The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-11 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Tribune makes out a small account of 71
millions of reals against the Queen Christina, on
the three following heads alone. It says :

"Dona Maria Christina de Borbon is debtor to the
State—Twenty-four millions, which she received unlaw-
fully as Reina Gobernadora, from 1831 to 1840, having
married a second time shortly after the death of her first
husband ; twelve millions, which were paid to her on her
return from France for the three years which she passed
out of the country ; and thirty-five millions, the difference
between the money of Spain and America, for the ten
years that she has drawn her pension on the treasury of
Cuba ; making a total of seventy-one millions of reals."
A letter of the 6th says :—The fruitless efforts of
the Givernment to convey Queen Christina and
her family away from -M tdrid, while they have
shown weakness on the part of the former, have
greatly irritated the people in a. ms here, who now
amount to upwards of 10,000 men. It seems to
have been forgotten by the constituted powers, for
a moment, that we are in a state of revolution, anh
that the gieen-Mother is the chief object
thtue
against which the long-pent-up popular indigna-
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towards the Calle de las Rajas and Plaza de los
Ministerios, as if it were a question of saving the
furniture left there from further depredation,
while the question really at stake is one of life and
death, of dynasty or no dynasty. We are threat-
ened with a renewal of popular disturbances ; and
the night before last a body of Bucetas men,
oaf ri‘t eiraeddr theid, eambea rorua ct
oo ft Sanhe Ault an theeor, in
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twll:sl(3loo,naotrorethciuthe Home-office, in the Puerto del Sol,
where the junta sit, uttering various revolutionary
cries, and frightening the people in the streets,
who ran off in all directions. The fact is, that the
people of Madrid, who have now got arms in their
hands—which is the most serious part of the mat-
ter—we determined that Queen Christina shall
not escape from them without disgorging what she
has been robbing, in their estimation, for so many
years ; and so strong is this feeling that the Go-
vernment have been obliged to yield to it. The
it acion of this morning announces this fact. It
says :

-"
Last night, a commission from all the districts of Ma-
drid presented itself to the Junta of Safety, soliciting its
concourse, in order to press on her M jesty's Government
the adoption of a measure, which we ourselves have had
the satisfaction to be the first to call for, as ~n indispensable
not of high political morality, as a just and solemn repara-
tion which the country demands in- the name of its dignity-
and its decorum. The-representatives of that people, vic-
tims till now of the most repugnant tyranny—of that gene-
rous and great people—came last night to corroborate our
words, expressing to the junta the necessity that Donna
Maria Christina, ex-tutoress of her Majesty, should not
leave Spain without first having been examined (re-
sidentiada) by the Cortes. The Junta of Safety una-
nimously adopted this idea, and some of its members,
in union with the delegates of the districts, went to see
the Duke de la Victoria, in order to express to him their
desires—the desire of the country. The President of the
Council of Ministers received them with thegreatest benevo-
lence, assuring them that the Cabinet should meet imme-
diately, in order to deliberate on so grave and important
a subject, and that its determination should be communi-
cated to them. At one in the morning they were informed
that the will of the people of Madrid was already satisfied,
and that the Duchess of Riansares should not leave the
Court, neither by day nor by night, nor by stealth."
This is perhaps the best resolution that could be
taken under the circumstances, though the presence
of the Queen-Mother here must be very embar-
rassing to the Government. It must be remembered
that we have very few troops here, no police, and
10,000 armed people flushed with their recent vic-
tory, about 1,000 of whom, chiefly from the Barrios
Bajos, are in the neighbourhood watching in all
directions to intercept Queen Christina if she at-
tempts to leave.
A crow I of persons, mostly armed, assembled last
night iii the vicinity of the Calle do las Huertas,
round a house where it was thought that the Count
of San Luis was concealed ; it was entered at last,
and searched throughout, but he was not found. It
is supposed he is in the palace.
The junta have contrived to disarm the people of
-the Cuartel de San Mateo. A deputation went there,
stating that there was a general order. to send all
the arms to the barrack of San Fraucisc;o, and two
cartloads were taken there.
It is probable that Constituent Cortes will be
convoked under the electoral law of the constitu-
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universal suffrage, but is much more liberal than
the one in force of late years. The Clamor Publico
declares that it will he satisfied with this limitation
of the suffrage for the present. The Nacion urges
the Government to decree a new electoral law.

The Madrid journals of the sth have arrived in
due course. A royal decree suppresses the " Di-
rector-General of Military Administration," and
re-establishes the old commissariat administration.
It announces some dismissals and new appoint-
ments of high functionaries in the department
of Finance. The Espana says that in addition
to the diplomatic nominations already announced,
it is intended to appoint M. Antonio Gon-
zalez Minist6 at London, M. Rios Rosas
at Lisbon, and General Infante at Rome.
The Duke de la Victoria, after stopping at the
palace till a late hour in the night of the 3d, was
taken ill, and had to be bled, but he had entirely
recovered. The Duke de Soto Mayor has been ap-
pointed Major-domo of the Palace. The new Mi-
nister of Public Works, M. Lugan, and the new
Minister of the Interior, M. Santa Cruz, had ar-
rived. General Blaser and General Vista Hermosa
had arrived at Gibraltar. General Manuel de la
Concha was concentrating at Barcelona all the
troops disseminated in Catalonia, and had already
collected twenty-two battalions.