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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1847.

Refreshed by the vacation which has just termi•
nated, the Parliament recommences its labours las'
evening. Considering the amount of business got
through during the first interval of the session for
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, we may reasonably
anticipate an energetic continuation of what has been
so earnestly commenced. Spring, now giving forth
the green leaf and promising the bountiful fruition of
the cultivated fields, will naturally afford the Legis-
lature a very rational plea for directing its energies
elsewhere than towards Ireland. Not that we con-
ceive the auspicious movements of vegetation as in any
manner justifying the Executive in with-
drawing its attention altogether from the
sister island. On the contrary, we are
satisfied that, unless the provident care of the Go-
vernment be extended towards the suffering popula-
tion of that portion of the United Kingdom, the
miseries of the two past winters will inevitably be
repeated with increased violence hereafter. Unless
the precautions of the Administrative agents,
under the Lord-Lieutenant and the Commis-
sariat in Dublin, be persevered in through-
out the four provinces of Ilibernia; unless
the peasantry are instigated in every con-
ceivable way to fructify the ground by
labour ; unless science and industry, and assi-
duity, be combined with self-reliance and fortitude
among the various classes of the Irish community, it
is certain—it is mournfully and horribly certain—
that the woes of 1845.46, and the still greater
calamities of 1846-47 will be renewed and probably
be redoubled in 1847-48. Every one is satisfied of
this. No one has the audacity or absurdity to deny
it. Procrastination in the tillage and drainage, and
manuring and sowing of the soil, must revive the
now diminished starvation, the now abated despair,
and the now decreased mortality of the Irish million.
Nevertheless, we are persuaded that sufficient time
has been occupied by the Parliament in exclusively
legislating for Ireland. We are satisfied that a suffi-
cient impetus has been given to the resources
of that afflicted part of these dominions by the
undivided and assiduous attention of the Legis-
lature. We are convinced that as the Lords, the
Commons, and the Ministry have so admirably
fulfilled the expectations of the multitude,
by striving to alleviate the anguish of Ireland, so
they have exonerated themselves from the possi-
bility of any blame in turning to other questions
of internal and external polity immediately upon the
close of the Easter vacation. By a magnificent and
magnanimous forgetfulness of self, England has
during the past appalling interval proved her readi
ness to aid her sister island to the very uttermost. In
her sorrows Ireland has received Saxon sympathy,
Saxon money, Saxon food, and—what is most pre-
cious of all to the donor—Saxon time. Unstintingly
these things have been lavished upon the famishing
and helpless children of Ilibernia. If we cannot ex-
pect the Milesian blood of the nation to warm towards
us in gratitude, we may at least anticipate that the
hearts of the Irish people will not be hardened against
those who have afforded them such inestimable
assistance.

Ireland must remember, therefore, during the
remainder of this session that the first Par-
liamentary energies, the first monetary sur-
plus, the first emotions of generosity, the first
pickings of the granaries of 1847 have been lavished
upon her without stint. It is surely admissible,
after these arduous exertions on behalf of
Ireland, that the Government should be per-
mitted, without the invidious aspersions of the
disaffected, to consider other matters besides the
distresses of Ireland —matters which have been
continued rather too long in abeyance in conse
quence of the very ardour with which the woes of
Ireland were debated, and of the pertinacity with
which measures were taken for their amelioration. We
are gratified to perceive something like a direct inti-
mation that such is the intention of Parliament in
that portion of the Parliamentary business which is
already sketched out prospectively. Questions re-
lating immediately to the well-being of the British
community—questions involving the sanatory condi-
tion and educational condition of the populace—
questions bearing upon the state of our sea-
men and soldiers—questions affecting, indeed,
both directly and indirectly, every class and
order of the community, remain in abundance, either
partially solved or altogether untouched. Beyond
this, our foreign relations are still embarrassed and
complicated. Besides the Gordian knot of Ireland,
the Legislature has many intricate webs to unravel.

