The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22 184 g.

France to those who were going, arms in hand, to attack
Espartero's Government, and when we reproached him
with favouring insurrection by such conduct, his jour-
nals replied to us, ' By what right can the French Go-
vernment keep within the kingdom refugees wishing to
return to their country?' Well, by what right does M.
Guizot do it at present? Where is the law permitting
him to establish in so odious a manner the police of
M. Nary= in France? But he goes further, and in
the hope of frightening the Spanish people, he speaks
like Louis XVIII. of another cordon sanituire on the
frontier of the Pyrenees. This is only a wretched piece
of parade, for the Spaniards will do as they like in their
own country. If they rise up to overthrow the most
corrupt and most foolhardy Government—if they inter
for ever the counter-revolution all France will rejoice at
it, and it is unlawful for M. Guizot, were he ten times
stronger than he is, to attempt the slightest interven-
tion in favour of the faction which now oppresses and
pillages Spain. This is what people must feel on the
other side of the Fyrenees, for it is an incontestable
verity on this side. Narvaez is most anxious, for his
own interests, to spread the report that the French
Government will come to his aid, but the French Go-
vernment has plenty of affairs of its own to attend to,
and will take right good care not to go and mix up its
interests with those of the Spanish counter-revolution,
for it is well aware that both might be brought to an end
by the same blow."
The Carlist Quotidienne, which is highly indignant
at the scheme for a marriage between the Queen of
SPAIN and the Count TRAPANI, makes the following
remarks on the subject:--
" The correspondents of certain Ministerial journals
announce, as a positive fact, the marriage of Isabella
with the Count de Trapani. They go so far as to fix
the place and period of the marriage, and even the title
which the person thus selected by the Cabinets of Ma-
drid and the Tuileries is, they say, to take. To believe
them, this union, so long announced, is to take place at
Valencia, and the young Neapolitan Prince is to assume
before the marriage the title of King, with the name of
Louis 11. Thus would disappear this condition of 'the
Queen's husband, which, it was said, flattered the childish
vanity of Isabella ; her husband would find himself a
King, not like the pretended King of Portugal, after
having given a successor to the throne, but by the simple
act of a family arrangement. This strange innovation
would in itself be quite a royal constitution, improvised
for a betrothal ; Isabella reigns in virtue of a usurpation
founded on a ast will and testament, and her young
husband is to be a King in virtue of another usurpation,
founded on a contract of marriage, which would not pre-
vent his presenting himself as the successor of King
Louis I. Would not this be most strange ? We believe
that the King of Naples is anxious about this combina-
tion ; the Cabinet of the Tuileries approves of it ; and it
is hoped that the Pope, who is intimately acquainted
with the Count de Trapani, from the latter having some-
times visited him at Rome, where he was preparing the
way for the Cardinalship, will at once acknowledge a
young Prince whom he loves, particularly when he can
receive letters from Paris and Madrid, saying :—We
should have preferred the Prince des Asturias, but you
see that the entire nation rejects him by the organ of
their representatives. We doubt the Holy Father's de-
parture, in this conjuncture, from the policy of the mo-
narchical powers ; and, should he do so, it would be with
reservations, which would destroy the political effect
that is hoped for from his consent. A poor and wretched
intrigue is this project of marriage, which will exclude
from the Government the three Princes, the sons of Don
Carlos, the eldest of whom will alone represent the mo-
narchical right, and the sons of Don Francisco de Paula,
amongst whom the Liberal malcontents could choose a
leader ! We could have comprehended a marriage with
one of Louis Philippe's sons ; it would at least have been
a usurpation a cheval ; but Count de Trapani's en sou-
tane is more than a fault, it is a folly !"
The Court-martial on Lieutenant BESSON, for the
loss of the royal steamer Groemland, on the 26th of
August," on the coast of Morocco, commenced, at
Toulon, on the 14th. It appeared, from the exami-
nation of the accused, that the vessel was quite new,
having been built about the beginning of the present
year, and that she went on shore during a thick fog,
as she was leaving Mogadore for Cadiz. Every effort
was made in vain to get her afloat, and the wreck was
finally destroyed, to prevent its falling into the hands
of the Moors. After examining the second in com-
mand, the Court adjourned till next day.
Ihe following statements made by the Revue de
Paris, we trust, will not be forgotten, when the Bill
for solitary confinement in prisons again comes before
the French Chamber. We are only astonished that
civilized beings should listen to a scheme of such
atrocious cruelty :
" Practical experiment is not favourable to the peni-
tentiary system which Messrs. Tocqueville and Beaumont
have imported from America. That philanthropic
method has been employed in the prison of Senlis, during
only six months, and we have already to register two
suicides committed during the last three months. In
presence of those facts, we ought to thank the Minister
of Justice for not bringing up to the House of Peers the
project of law adopted by the Chamber of Deputies last
session. Now, when the discussion shall come .on, it
will suffice, to defeat the schemes of the partisans of the
I erattlieemetemi. to cite facts passing under our eyes in
system has been in itse,'-e7r7il !,);;;;;11=1`,0,7,:,;:'
quences. Then the fate of the Bill shall no longer be
doubtful, and the exalted prudence of the Chamber of
Peers will certainly cause that assembly to refuse its
sanction to the impressions de voyage of the philan-
thropists of the Americrn school."
