The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-09 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 2d have arrived.
The Prince D'AGLENA is the Ministerial candidate
for the Presidency of the Senate and SELT AS LOZANO
for that of the Chamber of Deputies. CABRERA and
hip Lieutenants are exceedingly active in Catalonia.
On the night of the 24th his Lieutenant, POZAS, en-
tered Mataro, and carried off the director of the rail-
way and two other capitalists, as hostages for the
payment of the contribution which he demanded. He
did this without the least opposition, though Mataro
is a town of 13,000 inhabitants, only five leagues
from Barcelona, to which it is united by a railway.
The Tristanis paid a visit to San Andres, a suburb of
Manresa, on the same evening, and carried off a
regidor and several others of the principal
inhabitants; and a letter from Reus of the 27th
states that 500 Carlists had been at Riudums,
half a league off, two days before, and carried off the
whole corporation, as pledges for three months' taxes
which had not been paid. They mustered in force
close to Reus the next day, and gave the inhabitants
twenty-four hours to cash up the amount demanded
from that town, under penalty of a rigorous blockade.
MASGORET, BASQUETAS, and other chiefs, with 800
men, were at Castelloel, half a mile from Reus, and
their advances just outside the walls; and from a
private communication of the corregidor to the other
members of the corporation, it was supposed that
the sum required would quietly be made
up. It should be observed that General
GALTANO, with his column, had been for eight
days at Reus, which he left on the 27th for Falcet,
with a battalion of 'the Sin Marcial Regiment, that
had arrived two days before from the Maestranzo,
and some companies of another corps, and a few
cavalry-1,000 men altogether. His object was to
liberate the Judges of First Instance, and the
de-
tachment stationed there, who had been shut up in
the fort during fifteen days, whilst the Carlists occu-
pied the town in force, and levied 130 ounces of
gold, 50 of which were paid down at once, and they
had quietly taken up their quarters waiting for the
rest.

A Cervera letter, of the 26th, says that the Carlist
chief, RAMONET, who had made several unsuccessful
attacks on the town of Mayals, has entered it at last,
and had burned several houses there, in reprisal for
the obstinacy of their previous resistance.
There was a rumour in Madrid to the effect that
the POPE had arrived at Barcelona; it was not, how-
ever, generally credited.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 2.—The Three per Cents.
have rather improved of late, which is probably to be
attributed to the approach of the Christmas dividend ;
they are reported at 19i, 15-16, buyers 15-16, sellers
20; Five per Cents., 9i buyers, sellers; Coupons,
5i sellers ; Passive Debt, 31 buyers,
_sellers.

A reunion of the Elite of French subjects resident
in Richmond and its vicinity, is expected to take place
this (Saturday) evening at the Castle Hotel, Rich-
mond. Louis Philippe and the other members of
the ex-Royal Family of France are expected to be
present.

RIVER PLATE.—Bv the brig Sappho, arrived at
Liverpool, direct from Buenos Ayres, we have advices
from that port to the 11th of October. Mr. Sothern, the
British Minister to the Argentine Republic, who landed
a few days previous to the sailing of the Sappho, had an
interview with Rosas's Minister. Trade was dull. Ex-
change on England was unaltered. Freights had a
downward tendency. The last quotations were 555. per
ton for tallow, and 50s, for bides, to Great Britain.