Political intrigue has met with a severe and unex-
pected check in the Court of Madrid ; we wish we
could go the length of saying that it has suffered a
complete overthrow. The greatest change has been
effected, not only in the Government, which, unfor-
tunately for Spain, has been of too frequent occur-
rence of late years, but also in the personnel of the
household appointments in the palace, and which, as
it was of a most sweeping character, we regard as
highly auspicious for the future honour and dignity of
Queen ISABELLA. and the interests of her subjects.
To the firmness, as well as the discriminating judg-
ment of her MAJESTY, which, happily for Spain in
particular, and Europe at large, seems to show itself
" equal to the occasion sudden," must every admirer
of constitutional freedom feel himself mainly indebted
for the spirited manni-r in which she has cleansed out
the Augean stable. The conduct also of her actual
Ministers, to whom the Sovereign addressed herself
at a crisis when the exercise of her legitimate
functions was attempted to be controlled in a most
insulting and humiliating way, will be viewed with
iiatense satisfaction full allowance being made
for the degenerated condition of the Court where
the scene was enacted, and the occult, though 1
well understood, influence by which the despe-
rate manceuvres of the factious were sup-
ported. The odious Camarilla is at length scat-
tered to the winds. For the first time since her acces-
sion the QUEEN may be said to be disenthralled from the
fetters that reduced her occupancy of the throne to a
mere figure of speech. How long this salutary
change may last, seeing the hotbed of cabal and
intrigue which has so long infected every political
circle in Madrid, and the factions into which public
men are split, it is impossible even to surmise. All
we observe is, that a great move has been made in
the right direction, which we trust will serve to
kindle the embers of patriotism, and rouse the sons of
Spain to evince a chivalrous loyalty and secure to
their QUEEN the maintenance of her undoubted
prerogatives. It appears that after her MA-
JESTY had formally cashiered the Camarilla
minions of the QUEEN-MOTHER, and, conse-
quently, of French domination, the Marchioness of
SANTA CRUZ and the Count BE CUMBRES ALTAS in-
sultingly insisted upon the retention of their posts.
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The latter, Runlxists , with two others, AI. EGANA and N.
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perhaps, constrained, by prudence, from not carrying
her her rebuke of the indignity she sustained further thanin
we have mentioned.

Mr. Bui.wEn, it is understood, has not mixed him-
self in any wsy with these recent proceedings. Par
better is it that the QUEEN, aided by her subje( is
should voluntarily, and without foreign intervention,

emancipate herself from the unprincipled thraldom in
which she has been kept. M. OLOZAGA has received
a full pardon, and is permitted to return to Madrid.
This is a just and wise step. The public services of
M. OLOZAGA will not be without their value in the
present disorganized state of affairs in Spain. Great
expectation prevails with respect to the financial mea-
sures to be brought forward by the Ministry. It is
believed that they will embo.iy a recommendation for
the further sale of the church and corporation pro-
perties, the proceeds to be disposed of, first to satisfy
the interest of the national debt, and next to the liqui-
dation of the principal. The clergy are to derive a
revenue of three per cent. on the amount realised by
the contemplated sales. We hope the Minister of
Finance will find himself zealously seconded in the
Cortes in his proposed attempt to regenerate the cre-
dit of his country.

Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived.
The Pacheco Ministry has commenced its career
well and boldly. It has expelled the execrable Cama-
rilla from the Palace. The notorious Marchioness of
SANTA CRUZ ; Don PEDRO EGANA, the Palace In-
tendant; Senor RUBIANES, Commander of Hal-
bardiers ; Colonel GUZZAS, Lieutenant of the same
corps; and the Count DE CUMBRES ALTAS, Lord of
the Bedchamber—all appointed by Queen CHRISTINA,
all spies and agents of the wife of MUNOZ, and
consequently of the Court of the Tuileries, have been
expelled from the Palace at the express desire of the
QUEEN. So accustomed had these persons been to
tyrannize over and coerce the young QUEEN, that
they actually refused to leave the Palace, and used
the most insulting language to her MAJESTY, and,
notwithstanding their dismissal on the 3d, they ap-
peared at the Palace on the 4th, and resumed their
ordinary duties, alleging that as they had been
appointed by Queen CHRISTINA, neither the QUEEN
nor the Ministers bad power to dismiss them.
Her MAJESTY sent for her Ministers, and General
MAZERREDO and Senor SALAMANCA soon arrived at
the Palace, and announced,' to the astonished Cama-
rilla that the only Queen who had any authority in
Spain was the constitutional Queen ISABELLA, and
that it was her pleasure they should be dismissed.
CUMBRES ALTAS, EGANA, and RUBIANES, having
refused to obey, were placed under arrest, when the
two latter surrendered at discretion, and resigned
their places ; the former was deprived of his, and
sent as a prisoner to Valencia. The Marchioness of
SANTA CRUZ resigned her place, but was permitted
to retain her salary.

Senor EscosouaA is appointed Political Chief of
Madrid; Senor PENA AGUAYA, Intendant of the
Palace, and Senor VENTURA DE LA VEGA, Private
Secretary to the Queen. General NAUVAEZ has ac-
cepted the Paris Embassy.
The Madrid Gazette publishes a formal document,
drawn up by the Minister of Grace and Justice, as
Notary of the Kingdom, setting forth the petition to
the QUEEN of OLOZAGA, and the declaration of
her MAJESTY, that—of her own free will, and inde-
pendently of all Ministerial influence—she accorded
its prayer, together with pardon and forgetfulness for
what had passed. It is signed by all the Ministers.
Annexed to it is a royal decree, signed by the QUEEN
and the President of the Council, in which her MA-
JESTY declares that, being anxious to reconcile all
Spaniards, she frees Senor OLOZAGA from the prosecu-
tions pending against him, and authorises him to re-
turn to Madrid.

