The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-25 00:00:00

express :

PARIS, THURSDAY NIGHT, 9 O'CLOCK.
The Government has received from Perpignan telegra•
pbic despatches of the 21st and 22d, which give the follow-
ing news from Barcelona:—
" The 18th.—Espartero, after endeavouring in vain to
compel the Queen to revoke her sanction already given to
the bill on the municipal law, announced his intention of
quitting the city.
" Van Halen, sent for, arrived at Barcelona at the same
time as Ayerbe and Carbo, w hose divisions were cantoned
in the neighbourhood.
" In the evening a sanguinary conflict took place, and
the military force not being under the authority of minis-
ters, could not quell the disturbance.
Espartero returned to the Palace, obtained the revo-
cation of the sanction given to the Bill, and the formation
of a new Ministry. He re-armed the battalions called the
Blouse, and it is said that be named as President of the
new Ministry, Onis or Campuzano.
" Barcelona is in the greatest excitement. The Queen
Regent is incensed. M. Perez de Castro, General Cleo.
nard, and others of the old Cabinet, took refuge on board
the French brig Meleagre. They arrived at Port Vendres
on the 22d.

" Our ambassador, the Count de la Redone, who left
on the 21st, received this sad news at sea. Government
forwarded to him to.day such instructions as are rendered
necessary by this change of circumstanced." _ _ _

As 1% e predicted, ESPA RTERO has triumphed.
To what account he will turn this last and greatest
of his victories remains to be seen. One thing only
is certain. The REGZNT, the instant she is out of
the power of ESPARTERO, will undo all that she
has now done ; and ruin him, if she can, into the
bargain. We regard this difference between the
QUEEN and the Commander-in. Chief as unfortunate
on many accounts ; more especially as we now
have reason to believe that France is disposed to
support the QUEEN and the Spanish policy of the
PEREZ DE CASTRO Cabinet. But whatever may
be the result, the present triumph of ESPARTERO
is the triumph of the Constitution, and therefore
we rejoice at it. The news created an immense
sensation in Paris.

The French Ministerial Press is wholly in fa-
vour of the Queen of SPAIN'S adherence to the
Ayuntamientos, or Corporation Bill, and against
ESPARTERO. In the Constitutionnel of Thurs-
day, we find an analysis of this Bill, from which
we take the following extract. Nothing is clearer
to us than that had the Bill passed the Constitu-
tion would have been a dead letter. In fact, it vir-
tually repeals all its most important provisions—
for though the Constitutionnel cites the Constitu-
tion of 1812, and not the Constitution of 1837,
yet so far as regards the question of Corporations
they are identical :
" The Constitution of 1812 recognized as eligible and
as electors all citizens in Spain ; the new law admits but
electors who are copybolders, and who have attained their
25th year ; the rate of quit rent is in proportion to the
population of the commune.
•' The Constitution of 1812 excluded from the functions
of alcalde, regidor, and of procurador syndical every per-
son occupying and exercising an employment given under
the King's nomination. Every Spanish citizen, being
twenty-five years of age, knowing how to read and write,
and residing for a period of five years in the commune,
could be appointed to a municipal function. According
to the ■ew law, there is no more incompatibility between
municipal functions and offices at a salary. No person
can be elected unless he is an elector, and one who is the
most heavily taxed in the commune. A residence of two
years is also considered sufficient. The old law gave the
Government no direct influence over the proceedings of
the Ayuntamientos, which are now subjected to the revi-
sion of the Government agents.
" Neither the alcalde nor the procurador syndical could
be put out of office by the Government, which can, from
the present moment, according to the. advice of the politi-
cal chief, depose the members of the municipal council,
and dissolve the Ayuntamientos.
" According to the old law, the Ayuntamientos had, or
rather had assumed to themselves, the right of making di-
rect representations to the head of the State; these &-
I munstrations are now prohibited.
" Tha Ayuntamientos used to dispose of the communal
funds without rendering any account to the authorities.
Henceforth they are restricted from disposing of those
funds until authority has been given to that effect.
" There is the same proviso with respect to the relations
which existed between the Ayuntamientos and provincial
deputations, and which were quite free under the con-
stitution of 1812 ; they are now under the jurisdiction
of the political chief, who is President of the Provincial
Deputation and of all Ayuntamientos. The diminution
of electors, the necessity for a quit rent, the compatibility
between municipal functions and Government employ-
ments, the jurisdiction to which the members of the Ayun-
tamientos and their acts are subjected, have diminished the
power of the democratic principle which prevailed in the
former organisation, and it is that which has given rise to
the violent opposition which has been manifested against
the new law."

The following extracts include the only addi-
tional news of interest in the French journals
We have received the following impor►ant communi.

cation: --

" 11Alas, JULY 23, 1840. —L',4dhetnar, Captain Gault,
arrived to day from Manilla, which she left on the 2Gih of
March. Coffee was 154 dollars the pic. The latest news
then from China announced that the Chinese had seized
several English vessels at Whampoa, which had returned
to that anchorage under foreign flags."
The Universal Gazette, of Lcipsic, publishes a letter
from its correspondent at Constantinople, dated the Ist
inst., which states that a report prevailed there that a re-
volt had broken out in Alexandria, after the departure of
the troops fur Syria, and that the disaffection had made
such progress that Mehemet Ali was obliged to take re-
fuge in a fort, where he was besieged by the insurgents."
A letter from Bourg ( Ain) of he 20th of July, con-
tains the following passages :
" Superior Spanish officers of the army of Cabrera ar-
rived every day at Bourg. Among them are several very
fine young men.
" The day before yesterday, Brigadier-General Polo, ,