The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-28 00:00:00

A spA,ViSH WIRE-PULLER.

During a debate in the Spanish Chamber of De-
puties, a few days' ago, the Liberal speaker con-
tended that the home administration and foreign
policy of the cabinet we re directly influenced by the
arts and intrigues of a 1 iotorious female imposter,
a cheating, swindling DUI I—Sister Patrocinio. M.
Calderon-Collantes had, in the course of the debate,
positively denied that this evil genius of Queen.
Isabella and of Spain heti „ever, at any previous
period of her life, been the object of a criminal in-
quiry and condemnation. " I will furnish the
Chamber,"exclaimed M. 0 " with the proofs."
And he straightway proceeded to read both the evi-
dence respecting and the sentence against Sister
Patrocinio, who, in the regency of Ma tie Christina,
was iu the habit of beholding celestial visions, and
of working miracles in the interest of the Carlist
party, just as she now pretends to receive direct
communications from heaven in the interests of the
Papal Government, and of its most devoted Spanish
partisans. In company with the lady abbess of her-
convent and an entire sisterhood of impostors, the
nun, of late years .so powerful, lad then been
arrested. According to the testimony of the exa-
mining judge, Sister Patrocinio had declared that
the following miracle was worked in her person :
The devil had whisked ,her out of her cell in the
middle of the night, and tiat her down on the high-
way of Aranjuez. He thand there expounded
eo
to her that Queen Maria Christina was a lady of
very equivocal character, and that her daughter
Isabella neither was legally, a o; ever would be vir-
tually, Queen of Spain. His Satanic Majesty
afterwards carried her off to the stlmmit of Guadar-
rama, where he made many other startling disclo-
sures, all favourable to the Carlist interests, and ex-
tremely damaging to the prospects of Queen Chris-
tip a and her daughter, taking care, when he brought
her back to the convent, to deposit her on the roof,
whence the other nuns had considerable difficulty
in fetching her down with safety—a mode
of return providentially designed to establish
beyond all doubt the genuineness of the miracle.
Sister Patrocinio, it appears, came to grief in con-
sequence of her visions and miracles on behalf of
the Carlist cause. Now thatthe visions and miracles
are all on the other side—that Queen Isabella be-
lieves, and her ministers profess at least to believe,
in them—it has become the fashion in the Court
circles of Madrid to forget or deny that she was
ever in the hands of police. But the denial solemnly
made by one of the leading members of the Spanish
Cabinet will probably not be repeated before the
representatives of the Spanish people after the proofs
furnished to them at their sitting of the 13th. One
of the secretaries read the sentence. lto terms were
to the effect that Don Juan Garcia Becerra, hono-
rary counsellor of the Royal Court of Madrid, found
it legally proved that Sister Maria del Patrocinio
had been guilty of trickery and imposture by means
of the marks on her feet, hands, and Incest, of
which she had ascribed the origin to a direct mira-
cle of the Most High. But in consideration of her
having turned Queen's evidence, and having con-
tributed to discover the guilt of her accomplices,
she was only condemned to be transferred to some
other convent, distant not less than 40 leagues from
Madrid, there to be especially recommended to the
vigilance of the lady abbess and of the father con-
fessor, in order that she might have no opportunity
of repeating these swindling tricks.—lforning Post

COUNTRY M.4RKL'i b.

WAKEFIELD-DEC. 27.

We have moderate arrivale of grain. The wheat trade
extremely limited, and the prices of last Friday scarcely
maintained. Barley and other articles also meet an inactive
demand, at about late rates.