The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-29 00:00:00

'` MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" Your Excellency—l have the honour to announce
to you that in compliance with the arrangements pre-
viously adopted by the Provisional Regency of the
kingdom, in concert with her Majesty the Queen Mo-
ther, the departure of that Princess for Grao will take
place to-day, at half-past six, in an open caleche, by
the Royal gate adjoining the Palace which she inhabits.
Maria Christina was accompanied by the Council of
the Regency and its attendants, and the Ayuntatniento
of Valencia.
" The troops were drawn out in echelon from the
ahove.mentioned gate to the port of Grao, where her
Majesty embarked in a shalop, steered by the Captai❑
of the Port. Her Majesty was attended by the
Duchess de la Vittoria and the Marchioness de Valverde,
and by the Ministers of Marine and Foreign Affairs.
" Her Majesty received during the passage and on
her arrival in harbour the customary honours and sa-
lutes. At half-past seven her Majesty went on board
the Spanish steamer El Mercurio, which left immedi-
ately for Port Vendres, where her Majesty will disem-
bark. From the tine weather that prevails there is
every reason to hope that it will be a good passage.
" I have the honour to transmit to ,ou, &c.,
" JOAQUIN MARIA DE FERRER.
" Valencia, Oct. 17, 1840."

CONVOCATION OF THE CORTES.
(From the Madrid Gazette of October 20.)
" The Regency, in conformity with the arguments
adduced in the address which it has received from the
Minister of the Interior, has ordained that the new
Cortes shall assemble on the 19th of March, 1841, re-
serving to itself the right of dictating in due course the
regulations which it may deem proper to establish is
order to give effect to the electoral law.
(Signed) " VICTORIA, FERRER, GOIVET, CHACO:4,
CORTINA, FRIAS,

" Valencia, Oct. 14, 1840."
" The situation of the country," says the Minister of
the Interior, in his resume, " demands that the period
for the meeting of the Chambers should rather exceed
the limits prescribed by the constitution of the State ;
but the renewal of the provincial deputations required
that the convocation of the Chambers should be de-
layed but for a trifling time. The provincial deputa-
tions are not to be assembled before the Ist of January,
1841. It will be necessary to find the requisite time
for proceeding with the elections ; the Deputies will be
able to assemble in the capital on the 19th of March,
a favourable period for the opening of the Cortes, and
from which body the country expects such important
results. It is in consequence of the motives adduced
by Senor Don Manuel Cortina that the Regency issued
the decree for the convocation of the Cortes on the
19th of March."

THE PROVISIONAL JUNTAS.
(From the Madrid Gazette of October .2.0.)
DECREE OF THE REGENCY.

Art. 1. The Juntas created in the capitals of pro-
vinces will continue to sit until a further resolution has
been adopted, only as auxiliaries of the Government.
They will have to put in force all that the Govern-
ment may deem proper to confide to them. Conse-
quently, all the authorities are to resume the exercise
of their rsspectivo functions.
Art. 2. The Juntas established in all the other towns
of the monarchy will cease to exist on the receipt of
this decree.

Art. 3. All those Juntas will send a detailed account
of the measures they adopted, of the employes that ware
dispensed with, and of the appointments (each of the
departments of the Secretaries of State is to receive a
special copy of those said Acts ; to those appointments
are to be added detailed lists of the services rendered
by the different candidates, in order that the Govern-
ment, whilst it ratifies and respects the intentions dic-
tated by justice, may repair inimical acts, which the
honour and probity of the said Juntas demand).
Art. 4. The administrative authorities of the pro-
vinces will examine the accounts rendered by those
Juntas. If, contrary to expectation, Any irregularities
should be discovered, they are to be banded over to the
department of the Minister of Finance, in order that the
necessary rectifications may be made.

Art. 5. The acts which have emanated from the
Juntas shall be transmitted to the Juntas of capitals,
who will take care of them until the expiration of their
being in power, after which they will be appropriated
according to circumstances.
The following is a summary of the motives which
precede this last decree :—The necessity in which the
nation was placed to oppose itself to the confiscation of
its rights and to the violation of the Constitution, main-
tained at the price of so many sacrifices, had given rise,
not only in the capitals of provinces, but also in other
towns of the second class, for the formation of Juntas,
which have efficiently contributed to maintain public
order, in the midst of a violent crisis, and to
rersuade the whole world that Spain knew how to
undertake and bring to issue important enterprises with
dignity and nobleness, without allowing those excesses
which have always attended the political oscillations
of other nations. Necessity alone could only authorise
the adoption of such a measure. That necessity being
at an end, that measure must cease to have effect.
Unity and ceutralisation, well understood, are absolutely
indispensable in order to govern, and the present situa-
tion would lead us to a complete dissolution, the conse-
quences of which would very soon be deplored by those
very men who by error would now think that they
ought to prolong it. It is not possible, nevertheless, for
all the Juntas to be absolutely at an cud, and it is ne-
cessary that certain ones should continue to exist, but
with an entire distinct character from that which they
have hitherto had, in order to inform the Government
of their acts, and render it all other services which cir-
cumstances might require. It is iterative on all to
give an account of their administration ; nothing, in
short, can more contribute to dispel the accusations that
they may be the object of than the justification of the
disinterestedness and pureness with which they have
expended the public money. For these motives the
Provisional Regency has adopted the decree of which
we published the text, in five articles.
Letters from Barcelona of the 20th instant announce
the arrest at Alcora of Senor San Milian, former Minis•
ter of Finance, and of another personage, whose name
is not mentioned. On the 19th, 2,090 muskets were
distributed to the newly organized National Guard of
Barcelona. M. Matnieu de la Redone, the French
Ambassador, left that city for Madrid on the 17th.
Senor Osca, who was deputed by the Junta of Alcira
to compliment the Duke of Victory at Valencia, re-
ceived from the Duke the following reply :
" I do not hesitate an instant to support the grand
manifestation of the people, who were naturally
alarmed for their independence and rights, conquered
at the price of so much blood. As a recompense for
that which my companions and I have shed on
the fiell of battle, all I desire, after resigning all
my honours, is to be allowed to retire to Logrono,
where my mother possesses some land, which I mean
to cultivate (for I have lost my patrimony during
the war, and my sole ambition would be to fill
the humble station of alcade of that town, and to merit
the confidence of my fellow- citizens. All that, how-
ever, can only take place on the day, now not far dis-
tant, when all obstacles to the consolidation of our in-
stitutions shall have been entirely removed. The work
we have commenced will terminate in a satisfactory
manner; and I am determined not to replace my sword
in its scabbard until the independence and liberties of
the nation shall have been solidly secured."