The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-30 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o' Clock.
We have accounts from Madrid to the 23rd inst.,
m.'
at which date, according to the letter of our cor
puadent' another ministerial crisis was deemed by MO
means improbable. There is no doubt that the queen
bad taken offence at some of the recent men
ores of the government. It is said that aa
attempt made by the camarilla to dismiss from the
royal household the Count de Santa Coloma and
others, which was resisted by her Majesty, had nearly
occasioned the dissolution of the cabinet ; it was, bow-
saw, bellowed that the Queen had ultimately con-
sented to the removal of the oonnt, and to the nomi-
nation of the Marquis de Miraflores in his room.
Lord Canning had left Madrid fur London.
MADRID, Oct.. 23.
It seems by no means improbable, according to
brormatii.n which I have this moment received, that before
this letter ',ochre cots you may have heard, through the
telegraph, of a fresh change of ministry. It is certain that
the Queen is extremely offended with the ministers for some
of their late proceedings. She regards the arrest and banish-
ment of Senor Minn as a personal affront of the most insult-
ing kind, and as a step expressly calculated to give credit to
the stories circulated about the favours destined to be lavishi d
by the royal bounty upon the bus singer of the Circa. The
ministerial crisis which results from this displeasure
will no doubt be decided rapidly, and Narrate may be
upset by one of those rapid sad energetic shocks that have
proved fatal to so many ministers. We shallnow see whether
the ptegreiistsa are prepared to act with vigour, fur now is
their time fur making a decisive charge at their embarrassed
rivals.
I hear that a great number of agents, paid by a party
whom interest it is to blacken the character of Isabella as
much as possible, circulate in the societies which they fre-
quent the most dials ustiag calumnies against the Queen. As
most of these slanderers are friends of the ministry, it is
supposed that the tone of their conversation, if not borrowed
from persons high in office, is, at least, not discouraged by
their patrons.
Farther important revelations have been made with re-
ford to the COUcCI,IOII and malversation which have made
so much noise. An anonymous letter appeared in the
Espanol yesterday, stating that the convervion had been
made in the old bonds bearing six coupons; so that the per-
sona concerned in the operation had pocketed nine per cent.
upon the whole sum, or upwards of 14 millions of reels.
Thus," continues the correspondent, " it is of importance to
ascertain whether the patrimony his received or will receive
old or new bonds, since, in the lint case, in order that no
fraud msy have been committed, the director of the treasury
ought to have cut off the coupon. due' or the intendente of
the royal patrimony ought, in his entries, to take into ac-
count the I I millions proceeding from the coupons attached
to the old bonds. If, on the ether band, the royal patrimony
has received new bonds, it ought to be stated into what hands
have passed the six coupons attached to the old bond., of
width, as I hear, use had been made to effect the conversion

detreed."
A notable contradiction is observed between the statement
in Pena Agusyn's communication to the fspanol, that up
to the present date only fifty millions of Three per Cent.
bonds had entered into the royal treasury, and that the go-
vernment owed the rest, and the affirmation of the Herald°,
that the government's attention to the subject had been fiat
called by the press, and that it potessed no antecedent inform-
ation about the matter whatever. Certain'y the latter asaertion
appears extraordinarily at variance with the truth; as it fol-
lows clearly from Salamanca's letter that the first and second
delivery of bonds to the royal patrimon must have been
made in virtue of orders given by Orlando. The following
facts are stated by %he Clamor:
The order for the delivery of the bonds wits given by Or-
lando. The easpioyie in the Redemption Fund were work-
ing all the night of October 9-10, by the express direction of
the same minister to get ready the bonds. The executive
part of the conversion has been effected under the ministry
of Senor Orlando, the last million having been paid into
the royal treasury only two days ego. Senor Orlando, far
from revoking the illegal order of Senor Salamanca, excited
the zeal of S. Arietizabal, accountant of the treasury, to
promote the manufacture of the bonds with all despatch. S.
Pastor having declined to sign the document, relative to the
operation, S. Arche undertook to do this at the instance of S.
Orlando, who did not rest till he had effected the delivery of
the first 6.5 millions into the royal treasury. Thus it appear.;
that some of the present ministers are implicated together
with members of the late cabinet in this standalone business.
The semi-official Herald° says that the government having
made this the subject of two ministerial councils, have deter-
mined upon referring the whole matter to the Cortez; and
in the meantime have ordered all further operations in the
business to be suspended.
The Gazette publishes an important decree. The ordi-
nance of Salamanca put forth in last June, and directing the
sale of the estates of the four great military orders, and the
order of St. John of Jerusalem, is repealed. Also some ad-
miaistrative arrangements made by Salamanca in the
Hacienda, with regard to the nominations of officials in that
department, are abolished by royal order.
A circular is issued to the political chiefs to urge Fetter
regularity in the service of made, which has latterly, in con-
sequence partly of the excessive rains, been greatly retarded.

