The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Paris Moniteur of yesterday has the follow•
ing despatch from Barcelona, dated Saturday last :
"At 5 o'clock yesterday evening a movement took
place at Barcelona. Tne general in command here
instantly sent his troops against the rebels, who
dispersed themselves immediately, and entrenched
themselves in the manufacturing quarter of the
town, to the west of the Rambla. By 11 o'clock
they had erected 14 barricades. At midnight the
chief of these were carried by assault ; the others
were not defended.

" This morning tranquillity seemed to be restored,
bat one battalion of troops and several companies of
the National Guard declared for the rebels. An order
of the general immediately commanded them to dis-
solve themselves and lay down their arms within one
hour. The disarmament was effected without re-
sistance. At 11 o'clock to-day, new barricades were
formed in the Place of the Prado. By noon they
were forced, 'in performing which General Bansols
was wounded.

" The musketry firing still continues, but the
advantage everywhere remains with the troops.
The insurgents now occupy in the town only the
terraces of some of the houses. The devotion
which has been shown by the troops is admirable."
We have received journals and letters from Mad-
rid up to the 18th. The Epoca states that on the
14th Gen. San Miguel, who has the halberdiers of
the palace under his command, had an audience of
the Queen, in which, while regretting the resiana-
tion of the Duke de la Vittoria, he placed his sword
at her Majesty's disposal for the defence- of the
throne, if necessary. Gen. Mackron, who acted
with great zeal against the insurgents, is to be ap-
pointed lieutenant-general, and the Marquises del
Duero and de la Solana, Generals Ross, Duke,
Serrano, and Menevia are spoken of as likely to
receive high marks of royal favour. Gen. Amero
arrived from Talladolid on the 16th with three
battalions and eight squadrons. He was imme-
diately presented to the Queen on his arrival, and
declared to her that public order was perfectly se-
cure at Valladolid. Espartero was still at Madrid
on the 17th, and it is stated that he has asked per
mission to retire to Arganda. An aide-de-camp
had arrived from Valencia, announcing that public
order had been maintained there by the firm atti-
tude of the troops, although some attempts had
been made to create a disturbance on receiving the
news of the insurrection in the capital.
The Gazette of the 18th publishes a series of
Royal decrees superseding in their posts the Gover-
nors of the provinces of Grenada, Valencia, Sara-
gossa, Albacete, the Balearic Islands, Guadalajara,
and Lerida, and appointing their successors.
M. Valentia Ferraz ceased to be Inspector-Ge-
neral of the National Guards of Spain, and his
Ifunctions were conferred, pro tempore, on M.
Rios Rosas, Minister of the Interior.
By another Royal decree General Prim, Count
of Reuss, was removed from the government of
Granada, the Queen declaring herself satisfied with
his services, of which her Majesty intends again to
avail herself on his return from France.

The Gazette contains the following Royal decree :
" Wishing to give a proof of the satisfaction I feel at
the loyalty, valour, and enthusiasm displayed by the
troops of all arras, composing the garrison of this capi-
tal, I have decreed :

" ' Art. 1. All the generals and officers who have been
wounded shall be immediately promoted to the rank
above the one they occupy.
" 'Art. 2. The soldiers who have distinguished them-
selves shall be decorated with the Cfass of Maria Isabella
Luisa, and receive a pension for lita of 30 reals a month.
Those who have been wounded shall be entitled to a pen.
skin of 60 reale per month, and those rendered-unfit for
service by their wounds to 6 rea's per day. I reserve to
myself, besides, the right of recompensing the exploits
of general and officers conformably.to the merit of each.
" Art. 3. The National Guards, who, faithful to
their oath, continued to perform duty in the Royal
Palace, are comprised within the above provisions.
"'A journal, says the Epoch, found it strange that
the English Minister, Lord Uowden, did not appear at
the Pa ace during the last events. The fact is not at all
extraordinary, Lord Howden having been for some time
abient from Madrid. The Representative of the British
Legation, Mr. Ottway, during the absence of the Am.
bassador, hastened to the Palace the moment the insur-
rection commenced.'"

