The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-08 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Further details provo that the insurrection at Malaga,
though remarkable for the determination and bra very with
which it was supported, was utterly deficient in plan, and
seems to have been raised without any clear purpose. The
announcement that th 3 regular troops were coming tc
disarm the militia caused great commotion amongst the
people. A revolutionary junta was appointed, barricades
reared, and the freedom of the city proclaimed. But the ma.
jority of the volunteers were by no means enthusiastic intheis
resistance, an 1 it is likely that all would have submitted
bat for a treacherous report that the regular troops would
join the movement, and upon this the barricades were
maned -,and the fight began. It was very unequal.
General Caballero de Rodas had previously occupied all the
commanding positions in the town, and the conflict
was confined to the narrow streets in the
centre. It lasted the greater part of Thursday
and the whole of New Year's Day. Saturday morning
warned the insurgents that they had nothing more to
hope, and the fight was not renewed. A great num.
ber of prisoners, variously estimated, remain in the hands
of the General. It is expected that they will be shipped
off to some penal colony. The strangest feature of these
risings is the isolation of the insurgents, the indifference
with which the people of Malaga looked on at the attempt
at Cadiz, and waited until the doom of their neighbours
was sealed before they rose in the same cause.
The Temps states that the Government did not at first
contemplate a general disarming of the militia. In one
province it was distinctly announced that there the militia
should not be deprived of their weapons, and, in conse.
quence, there was no disorder. It was the menacing
attitude of Andalusia which led to the order for a general
disarming.
The Times correspondent fears that the appeal by tne
Bishop of Cadiz on behalf of the men implicated in the
late insurrection will not be successful. Prim and Serrano
are very rigid in matters of this kind. To shed the blood
of soldiers who merely obeyed their chiefs, and who were
engaged in putting down rebellion, must be deemed a crime
of the deepest dye. Prim, in particular, is very stern.
The writer once saw a poor peasant brought out and shot
at Gerona by Prim's order for having been found with a
scrap of paper concealed in his cravat addressed to the
chief of a band of military insurgents, who but a few
months before had been the General's own associate in a
similar rising. Certainly, if any appeal can move the
Provisional Government, the Bishop's letter will effect
that object. It is a touching and eloquent exhortation to
mercy.

The Florence correspondent of the Times says that tne
question of au Italian Prince for the Spanish throne has
evidently been raised in Madrid since General Cialdini
arrived there. It has come to the writer's knowledge
that a telegram was received by the Italian Government
with the view of ascertaining whether, if Spain had need
of such a prince, it would require a vote of the Chambers
to confirm his acceptance. There is one great difficulty in
the way of selecting the Duke of Aosta. His brother, the
heir to the Italian throne, is a delicate young man, "who
does not take great care of himself," and it is extremely
Probable that he may have so sons.