On the 4th, the QUEEN went to the Theatre del
Principe, and was received with the loudest acclama-
tions, as if the public had been anxious to show that
she might rely upon her people in the exercise of her
prerogative. After what had just taken place at the
Palace this demonstration assumed a remarkable cha-
racter.

Senor SALAMANCA is, it is said, about to propose a
plan for the sale of church property, to be applied to
the liquidation of the debt, the clergy to have settled
on them a fixed annual revenue, equal in amount to
three per cent. upon the proceeds of the sale.
The corps of army, 12,000 strong, stationed on the
frontier of Portugal, under the command of General
MANUEL DE LA CONCHA, was ready to enter that
kingdom on receipt of orders from Madrid.
The sth being a holiday the Bourse remained closed.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The Journal des Debats has a long article in allu-
sion to the report that M. GUI LOT was at the bottom
of the late changes in the Spanish Ministry, and is
exceedingly bitter with the Presse for undertaking
the defence of M. GUIZOT against such niaiseries.
It says—

" We had not read those lucubrations of the hostile
journalists, and we frankly confess, that if we had read
them, we should not have taken the trouble to defend
NI. Guizot. We should have regarded a reply to such
silly accusations as an insult to the gravity of his cha-
racter; and it is for that reason we are not surprised to
find his justification undertaken by a journal with a
zeal as sincere as it is well understood. There is no
ground for alarm; M. Guizot is not capable of the evil
designs imputed to him. lle may have disappointed
some expectations too hastily evinced, and chocked from
the outset petty manoeuvres, maliciously called intrigues,
but it is impossible to suppose that he would yield
or surrender Spain into the hands of England ; and,
besides, the thing will be looked to. Those great pro-
tecting airs are very ludicrous. But when the journal
in question expresses a hope that M. Guizot will seize
the very first opportunity of publicly denying the
grotesque views attributed to him, it carries the joke
rather too far. One is not obliged to render oneself
ridiculous, there are already enough who are so without
being aware of it."

The split between the young Conservatives, repre-
sented by the Presse, and the Guizot Conservatives,
represented by the Debats, is becoming every clay
more apparent. The young Conservatives, to the
number of sixty, have taken all the necessary means
to establish themselves as an independent ',arty, under
the leadership of the Count DE CASTELLANE. They
have announced their intention of supporting the pro-
position of M. DE REMUSIT for excluding placemen
from the Chamber.

We have frequently had occasion to notice the
general accuracy of thQ information of the National
on Spanish affairs. The National of Saturday gives
the following amusing account of the circumstances
attending the recent expulsion of the Camarilla from
the Palace :

" Spain is not only an apple of discord between Eng-
land and France—she causes a still greater misfortune—
she :rids to the discords of the two Conservative journals.
The Presse was very sour the day before yesterday; the
Dtbats of yesterday is sarcavie even to impertinence.
Whilst these papers dispute, Queen Isabella becomes
ferocious. It appears that she has taken in horror the
party of the Moderadus, enrolled by her mother, and
nourished by M. Bresson. After having dismissed the
old Cabinet, she has just swept out all its friends and
accomplices in the interior of the palace. The first lady
of honour, the famous Marquise de Santa Cruz, turned
out of doors; the captain of the hallebardiers turned out
of doors; the gentleman cavalcadour, Count de C mai e 4
Alfas, turned out of doors; the steward of the household,
Egana, turned out of doors! All this at one blow, and '
with a high hand, in the English fashion, neither more
nor less. It is astonishing how much this girl
resembles her father! This time, however, she did an
act of justice, and even of good policy. No Ministry
could have held up against the incessant intrigues con-
cocted in the palace. The Camarilla constituted by
Christina was faithful only to Munoz and his friends.
All the band uttered cries of rage when it learned that
Isabella had turned out her higher domestics. It had
been necessary to push out Sotomayor by the shoulders;
the palace was witness of a scandalous scene caused by
the great lackeys who would not go. The order had been
given on behalf of Isabella, and she believed that they
had gone away, when she saw them enter the apart-
ments to do their ordinary duty. They pretended that,
having been placed in the palace by the Queen-
Nlother, the Ministers had not the right to dismiss
them. The Marquise de Santa Cruz and. the Count de
Cumbres Alfas, the Cameriera and the gentleman, de-
sired to have a personal explanation with the Queen,
and their tone was that of a guardian before his ward.
Isabella immediately sent fur the Ministers. Two only
were found at liberty, MuzATedo, Minister of War, and
Salamanca, Minister of Finance. This is how our cor-
respondent recounts the facts:—' M9v:rredo himself
was furious at the insolence of these peoplo of the
palace. Ile and Salamanca, after having conferred with
the Queen, proceeded with firmness to the execution of
her orders. They went first to Egana, and said—" Sir,
you will immediately remit the stewardship of the
palace to Senor Pena Aguaya, who replacesyou." Then
addressing Rubianes—" The Queen takes fr,rn you the
command of the hallebardiers which she has confided to
the Duke de Baylen—you will conform thereto instantly."
And so on with the others. But the Cameriera and
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