The Sun. — 1847-12-18 (London, England)

MADRID BOLSA, DEC, 11.—Tbe Three per Cents. were done on the 11th at 271,- at 50 days; the Four per Cents. at 15, for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 15i ; and the Debt without Interest, at 4i for paper.  We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The case of Count MORTIER is the engrossing topic of conversation in all the salons of the French capital. On this subject we find the following in the IVational I  , " After having read and analysed the rude pleading of M. Mortier, Peer of France, against his wife, our duty was to read the reply of Madame Mortier to the accusations of her husband, with the same care. It was M. Chaix d'Est Ange who charged himself to make that reply, and be did it with great abundance of words hnd with extreme warmth: Nevertheless, his speech does not contain the enormities of that of M. Baruche. What Madame Monier reproaches her husband with nre peccadillos in comparison with the faults, the baseness and crimes under which he eadeavoured to crush and brand her. All the pleading for Madame Mortier reduces itself to these words—' This man is mad 1' Nut Only was he mad on the 9th November at Paris, but he was mad at Turin, mad in Switzerland—he has always been mad ; so that his Majesty Louis Philippe has been represented for more than ten years by a lunatic. It is M. Chaix d'Est Ange, a Conservative and friend of M. Guizot, who declares it, and who heaps proofs on proofs. First, there have not been fewer. than 93 domestics who have been compelled to fly before the violence and the brutality of the ambassador; and next, a secretary of embassy, to whom he had taken a dislike, dared not present himself before him without being armed with a cane. If such was this character in repose, judge of what it became when its irritability was excited ! The ' impressions de voyage' recounted by M. Chaix d'Est Ange are terrible. Here M, Monier blackguards his coachman, and calls him, Briyamd fochon r There M. Mortier causes scenes on the high, way, refuses to show his passport, and abandons himself to the most brutal acts of violence. One day he cries to his wife, You are enciente by Franyois, the footman At Bruges he rises, heaps insults upon her, pushes her Out of her chamber, and leaves her trembling with cold, almost fainting, in a corridor. In his attack he opens his drawer, seeks a razor, but only finds a tooth-pick, and effects with that innocent instrument his idea of suicide. This same marl, always Peer of France and an ambassador, who had, or believed that he had, reason to reproach Madame Mortier with such odious infamies, wrote letters to her from Berne in April, 1344, and from Turin in November, 1845. in which he called her his dear and good Leonie of his how t, and his mimetic chide. He is then a madman, a madman for a straight-waistcoat ; such is the conclusion of M. Chaix d'Est Ange and Madame Mortier; and with this system, the madness, as our readers see, does not date from yesterday; it is profound, chronic, constitutional, incurable. On the 7th of November, in that Hotel Chatham, in which he desired to destroy his children and himself, he had only a new attack of that delirium which long before had deprived him of his reason. And yet fifteen days before M. Guizot wrote the following curious letter to the madman:— "'Paris, Oct. 23.  ". my dear Count,—lf I were susceptible, I should be hurt at your letter. Have I ever communicated to you through the newspapers? If ever I should believe right to propose to the King to give you a successor, nobody should know it before you. M. de Bacourt has never refused the embassy to Spain. There has never once been any idea of him for that of Turin. Return to Paris, and from there to your post, as if all this gossipping had never been printed in the newspapers, and believe nothing of them, even slightly.—A thousand good wishes. "