and so powerful, and her miseries are for ever dissi-
pated and her glory is already predoomed.
In the prospectus of the Wexford and Valentia
Railway Company we recognise the indication of the
first step towards the commercial orbit to which
we have alluded. It will not have escaped the public
recollection, that it was originally proposed by this
company to connect Wexford and Valentia by a
direct line of communication running across the south
of Wexford, transversely through Kilkenny and
Waterford, through the centre of Cork, and thence
through Kerry to its destination. That scheme has
been abandoned, and we think judiciously. A new
proposition is made by the provisional directors—a
proposition much simpler, much less expensive, and,
to our thinking, much more efficacious. To condense
the scheme into: one sentence—it is proposed that
there shall be a line of railroad only forty miles in
length from Killarney to Valentia, that line being
connected at the former spot with the lines granted
during the last sessionofParliament. By this admirable
arrangement a most enormous outlay is avoided
while all .the original advantages are secured. The
251. share will be reduced to a 10/. share, and thereby
the liabilities of the shareholders will be wonderfully
decreased.

The advantages of the proposal which we have just
explained, while they are obvious to every reflective
mind, are of such extraordinary importance that some
allusion to them is absolutely requisite. We should
be incapable of appreciating the value of geogra-
phical position and mercantile opportunities, were we
to allow this remarkable scheme to pass without an
immediate and emphatic approval. It must be
remembered that Valentia would by this arrange-
ment be placed in direct communication with
the capital, and that, being the nearest har-
bour to America, and one of the noblest ports in
the United Kingdom, it would thereby ensure to
itself an endless and gigantic traffic. As was ad-
mirably implied at the Court of Baronial Session
assembled in Cahirciveen, on the 9th of November
last, the western portions of Ireland would
be no longer dependent upon the eastern
ports and channel navigation—always a tedious and
precarious medium of transit—for Government stores
and provisions. Vast expenses would be thereby re-
moved, much time would be saved, infinite trouble
avoided. It is not, however, in these de-
tailed advantages that we recognise the excellence
of this projected line. It is in its' influence upon
the Irish population generally. Although covering
a length of merely forty miles, we conceive this Va-
lentia and Killarney Railway to be of a national im-

portance. By it in a great measure Ireland would
be placed immediately in the current of in-
tercourse ebbing and flowing between the
new world and the old. It would share
largely in the profits of commercial speculation
between the two hemispheres. It would render
Ireland a path for Europeans and Americans to
traverse. Gigantic markets would be opened directly
for Irish produce and Irish manufactures. Such an
impetus would be given to industry and enterprise
in the island as would act upon all classes of its popu-
lation—upon its agriculturists, its manufacturers, its
landowners, its tenantry, its farm-labourers, its
artizans, its shop-keepers, its ship-owners, its mer-
chants. Every one would be materially benefited by
the stimulus, work would be afforded to those out of
employment, provisions would necessarily be more
plentiful, large additions of capital would be em-
barked in the undertakings which it would render
inevitable. For our naval forces the magnificent har-
bour of Valentia, would then present many advan
tages. Situated on the most prominent and central
of the peninsulas of Kerry, between Dingle Bay
and the mouth of Kenmare River, it is immeasurably
more accessible than Cork, and infinitely more con-
venient for American traffic.

No proceeding of this nature can of course in-
terfere with the importance which has been so justly
acquired by Liverpool, as the medium of intercourse
between Great Britain, the West India islands, and
the American continent. In the construction of the
Valentia Railway there is no destroying the interests
of one locality for the benefit of another—there is only
the greater diffusion of the blessings of commercial, so-
cial,and intellectual traffic throughout the United King-
dom. After all, SYDNEY SMITII was right—the people of
Ireland should not so much cry out " Erin-go-
bra9h!" as "Erin-go-bread and cheese ! Erin-go
thatch to keep the rain out ! Erin-go pantaloons
without holes in them !" Those very sensible if not
very poetical aspirations will be realised only by such
plans as this of the Valentia Railway.

