The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-09 00:00:00

MADRID, MARCH 19.

. The 26th anniversary of the revolution of Aranjuez has
passed over this unhappy country. but has no' brought
with it the dawn of tranquillity. It was on the San Josef
that Don Carlos promised to m ,ke his public entry into
Madrid, and when Va! Queen tett the palace on Sa urd v,
it was whispered among the friends of the Pretender that
t.er Majesty's object was to escape as quietly as possible
from a difficult and le-eve the royal apartments
vacant for the reception of Charles V. The day passed
over without another revolution, but not without a peat
deal of excitement. The most prominent event is the
attack of Zotnalacarregui, at the heal of the strongest
Carlist force which has been assembled since the beginning
of the year, on the city of Vittoria. This chief has been
for some time in the Rioja collecting his force,, a: it now
appears, for this daring attempt on the capital of 2Vava.
The whole affair seems to have partaken very much of
the nature of a surprise. The garrison was weaker than
usual, having been reduced to little more than 300 men ;
but to mak.. amends for the deficiency of regular troops,
the townspeople appear to have behaved most gallantly,
not only campelling the insurgents to desist from their
project, but driving them to a distance of two leagues from
the town. The Carlist force is variously stated at 6,000,
7,000, and even 8,000 men. The numbers are probably
exaggerated to add to the glory of the defence, but even
the lowest :computation serves to prove how far we are
Flom having conquered the tranquillity of the northern
provinces. From the fact also that no Gazette has appeared
to satisfy the public impatience on the subject, there is
reason to fear that the first accounts have been but too
flattering, and that other events, of %I much less satisfactory
complexion, may soon be expected. It was on Sentlay
last that the attack was made, and although the details
have been known at the War-office fur the last 24 hours,
the only publicity they have acquired has been through
the medium of a French courier, who passed through
Vittolia on his way from Bayonne, a kW hours after
Zumalacarreges retreat. The resignation of Zirco del
Valle has been much talked of in the course of the day,
and some have added the name of Burgos as his companion
iu dis,,,raue. Nor would it occasion any public moot ning
in Madrid if Martinez de la Rosa, and the whole of his
colleagues, were to follow the example ascribed, perhaps
prematurely, to the Minister of War, for it cannot be
denied that since the boor of their accession to office the
new Ministers have discovered a most wendetful alacrity
in the art of sinking. _

Neither is it right, if it were possible, to withhold
from you the fact that the Queen Regent personally has
not been rising in public estimation. There is probably
no truth in the a,serti n that her Alai sty has res Ned,
whatever be the resolution of the Council of Regency with
respect to the estatuto real presented to that body by the
Ministers fur the conviieation of the Cortes, to withl,o'd
the Royal assent from it. foe rumour is probably the
fruit of the growing unpopularity to which I have alluded.
Perhaps the manners of M Aid are not much purer than
those of Naples, but here there is at least a decent regard
for outward appearances, which cannot be safely negli eted
in any rank of sueiety. The observations which are
daily made on the private conduit of the Queen Regent I
,s (mid willingly aactibe, if it were possible, to the mal,
eolenee of the peoWe ah.,ut tie Court, rather than to any
personal indisete•ion. It' the ‘us stories in circu-
lation have all originated wit:, the female attendants on
her Maj sty's person, %ve may expect to hear no more of
the matter, as, from some cause or otter not yet sufficiently
explained, the ladies of the Court have all remained in
Madrid, while her M jesty has gone to Aranjuez. The
male functionaries of the highest el 'se, whose duty it is to
irtend the royal per‘on, Lave also ab,ented themselves en
this 'evasion; but whether in either case the absence is
to be ascrib,d to the nil of the mistress or the desertion
of her se: vants, I have not at this distance been able to
ascertain.

