The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1844.

It is exceedingly edifying to see the entire House
of Commons thrown into violent hysterics, as was the
case the other night, by the conduct of an- Hon.
Member, whose worst fault seems to be that ha is too
apt to be carried away by his prejudices, and to.
! speak at random, without thought or premeditation.
We have few or no sympathies with Mr. FERRAND
his politics, generally speaking, are our aver-
sion ; we think him coarse —rude--rash —and
inconsiderate to a degree ; but we do not believe him
capable of such a crime as that of deliberately and
maliciously slandering the fair fame of a public in-
dividual, merely because he may happen to be op-
posed to him in politics. That the Member for
Knare-iborough has given just cause of offence to
Sir JAM'S GRAI% sr and Mr. Boon, we are far from
meaning to deny ; but the case is by no means so
aggravated a one as the sensitive delicacy of these gen-
tlemen would induce us to believe it is, and we can
find nothing in the vague, random, indiscreet charge,
brought so unceremoniously against them by Mr.
EURRAND, that at all justifies their fierce, though
virtuous, resentment. The common sense of the
House of Commons—a peculiar species of sense, by
the bye, for which the Imperial Senate is by no means
remarkable—has already decided, and warmly too,
in their favour ; and there, we conceive, the matter
should have been allowed to rest. As for the
indignation of uninterested Members, which
showed itself so fiercely on Tuesday night,
we are at no loss to guess the cause in which
it originated. Hon. Gentlemen were anxious to have
the dullness of Parliamentary proceedings enlivened
by the spectacle of a bear-bait ; they had promised
themselves great fun from the exhibition, and the
dogs were all ready for a set-to ; but unfortunately,
just at the moment when expectation was raised to
the highest pitch, the bear refused to allow
himself to be tied to the stake, but giving
a surly grin of defiance at the dogs, turned tail, and
bolted! This naturally caused great disappointment
among the lovers of sport, which vented itself in just
such a storm of execrations as was levelled against
the late Monsieur CIIABERT, the fire-eater, when he
uncourteously declined allowing himself to be baked
to death in an oven, merely to gratify the humane cu-
riosity of those who had paid their shillings to witness
the pleasing spectacle. Mr. FERRAND has already been
quite sufficiently roasted by the House of Commons
—more especially by Messrs. GRAHAM, ROEBUCK,
and HooG—and we think they may now rest satisfied
with the agreeable conviction that they have done him
to a turn, like a goose on a kitchen spit. As regards
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S grave proposal of searching for
precedents as to the Nay in which the House has
been in - the habit of acting when Honour.;
able Members happen to have made fools of
themselves, never was there anything so sub..
limely and solemnly absurd! It reminds us of the
awful gravity and business-like determination of
purpose exhibited by Noodle in Tom Thumb, when
he hears that Doodle has expressed himself irrave..
rently of that immaculate Ministerial functionary,
Lord Grizzle. But, indeed,. the whole affair of Mr.
FERRAND appears to us to abound in the elements of
the richest farce, and we do not despair of seeing
it shortly transferred to the boards' of the Hay-
market, under the apt title of ".Much Ado about
Nothing; or, a Scene from -St. Stephen's." And
three nights have actually teen wasted on this absurd
matter, and at a period of the session, too, when every
houi has its value! How much public businesi might
have been got through within this space of time ! The
great question of the Corn-law might have ben dis-
cussed and settled one way or other, for the season ;
the Factory Regulation Bill, and the changes
in the New Poor-law measure might have
been decided upon ; the Chancellor of the
Exchequer might have brought forward his Budget ;
and the Premier might have talked his usual amount
of solemn .sophistry on the subject of the Income-tax.
In a few weeks, Ministers will—as they always do
about a month or so after Easter—begin to pre-
face all their speeches with " at this late period of
the session," &c., in justification of their favourite prac-
tice of shuffling off obnoxious measures; and yet we
will venture to say not. one of them will take into
consideration that they themselves have helped to
trifle away the time of the House, by givingsuch undue
prominence and importance to this absurd squabble
between Messrs. FERRAND, GRAHAM, and HOGG.

