The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

the former claim or character, the Prince JOHN
almost sinks that in the latter claim or character.

In fact, says his royal highness, " I will not in-
sist on the question of right, because it is pain-
ful to speak of a beloved brother, perceiving him

:o be subjected to a party which strives to dis-

avow the progressive spirit of the age. Nor will

I expatiate upon his last act, based, it is said,
upon the dictation of clever counsellors, who, un-
fortunately, consulted more their own interests

than the honour of my brother. The question of
my rights is to me inseparable from the sanc-
tion of the people to whom I desire to appeal."
The legitimate or hereditary right, therefore, is
implied, consequently, rather than formally ex-

pressed, by DON JUAN in his present appeal to

his fellow-countrymen. His expectations appear

:o be chiefly based upon the identity of his own

political sympathies and aspirations with those
presumed to be cherished in the hearts
of the great mass of the more liberal and enlight-
ened =Tubers of the Spanish population. "It is
natural," says Don JUAN DE BOURBON to his fel-
low-countrymen—" it is natural for him who thus
recognises the advantages of an entirely liberal sys-
tem, to desire for his country a sacred respect of
individual liberty—the broadest liberty of the press,
which is the strongest corrective of every kind of
abuse ; true equality before the law, and equal pri-
vileges to all parties ; entire freedom in elections,
the only method of rendering the representative
system a reality ; and, in the economical branch,
the total abolition of such duties as are most grie-
vous to the public, such as those on articles of con-
sumption and the gate duty ; the abolition of the
monopoly of tobacco 'and salt, by which so many
industrial pursuits are protected ; the most ample
system of amortization, not excepting the property
which is called the Royal Patrimony, because I
consider that the provision accorded by the public
is sufficient for a King, because the prestige and
the power of a Monarch ought not to be based on
the ostentation in which he lives, but rather upon
the affection and the respect of his subjects." All
this is doubtless admirable—but in no ono particu-
lar a novelty. The Prince's elder brother, the as-
pirant hitherto to the throne of his ancestors—Don
CARLOS, as he might be called, like his father, only
that the name is too intimately associated with the
old haughty unbending spirit of the Spanish
sovereignty—the Count de MONTEMOLIN, as his
Royal Highness is designated all over Christendom
—would unquestionably have conceded, would still,
had he the opportunity, concede all this, and con-
cede it, too, con amore, were that the condition of
his assuming the purple and wielding the sceptre
of his ancient ancestry. The depreciators of all
such fair advances made by exiled Princes to the
peoples over whom they claim the allegiance echo
not unnaturally to all such golden and halcyon
promises put forth by them prospectively; echo
back, we say, not unnaturally in reply to all such
auspicious advances the old, shrewd, cynical, fami-
liar distich, admitting of such wide and general ap-
plication—that old legendary couplet, which re-
lates—

"When the devil was ill, the devil a monk would be,
When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he."
Experience alone, events alone could, of course,
demonstrate the application of that sneer of unbe-
lief in the integrity of their fair promises, either to
DON JUAN or to his elder brother DON CARLOS,
otherwise the Conde de MONTEMOLIN. It is note-
worthy, however, as conspicuous among the " Signs
of the Times" that the rival aspirants to an ancient
throne like that of the old Spanish sovereigns ad-
vance their claims less through any presumed right
of inheritance than through the asserted accord of
their more liberal sentiments with the views, the
hopes, the wishes of the very people over whom
they aspire to exercise the coveted prerogatives, the
naturally coveted prerogatives of sovereignty.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will
shortly leave town on a visit to Sir George Wombwell
Bart., at his seat in Yorkshire.

The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland continues in
a very alarming condition, but yesterday her grace was
somewhat better.

The Marquis of Abercorn is expected in town
early in the ensuing week from Baron's Court, county
Tyrone. The Marchioness and Lady Georgiana Hamilton
are visiting the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, at Drum-
lanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire, where the Earl and Countess
of Dalkeith and a large circle aro assembled. Viscount
Hamilton, M.P. is visiting in Scotland.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry
are expected home on Monday next, from a tour in Italy
and Germany.