The first act of the Gave' nment since its transference
to Aranjaiz evinces perhaps iiiore real courage than any
previnus me isure of the new Administration. It coneiets
in the dismissal of Don Antonio Allue from the important
office of Patriarch 01 ti'e Ivies, and the aepoiutment in
his a cad of the Bishop of Si, uehra. It is only wonderful
that a noted Carlist should so long have been suffered to
exercise the patronage which this office gives him over
the whole of the chap' ,ins and other clerical funciumaries
connected with the naval and military service. In France
or England this specie+ of patranage is not supposed ta
confer any material inflaence over the armed force of the
country; in Spain, however, as you will readily believe,
the case is far from being the same. Toe new Patriarch,
Dan Manuel Frayle, has the reputation of being a Con-
stiturionali-t of me' erate principles. He was raised to
the bishopric of Sigueoza in 1823, and is supposed to
have owed his elevation to the pleasure which the late
King took in a play upon woos. Wi en a vacancy
occurs in an ecclesiastical dignity, it is the duty of the
Council of Cat ile, whose power and p itronaze are at
once so anomalous and extensive, to scud up a I.st of three
names, from which the Kim: makes his personal tefection.
It was the practice of Kw Ferdinand to take the first on
the list ; but the name of D n Manuel, although the
last of the three candidates proposed for the bishopric of
Biguenza, was selected by his Majesty tor no better reason
than that he mielit have the pleasure of making theepun
which will readily suggest itself to any of your readers
ecqoainted with the language of the country. The
Government has, perhaps, be• n prompted to this act of
vigour in the case of Din Antonio Allue by the good
effects which have resisted 'roan the threat held out to
the Archbishop of Toledo. Resolved to evince the sincerity
of the oath he had taken, his Grece was the first to
welcome tl7e Q wen Regent on her arrival at Ai anjuez.
The Captain General of Citaloni., from the activity he
displays in enrolling and arming the militia of his pro-
Vince, 'means resolved to make amends fur the total failure
of the Ministerial project in the capital as in u'her parts of
the kingdom. Nat restricting himself to the quota of one
per cent. on the population, origin illy prescribed by the
yoverninent for the organization of the urban militia,
and ioquil ing still less into the amount of taxes which his
Catalentan volunteers had paid, or into any other eyed&
Cation but ti at' which is included in their aptitude fir
maneging a musket, he has already mustered a force of not
less than 36,000 m. de, for %remit he has cantrived to find
arms and other ind.seensable equipments. The arms are
imported at Barcelona, for the most pin in an imperfect
state, the stock of the musket being prepared on the spot,
while the lock, the barrel, and the side-arms can be
obtained mote cheaply from a eistance. Ii Llauder pro-
ceeds much longer as he is now doing, he will be able to
aiidress the Government of Madrid in a tone, if possible,
More imperative and dictatorial than that of the cel,hr Ited
!,'ter to the Qaeen Regent, which pieceded,if it did not
produce, the fall of the late Admioistratd.n.
The audience of the Qteen, to which Zta was admitted
just before her Majesty's departure for Aranjuaz, has ob-
tained some notoriety irons the importance imparted to it
by a clumsy attempt at interruption. Some five minutes
after the ex-Minister had been admitted into the Royal
presence, the Infante Don Francisco, gool easy min, w
sent in with a bundle of lariat rs for her Majesty's signature.
The interview is now spoken of as an act of imprudence in
the present state of the country on the part bath of Zet
and the Queen, but even those who think it indiscreet do
not se-m to apprehend that any serious consequence will
sitise from it.

The probability of an invasion of Portugal for the pur-
rof driving Don Carlos from the neighbourhood of the

9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Capt. R. Pringle, from
the half.pay of the 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons, to be
Captain, vice John Carnegie, who exchanges, receiving the
difference, dated April 8.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieut. the
Hon. Montagu P. Beale, from the Royal Regiment, to be En.
sign and Lieutenant, vice Bathurst, who exchanges, April 8.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieut W. H. H. Bathurst, from the
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant,
vice Bertie, who exchanges, April 8.
13th Foof—F. G. Christie, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur.
chase,-vice Hutchins,- promoted in the 62d Regiment of Foot,
April 8.

14th Foot—Lieut. W. Graham, from the 31st Regiment of
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice E. C. Lynch, who retires upon the
half-pay of the 22d Regiment of Foot, April 8.
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15th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Horton, from the half-
pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice A. F. Macin-
tosh, who exchanges, receiving the difference, April 8.
31st Foot—Lieut. H. S. Jones, from the half-pay of the 22d
Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Graham, appointed
to the 14th Regiment of Foot, April 8.

34th Foot—A. C. Goodenough, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Norris, promoted, April 8.

43d Foot—Lieut. H. Bruere to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Seymour, who retires; Ensign R. G. A. Levinge to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bruere; Lord W. F. A. M.
Hill to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Levinge, April 8.

62d Regiment of Foot—To be Lieutenants without pur.
chase—Ensign S. W. Graves, vice Buchan, deceased, Aug. 3 ;
Ensign G. Evatt, vice Heard, deceased, Sept. 21 ; Ensign H.
T. Hutchins, from the 13th Regiment of Foot, vice Abell,
deceased, April 8. To be Ensigns—Ensign J. Palmer, from
the halfpay of the 31st Regiment of Font, vice Graves, April 7;
G. Nicholas, Gent., vice Evatt, April 8. To be Adjutant—
Lieut. A. L. Gwynne, vice Buchan, deceased, April 11.
68th Foot—Lieut. A. C. Flint, to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Craufurd, who retires ; Ensign A. D. Douglas to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Flint; T. S. Beale, Gent., to be En.
sign, by purchase, vice Douglas, April 8.
83d Foot—Lieut. 11. Kelly to be C iptain, by purchase, vice
Johnston, who retires; Ensign H. Lloyd to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Kelly ; D. Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Lloyd, April 8.

96th Foot—Brevet Lieut.. Colonel H. White to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Futlarton, deceased;
Brevet Major W. Hulme to be Major, vice White ; Lieut.
L. F. Jones to be Captain, vice Hutme; Ensign E Hathaway
to be Lieutenant, vice Jones, April 9 ; B. H. Tarleton, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Hathaway, April S.