The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-09 00:00:00

SPAIN.

(From the Correspondent of a Morning Paper.)
MADRID, FEB. 22.—The following are further details of the
religious establishments in Spain :
The Capuchins possess 132 convents, belonging to both
sexes. The order of St. Augustin has 196 convents of both
sexes. The Recollets, formed from the grder of St. Augus-
tin (barefooted) have 73 convents of both sexes. The bare-
footed Carmelites hold 106 convents for both sexes. The re-
formed Carmelites (barefooted) 191 convents of both sexes.
The Trinitarians 85 convents of both sexes ; the Reformed
Trinitarians 29 convents. The order of Our Lady of Mercy
has throughout Spain 97 convents for both sexes. The Re-
formed Mercenarios (bare-footed) 41 convents of both sexes.
The hOspital for the poor sick 58 convents. The regular
canons of St. Augustin 23 convents of both sexes, canons and
canonesses. The order of
_the canons of St. Sepulchre has
only two convents in Arragon. The canons called Premo-
strateuses have 19 convents. The canons of the Holy Ghost
have 12 convents, 4of which have canonesses. The regular
canons of St. Anthony Abbad, 36 convents. The canons of
St. George constitute only one order, and have only one rich
convent. The order of the Jesuits possessed previously to their
expulsion 132 convents in Spain, and 127 in America. There
are now in Spain about 200 Jesuits, the greater part of whom
are resident in Madrid. In the provinces they have a few col-
leges. On their return to Spain in 1814, the entire of their
property was notrestored, but in 1822 and 1823 they took pos-
session of all the property which they considered as theirs.
The congregation of the priests of the Oratoire have 21 con-
vents, the regular clergy (minors) 15 convents, the minister-
ing clergy 6 convents ; the poor clergy of the Mother of God
and of La Scolapia, and the congregation of the father of the
Mission, 4 convents ; the secular clergy (missionaries) 9 con-
vents, extremely rich • the religious order of St. Brigade, 5
very rich convents ; the Society of Mary possesses 5 convents;
the total amounting to 2,923 convents, including those which
we mentioned on a former occasion. The religious order of
St. Francis alone possesses 1,175 convents, the edifices de-
voted to public worship amounting to the number of 28,149.
The number of individuals belonging to the dere.), and to the
religious orders amounts to 265,000. In the above list we
have not included the re-established Jesuits, or the new con-
vents founded since 1787 up to the present day. For instance,
the convents of St. Vincent de Paul, of the Salisas Nuevas,
and the Solids de la Boloma, at Madrid. It was extremely
difficult to form an exact calculation of the different revenues
of the clergy. The following is, however, an average account
drawn up by the Marquis de la Corona :
In the two last centuries the expenses for constructing and
repairing the various convents amounted to the enormous sum
of 6,885,000,000 reals—i. e. 209,000,000 per annum ; and if
we add to that the amount during the six previous centuries,
we shall find that the religious and charitable establishments
have cost the Spanish nation more than 150,000,000 reels.

Acc D E NT.—Thursday a dreadful accident occurred
to Mrs. Sarah Clark, of St. John's-lane, Clerkenwell. In
reaching a toasting-fork from off the mantel-piece her clothes
caught fire, and in her alarm she ran into the street. The
wind increased the flames until she was one blaze of fire. A
man who was passing attempted to extinguish the flames, but
without effect. Some neighbours ran out with a carpet, and
wrapped it round her, which had the effect of putting out the
flames. She was immediately carried to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, but she is so dreadfully burned that she is not ex-
pected to recover. The poor man who rendered his assist-
ance being much burned was also conveyed to the same hospital.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT TO A LOVER.—Saturday
morning, between one and two o'clock, a young man named
Crawley, residing at No. 4, Oxford-buildings, Cavendis:ll-
- met with the following accident:—For some time past
he had paid his addresses to a female named Louisa Williams,
living at No. 7, Charles-street, Lisson-grove, and Saturday
morning, he went to pay her a stolen visit. The front door
being locked, he mounted on the shoulders of a companion,
and was opening the first floor window, when he perceived a
policeman making a rapid advance. This so unnerved him
that he lost his hold, and falling sideways, came upon the iron
spikes of the railing, one of which entered his thigh, and pene-
trated to the abomen, at least six inches in length. In this
horrible situation he remained for some moments fixed, until he
Was relived by the policeman and his friend. On being re-
moved, a torrent of'blood gushed from the wound, and he now
lies at Marylebone Infirmary, without any chance of recovery.
The town of Caylus, eight leagues from Montauban,
has been the scene of a most deplorable event. A young rnan
having been severely wounded in the head in a quarrel with
another, Doctor Prestat was called in, and found it necessary
to perform the operation of trepanning. On the third day
after, on the approach of the Doctor to the bed of the patient,
the latter pulled out a long knife, which he had concealed
under the bed quilt, and plunged it into the body of the un-
fortunate physician, who in two hours after expired. Whether
the patient was actually mad in consequence of the injury in
his head, or committed the fatal act under the excitement of
revenge or passion, from an opinion that the Doctor had, in
the operation, been only making an experiment upon him, and
had put him to unnecessary pain and danger, was not ascer-
tained.— Quotidienne.