The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-30 00:00:00

On the 22d the Constitution of 1812 was pro-
claimed with the usual ceremonies at Pamplona, by
the express command of the QUEEN-REGENT.
General SAARSFIELD was in the city at the time,
but took no part in the proceeding, alleging that the
delicate state of his health did not permit him to go
abroad. This excuse was not well received by the
populace, who, however, conducted themselves with
great decorum.

Were the QUEEN'S Government to seize the pre.
sent favourable moment to act with energy against the
Carlists, we are morally certain that the PRETENDER
would be forced to evacuate Spain before the close of
the present campaign. The enthusiasm of the people
only requires to be promptly and properly directed
against the real enemies of liberty and the nation. The
QUEEN herself has behaved with praiseworthy firmness
throughout. The only thing for which she can be
reproached is her misplaced confidence in her late
Bobadil Commander-in-Chief, CORDOVA. " The
sinews of war, money, is wanted, to carry on opera-
tions." This is the universal cry with every Minister
but why is it wanted ? Is Spain so poor that she cannot
support a deliverance force of 100,000 men for some
three or four months ? No, no : there is wealth enough
in the country if Ministers but knew how to avail
themselves of it. A good financier, and a strong
Government, would soon fill the coffers of the Trea-
sury, without pressing with undue severity on the peo-
ple. Hitherto the Spanish Government has gone a
very round-about way to obtain money. It has grasped
at what was all but valueless when obtained, and it has
overlooked the acquisition of the real wealth hourly
placed within its view. With a short-sighted policy, it
seizes the Church lands, and suffers the rich moveables
of the Church to slip unheeded through its fingers.

The French Journals
c :con of Sunday, the whole of which
we have received, continue to speculate upon the causes
of the dissolution of the
late Cabinet. The Constitu-
tionnel denies that M. TiiiErts insisted upon direct
intervention in Spain ; all he sought for was a more
efficient system of co-operation, the d. 'in irect system
hitherto adopted having had no other effect than that of
causing some temporary inconvenience to Don CARLOS.
The arguments by which he was opposed in the Council
were, that a more direct intervention would expose
France to the danger of a disgraceful defeat, which
she could only resent by openly declaring herself the
enemy of Don CARLOS. The same Journal asserts
that the question of intervention was not so much as
mooted in the Council, and that the sending of ever so
strong an auxiliary force into Spain would amount to
an act of intervention. The Journal des Debuts main-
tains, on the contrary, that the question of intervention
was discussed, and that M. TRIERS sent in his resigna-

liamentary conduct. The constituency of Greenock
may well be proud of being represented by a gen-
tleman who, throughout his Parliamentary career,
has reflected the highest credit upon the ho-
nesty and political discrimination of the electoral
body. In their choice of Mr. WALLACE the elec-
tors of Greenock have evinced the strongest attach-
ment to liberal principles, the most ardent desire for
improved institutions, and an entire sympathy with
their suffering fellow-subjects in Ireland.
It is an easy matter to prognosticate the result of
Mr. WALLACE'S appeal to his constituents. They
will receive him, as they ought, with acclamations ; and
they will replace in his hands with applauding shouts the
trust which he thus voluntarily places at their disposal.
Were it otherwise, Mr. WALLACE would find more
than one constituency in England, and Scotland, most
happy to name him their Representative in Parliament.
His important services towards an effectual Reform of
the Post-office, and the Scotch Law Courts, are as
highly prized by the people of the South as they are
by the inhabitants of North Britain.
We thank Mr. WALLACE, in the name of the Re-
formers, for setting an example to the other liberal
Representatives, which we trust, in a short time, to see
generally followed. That " short reckonings make
long friends," is not less true of political re-
presentation, than of mercantile transactions ; and
the country will never be faithfully represented till
some such system is universally established. The
working of the system is objected to by those who are
in no mood to try the effect of its operation, as incon-
venient. But where is its inconvenience in the case of
Mr. WALLACE ? He has done his duty ; his con-
stituents see that he has, and his re-election will there-
fore be but the work of a moment. They only fear
the people who have betrayed them.

General IninA RISEN obtained a signal victory over
he Carlists on the 19th inst. on the heights of Lo-
dosa, near the Ebro. The celebrated Chief ITURALDE
commanded the rebels ; the force under him consisting.
of the 4th battalion of Navarrese Infantry, four com-
panies of the Ist battalion, two squadrons of horse,
and a large reserved corps. He had taken up a posi-
tion near Carcar, with a view to cover BASILIO
GARCIA and his hand's passage across the Ebro,
near the Novillas. IRIBARREN having learned on the
18th that GARCIA was resolved to cross the river,
marched from Peralta to Capanossa for the purpose of
intercepting him, and accordingly fell in with the
Carlists under ITURA LDE who had taken possession
of the heights of Lodosa, which gave them a great ad-
vantage over the Christinos. The Carlist chief of-
fered the enemy battle, which was as cheerfully ac-
cepted by the QUEEN'S troops. The engagement was
o)stinate and bloody ; and after fighting for nearly four
hours, the Carlists began to give way, and shortly
after fled with precipitation. Nine hundred of the
rebels, including General ORTIGOSA, Comman-
dant of the cavalry, and thirty-seven officers, were
made prisoners by the QUEEN'S forces, besides an im-
mense quantity of arms, military stores, &c. The vic-
torious General in his despatch does the greatest jus-
tice to the courage of his men, and the coolness dis-
played by the several commanding officers. The
Lancers and mounted Cliasseurs did good service during
the engagement. Their Colonels, Don DIEGO LEON
and Don MIGUEL BENvENGA s, are honourably
mentioned in the despatch addressed by the General
to the Commander-in-Chief. According to the Car-
list authorities their less in prisoners does not exceed
five hundred men, including officers.
We have no correct intelligence respecting the num-
ber of killed and wounded in this engagement. The
Carlists state that General IrtrnAßßEN's force consisted
of one thousand five hundred infantry, seven hundred
cavalry, and four pieces of artillery ; and that their
loss in killed was twenty-five, and in wounded sixty.
They further charge ITURALDE with treachery. His
trial by a Court-Martial, called together by VILLEAI UR
and MoDET, Ministers of the Pretender, took place
on the 20th, but the result will not be known be-
fore the arrival of the next acounts from Bayonne.
There is also a report in the Carlist correspon-
dence of a Morning Contemporary of an encounter
having taken place on the 20th at Mallen, within four
leagues of Saragossa, between GARCIA'S band, con-
sisting of five thousand infantry and three thousand
cavalry, and the National Guard of that city. This
seems impossible ; but whether true or false, the re-
sult was unimportant, as each party retired claiming
a victory. In the course of the engagement it does
not appear that there was so much as an individual
killed, wounded, or missing, on either side. The
Spaniards are famous for victories obtained after this
bloodless fashion.