The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-14 00:00:00

ROGERS ON ELECTIONS.

This day was published, closely printed in 12m0., price 205., a New
Edition, being the Fourth, including all the late alterations and
important Decisions of the Session 1835, and the Act regulating
Polls and Election Expenses, &c.,
THE LAW and PRACTICE of ELECTIONS,
as altered by the Reform Acts; of the Proceedings pre-
vious to and at the Election; of Disqualifications for Parliament;
Incapacities .to Vote ; Voters for Counties ; Voters for Cities and
Boroughs ; Registrations ; Votes, how lost ; of Interference at
Elections ; Bribery and Treating ; Returning Officer. With an
Appendix, containing the Acts of Parliament for England, Scot-
land, and Ireland, brought down to the present time. Fourth Edi-
tion, with very considerable Additions.
By FRANCIS NEWMAN ROGERS, Esq.,
Of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law.

London : J. and W. T. Clarke, Law-Booksellers and Publishers,
Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Mon.!ieur of Friday.)

At Granada the Captain-General has been massacred.
A junta has been proclaimed at Palma. The Captain of
the First Light Infantry has been killed by his soldiers.
General Castellar, commanding ad interim at Barcelona,
has great difficulty in keeping the anarchists in check.
Brigadier Cormera, ex-commandant of the marine in Cata-
lonia, having been, notwithstanding the most honourable
precedents, proscribed by the anarchical clubs of Barce-
lona, has succeeded in escaping from them by taking refuge
on board the, French sloop the Perle, which was in the
port, and which went and landed him at Port Vendres.
Cries of " death" followed him to the sloop that. afforded
him an asylum. M. Cormera has resigned his post, and
is going to Madrid by an express order from the Queen.
He will pass by Bayonne. It was rumoured at Valencia
on the 28th ult. that General Almodovar, Captain-General
ad interim, who afforded support to the anarchists of that
city, has been recalled and exiled from Spain.
(From the Journal des Debals.)

Madrid Gazette of the 4th inst., which has reached us
by express, contains the following proclamation, addressed
by the Queen-Regent to the nation :
" From the moment when Divine Providence placed in
my hands the reins of government in the name of my au-
gust daughter Isabella 11., the great end of all my endea-
vours has been to conciliate the people, and unite them in
one common bond, by throwing a veil over the dissen-
sions and the troubles of the past. I entered into a se-
ries of improvements, commencing with such as related
to the public administration ; and in order that these
improvements, as well as those afterwards to be effected
in other branches, might be founded on a firni and
solid basis, I re-established the ancient fundamental
laws of the monarchy, which desuetude and the
vicissitudes of fortune hail thrown into oblivion. I gave
them new vigour by introe.ucing them into the Royal sta-
tute. The Cortes of the kingdom assembled under the
rules prescribed by the Royal statute, and remained sitting
for ten months. The most impOrtant matters were sub-
mitted to their consideration, as well as the budget, which
the Procuradorei discussed with the greatest care. Before
three months had elapsed osiler the close of the session, other
useful reforms were made, among which the diminution of
the regular clergy, and the decree with regard to the muni-
cipalities, are the most important. These reforms, so bene-
ficial to the kingdom, were effected during the existence of
a frightful intestine wrier, which absorbed the attention of
the Government, and prevented the healing of those wounds
which tormented the nation so quickly as could have been
otherwise wished. These reasons appear quite sufficient to
satisfy even the most irnpatieat, and likewise to arrest the
course of the most malevolent. But, on the contrary, the
malcontents, availing themselves of the arms which liberty
placed in their hands for better purposes, and taking ad,
vantage of the embarrassments. which fettered the Govern-
ment, some gave way to their. ambition, while others have
profited by disorder to favour the party of the 'Pretender,
which was constantly on tlu watch for every opportunity,
and in consequence many have fallen victims-to the rival
parties. Leagues and associations, and even open acts of
rebellion, in certain provinces, have been the deplorable
consequences of the loose given td evil passions, which
have sometimes amounted to the atrocious. • On innumerable
occasions these insurrections were attended with robbery,
murder, and every species of violence, so that the social order
became shaken to its very foundation ; for these agitators for-
getting every sentiment of reliffion, humanity, and civilization,
burnt the convents and the churches, massacred the unpro-
tected priests on the still smoking ruins of the altars, and tore
from the sacred edifices the works of art with which they were
adorned. They alio destroyed by fire magnificent manu-
facturing establishments. Liberty has been used aS a pre-
tence for the most frightful atrocities : it has been assumed
t as a cover for disobedience to the supreme autborities, for

