The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-29 00:00:00

Madrid. General ALAVA had then accepted the
office of Foreign Minister, subject to the condition
that MENDIZABEL should fill the office of President
of the Council.

The Moniteur of Sunday, which we have received,
together with the other Paris Journals of the same
date, contains copies of no fewer than four depatches
received from the Spanish frontier with important
intelligence. The first is from Narbo7..-e, of the
24th instant, and announce!: that, on the 19th,
five hundred Carlistu commandedby
and blockaded Guimera, surrendered to Colonel
NINBO, a distinguished officer in the service of
the QTLEEN. The second is from 13ayonne, of the
2.." L-n, and asserts, on
.the most positive evidence,

that the Carlists were defeated on the 20th, near
Onate, and that their loss exceeded one thousand two
hundred men. The third despatch is from Bayonne,
and bears date a day later than the preceding. It
confirms the intelligence of the defeat of the Carlists
near Onate, on the 20th, and adds, that the rebels
had failed in their endeavours to prevent a junction of
the troops under the respective commands of Generals
CORDOVA and ESPELETTA. This is a most i:„.
portant announcement, as the whole power a 't.ne Car-
lists was directed against a junction of these sections
of the Constitutional army. Tne fourth despatch is
dated the 24th instant, from Toulon, and announces
that a revolutionary movement in Mahon, in favour of
the Constitution of Cadiz, was repressed, by the arrival
of. two French sloops of war. The revolutionary
movement commenced on the 18th, the inhabitants of
the town ringing the church bells, making bonfires,
carrying blazing torches, and uttering shouts of
—" Long live the Constitution !—Long live ISA-
BELLA ILI" throughout the whole of the two
folloWing nights. On the 20th, according to the
Moniteur, the timely arrival of two French sloops of
war prevented the town from being sacked by the
" anarchists "—meaning, of course, those citizens who
were most active in proclaiming the Constitution.
We take leave to doubt this statement, and to
question the right of the French soldiery to over-
awe the town. The Spanish Constitutionalists have
uniformly acted with the most sacred regard to the
inviolability of the rights of life and property. With
every opportunity that uncontrolled: power could give
them, they have with a most praiseworthy forbear-
ance, abstained from the commission of such acts
of retaliatory vengeance as were provoked by the cruelty
of the Carlists, and the treacherous timidity of the
Municipal authorities. The disgraceful occurrence at
Saragossa was not the work of the Constitutionalists,
but of an infuriated rabble, to whom Gen. LLAUDER had
rendered himself an object of mortal hatred. In fact,
wherever the Juntas are recognized, and the Constitution
of Cadiz proclaimed, crime may be said to disappear ; the
rights of property are liable to no invasion ; the rights
of industry are respected ; personal safety is insured to
all ; the laws are enforced with due vigour ; and, in a
word, the administration of public justice—admirable
in all respects—is but an echo of - the popular
will. It is true that the Spanish Government
has not yet recognized the Constitution of
Cadiz, and hence France, as the ally of that
Government may derive a sufficient excuse for adopt-
ing compulsory measures to prevent 'etny private body
of Spanish citizens from Prealming it. The law of
nations, according to VATTEL's interpretation of it,
would justify France, in going even further on a sud-
den emergency, such as that mentioned in the Moni-
teur; but such a system must not be encouraged,
and we trust MENDIZABEL will adopt measures
to prevent its being persevered in by such doubtful
allies as the KING of the FRENCH. No doubt the
CITIZEN KING would have no hesitation in granting
the QUEEN any aid she could desire for the suppres-
sion of the provincial Juntas, although he could not
spare a regiment when her throne was invaded by the
rebellious Carlists. He fears the Liberals, not be-
' cause they endanger the safety of the QUEEN, but
because they will act as a check upon his despoti-
cal designs for the subversion of liberty in France.
Louis PHILLIPPE now seeks an opportunity of inter-
fering in the question of Spanish tranquillization.All the
sophistry of the Cabinet is put in requisition ; and
even the Journal des Debats, in an article which we
copied into The Sun of yesterday, goes the length of
exhuming one of the old principles agreed upon by the
Holy Alliance, and giving it as a justification of
French intervention in the internal affairs of Spain.
By this principle, to which France herself was the first
to bid defiance, one nation may interfere in the internal
affairs of another, provided the State interfered with
adept laws, or a constitution presumed to be dangerous
to the internal repose of the invading Government.
This was the great principle which cemented the Holy
Alliance, because it was a never-failing justification
of wars of invasion ; and because it compelled
Kings to resist all demands for reform made by
their subjects. For years it was the constant theme
of mockery in France. With every change in the
social institutions of the people, public writers
were wont sneeringly to ask, if the Sovereigns of the
North were of opinion that France had violated the
Monarchical principle so dear to the Holy Alliance ?
But the successful despotism of Louis PHILLIPPE
has changed the tone of the French Journalists. The
minds of METTERNICH, NESSELRODE, and OR-
LOFF, are mirrored in almost every political ar-
ticle which appears in the Ministerial prints. The
Holy Alliance is never mentioned save in terms
of befitting reverence, and the darling principles
of that Imperial and Royal conclave are stealthily
introduced as the quintessence of political saga-
city. Fortunately for the Spanish patriots, our
Government has had the wisdom to see the question
in quite another light. Our Minister at Madrid, Mr.
VILLIERS, acted throughout with firmness, integrity,
and ability, and we are not a little pleased to find that
his conduct has been highly approved of by Lord PAL-
MERSTON ; although his Lordship had not given him
any positive instructions on the subject.

The Moniteur likewise announce 3, on the authority
the 19th inst that of a letter from Perpignan of
Ge-
neral GURREA was i pursuit of the N varrese divi-
sion of Carlists. rilis division had fled- from Upper
Arragon into Catalonia, whither it was pursued in an
opposite direction by General PASTOR at the head of
three thousand men. The remains of the division
did not then exceed two thousand five hundred men,
of which numbers daily deserted. The condition of
the Carlists is represented as truly miserable. Their
recent defeats have deprived them of almost everything,
save their ferocity and their enthu for a cause
seemingly hopeless to all but themset• es.
The Journal des Debats states that the Govern-
ment Junta of Granada has caused the Constitution
of 1812 to be solemnly proclaimed, with a proviso in
favour of such changes as the Cortes may think proper
to effect in it, for the more beneficial government of
the Spanish people.

The domestic intelligence contained in the Paris
journals of Sunday evening is important. The trial
of the prisoners of April will recommence on the first
of November. Baron PASQUIER, to whom the
KING'S pleasure on this subject was officially an-
nounced, has addressed letters to his colleagues of the
Upper Chamber, commanding their attendance in
Paris to assist at the trial. It is supposed, from the
number of cases to be decided, that the trig will