The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The French Government yesterday received the
Following telegraphic despatch :
"St. Sebastian, 31st July.
"The French Consul to the Minister of Foreign

Affairs.

"Accounts from Saragossa are expected with
the greatest impatience. Hopes are still enter-
tained -of a prompt and pacific solution. We this
moment learn vla Perpignan and 'run, that the
whole of Catalonia has recognised the Queen's Go-
verninent. Navarre and the Basque provinces
enjoy the most perfect tranquillity."
The Madrid journals of the 28th have reached us
in due course. The Gazette gives a long account
of the rising at Barcelona. The garrison had three
superior and eight other officers and 32 soldiers
killed, and one general, four superior, and 18 other
officers, and 177 soldiers wounded. The cemeteries
of Barcelona and Garcia have received the bodies
of 244 insurgents. To this number must be
added those who were buried by the insurgents
themselves during the contest, either within the
part of the city which they were masters of or
on the ground of the old fortifications. Imme-
diate interment was rendered necessary in con-
sequence of the extreme heat of the weather.
The greater number of the wounded insurgents
still remain in concealment, as only 135 have
entered the hospitals. A body of carbineers of
Huesca and some national guards have seized a
hundred muskets and several boxes of ammunition
which had been collected by the Junta of Sara-
gossa, and have delivered them up to the Captain-
General of Navarre. The Government, in conse-
quence of- the conduct of the national guard
throughout the kingdom, has become strengthened
in its idea of not reorganising that body. It is ip
contemplation at most to include in the national
guard, if reconstituted, the largest tax-payers,
as the probability is that from the state of
the country they would remain quiet.
It is said that a constitution of a liberal cha-
racter is to be published by the Government.
The cabinet is said to be convinced that to convoke
the present Constituent Cortes or even an ordinary
chamber would be to return on its steps, to lose
time, and to call everything again in question.
The most important measures that the government
intends carrying out as soon as order has been re-
stored are the re-organisation of the council of state,
the augmentation of the army, and the regulation
of the different state employments in the sense of
the liberal union. The resignation of San Miguel
as captain-general of halberdiers has been decidedly
refused.
The Diarie, dating from Barcelona on the 24th,
states that the number of persons killed in the con-
flict of the preceding days, and interred in the ce-
metery of the town, was 216, of whom 65 were
soldiers, and 151 citizens, half of them belonging
to the suburb of Gracia. This number does not
include those who were subsequently put to death
by order of the Captain-General.
A Paris correspondent of the Independance Beige
expresses his opinion that the system of terrorism
will not avail to intimidate such a population as
that of Catalonia ; and he says that among the
manufacturing 'population of Barcelona there are
not less than 2U,000 French workmen, most of
them ardent professors of democracy, and many of
them expert at the barricades. If these men
should once associate themselves to the existing
revolutionary parties in Spain, the Government
will not find it so easy to strike a decisive blow at
the latter, but will have to contend with a most
formidable organisation of workmen.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING,:
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There was a report this afternoon that represen-
,
tations of a conciliatory nature, addressed by the
Austrian Government to,that of Naples; had had a
good effect; and that the King had promised slight
'concessions and some modification' of 'the system
that has excited such universal reprobation, and in
which the remonstrances of England and France
have proved powerless to produce a change. The
rumour may possibly be well founded, but siight
concessions could hardly be expected to close the
question, as they certainly would not put an end
to the scandal Naples is giving to Europe.
Official despatches reached Paris this day, corn
ing from Constantinople, show that the Russian
Government is bent on insulting Turkey in every
way possible. The Porte has referred several dif-
ficulties and grievances to the Governments of
England and France.
The vacation of the Council of State for this year
will commence on the 15th August and terminate
on the 15th October. A commission has been ap-
pointed to deliberate during that period on any
urgent affairs which may require immediate solu-
tion. It is composed of General Allard, and MM.
Vuillefroy and Boinvilliers, presidents of sections ;
15 councillors of State, 11 supernumerary council-
lors, 12 masters of requests, and 20 auditors.
A decree in the 4oniteur makes two promotions
to the rank of officer in the Legion of Honour, and
39 nominations to that of knight, among officers,
non-commissioned officers, and privates who distin-
guished themselves in the late war.
BOURSE, Aug. I.—The following were the latest
quotations :

_
Cash. tr. a. End of Month.
ii per Cents S3 r,O —f. —c.
3 por Conte 7O 20 70 f.'o
New Loan 7O 10 --

Bank Shar 3.9 4,050 Roman

Credit Mobi Her 1;580. Austrian_

Belgian Five 5........ 99k-- Spanish Threes
Piedxnontese(s) 9O Home Debt

RAILWAYB-YOB CASH.

______
Ir. c. fr. a
Orleans ......... ...... 1,400 Western
Northern 1,050 Strasburg -
Lyons ..,...1,415 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,837 50 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva ~ 805 Taste
Cede BlO Austrian Com. 865

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, JULY 29.

