The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-28 00:00:00

ultra-Tory Corporation of Dublin, is without ex-
ception the most astounding!

We have received intelligence from Madrid
to the 20th instant, with Barcelona papers of the
17th and 18th, giving ample details of the out-
break in that town on the 13th. ESPARTERO, on
receiving the news, made a formal communica-
tion to the Cortes on the subject, and at the
same time announced that he would set off next
day, the 21st, for Barcelona with an escort of
three battalions. The Cortes immediately voted
an address to the REGENT, and- at the same time
expressed their determination to support the
Government against the insurgents. The fol-
lowing telegraphic dispatch sufficiently explains
the object of the insurgents, and confirms the re-
port in one of the French journals, that the ma-
nufacturers and monopolists of Catalonia were the
ringleaders (if the movement. Justice and pro-
tection for national industry, in other words, " no
commercial treaty with England," is the order of
the day.
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
BARCELONA, Nov. 19.
THE FRENCH CONSUL TO THE MINISTER FOE FOREIGN

AFFAIRS.

The head-quarters of Van Halen is at San Felipe,
at two hours' march from Barcelona. He maintains
full communication with Monjuich. Hostilities are
suspended with the city.
The following is the programme published to-day
by the Provisional Junta :
" 1. Down with Espartero and his Government.
" 2. Constitutional Cortes.
"3. In case of a Regency, but one Regent:
".4. In case of a marriage of Isabella 11., a Spaniard.
" 5. Justice and protection for national industry."
A Consulting Junta was about to be forthed, con-
sisting of the most respectable persons in the city,
without distinction of party.
It appears that on the 15th the insurgents
were victorious, and the troops retired to the
citadel. During the night, and the whole of the
thllowing clay, the forts of Monjuich and the
citadel cannonaded and bombarded the town.
The Junta, it would appear, is composed almost
entirely of workmen and small traders, whose
cilia objects are better trade and higher wages,
and prohibition of foreign manufactures. They
are, in fact, imitating the example set by the
French delegates, with this difference, that the
French monopolists adopted constitutional means
for protecting their interests, while the Cata-

lonians have madly resorted to violence, and are
attempting to overturn the Government. There
never was a more insane or hopeless conspiracy.

They have opposed to them the established Go-
vernment, the Cortes, the army, and all the
agriculturists and wine producers. What hopes
of success can one province have against such
united power? The fbilosving is a brief account
of what took place on the 17th :
A person named Garcy, belonging to a manufac-
tory, was appointed President of a Junta of nine
members, which assumed •the title of Provisional
Directing Junta of the People ; and a second one,
having a consultative chaiacter, was on the point of
being formed. Before the appointment of the Junta,
Gamy published in his own name a proclamation,
congratulating his heroic fellow-citizens on having
obtained their liberty, and beaten down the military
despotism which a foolish Government had imposed
on them—a Government which destroyed their ma-
nufactures and trade, and desired to render them
slaves by reducing them to want. He then addresses
the workmen who had fought in the insurrection, and
promises to indemnify them for their perils apd severe
priVations. He terminates by inviting the battalions
of the National Guards to nominate each a repre-
sentative, to form a superior Junta. 'lbis Junta,
which has been thus appointed, is composed princi-
pally of small traders and workmen, completely un-
known up to that day. It issued on the 17th a pro-
clamation, addressed to all Catalonians, which would
seem to indicate that the insurrection is to spread over
the rest of the province. After some general phrases
on the triumph of the people, the Junta takes care,
as President Garry had previously done, to an-
nounce to the workmen that their condition is about
to be deliberated on with the ut solicitude. After
this proclamation came a dec for establishing
something like order amongst iTi the armed po-
pulation which thronged the city. In consequence
all the Commanders of the National Guards and the
Alcades of the town were summoned to attend the
Junta of the peoplekto receive instructions. The
-Gmcf. and Officers of-the National Guards were to
unite to small bodies all persons in arms who did not
form part of the regular battalions, and were to assign
them a fixed post. Whoever should be found guilty
of theft, or any other culpable excess, was to he
judged and punished summarily. The Junta has
accorded a capitulation to the regiment of Guadala-
jara, which was shut up without provisions in the
University, and has given it permission to leave the
town. Similar terms have been granted to the garri-
son of Atarazanas. During the night, the troops
Nhich were in possession of the citadel evacuated
i and it is at present occupied by the National
Guards and the people. The troops are in possession
oily of Fort Monjuich and the port, with the marl-
time faabourg Barcelloneta. The French Consul
has offered protection to a great number of persons,
and sent them on board the Meleagre. Amongst the
fugitives are; it is said, the seven constitutional alcades,
the five daughters; of the Captain-General, and the
wives of the. Governor and the political:chief.
Madrid was perfectly tranquil on the 20th, and
manifested not the slightest sympathy with the
insurgents. Three projects of laws had been pre-
sented to the Cortes. The first is a loan of
600,000,000 reals (about 12,500,000/.) guaranteed
by the entire revenue of the State.

