The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-17 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, OCT. 6.—MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN.-
This afternoon Court de Parsent, the Chamberlain of
Don Francisco, ha; been with the Regent in private
audience irom three o'clock until five. This audience,
the dinner which was given yesterday by M. Mateu,
the treasurer of Don Francisco, to the most influential
Ministers and leaders of the Cortes, and the frequent
communications of the Infante with
.the Duke, are
motives for believing that the negotiations for the
marriage of the Queen and the young Don Francisco
de Asis are continued with more celerity than is
generally thought.
To-morrow will be judged the case of a cornet on
half-pay, who is under accusation of having, for the
saki:, of a sum of money, taken the place of a conscript,
or become his remplacant. Not being paid, and hay
ing no other means of subsistence, necessity prompted
him to the act.

By order of the Inspector-General of Carabiniers
(which here replace the custom-house officers) seve-
ral chiefs and officers have been removed from their
stations, for having had transactions with the contra-
bandists.

The regiment which is
.garrisoned in Val ,ga is in
such a state of distress, that soldiers have been seen on
guard en munches de chemise.
Yesterday died
,lion Francisco Coposis y Nairn,
Count of Tarifa, Lieutenant-General and First
Knight Grand' Cross of the Order of San Ferdinand.
The Noble Count was one of the Generals of highest
merit of the Spanish army, and, as a Liberal, we
doubt his superior exists. When Ferdinand the
Seventh returned from Valencia in 1814, he was the
one who said to the King, "Sire, I cannot recognise
you as King of Spain until you have sworn to the Con-
stitution granted by the Cortes in the year 1812."
The old warrior died surrounded by misery, and to
such an extreme that we have seen a sale of his mili-
tary dresses to pay his necessary wants during his
illness, and for the funeral the executors have been
obliged to apply to the MiniSter of Finance for a
month's pay for the expenses. The Minister on this
occasion has determined by a decreto that in every
similar case of the death of an officer, two months'
pay will be given immediately for the funeral.
The following circular, addressed to the political
chiefs of Spain, has been published in the Gazette by
order of the Minister of the Interior

" Amongst the means employed by the enemies of
public repose to keep the minds of the people in a
state of agitation, and to make them believe that a
settled government is impossible, is the report of the
immediate re-eseitilishment of the Constitution of
1812. His HighneSs the Regent, whose motto is
Isabel the Second, and the Constitution of 1837, with
all its legitimate consequences, has seen with dis-
pleasure that it is sought by means of this kind
to keep the people in a state of constant uncer-
tainty ; and has been pleased to direct me to acquaint
you to endeavor, by all legal means in your
power, to repress the attempts being made by cer-
tain parties to lead public opinion astray, and, at the
same time, to inform you-to subject tothe proper tri-
bunals all persons wanting in respect and obedience to
the fundamental law of the Monarchy." When the
report to which this circular refers was first propa-
gated, the cry of the Opposition papers was, that the
Government should contradict it. Now, however,
when the Government does repudiate the intention
imputed to them, the same journals declare that they
do not believe one word of the denial published by
Ministers. This, of course, was to be expected from
persons whose object it is to effect the very object
against which they declaim. Nothing, indeed, would
give these individuals more sincere satisfaction than
to see the Regent and his Government patronising the
mad idea of proclaiming the Constitution of 1812.