The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Aro. 29.—The Minist, rial crizia has made its;
second appearance under graver spnptoms than the first,
The consequences and effects of the Morelia fever begin to
show themselves. Count Ofalia, whom I make it a point to
have cleeelyobserved, was last night extremely dejected, ab-
sent, and ,Illeinelined to conversation, after having received the
oral report of tvaq head of his secret police, an institution of
his own. It is also said, that immediately after the arrival of
the intelligence of rais:."C the siege of Morella, M. Mon sent
for Messrs. Rothschild's agent, Mr. amiel Wcissweiler, and
signed the Almaden Mine contract, which he had only the
day before refused in the followi.N, if true, inconceivably
disadvantageous manner—namely, for an advance of 50,000,000
of reels, thirty-five of which are payable 11: six months in cash,
and fifteen in libranzas, i. e., protested GeNernments bills,
worth forty per cent. only in the money-market; thus these
15,000,000 would be equal only to 6,000,000 in C.. 101. The
quicksilver to be taken at sixty dollars per quintal--an ads
..auce of b dollars on the last contract, more than counter
balanced by the increased value of quicksilver in South America.
Thus Ai. Mon's new contract would not—lst, relieve the
distless of the Treasury beyond the 6,000,000 (cash) worth
libranzas;of 2d, would render the loan almost impossible;
3d, be more onerous to Spain, and more favourable to the
contractor than Toteno's reneveed and prolonged contract of
1835, which the Constituent Cortes rejected and pro-
nounced invalid last year, under the brief administration of
M. Bardaji and Seixas; nay, no motive could be imagined
to have induced M. Mon to conclude it at all, save his anxiety
to secure to Count Toreno the bribe of 4,000,000 he ic re-
ported to have bargained for with Messrs. Rothschild to pro-
cure them the preference. But even that presupposes the sanc-
tion of the Cortes, which cannot be given till their next meeting.
General Latre, I hear, started early yesterday morning, but
was oy-ertaken by a Cabinet courier, ordering him back to Ma-
drid, where
L arrived late last night, and that another cou-
rier was sent tO f,T,:rvaez, it is supposed, with directions for
him to supersede Oran.
received
,of Cabrera having,
iwith
Yesterday intelligence wit;
aleia ;
in
the cityitself
ed imminent danger.lB battalions, invaded the Huey.,' of
Gazette of this day,
being destitute of troops, was consine7
not given any
This is an answer to the silly boast of thethat the raising of the siege of Morella te
moral force to the Carlists. Cabrera has take.: with him th©
flower of his forces, and left Merino, Llangcaa:,^ra, and the
skulkers behind. His march has been so rapid, that though
he did not set out from Morella till the 20th, he was on the
23d already before Valencia, robbing abore 100 horses, and
squeezing 1,500 dollars out of the single village of Puzzos.
At Murviedro the small garrison got under arms, and alarm
guns were fired from the fortress. The Diario de Valencia
of the 25th informs us, that when the rebels entered Cuarte,
an English ship of war had just anchored, the Commander of
which offered all the protection his crew could afford, which
the second in command requested to be given ;o the town of
Grao, and the property there deposited. The enemy made
-o stay at Cuarte, but marched on to Silla and the Rivera.
Every Precaution was taken for the safety of the city cr Va-
lencia. nis invasion, one of the immediate effects of the
might have been anticipated from so active
Morella calamity's m
a Chief as Cabrera, mid may extend to the provinces of Cuenca
sod La Mancha. It te'as no doubt in consequence of the
dispatches from Valencia !bat General Latre was recalled,
and a Cabinet courier sent is? Narvaez, whom I saw leave
Madrid yesterday evening at six o'clock.
I have seen a letter from Logrono, of the 24th, stating that
Espartero meant to attack Estella, and after succeeding there
to march to Madrid and settle the Ministry, but that at night
on the 23d, he received a letter from the Queen, announcing
the 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 she had sent him, and flattering
his vanity so much that it was expected he would forego the
Madrid journey.
The Bourse was only worse than yesterday, there being
a single cash transaction at 181.
Another version of the Almaden contract says, that Roths-
child is to pay 25,000,000 in five months by monthly instal-
ments of 5,000,000 each ; that 10,000,000 are to be retained
for the working of the mines, and the other 15,000,000 to be
paid in libranzas, that would cost but 6,000,000.... Times.