Oar intelligence from Canada is to the following
dates • Montreal, Oct. 14, and Toronto, Oct. 9. Lord
Elgin bad left Quebec, atter a stay there of eight
days, on his return to Montreal, which he reached on
the 30th Sept. Among the many addresses presented
atQuebec to his excellency (says the Mantrral Courier)
we noticed one from the Quebec Board of Trade, in

which his lordship's attention was directed to 'the
natural advantages possessed by their city for all
descriptions of business, and to its importance as a
seaport. We, however, were surprised that our
neighbours omitted to point oat to his excellency the
still greater advantage it would be to Quebec were
the works in Lake St. Peter completed. Since the
commencement of the work, we have all along ad-
vocated its being proceeded with without let or
hindrance ; but we regret to learn that little progress
has been made this summer towards its completion,
and that there is no chance of the new channel being
made available for large vessels this fall. If the pro-
posed canal between the St. Lawrence and Lake
Champlain is undertaken and speedily completed, our
Quebec friends will learn to their cost that the im-
provement of Lake St. Peter is a matter in which they
are much more interested than we are; for what
with this canal and the railroad to Portland, they
will find it difficult to maintain the position they now
hold, notwithstanding the natural advantages they
possess, and which are admitted to be greater than
are possessed by any other port in the province.
A delegation, composed of gentlemen from the dif-
ferent
colonies under the jurisdiction of Lord Elgin,
recently arrived in Montreal, to confer with his ex-
cellency in reference to the mutual interests and future
prospects of the British possessions in North America.
Among these the most prominent are the equalization
of duties, a general system of internal postage, and
the means most effectual to be pursued for the com-
mencement and completion of the great lines of rail-
way from the provinces bounding on the Atlantic
Ocean to the interior of the Canadaa.
The Right Rev. Dr. Power, bishop of Toronto, died
at the palaec in Toronto on the Ist inst., of the typhus
fever. Two more ministers of the church of England,
Bev. Mr. Morris and Rev. Mr. Anderson, have fallen
victims to the emigrant fever, contracted during their
ministrations at Grosse Isle.
The number of emigrants arrived at Quebec ap to
the oth inst., was 91,02, being an increase of 60,889
over the corresponding period last year.
Lord Elgin proceeded on the 4th on his tour to
Upper Canada. lie made but a short stay at Toronto,
on the morning of the Gth, and re-embarked for Ha-
milton the same day.. Ile reached that town the
same day, and was present at a large agricultural
show held there, which, however, turned out a failure
from badness of weather.
The works on the Lachine Canal were in such a
state of forwardness as to lead to the certainty that it
would be re-opened for traffic on the 15th inst.
The fine weather had gone at length. Nearly
the whole of Upper Canada had been visited with
a succession of storms, accompanied by thunder and
lightning.
The railway gauge question has at last been finally
settled, so far se the St. Lawrence and Atlantic R
road is concerned. The governor in council his de-
cided that the medium gauge of five and a half feet