The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

Every free-trader will be glad to learn that Lord LINCOLN
has been at last rewarded for his spirited and honourable
perseverance in a good cause, and been returned as Member
for the Falkirk Burghs. His conduct on this occasion, as in
all the transactions which took place during the contest for
Nottinghamshire, has been straightforward and manly.
However anxious for a seat in Parliament, and though he
knew it was absolutely necessary to enable him to fill his
present important office, he would net give a pledge which
he considered inconsistent with constitutional principles, but
resolved rather to take his chance, trusting to his own merits
and the good sense of the Scottish electors. The result is
highly honourable to both parties, and more especially to the
Liberals, who form the majority of the constituency. Many
of them, it is admitted, held back, in order that Lord Lmcoui
might be returned, not because they had deserted their prin-
ciples, or concurred in all those entertained by his Lordship,
but because they knew that a great boon for the country
was at stake, because they wished to encourage a Minister
engaged in a noble and a sacred duty, and were convinced
that on the present occasion measures, and not men, ought to
guide their decisions. This is the practical way of carrying
on business, and only furnishes another proof of the caution
and prudence which distinguish our brethren of the north.

The Lucerne Gazette reports that on Sunday week General
SONNIXBERG was fired at as he was returning from Ettis-
well, where he had been attending mass, to his chateau of
Kastalen. The person who fired the shot was concealed
from his view, but it is said that immediately afterwards he
saw two young men run off, and take refuge in a neighbour •
ing forest, and who are naturally suspected to be the guilty
parties. The police of Lucerne have offered a reward of
300 f. to any one giving only a slight indication of the of-
fender, and 600 f. for more positive information.

The Augsburph Gazette states that, during the late insur-
rection in Poland several Polish families took refuge in
Russia, where they were kindly received, and furnished with
the means of subsistence until the restoration of tranquillity
should enable them to return to their homes.
It would appear from the statements in the German papers,
that the tranquillity of Austrian Galicia has been completely
restored. On the EMPICROR'S birthday an Imperial decree
was issued, abolishing the oppressive feudal claims, such as
forced labour, &c., which had hitherto grievously pressed on
the peasantry, by whom these concessions had been most
gratefully received.

The Levant mail brings advices from Alexandria of the
20th, Greece of the 12th, Constantinople of the 18th, and
Malta of the 24th ult. RIZA PACHA, who, since his dis-
missal from the Ministry, had been confined to his own house
by order of the SULTAN, has been completely restored to
liberty. Constantinople was quite tranquil, and Syria seemed
to be completely pacified. There is no news of importance
from Egypt or Greece.

Madrid papers of the 26th have been received. General
Omen, who had been appointed Commandant of the pro-
vince of Teruel, had refused to go to his post, and had been
in consequence ordered by the Minister of War to leavetAleardertiod
in twenty. four hours and proceed to the Canary Islands,
h
await the orders of the Government. A loan of 200,000,000
reels for the construction of railways has been contracted
by the Government under very favourable conditions. M.
RIVAS has been declared the contractor for the loan; there
were eight other capitalists who delivered tenders. Among
them Senor SALAMANCA.
By the Southampton packet we are in possession of later
intelligence from Galicia than is to be found in these jour-
nals. The packet left Corunna on the 24th, and brings the
following intelligence:—
"General Concha, in a report to the Captain-General of Galicia,
writes from Santiago, dated the 23d, that after a desperate combat
at Cacheira, and after his having entered the town of St. Yago, net-
withstanding the vigorous defence of the rebels, commanded by Solis,
they had been forced to surrender at discretion. The i.umZamora,eb °
prisoners amounts to 1,400, composed of the battalions of
of the regiments of Gijon and Oviedo, and 2
prisoners is
of officers made
regiment of Villaviciosa. The number
Gijon, and Segovia, 70 men of the civic guard,
troops of the Queen dis-
played including their Commander, Solis. Thaek
taking
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prThisprisoners.
morningoners.
played great bravery, particalarly in the t
forward to Corunna under the escort of four
the prisoners were sent
and a squadron of cavalry."
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companies different ffaioarne natf detachments
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CoNCHA entered
The Madrid Bolsa was closed on the 25th.
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killed 26 t h , and
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Since then intelligence hap been received announcing that

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Satur-
day. The fete of King Louis PHILIPPE, was celebrated on
Friday with more than usual splendour and more than
usual enthusiasm. The weather was superb. LOUIS
PHILIPPE wherever he appeared was received with
enthusiastic shouts of Five le .Roi. He appeared
in excellent health and spirits. A grand recep-
tion took place at the Tuileries in the morning,
at which IBRAHIM PACHA was present. The KING with
his own hand invested the Egyptian Prince with the Grand
Order of the Legion of Honour, who expressed his gratitude
In truly Oriental terms.
The report of the Committee on the budget of ex-
penditure was distributed to the Deputies on Thursday.
The report itself extends to five hundred pages. From a
resume of it, which is given by the Journal des Debate, it
appears, that there exists a deficiency ofnearly one thousand
millions of francs (equal to 40,000,00010, and which will re-
quire eleven years of uninterrupted peace to cover it. The
Committee only propose certain small reductions in the salaries
of public functionaries, amounting in the whole to not more
than 422,417 francs. The report concludes by declaring,
with regard to Algeria, that the Committee considers it
desirable, ha every NIA of ylew, that the admilliatati94