says --

Young Ireland is making a great spurt—the party
is actually trying to assume an attitude. They are
evidently sorely vexed with their own diminutive-
ness, when contrasted with the stately stature of their
powerful antagonist at Conciliation Hall. However,
young Ireland has got into the field, though into the
worst part of it. How the creature reached it RO-
body knows; but it certainly is there. The croaking
noises that grated the ear, led the public to turn
round and search for the intruder. This
living curiosity was discovered concealed in some
very rank grass. Its body is excessively
swelled, and its palpitations are distressingly
manifest. Some say it is so swollen with rage, it
will assuredly burst. It seems the sight of its lord!y
opponent on the same ground has led to this comical
scene. The fable of the toad and the ox is faithfully
brought to our recollection.
A meeting " of the Dublin Repealers opposed to
the present policy of Conciliation Hall," was packed
in the Round-room of the Rotunda, on Wednesday
night. A sprinkling of the juvenile political de-
linquents appeared on the platform. The chair
was filled by one Mr. COMYIc, of Woodstock.
His opening speech was well cheered, first, we
should think, on account of its exceeding
brevity, which is the soul of wit, and next, for the ex-
cellence of its matter, whereof the end-all and be-all
was, that the present Government was the worst that
ever undertook to manage Ireland, and that coalition
with any English party was highly to be deprecated.
All this was received as sublime truth, and so would
have been any other nonsense that he might have
chosen to utter. Let us proceed. The secretary,
Mr. M‘GEE, next strutted forward. His trick was a
very good one. He announced that he had a letter
from an eminent professional gentleman, marked
private, which he could not therefore read, offering
1001. to any repeal organization that would enable
Young Ireland to do their duty at the next election,
This was good by-play. The secretary is un-
doubtedly an adept at the game of hocus pocus. So
fortunate, too, that the letter was marked private,
coming, as it did, from a professional gentleman
The communication tickled the fancy, and the mee

IIE WEATHEJi—►SIIN OFFICE, DECEMBER 5.
T 1 ERBIOMETER, Lowest, 29; Highest. 38 ; Noon, 34.
BAROMETER, 30.—WIND W., fine.

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ing was so good-humoured that this little piece of
delusion went off agreeably enough. Mr. RICHARD
O'GoamAN, jun., gave vent to some choice rhodu-
montade. He would have it that the answer to the Cork
Repealers was unsatisfactory and deceitful, and grew
very lachrymose when he declared, that Conciliation
Hall had degenerated so low as to be the committee-

room of an English faction. He reminded the meeting
that he was unplaced, unpensioned, and unbought,
and only wanted moral force to obtain repeal?
whereas Mr. O'CoNNELL desired to use it in support
of a Whig Government. The Rev. C. P. MEEHAN,

C.C., tried his hand at oratory, and expatiated upon a
report drawn up by their committee upon the origin
of the dissensions between Old and Young Ireland.

Both the report and the reverend gentleman were
equally facetious. Their joint manoeuvre consisted
in attempting to prove that Mr. O'CONNELL, and not
themselves, forced the secession. How many sane

persons they expect to persuade to this, we cannot

surmise. But we are satisfied the report will re-

main a monument of their own folly. That Mr.

