The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

POREIGIV.

The Moniteur.
.Unicersel. announces that her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of 'Nemours was happily confin don Thursday
evening, at seven o'clock, at the Palace of .Neuilly, of a Prince,
who, 'according to the King's orders, will bear the title of the
Count d'En. 7 The Journal des Debats says—" On Thursday,
the 29th ult., the Duke and Duchess of Nemours went to take
up their residence at Neuilly. .During the day her Royal
Highness was taken with the pains of labour. The Queen im-
mediately went Von' the Tuileries to Neuilly, and the King
arrived there at six o'clock. All the Royal Family assembled.
After the confinement the King and Family returned to the
Tuileries. The Chancellor (Baron Pasquier ) and the Grand
Reterendary of the Chamber of Peers (the Duke Decazes),
were alo present at Neuilly as witnesses."
The King of the French has now seven grandchildren, the
Courts of Penis and Chartres (sons of the Duke of Orleans),
the Count of Eu, Prince Philippe, son of z'rince I rederick
and the Princes Leopold and Philippe and Princess Maria of
Belgium (the children of King Leopold and the Princess Louisa
of Orleans).
The National has the following significant remarks on the
projec'ed marriage of the Queen of Spain :—" Whatever may
be the views heleafter of the French Government, the mar-
riage of the Queen of Spain is a 'question which the press
cannot refrain from noticing. If the situation of the Regent
he considered, it will be easy to comprehend that be is not in
any great haste to give a husband to his sovereign. Espartero
knows his position perfectly well. In a thousand i.ossible hypo-
theses, he needs an entire liberty of action, and therefore it is
not likely that he will add voluntarily to his embarrassments.
If the Queen of Spain should ever receive a husband from
him, it may be considered certain th ETartero will not
bestow him until the very last extremity. The Keneh Goa•
vernment has therefore two years before it. Let it, in the
meantime, put itself in a position to exercise a legitimate in-
fluence over an event so interesting to France, and every one
will commend it: But let it beware of employing means which
may tend directly to prevent its object."
The Courrier • Francais treats the same question as fol-
lows:—" France has no pretension to rule it over Spain, but
that she has the right to oppose that it should be placed under
the distatorship of a foreign Prince by a Government. without
force and without nationality. The respect which England
would exhibit for the independence of the Spanish people may
be judged of by the oppressive influence she .exercises over
Portug,l. If France Ahmed it, the Barons of the English
aristocracy would soon have reduced Spain to the same condi-
tion. It is to prevent Spain becoming a colony and fief of Eng-
land that the French Government combats the possibility of
the marriage of Queen Isabella 11. . with a toreien Prince.
The powerless artillery of the English -press will not turn
France from this object. It is already too much that England
possesses Gibraltar en the Spanish coast ; it is our duty to see
that British influence is not all pox erful at Madrid."
The remains of M. Humann, late Minister of Finance, were
on Saturday morning removed in great state to the church of
the Madeleine, arid the first sacred service was pet formed in
that magnificent edifice. The pall was supported by:Marshal
Souls ( War). Admiral Duperre (Marine), M. alartin du
Nord (Justice), and M. Guizot (Foreign Affairs). The chief
mourners were M. Humann, the son, and the Viscount Gerim-
nay, son-in-law of the deceased. The Archbishop of Paris
delivered the funeral service. No speeches were made. Ge-
neral Heymes, whose death was prematurely announced the
other day, died on Saturday. He was the favourite Aide-de-
Camp of Louis Philippe.
The Quotidienne gives the following In the midst of
hi; press of bu,inesa M. Humann never forgot his Christian
duties. Every morning, before commencing the labours of his
department, lie read a portion of a German prayer-book. On
the day of his decease the mark in this book showed that he
had been meditating on death, and on the necessity of prepar-
ing for it." _ _

The Toulonnais,.of April 26, says that the Ocean, a three
decker, the flag-ship of Admiral Hugon, Commander-in-Chief
of the squadron in the Mediterranean, the Souverain, also a
three-decker, the Marengo, the Hercule, and the Alger, have
received orders to take in three months' provisions, and to pre-
pare fur their departure.—The same• Journal announces that
the marines embarked on board the corvettes Bous,ole and Ex-
peditive were destined for New Zealand, and that the French
station in that district is to be reinforced and commanded by a
Captain in the Navy. It also states that an order had arrived
to fit out a corvette of war and a'transport vessel to reinforce
that station.

A letter from Vienna, in the Gazette of Upper Germany,
sass that the railroads are to be urged on as much as possible.
Fifty-six engineers, forming eight,sections, hail set out for the
North and South, to lav down the lines from Vienna to the
Saxon frontier and to Trieste. Two molitlis will, it is said,
suffice for the completion of these preparatory labours, and the
works are to commence in August. The idea of employing
soldiers is said to be abandoned. It is calculated that the
Vienna and Trieste Railroad will be completed ii► six years.