The Sun. — 1866-01-26 (London, England)

SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 25.  The draft of an address to the Queen was read in to-day's sitting of the Senate. It expresses regret-at the breaking out of hostilities between Spain and Chili, but hopes that after the refusal of the latter to satisfy the Spanish claims, the Queen's Government will cause the honour and dignity of Spain to be respected. The address also expresses the satisfaction of the Senate at the domestic reforms announced by the Government. MADRID, Jan. 22.  On the evening of the 20th inst., Senor Hurtado again brought forward his request to the Government in the Chamber of Deputies, for information relative to the capture of the Covadonga. Senor Posada Herrera, Minister of the Interior, in reply, confirmed the news of the capture of that vessel and the suicide of Admiral Pareja. Relative to the present intentions of the Cabinet he said— " The Government is resolved to take every measure necessary to retrieve this misfortune. What these measures may be, and what form they will take, I cannot inform the Congress at the present moment. What I may state to the Congress is, that all that can be done by a Government determined to maintain the honour of the Spanish flag, and to defend the interests and rights of the nation, the present Ministry is ready to do." The official despatch announcing the entry of the insurgents, under Prim, into Portugal is as follows : " The Governor of Badajoz to the Minister of War. Badajoz, Jan. 21, 10 2 a.m.  " At two o'clock yesterday afternoon the insurgents reached the frontier and entered Portugal, delivering up their arms and equipments and some horses to the Mayor of Ericinasola. They had no encounter with the Royal troops pursuing them. The bearer of the despatch lost his way, thereby delaying the arrival of the intelligence." The Captain-General of Catalonia reports that the advanced guard of the royal column operating in the Priorato saw at Gratallops, towards noon, on the 20th, a body of about 40 insurgents, who dispersed upon perceiving them. The CaptainsGeneral of Arragoq; Valencia, Navarre, and Seville announce undisturbed tranquillity in their respective districts.  The Madrid journals continue their excitations to the Spanish Government to take summary and unsparing vengeance upon Chili for the disgrace suffered by the Spanish flag in the capture of the Covadonga. The Espanol demands that the 50 guns from the Spanish frigate Isabel, deposited in the military museum of Santiago, should be transferred on board the Villa de Madrid, and the Spanish flag, from the Covadonga, now displayed in the Cathedral of Santiago, should be recovered and hoisted on board the Esmeralda. It urges, in conclusion, that there should be no truce and no quarter, and says, " Wherever may be seen a palace, a house, or a hut, inhabited by those spurious sons, by those parricides, upon all these let the Spanish bombs rain fire." The Pabellon Nacional says the hour of consideration is past, and treaties cannot now come until after the triumph of the Spanish arms.  It is thought very probable that Admiral Pinzon will be appointed to the command of the Pacific squadron.  The entire want of support from the Progresists experienced by General Prim in his insurrectionary movement is attributed to the suspicion in which he is held by the mass of that party who do not recognise him as their genuine leader and representative. Senor Olizaga is said to be resolutely opposed to General Prim at the present moment. He has also, it is stated, written from his retirement at Vico energetic letters to the most important men of his party in Madrid, counselling them to remain tranquil, and to impress upon their friends that the seditious movement of Prim was a wild and illjudged attempt: It was nothing more than a military movement, and General Prim was not the man whom Providence reserves to assure the destiny and the future of the Progresist party.