Perhaps no country in the world is in such a state
of utter prostration as the Spanish Peninsula. Spain
and Portugal appear to be lost to all sense of hon Our
and patriotism. • They have now undergone an ordeal
of some. thirty yeArs fur improving - their condition ;
they have tried almost every kind of government,
the representative, the purely monarchical, the des-
potic, and the radical, and under all these they have
exhibited the same characteristic. features—restless-
ness, without an .object, and constant commotion
without any result. The people, like the besotted
Scvercigns that rule.them,.have become a bye-word
among nations. :Though Portugal has been under
the protection of England for more than two centuries,
and has •had every • opportunity of assimilating her
institutions to those Qf the country with which
she has been so closely allied, she has not advanced
one step in social improvement or in strength. Her
national Cortes are regarded by the people as a
mockery, her army is open to the highest bidder,' and
at the present moment the small fortress of Almeida,
under the command ofBONFIXT, denounced as a rebel,
sets the QUEEN, the Government, and the army at
defiance. Spain' is in a still more deplorable condi-
tion. In Portugal something like mercy is shown to
men who, driven to despair, try to benefit their con-
dition, but under Queen CHRISTINA, NARVAEZ,
BRAVO, and Co., butchery is the only instrument of
government. Men even suspected of sedition—that
is of defending their rights or imprOving the condition
of the • country—are arrested, conducted to the
presence of priests, and after due religious ceremonies
are slaughtered like wild beasts. Every vestige of
liberty is swept from that unfortunate country; :and,
what is more laritentable, not a voice is raised in
Spain against deeds which are regarded by other
nations with horror. What can be done with such a
people ? We have no wish to excuse the policy of
Lours PHILIPPE towards Spain. He has taken
advantage of her weakness, her madness, and her
slavish propensities, and has established a despotism
stronger than any, perhaps, that ever existed in that
eountry, hut lie! is not entirely to blame. If the
people, had been faithful
.to themselves L—if they had
shown anything like common patriotism, or resented,
as most other nations would have done, the inter-
ference of a foreign Power, he would not have
lieesksitzsw tohe stir up
aSnid)atnriea
harboured CHRISTINA at Paris,
artdesd and encouraged M.
ESPAkTERO.and
slaves they have shown themselves. The atsl'slltaessvonian
that has destroyed the Cortes and the Constitution,
that has put down the national guards,- and abolished
their municipal institutions, has been welcomed as a
saviour; and though but two years since all were up
in arms against the most constitutional 'and liberal Go-
vernment ever known in Spain, not a voice is now raised
against a system of despotism which has no equal
in Europe. Reproaches have been cast on Lord Alma-
DEEN fur t.tcilly admitting such interference. But
what can the English Government, or any Govern-
anent,. do with a nation which is regardless of its ho-
nour and its interests? We have enough to do with
our own affairs, without 'attempting to raise up a
fallen people, or make men free who are determined
to be slaves. On Spaniards alone the blame rests.
They have rfOoded the ail-of the only Power willing

Now we complain that for a state of things which
was almost morally sure to arise out of these " no-
torious and evident facts," no British authorities,
civil or naval, had been sufficiently instructed by their.
Government to be prepared. If there had been, the
missionaries and other British residents who would
have addressed it on the point, would never have com-
mitted themselves or this -country to two such docu-
ments. Commodore NICOLAS acted upon the im-
pulses so natural to a British sailor, in expressing his
resentment at the bullying and insult offered by
the French authorities to the defenceless -QUEEN in
person. They set up a flag which he hauled down,
and a few other vain exhibitions of feeling escaped
him. But he soon proved the danger and difficulty
of acting without orders, and therefore desisted.
The French carried their point and realised their
demands, not merely with impunity, but with the
prestige derived from having done so despite this
desultory and unauthorised opposition. The Earl of
ABERDEEN, we must say, seems to have been be-
wildered by the affair from the first. His dispatches
in this instance have the defect (very unusual in
his papers) of being even illogical, at least when he
writes by the hands of Mr. ADDINGTON. For the
latter (letter to Sir JOHN Bannow, Secretary to the
Admiralty, 11th July, 1843,) writes thus :—" It
certainly would appear, from various reports received
by her MAJESTY'S Government, respecting the trans-
actions which ended in the surrender by the Queen
of TAHITI of a portion of her sovereign authority to
the French Admiral, that that cession was brought
about partly by intrigue, and partly by intimidation."
Therefore, it would appear, " that this cession or
surrender was NOT voluntary ;" yet Mr. ADDINGTON
proceeds—" But the surrender WAS, notwithstanding,
VOLUNTARILY made, and completed in due form, by
Queen POHARE—under whatever impulsion she may
have acted." That is as much as to say, "her will
was constrained in part, and in part it was violated;
but it was- her free will notwithstanding, however
much violated, to whatever extent constrained."
The logic is as unintelligible as the policy of Lord
A BARDEEN'S office.
In his letter of 13th March, 1843, Mr. Consul
PRITCHARD thus writes to Lord ABERDEEN, from the
British Consulate at Otaheite

