The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN' INTELLIGEXCe.

SPAIN.
(
ihoen new Spanish
nSep adneii I:,O;iitintisbe trykSysiosizdaetri•ldi;)l,trd,
with
the
ex.
Irtment. M:lSturit is named minis-
ter of foreign affairs and temporaq president of the
council ; Geneial Seoane is minister of war ; M. Aguerre
Solarte, minister of finance ; M. Alcala Galiano, minister
of marine; and the Duke de Rivas, Minister of the in-
terior. The department of justice remains to be filled
up. •
Our news froiri Madrid is to the 18th instant. The
cabinet was left in so small a minority as twelve against
ninety-six in the estate of Procuradores on the 16th inst.,.
the very day tliey took their places as Ministers. • The
question on which they were thus signally out-voted was.
of great importance to their ministerial existence. It
was moved that the vote of confidence to the late minis-
ters should not be continued to the pfsent—that no
taxes should be raised, if none were voted before the
chambers were dissolved--and that the sanction of the
cortes should be obtained before a loan sva Contracted.
These resolutions, supported by so overwhelniing a ma-
jority, prove that the lower estate is decidedly, Unfavour-
able to the new premier, and, as there is on; Money in
the exchequer, a dissolution can hardly be ientured upon
after such a vote, which deprives the braless ministers
of the resources of taxes or loans. In the streets we are
told that they were hissed, and that turittilt. in Madrid
are kept down only by strong bodies of the military.. As
we hate akays maintained, the true reason of the, resig-
nation of the Mendizabal administration is- not •to be
found in the paltry pretexts assigned for it.. The Times
of this morning confirms our frequently eipressed opi-
nion :

" But the most serious difficulty in which the new Ministers
had found themselves was the total want or money itithe public
treasury. Al Mendizahal hful foreseen this difliculty,.Upd had
taken measures to provide against its occurrence in...negotiat-
ing a temporary loan of reds (1:120,0(x) With the
house of Arcon, of r.(loin had sent an oider•to his
agent in Madlid to pay that Sum to N. Mendizahal. ,The
or-
der arrived on the 15:h, the, very day on which M. ,111.endizabal
resigned. N. Isturitz. who. fudds the iiminee department will
the return of M Agnerre from-Patis, claimed of At-
doin's agent in Madrid an immediate advance or 10,000,01) reals
(£40,0.x) whith was refUsed,.on the plea. that the order was
pa) able to Al. Men(hiatyal. :rho matter was alluded to in the
Chandler of Procuradore.i," and did not tend to heighten the cre
dit of the new in;nisters., Desperate, indeed, int st he their con-
dition if they stand in need of such a sum as £40,000, and know
not where to turn in order to procure it."
The Christinos garrison of Billma made a sortie on
the 15th, which tvav repulsed with great loss. On 'the
17th the Carlists the French General Bernelle's
line between Valcarios and Pampeluna. In other quar-
ters skirmishing is actively going forward. Tetedo is
besieged by a large hody of insurgents, and in the pre-
sent state of Madrid it is impossible to send assistance.
As for the reported intervention of Gen. Harispe, we
have no confirmation of Sr Very,improbable a rumonq
on the contrary, every thing. leads us to-believe that it
has no foundation except in the fertile invention of the,
specnlatots on the Stock Exchange. Of Colonel Evans'
and and his victorious army we have no intelligence, though
our ads ices front Biscay are a fortnight. Later than the
date •of the illustrious exploit which refiectS so much
credit upon his military science.

Since the above was written, a city correspondent in-
forms us, that 64 Pri% ate letters from Madrid to a late
hour on the 17th instant state, that the ferment in the
capital was 'aging to a great height, and great fears were:
entertained of some alarming•events. M. Isturitz had
been for a considerable time Closeted i h the Queen,
and it was reported, amongst the lien informed circles,.
and credited, that the decree for the dissolution of the
Cortes had been Signed; From the provinces no certain,
news had arrived but the courier, the hearer of the
letters above mentioned; noticed during his progressito
the frontier great ;11010ms of disturbances. Accounts
from the army were 14keil for with the greatest anxiety,
in consequence of the stoppage of all supplies by the
M. Arduuin tc that (palter at the present critical mo-
ment."