The Sun. — 1861-11-13 (London, England)

NAPOLEON 111. in reference to the affair of the Charles and Georges, was of the same character, though life was not touched, as the murder of the Due D'ENGHTEN ; it was another illustration of the -utter insensibility of the NAPOLEONS to moral principles. Solely in the interest of French kidnappers, the Frenchman who had the physical power, and because he could employ brute force, refused to the King of PORTUGAL the plainest justice and the rights of sovereignty. The cause of the Emperor— slave-catching—and the means he employed, bullying a weaker Sovereign, were alike bad and disgraceful ; and now that Sovereign has gone whither we all, and NAPOLEON himself, must soon follow him. England advised, indeed, Portugal to yield to a bullying Monarch, just as we have so often yielded to a bullying Republic, for peace sake • but it is one of the many acts which have created English minds the impression that we have to in do across the water with a man so utterly unprincipled, that our only safety lies in our ability to destroy his navy. The KING'S history is, indeed, a brief one, but it is an unsullied one. That is more than can be said of many of his royal compeers. He found his country, financially at leant, in a bad condition ; things have much improved since ; ho was always on the side of improvement, and we can only  hope that his brother, the Duke of OPORTO, who . succeeds him, will carry out yet more vigorously the coarse on which the late King had entered. May he escape the club and pistol 3 of Imperial France!  It is; quite a new thing that the speech of a Queen of Sp A. IN should either excite much attention, or b©, Oil :reasonable grounds, of a very cheerful cast. Civil «.are effete and worthless Monarchs, an empty exchequer, and a half brigand army, have been what c htefly met our eyes south of Pyrenees. We can't ea y yet, that they have changed all that,"  but much of it is changed, Spanish finance, as we I have experienced, is in a far better state than it was, a respectable army has been created, which whatever it might do against regular troops of a great military power,cuts a respectable figure in a conflict with the race whom she drove to their own side of the Mediterranean ; and Spain is actually now about to join in an expedition with two of the greatest powers in the world. She may well, therefore, congratulate herself on her progress. Indeed, it seemed not many years ago as if resurrection were impossible, and that this fine country was, politically and commercially, dead and buried for ever. Spain is, however, at least alive again. The piety of the Spanish monarchs, even of the most cruel or dissolute, has always been a point of honour with them. With the blood of heretics they atoned for the blood of patriots, and fidelity to the POPE was the satisfaction to Heaven and earth for feminine infidelity. ISABELLA does not dishonour her ancestry—Almost the first paragraph in her speech says—  The Holy Father, ever an object of tender and profound veneration amongst all Catholics, excites my constant interest ea my filial solicitude. I have succeeded in obtaining this point, that the Governments of those countries which are placed under his holy direction should unite to find the means of giving him, within his own states, that peace and security which are indispensable for the independent exercise of his holy ministry. My sentiments stimulate me to continue these exertions. Thus I satisfy the wishes of my subjects, who nourish in their hearts the religious faith of their ancestors.  If " peace and security" be all she has obtained for him, we doubt his gratitude will be small; but if she means that she has obtained this for him in States which not only are " his own" just now, but will remain so, she may be sure that neither RICAsoLI, RATTAZZI, nor any other possible Italian Minister has conceded that. In her own dominions she shows a love to the Holy Father worthy of