The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

FRANCE

The Paris papers are principally occupied with the
Montpensier marriage; arid the affairs of Spain. The
Courier Francais declares that the flight of the Count de
Montemolino and General Cabrera is connected with a
vast plan, the principal supporters of which are in Eng-
land. The Journal des Debats speaks in guarded and
moderate terms,—La Presse with assumed confidence in
the conclusion of the marriage. The Constilu!ionnel
seems to anticipate a compromise between England and
France, and suggests the renunciation of all claim to the
French crown by the Duke de Montpensier. The National
is, if possible, additionally energetic in its opposition to
the marriage. "Up to the moment at which I write,"
says the Paris correspondent of the Times, " no commu-
nication on the subject of the Montpensier marriage has,
I am assured, taken place between the British and French
Governments." * * * "Alarm has at length begun
to make itself felt in Paris,—at Court, in the Ministry,
among the public, and at the Bourse. At the very mo-
ment at which I write tbere is sitting under the presidensy
of the King a council—not of ministers, but of the friends
of his Majesty—to deliberate upon the present state of
the Montpensier marriage question. The result will be,
probably, a mission given to the Duke de Broglie to pro-
ceed forthwith to London, to endeavour to reconcile her
Majesty Queen Victoria and her Minister to the Mont-
pensier marriage; for the affair has assumed a most serious
aspect. * * * The escape of Cabrera and of the Count
de Moatemolin has wonderfully embarrassed and compli-
cated the question. The Progresistas are possibly by this
time on the eve of revolt. It is true that the present
Spanish army is an excellent one,—devoted to the Queen,
—but, if the Carlists rise in the provinces, the garrisons
of the large towns must be reduced, in order to send
against them an overwhelming force. The strength of the
Carlists lies in the fields, and in the villages ; that of the
Progresistas in the cities and large towns. The Carlists
must be opposed. To oppose them, the garrisons of the
towns and cities must be weakened, and thus give to the
Progresistas the very opportunity for which they pray.
This will be all very lamentable if it takes place, and may,
in its results,—supposing the double insurrection to suc-
ceed.—produce the dethronement of the Queen, and the
placing on the throne of Don Enrique, or the Count de
Mon►emolin. The Paris journals of Tuesday are on the
one absorbing subject—the Spanish marriage. The mi-
nisterial papers dwell with much satisfaction upon the
unanimous vote of the Cortes upon the address approving
of both marriages, which they say is demonstrative that
the feeling of the Spaniards is favourable, and not hostile,
as assumed by the London papers; they also affirm that
the British public is unmoved on the subject, and, in fine,
appear quite confident that the storm will blow over,
without leaving any permanent trace behind. The oppo-
sition papers, on the other band, pretend to know that all
overtures of conciliation made to the British Cabinet have
been met with the most repulsive coldness, and augur very
serious consequences from the present embroiled state of
relations.