The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND ON, THURSDAY EV ENING, MAY l3, 1858.

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the Bth are absorbed
with the Ministerial crisis The general opinion
was that it would be solved the riext thy in a coun-
cil of Ministers to be held under the presidency of
the Queen ; but it was not c msidered improbable
by some persons that all the Mioisters, except the
President of the Council and the Minister of Grace
and Justice, would resign, whilst others held that
a total change of Ministry was to be expected. In
the event of all the Ministers resigning, the
Duke de Valencia (Narvaez) and M. Martinez de
la Rosa were spoken of as likely to be entrusted
with the formation of a cabinet. The Ministerial
papers say that the suspension of the Cortes was
not likely to last longer than a week ; but as the
President of the Congress, M. Bravo Murillo, wiio
is very influential, is hostile to the Cabinet, and as
Ministers feared a check in the Aicludes (the
French frontier) railway affair, an indefinite ad-
journment, should M. Istuti'z remain in power,
was considered probable. Count de San Luis
(Sartorius) and M. Bravo Murillo had effected a
reconciliation, in the belief that circumstances
rendered their return to office favourable. The
prograsists, the liberals, and the democrats,
on their part, were delighted at the turn which
events had taken. The Esperanza had been seized.
Some of the journals having stated that M. Cortina
had been liberally rcennpensed by Queen Christina
for having defended her in the parliamentary In-
vestigation into her conduct instituted in 1854,
that gentleman had communicated to the Espana
a copy of a letter addressed by him to the Queen,
in which her Majesty expresses her heartfelt gra-
titude to him, and c-unplains that he would not
.ac-
cept any recompense, except her portrait, which
was of little pecuniary value.

A letter from Broussa of 21st ult. says :—"Dur-
ing the last week we have had frit.4ll ful weather
here ; rain has fallen incessantly night and day,
rivers have overflowed, and communications with
tLe interior are interrupted. Two days back at
three o'clock in the morning we had a shock o f
earthquake, but it was not anything serious. Six
hours later, we had a much sharpr one, and it
threw clown three old liou-es and some walls. 'this
morning at about half-past three we had two new
shocks, and 25 minutes later a third much longer
and shi,reer. Th simi-
lar last was followed by a noise si-
lar to distant artillery. The three last shocks were
vertical."

Halil-Bey, the Turkish charge d'aff-tires in
this," says an Athens letter in the German Journal
of Frankfort, " will probably be appointed ambas-
sador extraordipaiy at St. Petersburg. The dis-
pute between Greece and Turkey relative to the
jurisdict.on of the consulates is to be subjected to
the arbitration of the protecting powers."

The Germanic Ditt, in the sitting of Monday,
adopted a resolution to the effect that it c..uld
not admit .Ve pretension of the municifal
Council of Mentz, that the Germanic Con-
federation should give an indemnity for
the damage done by the expl,,sion of the

powder magazine in that city in November last ;
but th Afr motives of equity it would contri,,ute
1613000 florins to the -übsc on behalf
of tue suffezers.

Baron de Scheele, who for some years was Hano-
verian envoy to the Germanic Diet, and Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Hanover,
and who in 1853 retired into private life, has just
been appointed by the Prince of T( ur and Taxis
Director-general of the Post-office at Frankfort-on-
the-Maine.

A letter from Stockholm says :—" M. Due,
the Minister of State, no ]or ger appears to have
any chance of being appointed Minister at Pars ;
on the contrary, Baron Bonde, first gentleman of
the Chamber, and ex-intendant of the Theatre
Royal, is spoken of for the post. It was after a
mission of the baron to Paris that General Can-
robert visited Sweden, and that the treaty of
alliance between that country and France was
signed. It is said that high influences in Paris have
been used to bring about the choice of Baron Bonde
for the important post now vac-int."