The Sun. — 1847-01-12 (London, England)

LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1847.  A Legislative Assembly has never opened more ominously than the Spanish Cortes for the session of 1847. With a reckless audacity altogether without any parallel in the records of constitutional monarchy, the Isturitz Administration has wantonly violated one of the fundamental principles of the national code. In causing Senor OLOZAGA to be arrested on his way to assume his place as leader of the Opposition in the House of the Legislature. the (overnment of Queen ISABELLA has offered a heinous insult to all the most sacred and eminent institutions of the Peninsula. By thus violently seizing the representative of the electors of Albacete, the Ministers have committed an unpardonable offence to the electors throughout the Spanish dominions ; they have bearded the Opposition beyond forgiveness by thus incarcerating its avowed chieftain ; they have contemned the supreme authority of the Cortes in regard to one of its most distinguished members ; they have exceeded the authority allowed them by the moderate regulations of the Constitution ; they have trampled upon the privileges, and the prerogati►es, and the holiest rights of every citizen in the empire. It is now absolutely impossible that any other reparation can be made to the Peninsula for this enormous political offence saving the retirement of the present Administration from the offices which its members have so shamefully abused. Even supposing the most treasonous and flagitious acts were " brought home" to the imprisoned Deputy, even supposing that Senor OLOZAGA were proved to be guilty of some prodigious treachery, whereby the very existence of the Constitution was endangered, the Ministers of her Catholic MAJESTY have shown themselves too liable to exceed the administrative authority reposed in their hands, they have shown themselves too capable of invading the powers solely intrusted to the representatives of the sovereign people, they have shoWn themselves too capable of obeying the mast arbitrary pleasures of royalty, to be permitted to continue with impunity their course of shameless and contemptible obsequiousness.  So many acts of oppression have recently been sustained by the population of the Peninsula, either from the Cabinet of the Tuileries or from the ostensible agents of that Cabinet, that it is a comparative satisfaction to discover, in the arrest of Senor OLO•• ZAGA no single evidence that that proceeding has occurred either with the connivance or approval of the French Government. Indeed, the Parisian press, Ministerial as well as Opposition, has been unanimous, almost without a solitary exception, in its indignation at this daring violation of the popular prerogatives of the Spanish peninsula. Beyond this, it would appear that the Count DE BRESSON has expressed his displeasure at an act so calculated to destroy the character of the Ministry under Senor Isxuarrz, and thereby to militate against the interests of France in those territories. It is manifest from this, if from nothing else, that the occurrence to which we are referring cannot possibly have originated in the councilchambers of his Majesty King Louis PuiurrE. We appreciate the sagacity of that extraordinary man too thoroughly to concf;ive for a single moment that he could have been so preposterously short-sighted as to instigate Senor ISTURITZ and his colleagues to the commission of a crime little less than the crime of Ministerial suicide. We are consequently disposed to acquit those Gallic politicians who have hitherto striven to jeopardise the independence of Spain from any participation whatever in the seizure of Senor