Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-28
FRANCE.
Resignation Of the Ministry.

ASeslSnhtIOn Oh tne N1niStry.
This event took place on the 22d Of October. no,
uneIpect dy cIcep, as to time. II was looked for.
but not before the meeting of the Chambers. The
immediate cause 10 said to have been difference of
opinion between the King and N. Thi,rs, in reIa.
tion to the speech from the throne. The par,icu-
lars are thus given by the correspondent of the
Times:
On Thursday nigh, Cabinet Council was held
a, ST. Cloud, under the presidency of the King to
consider the terms of the speech with which il was
proposed that his Majesty should open the sessions
Of the Chambers. The passage in it which referred
to the crisis that has been produced by the treaty
Of the 18th Of July was couched in terms Of hos,i
lity, defiance, and even Of menace. On this the
King observed. that it would he highly eIpedien,
to introduce into the discourse expressions csl.ua
ted altar the pacific cha scter which the Eastern
question had within few days assumed. Mons.
Thiers persisted ia his view Of the subj Ct, con-
tending. with much animation, that it was nccessa.
ry France should ss,ert her independence, aud
maintain her rank in the world.
The King agreed with him in that sentiment,
but remained Of opinion, that the proposed mode Of
declaring it was Objectionable and dangerous. AT
midnight NJ. Thiers resigned.
Marshal Soul, was sen, for by the King, anI q
new Ministry Gas quickly formed
Another account says, that the difference be-
tween the King and NJ Thers was not upnn the
tone Of the speech, but upon distnc, proposition
introduced in it, for q vote sanciionng fauihrr ad-
dition Of some 100000 men to the army this the
King objected to, as almost equivaen, to decsra.
ton Of war, and the minister persisted.
Turkey and Egypt.
The latest intelligence from the scat of oper atoms
was by telegraph at Paris on the frs, inst. from
Toulon the 3lst Of October. B,yrout had been
taken possession Of by the allies; the Emr Beschir
had abandoned the cause Of Mehemet AL, and sur
rendered to The English. He arrived at Malta on
the 27th on board the English steamer Cyciops,
with fifteen members Of his family, and suite of
one hundred and fifteen persons. on lis way to
England. This revolt sgains, Mehemst was spread
ing throughout the mountains.
SPAIN.
Abdieatfon OF the Queen Regent.
Intelligence Of this even, was received in Lon
don on the 20 OF October The autograph act Of
abdica,ion was signed on the 18th, Laving been
preceded by dissolution of the Cortes The fol.
lowing account 10 given by the correspondent of
the London Chronicle:
The Queen had made up her mind to qui, Spain
before Espartero and her new ministers arrived I,
is known that she consented TO the appointment.
VIII n they reached Valencia, and proceeded to on
interview with the Queen, they stated to her the
situation Of affairs at Madrid, the anxious expscla-
ions Of the people, and the necessity of claiming
them by kind Of address or manifesto, promising
the withdrawal Of the municipal law as well as the
sabmi'sion TO the future Cortes for discussion OF
that modification Of the regency for which certain
parties clamoured.
her majesty was averse alike to any statement
OF disappfobation of the A A. 90 A., .,. Il