The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-23 00:00:00

most faithful MAJESTY owes her throne—are opposed
to the doings of COSTRA CABRAL.

Accounts from Madrid of the 14th and 15th inst.
have been recived. M. MARTINEZ DE LA RosA has,
in compliance with the earnest entreaties of the
Queen-Mother, at length consented to accept the
office of Minister for Foreign Affairs. The decree
appointing him to that department is dated the 21st
August.

The Gazette of the 14th announces that six bat-
talions of infantry and three squadrons of cavalry had
been ordered to Navarre. The regiment of Castille,
quartered in the neighbourhood of Madrid, marched
for that destination on the 14th. Cabinet Councils were
continually held, and they had never been so fre-
quent since the accession of the NARVAEZ Administra-
tion. Their real object, though every where talked
of, had, however, not transpired, and the public
formed many conjectures as to the precautions
which the authorities were adopting. For several
days past the garrison had been kept under arms,
and the police had been extremely vigilant. It was
very generally believed that the principal cause of
these measures was a dread of a Carlist insurrection.

Letters from Bayonne of the 18th speak of the
propability of an outbreak in the northern provinces.
They state that several roving bands of desperados,
calling themselves Carlists, have made their appear-
ance in the mountains of Catalonia, and commit all
sorts of outrages. These desperados will be soon
amply provided with arms, for ten thousand muskets
were landed on the 11th, near Barcelona, under a fire
from Fort Monjuich. However, the contrabandistas
managed to effect their object.
The electoral returns show that the Ministry will
have a considerable majority even should there be a
split in the Moderado party. Teruel alone had elected
rogresistas, and it was only in Navarre that the
Carlists had met with success. It is said to be the
intention of the Ministry, on the meeting of the Cortes,
to bring forward a Bill for replacing the senate by an
upper Chamber, the members of which will be elected
for life; another for modifying the law on the public
press; another for important changes in the organisa-
tion of the national guard, and a change in the Con-
stltution tending to reduce the popular influence.
Several reductions have been made in the adminis-
trative military establishments, with a view to lessen
the budget for that branch of the public service.
According to a general statement put forth in the
official Gazette of the 15th, the genaral direction of
the public Treasury has drawn, from August 1 to
September 13, to the account of the San Fernando
Bank, a sum of 55,271,871 reels, viz., for the Queen's
household, 2,978,099 reels ; for the Foreign Depart-
went, 630,000 reals ; for the Department of War,
32,027,192 ; for the Marine, 3,445,750; for the Fi-
nances, 14,065,951 ; and for the Interior, 2,124,879.
Another return says that in August 66,962,417 reals
have been collected in the provinces. Out of this
sum the San Fernando Bank has received, in payment
of the credit of 50,000,000 opened by it to the Go-
vernment in the month of August, 42,033,202 reals ;
fur the clergy and public worship, 10,894,901, as
being the amount of the contributions destined to that
twofold object, and of the secular clergy's property ;
and 14,034,314 for the expenses and costs of justice,
&c. From another return it would appear that in
August the provinces were to pay .50,000,000 reals
into the San Fernando Bank. The effective sum
paid into it is reckoned at 42,033,202 reals. By
adding the proceeds of the Post-office, Cruzadas, lot-
tery, and mines, the amount of 44,009,996 reals is
obtained.

