The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IFRANCE.
RESIGNATION OF M. TRIERS AND THE FRENCH MINISTRY.
(From the Morning Herald of Saturday.)
We received, last night, our Paris correspondence of
Thursday, and the Madrid mail of the 15th.
In lieu of the usual summary which we are in the habit of
presenting to our readers, we give the following communica-
tion from our correspondent:—
" PARIS, Thursday, Oct. 22, Four o'clock.
" I sent you at two o'clock this afternoon an extraordinary
courier with the important announcement that the whole of
M. Thiers' ministry had given in its resignation, and that
the King had accepted it. Though I had the intelligence
from a good source at an earlier hour, I waited to have it
formally authenticated, as well as to know the effect it would
produce on the Bourse, but I now fear that my courier has
but a bad chance of effecting his passage in time for a second
edition, as the weather has suddenly become most tempestu-
ous. Still the effort has been worth the making, and your
readers will appreciate our anxiety to give the latest and the
most authentic information.
" The cause of quarrel between the King and M. Thiers
arises from the different colour which his Majesty and his
minister wish to give to the speech from the throne. The
King desired to have the speech so clearly indited that all
the world might read France wanted peace, and peace only ;
while M. Thiers was resolved that the preparations for war
which have been made should be justified from the mouth of
Louis Philip.
" The discussions on this point have been going on for
several days ; but at half-past twelve o'clock last night the
difference came to such a height, that the ministers in a body
resigned, and the King accepted their resignation.
" The King instantly sent for Count Mole, who is his fa-
vourite, and who has the confidence of the conservative party
and of foreign courts ; but Count Mole excused himself,
under some pretence, and declined the intended honour.
" Marshal Soult was then called for, and he at once ac-
cepted the trust reposed in him, and undertook the formation
of the cabinet—the basis of his arrangement being, that M.
Guizot should be the minister of foreign affairs.
" The resignation of the Thiers ministry is a most alarm-
ing event, in the opinion of well-informed persons.
" As M. Thiers goes out for war, he throws on the king
all the popular odium of submitting to what will be called a
dishonourable peace. He will be the apostle of the war-
party, representing the most violent as well as the most
numerous portion of the French people, and supported by
the journals of the greatest circulation.
" The king will be overwhelmed with public clamour, and,
possibly, forced to the desperate measure of an abdication.
" Had M. Thiers permitted the king to open the session
with a moderate speech, M. Thiers must have fallen beneath
the scorn of his own party, and the weight of the 221 friends
of order and of peace.
" The king called the chambers with the hope of, by their
votes, getting rid of an obnoxious minister, and a still more
obnoxious policy, but he has failed ; M. Thiers was too cun-
ning to be betrayed to his own ruin, and by thus resigning
before the chambers meet, and on the question of peace or
war, he holds the king in a vice from whence his majesty may
never extricate himself.
" In my opinion the king will find so much difficulty in
forming an administration, that M. Thiers must be recalled,
and a warlike speech be framed, or such a paragraph intro-
duced into it as will save M. Thiers before the country.
" It is possible that Mr. Thiers will accept of no middle
term, and that the king must submit to all he dictates.
" I judged rightly when 1 said three weeks since that the
convocation of the chambers aggravated the difficulties of the
situation.
" It is useless my repeating to you what the journals of
this day say, as they are all written to a state of things which
existed yesterday.
" The Siecle is the only one which appears forewarned of
the event. _ . _ _

" P.S., Five o'clock, p. m.
•` Marshal Soult has named M. Duchatel for the Interior ;
M. Guizot, Foreign Affairs ; M. Dufaure, Justice ; M. Passy,
Finance; M. Villemain, Public Instruction : M. Teste, Com-
merce. Marshal Soult, War, with the Presidency.
" M. Guizot has been sent for by telegraph.
" Count mole has certainly refused.
" The Duke de Broglie is to be offered the foreign affairs
by courtesy ; but he will refuse.
" The Chambers will be convoked in 15 days."
The following is our correspondent's first communication
respectingtthe above event. which we received by extraordi-
nary express, at a late hour yesterday afternoon :
" PARIS, Thursday, Quarter-past One, p.m.
" The Ministers have all resigned, and the King has ac-
cepted their resignation.
Marshal Soult is charged with the formation of a new
Cabinet.

