The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are up to the 24th.
It is generally believed that a Ministerial crisis
is imminent, owing, among other things, to the
conflict brought about between the Government
and the Senate, in consequence of the railroad bill
brought into the Congress by the former. A law
which was passed in 1837, to fix and regulate the
relations between the two Chambers, contains an
article which states that " while any project of
law is pending in one of the co-legislative bodies,
no proposition on the same subject can be made in
the other body." In March last a general railway
bill was brought into the Senate, and is still pend-
ing there ; and the Duke of Rivas intended on the
22d to have brought forward a proposition
founded on the article above quoted ; but he did
not do so, because the Marquis of Viluma, presi-
dent of the Senate, taking the same view of the
case, announced that as the railway bill of last
session was pending in the Senate, the senators
would meet in sections to-day to appoint a com-
mittee upon it.
It was thought that the Government would
withdraw the bill from the Congress, rather than
come into collision with the Senate ; but at a
Council of Ministers, it was resolved to persevere
with the measure, and the dissolving of the Senate,
and forming another on a different principle was
talked of.

In the sections of the Congress, the Government
had a majority in most of them. The Opposition
claim three presidents out of the seven ; and lead-
ing members of the Opposition were returned upon
the different committees elected.

It is expected that Senor Cortina will bring for-
ward the constitutional question as regards the
railroad bill before the Congress, in opposition to
the course taken by the Government. Senor
Doral's affair respecting the coal contract was re-
ferred to a special committee, on the motion of
Senor Bermudez de Castro ; and the Minister of
Marine promised to produce the whole expedients
on the subject.

Neither the Senate nor the Congress sat on
the 23d.

General Navarez leaves for Aranjuez, en route,
it is said, for Loja.
A Council of Ministers was summoned for the
23d, at eleven, at the Home-office. _ _

The new bill to regulate the Bolsa legalise opera-
tions for time, if effected through Bolsa agents.

PORTUGAL.

The news from Portugal, received at Madrid on
the 23d, is of a rather unpromising nature. In a
letter from Orense, Galicia, it is said that a rising
has taken place at Oporto against the regency of
the King-Consort ; and the Clamor Public° has a
letter from Badajoz, dated the 21st inst.,
which states that the 13th Regiment of Infantry
has risen in insurrection, in the direction of the
Douro, and proclaimed Don Miguel ; and that
Miguelites of note had already brought many re-
cruits to their ranks. •

It is an unfortunate fact that (however unjustly)
the King-Consort has always been unpopular in
Portugal, and perhaps the best thing that could
now be done would be for the Portuguese Cortes
to proclaim the young Prince (Don Pedro V.) of
age ; he is upwards of sixteen, and has received an
excellent education, and, above all, is Portuguese,
which, like charity, covers a multitude of sins in
that country, which is particularly averse to being
governed by foreigners ; in which antipathy would
probably consist a great part of Don Miguel's
chance of success, if an insurrection has already
commenced in his favour.