The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-20 00:00:00

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We have intelligence from Madrid to the 11th inst.
The Chamber of Deputies met on that day, when me
royal ordonnances were laid before them— one accepting
the resignation' of General NARVAEZ as Minister of Warp
and the other appointing General RONCALI to his post.
The President of the Chau.ber then announced that, a
the new Ministry was not completed, he would adjourn
the sitting, which accordingly took place. Communica-
-dons have since been received at Paris, which announce
the formation of a new Cabinet. The following are the
latest particulars :—The Marquis DE MIRAFLORES
is appointed President of the Council and Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs ; General RONCALI, Mi-
nister of War ; M. ISTURITZ, Minister of the
Interior ; M. TOPETE, Minister of the Marine ;
the Mi.rquis DE CASA RIERA, Minister of Finances.
The Minister of Justice is not yet named. Tne Mar-
quis DE MIRAFLORES was Ambassador at London and
Paris at the signing of the quadruple alliance. General
ltoNcam was the defender of General LEON before the
court-martial which condemned him to death. 1%1.
ISTURITZ was President of the Council at the time of the
revolution at La Granja. M. TOPETE is one of the
members of the Supreme Tribunal of War and the
Marine, and is reckoned one of the hest officers of the
Spanish navy. The Marquis M. DE CASA RIERA is
one of the richest bankers of Spain. He has never
been tried as a statesman, but all men do homage
to his probity and independence of character. He

is at this moment in Paris. The QUEEN had charged
General NARVAEZ to form a new Cabinet. He em-
ployed the 10th and 11th inst. in executing his mi. -
sion. lle applied to several senators and various
Members of Congress, and particularly the Marquis
DE bIIRAFLORES and M. ISTUaITZ, the chief of the.
Opposition, formerly President of the Council; but he
everywhere met with such difficulties as be found im-
possible to surmount. The QUEEN then summoned the
Marquis DE MIRAFLORES and General RONCALL They
undertook, it is said, to-form a Ministry, in which none
of the old Ministers should be included.

The other intelligence from Madrid is not important.
Considerable anxiety, however, prevails as to the real
cause of a change of Ministry, and the object of NARVAEZ
in giving up his place as
,Minister of War.
The Funds were depressed in consequence, the Three
per Cents. closing at 31 for cash, at 31i at 60 days, and
the Five per Cents. at 231 at 60 days.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the debate
in the English House of Commons and the change of
Ministry in Spain. They give rather long extracts
from the speeches, with running comments, possibly
amusing to ,Frenchmen, but of little interest to the
English reader. We give a few remarks from the Con
stitutionnel as a specimen :—" It is impossible to imagine
anything more pitiable than the arguments used by the
agriculturists. One predicts, as a consequence of. the
repeal of the corn-law, the loss of Canals, the Antille,',
and, in the end, Hindostan. Another represents Russia.
including even. Siberia, as covering herself with bread-
corn in order to inundate Great Britain, who will have
nothing more to pay for it than the cost of the transport.
A third, in order to prove the necessity of the corn law,
occupies whole hours in gravely reading petitions which
the manufacturers of France, England, or America, may
have addressed to their respective Governments in sup-
port of their claims to protective duties. All these
fine speeches resemble each other, and it is very
rarely that any partisan of the :Niinistry condescends to
rise and lettuce theie iecohereeces to their real value.
Thus the debates drag on to a tedicus length, without
any interest to the public, or exciting in the House of
Commons anything more than the petty personal ques-
tions which the intestine war of the Tory party gives
ground for at every moment." The Ministerial crisis
in Spain appears to be as much a mysteryt aria as
here. The 1t thus adverts to it :—/ 41 i /
" A vsry iinexpects piece of news bad tcea from .'
Spain. Narvaez has given in his resignation, his colleague-
have followed his example, and the Queen appears to have
consented without difficulty to the dissolution of this Ministry.
It is added that she has charged General Roncali and M. Mi-
raflores to form a Cabinet. What is there under all this? We
cannot say, and we have not the slightest curiosity to know.
We have seen this pillaging, sanguinary counter-revolution
Cabinet attack the Constitution and trample it under foot;
claim and obtain arbitrary power; exercise for a length of
time the most atrocious acts of violence; condemn to death
without trial; imagine conspiracies in order to get rid of
troublesome opponents; proscabe, as the fancy seiz ad it;
confiscate when it pleased ; destroy municipalities and the
national guard ; suppress the jury, arrest journalists, and
keep them for months under the menace of transportation ;
give up the whole of Spain to pillage; substitute the edge
of the sword for law; and this Cabinet, thus sullied with so
many political crimes, we have beheld honoured with the
good graces of the Queen. An intrigue at present trips the
Government up, and smites it tothe ground !Noble spectacle!
Great morality of the Monarchy ! How hottest it renders
society! how happy the populations! how glorious the na-
tion! Haw lofty and resplendent Spain is under the conduct
of the wid.rsv and daughter of Ferdinand!"
It appears from some of the journals, that the great
victory obtained by the Anti-Corn-law League in this
country has caused great excitement in the south
of France, where monopoly does so much injury,
and that a scheme has been proposed for establishing a
Free-Trade Association. We suspect, however, that the
laws of France, as well as the well-known sentiments of
the Court, will effectually obstruct delaying such plane.
These associations are not of much use without public
meetings, and these the Court and Cabinet might think
dangerous. The Courrier Francais, we believe, takes a
correct view of the question:—
"Meetings
have been held at Bordeaux with the intent
of establishing a Free-Trade Association. A young man of
talent, M. Bastia, who has been the first to make France
acquainted with the organisation and labours of the Engiish
League, has communicated to these meetings a plan fur an
anti-protectionist league, which several journals have
quoted. The ideas elicited by M. Bastia have had already
numerous adherents, and we hope they will be still more
widely adopted. ' It must not, however, be disguised that a
Free. Trade League will meet in this country an almost insur-
mountable obstacle at the threshold. What, in fact, has
been its great menus of action in England ? Agitation by
meetings—conversion of the masses of the people to free-
trade principles by freedom of speech. But do we possess
this right of agitsuing the masses by freedom of speech, by
disseminating among collected bodies of the people the grand
and pacific lessons of liberty ? No, we are not free to speak.
We are scarcely free to write. The English monopolisers
have indeed been guilty of one grave and irreparable act of
oblivion, the; have forgotten to gag those upon whom they
prey. Ours have been more provident, they have deprived
us of-even the means of complaining. It may be *aid,
perhaps, what does this signify? If the law takes front us
the means of enlightening the masses upon whom this de-
plorable system of protection weighs so heavily, we may it
will be said eo without them, and convert the higher classes
of society, the .landholders, the great manufacturers.
the owners of forests, &c. ; hi a word, convert the privileged
men themselves. Can it be believed, however, that this is
an easy task ;,- Can it, we maw rather say, be believed pos-
sible? Win re would. the Anti-torn-law League be now, it it.
had only Ow dais of landlords to act upon? Can it be be-
lieved that it would have met with numerous adherents, and
collected eumiant subscriptions from this privileged class?
No doubt it his ended in converting the most enlightened
men of the aristocratic party. But let it be well observed,
that these conversions have been extremely tardy; they may
be said to have been made in extremis, when it -became evi-
dent to the clear-sighted (we do not talk of the blind) that
.the idea of freedun was stengthened in the country, when it
became visible to all eves that a longer resistance to the in-
vasion of this idea could only end in a catastrophe."
Beu-Achache, Ambassador; of the; King of Morocco, has
left Paris, with all his suite. His baggage was taken to the
Orleans railway, where the Ambassador found a diligence
prepared expressly for the accommodation.
Tee Gazette de France says :—" The break up of the
Left. and the Left Centre is so complete, that M. Thiers, it is
reported, is aboutto accept an embassy."

