The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-19 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 two
royal ordonnances were laid before them—one accepting
the resignation of General NARVAEZ as Minister of War,
and the other appointing General Emmet,' to his post.
The President of the Chan.ber then announced that, a,
the new Ministry was not completed, he would adjourn
the sitting, which.accordingly took place. Communica-
tions 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 Marquis DE CASA RIERA, Minister of Finances.
The Minister of Justice is not yet named. The Mar,-
qtiis DE MIRAFLORES was Ambassador at London. and
Paris at the signing of the quadruple alliance. -General
RONCALI was the defender of General LEON before the
court-martial which condemned him to death. M.
ISTURITZ was President of the Council at the time of the
revolution at La Granja. M. TOPETE is one of tha
members of the Supreme Tribunal of War and the
Marine, and is reckoned one of the best efficers of the
Spanish navy. The Marquis M. DE CA.s.s. 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 mis-
sion. He applied to several senators and various
Members of Congress, and particularly the Marquis
DE MIRAFLORES and M. ISTUP.ITZ, the chief of the
Opposition, formerly President of the Council; but he
everywhere met with such difficulties as he found im-
possible to surmount. The QUEEN then summoned the
Marquis DE MIRAFLORES and General RONCALI. 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 313 at GO days, and
the Five per Cents. at 233 at GO 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 Can
stitutionnel as; a sp. imen :—" 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-la :•, the loss of Cana is, the Antilles,
and, in the end, lliiidostan. 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_ f the transport.
A third, in order to prove the necessity of the corn law,
occupies whole hours in gravely reading petitions which
the manufacturers o:' France, England, or America, may
have talciresAA 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 parth:an of the :Ministry condescends to
rise and leduce these iricoherenees to their real value.
Thus the &bet( h (hag on to a tedious length, witheut
any interest to the jublic, or exciting in the Douse of
Commons are) thirg more than the petty personal ques-
tions which the intestine wsr of the Tory party gives
ground for at every moment." The Ministerial crisis
in Spain appoars to be as much a m) story at Paris as
here. The .i\etienal thus adverts to it :
" A very unexpected piece of news has arrived from
Spain. Narvaez has given in his resignation, his colleaolie.
have followed his example, and the Queen appears to have
consented without difficulty to the dissolution of this Ministry.
It is added that she liss charged General Roncali and M. Mi-
raflores to form a Cabinet. What is there under all thi-? We
cannot say, and eve have not the slightest curiosity to know.
We have seen this eillagiug, sanguinary counter-revolution
Cabinet attack the ei,nstitution and trample it under loot;
claim and obtain arbitrary power; exercise for a leenth of
time the most atrocious acts of violence; condemn to death
without trial ; imagine conspiracies in order to get rid of
troublesome opperents; proscribe, es the fancy seized 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 to
many political crimes, we have beheld honoured avith the
good graces ofthe Queen. An intrigue at present trips the
Government up, and mites it Lathe ground !Noble spectacle!
Great morality of the Monarchy ! How holiest it renders
society! how happy the populations! how glorious the na-
tion I Bow lofty and resplendent Spain is under the conduct
of the widow 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 plans.
These associations are not of much use without public
meetings, and these the Court and Cabinet might think
dangerous. The Coutrier 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. Eastia, who has been the first to make, France
acquainted with the organisation and labours of the English
League, has communicated to these meetings a plan for 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 countryan almost insur-
mountable obstacle at the threshold. What, in fact, has
been its great means of action itt England ? Agitation by
meetings—conversion of the masses of the people to free-
trade principles by freedom ofispeech. But do we possess
this right of agitating the masses by freedom of speech, by
disseminating among collected bodies of the people the grand
and pacific lessons of liberty ? 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, they have forgotten to gag those upon whom they
prey. Ours haVe been more prop dent, they have deprived
us of even' the means of complaining. It may be said,
perhaps, what does this signify? . If the law takes from us
the means of enlightening the messes upon whom this de-
plorable system of protection weighs so heavily, we may it
• will be said do without them, and convert the higher classes

of society, the larntholders, tl3e great manufacturers,
the owners of forests, &c.; in a word, convert the privileged
men themselves. Can it be believvd, however, that this is

