The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-09


same time disavowed any intention to attack the Cham
Der PEERS which he held In high respect His attack
tsrs. and With the Ministers alone was his quarrel
The committee appointed to report on this, have
ported in favor Of sending NJ de Girsrain before the
Chamber Of Peers, and thus the matter now stands
The financial condition Of France has become seri-
ously embarrassed The rate of interest is raised and
the Bank of France is obliged to seek relief from
extraordinary drain Of specie upon it, by obtaining
from the Legislature, authority to issue notes small
as two hundred francs l$4o) no notes having been
assigned for this pressure are first the failure Of
the last harvest and consequent necessity for large i'm
portatons Of grain necessarily followed by acorrespond
ing expectation Of specie; and secondly the extensive
lines of railway which have been undertaken and are In
progress through the country creating new and aug
The prospects at present Of the harvest in every part
Of France are good The weather for the last month
has been most favorable considerable heat being alter
mated with heavy falls Of rain The appearance Of the
crops consequently very cheering; nevertheless 1t Is
quite 10 snS % 2. the
quantity there win be ademand for foreign grain how
favorable the harvest may prove to be- In contem
pation Of this the Legislature has already extended
till year. the present free system Of Importation Of
every species Of amentary matter :.
To foreign vsiters Paris has been especially dull this
season The number Of resident foreigners was greatly
less than usual and the number of passing visters still
seriously diminished. This has damped the spirit
Of the shop keeping classes and all who live the dis
bursemens Of those whose chief business is amusement
London has robbed Paris Of most Of the theatrical stars
The grand opera formerly celebrated for the geor
geous ballet, and its magnificent body of artists,
hides its diminished head before the Queens Theatre
and the Royal Italian Opera House In fact it offers no
attraction either to the resident the vister The mi
nor theatres those Of the Boulevards especially,
tinue fill usual being the resort Of those Parsans
who leave the capital and cannot live without the
safc and the spectacle.
In literature the most popular work of the season. Is
Lamastrine's "Grondists work on that unexhausted
and apparently inexhaustble subject the great revou
ton Your specializing republishers would do well to
translate it, If they have not already done So
MADRID, June l0Jls47.
"A in,
formed persons as consequent the Royal marriages
concluded by King Louis Philippe and the Queen Dowa-
bella and her consort are in fact separated They
domiced miles ssunder Mutual aversion Is the feel
ing which has followed these unhaowed nuptiais which
have had assurejly honeymoon The marriage bed
will of be barren and unless the cunning Of the
French King have overreached ITSELF reignng Queen
only the ocumenens of the throne, which his daugh
ternaw and her children must ultimately occupy The
prince consort has for some time back occupied royal
palace at some distance from Madrid called the Pardo
where he is surrounded by cotee hostile to the Queen
and her cabinet He Is the Of frequent visits and
assduous attentions from the French Ambassador the
the part Of the friends Of the Queen to induce him
to return to the roof with her Majesty, at
least to present to the world the scandal Of open
separation. These attempts have been Intellectual -
Meanwhile the young Queen attaches to her person the
fallen Don Francisco and one Of the sisters the nfana
Jossea Of her consort In all her rides and drives she
is accompanied by these and they domesticated in
the palace When she makes visit to any Of the sum-
Hf Her mosher oussn Christine, whp i will be remem
bered was some time since obliged to quit Spain in con-
sequence of the unconstitutional influence she attempt
exercise in the palace has lately applied for per-
mission to return to Madrid. The ministry ntimated
that their part opposition would be made to such
that the rsoenton she Sr
daughter would not be such would agreeable to
her On this hint she decided against returning and is
The Queen Dowager has just returned to France from
a visit to Naples The protested object Of which to
see her brother the king of the two sciliss the
fharu uhQra0 fh faruilv he
there when she departed for Rene 1t understood
that the reception she met with from her family was not
of very cordial kind. Indeed, according to some re-
ports they declined to receive her ut al On her
turn she stopped four days at Rome, where she had
private Of the Pope the % Of which h II
which her daughter Queen Isabella, is understood to
have applied for.
The present ministry here is, in politics. Of shade
between the tory and the radical sort of juste-
meu s called in France Its stability however,
Is very doubtful and It seems probable that ere long
there will be a modification in the liberal direction
The conservatives the moderado party, as they are
here called, who were so uuceremonousy dismissed by
the queen some months ago. appear little likely to re-
The of Rome which, since the accession of the
queen held no diplomatic relations with Spain
step is considered highly detrimental If not totally
structive to the hopes of the Count de Montemono.
divorce followed by marriage of the Queen with the
Count de Montemono would appear to be solution Of
the Spanish question: which would satisfy all interests
but the state Of parties in this country would at
be violently opposed to such coalition.
LISBON, June 10, ls47.
The efforts Of the Portuguese people to resist the
sumption Of arbitrary power BY the Queen have had
they crushed by foreign Intervention would not be
strictly true since the English has imposed
The capture Of Das Owley and the forces of the Junta
Oh Oporto was proceeding, the origin Of which was
not ct first apparent In fact It was mode of
the Intervention Of England which, from
nected with the state Of parties could not have been
freely and openly assented to- Although free and
stitutona government exempt from all objections will
not be established at Lisbon still large portion Of the
objects of the movement of last October will have been
impotence of Spain to aid the Queen in carrying OUT
the change Of ministry in that country the check
cised by England the other parties to the quadrupe
alliance and the escape that Donna Maria has
had of losing her throne altogether will
ing to her in future against similar violent proceedings
Meanwhile free institutions will grow and strengthen in
Portugal and the people will learn the proper aud
exercise and the true nature and value Of their rights
that any future attempt made by the sovereign to
encroach on them, will be still more successfully re-
sisted.
The great aim of England has been to prevent Spain
and France by separate establishing foot
penser succeeding to the throne Of SPAIN render the
British government more and more tenacious on this
point
The liberal cause in Switzerland progresses In spite OF
the opposition secretly as Wen as openly prscssed Dy
Switzerland, like the United States, only smaller
scale confederation of independent republics called
which Is the legislative body, and the Vorort which is
the executive The seat Of the federal government Is
net fixed in particular canton but asses in rotation
Of Berne the President Of the grand council Of which
is in fact President for the time being Of the confedera
ton This individual is NJ Ochsenbein distinguished
liberal and republican. Of the cantons which compose
the confederation there in which the Catholic
religion is predominant and which favor arbitrary gov
ernment advocate the Jesuits and patronzed and
secretly protected and supported by Austria and the
absolute courts. These cantons opposed to the others
formed time ago separate league, and known
by title Of the ultra montana league. Such pro-
ceedng being deemed incompatible with the rights
the general government and the obligations due to the
Diet and the Voror by the canons has been resisted
by the ether cantons and internal discussions have
arisen which at times reached point approaching tc
civil war.
On the transfer of the general government to the
liberal canton Of Berne the revolution which took place
last autumn in Geneva and other liberal movements
became apparent that the league Of the canton
likely to be condemned by vote OF the fede
raj legislature. The moment now approaches al