The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONTIY) MONDAI. AUGUST 22, .136

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EGHAM RACES.
On Saturday night the entries closed for these races, whirl
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The Gold Cup of 120 sovs. value.
Lord Chesterfield's Alfred, 3 yrs ; Lord Denbigh ns. Paris, 5 yrs
Capt. Harcourt ns. b. f. by Emilius, out of Rowton's dam, 3 irs
Mr. Forth's Knobstick, 4 yrs ; Lord Conyngham's Vivande, 3 yrs
Mr. Forth's Louisa, S yrs; Sir H. Seymour n 5. Diana, aged
Col. Peel's Jacob Faithful, 3 yrs; Capt. Williamson's Ainderby,
4 yrs ; Duke of Richmond's Pussy, 5 yrs; Lord Uxbridge us.
Havildar, 3 yrs ; Mr. Robinson's Lucifer, 4 yrs.
A Plate of 40 sovs., the gift of the Members of the Western Divi-
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two miles.

Duke of Richmond's Tiber, 4 yrs; Capt. Fairlie's Tom Beazeley,
3 yrs ; Sir M. Wood's Amesbury, aged; Mr. Brown's Airy, Z.-)
VrS ; Mr. J. Day's Liston, aged ; and Sir G. Heathcote's Willes-
den, 4 yrs.

SPAIN.

FarOM the French Papers of Friday.)
It is affirmed that the troops who have compelled the
Queen to accept the Constitution amounted not to more
thaa 500 men. They were the troops of her guard upon
Aim she had thought she might depend more than upon
the line.

We arc informed from Bayonne, by an extraordinary
channel, that General Espartero has completely beaten
Gomez in the Val de Buron (Asturias). General Soria,
whose victory we yesterday announced, has caused the Cor-
stitution to be proclaimed by his troops ; his example will
probably be followed by the whole northern army.
The Constitution has also been proclaimed at Santander.
Some journals have announced that the Spanish question
had given rise in the Cabinet to a crisis sufficiently intense
to oblige the majority of its members to tender their re-
signation. The statement is correct. We give a com-
plete history of the crisis to which the news of the pro-
clamation of the Constitution of 1812 has come and put
an end to.
Everybody knows that even before the formation of the
Ministry of the 22d of February, M. Thiers had always
shown himself a warm partisan of an intervention. His
opinion had found more support in the present Cal inet,
especially from M. Passy. Harrassed by the interested
suggestions of Northern diplomacy, M. Thiers had openly
declared that in no case France could come to a compro-
mise with Don Carlos, and that a counter-revolution
must be prevented at any cost, the cause of the Queen
being ours.