On my arrival, I found Queen Pomare about eight
miles from this place, driven from her
.proper residence
by the continual threats made by the French to fire upon
her. Under the protection of Commodore Nicolas, in her
Yajesty's ship Vindictive, Queen Pomaro has returned
to her own residence.
Commodore Nicolas.and I have endeavoured to act in
accordance With the repeated promises of assistance and
protectiOn made by the British Government to Queen
Pomare. Permit me to refer your Lordship to Mr. Can..
ning's letter, dated March 3, 1827, to the Jatn King of
of Tahiti. "His Majesty, however, commands me to say,
that although the customs of Europe forbid his acceding
to your wishes in this respect (hoisting the British flag),
he will be happy to afford to yourself and your dominions
all such protection as his Majesty can grant to a friendly
Power at so remote a distance from his own kingdom."
Lord Palmerston'sdispatch of the 9th of September,
1841; is of similar import :—" You will assure Queen
Pomare that her Majesty will at all times be ready to
attend to any representations that Queen Pomare may
wish to make, and will always be glad to give the pro-
tection of her good.offices-to Queen Pomare, in any dif-
ferences which may arise between Queen Pomare and
any other Power..- In your Lordship's instructions of
July, 30, 1842„ the same sentiments are reiterated :
Upon the occasion of your return to your post at Tahiti,
.it will be,expedient 'that you should be able to prove to
the:governing authorities in these islands, that her Ma-;
jesty's Government continues to take that interest in their
prosperity which has heretofore been professed."
Lord AIIRRDEEN, in his dispatch of 25th Septembers
in reply; rebukes Mr. PRITCHARD for having "alto-
gether misinterpreted these passages in the letters of
Mr. CANNING and. Lord PALMERSTON ;" and justifies
the non-interference of England in the matter, on the
group(' of that illogical fallacy which wo have just
exposed:

and able to assist them, and they must be left to their
fate.

No apology will be expected by our readers for re-
' newing our earnest appeal to their most serious atten-
tion, on the subject of our colonial policy. Without
participating in the apprehensions expressed by more
than one of our Contemporaries, and their correspon-
dents in Paris, that the Otaheite question—precipitated,
as it has been, by the vapouring and coxcombry of the
French naval commander, Rear-Admiral DUPETIT
THOUARS—may yet be destined to involve this country
in 'hostile collision with France, we must admit that
the fast and loose tone of our own diplomatic corres-
pondence in the affair, and the "would and would
not" character of the intervention—half demonstra-
tion, half menace—of our naval officers in those seas,
have not been of a character to sustain the lofty in-
fluence of our national reputation, to vindicate our
moral or political good faith, or t I uphold the unsullied
dignity of the British flag. It is impossible to peruse
the State Paper, entitled " Correspondence relative to
the Society Islands, 1843, in continuation of papers
in August that year, presented to both Houses, by
command," at the beginning of the present session,
without coming to two conclusions. The first,
unhappily, is that poor Queen PoMARE has been
utterly vi:timised, " through the influence of
her own fears, and the intrigues of some
of her corrupt chiefs," (such are Lord ABER-
DEEN'S own words,) " in signing a deed so fatal to her
independence" as that by which she placed herself
under the protectorate of the King of the FRENCH.
The second conclusion this correspondence irresistibly
invites is, that the statesmanship exhibited by Lord
ABERDEEN throughout the whole affair, subtequent to
the date of Mr. Consul PRITCHARD'S first communi-
cation to him of the possession taken by the French of
three of the Marquesas Islands, and Otaheite and
Eimeo, of the Society Islands—was of the lowest pre-
tensions in point of tact or spirit. The first commu-
nication was dated " Sydney, New South Wales, Bth
December, 1842:. On the 14th June, 1843, Lord
ABERDEEN apprises Mr. PRITCHARD that our Go-
vernment "had already been informed of the pro-
ceedings of the French squadron under DUPETIT
TuouAes at the Society Islands. Why then, may
we ask, had not instructions been immediately there-
upon sent out to our Consul nearest to the scene of
action as to the distinct course he ought to adopt in
reference to such proceedings ? But Lord ABERDEEN
first admits that the matter had been left to the
chapter of accidents; and in the next place evidently
labours to show, not so much that it was not our
duty to interfere on behalf of the unhappy QUEEN, as
that the French had so ably availed themselves of her
sown act End deed, obtained in the absence of any
friendly authority upon whose consideration and in-
tervention she could have thrown herself. He,
therefore, intimates that our Government do not in-
tend to call the right assumed by the French into
question. He also relies for a corroboration of this,
his view of the subject, upon two documents which
had been forwarded to him by M. GuizoT—the one
being an address of congratulation and approval to
the French Rear-Admiral on his recent proceedings,
by the (British) ministers of the Protestant mission,
in the isles of Otaheite and Moorea ; the other, a similar
address of British inhabitants, residents at Otaheite.
These two documents certainly enhance the difficulty
of our Government ; for, as M. GbrzoT writes to the
Count DE ROMAN CHABOT (11th September, 11143),
they amount to an acquiesence on the part of our own
resident subjects in the reality of those alleged
grievances under which French shipping had laboured
when visiting Otaheite, and which, as "faits notoires et
widens," had called, imperatively, for "une energique
intervention!"

