The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 11th instant have arrived.
The Heraldo, the journal of NARVAEZ, gives the
following account of the Ministerial crisis :
" Tne General having resolv,d to retire into private
life to re-establish his health, waited on the Queen in
the evening of the 10th, and requested her to accept
his resignation. Her Majesty, as on previous occasions,
declined to receive ir, and the other Ministers accord-
ingly went to ht r and submitted to her the General's rea-
sons for wishing to reiire. At last, the Queen, after
some resistance, consented to accept the resignation,
and General Narvaez immediately after presented
himself to offer his thanks. Her Majesty, with much
emotion, expressed her confidence in him, and her grati-
tude fur the services he had rendered. The other Minis-
ters then offered their resignation, but the Queen did not
accept it." The Herald° adds that General Narvaez,
" desirous that neither his name nor his presence should
serve as a pretext to any political arrangement," deter-
mined to leave Spain, and actually set off the same night.
In a P.S. the Hera/do says:—
" Up to this moment the resignation has not been ac-
cepted, neither has there been called to the Palace
any man capable of forming a Ministry. Many
Ministerial candidateships are spoken of in Madrid.
We can state positively that none of them have the least
foundation. The most probable is that this day the
Marquis de Pidal will be called in and consulted.
It is almost certain that he will not accept the task
of forming a Cabinet, and will confine himself to in-
dicating the person to whom her Majesty may apply.
It is said that the person he will name will be either
the Marquis de Mireflores, or M. Martinez de la Rosa;
but this is only conjecture. It is not probable that either
this night or in the morning anything positive will be
known. In Madrid, it is needless to say, the most com-
plete tranquillity prevails."
We read in a Madrid letter of the 11th

"Yesterday evening, General Narvaez, whose resig-
nation the Queen had not accepted, assembled his col-
leagues and said to them with emotion, ' I request you to
carry my resignation to the Queen, and get it accepted,
otherwise I will blow out my brains.' The accent of deter-
mination with which these words were uttered induced
the Ministers to go to the Queen and obtain her unwilling
assent. The others, also, offered their resignation,
which was not accepted. When the General was in-
formed of the Queen's acceptance, he became calm, and
at once gave orders for his immediate departure from
Madrid. To-day, at three, he left Madrid for France.
Before going he took leave of their Majesties. The
Gazette, this morning, published the following decree
signed by the Queen, and countersigned by M. Pidal:—
Yielding to the reiterated request of the Duke of Valencia,
the President of the Council, to withdraw from office
on account of his health, I accept this resignation,
and declare myself highly satisfied with his devoted-
ness, and with the eminent services which he has
rendered to my throne and to the nation in the ex-
ercise of his high functions. January 10.' ' The Cla-
mor Publico, in its qu ,lity of opposition journal, pub-
lishes an apocryphal list of the new Ministry, run-
ning thus:—Marquis of Miraflores, Foreigh Affairs
and President of the Council; Egana, Justice; Giunt,
Interior; Valdegamas, Commerce; Pastor, Finance;
Bustilio, Navy; and Count d'Alcoy, War. This list
only exists in the brain of the writer: our information
states that the Ministry will only be modified. It is
believed that M. Fidel has been charged by the Queen
to reconstruct the Cabinet. It is supposed that M. Vidal
and M. Mon are to be the influential members of the
new Cabinet, which probably will close the Cortes. The
funds have only slightly fallen."
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GJid-tMAN Y.

Tha French Ministerial journal the Constitutionnel,
and the Journal des Debats, which is the organ of
the Austrian Embassy, contain the following from
Dresden :

The conferences at Drasden are nearly concluded.
The plenipotentiaries have arrived at a result which
appears to be definitive. On the 12th they signed the
following resolution :—" The German Confederation
is reconstituted on a new basis. In place of seven-
teen votes, of which the old Diet ,was composed, the
new one is reduced to eleven votes, which will be
distributed as follows :
Austria, with its States, including the Italian States 2
Prussia ... ... 2

Hanover...
Wurtemberg
Kingdom ot Saxony ...
Bavaria ...
Grand Duchy ot Baden and the Two Hesses
Saxe-Coburg, Sou—Goths, and Saxe-Wc,imar
Meeklenbourg-Schwerin and the other little States,
including the Hanseatic towns ...

Total

The Presidency of the Diet is to belong alter-
nately to Prussia and Austria. The Diet will keep
up an army of 130,000 men.
Prince SCHWARTZENBEIG and the Bavarian and
Hanoverian Plenipotentiaries left Dresden on the
14th. There will now be no congress of Continental
Monarchs in that city.
General THUNEN, the Prussian Commissioner in
Holstein, returned to Berlin on the 15th, for further
instructions.