an easy WIC; Can it, we may rather say, be believed pos-
sible? Where would the Anti-Corn-law League be now, if it
had only the cla:sl3 of landlords to act upon? Can it be be-
lieved that it would have met with numerous adherents, and
collected atunclant .subscriptions from this privileged class?
No doubt it has ends d in converting the most enlightened
men of the aristocrat iC party. But let it be well observed,
that these conversions! have been extremely tardy; they may
be said to have been n tide in extremis, when it -became evi-
dent to the clear. sight ed (we do not talk of the blind) that
the idea of freedom we. stengthened in the country, when it
became visible to all ey es that a longer resistance to the in-
vasion of this idea could only end in a catastrophe."
Ben-Achache, Ausbas. iador, of the,/ King of Morocco, has
left'Paris, with all his sui 'te. His baggage was taken to the
Orleans railway, where t he Ambassador found a diligence
prepared expressly for the 1 accommodation.
Toe Gazette de France .ritys :—" The break up of ,the
Left and the Left Centre is t so complete, that M. Thiers, it is
reported, is about:to accepts embassy."
The French Funds were vi try firm on Tuesday. The Three per
Cents. closed at 84f. 95c. • I :ew Loan at 84f. 75c. ; the rive per
Cents., 1231. 40c. ; the drieto is Railroad shares, 1,320 f. ; Rouen,
1,047 f. 50e.; Has re, 745 E; Av Vion, 1,0151.; Vierzou, 720 f.; Bor •
deaux, 650 f.; Boulorie, 547 f. r 3 ; Troyes and Montereau, 452 f.
50c. ; Basle, •251 f. 25c.; Great IA rthern, 775 f. ; Paris and Stras-
bourg, 5581. 75c. ; Tours and Nat. "tes, 597 f. 50c.
The following are the ittol atis ns for other lines:—Paris and
Lyons (definitive), 6311. 25e. ; L, Tons and Avignon (Talabot),
511 f. 50c. • Ditto (Lecollite), ; Ditto (Commute Mori-
dionale), 5021. 50c. ; Bonicati Gt slid Cette (Mackenzie), SGOI. ;
Ditto (Espeleta), 514 f. ; Chant 5-01*(ECyvaen's), 495 f. ; Copenhagen-
Roeskilde, 80 ; Schwerin-V: ism:, a., 82% ; Schwerin-Rostock,
BUSINESS DONE IN ye *EDIN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK _EXCHANGE, Frs. 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, ill ,k—ortleaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 2 !'6--Ditto (Espaiu ita). 23,8 —Dutch Rhenish, 6A—East
India'', 1 —GI cat Northern oft Tares Constltuled, 15% aersey,
—Louvain turl .I.entappe, —L uxenibourg, .2%--Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 11;i--Paris and Oth tans, 504—Parts and Rouen, 40—
Sambre and Meuse, s;4—West I londersiaN.

ATM MARY. ELIZABETH . IDIITII V. THE EARL FER-
nEns.—ThonOil this case eon, :laded rather abruptly on
Wednesday, by the Solicitor-G •!neral, the plaintiff's load-
ing counsel, withdrawing the ca ic. the public are not done
with it yet, and are likely to has Housed with another case
nrisiLg out of it, for tne notii 7e paper of the Court of
(4::csen's Bench contains :In ann juncernent of a case in
which the parties are " Erre v. Earl Fetters," the
cause of aCt-iti.'s I.eing a claim by ; the plaintiff, the grand.
faiher of ba,y3 Salith, f7r wei.. against Lord Ferrets,
wLich he. 1, ir. .1.4 --- ---.-(4.% WS ' a loan made by him
to theßarl, upon z Is;;:i,",7,0,101. iof his granddaughter,
to pay for pri.scls, poti;erii- '3';uo, s.til tcd his; Lordship had
made her, R;1(1 tiii4, tht.i,h, 7e, IX was a loan to him.

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of the,
1., w oracers of the City direr
dispute between the C.4,ri. • !lo'il antdhet,
front the logal .opinious wl which ' um% Mayer. has acted in the
Excellency Count de St. Aniair,, Count ' ,pt\aterinen. •
`naertiten entertained Lis
Vitieinint rind Vi- I. te,s l'a'*
EMararlcahniodacessotionfte.,sl3ilesorbsuzibCtiornuentyli'sal and Countess de Jaruac, the
I!terl't, .5-,,e Earl of Clarendon, the
Dumznnon, Viscount and
`mutt thVers, &c., at din-
Viscountess J. celyn, Lady Ashley, (•:
ner, last evening, at their residL'e''r27 (.'.',, larlton iltaiao.terrtoe. A
select party assentuled at a Eiv.,sequentopteric
il or the evenln4.