The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

nit SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 21, 1341.

there has been a party intriguing to secure the over-
throw of M. GutzoT at the commencement of the
session. Some of Count MOLE'S friends are pre-
paring to present to the Chamber a Cabinet quite
ready to replace the present Ministers. It is pro-
posed to place Count MOLE at one extremity, M. DE
SALVANDY at the other, and to fill the intermediate
space with some members of the left centre, such as
MM. VIVIEN, DUFAURS, BILLAULT, PASSRY, MATIIIEU
DE LA REDORTE, &c. This mongrel Ministry would on
the one hand have the support of Count DE MONTA.•
LIVET, who finds M. GUIZOT no longer good for any-
thing, and on the other the silent protection of M.
TnIERS, who is of opinion that the most superior actor
would be very soon sought for after the doubles' had
been made use of. But the difficulties are great.
First, there are amongst those men but few sympa-
thies. M. BILLAULT does not care to compromise his
future prospects with so fragile a combination. To
these embarrassments is to be added the attitude as-
sumed by the left side of the Chambers. It was be-
lieved that this fraction would be glad to be rid of M.
GUIZOT, but their good sense has suggested to them
that it was the system itself that ought to be got rid
of. If M. GUIZOT were to fall during this session, a
new Cabinet without vigour or without means of ac-
tion would find itself completely at the disposal of the
personal Government. The elections made under this
new influence would produce a Chamber similar to
the present. The system would consequently remain
the master. The Left' thought, with reason, that
they ought not to lend themselves to an arrangement
which would be sterile at present, and fatal to the
future prospects of France. They considered that it
would be more judicious to suffer M. GUIZOT to dis-
solve the Chamber, and to convoke the electoral body,
It is before the electors that the Left intend to plead
their cause, and their best auxiliary will certainly be
M. GUIZOT, flanked by his two journeys to Ghent and
to London."

The :same journal contains the following unjust
remarks on the unfair policy of France ;towards
Spain :

" We have received a letter, signed by 24 Spanish
officers, complaining bitterly of the manner in which
they have been treated by the agents of the Ministry.
They also, like the brave Amettler, have been exposed
to brutal violence because they attempted to regain
their country! M. Guizot, it will be perceived, is con-
sistent. Ile makes himself the complacent auxiliary of
Narvaez ; the amenities of Baron de Meer tickle him
agreeably. Every Spaniard that desires to go and
frankly oppose the reactionary party is in his eyes a
conspirator, who must be arrested and thrown into pri-
son. M. Guizot, however, threw open the gates of
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. Narvaez in France? But he goes further, and in
the hope of frightening the Spanish people, he speaks
like Louis XVIII. of another cordon sanitnire 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 ho 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 Pyrenees, 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
improvised
for in itself be quite a royal constitution,
for a betrothal ; Isabella reigns in virtue of a usurpation
founded on a last 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 Groeuland, 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.
'The 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
cellular system, to cite facts passing under our eyes in
the prison of Senlis and others, where the Pennsylvanian
system has been in use, and produced similar conse-
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."

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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 this 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 Prease an article relative
to an outrage committed at Mazatlan, on a seaman named
Alexandre Faziere. You must permit m• to add a few
words. As soon as the President of the Republic
had received information of the acts of barbarity com-
mitted at Mazatlan, he gave the moat 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
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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 favour of the subjects of their GovernMents, in
affairs 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 Comlitutionnel 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