The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-31 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The insurrection, so far from being nearly put
down, as the Madrid journals have for several days
been pretending, is evidently spreading.
The Madrid journals of the 26 di have arrived in
due course.

The Epoca announces that the Government had
determined to remit all punishments incurred for
offences against the laws which regulate the press,
and to order the cessation of all prosecutions com-
menced. The Queep celebrated on the 24th the
anniversary
,of Queen Christina's birthday. The
royal household was dressed out on the occasion in
its state uniforms and liveries.

The Gazette of the 25th gives some details of the
proceedings at various towns which had been pre-
viously only slightly mentioned.
At Granada the national guard, having obtained
permission to assemble, in presence of the co-opera-
tion which the municipalitypromised to the captain-
general, assumed a hostile attitude. The troops
which were directed on the points occupied by the
National Guard, showed so little decision that the
Captain-General was compelled to consent to an
armistice of six days. It was on the 19th that the
troops and the National Guard quitted their re-
spective positions, but the latter placed themselves
in communication with the neighbouring localities;
and General Blanco sent by the Government to
replace the Captain-General, who bad shown great
weakness, was made prisoner by the Brothers
Merino, on cominc, to his post. The officer in
command at Granada, writing under date of the
22d, states that several officers of different ranks,
who had quitted their revolted regiments in various
localities, had arrived there.

Tne second battalion of the regiment of Aragon,
the greater part of the Artillery, and a detachment
of the National Guard have shut themselves up in
the Castle of Gibralfaro. The revolutionary junta
refused to allow any provisions to enter the
castle, but -the troops therein threatened to bom-
bard the city if such a measure were persisted
in. This energetic language had the desired re-
sult, and the interdiction was removed.

At Malaga the troops joined the national guard
under the command of the civil governor. The
superior officers from the rank of chef-de-battalion
all retired.

At Cadiz there were some attempts at disturb-
ance, but they were all repressed.
Jaen and Almeria, it is said, continue their re-
sistance to the new ministry.
Accounts from Barcelona of the 26th, received
by sea at Marseilles, announce that the city had
nearly resumed its ordinary aspect. Most of the
workmen of the manufactories had returned to
their work. A few had followed the insurgents,
and were beating about the country, their head-
quarters being in the mountains around Barcelona.
It was reported in the last-named city that Sara-
gossa, having received from various sides detach-
ments of the different corps which had rebelled,
formed a strong centre of resistance.
A letter in the Presse says :—" Two days ago
the Queen, obeying the suggestions of those by
whom she is surrounded, frankly demanded from
Marshal O'Donnell the return of her mother. The
minister only replied by a respectful silence."
The Madrid correspondent of the Independance
Beige, in a letter dated July 24, says that he is
positively informed it is the intention of the go-
vernment to regard the Constituent Cortes as de-
funct, and officially to proclaim their dissolution as
soon as order §hall have been re-established.
The government will not think of convening a new
Constituent Assembly to deliberate upon the future
constitution afz the country, but will impose upon
it either the constitution of 1837 or the constitu-
tion of 1845 ; but which of these has not yet
been determined. If the constitution of 1837
be adopted, a modification of it will be made
by changing the elective character of the Se-
nate ; if the constitution of 1845 be preferred, an
article will hi added to it securing the immunity
of certain individuals, with a provision for com-
pletely extinguishing id liberty of the press.
It is said by the,.F'aris correspondent of the Inde-
penclawAlig Narvaez, on his way back to Paris,
travelled in the same railway carriage with Olozaga,
the Spanish Ambassador, and that they were en-
gaged in earnest :conversation all the way. Lord
Howden, he saysi, is still 'at Paris.

AUSTRIA.
A letter from Vienni of the 26th, in the Consti-
tionnel, says :--" After two days' heat the bad
weather has recommenced ; on the 15th there was
a fall of snow at Klauienbourg (Transylvania). M.
de Danuradff has arrived from St. Petersburg with
despatches from M. do Balabine, relative to the
question of the Principalities. It is said that
Russia no longer insists on the union of those two
provinces, but wishes to conform to the wishes of
the country- and to public opinion. M. de Koller
has set off for the Baths of Bohemia, a fact which
indicates that the commission of re-organisation is
on the point of assembling.".
A letter from Vienna of the 25th, in the Bourse
Gazette of Berlin, says :—" Baron de .aubner, the
Austrian ambassador at Paris, has given the most
satisfactory assurances as to the intentions of the
French - Government relative to Spanish affairs.
The Baron is about to proceed to Naples via Trieste
and the lonian islands."

" A fact which will give some idea of the splen-
dour with which Prince Paul Esterhazy is to ap-
pear at Moscow is," says the Cologne Gazette,
" that each of the six horses, reserved exclusively
for his personal use, is valued at from 8,000 to
10,000 florins (the florin is worth something over
2fr.) The cloth of his favourite horse is a tiger's

skin, the' edges of which are ornamented with
brilliants, and on which his family arms are de-
signed in diamonds. This luxury will be under-
stood, when we mention that the diamonds of the
Esterhazy family represent a greater value than
all its other property put together."
The'Empress of Austria left her apartment on
-the 23d for the first time since her accouchement,
and attended divine service in the great hall of the
palace of Laxenburg.