The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-07 00:00:00

SPAIN

(From the French Papers of Monday.)
" Fresh butcheries of prisoners, and frightful reprisals,
have again taken place in Spain. In one place a Carlist Ge-
neral, Cabrera, fulfilling for the twentieth time an impious vow
of vengeance, delights in witnessing the effusion of human
blood, and dances round the spoils of his slaughtered enemies
with the ferocious joy of a cannibal. In another, the popu •
lace mutinies on hearing of these saturnalia, and not wishing
to be outdone in atrocities by the Carlists, demands the heads
of unhappy prisoners, murders in the street the Captain-Ge-
neral, who declines acceding to their barbarous request, and
begins to be appeased only when its eyes have been glutted
by the sight of blood and corpses. Cowardly assassins on both
sides ! despicable banditti 1 who regard yourselves •as heroes
when you have fallen below the level of brutes ! Some kill in em-
bracing a crucifix, in invoking the name of the Saviour and the
Virgin ; others, in the name of the country and of liberty, to
whom they mean no doubt to offer pleasing holocaust. What
a state of society ! What degradation ! What an abominable
parody of the excesses of other times, in the absence of all
enthusiasm, and consequently is ithout the excuse of fanaticism
to justify them !
Amidst the horrible excesses which deluge the provinces
with blood, and in the presence of civil war, we behold
Generals arrayed against each other more occupied with rival-
ries and quarrels than with the dangers of the country, all
aiming at a dictatorship, without any of them having the stuff
for a dictator. Then, in Madrid, a miserable Government,
enslaved in turn by the army, the factious, and rioters, issuing
decrees of death at one time against the anarchists, and at
another against suspected individuals, without any system,
energy, or conviction, a prey to continual terror, and even
looking up to foreign bayonets for its safety.
" Behold Spain, such as ignorance and the insane despo-
tism of its monks have made her ! Behold Constitutional
Spain, under the reign of a party calling itself Moderate !
But it is only fair to add, that this situation has been aggra-
vated by the wily policy and inconceivable pusillanimity of an
allied Cabinet, which would have proved less dangerous to her
if from the outset it had sh own itself less indifferent of openly
inimical. "—Siecle.

Cabrera, after the affair of Maella, commanded 80 sergeants
of the division of Pardinas to step out of the ranks, and offered
them the alternative of being shot, dr taking service with Don
Co..u?'. LL Wo prefer dying," was their reply. Cabrera im-
mediately ordered them to be shot, 10 by 10, in the hope that
the sight of the execution of their comrades would shake the
firmness of the survivors. Every time a platoon of these he-
roical sergeants was laid on the ground by the balls of his
savage band, Cabrera had this terrible question addressed to
the next platoon, " Will you take service for our Lord and
King Don Carlos ?" and the same answer, " We prefer dying,"
was uniformly returned. The names of these 80 sergeants
ought to be written in letters of gold on the front of all the
military establishments of Spain.—La Siecle.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, OCT. 97.—Yesterday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, the
ringing of bells, and salutes of artillery, announced the happy
return of the Emperor and Empress from their journey to
Italy. They were met at the line of Matzleinsdorf by the
mounted City Guard, who joined the Imperial carriage as an
escort, while the numerous Civic Guards on foot were placed in
detachments on the whole way to the Burgthor (Castle gate)
which is a league in length, and was crowded with the citi-
zens, who welcomed their Majesties as they passed with the
most joyful acclamations. On reaching the gate, their Ma-
jesties were received by a deputation of the Magistrates, who
at the same time presented to our beloved Emperor, in com-
memoration of his happy return, an Album worthy of its
high destination. After their Majesties alighted at the
Palace, where they were received by the Archduke
Francis Charles and his Consort, all the detachments of the
Civic Guard filed off before the palace, during which the
Emperor appeared at the window.
This forenoon Te Deum was performed, at the instance of
the citizens, in the Cathedral of St. Stephen, and in the af-
ternoon the splendid entertainment in the Augurten. Other
fetes proposed by the citizens are, by his Majesty's desire, not
to take place. Her Majesty the Empress Mother, who, with
her whole establishment, has lately left the Palace of Schon-
hunn, and returned to her apartments in the Imperial Palace
here, is, we are sorry to say, rather indisposed.