The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

Madrid Journals to the 14th instant have come to
hand. Intelligence up to the 17th has, however,
reached Paris by telegraph. The following is the—••

TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
" MADRID, OCT. 17.—The two Chambers are conitti,
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, Govautes,
Areneco, and Pepena.
" To-morrow the Ministry will present the project of;
law for the reform of the constitution."

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

" On the 13th instant the Patriarch celebrated, in the
apartments of the Queen-Mother, Maria► Christina, ber
marriage with the Duke de Rianzares (" Munoz"). The
Ministers who were present are called upon to de aide
various important questions connected with thismarriage,
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 much
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 yieleted
only known details, save the following :—When the
Hayo'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, It is a Spanish war schooner that has been sank
by a Gibraltar battery.' "
At a meeting of the Senate held on the 14th inst.,
the Duke DR Goa 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 50,
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 AIWAEZ 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 NARVAEZ.

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 Afoniteur contains a royal ordonnance, pro-
moting several officers of the French navy, for the
part they took in the recent events at Tangiers and
Alogadore. The ordonnance declares that the pro-
motions are made on the report of the Prince of
JOINVILLE. Captains HERNOUX and Count MON-
TAGNIES DE LA ROQUE are appointed Rear-Admirals;
Commanders BONET, DUQUESNES, GAMER, 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'AUMALE 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 ;
hut 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
what 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
commerces that meet one another everywhere cannot
exist without ever having some differences between
them. English pride and French vivacity will some-
times be 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 Englishman being alarmed at
it ; and, among us, the ambition and 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
would eternally regret."

La Presse, on the other hand, publishes an article
which the known connexion of that journal with
Count MOLE renders important. It would appear
from this article as if the treaty of the right of search
was to be made the stalking horse for Count MOLE, to
mount to power, to the exclusion of M. GUIZOT. "It has
been said," says La Presse, " that the cry of Long
live the Queen of ENGLAND,' repeated enthusiasti-
cally by the crews of the entire squadron, is the faith-
ful expression of the sentiments of the country. We reply
that such assertion is false, and that no one is honest

who attaches to a mere courteous hospitable mani.

festation political importance or a national character
which it does not possess ; and this fact will be proved
in the discussion on the approaching address in the

Chamber of Deputies ; for either the Minister wil

abstain from introducing an explicit phrase intended
to recal ' the cordial understanding' which will be

significant; or, should such phrase be introduced, it
will be more completely modified than it was last
year, unless the following wish expressed by the
Chamber of Deputies last year be realised :
" This good understanding will, no doubt, aid in the
success of the negotiations, which, whilst they guarantee
the suppression of an infamous traffic, will tend to replace
our trade under the exclusive safeguard of our own flag.'
" It would be a strange abuse to believe that ha-

cently called on the Chamber of Deputies, to take
into consideration the proposed abolition of the privi-
leges of the conservatory tribunals, possessed by
foreigners. The Report of the Committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the use made of the ex-
traordinary powers granted to Government dur-
ing the late troubles (of which Committee the
brother of the Minister CABRAL was a mem-
ber) was favourable to the Government. The
documents referred to in the Minister's report of the
use made of those powers were moved for, and thf;ir
production opposed by the Government. The ac-
. count of the expenditure of the loan of 2,000 contos
for the suppression of the revolt were likewise
moved for, and refused, but promised to be
produced at some future period. The report
of the Committee appointed to inquire into
the legislative decrees of the Government, pro-
mulgated during the recess, speaks in very doubtful
terms of the licitness of those measures, but ends by
recommending the Chamber to grant for that time
only a Bill of Indemnity, in order to avoid greater
evils from discordant relations between the legislative
body and the Government.
A Bill introduced into the Chamber of Peers for the
abolition of slavery in the Portuguese possessions in
Asia, by the Count DE LAVRADIO and the ViSCOlllit
SA DB BANDEIRA, was opposed by Ministers, and
lost by a majority of 23 votes against 18. The right
of appointing bishops to the Asiatic sees, in places at
present or formerly under the dominion of Portugal,
in virtue of what is termed " the Royal Padroado,"
had been recently referred to a Committee of the
Chamber of Deputies, in whose report the right is
asserted of appointing to the Bishopric of Bombay_
The right is contested by the Court of Rome, anal
if we mistake not, about two years ago Dr. WHELAPI
an Irish ecclesiastic, was elevated to the Episcopacy, ,
placed in possession of the See of Bombay, and re-
cognised in his episcopal capacity by the East India
Board.