The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 9th, which ought to
have arrived yesterday, and those of the 10th,
due this morning, have come to hand. The Gazette
contains the following circular from the Minister
of the Interior to the Governors of provinces :

" The liberty of printing and publishing his opinions,
guaranteed to every Spaniard by the Constitution of the
State, must not be extended in such a way as to cause
every one to believe that he is authorised in neglect-
ing to obey the laws which regulate the exercise of it.
The laws tend not only to prevent the press from
making an abusive use of its sacred ministry, by con-
verting liberty into license, but also to prevent govern-
ments from giving false interpretations to principles,
so as to impose unjust embarrassments on citizens in the
exercise of such an important right. They are then a
reciprocal guarantee for the press as regards the go-
vernment, and the government as regards the press, and
maintain them both in the sphere of their rights. It is
therefore necessary that the laws shall be a truth both
for one and the other, and penetrated with that convic-
tion, her Majesty has deigned to order that your Excel-
lency shall scrupulously see in your province to the exe-
cution of the laws of 1837 and 1842, which have been
provisionally re-established by royal decree of the Ist
August of the present year, and by the circular of the
same month. By royal order, I communicate this to
your Excellency, in order that it may have full force
and effect. God keep your Excellency many years.
" SANTA CRUZ.
" Madrid, sth September."_ .

The Gazette publishes a Royal decree which sus-
pends the decree of the Bth February last relative
to the Stock Exchange, and enacts that the nomi-
nation of brokers shall be suspended, as their num-
bers are to be reduced to a third.

Major-General Bristow-, an Englishman, who
has constantly contended for liberty in Spain, and
who has been exiled by one of the preceding go-
vernments, has returned to Madrid. The Clamor
Public() says :
" Aranjuez has just witnessed deplorable events.
According to some persons, cries of Hurrah for the
Republic !' were set up, but others state that an at-
tempt to raise a Carlist band was made. What is cer-
tain is, that a conflict took place in which one poc r
wretch was killed and another wounded ; but that the
forces of the town, commanded by M. Valera, the new
director, checked the movement, and made twenty pri-
soners, whom he sent to Madrid, escorted by the na-
tional guard."
At Malaga some alarm had been occasioned by
the assassination by a blind beggar of one of the
commanders of the national guard. The na-
tional guard immediately demanded that the man
should be shot, and the Government could only
tranquillise them by promising prompt and severe
justice. In several other parts of the kingdom,
and especially in Estramadura and La Mancha,
disturbances had taken place in connection with
the municipal elections. The appearance of Car-
list bands in the provinces of Caceres and Toledo
is mentioned ; but the Espana states, on authority
of a letter from Paris, that the Count de Monte-
molino has sent a circular to his partisans, calling
on them to remain quiet, and not to attempt to
light up civil war. The Duke de Valencia had not
left Logo up to the 4th, but was about to set out
for Malaga to embark for Marseilles. The Duchess
de la Victoria, wife of Espartero, passed through
Vittoria on the 6th, on her way to St. Sebastian,
and was received with almost frantic enthusiasm.
A French steamer, the Chacal, arrived at Barcelona
on the 6th to convey back to France a number of
poor Frenchmen without means of subsistence.