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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1836

The address of the Calatrava Cabinet to the
Queen-Regent of SPAIN, advising the dissolution of
the Deputies lately elected, and the constitutional con-
vocation of the regular Cortes for the 24th October,
the Royal decree to that effect, and a proclamation
addressed by the QUEEN to the Spanish nation, will
be found in another part of The Sun. They are im-
portant documents. One thing at least is now certain.
The QUEEN has openly, avowedly, and cordially
placed herself at the head of the Constitutionalists.
She now occupies the proud position which her
MAJESTY so earnestly entreated the imbecile, super-
stitious FERDINAND to fill in 1823. May no malign
influence be exercised over her, which shall have the
effect of separating her from the only party capable of
asserting the legitimate claims of her august daughter
to the Spanish Throne !
The proclamation addressed by the QUEEN to the
Spanish nation is remarkable for its frank and patriotic
appeal to the good sense of the people. Its impression
upon the public mind must be lasting and salutary.
Her MAJESTY, throwing aside all disguise, declares
boldly that her hesitation in accepting the Constitu-
tion was merely the result of an apprehension lest such
a step would not accord with the wishes of the great
majority of the nation. Subsequently convinced that
the people desired to see this banner of their liberties
unfurled, she had sworn to support, and would keep
her oath. This is a good beginning of a noble work.
The Constitution once modified and established, and
Spain is for ever delivered from despotism.
In the Madrid papers received to the 25th ult., we
find a Royal decree, definitely appointing General
R oDit, Minister of War, and Commander-in-Chief
of the Northern Army. Four thousand men have
marched out of Madrid to oppose the bands of BA-
SILIO and ARROYAS, who, on the 20th, had ef-
fected a junction of their forces at Palencia. On the
26th, ConDovA, escorted by some Generals of his
staff, entered Bayonne, glad to have escaped safe
across the frontier. In the north of Spain the prospects
of the QUEEN ate brightening apace. The Carlist
chiefs are divided among themselves, and to add to
their embarrassment the supplies from abroad are be-
ginning to come in very slowly. In short Don CAR-
Los has no money.
MENDIZABAL has been appointed President of
the Commission of patriotic gifts in the room of
,Mt RA-
FLORES. He has also received the QUEENS com-
mands to take measures for expediting the close of
the war.

The proclamation of the Constitution in Madrid
has already filled the Cabinets of Berlin, Vienna, and
St. Petersburgh with dismay. Most bitterly do the
Northern diplomatists repent of the short-sighted policy
which led them to decline the recognition of Is ABELLA
11., and at the same time protest against British and
French intervention in the Peninsula. Had they
either acknowledged the QUEEN, or consented to the
system of intervention as at first proposed by MAR-
TINEZ DE LA ROSA, the proclamation of the Consti-
tution never could have taken place. in the former
case their aa6,-Its would have been on the spot to in-
trigue, threaten, bribe, and protest against it ; in the
latter Don CA_RLOS would have been expelled the
kingdom two y ears ago, and a Government would
have been established founded on an aristocratical
modification of t Estatuto Real, which would in
reality leave the people little more than the sha-

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dog of constitutional liberty.
Louis
PHILIPPE fell
into the same error in his nefarious calculations. His •
object from the very commencement of the war
was to nip liberty in the bud in Spain. He
.igticd the Quadruple Treaty it is true ; but in
doing so his grand design was to deceive Eng-
land and to blind France. He was aware that
the sympathies of France were all favourable to
the establishment of liberal institutions in the Penin-
sula ; and he was quite certain that England was not
in a mood to adopt a course which would inevitably
shackle Spain, and revolutionize Portugal. He, there-
fore, feigned an uncommon zeal for the QUEEN'S
success—while at the same time he was secretly plotting
the means most likely to place the Crown on the head of
her rebellious kinsman. Had Don CARLOS been a
widower when FERDINAND died, Louis PHILIPPE,
who has a penchant for match-making, would no doubt
have exerted himself still more cordially in his favour.
But all things considered, the most Christian KING
played his part to perfection. If he publicly permitted
military stores to be transported across the frontier for
the service of the QUEEN, he treated Don CARLOS with
more than equal courtesy by means not less indicative
of personal good-will. The difference was in the
agency—nothing more. For once, however, his
shrewdest calculations have gone for less than nothing.
His schemes, and those of his allies of the North have
been all rendered abortive by the patriotism of the
Spanish people. Right gladly would he now consent
to active intervention in the affairs of the Peninsula—
either in conjunction with England or alone—provided
he could compel Spain to be content with the QUEEN
without the Constitution. This we now understand is
the secret of THIERS'S resignation of the Presidency of
the Council. The mystery which so astonished us a
few days ago is now solved. When the QUEEN had
accepted the Constitution the most Christian KING
was for sending an army into the Peninsula at a mo-
ment's notice. The dapper little 'Minister was for a
moment quite overjoyed. Explanations followed on
both sides ; but what was the Premier's surprise on
learning that one part of the business of the auxiliary
force would be to put down the Constitutionalists, under
the convenient plea that they coerced the QUEEN,
who was virtually a prisoner in her capital. M.
THIERS protested vehemently against such a course,
exposed the dangers that must attend it, and even went
so far as to hint that England might consider it her
duty to support the Constitution. His advice was that
intervention should take place to put down the Carlists,
leaving the QUEEN to govern Spain in whatever way
the nation might think best. The KING would not
listen to such council. His MAJESTY would either
not interfere at all, or he would interfere to put down
both Constitutionalists and Carlists. The dissolution
of the Ministry was the necessary consequence.
Thus the insidious intrigues of the King of the
FRENCH with the Cabinets of the North have acce-
lerated, instead of prevented, the establishment of
constitutional liberty in the Peninsula. Of course Lout s
PHILIPPE has not yet emptied his quiver. Another
" cloud" of poisoned arrows will be directed against Spa-
nish liberty, but they, like those which preceded them,
will fall far short of the mark. We admire France—we
are proud of our alliance with her—we sympathise
with her patriotic sons ; but all this cannot reconcile
us to the crooked policy of her KING, whom we know
to be at heart a despot.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Thursday have
been received. They contain no positive intelligence
respecting the construction of the Cabinet. It was
rumoured in Paris on Thursday, that the French and
Austrian Ambassadors were obliged to fly from Berne,
and that they owed their lives to the fleetness of their
horses. The people of Switzerland are indig-
nant at the conduct of France, and certainly
not without ample cause. Of the state of public
feeling in the Republic a tolerably fair estimate may
be formed by our extracts from the correspondence of
a Morning Contemporary, which will be found in
another part of this Journal. The following extracts
contain all else that is interesting in the Paris Papers
of Thursday :

