The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A Madrid letter of the 22d says :—" The popu-
lation of Saragossa did not take an active part in
the insurrection commenced by Brigadier Horre.
There were altogether 150 persons killed in the
affair, but only a small portion of them were civi-
lians. Amongst the persons arrested in Madrid
are M. Gonzales Bravo and M. Alexander
Castro, members of the Lower Chamber,
General Manzano, M. Rance, one of the
editors of the Diario, and several political
writers who are not widely known. Orders for
the arrest of M. Rios Rosas and General Serrano,
senators, of M. Coello and M. Rua, newspaper
editors, and of other persons, have been issued.
Decrees reducing the press to absolute silence art,
expected. The Government has for some time
past been preparing a project of constitutional re‘
form. It is intended to publish it in March next,
but it is now said that it will do so in the Gazette
of the 25th. The following are said to be the
bases of the measure :—The two Chambers shall be
dissolved, and a Constituent Cortes shall meet
at Madrid on the Ist May. To them a new con-
stitution shall be presented. This Constitution
is to enact that there shall be two deliberative
assemblies, a Senate and a Congress. The Se-
nate is to be organised according to the rules
established by the Constitution of 1837. The
provinces are to propose the candidates ; they
are to draw up a list, and the Crown is to select
one-third of the names. One-third of the Senate
is to be replaced on the dissolution of the Congress.
The elections of members of the Congress, and of
candidates for the Senate, are to take place by two
degrees. The Crown alone is to nominate Presi-
dents and Vice-Presidents of the two Chambers.
Numerous public functionaries are to be disqualified
from sitting in the Senate or the Congress ; magis-
trates and others dependent on the Ministry of
Justice can be neither Senators nor deputies, and
administrative functionaries can only be elected
when they are in receipt of a salary of at least
30,000 reels (7,500 fr.) The number of deputies
is to be very small. On the whole, the new
Constitution is intended to strengthen the royal
power, and to diminish that of the Legislature.
Another Madrid letter of the 23rd says :
" Thanks to the energy and activity of the au-
thorities who did not give time for the insurrection
to develop itself, order has been perfectly restored
in the capital of Arragon. Nothing is known as to
what is become of the fugitives, but it is impossible
that they can long escape the pursuit of the par-
ties sent after them from Lerida, Pampeluna, and
other points. It is more particularly sought to
prevent their entering France, which is the direc-
tion they appear to have taken. The exact num-
ber of the victims to the events of Saragossa is not
yet known, or how many executions have taken
place in consequence of them. Some persons con-
nected with several journals were arrested, but it is
thought that they will be very soon set at litiSrV.
Generals Marzano, Serrano, Nogueras, and Zavasi
are preparing to set out for the places of residence
assigned to them by the government."
The insurrection at Saragossa was intended, it is
said, to have broken out on the sth of March, the
anniversary of the Carlist General Cabanero's un-
successful attempt to capture the town, during the
civil war—an attempt gallantly repelled by the
National Guard. But the change of quarters of
Brigadier Hore and his battalion caused the affair
prematurely to explode. The Marquis de San-
tiago has been promoted to the rank of Major-
General for the part he took in the suppression of
the revolt.

The Queen, with a numerous suite, took an air-
ing in the promenade of the Fuente Castellano, on
the afternoon of the 22d, and at night was at the
Opera. There was a sort of ostentation in thus
publicly showing herself on the same day that news
arrived of discord and bloodshed among her sub-
jects, that some are disposed to condemn as doing
little honour to her heart. Her reception was, as
usual, one of perfect indifference.
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