to Spain.
The 'Three per Cents. closed on the 18th instan
at 37i cash, 37i at 60 days; and the Fives at .22i
at 60 days.

The Courrier attributes the conduct of Prince
AIETTEBNICII to his wish to avoid the close political
connection with Russia which might be expected to
arise from the marriage.

"The Debuts states, from its Constantinople correspond-
ence, that the Porte has at last taken measure.; for sending
troops against the Albanians, who continue to commit the
greatest excesses in the provinces. A thousand men have
been marched from Salonica to I.Transe, and two regiments
have taken their departure from Constantinople. At Uscup,
the Turkish Governor has seized fourteen of the rebels, and
had their heads taken off in* the public streets. The child
which was detained a short time ago in the harem of a Bey
at Constantinople, and forcibly made a Mahomedan, has been
delivered up to Sir Stratford Calming; and one of the Greek
girls whom the Turks of Broussa constrained to abjure her
religion, has been restored to the Patriarch. These reparations
are the first fruits of the energetic reclamations of the repre-
sentatives ofFrance and England."

TIIE BOURSE-WFDNgSDAY, -APRIL- 24. -*
First Uighcst - Lowest Last
• Price. Trice. Price. Price.
French Fire per Cents•• •• 122 70 •• 122 70 122 40 .. 122 40

Three per Cents.• •.. 83 80 •• 83 80 •• 83 70 .. 83 75
Bank of France.•.•• •• • • .• • 3090 ••3090 • 3090 • • 3000

Iltlgian

• 700

.. 700

697,50 .. 697 50

Detitan Fives, 1831......... 103 f •• 1031 •• IG4 • • .1031
1840 ........ 1061 .. 1061 .. 1061 1061
Dutch Two-and-a-hair..... 61 .. CI • • 61 • • 61
Spanish Active 341 •• 340 • • 34# • • 341
Threes • • .. 37/ • • 37i • • 37i
Passive . • .......... fit .. 61 • • 6/ • • 61
Portuguese Five per Guts.. 461 481 •• 461 • • 461
Neap01itan...•....
Roman 1061 1061 • • 106: • • 1061

AILWAY SHARES.
Ver• ailles,R.B.
L•B• ***** ••••• •• 2GO .. 261 25 •• 258 75 .. 260
Boutin
Rotten to Havre 715 .. 715 .. 713 75 .. 713 75
Orleans...
Strasburg to 8a1e... ..... .. 285 .. 285 • • 283 75 •• 283 75

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, R.ll.
L.B 262 50 .. 265 .. 255
Rouen 970 .. 971 25 . 970

