The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-14 00:00:00

SPAIN.

PARIS, OCT. 1L...41re find in the Ministerial evening
papers the following telegraphic despatch
" BAYONNE, OCT. 10, 8 A.m.— The Chief of the Ma-
ritime Ojfice to the Minister of the Marine.—They wrote
to me from Passages last evening, as follows. Opinions
are divided at San Sebastian. The garrison of the cita-
del has given up a post to the militia, which is contrary
to the movement, and is master of the town. Hostili-
ties have commenced between Urbistondo and General
Alcala. The latter has circulated a report that the
movement is repressed at Madrid, and the principal in-
stigators chastised, and that Espartero is moving towards
the provinces with 14 battalions, and a regiment of ca-
valry. Two of the regiments of guards on the frontiers
of Navarre have declared for the movement."

" According to a telegraphic despatch from Bayonne,
of the 9th instant," says the Messager, " Madrid re-
mained undisturbed up to the evening of the sth, but no
despatches or letters had been received, as the mail was
intercepted on its way."
The following details of the movement at Pampeltwa
have been communicated to the Sentinelle by a person
who has arrived from that place, and for the authenticity
of whose statement that paper vouches:—
" On Sunday morning, the 3d instant, two hundred
men of the 12th regiment of Light Infantry, entered the
citadel to reinforce O'Donnell. In the afternoon, a squa-
dron of Lancers, a half company of Infantry forming
the garrison of Tafalla, a small town, 124. miles from
Pampeluna, arrived to reinforce General Ribeiro. On
the same day a convoy of provisions, sent to O'Donnell
by the Alcalde of Los Arcos, with a letter announcing
that he might rely on all he had asked for, was taken.
O'Donnell, on being informed of this capture, notified to
the Captain-General that if his communications were in•
tercepted he would bombard the town. On the other
hand, the Captain-General sent for the relations of M.
Carriquiri and Ribed, merchants of Pampehma, who
have joined O'Donnell in the citadel, and told them that
if any injury were to be done to the town by O'Donnell
their lives should pay for it. In the afternoon of the 4th,
a battalion of about 500 men of the regiment of Girona
arrived to reinforce the garrison. This battalion had re-
mained nearly 25 hours at Villabu, about a mile and a
quarter distant from Pampeluna, undecided as to whe-
ther it should declare for Christino, or remain faithful
to Espartero. An end was put to its hesitation only by
sending to it a detachment of the same regiment, to ex-
hort it to remain true to its duty. Three bands of
music, viz., that of the National Guard, and those of
the two regiments of infantry, went to the gates of the
town to receive the battalion; they returned, playing
patriotic airs, which the troops joined in with great en-
thusiasm, and shouting—" Long live Espartero—Long
live the Queen." On the same day, several officers,
amongst whom was the brother of General O'Donnell,
succeeded in entering the citadel. A portion of them,
headed by General Ortigozo, almost immediately left it
to scour the country for partisans. The Captain-Gene-
ral has also ordered the province to be scoured by the
Mochuelo, in order to paralyze the efforts of the enemy,
and obtain additional force. The Carabineers and
coast guard of Navarre are gone to join the garrison of
Pampeluna."
Advices from Bayonne, in the Moniteur Parisien, state
that Jareguy was at Villafranca when he declared for
O'Donnell. The movement in favour of the Queen
Dowager was extending both in Biscay and Alava, The
regiment of Segovia, quartered at Santona, and the ca-
valry sent out from St. Sebastian to act against the
Queen's party had declared in favour of it. " The party
opposed to the movement," says this journal, " has suc-
ceeded in detaching in its favour a battalion of the regi-
ment of Girona and some coast-guards of Navarre. Up
to the sth, the garrison of Tafalla had not consented to
enter into the movement; it seemed, on the contrary,
willing to declare for General Ribeiro."
The Sentinelle of Bayonne, 7th instant, says that Mu-
, nagorri has arrived in that town. , The Presse, on the
other hand, which is likely to be well informed in these
matters, states he is at Ataun, and has put himself at
the head of a band of peasants. O'Donnell, according to
the Sentinelle, gives sf. a day to the soldiers who first
joined him.
The Memorial Bordelais says:—" The Madrid courier
of the 2d inst. has not arrived at Bayonne, having stop-
ped in Castile on learning the partial defection of General
Piquero, who commande at Vittoria. A courier from
the English Ambassador, who left Madrid on the 3d, has
reached France without Any difficulty, having left the
Spanish capital perfectly undisturbed. Generals Ribeiro
and Alcala are still at the head of their troops, one in
Navarre, and the other in Guipuscoa, keeping the people
and the rebels in check, and waiting for the orders of the
Regent. St. Sebastian is kept by the national militia,
which remains faithful to the established Government,
and it appears that the citizens in all the towns refuse to
compromise themselves."
" The firing which opened on Pampeluna on the sth,"
says the Messager, " was occasioned by an engagement,
without any result, between Ortigosa dud :.he troops un-
der Ribeiro, outside the citadel. O'Donnell had pre-
viously declared that he would thus act every time his
adherents were attacked."
Three documents, dated the 4th inst., have been pub-
lished at Vittoria, by M. Manuel Montes de Oca, for-
merly Minister of the Marine in Spain, and now bearing
the title of " Member of the Provisional Government of
Spain, during the absence of her Majesty the Queen Re-
gent, Maria Christina of Bourbon." In the first, which
comprises three articles, it is declared that the govern-
tzent which is to direct Spain during the absence of the
Queen Regent having been solemnly proclaimed in the
Basque provinces and Navarre, all persons not submit-
ting to this government within twelve hours from the re-
ception of the decree are adjudged traitors, and are to
be dealt with accordingly. All civil and military officers,
and all soldiers, are absolved in the name of the Queen
Regent from all services contrary to the spirit of
this decree, and from their obedience to " the illegal
and usurped authority of the pretended Regency of Ge-
neral Espartero."—The second document is a procla-
mation to the soldiers of Navarre and the Basque pro-
vinces, reminding them of the violence done towards
the Queen Regent by taking away the government from
her, who by her beneficence had *on the title of " Mo-
ther of the People ;" representing to them the evils and
insults that have since been heaped on the army, the
oppression suffered by the young Queen and her sister,
and calling on them to draw their swords in defence of
these Princesses.—The third document is addressed to
the Vasco-Navarrese. It commences by dwelling on the
ingratitude and treachery of Espartero towards his
Royal benefactress, and points out how much the most
sacred institutions of the nation have been contemned
and insulted by the revolutionary party now in posses-
sion of the Government at Madrid. It alludes in terms
of high congratulation and praise, to the town of Bilboa,
" the invincible," for the manifestation made some
time ago, by its authorities and inhabitants, to Queen
Christina, and also to the testimonials of respect and