The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

CHANGE OF MLNISTRY.—F.k LL OF NARVAEZ.
The following lettere, from our corresp:ndent at
Madrid, give notice of this surprising change :
MADRID, Orr. 19, 1849.
Last night the opera that was to be performed in
the little theatre the young queen has had made in
the palace was delayed one hour. Surmise was active. i
Was it love or poli ca that kept the queen from the
enjoymett of sweet sounds? This mo'ning it was
known that both had their share, Bedmsr, the hand-
some muquis whom Narvaez once exiled, found means
to get into the queen's presence, and paint to her in
glowing colours the exhausted state of the treasury—
the starving employis cf the very palms. 'lhr queen
dismissed the whole ministry, and it is said laughed
heartily when Horvath blustered. Count Clonard, an
artillery general, has been ordered to k rm a ministry.
An intrigue between Queen Christina end the Duke
of Montpensier is spoken of. Tte duke set out for
Marlys, in Andalos a,and pretending a di-ire to vi-it
the coast, set out thence for Valence, where he was to
arrive in January. Zhao» be was to go to Cuenca
(near Madrid), wtete Christina was to come to visit
, her daughter. Does this round-about scheme have
reference to a change of qr.centi? All who know the
ambition of Montpcniae and the pride of the ir fonts,
believe them capable of aspiring to hers ster's rights.
The ministers, in parsing through the streets to-day,
told all their friends that they had been dismissed.
Tao population is in a s ate of great exc t Hunt;
conjectures of all sorts are rife; some say that it is
the beginning of absolute government, whilst others
see in it the dawn of a better day for lib rty.
LAST INTELLIGENCE.

Ocr. 19, 4,30 r r.
Count Clonard, President of the Council
and Minister. of War.
Armesta
General Balbsa
Manresa
Baatilloa Marine.
All except Maur's* have entered upcn their duties
as ministers, having been sworn in this afternoon.
Our Paris correspondent informs uu that, subse-
quent to the arrival of this newr, an eatafette arrived
in Paris, announcing that on the 21st this embryo
ministry had been overthrown, and that Narvees bed
resom d the reins of government.
In the evening of the 24th (yoeterday), a tele-
graphic despatch reached Pad., dated Madrid, the
23rd, announcing the definitive fall of t' c old sdmi-
nistration, and the entrance on its duties of the
Qooard ministry.

Orr. IL—Three per Crete., Hi we-mg ;MG per Cents.,
in rule aceepar • Coup .n., paper ; Bank of St. lenlln.unl, 76.
Ezehange on larks, SO. P

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have papers from Cape Town with dates to
Aug. 11, by which we learn that the feeling against
theimportation of convicts has in no degree subsided.
The Neptune wan expected to arrive within a week.
The ship Alic.i had arrived in the bey with free ..mi-
grants, bat the rancour that ir..me cf them were per-
sons of bad character had ;iven rise to much public
excitement. The emigration agent issued the fol-
lowing official notification on the subject:
Cars Tows, Aro 8. 11149.—liaving ascertained yester-
, day that a report was in Wry-station to the effect that many
of the emigrants just arrived by the Royal Alice were
eou-
victed (elms 1 called on Er. Y. Selom, the person
with the report eoliths:ad, who stated that he had
ascertained that one lad among them bad been imprisoned
three times, and he had rearm, from this knovileege he had
acquired at Van Diemen's Laud retarding trartp 'tied con-
victs, to hallow there were many wore. I requested him to
accompany sae to the depot, and ascertained from the lad
the?, about eight months ego, he was charged with receiving
stolen property (having been seen carrying a bundle of ,binge
that bad been stolen, but which, he says, be and two other
boys picked up), and sentenced to owe month's corfl-emeat
In prison. Another emigrant, pointed out by Mr. &Jo= as
suspected by him, underwent a very searching t lamination,
from which I was perfectly satisfied that be had never even
been charged with crime befrre. As emigration agent, I
feel it my duty to make public the foregoing, in justicelto the
emigrants under my clams, and also the (*flowing con-
ditions under which the emigrants to this colony are seat
out, by which it will be Win that, besides producing eerti-
Wes of good character, most of them are obliged
to pay a portion of the expense) of their pus's,. The
emigrants by the S6nchan paid 8541., er about
a quarter of the espouse of the whole, as shown by
the report of the Colonial Land and Emigration
commissioners, published herewith. Many the emigrants be
the Royal Aiice have brought with them most favourable tes-
timonials of character frau clergymen end gentlemen re-
sident in the neghbourhood where they lived.
fttcuaxnBoolllllY, Emigration Agent.

