The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-30

The Sultan has degraded sulejman Pacha the oom-
mander Of the Ottoman troops in the Crimea.
The Turkish man. ofwar Abadisch had foundered with
the Turkish Admiral and seven hundred men board
An Egyptian frigate has been lost the Black Sea.
Miss Nightingale, with thlrty-ssven nurses for the
hospital At scuan, arrived at Constantnople the Sth
instant.
Spain.
FIRST SITTING OF THE CoNsrIruENT cORTEs-sCESE
IN fHE HousE-0ovERNAENTo OF TIE BoDY-ELEC-
TON OF INSTRUMENTATION OF THE POLL.
Madrid Nov 10Y orrespondence Of London Chroniclc
The Constituent Cortes held their rst sitting yester
day. The appearance Of the chamber presented ono
marked contrast to that OF many previous The
ministerial bench is to the right Of the President and
the benches behind and near it, forming the right and
right centre Of the house. wont to be filed while
those the opposite side but thnly occupied But
the quite reversed On the left and left GEN.
tire every scat was occupied while the benches Of the
right almost vacant and in of them sat Senior
Nocedal alone. The ministerial bench was filled by the
members of the Cabinet but the seats behind and near
them vacant This Is sufficient to show the almost
exclusively progresssta character of the Cortes The
business yesterday to decide by what regulations its
future debates &c., should governed Senior Pastor
as the Oldest deputy took his seat as President, at
Pm.
proposition was moved by Senior Bautista Alonson,
that committee should be appointed to report tn,
subact and that the Coes should continue in perma
agreed to, and committee Of nine members-Senor-
Huelves, Escalante Alfonso Olozaga, Bueno, Pora,
Chao, Amado and Bertmati-was elected: after which
the Chamber adjourned till the committee could present
its report It met again little after five NJ, and the
report was received and adopted, with an amendment
by Senior Cortina The committee which had abundance
OF precedents TO select FROM took something from
and something from another Of the various regula-
tons in force under the different constitutions that
have existed here; and the report, IS adop ted,
provides that q provisional president, four provi-
sona vice presidents and four provisional secretaries
Chamber until the latter be deHnitively constituted and
this election was ordered to take place to-day. The
above 10 taken from the regulations Of lS4 The other
report the electoral returnsone Of members,
to report al the returns except their own; and
other Of five members to report the returns of the
members of the other committee. The regulations Of
1888 were adopted regards the forms of discussion
and voting in the house It was decided that seventy
deputies must be present to make houee (the COM
mittec proposed fifty, but adopted Senior 'Cortna's
amendment to the above efect; and that other bu
or receiving communications from the government,
should be proceeded with till the Cortes consti-
tuted. 2l0 deputies elect attended this sitting.
The election Of Provisional President has Just taken
place at the Cores It's chief Importance lies in its ndicat
ing to extent the political tendency Of MEMBERS
regards moderate and advanced opinions. General
San Miguel the candidate of the Moderate Progress
stas and Don Martin de los Heros Intendent of the Pa
lace, that Of the Exaltados. The result follows
DePuses present: IUl
Apsoiute malorly III
General San Miguel.
One vote was thrown away. General San Miguel was
proclaimed President and the election ofvce Presidents
It appears that the Assembly is likely to constitute IT.
self than thought at time. lam told that
there are only petitions against the elections for four out
Of the forty nine Provinces and although there may be
long debates those petitions there abundance Of
unoPposed returns upon which the election committees
port favorably and they win speedily be conarmed BY
the Assembly, which will proceed to its dentive organ
nations and It remains to be whether todays cleo
ton of president will be confirmed Should this be 90,
it certainly Of political Importance San Miguel
has lost ground with the ultra Liberal party Of late ON
Guards; and they accuse him Of having become court
M H election Ts Mould otherwise have been
reported to have voted for Cen. San Miguel with the
exception Of Senior salazar who probably voted for
San Miguel.
DOOM OF THE SPANISH RACES.
From the London Leader, Nov. ILL.,
the United States are not popular At present on this
already betrayed the fear that really sirs in the heart
Of several The French has permitted itself
it breads the influence of vitality which America
might throw into the patriot party and not only Spain,
go Saxon which is the march wherever it is
free The last fact win account for many otherwise
accountable intrgues 1t is in Spain that the American
Minister finds himself most the object Of paltry social
persecution; not only because he American, but
because his avowed sentiments do not differ from those
who desire to extend the Unon its territory, and
Auence 1t is the Mexican and brazilian Ministers who
evince by their manners, an inscrutable jealousy Of
the American Minister at the same court: II Is
ing English Sights upon Brazil, her government
and trade 1t is Santa Anna who Is suspected send.
that it win stop the southwark march OF the Anglo
Saxon republicans. And what is the new invention of
s Msse this Ss this ors,n fence
stantly encroachng upon the territories which the
Spanish Americans claim and vex but neither gov
ern nor settlewhat is this grand device to dam the
everencroaching tide 1t is Prince. Yes Santa An
M, it is said, conscious that the Mexicans, though
brave have neither the political virtue nor the genius
nor the practical resolve Of the AngoSaxon, has APP
Piled to the royal families to recognize him King and
to give him as an heir, whom he win adopt, of
Saxon trail crossed, fatally and forever by Prince
Think Of that medicine" scarecrow set up to
stop the citizens Fancy 1t cffectua Not even O
Georgius Tertius, but cadet Enrique some poor
Pedro or some disinherited francois Win the plan do
- Has Santa Anna any such woman's notion not ?
We doubt it, Spanish American imbecility has gone
great lengths the dread of the Angosaxon Unionist
party in the capital of the Montezumas great but the
Dictator must have better knowledge Of american pos
sibtes than that Yet we would not venture to assert
that the project is without foundation, without
collateral object Its possible purpose will be best
derstood by describing another.
There is great river which, debouchng into the At
antic opens the road o the navigator right across the
eastern slope from the backbone Of America and places
the whole INTERIOR with many tributaries and some Of
the most productive lands in the world at the service Of
the trader For the banks of that river have
nomnally in possession of the Iberian races, and the
great natural highway Of exports and imports is
less. We well remember, twelve or fifteen
years ago, an ingenious adventurer who profcssedly
had grant Of the navigation from the Brazilian govern
men which at that time without liberal views
and enterprise but the project to nothing, and
the highway is still unused The enterprsng Ameri-
cans Of the great republic have their eye upon the
wasted stream they have resolved that shall be turned
to account and before many years have passed the voice
Of the mariner will be familiar TO the echoes
Of the Amazon mght be supposed that those who have
already any interest In the stream and its lands would
be reoced at the prospect of the indefinite increase to
its yaiue--the change from desert TO the banks OF a
great commercial stream Not nj all; they view the
coming Of the American the Red man views the a.
preach of the Wbite-they do not welcome commerce
which they have scarcely the energy to share but they
dread displacement What can they dog Should they
ressts IT would be in vain. Should they submit ii
would be hateful 10 Spanish pride.
There is hopef they could but give The dreaded
AreloSaxon work elsewhere. That does not seem Inn
os.ible Almost any pretext viii serve let them say