It is stated in a letter from Vienna, of the 10th,
that the reason why the directors of the Bank of Vienna
resigned en masse was that they were constantly at-
tacked by the Ministerial journals. The total amount
of bank-notes in circulation is about 254,000,000
florins, of which about 166,000,000 florins were issued
by order of the Government, and for the supply of
its wants. A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna of
the 13th says :—The Bank held a sitting this day : it
abandons in favour of the State 900,0001 interest on
paper money. The old directors will probably be re-
elected. The dividend is fixed at 35 florins. The
reserve fund amounts to 2,136,000 florins."

The Austrian Lloyd's of Vienna says that the Rus•
Sian Government has resolved to establish a tele
graphic line from St. Petersburgh to join the lines of
Vienna and Berlin.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
'The Norddeutsche Freie Presse publishes the fol-
lowing, account of the last sitting of the Holstein
Chamber on the 10th, and of the events which pre-
ceded it. It says—
" The night of the 10th of January has brought a
weighty decision of the affairs of the Duchies. The
majority of the representatives of the people have given
up the cause of the nation, and empowered the Govern-
ment to submit itself to the demands of Austria and
Prussia.
" Although the proceedings were secret, yet, now the
decision is taken, mystery is useless. The people of
Germany have a right to know not only the decision,
the publication of which is ordered by the Government
itself, but the manner in which it was arrived at.
"tin the 6th of January the Commissaries arrived at
Kiel, delivered their credentials, and made known their
demands to the Stadtiialterschaft. The credentials (or
pouvoirs) were drawn up in the name of the German
Bund for the Commissary of Austria; for the Prussian
Commissary in the name of Prussia and its allies.
" The terms demanded contained the five following
points:-1. An immediate cessation of hostilities. 2.
The withdrawal of all the Holstein troops to the south
of the Eyder. 3. The reduction of the army to one-
third of its present force. 4. The dissolution of the
Chamber. 5. A su-pension of all measures taken for
the continuance of the war.
" The terms were accompanied by a delaration that
the Danish Government was ready at the same time to
withdraw its troops from the south of Schleswig, so
that only such small detachments might be left
there as were necessary to preserve the public
peace.' Questions of right and legality were de-
clared by the Commissaries to be beyond their func-
tions, and must be reserved for further negotiations be-
tween the German Bund and the sovereign of the
Duchies. They also declared the object of their mission
to be the restoration of a state of affairs that should en-
' able the German Bund 'to defend the rights of the
Duchy of Holstein, and the ancient relations between
that duchy and Schleswig.'
" On the other baud, the Stadthaltersehair was
threatened in case of refusal with an occupation of the
country by an Executions Corps, consisting of 25,000
Austrians and 25,000 Prussians. Three days were al-
lowed to the Government for its decision, from the 6th
till 2 P.M. of the 9th; the period being, on after applica-
tion, extended till 2 P.M. of the 11th.
" The negotiations and deliberations of the 7th and Bth
left it in doubt whether the pouvoirs of the Commissaries
could be considered as formally and legally conveying a
right to act in the name of all the German Governments,
and it was believed that a court of law would have de-
cided that their powers were not valid. But the ques-
tion was now not one of legality or right, but of force.
" It was also elicited that with respect to the terms
demanded by the Commissaries, and the manner of ful-
filling them, no. distinct or sufficient guarantees could or
would be given. It was conceded, indeed, that when the
troops were withdrawn to the south of the Eyder' the
fortresses of Rendsburg and Frederichsort should con
tinue to be held by the Duchies; and the mode in which
the army was to be reduced should be left to the discre-
tion of the Government. On many other important
questions either no answers, or very unsatisfactory ones,
could be given; they were reserved for negotiations with
the German Bund, of which the basis was stated to be
the status quo ante bellum. It was declared indispen-
sable that the Chamber should be set aside, as it con
slated of Schleswig and Holstein deputies together, and

could not be recognized by the Band as a legally exist-
ing body. To the question whether, under all circum-
stances, the Executive army would enter the duchy, the
answer was that the burden of occupation could be es-
caped, if the terms of the German Band were everywhere
accepted and complied with.
" In the secret evening sitting of the 9th of January
the Stadthalterschatt communicated the position of of
fairs to the Chamber. A decision bad not been resolved
en, as the members of the Stadthalterschaft were di-
vided as to the course to be pursued. Count Reventlow
and the chiefs of the several departments of the Admi-
nistration were for submitting to the demands of the
Commissaries; M. Beseler was for continuing the war,
and proposed en immediate vote of money to carry it on.
Both explained their views verbally to the Chamber. M.
Beseler also laid on the table a written memorial.

" Count Reventlow answered the question, whether a
continuation of the war was advisable, by a decided ne-
gative. His reasons were, chit fly, the position of the
Duchy with regard to Germany. ' Whoever resists the
German Governments by force of arms cannot be con-
sidered as any longer defending a German cause.' The
promise of the great Powers to restore the status quo
ante was dwelt upon. The Duchies had desired no more.
A continuation of the war was no longer posssible; it
would lead, not to a preservation of the rights of the
duchy, but to their destruction.
"M. Von Franck° a xpreited the same views as
Count Reventlow.