Her Majesty's Government sincerely deplore the pain
and humiliation inflicted on Queen Pomare. Moreover,
they are willing to do everything in their power to alle-
viate her distresses. But, unfortunately, the letter in
which French protection was solicited, was, by her own
will ; and act, siL,ned by the Queen and the agreement
.-___..—___
which followed was equally entered into and completed , Report of Captain W. Robinson, of the barque Columbine, of Glasgow, aerka
by the Queen's own will and act. d o ifFalmou th f rom 'Aux
However much, therefore, her Majesty's GoVernment
Cayes :—Sailed from Aux Cayes on the 2d of March, at
which time all there was quiet. Had strong north winds
may be disposed to regret the course -of conduct by which
it,iallqsatheve4otnh,tre-V lee current ;came throughi at tttreeCazeos
the Queen was brought to sign a deed so fatal to her
independence, they are deprived, hit her own voluntary being iii lat. 35 loth.
lorOn t4l9ie
211di ofln Alrelx;tion was ecaillerd"
and formal act, of-all just and available ground for oppos- to the water beinm eigsColoured to windward ; it had a
ing the assumption and exercise of the protectorate by brown appearance,' extending above Itk) feet in a S.S.E.
the French. . • direction, and about' 3OFeet across. It had all the appear-
Her Majesty's Government do not, therefore, intend to I auce of a rock under water. We were then a little more
raise any question as to that exercise of authority, nor than the length of the vessel north of it, steering E.N.E.
as to the legitimacy of the new flag which the French Immediately on the weather bow two more brown spots
have thought proper to substitute for the old Tahitian were seen close to each other, about 150 fathoms or more
flag. ' • " east of the one we were abreast of, the first lying in the
. "act" or 841111 C direction, and about the same size; the second or
But all this was not the poor woman's
illustrating tiNnvagsthnaot4aNb%s'
`` deed." . Lord ABERDEEN himself once more admits__ easternmost' one of an oval shape, about 60 or 80 feet
across, and appeared to be nearer the -surface of the water
when—(to that it ''
than the other two. We had a light breeze from S.E
of an ugly case, the water smooth, and a cloudless sky ; but there was a
fgo'ertecraidstintr and vicro swell from N.W. The sea did not break over them ; but
0 rous,
though unaggressive,• - the discoloured water was seen on the last-mentioned one
policy of which we complain)— nearly a mile off.
he. binds her to the cruel consequences of scandalous The large estate near Boston, the property of Lord
arts which he thus characterises
in another part of the Monson, WAS sold yesterday, at the Auction Mart, by Mr.
He is giving counsel which we blush
same dispatch.
tints a,s..iiilmtl - George Robins, for fifty-seven thousand one hundred guineas,
to to a BritisilCabinet•
mi iti • to r. alcolm, the forer M.P. fo-Boston. The room was
ster. It is ctowdedMM by lots of great trapitalists.r
- -

•• 392 50
.. 255
•• 970

Rouen to 11w:re—...—. . .. 717 50 .• 713 75 .. 713 75
Orleans ...... .• .• • •.• ..... 958 75 .. 961 25 •• 968 75 961 25
Strasburg to Bale. . 225 285 . 283 75 283 75
Avignon to Marseilles-- 767 50 • 767 50 • • 766 25 .. 766 25

cajoling. the victim of oppression into an unworthy
compromise with unprincipled power, merely because
it is power :
But Queen- Pomare would do wisely in submitting to the
evil circumstances which her own fears, and the intrigues
of some of her corrupt chiefs, have brought upon her.
Resistance to those who have assumed the rights of pro-
tectors over her, would but aggravate the miseries of
her position, and provoke even worse treatment than she
has already received.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 18th. Ac-
*cording to one of the Go:•ernment journals, the
Castellano, reports of a marriage between the QUEEN
and the eldest son of bon CARLOS were current in
the capital, and generally believed. her MAJESTY,
it was expected, would set out for Catalonia about
the beginning, of May. It is said she is suffering
under a scrofulous complaint, and that her medical
attendants have recommended the use of sulphurous
waters. On the 18th her MAJESTY, accompanied by
her mother and sister, assisted at a solemn Te Deum,
which the Knights of the Military Order of Alcantara
caused to be sung in the Church of the Holy Sacra-
ment in honour of the return of the QUEEN MOTHER

