The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-30 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30. 1836.

Since the death of M. Rayneval, the late Ambassador
of France at the Court of Spain, which we announced in
our last publication, and the hourly succession of impe-
rious incidents in the capital, and provinces, of that de-
voted country, the greatest turmoil had existed in the
Cabinet of M. Thiers, and it ended in its dissolution on
Thursday last; on which day, at three o'clock post mere-
dian, M. M. Thiers, Maison, Duperre, Passy, Lauzet,
and Pelet, placed their resignations in the bands of the
King.
The Times received this intelligence by an extraordi-
nary express on Saturday morning at three o'clock ; and
their correspondent's letter, coupled with the above, we
give in our contemporaneous column. The dissolution
of the French Cabinet has entirely resulted from the
state of affairs in Spain. For several days, according to
the Courier Francais, the members were engaged in
conflicting opinions on the course to be adopted. M.
Thiers, pressing for an immediate intervention, when in-
telligence of the murder of the Marquis de Nloncayo
(General Quesada) and the Queen's position, reduced the
Cabinet to a state of perfect discord. M. Thiers being
still supported as he thought by a powerful party of
friends out of doors, endeavoured to weather the storm ;
and he hoped to carry his views at a Council held on
Thursday, but in this he signally failed.
The confusion was materially increased by the'deci
sion of General Alava, the Ambassador from Spain, who,
it is alleged, positively refused his accesion to the Con-
stitution of 1812; and that, together with all his secre-
taries, he had resigned the Paris embassy, and was pre-
paring to go to Tours, although M. Boisle Compte, the
newly appointed minister to the Court of Spain, had re-
ceived instructions not to object at once to the form of go-
vernment forced upon the Queen Regent. .
As we give the condensed portion of the voluminous
intelligence from these papers, it is not necessary to en-
large on the events they.detail. • One thing is certain, if
the Journal de Debats is to be credited—the absolute re•
pugnance of Louis Philippe to the Constitution of 1812
We had already completed our commentary on this sub-
ject, when we found (to our agreeable support) our opi.,
nions more than corroborated by the emphatic declara-
tions of our able foreign contemporary, who pronounces
it absolutely impracticable—that "it was never acted
upon and never can be"—that it cannot "hold together
any materials for establishing a safe government,"—and
that "no one could exercise the independent functions of
sovereignty under it." Here is a choice morceau for our
Crown and Anchor friends, Murphy and Co. But they
will exclaim—'that is just the thing we want,"—" no
sovereignty for us, either in Spain, here, or anywhere
else; but the glorious sovereignty of *the people'
alias mob-law ! We however tell you, Master Murphy,
that although we are Protestant, and you Roman Catho-
lic, that Spain cannot do without sovereignty—a King
she must and will have—we know Spain better than you
do, although neither priest nor jesuit, and it is the most
worthless of all vanities for you, and all your jacobinical
crew to think of first destroying the monarchical princi-
ple in Spain, that you may have a precedent for levelling
it in Britain. Better for you to attend to the sale of
your murphys of the earth brown jacket,' and your "black
diamonds," than set up for a state constitution-monger—
a trade beyond your "compasity," as our friend Feargus
quaintly expresseth it!
Viewing the question on serious grounds, for, nation-
ally, it cannot be treated with levity, we unhesitatingly
charge the whole of the evils which have arisen, and
which may arise on the imbecile policy of the Palmer-
stonian and Estatu Real system, in concett with M.
Thiers : that policy has been the most contemptibly pi-
tiful, ever exhibited in sustenance of the interests of a
great nation ; whilst It has exposed Spain to all the hor-