The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.

" MADRID, OCT. two Chambers are consti-
tuted. M. Castro y Orocso has been elected President of
the Congress. The four Vice-Presidents and the four
Secretaries have been chosen from the different fractions
of the Chamber.

" The Vice-Presidents are MM. Pacheco, Govantes,
Areneco, and Pepena.
" To-morrow the Ministry will present the project of
law far the reform of the constitution."

Thus the PRESIDENT selected by SALAMANCA and
hostile to MoN has been chosen.

" On the 13th instant the Patriarch celebrated, in the
apartments of the Queen-Mother, Maria Christina, her
marriage with the Duke de Rianzares (" Munoz"). The
Ministers who were present are called upon to decide
various important questions connected with this marriage,
namely, the form in which it shall be published; whether
Maria Christina shall retain title of Queen-Mother ;
what pension the young Queen shall allow her mother
out of her patrimony ; and whether, in the event of such
pension not being equal to her present jointure, the
Cortes shall not be applied to for an allowance in the way
of a national reward and a testimony of gratitude."
As yet the Gaceta makes no mention of the Rayo
affair, but the Heraldo says :
" Negotiations have commenced respecting this un-
fortunate event. According to a Cadiz letter of the 10th
of October, witnesses of the occurrence have already
given evidence before the Marine tribunal. It has yielded
only known details, save the following :—When the
Rayo's crew was received on board the Portuguese vessel,
the boat of an English man of war approached that
vessel. and the Lieutenant commanding it asked what
had happened, when the captain of the Rayo briefly re-
plied, 'lt is a Spanish war schooner that has been sunk
by a Gibraltar battery.'"
At a meeting of the Senate held on the 14th inst.,
the Duke DE GOR in the chair, a resolution proposed
by M. ANDOVILLA in the following terms was unani-
mously adopted:—

That, as the number of Senators admitted exceeds 66,
the Provisional Committee for the verification of powers
be suspended."

The sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 14th
inst. was occupied with the admission of members.
The Phare de Bayonne of the 10th inst. mentions
the arrest of several Carlist refugees, who had clan-
destinely left their residences. Among them is
LARUMB, whom the English and several French
journals supposed to be at the head of five hundred
Carlists in Navarre.

The Constitutionnel says, "As to the present feeling
of General N ARVAEZ and M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA,
we persist in believing that these two Ministers are
not in accord, and that it is not the former who in-
clines to the proposal of counter-revolutioniary mea-
sures to the Chamber of Deputies.;" and it reiterates
its former assertion that the Progressistas had re-
cently made overtures to NARYAEZ.
The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid
Bourse on the 14th inst. at 26k, at 60 days. The
Five per Cents. were not quoted.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Monileur contains a royal ordonnance, pro-
moting several officers of the French navy, for the
part they took in the recent events at Tangiers and
Mogadore. The ordonnance declares that the pro-
motions are made on the report of the Prince of
JOINVILLE. Captains HERNOUX and Count MeN-
TAGNIES DB LA ROQUE are appointed Rear-Admirals;
Commanders BONET, DUQUESNES, GALIER, DORET,
CLAVAUD, and CLERY, are appointed Captains in the
navy ; and there are numerous promotions in the
lower grades, and among the officers of the Marine
Artillery and Marines.
On Saturday evening, the Duke D'Aummx arrived
at Saint Cloud, from Africa. He • had been absent
from France above a year.
The Commission appointed to inquire into the con-
stitution of the Ecole Polytechnique has completed
its labours, but has not yet presented its report; but
the Constitutionnel says, that twenty of the students
are to be expelled—that the uniform is to be changed,
and some other marks of disfavour shown.
The Journal des Debats has a long article on the
subject of the visit of Louis PHILIPPE to England.
The following are extracts .
" There are people who ask with grave looks whether
the King's visit has removed all the causes of secondary
rivalry that exist between France and England ? No ;
but the King's visit has proved that, above those petty
causes which may again produce some transient misun-
derstanding between the two countries, there is a
grand cause which will always tend to bring them
together—the cause of peace and liberty. Such is
wriat the good sense of the people has foreseen—such is
what has been meant by those manifestations, the vivacity
of which has surprised our statesmen. The King's visit
will therefore not prevent contentions from arising from
time to,time•between English and French interests in
some corner of the world. Two powers, two navies, two
cemmerces that meet one another everywhere cannot
exist without ever having some differences between
them. 'English pride and French vivacity will some-
times he at variance—the press, which is equally free in
both countries, will not always observe, in judging of
its neighbour, and in its language, due moderation and
decency—France will not make any progress without
the jealousy of some old Eng!ishinan bei:tg ahrined
it ; and, among us, the atubitiOn fa,cl perfidy of England
will continue the favourite topic of the Opposition's
orators and prints ; and short-sighted statesmen in both
countries, reckoning but petty interests, will strive to
build their fortunes and fame upon the war, the kindling
of which they will deem easy. The King's visit will
not prevent all this. But unless the two Governments
be, one day, mad enough to rush on to their own de-
struction, despite the lesson just given to them bypopular
wisdom, it will prevent little interests from prevailing
over great ones, and the cause of peace and liberty from
being sacrificed to the narrow cause of partial vexations
and rivalries ; in short, it will prevent inevitable discus-
sions and contentions, which good faith and good will
can easily settle, from ending in a war which civilisation l
would eternally regret."