O'CONNELL would ever have dreamt of voluntarily

weakening the repeal party by severance, unless lie felt

convinced that the very existence of the Association

was endangered by the avowed principles of Young

Ireland, is sheer nonsense. That ih4 pregnant danger

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5,1 1846,

existed, is enforced by the language of Mr. MEEIIAN
himself. His reverence let the cat out of the bag:—
" Mr. O'CONNELL'S new resolutions contained a prin-
ciple so obviously false and servile, that nearly all
cultivated men have long ago abandoned it : the
principle that it is sinful to overthrow established
tyranny in any country, and under any provocation.'
We see no reason for classing Mr. MEEHAN among
cultivated men, and therefore hold it of little
consequence what principle he either aban-
dons or cherishes. But if the principle here
laid down is to have any meaning or practical
import, which, from the bluster they make about it,
we suppose must be intended, it can signify only this,
that England tyrannizes over Ireland, and that the
provocation is so great that it would not be sinful to
upset the English Government. It must mean this
or nothing. This argument, then, is plain, down-
right rebellion. Such is the view taken of it by Mr.
'O'CONNELL, and, independently of his high attain-
ments as a criminal lawyer, and his vast experience
in political matters, no rational man can doubt that
he has done right in weeding out from the ranks
of the Association such reckless doctrinaires. "No
reason," observes Mr. MEEHAN, "has been urged for
yielding our conscientious convictions to the will of Mr.
O'CONNELL, but might equally be insisted upon for
the betrayal of nationality, honour, or religion."
Th,is it is
is to
is be
er taken,
able we imagine, for irony. Be
it
twaddle. A major cannot be
8m
contained in a mince.; and if Mr. MEEHAN cannot
concede that Mr. O'CoriNELL's past struggles and
successes afford a presumptive reason for subjecting
his opinion to the judgment of Mr. O'CONNELL, we
can only regret that his intellect is so devoid of elas-
ticity. We are not bound to furnish him with an
understanding. If we did this for one, another
would soon be asking for the same boon. In
all probability the Rev. Dr. O'CARROLL would
be the next candidate for the favour. This
gentleman seconded Mr. MEEIIAN, and ex-
pressed his disapprobation of " priests and bishops
mingling in politics, because it gate a tone of secta-
rianism." Then, what possible business had Dr.
O'CARROLL with the meeting in question ? Why set
his opinions and actions fisticuffing against each other ?
Dr. O'CARROLL; elsewhere observes that " neither
priest nor bishop should join any party, for he thought
the people's own power and knowledge and influence
should suffice to work out) their independence."
This is precisely our own opinion. We, there-
fore, recommend Dr. O'CARROLL to remain
in future quietly at home. But where was
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN during this farcical pa-
rade ? Great generals, we know, quietly seat
themselves on an eminence, whilst a forlorn hope is
advancing to breach the enemies' walls. We are not
aware, however, that the Member of Limerick has,
as yet, done anything to entitle him to such dignified
repose. " Discretion is the better part of valour,"
and we should not be surprised if the war-cry of
Young Ireland, under the advice of their acknow-
ledged general, were soon to resolve itself into
" Sauce qui peat."

We read in a letter from Limberg (Galicia) of the
26th ult. :

" The sentences on 31 of the persons, all military men,
tried for having taken part in the revolt at Przierris,
have been published. Two °racers were condemned to
death, but the punishment has been commuted to 20
years' imprisonment in a fortress ; the chaplain of a
regiment is sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment; several
non-commissioned officers and soldiers are to labour
from six to eight years on the fortifications ; and one
officer and one soldier are acquitted."
The German Journal of Frankfort, of the 30th ult.,
says—

" A new law is daily expected at Limberg respecting
the forced labour of the peasantry, and containing many
concessions in their favour. It is said that Tarnow will
be the seat of government of Western Galicia, that
Cracow will be fortified, and that all the commercial
privileges and franchises now enjoyed by Podgorze will
be extended to it."

The Aix-la-Chapelle; Gazette, of the 30th ult.,
states that so great is the distress of the labouring
classes at Berlin, that they are compelled to pawn al-
most everything they possess to procure bread. The
crowd is so great at the doors of the pawnbrokers, that
it has been found necessary to place sentinels there to
procure order.

'We learn from Berlin, 26th ult., that the deputa-
tion of merchants and traders, who had arrived there
from Breslaw for the purpose of representing the in-
jury that the commerce of Breslaw would probably
sustain from the incorporation of Cracow, had been
received by the Ministers, CANnierkind BODEL-
SCIINVING, who obtained for them an audience of the
KING, in which his MAJESTY declared that every-
thing proper would be done in the negotiations with
Austria to protect the commerce of Silesia.