" M. Beseler, on the other hand, supported his advo-
cacy of tesistance on the imperfect and informal pouvoirs
of the Commissaries, who were not to bo regarded as
plenipotentiaries of Germany. The political circum-
stances of the time also presented many chances. The
inevitable fatal consequences of a subjection to the de-
mands of the Commissaries bound them by Divine and
human laws to resistance.'

" Both the Stadthalters left the decision to the
Chamber.

" The Chamber the same evening chose a Committee
consisting of the folion bog members:—The Duke of
Augustenburg, MM. Schmidt, Olahausen, Fock, Bale-
mann, Semper, Versman, Barba', and 1)r. Giitich. All
the documents were laid before this Committee, which
met on the morning of the' 10th and sat throughout the
day.
"In the secret sitting of the Chamber held on the
evening of the 10th it gave in its report. The Com-
mittee was divided, the minority consisting of the three
deputies of the Left—M. Olshausen, Dr. Gulich, and
M. Pock. The majority decided in favour of Count
Reventdow's proposition for submitting to the terms of
Austria and Prussia. The minority were for dismissing
the Commissaries, on the ground of defective and invalid
pouvoirs, and for resisting the measures of the Executive
troops by lorce.
" The resolution drawn up by the Committee, and
subsequently, with slight alterations, agreed to by the
Chamber, was as follows:

" The majority of the Committee proposes that the
Chamber resolve, with regard to the communication
made to it lay the Government of the terms of the Aus-
train and Prussian Commissiariesi—

" 1. That the Chamber of the Duchy agrees with the
course suggested by the Ministry.
" 2. That the Chamber whlit-s and expects the Stadt-
halterschaft will endeavour to assert and promote the
rights and interests of the Duchies in the measures to
be taken to establish an interim state of affairs in the
name of the German Bund by the Commissaries of
Prussia and Austria.

3. That the Chamber expressly defends the rights of
the land, collectively and severally, against any violation
or the estsblishment of a definitive state of affairs.
" 4. That it empowers the presidency to publish this
reservation as it may think fit.
" The resolution recommended by authority was, that
the Chamber should declare to the Stadthalterschaft that
it did not approve of the policy suggested in the secret
sitting of the 9th.

" That it does not agree to the proposition for accept-
ing the terms of the Pruisian and Austrian Commis-
saries, but would rather make the necessary preparations
to met t the threatened measures of force by a decided
resistance. It will be seen that the resolutions of the
majority and the minority differed radically from each
other; one was for submission, the other for resistance.
" The discussion lasted the whole night, until the
morning of the 11th, the day on which the period al-
lowed for consideration expired. The consciousness
chat the question was one of vital importance to the
Duchies had visibly affected many of the deputies.
Voices trembled that were usually clear and firm. It was
a mournful debate. The result, after the decision in the
Committee, was to be foreseen; the deputies of the Left
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a surrender at discretion, while there was a courageous
army of 40,000 men in the field, while the enemy was
still 200 miles off, and only threatened that he would
come. They implored the Chamber not to be too hasty,
or to lay down its arms too soon. The Schleswig de-
puties were in vain called upon in particular to vote
against the resolution of the majority. It only had the
result of producing from them a protest against a vote
for submission to the terms of the Commissaries being
considered a violation of their duty.
" The reporter of the Committee (Schmidt), the
Duke of Angustenburg, M. Frandke, Al. Stein, the Pre-
sident of the Chamber (M.. Barguw), and M. Luders, all
spoke more or less strongly sor the acceptance, and
against resistance, which they declared to be impossible
trom the depressed spirit of the people and the army,
and of the German nation generally—impossible from
the difficulty of defending themselves against an attack
both from the north and south; impossible from the su-
perior force of the great Powers. They held the con-
sequences of a submission not to be so dangerous as the
minority supposed, and still retained more or less confi-
dence in Prussia and the German Bund; and, in addi-
tion, the convicticn that nothing was lett but a submis-
sion existed in the ranks of the Opposition itself. M.
Claussen said no great revolutionary movement could
proceed from the Duchies, but from Paris only. The
Duchies would only sacrifice themselves uselessly by re-
sisting. Since the Frankfort movement failed, in 1849,
he was hopeless of any political action from the Ger-
man people. Many other members of the Left shared
his opinion, as the division list proved.

"At half-past five o'clock on the morning of the 11th
the division took place. The first and principal ques-
tion was, whether the Chamber declared its approval of
the acceptation of the terms of the Commissaries. It
was affirmed by' 47 rotes against 28, and the resolution
of M. Beseler and the minority fell to the ground.
" The Chamber separated in silence; one aged de-
puty only (as the members left) uttered the words 'Finis
Poronice: "