The Earl of Derby was, by accounts received in
town last evening from Knowsley Park, rather better.
Not the least danger exists ; his lordship is suffering from
an attack of gout of more than usual severity.
The Earl and Countess Fitz william are expected
in Grosvenor-square early in the folloWing month, in order
to attend the nuptials of the Hon. M.Rolle and Lady Ger-
trude Douglas, daughter of the late and sister of the pre-
sent Earl of Morton.

Viscountess Jocelyn and family have left Tony-
more Park, Ireland, where her ladyship has been staying
with the Earl and Countess of Roden, for Sandringham
Hall, Norfolk, to visit the Hon. Spencer and Lady llarriet
Cowper.

Viscount Maynard and the Hon. Miss Maynard
have arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, from the
Continent.

Sir Alexander and Lady Arabella Bannerman
have left the Marquis of Salisbury's seat-in Hertfordshire
for their seat in Aberdeenshire.

Lieutenant-General Sir James Chatterton and
Lady Chatterton have left Howchin's Hotel, on a tour of
visits in Somersetshire.

The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., arrived
in town last night, from Dieppe, where the right hon. gen-
tleman has been residing several weeks.

-Mr. and Mrs. Robertson and family have arrived
at Farrance's Hotel, from Netherseale Hall, Ashby-de-la-
Zouch.

TRADE TO WESTERN CHINA.—Mr. Darnton
Lupton, the President of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce,
has received the following reply from the Foreign-office to
a memorial from the Chamber in favour of opening direct
communication with Western China :—" Foreign-office,
Sept. 22.—Sir,—I am directed by Lord John Russell to
acknowledge the receipt of the memorial of the Leeds Cham-
ber of Commerce, praying ' That in any negotiations that
may take place on the termination of the present rupture
with China, the city of Esmok, in Western China, may be
yfouul
rd
John o
Russell request
is
henceforth constituted open and free to British trade;' and
lam t
ywailllive acquainttothe imtphoer Chamber
that
Lo
facili-
tating, as far as possible, tho extension of British trade
with the Chinese Empire. It appears, however, to his
Lordship, that much inconvenience might arise from intro-
ducing into any fresh negotiation with China at the present
time so novel a question, as far as this country is concerned,
as that of access to a city on the western frontier of the
Chinese Empire ; and that, even in the improbable case of '
the Chinese Government acquiescing in a proposal to that
effect, the opening of Esmok to British trade would be
more likely to have a prejudicial effect than otherwise on
the relations between the two countries. For it would be
impossible to afford adequate protection to British trade at
so inland a city, or to exercise due control over British sub-
jects; while redress for any wrong done in that remote
quarter could in all probability only be obtained by apply-
ing pressure at places more accessible, and so placing in
jeopardy the more important interests of British trade on
the seaboard of China.—l am, sir, your most obedient
humble servant, G. lIAMMOND.—Mr. Darnton Lupton."
WRECK IN TIIE CHANNEL.—The merchant vessel
Favourite, Captain Whitcfield, from Hull to Bordeaux, put
into Plymouth Sound on Wednesday night. She passed
at seven o'clock the same evening, 20 miles S.S.E. of Start
Point, a ship of about 2,000 tons, lying on her beam ends,
with foremast and bowsprit gone. A schooner near was
supposed to be rescuing the crew. The Favourite reported
the fact to several Brixham trawl sloops, which proceeded
at once to the wreck. The wreck was taken in tow by a
steamer going eastward.— Western 3forning News.
TESTIMONIAL FROM THE UNITED STATES Go-
VERNMENT TO A BRITISH CAPTAIN.—The President of
the United States has presented a gold watch and albert
chain to Captain Walter Petersen, of the British brig
Sappho, of Shields, for meritorious and humane services
towards a number of shipwrecked Americans. The follow-
ing inscription is engraved on the watch :—" From the
President of the United States to Captain -Walter Petersen
of the brig Sappho, for humanity to shipwrecked small
`.-1860,