The Presse having published a letter from a
French seaman, named FAZIERE, dated Mazatlan,
the 12th of August last, and giving an account of
his having been flogged and otherwise ill-used, by
the order of a captain in the Mexican army, after
his arrest by the authorities, for a quarrel, in which
he had involved himself with two musicians ; and
the Presse having accompanied thi3 letter with some
severe observations on the Mexican Government, M.
MAX GARDO, the Mexican Minister at the Court of
France, has addressed the following letter to that
journal :
"I have just read in the Presse an article relative
to an outrage committed at Mazatlan, on a seaman named
Alexandre Fazilre. You must permit me to add a few
words. As soon as the President of the Republic
had received information of the acts of barbarity cm,
mitted at Mazatlan, he gave the most urgent orders that
the persons who had been guilty of them should receive
an exemplary punishment. The Baron Alleye de Cyprey,
in a note of the sth of September last, was pleased to do
justice to the sentiments expressed on this occasion by
the Mexican Government. It is further my duty to
rectify an error contained in your article. It was as-
serted, in the first instance, that Faziere having become
a Mexican by naturalisation, could no longer claim the
protection of France, The question of nationality has,
however, for the moment been set aside. What is now
attempted to be established, in accord with the best
writers, is, that the official intervention of diplomatic
agents in iavour of the subjects of their Governments, in
affizirs submitted to the decision of the tribunals of the
country, can only be exercised in cases where there has been
a denial of justice."
The Constitutionnel makes the following observa-
tions on the commercial treaty, concluded between
Great Britain and Brazil, in 1827, for fifteen years,
and subsequently prolonged to 1844 :
" This treaty will expire in a few days. The Cabinet
of London has done all it possibly could to get it re-
newed, but in vain. The new Brazilian tariff has been
in force for some days, and it will affect equally all kinds
of goods ; it is a measure most fatal to European com-
merce in general, and to that of England in particular ;
it is, above all, the result of the legislative enactments
adopted here, and on the other side of the Channel, re-
specting sugar. Brazil can offer Europe, in exchange for
the manufactured goods which she sends out, only sugar,
coffee, raw skins, inlaid wood-work, and some quantities
of cocoa, threads, and tobacco. In France, foreign sugars
are sur-taxed rather heavily in the interest of our col°.
vies and our beetroot sugar. In England sugar produced
by slave labour is altogether prohibited. This has been
done under the mask of philanthropy, but in reality it
only serves as the prelude to the accomplishment of cer-
tain views of political economy of the Cabinet of Lon-
don, for' had it been adopted in the interest of the aboli-
tion of slavery, it would have been applied to all tropical
produce indiscriminately, and particularly to cotton cul-
tivated in the United States by the blacks, and consumed
chiefly by the manufactures of Great Britain. It is easy
t 3 conceive that Brazil should adopt reprisals, when it
beholds its sugar rejected by the two greatest mar-
kets of Europe ; and France, not more than England,
has been able to renew the treaties of commerce which
she had concluded with that power, and which have now
expired. The German association is in a different posi-
tion with respect to Brazil. The countries of that Union
have no sugar colonies, and beetroot has not yet arrived
at such a developement amongst them as to,require pro-
tecting measures. Therefore, it is not unlikely that the
Customs' Union will succeed in concluding the treaty
which France and England have in vain aimed at. An
envoy from Brazil is at present in Europe, to come to an
understanding with the Cabinet of Berlin ; and, should
the negotiations succeed, the new Brazilian tariff will be
modified in favour of the produce of the Zollverein. This
tariff is exceedingly elevated, and will be highly preju-
dicial to the commercial relations which Europe enter-
tains with Brazil. All fermented liquors are to pay an
ad valorem duty of 50 per cent., and thus the wines
per cent.
per
cent. ;linen
;
and brandies of France are affected as well as the
malt liquors of England. Crystals and glass of all kinds,
plain and coloured paper, fruits, objects of domestic con-
sumption, &c., are to pay 25 per cent. ad valorem. Che-
mical products, salt fish, iron and castings, tanned hides,
woollen,sal t meat,cnstttenenl,, andand tin, are areto
pay 20
pr
manufactures,
and, besides these duties, high as they are, the Bra-
zilian Government has reserved to itself the power of
imposing a differential duty on certain articles
coming from countries where the goods of Brazil also
pay differential duties. These canditions differ widely
from those of the old tariff, and particularly from
those stipulated in 1827. According to that treaty, all
goods and produce, natural or manufactured, of Great
Britain, or her colonies were freely imported into Brazil
on payment of duties never exceeding 15 per cent. on I
the value. It is worthy of remark that several articles
of Brazilian production are subject in England to duties,
much more elevated, when they are delivered for internal
nonsumption, According to the treaty, these articles
had no other advantage than that of being bonded on
the same conditions as similar productions of the English
colonies. Here, it must be confessed, is a very consider.
able change in position, and this inhontion will be so ,