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We learn that the head-quarters of the Com-
mander of the Austrian troops in Moldavia were
removed from Jassy on the Ist of this month, and
that the evacuation of the two Principalities will,
very soon be completed ; but it will be seen that
the Russians will take care to furnish the Austrians
with a good excuse for prolonging the occupation.
Austria declares that her troops shall not entirely
quit the Principalities until the Russians have left
that part of Bessarabia which is to be ceded to
Moldavia, and Russia expresses her resolve not to
make a retrograde movement until the last Aus-
trian soldier has • returned to his own country.
Such is the present state of affairs, and such it is
likely to remain if the Western Powers do not inter-
fere in the matter. The bad faith shown by Rug.:
sia in respect to Ismail, Kilia,. and Kars is perhaps
a kind of justification of the conduct of Austria.
The Ost-Deutsche Post has learned from Jassy
that the Turkish Commissary;Kiamil Bey, arrived
in that city in the afternoon of the 25th. The
Sultan's representative was received with great
ceremony by 'the local authorities, and the cosn-
wander of' the Austrian troops sent one of his
aides-de-camp to wait on him.
No one here gives credit to the report that a
political alliance is about to be formed between
Rome, Tuscany, and Naples under the aegis of
Austria, but it, is highly probably that this Go-
verment cherishes the hope that the three Powers
named may be induced to follow the example of
.MOdena and Parma, and accede to the Austro-
German Customs Union.

--
The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 24th tilt.
contains the official announcement of the defini-
tive evacuation of the Crimea.by the allies.

pount de Persigny arrived at Dresden on the
ih ult. on his way to Carlsbad.

letter from Vienna, in the Augsburg Gazette,
s :—A small congress is about to take place at
Eiplitz. The Emperor will start for that place
11 few days. The Kings of Prussia and Saxony
meet at Toeplitz their consorts, now_ residing

there. This meeting of the three Sovereigns has
no political motive and is occasioned alone by
family reasons. Besides the near relationship
which exists between the three courts, the betro-
thal of the brother of our Emperor to the Princess
Marguerite of Saxony sufficiently explains the
meeting. It is said that the Emperor and Em-
press of Austria will start for 'will towards the end
of August.

AFFAIRS OF SPAIN.

The following is extracted from the letter of the
Times' (second edition) Paris correspondent, dated
yesterday (Friday), 6 p.m
Although the new Spanish Cabinet is still silent
as to its plans, the intelligence that reaches us to-
day with respect to them, through a semi-official
channel, is of a nature to inspire uneasiness as to
the future tranquility of Spain. The Government,
considering that to convoke the existing Constituent
Cortes, or a new Constituent Assembly, or the or-
dinary Cortes of the kingdom, would,under present
circumstances, be productive of no good effect, but
rather of troublesome complications, will abstain
from any such convocation, and thinks of promul-
gating a constitution put together by itself or under
its own auspices, and which is to be of a nature to
satisfy all parties, from the upholders of monarchy
and its prerogatives to the partisans of democracy.
Such an assurance as this might make us believe that
the Goddess of Wisdom herself had descended in
the palace of Buenavista to preside at the delibera-
tions of Marshal O'Donnell and his colleagues.
What manner of constitution can it be that is thus
immeasurably to surpass the results of the labours
of successive councils of the nation, comprising, it
is supposed, the ablest politicians in Spain ? We
may be permitted to doubt whether the master-
piece, when produced, will justify the reputation
given to it by anticipation. And its origin alone
will render it unacceptable to the people for whom
it was intended. What matters, it is asked, the
origin of a constitution, so long as it is a good one 7
The reply is, that it matters a great deal, for thdre
is nothing all Shades of Spanish Liberals have a
greater aversion to, and are less prepared to re-
ceive favourably, than a constitution octroye, or
graciously granted, by the Government, especially
when that Government is of the character of the
present one and ruling only by the bayonet. None
will believe that the constitution will fulfil the
conditions now predicated, but will rather ex-
pect it to prove one of those mockeries of constitu-
tions of which we have examples in Europe, and
which are but flimsy veils to downright despotism.
But, supposing the promised offspring of the
O'Donnell-Rios RosasMinistry to prove better than
is hoped, it still will satisfy no one, because all will
have in mind that what has been vouchsafed toAay
by an act of arbitrary will, may, in a similar way, be
withdrawn to-morrow. Such a constitution offers
no security or guarantee whatever, and, as a shield
to the national liberties, is the merest mockery. It
might, perhaps, be forced upon and maintained for
a while in Spain, by a man of superior mind and
iron hand, but it certainly would secure no per-
manent tranquillity, and probably its first intro-
duction would be the signal for a struggle. Other
announcements that come simultaneously with
that of this masterpiece of constitutions, plainly
indicate the means by which its framers reckon on
being obliged to sustain and enforce it. The Govern-
ment, we are told, taking into consideration the
recent conduct of the National Guard throughout
Spain, is indisposed to re-organise it, but talks of
forming, by and by, at some remote and undefined
period, a sort of rosewater National Guard, con-
sisting of persons who are qualified by paying a
ocertain amount of taxes—such a force as would
'never dream of fighting or of giving trouble
to any Government. On the other hand, we
hear that the army and the civil guards—the latter
a highly-paid corps, composed chiefly of old
soldiers, and generally noted for its fidelity to
the existing Government, whatever that may
be, are to be augmented. In the present state of
Spain these are dangerous announcements, well
adapted to revive the smouldering embers of re-
sistance. If it be really intended to act up to
them,' it had been better to do so without saying
anything about the projects beforehand. Perhaps
they are put forward as a feeler, but one might
almost suppose that it was the wish of the Govern-
ment to provoke further insurrections, that it
might gain strength by their energetic suppression;
and by again letting loose the troops upon the
people.