The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

corded pledges, his transient friendships, his
enduring enmities? How would he denounce,
and visit with signal penalties, the abjurer of his
political leaders and his private companions for
the sordid purposes of his interested selfishness;
a traitor to the cause of these, a renegade from
the doctrines of those? What is the " model"
process by which he would silence for ever that
perverted eloquence once loud in the champion-
ship of liberal institutions and popular rights,
but afterwards, like BELIAL'S, perverted,
" To make the worse appear the better reason?"
Would Sir JAMES GRAHAM press the extremity
of the refined and more than legal vengeance of
his " model prison punishments" against such a
man, in addition to the penalty that would have
been already paid by the offender, in the scorn
of his former and the distrust of his present eon-

nexions; in the forfeited good opinion of manly,
honest, and consistent antagonists, his former
associates; and the loud but shameful plaudits
of those for whom he had betrayed them; of
those, to whom he was bound by the obedience
rather of a suspected servant, than the confiding
equality of a trusted friend ?

No man knows better than Sir J. GRAHAM

that such offences—infinitely to be reprobated as
they are by the upright and the wise—are not
punishable, and cannot be punished, at law.
No man, we are sure, would be less inclined than
Sir JAMES GRAHAM to press against them that
sort of penalty so much beyond the law, which
we have just now feebly described.

We have accounts from Madrid to the Bth
instant, on which day the elections of Senators
and Deputies commenced. The Progresista, or
Liberal party—if any party can be called liberal
in Spain—had in the preliminary proceeding ob-
tained the majority in seven bureaux out of
twelve, while the Ministerialists had the majority
in only four—the twelfth consisted of both par-
ties. The success of the Progresistas was consi-
dered certain. On the 6th General NARVAEZ

had been raised, by a Royal decree, to the rank
of Captain-General of the Spanish armies. The
General, however, modestly declines the appoint-
ment, and states, in a letter to the Minister of
War, that he cannot think of accepting the ap-
pointment, lest the efforts which he had made
towards bringing about the present state of
affairs, from which he anticipates great things,
both for the QUEEN and the country, should be
attributed by the world to " ambition, or any less
noble views." The decree for restoring to Queen
CHRISTINA her pension, which has appeared in
The Sun, was published in the Madrid Gazette
of the Bth. It is founded on an address pre-
sented to her MAJESTY by all the Ministers, in
which we find these words :

" A decree of the ex-Regent, dated Vittoria, 26th
October, 1841, ordered payment to be suspended of the
dotation assigned in the law of the budget to her Ma-
jesty the Queen Donna Christina de Bourbon, a dotation
voted by the Cortes, and of unquestionable and legiti-
mate origin, as proceeding from matrimonial contracts.
The political pretexts, equivocal and fanciful in them-
selves, could not authorise the suspension of a legal
payment, which custom, agreements, and the consent of
the country by the medium of its representatives, alike
sanctioned. Nor was it decorous to leave unprovided
for the person who, with so much glory, generosity, and
nobleness of mind, had governed the kingdom during
the turbulent times of your Majesty's minority. For
these reasons, Senora, your Council of Ministers has
thought it one of its principal duties to efface the track
of deplorable events, and to satisfy equally the imperious
necessity of justice, and the filial sentiments of your
Majesty, by restoring to your august mother thepenston
which, if it were not due to her as Dowager Queen' by
the laws, would ever be justly due to her as the generous
and' humane Regent, the restorer of the public liberties,
the zealous guardian of your Majesty's throne and' the
interests of the country, in the midst of the conflicts of re-
volution and of war." •
The annual pension amounts to 30,0001. a ye ar
and the arrears to 70,0001., so that she will
receive at once about 100,0001.
Much business was done on the Madrid
Bourse on the Bth. The transactions in the
Three per Cents. alone exceeding 68,000,000
reals, which caused a rise of for cash, and I for
time. The closing prices were 251 for cash, and
251 at 60 days. The Five per Cents., 191 at 35
days, with premium.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with
comments on the address agreed to by the Com-
mittee of the Chamber of Deputies, and remarks
on the budget. On the latter topic the Opposi-
tion journals have not many remarks, a circum-
stance which the others regard as favourable to
the statements of the Finance Minister. The
Deputies of the Left Centre (says the Constitu-
tionnel) had a meeting at the house of M. GAN.
NERON on Saturday evening, when it was re-
solved to oppose the Ministerial policy. M.
THIERS was present, and it is understood that he
will speak on the address in opposition to the
Government. Only three Deputies had inscribed
their names to speak on Monday. Two of those
gentlemen, M. CORDIER and M. GUSTAVE DE
BEAUMONT, are decided Oppositionists ; the
other, Viscount DE COURTAIS, is a Conservative.
The students who were arrested by the police,
on occasion ofseme disturbance when on their way
to the house of BERANGER, the poet, were brought
before the Court of Correctional Police on Satur-
day, when seven of them were convicted. Two
of them were sentenced to twenty days' confine-
ment, two to ten, and the other three to five
days. They were all law or medical students
except one—the Viscount de NARBONNE DE LA
CORNILLIERE.

The Gazette de France announces the death
of the Duke of ANGOULEME in these terms, but
without any date :
" A letter from Munich, which arrived in Paris to-day,
declares that the Duke d'Angouleme has sunk under the
malady from which he has been suffering for a length of
time."

"A report was current to-day in Paris," says the Courrier
Francais, that " the Duke d'Angouleme had sunk under
his illness. It was added, that a courier who had arrived
from London in the course of the day, had brought the
intelligence that the Duke de Bordeaux had taken his
passport to proceed in all haste to Goritz, to his family."

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The following paragraph appears in the Aug s-
burgh Gazette, in an extract from a letter from
Hanover, of the 30th ult.:-
44 The Duke de Bourdeaux, who intended returning to
Goritz, by Hanover, Brunswick, and Dresden, was very
politely informed by the Hanoverian Minister at London,
that King Ernest would be at that period at Berlin,
where he intended passing some weeks."

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal, are expected
to take their departure from Claremont this afternoon
for Windsor Castle. Some of the Royal Household
went to Windsor last evening.