The casualties of the troops are estimated at
between 40 and 50 killed, and 150 wounded. The
losses of the insurgents were not yet known. One
of the battalion of the military which suffered most,
the Ist battalion of Artillery, had 45 men hors de
combat. The Royal troops engaged consisted of 13
battalions, with 50 pieces of artillery, in all about
16,000 men. The cavalry, composed of 2,000 men,
was employed outside the gates in keeping up the
communications between the three corps into which
the Royal forces were divided.

Nineteen thousand muskets and a considerable
quantity of pistols, sabres, lances, &c., had been
surrendered by the National Guards and inhabit-
ants of Madrid.

The 57,000,000 of reals forwarded from France
by the Spanish Credit Mobilier Company to the
Government had arrived at Madrid, and were de-
posited in the Court of the Palace during the in-
surrection.

A Madrid letter of the 17th in yesterday's Moni-
teur, says that orders have, been given there to di-
rect troops from the Basque provinces, from Cata-
lonia, from Navarre, and from Madrid itself, imme-
diately upon Saragossa. "In a few days from this
time," adds the correspondent of the Moniteur,
" we shall have news of their junction, and of the
results which they will have obtained. It is
thought that the command of them will be en-
trusted to Marshal Concha."

There is no confirmation of the statement that
85 members of the Cortes have arrived at Saragossa.
The French Government journals, without posi-
tively denying the fact, are instructed to throw
doubt upon it. They all say, in nearly identical
terms, that O'Donnell's cavalry being master of the
country surrounding Madrid, would not probably
have allowed so many deputies to leave the city.
Of the 12 captain-generals now commanding pro-
vinces in Spain, seven were appointed under the
exclusive influence of O'Donnell, and five upon the
recommendation of Espartero. One of these latter
is the Lieut.-General Falcon, Captain-General of
Arragon, upon whom the hopes •of the insurrection
now seem mainly to rest. His appointment was
greatly opposed by O'Donnell, and Espartero only
obtained it by impressing his firm determination
that it should be made. _ _ _

Entire families from Barcelona arrived at Mar-
seilles on the 19th, having fled from that city on
account of the great fermentation which reigned
there.

PROCLAMATION OF THE PATRIOTIC
LEADERS AT SARAGOSSA.

At Saragossa, on the 15th, immediately after the
reception of the news from Madrid, all the mili-
tary, political, and civil authorities of the province
and city, as well as the chiefs of the National
Guard, assembled at the palace of the Captain-
General of Arragon, and in a sitting presided over
by the functionary, voted the following proclama-
tion :

" Inhabitants of the province of Saragossa,—A.
shameful attack upon the cause of liberty has been
committed in the capital of the kingdom. The
man who in 1854 drew the sword in the name of
the law, has to day forcibly taken possession of the
government of the nation in contempt of that law.
He does not fear to shed the blood of the people
that he may substitute his arbitrary power for the
national sovereignty.
" The city of Saragossa, ever heroic and the
firmest rampart of liberty, cannot remain indiffer.
ent in the presence of such an attempt ; it must
constitute itself in open opposition to the ministry
with the unshaken resolve not to lay down arms
until the liberty of the country is safe.
"In bringing events and resolutions so grave to
our knowledge, the Junta of Saragossa invites you
to rise as one man, to gather round it and hold
yourselves ready to resist the power which seeks
to impose upon us, by grape shot, its absolute will.
But the Junta cannot abstain at the same time from
recommending you to proceed with the greatest
moderation, avoiding all that may compromise the
sacred cause you are called upon to defend.
" Consider the advantage which our enemy
would gain from the slightest excess on your part,
and the joy with which he would see anarchy glide
in amongst us. All this would but give too many
opportunities for legitimising his intervention.
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