The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-13 00:00:00

SPAIN.

,• MADRID, DECEMBET! 30.
UITIIACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER;)
Our ab elute Royalists have been somewhat
quieter for several days past, and the Liberals
'ore allowed a little repose-. The gentlemen of
the Faith have relaxed their animosity against
,the Constitutionalists, and now complain loudly
O'f. The King; who, they say, has not rewarded
them as they deserved. These complaints pretty
plainly sho.v, that the men who pretend to be
the purest Royalists are not particularly devOted
to the King. The French, too, have also ta.sus-
tain a considerable share of this Royalist hos-
tility. During the Christmas holidays a bar-
'humus doggrel son; was sung through the public
streets, which had for its chorus—
.
" Let Blacks and Whites* join heart and hand,
" To drive all Frenchmen from the land."

The Government has definitively ordered all
tte Bishops and Archbishop% who had repaired
to Madrid to return to their diocesses.

The finance department has undergone a great
purification. About fifteen of the principal clerks
have been dismissed without any pay or allow.
unce whatever.

Our official Gazette announces that all the
officers who served voluntarily in the national
militia are dismissed. This measure is much too
rigorous, for under the constitutional system a
great number of these officers were obliged to
serve, under pain of being marked out as enemies
of the existing- Government. Lieutenant-General
Grimarest, late lus'pector-General of militia, is
appointed Captain-General of Arragon. Ile is
succeeded in the former efface by the Count de
San Roman.

General Silveyra, who is here in the character
of Charge d'Affaires from Portugal, maintains
the greatest secrecy respecting the events Ni hich
have lately taken place at -Lisbon. Neverthe-
less, it is currently reported that there has been
a seditious movement in that city, though nothing
positive is stated as to its consequences.
It is this moMent reported, that General 13our-
mont, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army,
has applied to his-Government for an additional
number of troops. This step is not at all sur-
prising, for the Spanish Government do not tran-
quillize the public, mind by stopping the perse-
cutions and repressing the false zeal of the pre-
tended defenders of the altar and the throne.
Spain must soon become the theatre of the most
dreadful transactions. It is remarked that few
days pass in which some French soldiers are not
assassinated ; and the dispersion of the army en-
courages the daring atrocity of a people who, be-
cause they are flattered, believe themselves cap_
able of accomplishing any thing.
Travellers who arrive at Madrid state that the
toads are scarcely practicable; there is every
moment danger of being stopped and robbed.
The couriers cannot advance a step without an
escort. It seems that-nothing short of a miracle
Can now save Spain.

' The Men of the Faith style themselves Blancos (Whites),
azd the Constitutionalists they call Negros (Blacks).

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

HEIDELBERG, DEC. 2,s.—Extraordinary atten-
tion is excited by the Laws respecting Roman
Catholic Churches and Schools, which has been
lately passed by the Legislative Assembly of Saxe-
Weimar, sanctioned by the Grand Duke, and
regularly published. The principal points of
this new law are

" That the Grand Duke reserves to himself all
the right of Sovereignty over the Roman Catholic
Churches—that a commission is especially charged
to take care of the rights of the State—that no
papal brief, no archiepiscopal or episcopal. Ordi-
nance can be published till it has previously
ceived the approbation of the Government—that
complaints respecting the exercise of ecclessasti-
cal authority shall directly be made known to the
Government, that no application shall be made
to the Pope except in affairs of the Church—
that processions at Weimar, Jena, &c., shall not
take place except within the churches—that thee,
processions of Catholics of other States shall never
enter into the territory of the Grand Duchy--
that the right of seeking an asylum in the Roman.
Catholic churches is abolished—that the funds of
the Catholic churches shall not be sent abread—.-..
that none. but natives of the Grand Duchy shall
be appointed parish priests or prelates—that the
Grand Duke appoints all the priests where he
has hitherto • exercised the right of collation
—that the others shall be appointed by the
Bishops after obtaining the approbation of the
Government—that the priests being at the Same
time Catholic teachers are citizens of the Grand
Duchy, subject to the lawsOf the country, and
amenable to the ordinary tribunals—that all laws
i-elativf, to christenings, births and burials, 'are
binding on the Catholic churches.

" that Catholic Priests cannot refuse to con-
secrate marriages between persons of different
religious persuasions, nuclei' the' pretext thaVone
of the parties will not consent that the issue-of
the rsiarriage shall be educated in the Catholic
religion; that priests orothers,•whoare,Auspected
of usin., their influence to mace proselytes, shall
'be-called to account before the tribunals."