It has already been stated from Berlin, that there
was no truth in the rumour of Austria having, in
return for the annexation of the territory of Cracow
to her empire, given indemnities of territory else-
where to Prussia and Russia. This contradiction is
now officially given by the Austrian Observer.

A letter from Bologna of the 25th November.

"During the last week an occurrence took place at
Bassano, in the province of Bologna, half a league from
the Duchy of Modena, which had fatal consequences. A
party of young men at a tavern, while regaling them-
selves, were singing the popular hymn in favour of Pius
IX., when some carabineers of the police interposed,
and an altercation ensued. The soldiers withdrew • but,
in the evening, as the young men were retiring, the sol-
diers fired upon them and killed M. Minelli, son of the
and another person. The exasperation of the
people became so great that they went to the barracks
where the carabineers retired, and commenced a riot,
which was only appeased by the intervention of the
magistrates of the town, and the delivering up
of the offending carabineers, who were con-
ducted to Bologna, and there committed to
prison to take their trial. On the 16th and 17th
there were disturbances at the University of Bologna,
and in the evening of the 25th at its theatre, during the '
perf9rmance of Christian VIII. King of Denmark, in
consequence of its allusions to the oppressions imposed
upon Denmark by. foreign states. The officer of police
ordered the curtain to be dropped, and stopped the re-
presentation. The public thereupon became enraged,
and tore the curtain down, destroying everything within
their reach. The armed force did not venture to show
itself ; but the officers of the civic guard interposed, and
put an end to the riot."

The PorE is still engaged in the promotion of libe-
ral measures. He has recently commuted the punish-
ments of several political offenders, and is about to
issue a decree diminishing the duty on salt. Since
his HomicEss has established civic patrols, nocturnal
attacks have entirely ceased.

Madrid papers of the 27th have arrived.
The Heraldo notices two rumours current in
Madrid—one, that the Government, dreading to meet
the new Cortes, intends to dissolve it immediately
after its organization ; the other, that the Ministry
will be dissolved, and be replaced by a Ministry of
which the Marquis of MIRAFLORES will be the chief.
The Heraldo says it does not think either of these
rumours entitled to the slightest degree of credit.
The Heraldo announces the arrival in Madrid of
the Count DE TUOMAR (COSTA CABRAL), the new
Envoy Extraordinary to the Queen of PORTUGAL.
The Espanol mentions a report that CABRERA. had
not only entered Spain, but had actually arrived in
the province of Madrid. This is very improbable.
The Fomento of Barcelona states that on the 22d
ult. an engagement took place near Susqueda between
a detachment of police of twenty men and a band of
fifty Carlists. The affair, however, was not of any
importance, for no person was killed, and only one
was wounded.

anger with which he was said to be animated. There is
no statesmen amongst his adversaries who would not take
upon himself the responsibility of his conduct in the
affair of Cracow. On this point the French Govern-
ment is, if we are rightly informed, still in the prelimi-
nary stage. It is desire us of making a manifestation
which shall amount to an acte, and everything leads us
to believe that M. Guizot, who on the first day was de-
cided as to the spirit, is now closely occupied with the
form. This will be a real event, and it will not long be
delayed."

