The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-03 00:00:00

of promoting industrial and commercial prosperity.
Since Vie t ,ration of peace the mercantile movement
is reviving.:To it the confidence of tranquillity is necessary.
"Thanks to these elements, thanks to the liberty in-
herent in 'our institutions, and to the protection of a
just and strong Government, agriculture, industry, and
commerce, will recal the highest degree of prosperity
which our fertile territory' and geographical position are
capable of. To attain this end Government is decided
to protect the spirit of association that devejopes itself
everywhere, and by which a vigorous impulse is given
to every branch of public wealth.
" The transmarine provinces, always faithful to the
Government of the mother country, continue to give
proofs of adherence and respect.. The peace which
reigns there has not been disturbed under its auspices,
and with the paternal protection of Government, have
attained a remarkable degree of prosperity.
" Actuated by the prudence required by the interests
of these rich provinces, the Government has submitted
to the Junta for the revision of special laws various plans
capable of beirg applied in promoting the good of the
inhabitants and prosperity of the islands.
" The treaty of commerce concluded with the republic ,
of the Equador shall be laid before you. Its provisi,9ns
are advantageous to both states, and I do not doubt that
you will give it your approval.
" The Government, sincerely attached to the repre-
sentative system, is anxious to augment the guarantees
calculated to secure stability and permanency to the con-
stitution, under the sway of. which we have the happi-
ness to live.

"With this view, there will be presented to you a pro-
ject of Ministerial responsibility, designed to act as a
check on men invested with power, and to secure the po-
litical principles of the Spanish nation. The necessity
for ameliorating the public administration, and for har-
monizing with the constitution of the State the organic
law which is legitimately derived from it, induces the
Government to submit to the Cortez projects of laws on
the organization and functions of the municipalities, the
' provincial deputations, and the political chiefs. There
will also be presented to you a project of law on the li-
berty of the press, tending to suppress the abuses and
check the license under which defamation is pursued
upon system, calumny promulgated on calculation, and
conspiracy against the Constitution instigated by sordid
interest. Desirous to establish uniformity to the admi-.
nistration of all the provinces, in a manner equally con-
formable to the welfare of the nation and to the public
faith, the Government has thought it a duty to present a
project of law to modify the fueres of the Basque pro-
vinces. The good order of the administration requires a
.new division of territory that shall remedy the defects
pointed out by experience in the present one ; for this
purpose a project of law will be submitted to you, for
which the public advantage loudly calls.
" There will likewise be laid -before you a project of
law for the organisation of the tribunals and of the ma-
gistracy, and another on the permanency and responsi-
bility of the Magistrates and Judges. The spirit of the
age and the progress of legislative science, the security
of person and of property; will no longer permit that
the judicial power should any longer remain in its pre-
sent state ; and it is time that laws should be established
for its organisation, in conformity with those constitu-
tional principles which ought to be religiously observed.
The Government will submit for your consideration
other laws intended to regulate the registries and nota-
rial offices of the kingdom, the scale of judicial fees, the
powers of (injusticia notoria) nullity in law, and finally,
other projects of law for the organisation of the eccle-
siastical tribunals, as well as in reference to the aposto-
lical reserves.

" The budget will also be submitted for your conside-
ration, in order that you may examine it with all the
care called for by the peremptory necessities of the public
service and by the general good. If the ordinary reve-
nues should not suffice to cover the national expenses,
the Government will offer to you the means of meeting
them. The vicissitudes that the country and the public
Administration have had to undergo in past years, have
given rise to a considerable number of retiring pensions.
Necessity requires, and propriety suggests, that the
existing arrangements should be modified. A project of
law to this effect will be laid before you.
" Other plans of reform will be presented to you, in
conformity with economical science and the wants of
the people.

" To purify, as much as'possible the operations on the
Bourse, the Government has adopted certain measures
which have produced effects advantageous to credit and
to.private property ; and in order to carry out this plan,
there will be presented to you a project of law that shall
go to prevent the Bourse from being the cause of ruin to
numerous families, who there compromise their fortunes
in imprudent speculations.
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" Messieurs les Senateurs and Deputes—The eyes of
the nation are fixed upon you ; its hopes repose on your
integrity and your patriotism ; to yon is eCiifideil a great
regenerating duty ; and the book of immortality re-
serves for you a golden page. Rely npon -my exertions,
and upon the honest heart of a soldier, who has always
conglit for the liberty and glory of his country. Do not
forget that factions, as powerless as they are criminal,
aim in their madness at attacking. the Constitution and
the Throne, in the hope of bringing discredit on the
sacred cause which we defend, and of exciting Europe
against us. Let us bind more closely the ties of sincere
union, and consolidate the Constitutional Throne of a
young Queen, whose magical name has always van-
quished the enemies of liberty. For myself I have no
ambition ; my life belongs to my country ; and the glory
of having served it in good faith will form my prtrimony.
" May the existing Constitution, the Throne of the
young Isabella, the national independence, and the Go-
vernment created by the will of the people, be the ob-
jects of our fidelity, and guide us in our legislative la-
bours for the conslidation of a strong and just Govern-
ment, which, avoiding the snares laid for it by ambitious
factions, shall for ever assure the prosperity and the hap-
piness of the nation !"
The Coriress, or the Chamber of Deputies, was in-
stalled cn the previous day. The Bureau was composed
of M. Gill Muno, President, as senior Member ; of M.
Fernandez de los Rios, as Vice-President ; MM. So-
moza, Prim, Sanchez, Silba, and Monedero, the youngest
Deputies were nominated Secretaries. The returns of
ninety-five Deputies were verified ; among those pre-
sent was remarked M. Olozaga. Lots were afterwards
drawn for the deputation carged to accompany the
Queen, and the sitting then broke up.