The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

tFrom the Quotidienne.]
MADRID, JAN. I2.—The Minister for Foreign
Affairs received, two days since, news of the act
by which the English Government recognizes the
Independence of Mexico and the Kingdom of
Terra Firma. Thus vanishes the hope which our
Government still clung to, of re-conquering, with
the aid of foreign support,its revolted possessions
in America. It was.impossible to give. a more
fatal blow to the Spanish Monarchy ; and the
principle adopted by the Holy Alliance, to pre-
serve to each Power the integrity of its posses.
sions, could not be more openly violated. Every
one, in deploring the ruin which menaces Spain,
is compelled to admit that this evil has been pro-
duced by a long train of faults, and especially by
the little harmony n hich subsists between our
Cabinet and one Power, whose commercial in-
terests are entirely bound up with ours ; a fact
which seems not to be known north of- the
Pyrenees.

If, after the restoration of the House of Bour-
bon, France had possessed another Vergennes,
or, yet more, if the virtuous Louis XVI. had left
the tradition of his ideas on commercial econdmy,
what we see to-day would never have oecurred.
But, thanks to the philosophical spirit of the
age, all political views are directed to theories,
more or less futile, more or . less dangerous.—
After the fall of Cadiz, for example, the Go-
vernment, instead of occupying itself to re-open
the almost dried up sources of our prosperity, only
thought of giving us a new public law, because
it is held to-day by sophists, that a people which
has a written constitution possesses all the
elements of happiness. They have sent us Am-
bat•sadorsand Generals, who have beset the Spanish
Government, to make it adopt systems which
the nation, and .which good sense, equally re-
jected, and these have caused it to lose precious
time. To chastise Spain for the resistance which
she made, they have refused her the aids
which she required to re-conquer her colonies.
England, seeing that from Cadiz nothing was em-
barked fur South America, conceived the project
which she now realises, of working the mines
which we seemed to abandon. To this we have
been led by ridiculous theories, conceived by
men without capacity, and without knowledge.
At the present moment the shores'of the Pe-
ninsula are insulted with impunity. Nothing
can equal the audacity of the insurgent: corsairs,
of the Algerine cruizers, and 'of 'others armed
by the rebels.—The Straits of Gi:liialtar are so
infested, that our merchant ships cannot pass from
one sea to the other sithout being exposed to
the reatest dangers. The garrison of Gibraltar
seems to contemplate with pleasure the disasters
of which we are the victims, and which pass
under its eyes.

NEwsvENDERs.-- Yesterday, at Union-Hall
Office, William Gerrard, a newsvender, was summoned be-
fore L. B. ALLEN, Esq. for unlawfully keeping open his shop,
and exposing goods for sale on the Lord's Day. One of the
officers, at whose instance the information was lodged, stated
that on Sunday last the defendant's shop was open during the
time of divine service ; all the shutters but one were down, and
books and pencils exposed, as he supposed, for sale. The de-
fendant said he was unconscious of having offended; his shop
was open on Sunday for the sale of Sunday newspapers : as the
papers were printed and published on a Sunday, he considered
he had a right to sell them; he had a wife and family to sup-
port, towards which the profits arising from the sale of Sunday
papers contributed materially, owing to the working class of
people purchasing them on that day to read the last week's
news to their families. The defendant was jnformed that lie
must not expose any article in his window, as passengers pass-
ing by would naturally suppose they were for sale, except news-
papers, otherwise he would again subject himself to be sum-
moned, and the penalty would be inflicted ; but in this case, as
the defendant had acted not upon an intentional but an errone-
ous principle, he would only fine him in 45., being the amount
of costs only, which was instantly paid. Two other newsven-
ders were summoned for a like offence, and their cases were
similarly disposed of.