According to the Presse, M. Gurzo'r communicated
on Wednesday, to his colleagues assembled in Ca-
binet Council at the Foreign-office, the substance of
his answer to the note announcing the incorporation
of Cracow, The same paper states that the Due DE
BORDEAUX and his bride are about to visit England.
The Journal des Debats, in answer to:the observations
of the Constitationnel, which we published yesterday,
after a long introduction, reminding the Opposi-
tion press of the occasions on which they had corn-,
promised the alliance with England, says—
" It must not be supposed that the outcries of the Op-
position journals have been without result. The irri-
tation that they have caused in France they have pro-
duced also in England. We are perfectly convinci d
that the affair of the Spanish marriages would have
been viewed by our neighbours with a calmer and
juster eye, were it not for the secret resentment
which so much abuse kept brooding at the bottom
of their hearts. They seized on the first pretext which
offered to send us back our reproaches of avidity, of un-
satiable ambition, of perfidy. An alliance, which they
beheld dependent on four votes in so paltry an affair as
that of the Pritchard indemnity, appeared to them to
merit but little confidence. No; the present difficulties
are not the work of one day, but of six years. We pay
at the present moment for the follies of the Opposition.
We are now gathering the fruit of their declamations
against a Government and a people who were stretching
forth their hands to us. When everything has been
done to destroy the entente cordiale, with what a good
grace any one can come forward and say the accord be-
tween France arid England is the most powerful guaran-
tee of peace and liberty ! Peace and liberty! This, then, is
what the opposition has been near to sacrifice to a foolish
self-love, or something worse—to its rancour against M.
Guizot in the Pritchard affair! At present, it is true, the
Opposition turns round. Is it for the purpose of coming to
the aid of its country in a difficult position? No; but to
join its abuse to that of the English journals—to become
the accuser of the French Government. It alone has
broken the alliance ! England has good cause to be
irritated ! The proceedings of M. Guizot have been in-
famous ! For a dowry, for a mere family ambition, th,
accord which best guaranteed peace and liberty has been
broken ! Might there not be some means of re .esta-
blishing this precious accord ? Perhaps there might.
Far instance, if Lord Palmerston accepted as a suffi
cient reparation the sacrifice of M. Guizot, would not all
be terminated—to the satisfaction of M. Thiers ? Would
not the alliance bloom forth again under the auspices of
the two Ministers, whc agreed so well together in 1840?
The plan is excellent, and we recommend it to the admi-
ration of France. In this way would be explained these
sudden accessions of sympathy for England, these hypo-
critical tears shed for the rupture of the alliance ! But
what matter to us are your plans ? public honesty will
treat them as they deserve. Your plans will fail.
whilst your declarations will remain. You are par-
tisans of the English alliance. We are so likwiee, and
we have the advantage over you of having been always
so. We proclaimed before you, and we do so now with
you, that this alliance is the surest guarantee of the peace
and liberty of the world. Therefore it is that we do not
believe in a definitive rupture. The peace and liberty of
the world will not be sacrificed to paltry interests. The
English nation is a noble one. The cloud will disappear,
and the alliance of the two countries will be renewed on
a more solid foundation than your miserable combina-
tions of persons. We shall wait. As to the two questions
which you submit to us, and which you consider, no
doubt, exceedingly insidious, nothing is so easy as to
reply to them, or rather we have already done so. You
ask us if it is not true that the French Government has
endeavoured to fortify itself by an alliance with the
Northern Powers, and if it was not after having seen
this project fail that we have turned anew towards Eng-
land? We reply, in the most peremptory manner, No!
This is all the embarrassment you cause us!"
It is certainly rather rich to find M. GuizoT sneer-
ing at an alliance as is a mere miserable combination
of persons. What, we ask, was the entente cordiale
but a " mere miserable combination of persons,'
who sacrificed the honour of the two countries to
mere party interests ? 'We, however, feel firmly
convinced that " the cloud will disappear, and the
alliance of the two countries be renewed on a more
solid foundation," more solid because it will be a
real alliance between the nations instead of an
entente cordiale between factions.
The National begins to reckon up what France
has paid for the Montpensier marriage, and thus gives
the result of its inquiries as to what it has cost the
country to secure a dowry for the son of the KING :
" For those who wish to have in figures the glorious
results of this marriage—for those who wish to know
what our country has lost while M. Guizot was receiving
the dot, we beg to recal the fact that the Minister has
already added two millions to the budget, which have
been employed in couriers, missions, presents, and ex-
penses of police. This is the smallest part of the cost.
What is worse is the general position of commercial
affairs and of general credit. It is the rarity of ca.:,h
and the high price of money. To set a value on the
embarrassment, the loss sustained by private industry,
is impossible ; but at all events we can compare the
prices of the funds at the moment of the marriage and
at the moment when the Cracow affair was announced.
We have made the calculation, and we give it without com-
mentary. The total diminution in the value of the rentm
and railway shares is no less than 304 millions of francs.
This is pretty clear. Let us boast of progress ! Let
us be proud of being a free people who manage our own
affairs. Here is France agitated, Europe shaken, and all
interests suffering—because a prince and a princess were
to be rearri,d."

