The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-20 00:00:00

the passage of the Ebro. This report has not been
confirmed.

Intelligence also reached Paris on Thursday even-
ing of the re-capture of Cantavieja by General ORAA.
Seven hundred Carlists were made prisoners, with an
immense quantity of stores and baggage. This is the
second victory gained by ORAA over the Carlists in
the course of a few days.

Upon these successes of the Constitutional cause in
the North of Spain, the Paris papers of Thursday offer
various comments. We copy from the Journal des
Debuts—the first French journal to advocate the sound
policy of active intervention on the part of France in
the Peninsular struggle for liberty—the following re-
marks on the actual position and probable movements
of the belligerents :

" The intelligence iipm Spain, published by the Charte
of last night, confirm what we said in our number of
Monday. The Carlists have given up the intention of se-
riously defending the lines of Hernani against the Con-
stitutional army of 30,000 or 32,000 men assembled at St.
Sebastian.

" We had shown likewise that the Infante Don Sebastian,
in leaving Hernani on some expedition, the destination of
which was then unknown, co Ad not intend to cross the
Ebro on account of the fle,ods in that river, and other ob-
stacles, which render at present an invasion of Castile ex-
tremely difficult.
" We now find the., Don Sebastian marched to the East,
towards Navarre, into the valley of the Borunda, where
Huarte-Araqu:i is situated. The presence of General Irri-
barren at Puente la Reyna, and the dispositions made on
that side by the other divisions of the Constitutional army,
lied for their object to shut up the passage into Arragon, in
case the Infante attempted to cross the Arga, and enter
that province by Sanguesia.
" The lines of Arlaban, to the north of Vittoria, have be-
sides been forced by the Christinos. The possession of
these defiles, and that of Hernani, render them nearly
masters of Guipuscoa, out of which the Carlists had kept
them during the last two years. The insurgent forces ap-
pear to have left the country at the discretion of the supe-
rior Constitutional forces, to retire into the Borunda and
the Amezcoas.

" Thus, the advantage is so far on the side of the Queen's
troops, and we see the realization of the hopes we had con-
ceived from the commencement of the new plan of campaign.
" One thing, however, is to be dreaded, that is, that while
the principal constitutional forces are collected in and
z‘bout St. Sebastian, and the Infante effecting a diversion
towards the East, a Carlist expedition may contrive to pe-
netrate into Old Castile, towards the West, between Or-
duna and Bilboa, through Balmaceda and the Encarta-
ciones, in which direction the Ebro is a mere rivulet, easy to
ford at all seasons."

We do not participate in the fears- expressed in the
concluding sentence of this extract from the Debats.
The main body of Don CARLOS'S army will not
follow his standard across the Ebro, so that were the
passage of the river undisputed, it would avail him
nothing in a military point of view. He cannot hope
to reach Madrid at the head of a force sufficient to
put him in possession of the capital ; and he dare not
propose the plunder of the seat of Government as a
lure to men whom he cajoles with the idea that they
are embarked in the cause of legitimacy, justice, and
religion. Besides, any offer to such an effect would
drive all Spain to take arms against him. In losing
the Basques he loses everything.
There is no domestic intelligence of any moment
in the French Papers of Thursday. Nothin, is talked
of but the approaching marriage of the Duke of On-
LEA NS. A rumour prevailed that the Chambers would
be dissolved as soon as Ministers shall have disposed
of the budget for the current year, the general discus-
sion on which closed in the Chamber of Deputies on
Thursday. The popularity of the KING, ill conse-
quence of the amnesty, daily increases.

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The Earl of HADDINGTON executed a little bit of
a manoeuvre in the House of Lords last night, accord-
ing to the newest and most approved model of Tory
tactics. The Noble Lord thought no doubt that while
the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is
sitting, and the Glasgow election coming on, he would
render some service to the faction to which he belongs,
if he could get his MAJESTY'S Government into dis-
credit with the advocates for a grant of public money
to build and endow Churches in the northern part of
the kingdom. With this excellent purpose in view, the
Noble Lord, under pretence of asking a single ques-
tion of Lord MELBOURNE, (which question had bee❑
answered by a Minister of the Crown in the House of
Commons two or three weeks ago), made a long speech,
full of ardent breathings in favour of the Kirk—the
communion of which, if we are not mistaken, he has
like most of the Scottish nobility quitted—and strongly
urging upon Ministers the necessity of an immediate
issue of bank notes, to supply the deficiency in Church
accommodation said to exist in Scotland. Though we
can appreciate the tact which induced the Noble Earl to
moot this point, just at the present moment, we cannot,
we are bound to say, compliment him upon the skill
which he displayed in working out the details of his
subject. A more blundering affair than he made of it
we never recollect to have seen. It is well known to
all who take any interest in this matter, that the ob-
ject of the Commission, upon whose Report Lord
HADDINGTON would have us believe he founded
his side-wind attack on the Government, was
twofold—viz , to inquire into the state of reli-
gious accommodation, and also into the resources
that might be applicable to its extension. Now it
cannot be denied by any one who is entitled to be
reasoned with, that the latter branch of the enquiry is
at least of so much importance, that until the re-
sult of it be laid before Parliament, it would be
not only premature, but utterly indecent on the part
of Ministers, to come down and demand a grant
of the public money, for any additional supply of
Churches or Ministers. The thing would be wholly
without precedent, and clearly without excuse—
it would, in fact, amount to a confession that the ap-
pointment of the Commission was a blunder. The
state of the case is shortly this. The Commissioners have
made a Report, which includes only a small portion of
the first branch of the inquiry, containing nothing be-
yond the religious statistics of Edinburgh and its
suburbs. Lord HADDINGTON himself acknowledges
that " the Report was necessarily, from the nature of
the investigation, exceedingly perplexed and con-
fused, and was by no means a complete document."
Yet it is in virtue of this document, which is by
his own showing entirely unfit to be made the sub-
ject of any legislative measure, that the KING'S Mi-
nisters are called upon to put their hands into the
pockets of the Irish Catholics, the English Church-
men, and the English and Scotch Dissenters, to sup-
port the religious worship of the Presbyterian
Church of Scotland. We must also notice the
somewhat important fact, of which the Noble Lord
found it convenient to suppress all mention—namely,
that there is at this moment unoccupied sitting-room in
the Churches of Edinburgh for TWENTY THOUSAND
persona: Now, does it not seem a plain dic-