The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-02 00:00:00

lod speeches, with seceding from the Quadruple
Treaty. This is the fact ; and the Madrid Cabinet is
now fully sensible that nothing is to be gained by
concealing it from the nation. The French Ambas-
sador will doubtless be instructed to demand explana-
tions, and to play over again the Swiss Montebello
game. But such intrigues will only tend to deprive
France of all moral influence abroad, and to male her
Government detestable in the eves of her brave And
generous people.

The portions of the Speech which refer to the un-
constitutional acts of the Ministers, and the only jus-
tification which they seek to offer for such acts—
namely, the necessity of saving the country—display
a magnanimity worthy of the honest advisers of a
Constitutional Sovereign. Such an appeal to the
noblest feelings of the Cortes cannot have been made

in vain.
Her MAJESTY is not wanting in solicitude for the
maintenance of the national credit. She expresses a
hope that the payment of the half-year's dividend, due
on the Ist of November, will be made very shortly ;
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and that the Cortes will not be wanting in their ekts
to assist the Government in maintaining an' extending
:
public confidence in the pledges ET; 'en by the Admi-
nistration. We do not see ti:iat it is in the power of
the QUEEN to do more than this under such circum-
stances. Neithe_-, her MAJESTY nor her Ministers
are directly to blame for the emptiness of the public
Treasury ; and the most that can be demanded from
I'hem is, that Spain will pay her debts as soon as she
is in possession of the means of paying them.
We are pleased to learn that Spain is on the eve of
recognizing, on the basis of a firm friendship, the in-
dependence of her South American Colonies. We
have reason to believe that the treaties to that effect
have been prepared for several months, and that they
have already received the sanction of the agents from
South America, at present residing in the Spanish
capital. They will, therefore, be formallysigned and
made public when the Cortes shalt 'have approved of
them.

The closing paragr7Lph of the Speech is one of the
most dignified '.j peals to the patriotism of a repre-
sentative Assembly we ever remember to have read.
It will sink deep into the hearts of the Cortes and the
nation. After expatiating on the necessity of putting
an end to the civil war, her IVlAntstY concludes
witll the following words
"At the same time you will proceed to the reform of
the Constitution ; and with a hand as skilful as firm you
will establish the basis of the new social organization. To
this noble and majestic work, you are principally called. I
in such a matter nothing propose or counsel as Queen—
nothing do I seek as mother. It is not possible to ima-
gine,
from the known generosity of the Spanish nation,
that the prerogative of the constitutional throne will suffer
any prejudice on account of the orphancy and youth of
the innocent Queen who has bean called to occupy it.
Europe has its regards upon you ; she will see that,
taught by twenty-fours of combats, of misfortunes, and
cruel changes, you know how to apply the lessons of your
own experience and those of foreign example. Arrived at
the summit of your sublime mission, you will, I doubt not,
discard all partial and narrow interests, and all exclusive
systems. The nation and the civilized world hope from you
a fundamental law in which the legislative power shall de-
liberate and resolve without precilniation and without pas-
sion ; in which the Executive Government shall have all
the freedom and force of action which it needs, without
giving any ground fryr apprehending that it will become an
oppressor ; and in which the administration of justice,
strengthened by an absolute independence, shall give no
cause of inquietude to innocence, nor of impunity to crime.
Such are, without doubt, the views with which you will en-
ter upon this great work, worthy of your knowledge and of
your Prudence. Thus revised and reformed, the Spanish
Constitution will acquire more respect and sympathy
amongst foreign nations ; more love, if possible, and more
stability among ourselves."
We are not surprised to learn that this Speech was
received with the greatest enthusiasm. We augur the
commencement of a new and prosperous era from the
date of its deliverance.

The whole of the Paris papers of Monday have
been received. Their contents are uninteresting, with
the exception of the following extracts from the Mo-
niteur

Government has received from Bayonne the following
news;—.

" Oct. 29, Ralf-past Three.
" We have intelligence from the Carlist headquarters :
the assault had been determined upon for the 27th. Chance
has designated the deserters from the Algiers Legion to pro-
ceed the first to the attack.
" The forts of Begona and St. Augustin have been taken.
A Portuguese General in the Carlist service has been killed,
and Montenegro wounded. The sea is bad : there is no com-
municating except by land.

" Tl Octobe.
" The Carlists have invaded the ou ouse,
valley of Aran.r 29
The
Christinos who have attempted to defend the entrance, have
been dispersed or destroyed ; the emigration is considerable."

We have received three several communications from
a frielld at - Norwich—for whose opinion we have
great respect—complaining of the unfairness of our
comments upon the conduct of the Queen of SPAIN'S
Generals. Our correspondent is so well aware of the
sincerity with which we advocate the cause of the
QUEEN and Constitution, of the earnestness with which
we have repeatedly recommended to our Government a
more active co-operation against Don CARLOS--and of
the frequency of our endeavours to impress upon
France the expediency of following a similar course,
that we may spare ourselves any apology for our cen-
sure by an appeal to our uniform consistency. We
pray our patriotic friend to reflect a moment upon the
injustice he does us, in assuming :that we adopt the
opinions of the:,Slandarel, even while censuring the
conduct of certain individuals nominally supporters
of the QUEEN and Liberty. The Standard
cites their treachery, real or imputed, as a conse-
quence of their principles ; we, as a consequence of
their ignorance or their treachery—errors as imputable
to the avowed champions of tyranny as the fiercest as-
serters of democracy. We never, on any one occasion,
all Owed ourselves to reflect the charges we were pain-
fully compelled to bring against the QUEEN'S Gene-
rals upon the cause in which they are embarked.
There are occasions when we may have been
more severe than the wrong which we were
called upon to repudiate would seem to merit ;
but our Correspondent must be aware that there are
certain acts which, though trifling or indifferent in
themselves, contain within them the germ of the basest
crimes. It was by observing these closely that we
were enabled to foretell with such certainty the
treachery of CORDOVA long before he was suspected by
a single officer in his own army—that we foretold
the disgrace of TORENO—the expulsion of IsTumz—
and the downfall of other pseudo-patriots when at the
zenith of their glory. Time Will decide all differences
of opinion between ourselves and our Correspondent.
At the same time, we feel obliged by his attention,
the more esp•tcially as he does justice to our motives.
Ile will find his observations respecting GoslEz,
AL Aix, and Rolm, amply discussed in our next arti-
cle on the subject of the war in Spain.

_ .te readers of The Sun will find in its pages to-
day, sundry proofs of that general reaction of which
we have of late heard so much. The foolish and
factious Tories have been trumpeting, through their
mouth-pieces of the Press, the daily progress of poli-
tical conversion among all classes ,
of the community,
until, according to them, the whole mass has become
thoroughly imbued, nay saturated and super-saturated,
with the leaven of Toryism. The inhabitants of the
t6wns were represented as outrunning thoseofptrhe.e
counties in this new-light race, and if any one
sumed to question the accuracy of these state-
ments, he was told, with an air of affected triumph,
to look to the stir that the supporters of the good old
cause were every where making. " Look to our
Conservative meetinas " was the cry; "behold the