The National publishes an amusing bit of scandal,
on the subject of the preliminaries to the Spanish

marriages.
It would appear that whilst Louis Philippe's agent,
his Excellency Count Bresson, was intriguing about the
Montpensier match, he was commissioned by the Queen
Dowager, Maria Christina, to procure for her daughter
everything " most splendid, and of the most recent
mode," in the "myosins" of Paris. This commission his
Excellency entrusted to his lady. Madame Bresson or-
dered at one shop a quantity of beautiful lace of the
value of 22,000 f., it being stipulated that it should be
forthwith sent to Madrid, and, if not approved of, as
promptly returned. About two months having elapsed
without either the lace or the money being heard of, the
loser by this royal bargain has determined on bringing
an action against the Queen• Mother's intendicnte" of
the large property she has in France.

There is no intelligence from Portugal in any of
:hese Papers.

After the action was brought, an offer was made to
return the lace, but the seller refused to receive it
back, alleging, with much reason, that the delay
which had taken place was quite sufficient to autho-
rise him to consider the sale as effected, and on Fri-
day the case was to come on for trial. "If the
tradesman," says the National, " were an inhabitant
of Madrid, it is possible, considering the delightful
system of government under which the Spaniards
have the happiness of living, that this escapade might
cost him very dear. In France, unfortunately, the im-
prisonment of a tradesman, for demanding that which is
due to him, is a matter somewhat more difficult of
accomplishment. If perchance the young Duchess of
MONTPENSIER, who is, at the present moment, visiting
the curiosities of Paris, should find herself, on Friday
next, at the tribunal of commerce in the Bourse, she
will hear a trial in which she cannot but take a great
interest. She may, perhaps, be enabled to write to
her Lady Mother, that there are to be found in
France lawyers so audacious as to plead against her,
and judges so ill-instructed as to condemn her."
The Constitutionnel states that the King of the
BELGIANS is expected to return to Paris by the 15th
inst., and that this visit will be followed by one to
London, with the intent of endeavouring to bring
about a reconciliation between the two Cabinets of
France and England.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Pari.s. Bourse on Thurs-
day at 81f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents., 11i f. 95c. ; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,235 f ; Rouen, 872 f.
sf. Havre,.soBc.7;;vier6z3o3nf: 7557c5.f.;
Great Northern, 638 f. 75c.; A
75c.; Bordeaux, 550 f. ; Balse, 218 f. 75c. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 478 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 487 f. 50c.; Paris and
Lyons, 502 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 487 f. 50c. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 470 t. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 55 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 37i ; Ditto Domestic
Debt, 33.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 4.
Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette (Espelete),
—ltalian and
Austrian, *2—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 1 th—
Luxembourg, 34—Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of
France Constituted, 101,4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 7R—.
Paris and Lyons Constituted, s—Rouen and Havre, 253 k.

MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 27.—The Three per Cents.
closed tit 341
the Four per Cents. at 21 ; the Five per
Cents. at 21 1
2 ; and Coupons not Capitalized, at 19k.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
On the subject of the rumoured change in the
Ministry, the Revue Nouvelle, which is supposed to
have access to official sources of information, says—
"We can affirm that there is no question of replacing,
or even modifying
the present Cabinet before the nextmeeting of Parliament. M. Guizot has just accom-
plished in the interval of the sessions a great diplomatic
work. He alone can explain, and, if necessary, defend
it in presence of the Chambers. Another error of the
public is the belief that, since the Spanish affair, no re-
lations are possible between the two statesmen who
direct the foreign affairs of France and England. The
sad event which has occurred in Poland has just proved
the contrary. Lord Palmerston has not indeed adopted
may have
ha
re-
ply
creep out the

DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.--A very
numerous deputation from Liverpool and the principal
provincial towns in the north of England, waited on
Lord John Russell this afternoon, in Downing-street,
and had a conference with his Lordship on the subject of
a reduction of the duty on tea.

‘VINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—Count Augustus
Mansdorff left Frogmore this morning for the Isle of
Wight, on a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Con-
sort. One of her Royal Highness's carriages, with post
horses, conveyed the Count to the Farnborough station
of the South-Western Railway,
Captain Coddington, the Inspector-General of Rail-
ways, was prevented on Thursday from sanctioning the
opening of the Norfolk Railway branch from Wvmond-
ham to East Dereham (twelve miles in length), owing
to the recent fall of snow in that part of the country,
the whole of the works being covered to such an extent
as to render inspection of the line impossible,

►IO.NEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUAR7'ER TO THREE.

In the Liverpool Cotton market yesterday the sales
were 10,000 baks, of which 3,000 to 4,000 were on spe-
'ulation, the market closing very firm. Shares atLiver-
pool were not quite so good yesterday.
The sales 01 Cotton at Liverpool during the week
have been no less than 78,020 bales. The stock is now
reduced to 483,500 bales, against 929,000 at this time
as; year. The advance in prices this week is id. to Id.
per I.b.

The weekly statement from the Bank of England
made last up, shows a decrease in the notes issued of
only 4,2951.
A decrease in the Rest of 2,722/.

An increase in the Public Deposits of 571,170/, or to
8,447,5601.

An increase in the other Deposits of 43,3331., or to
8,018,3911.

A decrease in seven days and other Bills of 892,3551.
An increase in other Securities of 209,1471., or to
13,562,822/.

An increase in the notes of the banking department of
215,8501, or to 8,325,745/.

The quantity of bullion held by the Corporation is
now returned at 15,008,1321., or an increase of 84,3601.
Should, as reported, the managers of the Bank of
France require aid from the directors of the Bank of
England, in consequence of their stock of specie being
very low indeed, not a doubt exists but, either directly
r indirectly, the assistance required will be cheerfully
given.

The arrivals to-day are but few, and none of these of
later dates than those before received. The West India
mail is now due. There is little doubt that her advices
will be received before our next Monday's report.
The Consol Market has been flat to-day, and without
any business of importance having occurred. Consols
for the Account have been quoted only at 95i, for the
first transfer day next week at 951 I, and the New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 96. Exchequer-bills
are heavy at 7s. premium. Bank Stock is firm at 2061.
As some doubts appear to be thrown upon the report
pnblished yesterday, that Santa Anna had seized
2,000,000 dollars belonging to British subjects, the
market for Mexican Stock has rallied to-day to 224.
Such a course of proceeding would of course damage
considerably, for a period, all those who have a lien upon
the property. The pt ice is now a shade lower. Portu-
guese Four per Cents. have advanced from 381 to 391.
Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds are rather in
demand, as well as the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. Brazil Five per Cents. continue at 86.
The Railway Share and the Scrip Markets are not
brisk this morning, but it is not in many instances that
the prices have receded.

CLOSING
PRICES.
2061/2
94 IA
95%
96

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 941/Ei
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9514%
New 314 per Cent. Annuities 96ls 96
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001... . 22 p 22 p
Consols for Opening, Jan. 15 95% 951 A
Exchequer Bills, 1000/. I%d. ... 10 7 p 7 p
itto, 500/
Ditto, Small •• 10 7 p 10 p

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