The Sun. — 1840-07-01 (London, England)

THE SUB PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. " Balmaseda entered France yesterday evening by Larrau, with 3 0 men. It is affirmed that 2,000 men will also enter to-morrow, or during the night, by the same point."  Litters from Perpignan of the 25th oh. state that CA B RERA, hearing of the approach of General ESPARTERO, had evacuated Berga, alter spiking the gulls, and committing all the destruction he could upon the property of the inhabitaws. This devil incarnate was flying towards the frontier, which he would have crossed long ago were he not apprehensive that the French authorities would treat him as a murderer, and so deliver him up to the QUEEN'S Government. This assuredly is what the French Government ought to do. His cold-blooded butcheries of the English and French prisoners ought not now to be forgotten, being, as they were, violations of the laws of civilized war fare. No additional news was received in Paris on Monday from Africa. Marshal VALLEE'S conduct was universally blamed by the public press, and hints arc thrown out as if the Government was at last deliberating upon his immediate recall. The position of France in Africa can hardly be worse than it is at present. After a war of ten years' duration the French are in reality but little in advance of where they started. They have secured the fidelity of no ally—obtained the confidence of no native tribe. They are compelled to walk musket in hand to keep their heads upon their shoulders. They arc the legitimate game of every Arab sportsman, who bags their heads as an English squire would snipes on a moor at Christmas. The French colonists are all so many living targets, who never stir out of their log-houses but to he shot at. In this age of wonderful discoveries they require some invention whereby they may leave their heads at home when they want to go abroad. This is their only security, independently of a good musket, against their being bagged by some yatagan-wielding Isinnaelite of the desert.  Our prediction on the taking of Morella, proves to be correct, that the few Carlist bands which still kept up the civil war, would, at no very distant period, be dispersed or destroyed. Of the two factious chiefs, who still kept the field, only one ri.mains. Balmascda, the worthy rival of Cibrera in ferocity and rapacity, has fallen into the snare lul for him by two of the Queen's Generals. Believing that lie was not perceived, he passed the Ducas, and conceived the hold project of surprising the two Queens on their way to Saragossa, where he was attacked by Constitutional Generals, who had followed him, and who have driven him to the Pyrenees. Thus abandoned by his troops, he is reduced to the alternative of seeking refuge in France, or inevitably falling into thu hands of the Queen's Generals.  As for Cabrera, his position is no less disastrous. Surrounded on all sides, abandoned by the greater part of his troops, execrated by all the Spaniards, who sec in him only a barbarous chief thirsting for blood and plunder, he cannot hold out long against the Queen's troops, now that he has only a few thousand men, and no support in the population.  We may now, therefore, consider the war as drawing to a close, and Spain as on the point of at length enjoying the tranquillity and prosperity which it may expect under the Constitutional Government of Isabella 11. It must be confessed that this happy result is due, in a great degree, to the skill of Espartero, who has followed up his plan for the campaign with remarkable perseverance. Endowed with great personal valour, commanding a powerful army, in sshich he had succeded in introducing the greatest discipline, the Duke might certainly have shown himself more daring, and attempted more decisive strokes, but he has not thought proper to do so, and he cannot be blamed for it, now that he has replied to his adversaries by the best of all arguments—success.—Messayer.