The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-26 00:00:00

aga:Lust Cum maLters. But Cuis
hope shall not avail them, for the Liberals are every
where on the alert ; especially in Ireland, where they
are very busy collecting subscriptions to counteract the
insidious manoeuvres of the Tories.

We are much pleased to perceive the favourable re-
ception which the National Loan Fund Life Assur-
ance Society is meeting from the public. The more
this admirable Institution is known, the more will

s value be appreciated. It will be seen by a report

in another column, which we have extracted from the
Worcestershire Guardian, that a Committee of gen-
tlemen of influence in the City of Worcester has
been formed, to support and give effect to an under-
taking which promises, and indeed cannot fail to
secure, the greatest advantages to those who avai 1
themselves of its benevolent provisions.

Advices have been received from Madrid to the
18th. At that period the Carlists were slowly retreat-
ing in the direction of Siguenza, as deliberately fol-
lowed by ESPARTERO, who was then between Alcala
and G uadalaxara. It was presumed to be the in-
tention of the Carlists to form a junction with the
troops under ZARIATRGIJI. Every thing was per-
fectly quiet at Madrid, where ORAA's corps was
every moment expected to arrive.

On the northern coast military matters appear
to be at a stand-still since the disastrous affair of
Andoain. It was at one time feared that the
British prisoners, amounting to nearly 200, who fell
into the hands of the Carlists by the cowardice of
the same Spanish regiment that ran away so dis-
gracefully at Hernani, would be put to death by
virtue of the Durango decree. It now appears that
the threat of General O'DONNELL to retaliate on

e Carlists in his power had had the effect of
saving—for a time at least—the lives of our brave
but unfortunate countrymen. The men who
survived the catastrophe of ANDOAIN, have
declared that they will never again fire a shot in
company with Spaniards. The Colonel of the In-
fante regiment has been put under arrest by General
O'DONNELL.

The only important piece of intelligence brought to-
day by the foreign mails is the birth of an Heir to the
throne of Portugal. This auspicious event took plye
on the 16th inst., between 11 and 12 o'clock at night.
The ceremonies observed on this interesting occasion
will be found described in another column. Ac-
cording to some accounts, however, the manifesta-
tions of joy exhibited by the inhabitants of Lis-
bon, were neither general nor brilliant. Whether it
is that the people are impressed with the belief—
which we believe to be well-founded—that the Court
is secretly abetting the Chartists, who are in open re-
bellion against the Constitutional Government, and
therefore refuse to participate in celebrating an event with
which the happiness of the Royal Family is so intimately
connected—or that anti-Monarchical principles have
taken deep root among the Portuguese, we know not ; but
the young Prince has not met with the cordial welcome
from his future subjects which at one time was anti-
cipated. One of the Lisbon journals devotes only a
few lines to the announcement of the intelligence, which
it inserts among the paragraphs of ordinary news, as if
it were unworthy of particular notice.
The Prince is a fine healthy child ; as fair as his

father, and as fat as his mother. He has been baptized,
but has not yet formally received his name and title
(Don PEDRO FERNANDO Duke of OPORTO) owing

to the absence (in rebellion) of the Duke of TER-
CEIRA, who is the proxy, it would appear, of the Em-
peror of BRAZIL, the godfather. This is rather an
" untoward" circumstance.

Nothing decisive had takes place between the con-
tending parties in the north up to the 20th, when the
last advices left Oporto. Braga seems to be the spot
selected for the final encounter. The Chartists were
attempting to concentrate their forces at this point,
while it seemed to be the object of LAS ANTAS and
Bomtiqm to prevent their junction, and cut them up in
detail. In this they had not been altogethet success-
ful, AS BOMFIM, who was pursuing SALDANIIA, had
not been able to effect the passage of the Douro, but had
been obliged to retire upon Altneida. LAS ANTAS left
Oporto on the 14th—one account says the 15th—and
marched upon Braga with 3,000 or 4,000 men. If he
could bring the Chartists to action before they were
joined by SALDANIIA'S corps, augmented as it might
probably be by the revolted brigade of LAS ANTAS,
he would in all likelihood demolish them. But there

is no calculating on what Portuguese or Spanish armies
may do, except that they will do any thing rather than
fight. They have not the least objection that their
battles should be fought by foreigners—let them take
all the knocks and welcome. These, and the morta
hatred of the parties whom they have sated from
destruction, are their sole reward. All the merit and
all the glory belong to the brave, the heroic, the invinci-
ble Portuguese !

We have received the French Papers of Saturday.
They contain little intelligence of any importance.
The successes of the Carlists i❑ Spain seem to perplex •
the French Government a good deal. The effect of
these successes upon the approaching elections is
feared. The following are extracts :
PARIS, SEPT. 23.—(Private Correspondence of the Con-
stitutionnel.)—St. Jean de Luz, Sept. 19.—Three days
ago it was reported here that the English prisoners taken
on the 14th and following days had been shot ; a piece of
news which I deferred sending, to you, as I could not be-
lieve such an atrocious act. However, this report not being
contradicted, still keeps its ground, and to-day the accounts
given by some persons who came from the frontiers, appear
to confirm it. They, however, reduce to 40 the number of
the victims, which was at first stated to be 200.
An inquiry is going on relative to the defection of the
rif;ht of the infantry. The Colonel is in prison at St.
Sebastian. He says that his corps refused to fight. It
consisted of two battalions ; one of which is now at Oria•
monde, the other at Fontarabia.
TotuoN, SEPT. 10.—We have scarcely vessels enough
in port to execute the orders of the telegraph, which is at
work from morning to night. We have four steam-boats,
two of which are undergoing a thorough repair, the Ramier
and the Styx ; the Fulton and the Cerbere have to repair
some damage to their machinery ; so that the Crocodile,
which arrived this morning from Bona with the news of the
landing, must leave again immediately. The Admiral Pre-
fect has just ordered the Captain of this packet to take in
his coals and be ready to put to sea ; he will be the bearer
of the dispatches which are announced for to-morrow, and
are to be delivered without delay.
Yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, the telegraph
brought orders to dispatch a steam-boat instantly ;we had
only the Courier ; and the Prefect having given the strictest
injunctions to the Captain to depart in the night, the steam-
boat was already out of port at ten o'clock in the evening.
—Journal des Debuts, Sept. 24.
Pnats, SEPT. 9.4.—C010nel Maberly, secretary to the
English Post-office, is now at Paris, where he is concert-
ing with M. Comte, Director of the French Post-office,
measures for an improvement in the conveyance of the
mails. Yesterday morning, accompanied by Lord Low-
tiler, he visited the manufactory of the French mail-coaches.
—Supplement to the Commerce, Sept. 24.

M. Martin has been appointed Minister Plenipo-
tentiary from the King of the French to the King of Ha-
nover.
The Sheriff's carriages of the present year are said
to cost 1,0001. each.
In speaking of the weather the Natches Free Trader
says —" The powerful sun is shaded through day by those
heavenly parasols, the clouds ; wo get a mouthful of air
even at midday, and a dart of thunder and rain nearly every
evening. _ _

The E:nperor of Austria, as a mark of especial fa-
vour and friendship, has conferred ou his Majesty the King
of the Netherlands the Grand Cross of the Hungarian
Order of St. Stephen ; and on Baron Robert Fagel, the
Netherlands Ambassador in Paris, the Grand Cross of the
Order of Leopold.