The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-25 00:00:00

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MADRID, APRIL 14.—The following is a despatch from Ge-
neral Pardinas to the Minister of War, dated Urda (Toledo
mountains), the 10th inst., and published in an Extraordinary
Gazette on Thursday last:—
" Most excellent had the honour of .ZyPrising yhon.
Excellency, in my communication from Alcandete, that I
hopes of overtaking Basilio and defeating him if ha waited
for me, but the coward sought safety in the most disgrAoef
flight, and finally dispersed his forces so completely that, a
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though I divided my slender corps into two columns, I have
only fallen in with insignificant groups of Carlists.
" I know not if Brigadier Urbina has been more fortu-
nate, but I can assure your Excellency that the faction is
completely. dispersed through the mountains. During four
days' continual pursuit, in which we have day and night tra-
versed the most rugged passes of the mountains, our rrarcil
has been constantly directed by the recent footsteps of the
enemy.

Your Exceller.cy may form some idea of the lot of the
soldiers of our country, who had not any day bread or wine.'
nor any provisions save those taken from the enemy ; but their
enthusiasm increased with their privations, and they only re-
gfetted that Basilio's cowardice prevented them from annihi-
latinghim.

" His park of artillery and all his ammunition has fallen
into our hands, besides a considerable number of prisoners and
horses. Basilio wanders through the country with a party of
20 men, and all the rest have dispersed in different directions-
" I anxiously wait your Excellency's orders, arid 0211
strenuously endeavour to obtain information of Flinter's posi-
tion, and put myself in communication with him. God guard
your Excellency, &c.

" RAMON PARDINAS.

" Urda, April 10. 1838."
" ARMY OF TIIE NORTH—SECOND DIVISION—STAFF.
" Statement of the effects captured from Basilio this day
one four-pounder, with its carriage ; two ammunition cars,
with grape shot and balls ; 35 cases of ball cartridge ; tef°
bags of balls, and one of balls and cartridge mixed."
Here we have Pardinas sending au express to Government
announcing, as an important victory, the capture of a gun
with some ammunition, and the subdivision of Basilio Garcia 'S
expediticmary corps—a species of tactics adopted with the
most complete success by the Spanish generals during the,
Peninsular war, and imitated in the present day with equnt
advantage by the Carlists of Catalonia, Valencia, and
Lower Aragon. A park of artillery indeed 1 A miserable
four-pounder.
The despatch from Colonel Cuba, commanding the columw
detached in pursuit of the expedition to Upper Aragon, con=
tains intelligence of a more serious character. The Colonel
states that he left Sadaba on the 4th, and came up with the
Carlists on the 7th, close to the village of Yangues. The
action commenced the same afternoon, and the Carlists were
defeated with the loss of 20 officers and 300 soldiers who were
made prisoners. A Catalonian expedition, detached by Tris-
tany to receive the convoy intended for that province, arrived
at the Cinca on the 2d, and constructed a raft upon which
they crossed the river, but as soon as they ascertained the de-
feat of Navaresse they returned homewards.
One thing is certain as rezards Almaden. Repeated expe-
rience has proved that the Carlists can make themselves trkts'
tern of that place whenever they choose. The last Recoils°
of Count Negri left him passing the night of the 11th at Al'
cazaren, dye leagues S.S.E. of Valladolid, towards which
city lie proposed to proceed the following day. Genera
Iriarte arrived the same night at Las Navas de Coca, about
six leagues in the rear of Negri. Up to this hour (five
o'clock) no further intelligence has been received from the
Queen's commander. It is absolutely impossible to form 1111
thing like a correct calculation of the plans of the expeditioga
which, apparently, are guided altogether by circumstances.
At a moment least expected, a report of a change, or no-
dification of the present Cabinet, circulated rapidly through the
metropolis, and on Thursday last it was generally believed that
Ofalia administration was broken up ; in fact the Premier
that day told his confidential friends that he was no longer
nister. The Opposition Press trumpeted forth this news ill'
great jubilee; the Ministerial journals, though silent at first''
afterwards expressed their fears that such an event was likely"
to occur. For the present the actual cabinet appears to be
firm, but I am, nevertheless, of opinion that it cannot hold out
another month. The state of the nation becomes each dal
more precarious, and unless fortune smiles upon her Ala:
jcsty'a arms, no Ministry can govern for more :than three Or
months.
A person belonging to the office of the Graduador
bribed by the police, and delivered up the otieinals of several
of the defamatory articles that have been published in tuat.
journal. It is said, I know not with what foundation, that
some of them arc in the hand-writing of persons about his
Royal Highness the Infante Don Francisco, and it is •""t
said that sonic manuscript notes of the Infante and his consort
have been found. I have more than once called your attenn;
ton to Don Francisco's party in this country. His partisa
of
are desirous that he should be appointed Regent in room
Donna Christina, whom, in the offensive paper ahead,' T mhey
tioned, they have attacked in the grossest manner.
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have endeavoured to render her Majesty odious in the c3•es
the people, by qualifying her as an abandoned woman, sway sd
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in every respect by a casnarilla oppressed to the progress_ oo
liberty. The Regent had immediate intelligence of the articlegf
published in the Graduador, and found out that most of them
were concocted in her sister's apartments. She sent for the
Infanta, and requested her to be more circumspect, whiek
would prevent her from having recourse to more ener-
getic measures. Her Highness replied, with a toss of the head,
and said that she knew nothing of the articles in question, al-
though she did not refrain from denoting her satisfaction that
they had wounded her Majesty's feelings. The Regent here- 4,
upon grew very angry, and made some very cutting remarks.
The Infanta was not to be outdone, and, from word to word,
it is stated that the most offensive epithets for a woman
were
bandied about by those royal personages. Donna Louisa Car-
lotta was ordered by the Queea to leave the room ; and as
she was closing the door she was heard to say, " Though it be,
but for a day, I shall command the destinies of the nation.
This disagreeable scene cost the Regent a severe indisposi-
tion ; and as soon as her sister left the apartment she fell into
a swoon. She was afterwards bled, and is now quite reco
vered. Their Royal Highness demanded, first, permission to
go to Seville, and next to Catalonia, but the Queen refused to •
allow them to reside in any other part of Spain, except Madrid.
She added, that if they wished to go abroad she would offer !to
objection. It is now reported that they propose to visit the
Pyrenees, and that they will very soon leave for Santander.r
Morning Herald.

