The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-12 00:00:00

TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

" BAYONNE, SEPT. 9, AT NOON.

" Don Carlos has called all the Navarrese battalions to
Lecumberri ; but this operation cannot take place on ac-
count of their insubordination.

" Espartero was to set out this morning from Tolosa
with 12 battalions, to march on Lccumberri. Emigration
continues. Eighty Carlist officers came in yesterday by
Sarre."

The same official organ contains the following
not less gratifying announcement, which entirely
confirms what we stated yesterday respecting the
omission of all reference to the Treaty of Bergara
in the QUEEN'S Speech at the opening of the
Cortes:—

" Despatches of the 3d inst. from Madrid, announce
that on that day letters from General Espartero had been
received, announcing that, in consequence of a conven-
tion which, according to the instructions of his Govern-
ment, he had concluded with Maroto, the latter, as well
as Simon Torre, Urbistondo, and Iturriaga, had joined
the Queen's cause. The Duke of Victory added that he
had embraced the Carlist General in presence of the
troops, who had thus become brothers, and piled their
arms. This news, on being announced to the Chamber of
Deputies, was received with a unanimous burst of applause,
and the feeling was so general that it seemed to absorb all
opposing opinions."
Everything now depends upon the promptitude
and patriotism of ESPARTERO. If lie pursue with
activity the resolute course which he has recently
adopted, he will not only secure a lasting peace to
-Spain, but he will establish for himself claims to
the eternal gratitude of his countrymen. On the
other hand, if he fail to make use of his present ad-
vantage, and suffer the ardour of his troops to eva-
porate before again leading them against the enemy,
it is possible that the Pretender may still be
able to overshadow Navarre, Arragon, and Cata-
lonia, with the standard of rebellion. Already, ac-
cording to the Carlist accounts, the Pretender, at
the head of eleven battalions, is on his march from
Lecumberri, to join ELro in Navarre, who is said to
have obtained a second victory over General DIEGO
LEON, who lost 1,500 men in the engagement.
We suspect, however, that this second Carlist vic-
tory is a pure fiction, and that were we to subtract
seven battalions from the number of the Pretender's
military escort, we should not represent him in a
more destitute plight than he really is. Still, if he
succeed in joining CABRERA, and will suffer him-
self to be guided, as he must, by that sanguinary
chief, it will cost the QUEEN'S Government
great trouble to drive him out of the
Peninsula. Now this entirely depends upon
the promptitude of ESPARTERO, and per-
haps more than all upon his conduct towards the
rebellious Provinces which have just recognised
the QUEEN'S authority. In these Provinces the
people languish for peace, and will assuredly be-
come discontented if they find that they have but
exchanged one military despotism for another. Al-
ready reports are rife of a growing disaffection
among the Basque peasantry, fomented, no
doubt, by secret agents of Don CA RLOs,
and the regular clergy or monks ; and this
disaffection will increase, unless the people are
made speedily to feel the advantages anticipated
from their abandonment of the Pretender's cause.
Everything is now favourable to a speedy termina-
tion of all hostilities. Letters from Catalonia of
the 4th inst. state that the Carlists have recently
been several times beaten in that province ; and, ac-
cording to accounts from Saragossa, CABRERA
meets with nothing but a succession of reverses.
The statement respecting CABRERA is contradicted
by the Carlist correspondence from Arragon, in
which it is asserted that he routed at Livia the
united divisions of Generals HoYos and ASPIROS ;
that he ordered a levy en masse of all able to bear
arms between the ages of eighteen and fifty ; and
that he had prevailed upon the Bishops of SIGU-
ENZA, ORIHUELA, and MONDONEDO, by whom
he is accompanied, in the true spirit of ecclesiastical
rulers of the Church Militant, to excommunicate
any individual who may so much as pronounce the
word peace I What a satire is this upon the
.peace-diffusing spirit of the Gospel I
Don CARLOS, by the advice of the Princess of
BEIRA, his Consort, has not only broken up his
Court but dismissed from about his person every per-
son unable to bear arms. He has likewise appointed
the Infante Don SEBASTIAN, Generalissimo of his
Forces, and EGUIA, Chief of his Staff. His apo-
logists pretend that no more than between 6,000
and 7,000 troops laid down their arms with MA-
ROTO. This is a matter of secondary consequence.
The great point gained is that two provinces have
been restored to the QUEEN'S Government, and
that the QUEEN'S General-in-Chief has been
placed in a position to enable him, if he take the
proper steps, to put an immediate end to the
miseries which desolate the finest Provinces of the
Peninsula.

There is very little domestic news of any politi-
cal interest in the Paris Journals of Tuesday, the
whole of which we have received this morning.
Rumours of changes in the Cabinet are rife, but
we can trace them them to no infallible source.

The number of bankruptcies declared before the
Tribunal of Commerce of the Department of the
Seine, was, for the month of July, 91 ; and for
August, 108, being an increase of 17.
The Moniteur Parisien, of Monday night,
contains the following additional information rela-
tive to the insurrection at Zurich, communicated
by telegraph to the French Government :
" STRASBURG, SEPT. 9.
"THE PREFECT OF THE LOWER RHINE TO THE MINISTER OF