"' Art. 4. The functionaries who form a part of the juntas,
in case of the disobedience of the said juntas, must retire im-
mediately to a place where they may be free to exercise their
functions, in conformity to the orders of the Government.
Those who do not subMit to the present provision shall for-
feit their posts, and the honours that may have been granted to
them, without prejudice to the criminal prosecutions which
they may have incurred.
" Art. 5. No one ought to obey the orders of the said
juntas, which may have for their object to impose contributions
under any pretext whatever. The individuals who may have
paid sums illegally demanded shall be in nowise dispensed from
paying to the public Treasurer the taxes which they lawfully
owe to the State.
" Art. 6. All the members of the said juntas shall be re-
sponsible, by their own property, for the exactions of which
they have been guilty. Moreover, they shall he bound to
satisfy immediately the claims which their own acts may draw
on them.
" Art. 7. The authorities of this kingdom shall make
known to those under them the provisions contained in the
present decree, and shall insure, by all the means in their
power, their strict and prompt execution."
The, Minister of the Interior Pas issued the following
circulaz relative to the decree :
" The Government has long known that a certain claSs
of men, to whom nothing is sacred, and for whom the les-
sons of experience are fruitless, who contemn all that is
most respectable in the world, hare formed the abominable
project of overthrowing Spain, and destroying the( funda-
mental laws of tide ancient monarchy. The mere idea of
such an enterprise appears ridiculous in the eyes of those
who know the proverbial ,loyalty of the Spaniards, and
their religious veneration for the national laws and customs.
When, by command of the Queen Regent, a great part of
the troops of our valiant array was employed in combating
the factious enemies of our repose and tranquillity—when
a law of the Cortes had created the important institution
of the Urban Militia—it was then that the revolutionists
considered the moment favourable for the execution of their
sanguinary and chimerical projects. Under the pretext of
hindering the organization of the factious, who in some pro-
vinces endeavoured to unite themselves in a body, juntas
were formed, whose privileges ought not to receive more
vast developements. But these illegal assemblies ere long;
threw off the mask, to encroach openly upon the preroga-
tives of the Crown, and the rights of which the nation can
only exercise through the medium of its representatives.
They calumniated the intentions of the Government, and
marched to their object by all imaginable ways. The well-
disposed citizens, surprised at the measures taken by these
juntas, applied to the Government to know whether the
orders they gave really emanated from the supreme autho-
rity. In fact, in some places the scandal was carried to
such a pitch as to proclaim the constitution of 1812, and
to seek to constitute other Cortes, who would have dragged
the nation into an abyss of evils, by delivering it up to the
most frightful anarchy. So many and atrocious crimes have
ended in exciting the first alarm of the Spanish people, and
convincing it that such excesses can no longer be tolerated.
In such a state of things, her Majesty's Government, re-
sponsible for public order and the maintenance of the laWs,
could not refrain from denouncing to the nation the authors
of these execrable misdeeds, to avert from our country
the endless ills that could not fail to result from a more
prolonged tolerance; and the Government applies to your
Excellency, and calls upon you not to suffer any order, pro-
vision, or decree, other than those which emanate directly
from the lawful authorities that your Excellency must ac-
knowledge to be promulgated in the province under your
governance. All the Acts of the juntas are declared null
by a Royal decree. The juntas themselves are and remain
dissolved. Your Excellency should hasten to publish the
present circular in your government. Her Majesty con-
-1 fers en you the most extraordinary and unlimited powers,
to support with dignity the prerogatives of the Throne, to
watch over the preservation of the national rights pro-
claimed by the Constitution, and to put en end to the agi-
tations that heap upon the country an incalculable mass
1 of evils.

" ANGEL VALLEJo."

Another Royal denree, dated the 3rd, provides that the
properties of the • religious communities, which were alienated
between October,.lB2o, and the end of September, 1823,
shnll be restored to their respective owners: The members
of such communities as cannot of tbeniselves provide for
their subsistence shall be lodged, if their dwellings have
been destroyed, in a community of their order, which the
Government will indemnify at its own expense.