HULL WORKING MENS' ASSOCIATION.--°"
Wednesday evening, a public meeting of the Hull Working
Mons' Association was held in the Freemason's Lodge, MY"
tongate, which had reference to the return of the Dorchester
labourers. A string of resolutions was moved by Mr.
Wilson
and seconded by Mr. Pawson, to the effect that the me et i
hailed with delight and satisfaction the safe return of theirpersecuted brethren from exile ; that as the might and majesty
of the working men of the metropolis had been exerted oil
behalf of these ilhused men, so it became the duty of the
working men of the provinces to give them the shout .of
come nod the rigHt hand of fellowship on their return to their
native land. The next resolution stated that the meeting
viewed these men as the victims of a bad government—" which,
Whig-like, ever bloody and brutal,' seizes on the poor,
friendless, and the unwary, whilst it leaves rich and titled vi
lains to break the laws with impunity ; and we do hereby so-
lemnly denounce the Government that sent them into exile'
as traitors to the working classes of this country." The On"
eluding resolution was, that the Dorchester labourers be in-
vited to visit Hull, in order that the working classes may hear
their " story of woe" from themselves ; their expenses being.
to be paid by the members of the Association. The meeting
was addressed by the mover and seconder of the resolution':
by Lundy, Mr. Cowen, and a stranger; they were all
unanimously carried, and the meeting separated.
Rossini will, it is said, be the director of the new
Italian Opera House at Paris. He is composing a new opera
for its opening, in October next.

T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c, 47, C 01131104
London ( Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street ), informs the Publi
that he has fitted up THREE SHOW ROOMS expressly for the
display of a large assortment of superior SILVER-L' DGED
PLATED GOODS. He offers them at those low but fixed prices.
Ivhich have been so successful in drawing public attention to the:
WATCH, JEWELLERY, SILVER SPOON and FORK and
Silver branches of his trade. N.B. A pamphlet, containing a De-
tailed List of the Prices of Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Cloelc6:•
&c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a post
paid application.

BIRTHS.
On the 21st inst., at Nelson-house, Kingsland, Mrs. Elmenhorstr
of a boy.
On the 20th inst., at Hilborowe Hall, Norfolk, the lady of 11-
B. Caldwell, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., the lady of Wm. Lowndes, Esq., of the BOY'
Chesham, Buckinghamshire, of a son.
On the 22d inst., Mrs. Joseph Anderson, of Highbury-place, of
a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 19th inst., at Clitheroe, in Lancashire, by the Re'r•
H. Anderton, John Leonard Hammond, Esq., of Kirby Hall, In
the North Riding of Yorkshire, to Mary, eldest daughter of John
Aspinall, Esq., of Standen Hall, Lancashire.
On the 24th inst., at Newport, Isle of Wight, by the Rev. C.
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Worsley, Mr. Thomas Broad, merchant, to Mary Anne, youniei.
daughter of the late Thomas White, Esq., of Lepland House, .I,l'
of Wight.

DIED.
On the 15th inst., at Summerlands, Falmouth, aged 74, WW'
Tesler Coope, Esq., Deputy Commissary-General. in
On the 22d inst., in Tredegar-square, Captain Hugh Cathre,
his 53d year.
On the 21st inst., Mr. Chaplin, of the New Kent-road, aged 77a
On the 22d inst., Elizabeth Mary, only daughter of Eclmuo
Taverner, Esq., aged 6.
On the 20th inst., in York-place, City-road, Mr. James Fenn/
aged 80.
On the 22d inst., Mr. John Bartrop, of Crawford street, Mon-
tague-square, aged 60.
On the 21st inst., at Tonbridge Wells, Nathaniel Hardcastle,
Esq., of Raymead, near Maidenhead, aged 44.
On the 22d inst., Clifford, infant son of C. Craufurd, Esq., 0f
Doddington-grove, Kennington.
On the 21st inst., Wm. Crowdy, Esq., of Westrop House, WO-
worth, Wilts, aged 57.
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On the 18th inst., aged 41, Mr. Meadows Taylor, of Starston,
near Harleston, Norfolk.
itehuet.
R.N
111 or., tlaakgee,d Diary Alicia, daughter of the
late
At Delhi, on the 17th of January, aged 22, Lieut. W. E. Rees,
of the Engineers.

l'cithezt and Published by YOUNG, of
112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the entlati
of Middlesex.--Wednesday, April 25, 1838.