entity, and the people, to escapt front the basest slavery—,
the galling chains of a foreign yoke—aPC" thrown entirely
irs'n their own resources. But a week ago we ventured to
haelardous experiment in regard to such a
country—that, their patiet.t tieing utterly exhausted by
etch endless and ruinous revolutions at Madrid; they would
be compelled to rise in their own defence, and Would take for
their watchword, " The qUEEN and the Constitution !"
" Down with CHRISTINA !" " leith TRAPANI !" In
a proclamation just issued to the army by the. "Directing Junta
of the National Mevegient" in Galicia, we were these to not
surprised that the words f the same effect had been actually
adopted by that body, and that the Mehl causes of grievance
at the present moment are, the detestable intrigues of this
wicked woman for overthrowing the liberty of the country,
and making it, as in bygone days, subject to Naples and
France. "On other points of the territory," says the
Junta, " the war cry has also been raised against that avari-
cious, hypocritical, and intriguing Neapolitan, who takes ad-
vantage tif her position to deceive and enslave the QUEEN.
Aided by a handful of traitors, she exhausts all her schemes
to seat on the throne of Spain a Neapolitan Prince
full of sup.erstitions and servile ideas, to drag us at
the tail of Rome, beneath the feet of the French Govern-
ment." The Junta, at the conclusial of the proclamation,
furnishes the watchwords, " Down with the Neapolitans !"
" Down with the traitors !" " Long live liberty and the
country I" This movement in Galicia is evidently of A very
serious character, even judging from the distorted statements
in the Madrid Gazette. A naval force (and what naval
force has .Spain ?) is ordered tO operate on the coast of Galicia
as if the soldiers in the interior could not be depended upon ;
and the Government of Louis Pnturrz has also taken the
alarm, and appointed a protecting naval force for that quarter.
But they will have more coasts than this to guard. The
Spanish nation can no longer submit to the ruinous schemes
of foreigners and traitoriband, sick as they must be of civil
war, and disheartened, too, in the prospect of anything like a
regeneration of the classes that rule them, they are forced by
dire necessity to resist a system the most insufferable of all
with which they have yet been afflicted. The accounts in
the Madrid Gazette received this morning state that none of
the peasantry have joined the insurrection. But that really
says nothing. The movement was begun by the middle
classes, aided by the military—parties sufficiently powerful
in these days to create a revolution in Spain. The army, too, is
a machine just suited to the occasion. It is open to the highest
bidder, totally disorganised, destitute of any distinguished
leader, and in a very short period, if affairs thus continue,
will be without pay. The conduct of the intriguing traitors
at Madrid has excited such abhorrence and despair in the
provinces, that the public functionaries or juntas that may
be formed will stop the revenue returns, and retain all for
their own local purposes. Never was any country more
thoroughly ripe for a great movement. And what has been
the cause of this total derangement of a Government that
but four years ago appeared to be established on fair con-
stitutional principles ?—Queen CHRISTINA, the protegee of
the French Court. We blamed at the time the
part acted by Louts PHILIPPE, after CHRISTINA
was expelled from Spain by a well-arranged and
patriotic plan of ESPARTERO. He saw the
despotic and unprincipled disposition of the woman could
not be eradicated—he saw that if she were allowed to return
to Madrid to renew her intrigues, there must be a struggle
between them for the mastery, as has since been exemplified
in the ruin of NARVAEZ, and he resolved to cut the matter
short, by compelling her to embark at Barcelona. She had
no alternative, and was hurrying fast to Naples, to pass
the rest of her days, as she said, in retirement, when
she was stopped near Marseilles, by a messenger
from the Court of the Tuileries. She was induced
to take up her residence in the French capital,
her hotel became the centre of intrigue for all discontented
Spaniards, and all the enemies of ESPARTERO. She was
evidently a favourite with the French Court, and used as a
means for an end. What that end was it is difficult to say,
but one thing is clear, that this woman has occupied herself
with nothing so much as the marriage of her eldest
daughter, the QUEEN. Could that have been quietly
arranged, perhaps, the marriage of the other daughter might
have followed as a matter of course, and some near
relative of Louis PHILIPPE'S might have been selected as
the favourite. We fear that only some strong personal feel-
ing of this description could have made a Sovereign so re-
markable for his prudence choose a woman of very low cha-
racter, and thoroughly disliked by the great majority of
Spaniards, as a tool for carrying his family schemes into
effect. Has he gained his object, or has he any chance of it?
CHRISTINA'S character is so tainted, she is regarded by all
good patriots as a foreigner, and the agent of foreigners,
and any marriage that she could propose for
either of her daughters would be regarded with the strongest
suspicion, and considered as a return for some enormous
bribe to betray her adopted country. Lord ABERDEEN ap-
pears to have acted a prudent part in reference to all these
disreputable transactions. As far as we can judge, Mr.
BULWER has sided with neither party; he has not disgraced
the character of a British Minister by mixing himself up
with the vile intrigues of the QUEEN-MOTHER and her
Camarilla. He is neither for Count TRAPANI nor Don
fineuttgun, but leaves these affairs to the Spaniards, and
thereby maintains the true dignity of the British Embassy.