M. Pio PITA PIZARRO, late Minister of Finance,
died on the 16th at San Sebastian.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday. The following telegraphic dispatch ap-
pears in the Monileur of Friday :
" BAYONNE, SEPT. 19.—M. Martinez de la Rosa has
accepted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The official
Guzette, of the 16th, publishes the decree appointing
him to that post, which is dated Aug. 21.
" Major-General Pavia was named, on the 15th, Cap-
tain-General of Navarre. On reckoning the ballots, it
was found that the Ministerial party had completely
triumphed at the elections of Madrid."
In announcing the promotion of the Prince DE
JOINVILLE, the .Moniteur says—" This just recom-
pense, awarded to the chief of the French naval force
empinyed nn the ror tnepersonnel
of that squadron a first testimonial of the high satis-
faction of his MAJESTY, and will be followed by a
'general notice, comprising the rewards to be granted
to the members of the expedition who have merited
them, as soon as the propositions of his Royal High-
ness, to this effect, shall have reached the Minister
of Marine."
The Reforme thus sneeringly animadverts upon the
Prince's promotion :
" When a man comes into the world a captain of a
frigate, he does not require much time to arrive at the
highest dignities in the State. We should, nevertheless,
wonder at this rapid promotion, if it was granted to an-
other officer ; particularly it the latter, after maintaining
that steam-vessels alone presented a complete security,
had had the misfortune to lose the finest specimen of
that description of vessels in our navy."
We find in the French official papers the following
statement, relative to the much-talked-of corres-
pondence imputed to officers of the Warspite.
"M. Eugene Bero, the King's consul at Gibraltar, has
just informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs that Mr.
Wallis, the commander of the English frigate Warspite,
ent, on the 6th instant, to the consulate, with an Artil-
lery officer of the English garrison at Gibraltar. The
object of this visit was to protest officially against the
letters published in- tbe, Times-by pretended officers of
the Warspite.,lltlyttiiik has, beside signed a written
protest, whietiST:as-:Vrear the_sit4e evening in the
Gibraltar Chiele, an inquiry b 6 commenced on
board the Warfpites,‘byie.„ -r of the nglish Govern-
ment, to diseokithe a 1.7 tletki th •• •rs published by
the Times." ‘5,t.:,4
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" Captain Wallis declared to our conaul that he had
come to protest as loudly and energetically as depended
upon him against the shameful things published by an
English journal, by individuals calling themselves officers
of his frigate. He added that the step which he had
taken was official, and he requested the consul to an-
nounce it officially to his Government and the Prince de
Joinville. Captain Wallis is an old and brave officer of
the British navy, and has performed the most honourable
services. He expressed to the French Consul his indig-
nation and deep mortification that such infamous pro-
ductions should have been dated from on board his ves-
sel, and did so with an emotion and an energy which
proved the sincerity of his words. This emotion was
the more natural, as Captain Wallis declared himself
full of just admiration of the courage and skill shown in
his presence by the officers of the French navy at Tan-
giers and Mogadore, and as the captain during his so-
journ on the coast of Africa had been treated by the
Prince de Joinville with a politeness and a kindness for
which he felt the most lively gratitude. Captain Wallis
also expressed a hope that he would return to England in
time to be able to solicit the honour of being presented to
the King of the French. The Captain of the Warspite was
to deliver to the French Consul a letter for the Prince de
Joinville, and had applied to the Governor of Gibraltar for
the insertion in the Gibraltar Chronicle of a protest which
has of course been published. Already several superior
officers of the garrison of Gibraltar had expressed to the
French Consul the indignation which they felt at the
letters which had appeared in the English journal. The
promptitude and susceptibility with which public opinion
in England had already pro:ested against a publication
which it would now be in bad taste to notice too severely
had almost effaced the remembrance of it ; we hope that
the spontaneous and honourable proceeding of the cap-
tain of the Warspite will remove every trace of the pub-
lication. It appears that an inquiry is taking place on
beard the Warspite to discover the authors of the letters
published in England ; that they will be severely
punished, and that the English Government itself has
given orders on this subject. We do not think it ne•
cessary to say that the French Government has had no-
thing to do with this determination, and that it under-
stood too well what is due to its own dignity and that of
the French navy to take any official notice of an incident
which at the utmost could only lead to an interchange of
personal communication. The officers of the British
navy and army have felt that they alone were compro-
mised by such sad imprudence, and the honourable man-
ner in which they have repaired it can only raise them
in their own esteem as it does in ours."

A Correspondent of the Constitutionnel writes from
Malaga on the 9th inst.:—

"I have just been informed that Abd-el-Kader was,
on the 2d, in the vicinity of Melilla, a Spanish strong
place on the coast of Morocco, situate at an equal dis-
tance from Oran and Tangiers. We have not heard
whether the presence of the Emir in that part of Mo-
rocco was the result of some new encounter with the
French troops, or if he came there to watch the move-
ments of the Spaniards, whose arrangement with the
Emperor could not be known to him at the time. The
fact is, that he was on the 2d at Alazum, a small town
three leagues south-east of Melilla, with 1,800 cavalry
and some infantry."

Reports were in circulation in Paris on Saturday
that .Ann-EL-KADER had been taken, but they could
uc,:, up to fut. hour of ~u.., ix to
source, and the rumour had produced no effect on the
funds. The treaty with Morocco continues to be the
subject of animadversion in all the Opposition journals)