The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-30 00:00:00

his long ears to the gaze of an admiring public.
But when a really eloquent and argumentative
speech is made, wherein sound principles are
explained in chaste and perspicuous language,
then the Reporter has nothing at all to do with

the matter; the merit is exclusively the orator's
own; it is only when the speech is bad, that the
poor Reporter is in fault, though possibly his only
error may have consisted in giving its dullness
and verbiage verbatim.

The accounts from Barcelona are to the 21st.
General SEAONE arrived there on the 20th to
replace General VAN HALEN j Senor GUTTIEREZ
had also been replaced by Senor Imo°, the
newly appointed political chief. The munici-
pality met with much resistance in raising the
forced tax, but the sum was to be paid up with-

out further diminution.
The news from Madrid is without interest. On
the 20th the Five per Cents. were done at 26
11-16 and 271 with l prem.,for 24,000,000 reals.

A keen contest is now carried on in Trance be-
tween two powerful parties respecting the duties
on sugar. The producers of beet-root sugar call
for more protection, while the merchants and
shipowners connected with the colonies demand
that the manufacture of the home-grown article
should be suppressed altogether. Delegates from
all parts of the kingdom where beet-root sugar is
produced, have arrived at Paris anil delivered to
each of the Ministers an address pointing out the
distress to which they are reduced, and calling
upon the Government for protection. "We
shall content ourselves," say they, " with repeat-
ing that, in they present condition of our industry,
which has arrived at the last stage compatible
with the continued existence of such of us as
have not already fallen, there can be nothing
but the statu quo of the relative positions of the
indigenous and colonial sugars, as establishd by
the law of 1840; but this slaty, quo must be real
and durable, with two indispensable correctives,
viz, an increase of the surtax upon foreign
sugars, and a marked improvement in the pre-
sent vexatious system of levying the duties
upon us. Without these we must be annihilated.
Any increase in the amount of these duties
cannot have any other motive than a covert
intention to destroy us, without giving us
any indemnity ; it would be a real though dis-
simulated confiscation of the capital embarked in
our manufactories. If the many contending in.
terests involved in this question cannot be recon-
ciled without our ruin, and if reasons of state
and political considerations, which we are not to
discuss, imperiously demand our suppression;
then, in despair of our cause, and rather than
keep up a hopeless contest, we shall be ready to
sacrifice our establishments for the public good,
on being indemnified. The sugar question must
be brought to a final solution. There must be
no more palliatives, no more half measures,
which can only lengthen out the sufferings of
all. Should the Government and the Chambers,
contrary to every principle of equity, determine
to sweep us away without indemnifying us, we
add, without any reserve, that it would be less
unjust to pronounce against us an immediate
equality of duty, which would have at least the
merit of a frank proscription, than to have re-
course to the derisory attenuating expedient of a
progressive equality of duties, which, under the
fallacious pretext of ,consulting our interests,
would only be an immoral means of exciting us
to further disastrous expenditure, and new at-
tempts to perform impossibilities, and thus lead,
without any just compensation, and by lingering
agonies, to the same inevitable annihilation of
our industry." The opposite party use equally
strong language ; and, in order to settle
the question, the Ministers intend to
bring in a Sugar Bill next session, which
will have for its basis the suppression of the
establishments for home-grown sugar, with an
indemnification from the State. According to the
Journal de Havre, this decision has been come
to by the Cabinet, with only two dissentient
votes—those of MeSSI'S. VILLEMAIN and MARTIN
(du Nord). Thus the inhabitants of France will
be taxed to pay the indemnity, and also have to
pay a higher duty on foreign sugar, which will
obtain a monopoly in the market.
The following article, respecting the marriage
of the Princess CLEMENTINE, appears in the
France :

