The fermentation about the Montpensier marriage continues rapidly to subside,
in London as well as in Paris and Madrid. The idea which we threw out last week touching the "forbidden bans" —that the treaty of Utrecht really has no provision to forbid a marriage—seems to have struck divers politicians as cogent; and we presume that it had occurred to others still more conversant with such matters. Aggressive gesticulations are now confessed to be silly, and official England has discreetly learned to be con- tent with a passive sulkiness, not incompatible with a certain awkward dignity nor with returning good humour. Lord Nor- manby, it is said by gossips, refuses at present to dine with King Louis Philippe : but we do not yet despair of seeing, at no distant day, that the Marquis has taken a chop even with the Duc de Montpensier.
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