Oa Saturday, Aug. 4, a special meeting of the
Anti-Convict Association assembled at the Town-
house, in very large numbers, at two o'clock in the
afternoon. A letter was then read by the chairman,
of which the following is a copy :
Cocos' mt.-orrics,Aug. 4, 1849.—8ir,—1 =directed by his
excellency the governor to Inform you that he has Just re-
ceived from Earl Grey the duplicate of a despatch (not yet
received in original) in reply to a memorial from the fru-
blurts of Graham's Town, arinst the introduction of con-
victs into the colony. The Graham's Town memorial was
transmitted by his excellency e n the 20th January last, that
of the inhabitants of Cape Town on the 19th December,
1848; bat r Ear Grey has desired that the present despatch
should be communicated to all those who take an interest in
the subject, he excellency has desired me to enclose a copy
for the information of the Cape Town petitioner. I have
the honour to be, sir, &c., JOHN MONTAOI:.

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Received by royal Alias. August 3, 1849.
DOWNINO.STEEET, April 13, 1849.—5ir,-1. I have the
honour to acknowledge your despatch No. 24, of the 20th
of January last, accompanied by a copy of certain resolu-
lieu passed eta public meeting of the inhabitants of Graham's
Town, end also by a memorial to myself, directed spinet
the measure of introducing convicts into the Cape of Good
Hope. 2. I have to request that you will atquaint the me-
morialiats that I deeply regret that the proposal to intro-
dace a limited number of convicts, deserving of
tickets-of leave, should have excited so much dis-
satisfaction in the colony. You may assure the memorialists,
and all those who take an interest i% the subject, that
the government never intended to send convicts of such con-
duct, or in such numbers as they believed to be in the least
likely to injure the moral character of the colony ; but I em
to add, that if the dislike with which the meow has been
received should prove irsuperable, I have no wish to disre-
gard the sentiments of the colonists, and that I shell not send
out any more tonic's whilst they entertain such decided
objections to that course. 3. Whilst I hope that this an-
aemic, meat may be satisfactory, I need scaree/p observe, that
It would be inconsistent with the expectations under which
the party of convicts already gone to the Cape were taken
to the colony, and with the claim which they bad established
to favourable consideration, to place them under restraint, as
is proposed in one of the naolatine, at a penal station. I
have, &e., 01111'.
These documents were received, says the Graham's
town paper, " with come surprise, and not without
a little laughter at Earl Grey's new-born feelings
of justice:—namely, that it would be inconsistent
with the expectations of the convicts, if they wore
kept in restraint." After some consultation it was
agreed to desire the chairman to write the following
letter to his excellency :
Towx Rouse, Atom 4, 1849.—8ir,-4 have the he.
nour to acknowledge your letter of this date with its enclo-
sure, expressing Lard Grey's opinion that the convicts ex-
pected per Nerune ought not to be held in r.s•raint. I have
communicated your letter to a large meeting of the iababi-
tants assembled at the Town How, and I am directed by
them to request, that his excellency will be so good as to say,
what he intends to do with the said convicts en their arrival,
which is hourly expected. Waiting in the chair of this meet-
ing for your reply, I bare, dtc., J. B. EDEN, Chairman.
While the meeting was awaiting his excellency s
reply, a motion of Mr. Rutherfoord, seconded by Mr.
Memngton, that five members of the association be
deputed to station themselves at Simon's Town, as
soon as the Neptune arrives, and to watch that the
pledge be fully kept in regard to herself and her
(sew, was unanimously carried. This motion had
been urged by its proposer with much warmth, and
was accompanied by a voluntary proposal on his part
to be one of the five to perform a duty, which, how-
ever =pleasing, was, he thought, one that absolutely