The events of Malaga and Sarragossa, and organization
of the Juntas, came, and afforded new arguments to the
opponents to an intervention. M. Thiers, in spite of him-
self, was from that moment content to demand an exten-
sive and efficient co-operation. He urged that the best and
only means of combatting the Constitution of 1812, was to
combat Don Carlos—that France could not interfere in the
internal quarrels of the Spaniards about this or that form
of government—and that the overthrow of the Carlists
would be the safest means of' pacifying Spain, and uniting
all parties round the Throne of Isabella. To effect this
object M. Thiers proposed the following means of execu-
tion :—That which has hitherto been wanting to the mili-
tary operations in Biscay has been an ensemble, and a su-
preme, political, and military direction. Now, a corps of
10,000 Frenchmen, consisting of 6,000 picked men, drawn
from our regiments, and of the 4,000 brave fellows remain-
ing in the foreign legion, was to form the nucleus of the
new army, and the pivot of its operations. A distinguished
Lieutenant-General was to command that corps, to which
the 6,000 men of the English Legion were to be united,
General Evans having with most honourable modesty de-
manded to put his men under the command of a French
General ; 4,000 Portuguese and 10,000 Spaniards ware to
be added to the corps,'makino- altogether 30,000 men. A
plan of campaign, contrived bby Marshal Maison, General
Harispe, and several other Generals, would have ensured a
success for which all our veteran officers answered. The
remainder of the Spanish army was to occupy the Ebro as a
reserve, and might have devoted a part of its force to
guarding the Queen.
Thus was the question put and progressing when diffi-
culties arose about the appointment of a Lieutenant-General.
Last Monday, M. Thiers had expressed his opinion to the
King, and warmly maintained the necessity of the scheme.
On Tuesday Ministers assembled, when opinions were
clearly delivered ; the advocates for an intervention were
MM. Thiers, Passy, and Sauzet ; the two Marshals
son and Duperre, M. d'Argout, who before his departure
had given his opinion, and confirmed it since in his letters.
Against the measure were MM. Pelet, who urged the
danger of engaging in a war, the issue of which nobody
could foresee, and M. de Montalivet.
The opinions proving irreconcilable, M. Thiers first gave
in his resignation, and was followed by his five colleagues.
The resignations were conveyed by M. Montalivet, who
did his utmost to prevent the schism. On Wednesday
fresh efforts were made to change M. Thiers' resolution, but
he persisted, and, after a long conference, without a result,
Ministers were assembled at St. James's, when the de-
spatch arrived announcing the acceptance of the Constitu-
tion by the Queen. It put an end to a division upon a
question which ceased to be the order of the day. In the
present state of things, the French Ministry, faithful to
their system of non-interference in the internal quarrels of
the Peninsula, have nothing more to do than to await
events. The French troops who are in Spain are to con-
tinue the warfare against Don Carlos ; but the auxiliary
corps, which is organizing at Pau, will probably wait to
cross the frontier until events enlighten us as to the real
situation of the Queen, who, we trust is neither insulted
nor a captive in her palace at St. Ildefonso.—lmpartial.
If we are to believe persons who are generally well-in-
formed, the Government yesterday received intelligence
that Catalonia is in a state of universal insurrection. It ex-
pected reports by the ship of war sent to Barcelona, and
whose delay in returning is taken as a bad omen. It is pro-
bable that the rising of' the Catalonians has been impeded
by the too close neighbonrhood of the land and sea forces
of France, which may interfere ; and it is certain that the
principle towns, both on the coast and the interior, have,
for more than a fortnight, given strong proofs of their sen-
timents. Besides, warnings have not been wanting. Al-
though M. de Rayneval may have deceived himself, the
French agents in the provinces see clearly, and have in-
cessantly written to the President of the Council, although
he never sends any answer. A celebrated Spanish Gene-
ral observed to a French Commandant on the frontier, on
the subject of the second legion, that 'it is very small and
very late ; popular movements have become inevitable, and
after all, Spain can never be saved, in consequence of the
errors and incapacity of the men at home, and the irresolu-
lution of those abroad.' The partisans of Dan Carlos in
France have long and loudly declared, even iu Ministerial
circles, that they had nothing more to fear than that a revo-
lution might in the end prevent their legitimate King from
entering Madrid.
The following are extracts from the Phare de Bayonne,
of the 16th instant ;—" General Evans arrived on the 13th
at Bayonne, and set out again yesterday for Santander.
Ile was accompanied by Captain Henry, commander of the
Spanish steamer La Reyna Gobernadura. The mail, which
left Madrid on the 9th, has been stopped at Atiza by the
band of Basilic) Garcia. The first division of the army of
the centre, which was under the command of Major--Ge-
neral Soria, has yielded to the instigations of the Arrago-
nese plotters, and declared itself on the 7th, at Castellote,
in favour of the Constitution. General Soria refused to
remain at the head of his troops, and left the command of
them to Brigadier Santa Cruz, who, in his tarn, soon aban-
doned them to an officer named Manuel Lebrun, who did
not hesitate to follow all the political directions imposed on
him by a commission formed of Captain Valladares and
Adjutants Pontefais and Ortega. This Manuel Lebrun
has addressed to the Captain-General, Evariste San
Miguel, a report on these events, dated the 10th, from
Alcaniz, where the Constitution has likewise been pro-
claimed. An extraordinary contributicn of four millions
of rials has been decreed by the insurrectionary Junta of
Sarragossa. Many of the inhabitants, who refused to pay
their quota, have been imprisoned in the old dungeons
of the inquisition. The Constitutionalists of that town
have adopted a green cockade, with the legend The Con-
stitution or Death.' Everybody, even women, are forced
to wear it ; and any person without it in the streets is lia-
ble to be assaulted. One of our correspondents has pro-
cured for us a copy of the orders settled by a committee
that met at M. Mendizabal's, on the 15th of July, which
show that what was said of there being a central committee
at Madrid directing all the troubles of the provinces was
true. We give an exact copy :
" 1. Not to excite any insurrection, in order that the
Government may not be induced to make a display of its
forces. 11. To act upon the masses, and to win them
over by the opening of the Estamentos, to interest thc;
isa-
tional Guard as much as possible in this undevtaking, and
especially the individuals that have Weil removed from
that corps. 111. To communicate with the correspondents
of the provinces, in order that a cry may he raised on
all sides against the Government. The means pointed
out as proper for attaining this result are the follow-
ing
t
:-Ist. Never to be ignorant of any news received by
the Government, but to alter it or to comment upon it, so
as to render it prejudicial to Ministers. Secondly. To
aavl
represent the civil war as favourable to the Pretender,
the
thatbe of Ministry
' of persecuting
Thirdly,
tlie
to
real
patriots, who are treated anarchists, and whose triumph
iasn fd e
a tored more accuse
than
nothing against the Queen, but against the Carnarilla, and
to represent it as the cause whieli has determined the
Queen Regent to withdraw public affairs from the hands
of the protectors of the people and the friends of progress.
These rumours are to be spread in Madrid and the pro-
vinces, and are to be sent to foreign journals by the editor
the Tennis. All the news drawn up in the spirit mentioned
above shall be circulated. Relief shall be afforded to all the
National Guards of ultra opinions who are necessitous :
commisseration shall be expressed to them, and they shall
be stirred up, by talking politics to them, to disparage the
Government. The relief granted to the poor in the coffee-
houses and public-houses shall be continued at the r9te of
five vials (one franc) a day.
Don Carlos has published (1001 TO nth;' allowing all Eng-
lish deserters to re44lrn 4111 - this end the Cellist
posts hayp received Orders to, coodact thorn to the frontiers.
_Courier Prancais.
(Prom the Vreneh Papers of Saturday.)
The f°ll°l47ing• additional details of what took place on the
night of the 12th inst., at St. Ildefonso, have been received
by the Government .—At eight in the evening, the regi-
ment of provincial militia, about 500 strong, broke into in-
surrection in their barrack, to the cry of " The Constitu-
tion for ever"—" Isabelle 11. for ever," and marched under
arms to the Palace, singing "Iliego's Hymn." The soldiers