The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

SPAIN

The Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived
in due course. The Gazette contains a royal
decree, by which M. Martinez do h ROM is 110114-

nated Vice-President of the Royal Council, which
place he resigned on being elected by the Opposi-
tion President of the Chamber of Deputies.
The Gazette also contains another circular from
the Minister of the Interior to the Governors of
provinces. It is as follows :
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" It has come to the knowledge of her Majesty that
the enemies of public tranquillity, or the men discon-
tented with the present situation, spread false and
alarming news relative to the projects of the Government,
in order to mislead and disquiet public opinion, and by
these means influence the approaching election. These
news, the principal tendency of which is to ascribe to
the Government absurd projects of reactionary and unbe-
coming policy, are spread amongst the public by all
known possible means of publicity ; they are commented
on and exaggerated by and may succeed in pro-
ducing a deplorable state of agitation. To avoid so
great an evil the will of her Majesty is that your Excel-
lency shall enlighten public opinion on the origin and
tendency of these malevolent inventions, by causing to
be seen that the niareh of the present Government is as
distant from retroactive ideas against really liberal insti-
tutions, and against the great interests created under the
auspices of representative government, as from what
some persons believe to be progress in the path of
liberty, though it is only the first step in the dangerous
path of revolutions, and that if the Government be fully
decided to cause the law to be respected by all who may
attempt to violate it, it is also firmly resolved to regulate
all its acts by it. And that the persons who concoct, or
spread the news referred to shall not offend by ignorance,
it is the will of her Majesty that when their authors, by
the manner of announcing them,' or putting them in cir-
culation, commit an offence against the, laws, your
Excellency will cause them to be chastised inconformity
with those laws by all the means in your power. Any
omission whatever, or a want of zeal in the accomplish-
ment of such an important obligation, will be considered
by the Government as a very grave violation of the laws
which regulate the duties of public functionaries. By
royal order I communicate the present to your Ex-
cellency."

There was a talk at Madrid of modifications in
the Ministry. The Clamor Public° was again
seized on the 19th. The Danish Minister had left
Madrid for Lisbon to obtain the Queen of Por-
tugal's adhesion to the convention between the
Great Powers relative to the succession to the
throne of Denmark.

Spanish affairs seem to be returning fo the same
critical state as they were before the accession of
the present Cabinet to power. The same anticipa-
tions of a violent demonstration on one side, and of
resistance on the other, are still felt, and there are
very few indeed who do not think that if matters
go on as they are a coup of some kind is inevitable.
The fall in Spanish Government securities this day
at the Bourse, following the announcement that
considerable agitation in the public mind existed in
the electoral districts, shows the fears that exist.
Indeed, it was at one moment said that a coup
d' Hat had actually taken place; but this statement
is incorrect, or premature. The opposition, and
particularly the Progresista section of it, are
awaiting with some anxiety the decision of Nar-
vaez—whom, by the way, it appears that some
of his former most devoted friends have aban-
doned, and passed, as they say in Spain, con el
santo y la limosna—with arms and baggage—to
the enemy, meaning the Government. Narvaez is
described as being much discouraged ; he does not
know well what to do unless he takes to his bed
and gets ill—of course a political illness—in order
to have a plausible pretext for not going " to study
the archives at Vienna." The letters I refer to
still declare that the Roncali Cabinet is not a whit
better, or more constitutionally disposed, than
Bravo Murillo. The Government is accused of
wishing to get up a row, either in Madrid or in the
provinces, in order to have a pretext for arresting
some of the more obnoxious of the Opposision.
Letters from Madrid state that a note has been
communicated very recently from the English to
the Spanish Government, declaring that if any at-
tempt were made to deprive Spain of a constitu-:
tional regime, England would consider herself no
longer bound by the Quadruple Treaty, which
secured Dona Isabella 11. on the throne of Spain,
and would act as if the question of dynasty was
not resolved.
The Three per Cents. were done at
New Three per Cents. at 224 ; the Debt of the First
Class at 10.

PIEDMONT.

In its sitting of the 20th, the Senate of Turin
continued the discussion on the Slave Trade Sus-
pension Bill. Various punishments were toted for
cases of cruelty to slaves on board, and the ques-
tion of the right of search was decided in the
affirmative. The deputies continued the discussion
on the Budget of Public Works.
We mentioned a few days ago that a Piedmon-
tese officer received an affront from an Austrian
officer at Milan, and was ordered out of the country
by the police. A hostile meeting has taken place
in consequence at Piacenza between the parties,
which has ended in wounds on both sides.