The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-31 00:00:00

Madrid Papers or the 23d have arrived.
The Ministerial crisis still continue:l. It was, how-
ever, observed that none of the Ministers attended
the sittings of the Chambers on the 23d. It was re-
ported that NARVAEZ and GONZALES BRAVO were to
join the Ministry, and that then an appeal would be
made to the army to coerce the QUEEN. There can
be little doubt but that the money necessary
to corrupt the army will be forthcoming from
Paris, and NARVAEZ is an adept in the art of
investing French gold to the best advantage in the
purchase of a military revolution. Senor PACHECO
will be got rid of by being sent Ambassador to
Rome.

MADrtria BorsA, MAYO 23.—The Three per Cents. closed
at 30 1-16 cash ; the Five per Cents, 19 ; Passives, 53/4 ;
and Coupons, 17 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The differences between the supporters of the
Ministry continue. The breach is evidently widen-
ing, and the Presse, as the organ of the Progressist
Conservatives, has declared war against M. GUIZOT.
This party numbers in its ranks no less than 43
Members of the Chamber of Deputies, and to
show their sense of the gross insult which
M. GUIZOT offered them, when in the
course of his speech on the motion of M. DUYER
GUIER DE HARANNE, he told them that " they, did
not know their own position," they all absented them-
selves from his levee on Friday, and have openly de-
clared that the Ministry must no longer reckon upon
them for support.
According to the Constitutionnel a further decline
in the price of flour took place in the Paris market
on Saturday.

The National, in the course of a long article on
Spanish affairs, represents the QUEEN as held in a
perfect state of captivity by her Ministers ; and that
such is the case there can be no doubt. There is
treason brewing against her. Of that treasonable
plot NARVAEZ is the leader, and Queen CHRISTiNA

the director. It is in order to enable her to conduct
this plot in safety tnat she has removed to Paris. The
telegraph between Paris and Madrid is constantly at
work. The object of the plot is to depose the
QUEEN, and declare the Duchess of MONTPENSIER
Regent.

The celebrated Count DROUOT, the friend of
NAPOLEON,Aied lately at Nancy, in his seventy-third
year.

Mr. O'CONNELL was to leave Paris on Monday on
his way to Rome.

Scarcely any business was transacted on Sunday
in the Passage de l'Opera.—The nominal price of the
Three per Cents. was 79f. 323-c.
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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Alsacii 29.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16% —Dutch Rhenish, 41A—Namur and
Liege, 4%—Northern of France, 13 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 7
Paris and Lyons, G—Paris and Rouen, 34%—Sambre and Meus.,6%.

THE POTATO CROP.
7'O THE EDITOR OF WE SUN.
SIR,--In your paper of last evening appeared a letter,
signed " Altred Smee," relative to the failure of the
potato in Ireland, and recommending that eff .rts should
be made to prevent a like occurrence in future. The
letter was headed " Food or Famine," and was calcu-
lated, I think, to impress persons with the notion that
the Irish are still to continue to depend on the potato as
they have hitherto done. Now, sir, my object in trou-
bling you, in this hasty and very imperfect manner, is
to endeavour to call attention to this subject, for I am
satisfied it is a subject that has not yet had that atti n-
Lion which it demands. I remember the time when Mr.
Cobbett went over to Ireland for the purpose of seeing.
with his own eyes, the condition of the Irish people, :Ind
on his return, I remember he stated that they could only
be rescued from the destitution in which he found them,
and which he so forcibly described, by introducing the
English poor law, and banishing the potato ; he
gave it as his opinion, that the Irish people could
never have been reduced to such utter poverty if the
potato had not been introduced, and he considered it the
curse of the country. When we reflect that failures
more or less extensive have constantly attended the
potato crops, and that the people have been so fre-
quently on the verge of starvation, I think it becomes
the duty of every man to do what he can to prevent the
continuance of such a state of things. The sufferings which
the poor Irish people have endured from time to time
within my recollection on account of the failure of the
potato, induces me to inquire if it can be desirable that
they should continue to live on this lowest description
of food, which has, in the opinion of men who have
thought a great deal on the subject, been the means of
degrading the Irish people below the people of any
other country in Europe, and has caused more suffering
than has been endured in any other country on the face
of the earth. I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
JOSEPH HEYLIN.
25, Fort-street, March 26, 1847.