The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-16 00:00:00

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Had Don CARVOS been ejected from the Peninsula
by English and French bayonets his partizans would
have looked forward to every cessation of vigilance
to kindle the torch of insurrection in the Basques,
and even we ourselves might have doubted whether
a Constitutional Government could exist in Spain
without our assistance. But the experiment was a
dangerous one ; and supported as CARLOS was by
the Courts of St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, and
Rome, besides the assistance he derived from the
Tory faction in this country, nothing short of the
most strenuous and patriotic exertions on the part
the Spanish people could have brought the war to
the happy termination at which it is on the point of
arriving.

We have received Swiss Journals of the 10th
inst., containing long reports of a meeting of the
Grand Council, held on the previous day in the
Great Cathedral of Zurich. Four thousand per-
sons attended. Burgomaster Hess took the chair,
and after a long and animated discussion, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted, after which the meet-
ing broke up :
" The Grand Council, considering that in consequence
of an extraordinary popular movement the Council of
State was de !ado dissolved, that the re-establishment of
public tranquillity ought to be first of all attended to, and
that it is the duty of the representatives of the people in
these circumstances to resign their powers into the hands of
their constituents, in order that a new election of the
Grand Council should impart to the general administration
the necessary firmness and energy—the Grand Council
therefore decrees, that the Council of State, composed of
Messrs. J. J. Hess, R. L. Meyer de Knonau, C. Sulzer,
J. Hurleman Landes, de Muralt, Eschcr, and Schutt Hess,
and constituted on the 6th of September, is confirmed, for
the direction of public affdirs, in the capacity of Council
of Regency and Federal Council of State ; and, as such,
empowered to discharge the functions thereof, conform-
ably with the laws and Constitution, until the reorganiza-
tion of the Council of Regency. The present Grand
Coancil dissolves itself, and the Council of State is charged
with making the necessary arrangements for the constitu-
tional election of the Members of the Grand Council, so as
to enable to meet it in the course of 14 days.
Not the slightest disturbance took place. The
Councillor of State, HEYETSCHWEILER, after
having thrice undergone the operation of trepanning,
died on the 10th, of the gun-shot wound he received
in the late riot.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 7th inst.
have reached us. The Second Chamber was ex-
pected to be regularly constituted on the 9th, when
it would commence the labours of the Session. On
the Bth, Ministers proposed to celebrate the suc-
cess of the QUEEN'S arms in the north after the
long-established English fashion—a public dinner,
a comfortable mode of rejoicing as yet but little
known on the Continent. On the 7th the diplo-
matic body in Madrid, participating in the general
enthusiasm, presented the following address to the
QUEEN K EGENT, to which her MAJESTY returned
a most gracious answer :
Madam--The diplomatic body, hastening to join in the
sentiments of hope and joy inspired by the happy events
which have just taken place in the northern part of the
empire, solicit the honour of being permitted to lay at the
feet of your Majesty the expression of their lively and
sincere satisfaction at seeing at length approach the ter•
mination of a war so of to your Majesty's heart as a
Queen and a mother.

The character of clemency and of reconciliation which
your Majesty's goodness desires to impress on the coming
peace, will hasten, we trust, the moment when your
Majesty shall behold all the subjects of your august
daughter united around her Throne in the same sentiments
of love and devotion.

The Ministers were daily increasing in popula-
rity. General ALAIX, who is understood to have
co-operated very cordially with ESPARTERO 111
effecting a pacification in the North, is a greater
favourite with the people than any of his colleagues.
On the Bourse business was rapidly improving.
Five per Cents. Active were in brisk demand on
the 7th at 30 for cash.

The French Government was, on Saturday night,
in hourly expectation of despatches announcing the
arrival of Don CARLOS at Bayonne. On Friday
the following telegraphic communication reached
the War Minister, and was published in the Mo-

teter Parisien of the same evening :
" BAYONNE, SEPT. 13.
THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVI-
SION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR AND TO THE PRESIDENT
OF THE COUNCIL.

" Yesterday Espartero was still in the Ulzama, where
he has been joined by the corps of Navarre commanded by
General Ribero, who has replaced General Leon. Don
Carlos was at Elisoudo. The emigration continues."

The Sentinelle des Pyrenees confirms the account
of the emigration of the Carlists, by stating that they
were arriving in flocks, like quails, at Tolosa and
San Sebastian. The same Journal adds, that five
more Carlist battalions of Navarre accepted the
stipulations made by MAROTO, and laid down their
arms. On Saturday the French Government re-
ceived the following telegraphic despatches from the
French frontier :

" BAYONNE, SEPT. 14.
" THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIV;

SION TO THE PRESIDEDT OF THE COUNCIL.
" Don Carlos arrived yesterday at Urdax, near to our
frontier."

Urdax is a small village only three quarters of a
league from the French frontier, so that the inten-
tion of the Pretender to seek shelter in France is no
longet doubtful. It is said that he would have
retired into France on the first defection of NIA-
ROTQ't but having previously implored the final
decisioli of the Northern Powers, and having
addre:Oed autograph letters to Louis Pin-
LIPP7 and Lord PALMERSTON, desiring
to know the conditions the Governments
of France and England would guarantee to his
familrin the event of his quitting Spain, he wishes
if possible, to retain a footing in Spain till he can
receiva, the answers of the different Cabinets, in the
hope that he will be able to exact better terms for
himself, his family, and his adherents. But Es-
PARTERO appears not disposed to treat him with
much forbearance ; and although the Austrian
Ambassador at Paris has been most active in
hastening on negociations during the last week,
the friends of CARLOS were fearful that he would
be driven out of Spain before they could be con-
cluded.

General ELIo, with ten battalions of Navarre,
was reported in Paris on Saturday to have gone
over to the Christinos.

The Moniteur of Saturday officially announces
the recal of Admiral ROUSSIN from Constanti-
nople. As we repeatedly stated his Excellency
will be replaced by M. DE PONTOIS.
The Leipsic Universal Gazette, in a letter from
Alexandria of the 16th ult., throws some light upon
the motives of Admiral Roussnes recal :—" It

Another statement in the Journals is, that Lord
JOHN HAY had demanded an interview with Don
CARLOS, to communicate to him the instructions
received from our Government. Lord JOHN was
to be escorted by a detachment of British Royal
Marines. A previous rumour was afloat, to the
effect that Don CARLOS had expressed a wish to
surrender to the British Commodore, rather than to
the French authorities on the frontier.

appears," says this correspondent, " that Admiral
RoussiN directed the affairs of the Capitan
Pacha. There is a person here worthy of every
confidence, who says that he read at Malta, several
days before the news of the treason of the Capitan
Pacha had arrived there, a letter of Admiral
RoussiN, addressed to the French Consul at
Malta, in which the Admiral mentions the treason
as a very probable event." If this be true it is in-
deed sufficiently scandalous to account not only for
the recal, but the disgrace of Baron Ro usslN.
A great sensation was created on the Bourse on
Friday by the Bank of HOTTINGUEN and Co., of
Paris, allowing Bills drawn upon it by the United
States Bank to the amount or from 100,0001. to
200,0001. sterling to be protested.
There is no domestic news of importance in the
French Journals. _ .