The marriage of the Princess Clementine of Or-
leans with Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg Cohari,
brother of the Duchess of Nemours, and of the hus-
band of Donna Maria of Portugal, has been for some
time decided on. Prince Augustus was born on June
13, 1818, and is a Major in the Austrian service in the
10th Regiment of Ilussars, called the King of Prus-
sia's. The Prince is a few months younger than the
Princess Clementine. The family arrangements on
this subject are now terminated. A desire had been
expressed on the part of the Orleans family, that the
newly-married couple should take up their residence
in Austria, and an application was made to Prince
Metternich, to know on what footing the husband of
the Princess Clementine would be received at the
Court of Vienna. The answer was, Princess Clemen-
tine would be received as a Princess of the Royal Fa-
mily of the Bourbons. As to Prince Augustus of Co..
burg, the Austrian Court said it did not recognise in
him any right to assume the title of Royal Highness,
for which the House of Coburg was at present mak-
ing application to two great Cabinets of the Con-
tinent. These applications are supported by the
Court of England. Prince Metternich also replied
that Prince Augustus of Coburg being, like his father,
Prince Ferdinand, a subject of Austria, and in the
service of that Power, no derogation from the cus-
tomary etiquette and precedence could be granted
him. In consequence of this declaration, it has been
decided that Prince Augustus will reside in France,
and it has been even added that lie will quit the
service, and enter that of France. Some
are offered on this head, in consequence
dAiffiuscturilatn ies ai.
of his being an Austrian subject. The marriage is to
take place next year, but the period is not as yet de-
cidedly five&

The same journal, in reference to misunder-
standings between Queen CHRISTINA and the
Regent of SPAIN, says,—
It would appear from information derived from a
good source, that Queen Christina has regularly kept,
since her arrival in Spain, a journal, in which she has
marked down each day, the principal events of her
political life. It appears also that Espartero, a short
time back, applied for certain papers concerning the
guardianship and civil list of Queen Isabella, which
Queen Christina had brought with her to France.
Espartero demanded them as being of a nature to be
placed in the archives of Madrid. The ex-Re-
gent replied, that she should keep those documents,
and that, on the majority of her daughter, whose legal
guardian she considered herself to be, they should be
placed before Isabella. Queen Christina has also

drawn up a paper, in which she defends herself from
the reproach addressed to her by the English and
German journals, of having brought away with her
the diamonds of the Crown. This document has, it is
said, been communicated to the Corps Diplomatique.
The Debats thus points out with satisfaction
the difficulties in which the REGENT will be

placed in keeping up an army in Catalonia :
The number of troops put in movement by the
affair of Barcelona may be estimated at from 25 to
30,000. The largest portion ill occupy Catalonia
and its capital ; another part will be garrisoned on

ence to further dialyzes the Corn-1,r,-
in reality tlik y said " No," and «id it, tau, iu
the key of a Tower-gun, so that all might hear,
who were not as deaf as a post. Alas for the
Reporters of the Press, what a painful destiny is
theirs ! To say nothing of the arduous and re-
sponsible nature of their duties, they are made
the scape-goat of every public speaker, who,
from want of consideration, excitement, or the
quickening impulse of the moment, has said
more than he meant to say, and re-
vealed what he would fain have kept a
gecret from the world. Does some blockhead
in the House of Commons blurt out an
awkward truth before the fitting season, and
thereby run the chance of damaging his political
interests, the fault of his precipitation is instantly
laid, with the coolest effrontery, at the Reporter's
door! Does some Tory country-gentleman—
fancying that he sniffs an approaching change in
Ministerial policy—throw out a hint of his readi-
ness to accommodate himself to altered circum-
stances, &c., and by such hint alarm all those

w h en

with whom it is essential that he should be on
friendly terms, he instantly denies that he ever
hinted anything of the sort, but was scandalously
misrepresented by the Reporter! It may be
safely taken as an axiom—as a rule without an
exception—that no public speaker ever makes a
fool of himself. It is in variably the RepOrter
who " writes him down an ass," a►►d exhibits