Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-12-27

tne qulunuucS. Al SOurl concert, tne queen anu
her sister, and the mother CHRISTINA and the uncle
Don FRANCISCO, showed their signal proficiency in
vocal and instrumental music, and the Royal sisters
danced with infinite grace at gorgeous ball given
by NARvAEZ Just created Grandee of Spain Of the
first class with the title of Duke Of Valencia In the
said city, by the way, military executions quickly
followed the recent revolt, and the commander Of
the garrison, with " great energy" admonished the
troops to regard the fate OF their comrades a be-
nevolent warning. You may see that the freedom
of the press is not extinct in Spain from the
ed paragraph OF the Clamor Pt0hc0, organ OF the
Progresssts
Console yourselves unfortunates upon whom has fallen
the torment OF usurpaton General Narvaez grandee of
Spain Console yourselves unfounates, who pine In dun
geons without being made acquainted with the cause OF
your General Narvaez is Duke OF Valencia Con-
sole yourselves prisoners and exes Of all classes, console
YOU overuened taxpayers General Naryaez has
received fine title, exempt from all taxes and obligations
Is this national recompense to convey JOY TO the hearts
Of the people at large Where the unfortunate who will
not find in this and powerful source OF
consolation 1t is thus that handful Of ambitious cele
bfate the e Of the Queen Of Spain Every thing for do
zen of infriguars nothing for suffering nation Whilst
aboou and active nation wearing out in slow agony, be-
hold these decorated coues rolling through the streets in
gded equipages and wasting night of enjoyment and
pleasure what would give relief to an entire province Re-
oce ye people up shouts of gadness your country is
saved for General Narvaez Duke of Valencia and grandee
Of Spain !"
The unqualified adhesion Of Lord JOHN RUSSELL
and Lord MoRPETH to the Anti-Corn-Law League
engages attention here. In general the Paris press
concludes, along with the London Wing organs,
that the coup de grace is given to all agricultural
protection" The two Lords, not being incumber
ed, like Sir ROBERT PEEL, with Cabinet Council,
or ministerial responsibility, have cast somerset
in advance of the Premier. The Globe remarks
exultngly, Now Sir ROBERT must follow in the
wake Of Lord JOHN. Mr.. BRIGHT and Mr.. Cob
DEN are supplanted leaders of the League but
ennobled and intellectually strengthened by the ac-
cession of men of so extensive influence with the
higher Wing party. Here is the text of Lord JOHN :
confess that the general subject, my views have, in
the of twenty years, undergone great alteration
used be Of opinion that exception the
rules of political economy but observation and experience
have convinced that ought to abstain from all interior
with the supply of food Neither Government
Legislature regulate the market with the bene
ca effects which the entire freedom Of sale and purchase
sure OF themselves to produce
| Mr.. CoBpEN has addressed letter to the Paris
Steele, in which he says:
sThe name Of Ant-C orn-Law League seems to indicate
association exclusively directed against the landed monopo
y Such not however, the real aim Of agitation. The
League the apostle of commercial liberty in the vastes and
universal Of the Under principle are
included all classes of podcce natural and
are the tins protection granted to the silk
well the opponents Of laws relative to
grain Bot have concentrated attack upon those laws
because Of all mouopoles tat which the ef
ectua and oppressive MANNER and BECAUSE succeed il
nbohpg IL the landowners reused BY their psaanal inter
ests win themselves the remainder Of The task
We feel ourselves less authorized or inclined to
complain of the ribaldry directed against our public
men and parties by the London press, when we
dwell the portraits it draws of the British, ac
cordng to political connexion and aims. Let me
offer you few specimens. The first is from the
Standard:
"The Times and other journals have been for month
dropping mysterious hints of fusion Of parties and of op
ions and with much that many of the provincial
oades have swallowed the dcusion and arrived the intend
ed inference, that coalition Ministry is in contemplation
Lord John Russell has, however, written bLt-dour full
of tenderness towards the present Government given in the
Chronicle and though it may be that the noble Colonial
Secretary chooses the Cabinet in the Petrucho STYLE
or in fashion with which contemporaries familiar tries
prove his qualifications for sere station by the vulence Of
his abuse, STILL according to the of affairs
among plain men, the Edinburgh letter does look very like
the preliminary coalition, for il is hard say whether
meanness unfairnes spteuness its predominant cha
racteristic."
The Times winds up long diatribe with this
i gentle exhortation':
I" Go on, Sir Robert master OF policy your Lead
your friends into the eacherous dele Of proud and nrac
table obsacy and them whatever be the glory Of that
achievement deliver them up the foe You need
You have the g Of infinite pausbity, and your friends Of
ten you have deluded hem will nevertheless trust you
again
And the Morning Herald, after much persif7age
OF Lord MoRPETH, handles the whole Wing species
in this style:
"The first requisite qualification of modern Wing to
have conscience swept and garnshed and free from all stub
born fixtures 10 be always ready for any prnc
PIES Thss the secret of the wonderful versatility with which
they have boxed the whole compass Of politics three
tunes in the of century Having legitimate forces
their wheewth make battle they under necessity
to contract for aid with the condo of the KENNEL and the
bargain has usually been that the the kennel should
paid by the triumph of their whms however extravagan
mischievous, while the Wings to enjoy the solid
and enduring comforts Of 'quarterday.'"
PARIS, DECEMBER l, lS45.
| The Journal DIES Debats has at length broken 81
lence on the Oregon question Its leading article of
this morning-three columns and a quarter-may
be deemed semi-ofcial manifesto against the Uni
ted States and in favor of Great Britain. The en-
fenfe cordiaie speaks unequivocaly and in the most
offensive terms. Much is introduced that may
pique and stimulate the English nation, and warp
the judgments of the French. IL the writer is en-
titled to assume, he does, that the Washington
Union conveyed directly the sentiments of the. Pre-
sdent, we can be confident that his manifesto was
matdred in concert with the Department of Foreign
Affairs. In the French publications, however, in
vidous distinctions of party and men are drawn