- The French Funds were very firm on Tuesday. The Three per
Cents. closed at 84f. 95c. ; the New Loan at 84f. 75c. ; the Five per
Cents., 1231. 40c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,a20f. ; Rouen,
1,047 f. 50e.; Havre, 745'; Avignon, 1,015 f.; Vlcrzon, 720 f.; Bor•
deaux, 650 f.; Boulogne, 547 f. 40c.; Troyes and 3lontereau, 452 f.
50c. ; Basle, 251 f. 25c. ; Great Northern, 775 f. ; Paris and Stras-
bourg, 558 f. 75e. ; Tours and Nantes, 597 f. 50c.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-Paris and
Lyons (definitive), 631 f. 25c. ; LyonS and Avignon (Talabot),
511 f. 50c.; Ditto (Lecointe), 5051'.; Ditto (Compagnie Mod
dionale), 502 f, 50c, ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 506 f. ;
Ditto (Espeleta), 514 f. ; Charleroi (Kysaen's), 495 f.; Copenhagen-
Roeskilde, 80 ; Schwerin-Wismar, 8234 ; Schwerin-Rostock, 82%.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOR ;N RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11%-Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 2%-=-Ditto (Espeleta), 2% -Dutch Rhenish, 674-East
Indian, -Great Northern of France Constituted, 14%-Jersey, 1.4
-Louvain and Jentappe, 2-Luxembourg, 2%-Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 1 1 -Paris and Orleans, 5014-Paris and Rouen, 40-
Sambre and Meuse, 5%-West Flanders, 414.

Miss MARY ELIZABETH SMITH V. THE EARL FIER-
RERS.—Though this case concluded rather abruptly on
.117 edoesday, by the Solicitor-General, the p;ain tiff 's lead-
tug counsel, withdrawing the case, the public are not done
with it yet, and are likely to be amused with another case
arising out of it, for the notice paper of the Court of
Queen's Bench contains an announcement of a case in
which the parties are " Erne v. Earl Ferrers," the
cause of action being a claim by the plaintiff, the grand-
father of Miss t mith, fur 100/. against Lord Ferrers,
which he, Mr. Erpe, contends wa.: a loan made by bim
to the Earl, upon the representation of his granddaughter,
to pay for presents, which she stated his Lordship had
made her, and that, therefore, it was a loan to him.