The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-21 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, FEB. 9.—lt is now decided that our Govern-
ment will intervene with an armed force in the quarrel
between Don Miguel and his brother. The Infantry Re-
giment the Prince's 3d of the Line, and the regiment of
Volunteers of Arragon, 2d Light Horse, passed through
this capital, on their way to the frontiers of Portugal.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

Spain has received an assurance that the Three Courts
of the North will support her, in case France should op-
pose her giving aid to Don Miguel against the attack of
Don Pedro. This important news is positive. The de-
termination of the Powers is founded on the treaty of the
24th of March, 1778, continued by that of 1801, and
which was acknowledged by all the Powers without ex-
cepting France.

(Frftm the Courrier Francais.)
POST-OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN
FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

The unity of interests and of palitical views which now
join France to England ought to render all comtnunica-
tions between the two countries rapid, free, and easy.
The circulation of public Papers ought above all things to
he favoured, as the best means of multiplying the relations
between the two countries, and of increasing the activity
with which they ought to he followed up. Such is net
the case, however, thanks to the monopoly of the London
Mist- office. In this Post-office there is a small number
of clerks whose interest it is to rob the Papers which
cross one another fr,.m both sides of the Channel, and to
consey the substance of them to the public Papers, by a
more speedy means th in the ordinary one, and. above all,
fir a certain remuneration. This private scheme, which
has been formed without reference to the general inteest,
has prevented, and still prevents, all the improvements
that have been and still are proposed, in coder to render
the communications between France and En;,l sod more
prompt anti regular. 'I he monopolists have not been
satisfied with raising obstacles and with overturn mg
the most beneficitl plans, they are now attempt-
ing to (lest: oy the little good that has been done in
spite of their efforts. The London Courier announces
that an agent connected with tbe Post-office of that city
has had recourse to every possible measure to put down
the private estafette, which has been now established at
great expense on Fridays and iilondays, on which days the
F.ench Gavernmeut has not established any for the cor-
respondence, between Paris and London. The Director
of the Posts of France has; fortunately, turned a deaf ear
to all the suggestions of the party in question Re de-
serves much commendation for it, but our obligations to
him W uld be enerea-ed were be to establish a daily e•ita.
fette, excepting Sunday, on which ,lay nothing is done in
Lone:on. It has been denronstrat,.d that the expense of the
daily eat efe•te would nut amount to ten thousand fiancee a
year, and that this expense would gradually diminish as
the number of c•orirminications wool increase; it has also
been demonstrated th tt rommercial interests, the speculators
in the Funds, the public Papers, and consequently several
classes of society, will derive great advantages from such an
zrrangerstent. We trust that Ministers, to whom notes on

the subject have been addressed, will pay some attention to
it ; but it is very probable that the satne cause which has
rendered other attempts freitless,' may here again paralyse
their zeal. The London Courier seems to place great
reliance on the Dithe of Richmond, who is at the head of
the Post-office. That Journal urges him to remunerate
enure adequately the clerks of his office, and to put an end
to a monopoly which is inconsistent wiih ail freedom of
communicatiote beqween the two countries. We shall add
another request, which is, that the French Administration
of the Posts, as well as that of England, will name each
a private agent, and charge them with the negociation of
a treaty for the constant and reciprocal circulation of com-
mercial correspondence, and of the communications of the
public Press. The result of such a negaciation would be
far more beneficial to both France and England than the
protocols of many diplomatic meetings, which are presided
over by statesmen.

Dutch Papers, received this morning, announce
the arrival of Count OnLorF at the Hague. The.
appearance of the cholera in London was greatly
magnified : fifty persons were said to have been
attacked at once--a number to which the disease
has not reached, alter ten days

The last arrival from New York brings intel-
ligence of the rejection by the Senate of the Pre-
sidential nomination of Mr. VAN BUREN to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of the United States at this Court. The
Senate being ecually divided, the VrcE-PREsi•

DENT determined the question in the negative.
This, we believe, i 23 the first instance in which a
President of the United States has been denied
the privilege of employing, in his negotiations
abroad, an agent in whom he was disposed to
confide. Public meetings were about being held
on the subject.

We direct attention to an article which will be
found in another part of The Sun, entitled
" Reasons for a Legislative measure, to limit

and regulate the hours during which young per-

sons may be employed to labour in flax spin-
ning-mills throughout Scotland." The article
iii question is a convincing one; it is drawn
up with great temper and discretion, and
makes out a clear case of wrong and grievance
with which Government cannot too promptly
or energetically interfere. The grievances,
however, which this conclusive article exposes,
are not confined to Scotland ; they pervade,
in a greater or less degree, all the commercial dis-
tricts of England, more particularly the cotton
and other factories in the north, where the chil-
dren of the lower classes of operatives are exposed
to the greatest hardships, and seem, in fact, to
make but one step from their mothers' arms to
the cotton factory. Dismissing all the minutia,
all the technicalities, all the commercial pros and
cons of this question, we take it up on the broad
principle of humanity, and so regarding it,
we say that if there ever was a case which
called for the imperative interference of the
Legislature, the present is that one. It
is idle to rave and cant about the suffer-
ings of our black slaves abroad, while we
suffer our white slaves at home to linger on from
youth to age--if the majority ever reach age,
which we doubt—unnoticed, unfriended, unpi-
tied, in the pandemonium of a hot, crowded
factory. Imagine a girl of tenderest years and
infirm constitution labouring from day-break to
sunset in one of these pestilential manu-
factories, without change, without allevia-

don, we may almost add, without hope,
exposed hourly to the contamination of so-
ciety which if not absolutely depraved, is yet,
in nine out of ten cases, not many degrees re-
moved from it ! What can be expected from an
infant thus situated? What physical health,
what principles of morality ? If she ever be-
come a wife and a mother, what fitting education
can she bestow on her children—she who has
learned all her notions of morality and pro-
priety, from a long, melancholy intercourse
with the motley society of a mill or factory ?
We will not enlarge further on this prolific sub-
ject, but content ourselves for the present, with
the expression of a wish that Mr. SADLER Will

not safer it to drop ; but follow it up with the
same zeal and ability with which be has com-
menced it.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY,

CLIME V. EINNERSLET.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he w instructed to
move in this case for an injunction and a receiver. He
had ascertained the motion was not to be oppsed, and
therefore he was entitled to take the order.
Injunction and receiver ordered.