PARIS, SF.PT. 1.-10, A. ht.-The Moniteur has no news.

The Paix (a Doctrinaire journal), says :-
4, We believe we may affirm, of our own knowledge, that
M. Guizot has required nothing, and even desired nothing, with
respect to the dissolution of the Chamber."
The Courrier Francais says :
" M. Guizot has abated nothing of his pretensions ; he per-
sists on having at his disposal the Department of the Interior,
sending M. de Montalivet to that of Ecclesiastical Affairs or
of Commerce. In this state of things the arrangements are
less advanced than ever."

M. Mol6.'s patience is at an end, says the Journal du Com-
merce. Marshal Soult is expected.
M. d'Argout, whose return was announced too soon, ar-
rived only yesterday at half-past three o'clock. According to
the Constitationnel, he should seem to be of opinion that he
ought to assist Spain, but not intervene.
The Journal des Debats says :

" A thousand different reports have been circulated to-day :
it has been pretended that M. Thiers would be again at the
head of the Cabinet ; Marshal Soult has been spoken of as
President; the names of M. Dufouere, M. Humann, M.
Barthi, &c , have been mentioned."—National, Sept. I.
PARIS, SEPT. I.—There is always some error in the com-
munications which the Ministry makes relative to Spain. It
is not by a decree of the 24th August, as the lifoniteur states,
but by a decree of the 21st, that the Cortes are convoked for
the 24th October, according to the forms prescribed by the
Constitution of 1812.
We received, by the Ordinary Gazette, the decree for the
convocation of the Cortcs. The new Ministry (if it made its
Evening Journal speak as soon as it was able), has just gained
twelve hours, with all the means it has at its disposal.
The Barcelona Journals expected to-day, have not arrived.
We received the following news from that city, by way of
Bourdeaux and Marseilles :—" The accounts from Barcelona,
says the Guide National, arc of the 221 instant. The city
was tranquil. The Constitution of 1812 was proclaimed, as
we stated, on the 16th. But, by virtue of a decree of the
Queen, the solemn proclamation was to be made on the 25th.
The programme of the ceremony is in the Borcelona Journals
of the 23d."

The Memorial Bordeluis, of the 29th, has the following
paragraphs :
" It i 3 to be feared that General Mina is now no more ; he
was at the la;t extremity at the departure of the Barcelona
mail, which arrived yesterday.
" It is said that Dr. Lallimand, who went express from
Montpelier, attended him in his last moments."
" Brigadier-General Garcia Gambia will act as Minister of
War, a•l interim, during Rodil's absence."—Journal du Com-
merce, Sept. 1.
PARIS, AUGUST 31.—An English frigate arrived on the
22d at Port Vendres, and landed the Governor of Tarragona.
A Morning Journal says that General A!ava, before he re-
signed, delivered a note to the French Government, requiring
that the 4,000 men raised to reinforce the Foreign Legion,
shall be allowed to enter Spain. He claims them as belonging
to Spain, whose uniform they wear, whose pay they receive,
and for whose service they were enlisted, by the consent of the
French Government, before it resolved not to co-operate. If
the demand is repeated, it is supposed that Spain will require
the
battalionst War having; repayment of the sum which it will lose by the change of
the conduct of the French Government. Meantime these
remain in their depots on the frontier, the Minister
onagge Sept.sitively refused the order for disbanding
them.—Messages,
FRENCEI Ps RIS, SEPT. 1.
F'uur per Cents., lOIf 30c
flank.tThree r.(ents 701. 95c. 80f 95c.719Uf".
ttente detca,,,
5 . :3esc.
unman Five perCenik,
Spanish Actives, 31)4
Spanish Passives, Wo
Belgian Loan, Five percents, 1011 A%
EXCHANGE ON LONNO
One month, paper, —c,; ,
Three months, paper, 22114 c.
—fours Authentigue. Lsf.
BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—Althougb this is settling-
day, there has been almost no alteration in theTehurr, per They were at Tortoni's 79f. 90c., to make
they have continued the whole Bourse a t 79f. 95c, buyers, and
80f. 20c. to sof. 25c. for the end of this month.
The Spanish Active Stock has been at 301, but the papers
of the 24th from Madrid saying that the capital and provinces
are quiet, it got up again to 30i buyers.
P. S. The Rentes had a small improvement at about a
quarter past three, but they fell rapidly to 79f. 80c. in liquida-
tion, occasioned by a quantity of real Rentes to be delivered.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 1091. 25c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 10c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, Gueb-
bards, —; Differes, ; New Loan, —; Actives, 301; Pas-
sives, 91; Ducats, 99 75 ; Romans, 1021; Pedros, --;