The second project provides that all the inte-
rest of the consolidated interior debt of 4 and 5
per cent., and also of the active 5 percent. foreign
debt, due or coming'due before the Ist of May,
1843, inclusive, be capitalized.
The third project stipulates that the debts due
arid not paid since 1835 be satisfied by certificates
under the name of ", Notes of Arrears of the
Treasu►;y," which shall be admitted at their full

nominal value, and to the exclusion of every
other class of paper, in the purchase or redemp-
tion of mortgages on property belonging to the
nation.

The'Three per Cents. were done at 21 15-16 I,
at 60 days, and the Five per Cents., at 261 for
cash, and 26 15-16 f, at different dates.

The Paris papers contain no news of interest,
and generally abstain from all comments on the
recent accounts from Spain. The Constitutionnel,
however, is an exception, and makes the follow-
ing just remarks. Our readers can be at no loss
as to the party who have instigated the revolt :
The events which are passing at Barcelona will
grieve all the sincere friends of Spain—all who desire
to behold repose, order, and liberty prevailing in that
unfortunate country. No advance can be made in
civilisation by trampling on the laws and the prin-
ciples of civil equality. It is well known that the
principal grievances of Catalonia cons.istin the strange
demand it has made to be freed from the law impos-
ing the recruitment on all. See to what an extent
-the Government of Espartero is oppressive, which will
not consent to sacrifice'the rights of the whole of
Spain to the demands of . a province, and .which
desires that all public charges, even that of each
man's blood, should weigh equally on all ! A
disturbance originating in such motives cannot come
to any thing. Whatever may be its momentary
chancel of success, and whatever quantity of blood
may have been spilt to obtain the victory, the revolt of
Barcelona will prove an abortion, because it has nothing
just to uphold. Everything appears obscure in this de-
plorable affair. We have seen by the telegraphic
dispatches how the insurrection first commenced, and
the various incidents which it passed through, but no
one yet knows precisely what political it.terests• are at
stake, and what party has put the insurgents in-move-
ment. It is true that the people of Barcelona, nt the
commencement of the rebellion; rushed to the prison
to deliVer the editors of the Republicam ; but it would
be, in our opinion, a gross error to conclude from
that fact that the capital of Catalonia is anxious
for a republic, and that it has taken up arms to over-
turn royalty. Catalonia, though more unsettled, more
stormy, and more prompt in action than the other
provinces of Spain, is not, notwithstanding the jour-
nals published at Barcelona; more republican than the
rest. But its leanieg towards insubordination, its
aversion to all measures which tend to constitute a
central. power, render it more accessible than any other
part of the kingdom to the schemes and intrigues of
the factious. There are, besides, in this manufacturing
province commercial susceptibilities which are entitled
to much consideration, and which have not always
been paid attention to. In such a condition of things,
and. in this state of feeling, political intrigue could
easily act on a people worked on with so little diffi-
culty, and imagining themselves wounded in their
privileges and interests. We accuse no one ' • but if
already last year, we saw at Madrid and in the Basque
Provinces attempts made to produce revolt,. which
happily were put down, and we are warranted at pre- I
sent in turning our suspicious to the same side, and
believing that those who placed arms in the hands