The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-19 00:00:00

vented from doing so, whilst those, whose
generous feelings had carried them beyond dis-
cretion, were exposed to the vengeance of the
Government. At Vittoria some of the most
respectable inhabitants were led to the scaffold,
victims of the spirit of concession to the despots
of Europe, which marked the conduct of the
British Cabinet in CANNING'S time, and
which is but too frequently apparent even
in our Reform Ministry. The Liberals
of Vittoria will be careful, after such a
lesson, how they commit themselves. They
are reported, indeed, in some of the accounts,
to have had a severe conflict with the Carlists,
when the latter proclaimed Don CARLOS ; but
other accounts state, that a compromise took
place between the two parties.
We have received private letters from Bay-
onne and Bordeaux, but they contain little
more information than is given in the Paris
papers, and as those places are notorious ma-
nufactories for news, we seldom place much re-
liance on the accounts which come from them,
except when they are confirmed from other
quarters. It appears certain, however, that a
part of the road between Madrid and Bayonne is
in the hands of the Carlists, and that several
towns have declared for their cause. It is
also certain that the QUEEN REGENT has been
compelled, by the difficulties of her situation, to
solicit the aid of the Constitutionalists against
the Carlists. We hope the former will refuse
to assist her without some guarantee as to the
course which the Government is to take, in the
event of their assistance proving the means of
securing the Crown to Donna ISABELLA. Now
is the time for them to make their own terms,
and, after the atrocious declaration against libe-
ralism, contained in the QUEEN'S Manifesto,
they have a right to bind her firmly as to her
future policy. She is of the absolute leaven,
and is not to be trusted.

As very little is known here of the character
of the QUEEN REGENT, the following sketch of
her, from the pen of a gentleman who was recently
at the Spanish Court, may not be unacceptable.
It would be surprising, indeed, if an uneducated
woman, such as she is here represented to be,
could be liberalized by anything but necessity :

" The education of the Queen hti; been more than ne-
glected. She is hardly able to write ; and. although an
intriguante by character, she bas not skill enough to defeat
the intriguantes by which her husband surrounded her. Her
embonpoint is excessive, and her vulgar air makes her the
jest of the Spanish ladies of the Court. Her mind, which
is weak and irresolute, is alternately under the influence
of her sister (the wife of Francisco de Paulo) and her
own women. At the period of her marriage with Ferdi-
nand, her enemies endeavoured to injure her by informing
him that she had given birth to a child at Naples,—' So
much the better,' said Ferdinand, I shall ba sure of her
fertility, and shall not die without heirs.' "

At present M. ZEA is supposed to be
virtually at the head of the Spanish Cabi-
net, but the QUEEN hates him for his
attempts to injure her by reports of infide-
lity to the KING ; and it is believed that
she will take the first opportunity to dismiss
him. According to all accounts, her finances are
in the worst possible condition, whilst CARLOS
has a banking house in every convent, and a
cashier in every Bishop. In this respect the
odds are fearfully against her. She may, how•
ever, be driven to the expedient of a loan, and
in doing so may be compelled to recognise the
loans of the Cortes. Thus her difficulties
may not only make her liberal, but also honest,
and the holders of Spanish Bonds may awake
some morning with their nominal capital
doubled. Everything depends on the temporary
success of Don CARLOS. If the Government
of the QUEEN REGENT be strong enough to put
him down without being compelled to make
important concessions to the Liberals, the pre-
sent system will continue in Spain, and
Spain will continue' to be a degraded country.
As to the juste milieu ameliorations, which
may be introduced through the influence
of LOUIS PHILIP, who is said, like a prudent
father, anxious to provide fur his family, to have
already bespoken the Crown of Spain for one
of his sons, as the future husband of the now
infant Queen, Spain will be much better with-
out them than with them, for their only effect
would be to perpetuate the worst parts of the
existing system.

It is said that the acknowledgment of the
Queen of SPAIN by Austria is accompanied by
many reservations, some of which are very un-
satisfactory. Probably the acknowledgment is
dependent on the condition of the Queen Regent
not calling in the aid of the Liberals, and being
able to consolidate the " best form of Govern-
ment" so much lauded in her manifesto. Prince
METTERNICH can care very little whether Don
CARLOS or Donna ISABELLA be at the head
of the State, so that the absolute system of
Government be not affected by the change in the
succession.

A letter from Paris states that a Council of
Ministers was held there on Thursday, at which
the chief point of discussion is said to have
been whether the Government should call out
35,000 men of the conscription, called the
second contingent. Another point of discus-
sion is said to have been the extent of the dis-
cretionary powers to be given to the Generals
who are to command the army of observation
near the Spanish frontiers. It was . generally
believed in Paris that the proposal for calling out
the 35,000 men of the second contingent would
be adopted.

We have merely room to-day to direct at-

tention to an article which we have copied from
the Durhanz Chronicle, headed " Lord Dur-
ham," and to some judicious observations
thereon, from the Morning Chronicle, touching

the base system of misrepresen; ation resorted to
by the Tory Press, to calumniate the Earl of
DURHAM. If there be any statesman in this
country to whom the people at large is more
indebted than another for his services and
devotion to the cause of Reform, it is that high
spirited and patrio is nobleman. The Tories,
smarting under this consciousness, and dread-
ing the return of Lord DURHAM to office,
are anxious, by all means, however vile
and false, to depreciate his character in
the estimation of the public ; but they have
reckoned without their host. Not content with
imputing to him sins of a political tendency, they
have now attacked him as an enemy to humanity,
and a scourge to the poor, whose habitations he
is coolly asserted to have threatened with destruc-
tion. Really, such barefaced—such unmanly
calumnies and falsehoods, are so repulsive
to common sense and common honesty, that
we wonder how men could stoop to perpe-
trate such baseness. But the cowardly li-
bellers shall have their reward.
Happily, the
law is yet strong enough to vindicate public
character, and Lord DURHAM is at length com-