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with debates
in the two Chambers on education and improvement
of prison discipline. The speakers in general display
much statistical knowledge on these important sub-
jects, but, as the matters at issue are almost entirely
exempt from the influence of political prejudices and
popular excitement, the speeches excite little interest.
On Tuesday Baron Ch mmts DUPIN made a speech
in favour of the Government Bill on Education, de-
fended with much ability the course adopted by the
Univenity, and showed that the outcry raised against
it by the Church was entirely unfounded. "There
were," said he, " four sources from which instruction
might be obtained—the Royal colleges, the Communal
colleges, private schools, and establishments where
young men were prepared for the priesthood. The
Royal colleges only contained 18,700 pupils, com-
prising amongst them 2,200 free pupils—certainly not
too many for a population of 34,000,000 souls. The
number formed in the three other kinds of establish-
ments amounted to upwards of 50,000. And yet, in
the face of those figures, the University was accused
of monopoly ? In. 1759, the number of pupils who
received whole bourses or partial aid from the State
was not less than 40,000, and at present the whole of
the pupils receiving bourses or half-bourses were not
more than 7,000. This difference undoubtedly did
honour to the former period, and showed that all was
not to be rejected in the ancient regime. In the
present day, there were 43 departments with Royal
colleges, and just as many without any ; so that,
whilst accusations were made against the University
for its grasping spirit, half the kingdom could
not by any possibility be under its influence."
In the Chamber of Deputies M. CARNOT opposed
the Prison Bill, because he looked upon the confine-
ment of prisoners not so much in the light of punish=
ment as a means of reformation; the silent system,
would not effect that, and it had, in fact, been aban-
doned in several countries. M. DE BEAUMONT,
though supporting the principle of the Bill, was op-
posed to absolute isolation. It had been tried in
only one prison in America, and had not succeeded.
The Bill only isolated prisoners from all vicious con-
tact; and there was nothing to prevent their receiving
religious instruction whilst so confined. Looking to
the question of mortality, the Hon. Deputy main-
tained that the prisoners held apart afforded fewer in-
stances of death than others. In the prisons of France
the mortality, from 1839 to 1843, had been eight per
cent., and in the prison of Fontevraud it had reached
12 per cent., whilst in the penitentiary of Pennsyl-
vania, where the solitary system was adopted, the
deaths were only two per cent. He next alluded to
the alleged cases of madness caused by solitary con-
finement, and declared that there was much exagge_
ration in what had been alleged. The debate was
adjourned. At the same sitting M. DUCHATEL, the
Minister of the Interior, moved a vote of credit for
506,000 f., for the establishment of a new telegraphic
line between Paris and Havre, and Boulogne and
Avranches, so as to open with the capital a correspon-
dence with the entire coast of the Channel. The line
will also communicate with Brest by Avranches.
What a contrast this forms with the niggardly
economy in this respect of the English Government,
who grudge the expense of only one or two lines !
The Funds were still improving. On Wednesday
the Five per Cents. closed at 122 f. 40c., and the
Threes at 83f. 75c.
The following are extracts from the papers :
"The Constitutionnel says that Admiral Hamelin's depar-
ture has been countermanded, and that the Government is
taking measures to stop the discontent Avhich the recal of M.
Dupetit Thouars was creating in the marine.
"The National Assembly of Greece,' before it separated,
passed the Electoral Law. By this law, the provinces having
a population of more than 10,000 are to elect one deputy;
where the population exceeds 10,000, and does not reach
20,000, there are to be two deputies; for 20,000 up to 30,000,
three ; and above 30,000, four. The Ipsariots are to choose
three deputies, the Hydriotes three, and the Spezziots twa.
Foreigners fixing their residences in Greece arc to be allowed
to elect deputies, when they aro sufficiently numerous in a
community to amount to one-half of the minimum fixed for
the natives. The National Assembly has voted the erection
of a statue at Napoli, in honour of I. 'ap° d'lstria."
" The Courrier Francais says :—The negotiations for the
marriage of the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, with the
Archduke Stephen, son of the Archduke Palatine, which were
expected to be resumed by the Emperor Nicholas, at Vienna,
are entirely broken oft, and. lie will not go to the Austrian
capital. The Cabinet of Vienna attributes the rupture to re-
ligious scruples.'There is, in fact, a clause in the Austrian
filially compact which formally interdicts, without any pos-
sible exception, all mixed marriages by Princes of the Inipe-
nal House. 13itt Count Orloff, in virtue of full powers to tnat
effect, having declared that there would be no obstacle to the
' voun, Princess becoming a Boman Catholic after her mar-
riage, it was thought that Prince :Aletternich would not ven-
ture to resist ; but his genius, fertile in expedients, found an-
other means of relieving himself from the embarrassment,
and invoked the above-mentioned clause as indispensably
requiring that the Princess should change her religion before
the marriage could be solemnised: On referring to the Cour.
of St. Petersburgb, Count Orloff received orders to break o,
the negotiations."