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London, England, 1856-10-14 00:00:00

whole number of electoral delegates is 296 ;
of these the Slave States send 120, the free States
176. This ought to secure FREMONT the victory,
as if he obtain 149 votes his election is safe.
But, strange to say, Pennsylvania, with twenty-
seven votes, is doubtful ; and New Jersey also,
with her seven votes. Should these be given to
the Whig candidate, FILLMORE, who, according to
all accounts, has no chance of success for himself,
FREMONT would no longer have the absolute ma-
jority of one hundred and forty-nine. The elec-
tion would go to Congress, and either BUCHANAN
would be chosen there, or one of the Pro-slavery
'flee-Presidents would become President while the
House was disputing on the question. While, there-
fore, we hope the best, we must yet confess that
between the facilities for electioneering trickery
and the past relations of the North and the South
we fear the worst.

LATEST NEWS.

CHANGE OF MINISTRY IN SPAIN.

MADRID, OCT. 12.

O'Donnell has resigned, and with him all his
colleagues. The Queen has accepted their resig-

nations.
Narvaez has been called upon to form a new

Cabinet.

OCT. 12, EVENING.
The New Spanish Ministry is composed as

follows :
NARVAEZ, President of the Council.
PIDAL, Foreign Affairs.
SEIJAS, Finances.

NOCEDAL, Interior.

ARASOLA, Justice.
URBISTONDO, War.
LERSUNDI, Marine.

General Sanz has been appointed Captain-
General of Madrid, and General Pezuela Director

of Cavalry.

VIENNA, TUESDAY.
Signor Salvador Bermudez Castro has been ap•
pointed Ambassador of Spain at this Court.
It is rumoured at the Bourse here to-day that
Baron Brenier has received orders to quit Naples,
The Bourse is in a very languishing condition.

The Debats of yesterday contains the following
statement :—" We believe that the pretensions
raised by Russia with regard to the Isle of Ser-
pents have been abandoned. Russia has given
way, and the Isle of Serpents will again become a
possession of Turkey."

A few days ago we published a document, bear-
ing the signature of Fuad Pacha, in which that
minister asserted the right of the Sultan to annex
the isles of the Danube directly to his empire, and
to exercise full sovereign rights over them, in-
stead of per mitting their incorporation with Mol-
davia and accepting the relation of lord para-
mount. The Debats of yesterday says that Russia
resisted this claim at first, but that the Cabinets
of Vienna and London having pronounced in
favour of Turkey, the Czar has given way.
The Bolgrad difficulty remains in all its force.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition) in his letter dated yesterday, says :
"It is stated on good authority that a note,
which I presume we may consider as an ultima-
tum, was despatched on Saturday to Naples by
the French Government. In it the King is in-
formed that if he persists in rejecting the advice
of the Allied Governments, Baron Brenier, the
Minister of France at Naples, would be with-
drawn, and all diplomatic relations cease. It
is also believed that a similar communication
has been made by the English Govern-
ment. If the Ministers are recalled the
fleets will proceed to the Bay of Naples for the
protection of the French and English residents 3
and a letter from that city, dated the 7th, men-
tions that the opinion was general that the appear-
ance of the English and French flags would be the
signal of a movement in Sicily. The note is, I
am assured, couched in moderate but firm terms.
How King Ferdinand will receive it remains to

be seen.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning, Post
(second edition) says :
" I am told that a telegraphic despatch has
reached Paris from Naples to-day (Monday) stating
that the King would not allow any one to speak
to him on existing difficulties ; and that the mem-
bers of the royal family had been commanded not
to offer their advice. Defensive preparations con-
tinued. One American and one Austrian ship of
war were in the bay. An English steamer was
expected with anxiety. The city was tranquil."

A letter, dated Constantinople, Oct. 2, has just
been received, from which we extract the fol-
lowing :

" The question of the Principalities has come
altogether to a dead stop, and it is difficult to see
how it is to go on, unless some arrangement be
made with regard to Bolgrad and the Serpents'
Island. It seems pretty certain that the Austrians
make their evacuation dependent on the settlement
of these disputed points. The letters which I have
received from the Principalities prove what I ad-
vanced in my former letters, namely, that Russia's
calculations were correct, and that the delay in the
evacuation is attributed not to Russia, who raised
the disputed questions, but to the apatky and
weakness of the 'western Powers, who allow the
Austrians to remain when there is no real neces-
sity for their stay. When one watches the
rising of this feeling of diffidence in the intentions
of the allies, one cannot help regretting
_that, the hurry with which the Treaty was concluded
prevented the possibility of the chief points regard-
ing
then
the Principalities being settled at the Conferences
at Paris. Whatever the allies would
decided about the future organisation
boon and
Wallachia would have been accepted as
a of
without cavilling, whereas now the expectationsoint and the
the provinces are stretched to such a.pon ohfavMe oldo -
to, such a
idea of their own importance hasd risen
proble-
degree, that it becomes every
excited spirits.
will ever be able to satisfy theiro-anisation is delayed,
inatiG lwhether the best. intentionsaY of the allies
lose in the Princi-
The longer the work of re-organisation
the more ground the
understand in those pro-
palities. Nobody will
considerations at least
pro-
vinces that there are
not other
so, for the general policy
Ilies
as important, if Lnaet
than the question of the
of the allies in the -v-;
on
allies only fight' the battle of
their just claims,
.
Principalities themthseelves' and that, by insisting
themselves."
the Principalities

THE NEW SPANISH MINISTRY.
The Paris Correspondent of the Times (second
edition) thus comments on the new ministers :
c, It is superfluous to Bay who and what General
Narvaez is. M. Pidal, now for the second time
Minister of Foreign Affairs, is, with his brother-
in-law, M. Mon, an ardent partisan of Maria
Christina. Ho
is a
Minister of the Interior
in 1845-6. He
n ardent and somewhat
violent partisan, as b
the Moderado party, F a member of
far forgot himself e
in cmore than once so
full H
Parliament as to speak of
Lord Palmerston. a
hatred. Against his s 4411 e
principal object of his
pdersonal probity I have never
heard anything alleged. I was made a marquis,
I believe, for the support he gave to the Spanish
marriages. He is
an advocate .6y profession. Seijas
Lozano is also a
learning, member of the bar of considerable
though of narrow
mind. He is also