The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Accounts from Madrid of the 23rd inst. state that
all the ministers were to proceed on the following
day to Araojuez, to assist at a Cabinet Council
which was t.) be held in the evening in that resi-
dence.

Private letters state that the prevalent opinion at
Madrid was that the Lersundi Cabinet is lost beyond
hope with the retirement of M. Bermudez de Castro,
the only minister of the last three cabinets whose
character and acts inspired the public with any de-
gree of confidence. M. Pastor, the new finance
minister, is scarcely known to the public ; he is the
brother-io-law of M. Salamanca, of railway noto-
riety. M. Gonzalo Moron, a deputy, and a man of
mark in Spain, has addressed a spirited note
to the Nacion upon the present slate of affairs, and
thus expresses the wishes of the Spanish nation :
" We want," says he, " for ministers men who,
while inspiring the nation with confidence, shall be
the ministers of Queen Isabella, and of her only.
Let us no more have seven names good only to till a
gap, appointed by we know not whom, nominated
one knows not how, and representing we know not
what. Let us have no more bastard combinations,
but a ministry which shall express the free will of
the Queen, and stand out as the representative of
public interests. All this and nothing less we must
demand of the Queen. The history of ministerial
crises in this country has always been a series of
mystification for the country. It is time to put an
end to this system."

Nothing perhaps shows the indifference of
East India Company to progress with the age and tgio
incompetency more than their furlough regulation,. g.
these regulations a number of the higher grades or
officers cannot visit England while on leave of Ansel%
from any cause, without forfeiting their situations 4
though they might visit any place between Initialed tit
Cape of Good Hope and Austaulia. This prohib:tieg
from visiting England was reasonable when the voyage
and from India and England occupied a twelvemegek.
Within the last 12 years, however, the eatablishinettd
steam packet communication between India and Englae4
by the Peninsular and Oriental Company has reduced the
time occupied in visiting England and returnieg
India to three months—in fact, a person can reach lingliat
from Bombay in a month, still the East IndiscCoMp%
have refused to amend their furlough regulations, note%
standing they have been urged over and over again to dog
No one could ever account for the obstinacy of the Eira
India Company in adhering to old rules, which theme",
of events had rendered so absurd, unless by attributiqg
to an antipathy to the enterprising stesm packet company
who have done so much for India by bringing it in
mei
close and intimate connexion with the mother country be
the furlough regulations have undoubtedly deprived th
latter company of a considerable revenue from nautli,"
who would have travelled by the India nverland route, d
they had been permitted to do so. That the F.ot India
Company have birue no good will to the Peninsular nag
Oriental Company is evident, from their refusal for so teal
years to give up the carrying of a considerable poroong
the Indian mails to the Oriental Company, in oppositioeu
the wishes of the government, and the mercantile coma%
nity both in India and England, and when even they
they could not carry them so theaply, nor sU s hptdl:lo.4
as the latter company.