" Count Mole was sent for by the King, but refused to
come.

" M. Guizot is to be the new minister for Foreign Affairs.

" The Funds fell at Tortoni's to 71 80 ; opened at the
Bourse at 72, went up to 72 30, and are now at 71 60. The
situation is most grave."

SPAIN.
ABDICATION OF THE QUEEN REGENT.

MADRID, Oct. 15.—Queen Christina has abdicated. The
following are the causes which produced this resolution on
her part :—Espartero and his colleagues, on their arrival at
Valencia, hastened to have an interview with her Majesty ;
they took the usual oath of allegiance, but did not present the
basis of their programme. Espartero, after the other minis-
ters had taken leave, remained closeted with the queen until
twelve at night ; at that hour the other ministers were sent
for ; they announced their programme verbally. The queen
desired that it should be given to her in writing, but this was
vehemently resisted during an hour and a half by four of the
ministers ; at last, thanks to the interference of Espartero,
the point was given up by his colleagues, and the minister of
justice (Gomez Becarra) drew it up. A serious discussion
then took place between the queen and the ministers. This
conference lasted till day-break, when Espartero and his col-
leagues withdrew. When the ministers returned to the
palace on the following morning, they were informed by the
queen that in consequence of what had passed in the inter-
view of the preceeding night, she was resolved on abdicating
the regency, and that her abdication was to take place in the
presence of the civil, military, and ecclesiastical authorities
of Valencia.

It is stated, that the ministry, or the council of regency to
call it by a more appropriate name, will soon arrive here with
Queen Isabella and her sister. According to a report which
is generally credited, the regency consists of Espartero,
Ferrer, and Mina.
The central junta will continue to meet, but it appear that
it will possess no political character.
The regency will find a powerful auxiliary in the army,
25,000 strong, which is concentrated at Madrid and its en-
virons.

The following are the official documents sent to the junta
of Madrid from Valencia :

STATEMENT ADDRESSED TO THE QUEEN BY HER COUNCIL

OF MINISTERS.

" Madam,—From the moment the election of the present
Cortes was announced, a general clamour has been raised
against the measures adopted. Experience has fully shown
that there were just grounds for their alarms, and no one
could dare to say that in those elections there was exercised
that liberty which was so necessary in order that the results
might be regarded as the true expression of the will of the
nation. The contrary has been decided by the only autho-
rity recognised by the constitution. The fatal project of law
of the ayuntamientos has confirmed the suspicions which
were excited. The obstinacy with which it has sustained
these measures, and the course adopted in its discussion,
have increased the unpopularity of the Chamber of Deputies
to such a degree, that painful manifestations have proved the
public dissatisfaction which it had encouraged. The law on
tithes, and other objectionable projects, have still further in-
creased that discontent, and it has followed that one of the
principal demands of the people who have risen for the de-
fence of the constitution which they have seen violated, has
been the dissolution of the present Cortes. This demand,
Madam, considering all we have pointed out to you, has be-
come irresistible. We have, therefore, the honour to pro-
pose to your Majesty the dissolution of the Cortes, and in
order that it may take place, as the state of the country de-
mands, we submit to you the annexed ordonnances.
(Signed) " DUKE DE LA VITTORIA.
" JOAQUIN MARIA DE FERRER.
" ALVARA GOMEZ.
" MANUEL CORTINA.
" PEDRO CHACON.
" JOAQUIN DE FRIAS."
" Valencia, Oct. 11,1840.

" ROYAL ORDONNANCE.
" Conformably to the advice of my Council of Ministers,
and in consideration of the motives set forth in the statement
of the 11th October, in my quality of Queen Regent of the
kingdom during the minority of my illustrious daughter
Queen Isabella 11., in her royal name, and using the prero-
gative which is granted to me by article 26 of the constitu-
tion, I decree as follows :—Art. 1. The Chamber of Depu-
ties is dissolved. Art. 2. In virtue of art. 19 of the consti-
tution, the third part of the members of the senate shall be
renewed. Communicate this to all whom it may concern.
" I, THE QUEEN REGENT."
" Done at Valencia this 11th October, 1840.
" To Boldomero Espartero, Duke of Vittoria and Morella,
and President of the Council of Ministers."