The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-14 00:00:00

" DECREE.

The public tranquillity of the capital having been dis-
turbed, and considering the circumstances of this disturbance
of the peace, and also the declarations of the Political Chief,
whose measures have been unequal to its re-establishment, it
is resolved that a case has arisen to employ the means fur-
nished by the law for the preservation of the tranquillity of
this city; and, therefore declare the capital in a state of siege.
To carry this measure into effect, l therefore decree as follows :
Art. I. From the publication of this proclamation all as-
semblies of five or more individuals, except the armed force
intended for the preservation of order, are prohibited.
" Art. 2. All who violate this order will be immediately
tried as guilty of treason, by Court-martial sitting in the
Post-office.

" Madrid, Nov. 3, 1838. ANTONIO QUIROG A."
The Gazette also contains a Decree appointing Moscoso de
Attamira President of the Senate, and as Vice-Presidents the
Bishop of Cordova and the Conde do Espeleta, in the next
Session of the Legislature, which opens on Thursday next.
These individuals belong to the foremost rank of the Court
and Moderado party.

The defeat Of Merino, noticed in my letter of last night,
is thus described in the correspondence of the Gazette to-day:
—" Soria, 31st of October.—Tbe following notice has just
been posted up in this city :—The faction of Merino was
beaten and dispersed by Brigadier Hayas on the 29th, in Bel
viestre del Pinar, causing them much loss in killed, some pri-
soners, arms, horses, and papers. Many of them are in a state
of dispersion; the great body of this faction having entered
yesterday into Molinos, taking the direction of Vincusa, with
Hayas close upon them."
The Journals state that the diploma conferring the title
and honours of a grandee of Spain on the Conde de Toreno
has been made out, and forwarded to him free of all ex-
pense. Considering the other freaks of the present Cabinet
there is nothing very improbable or extraordinary in this.--
Morning Chronicle.

ST. JEAN PIED. DR. PORT, Nov. 7.—Munagorri, with the
whale of his force, arrived here yesterday morning, intending
to continue his march across the frontier in some place in the
vicinity of the term of Valcarlos. This movement, from
which so much was expected, and which caused so much ex-
citement on this side the frontier, and so terrified the faction
upon the other, is not, I regret to say, likely to be attended
with any other result for the present. This want of means is
partly owing to the want of proper management on the part of
Munagorri, but principally, I feel convinced, to the jealousy of
the Christino generals, who are violently opposed to the prin-
ciples of Munagorri. In consequence of orders received from
the Conde Luchan s, Aguirri, the commandant of Valcarlos,
has declared his determination not to permit the Fuerists
to pass the frontier near the limit of his command.
For the sake of Spain, this opposition on the part of
the Christino Chiefs to Munagorri and his party is to
be deeply lamented. The common small arms and ammuni
tion, which the French General commanding here had sent on
as far as the town of Lusade, have been ordered back an i
placed in the arsenal of the fortress here, but will be sent to
any part that Munagorri may hereafter select. Indeed, I
could not help observing that General Harispe and all the
French authorities, civil as well zs military, have displayed a
most lively interest in the success of the Fuerists. Every as-
sistance in the power of the French Commander-in-Chief and
all the authorities has been most freely rendered to Munagorri
and his party, and I must say I never saw a better conducted
set of men in my life than the Fuerists have been, not only
during their march, but since their arrival here.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Nov. 7.—The scandalous scenes which appeared
at Cologne on the 26th ult. form another of those bitter fruits
which we reap from our system of temporizing and of half-
measures. The ceremonies of the Ursula feast had been
one of the innovations of Archbishop Vischering, or rather a
renewal of obsolete usages. The authorities had well-grounded
apprehensions that an uproar would ensue, for every body
might easily foresee that the fanatic priest Beckers would not
let slip the occasion of working on the heated heads of the
mob. This the authorities were prepared against, and the
military was held in readiness. But much more credit would
have been done to their sagacity had they prevented the cause
which heated the people's fancy, and thus at once cut off the
occasion of at all working upon it. I am, however, persuaded
that government itself is now becoming aware of this (truth,
and there is every reason to believe that at no very distant pe-
riod a uniform and rigorous system will be pursued throughout
all the monarchy against the treasonable efforts of the Ro-
man clergy. Indeed, no alternative is left; and in spite of
all the predictions, the result will be the most effec.
tual repression of all demands incompatible with the
v ereignty of our native ruler. France moved an
sovereignty
y towards Switzerland to expel the shadow of a Pretender ;
much more ought Prussia to put an end, if need be by dint of
arms, to the pretender Gregory XVI., whose machinations are
only formidable as long as they are not met with as they ought.
Our relations to Rome are now managed by a conference of
three of our Ministers, those of the foreign, the interior, and
the financial branches. The Minister for Religious Affairs, to
whose department this subject would seem exclusively to be-
long, is prevented by old age and illness from taking an active
part in the transactions. Persons who have been for a consi-
derable time in Italy, among them also one of our celebrated
savans, just returned from France, and who had an audience
with his Holiness, are of opinion that Gregory XVI. is re-
solved not to shrink from any extreme. Never mind, even
if he were of the mettle of his energetic predecessor and name-
sake, the mettle of the times lies a different way. In the
opera of Auber, The Black Domino, there is, as your the-
atre-going readers may know, a dance of the nuns. We were
on the point of being deprived of this part of the piece from
a regard to the deference due to religious orders, but some-
how or other it happens that the prohibition of it has been
withdrawn. A Berlin wag observed, that this was one of the
first fruits of the Pope's second allocution.
Redscbid Pasha's presence at Berlin has been of a perfectly
diplomatic character. Russia leaves no stone unturned to
wriggle herself into the advantages the commercial treaty
concluded at Constantinople secures to the other maritime
powers. Whether we have been promised to share in those
advantages when obtained I cannot tell, but it is considered as
a matter of fact that Prussia exerted her interceding influence
on Russia's bebalf, and exerted it with so much success that
her Northern ally already begins to slacken in his martial pre-
parations, as no longer necessary to urge his cause.
Pone, Nov. 2 —The late accounts in the French and in
several German Journals, of arrests in Warsaw, and transporta-
tion of individuals, use in part complete fictions, or part exag-
gerated. According to the letter from the Polish Capital, b
which I have before me, and to which entire credit may be
given, the latest measures of the Government ag
rainsttpoeflson
ten
su,pected oGnecs, .ire coDfined to the
or twelve deeply implicated individuals, who remain
re-
sult of the investigation appears, and are kept in very decent
places of confinement in Warsaw itself. If the French
Jour-
till the a

nalists would look with unprejudiced eyes, they would find
that certainly three times as many persons in proportion are
imprisoned in the highly extolled France as in the much de_
cried Poland, that the situation of the prisoners here (from
the easiness of the inferior officers) is much more supportable
than in that Eldorado of the manufacturers of insurrection
which has already seen the heads of so many regicides fall
under the axe.