The Sun. — 1840-07-28 (London, England)

BARCELONA, JULY 19.—A conference took place yesterday afternoon, between the Queen and General Espartero,.'for the first time since the tender of his resignation. The Queen stated that she could nut accept the General's resignation, but at the same time announced that it was impossible for her to accede to the two-fold demand of the dismissal of the Ministry and the dissolution of the Cortes. When this unsatisfactory conference was over, the Gene. ral-in-Chief proceeded to his order, and ordered his staff to make ready for departure. His intention was to proceed to the village of Suez, about a league's distance from Bin. celona, where, thanks to General Chacon, the divisions Of Castinetto and of Diego Leon were already assembled. The news of Espartero's departure soon spretd through this town, where great agitation was prevailing, and which soon increased. Groups began to assemble in different spots; among them were seen a certain number referring to the events which were passing. These groups:of officers were quite tranquil. Around the Plaza San Jaime and the adjoining streets, the crowd was of a more threatening aspect. The ayuntanziento wiv3 holding its permanent sitting in this quarter, and tl4s naturally occasioned a greater confluence of people.  The ric,ters were armed with long sticks; no muskets were obsarved among them. In the meanwhile men of the lower orders, with divers shopkeepers, proceeded to th% Plaza Santa Anna, beneath the windows of the Duke de."Vittoria, and there vocifera':ed loud cries of " Long live the General !" " The Constitution for ever I" " Down with the Ministry !" Some attempts were made by a few patroles in the course of the evening, to establish order and to disperse the crowd, but they soon ceased, having had an officer and a private killed. The troops seemed inclined to remain quite passive.  General Antony Van Hake, who had been sent for by Espartero, made no act of military intervention to put .down the riot, hitherto distinguished but by the twofold murder just alluded to—not a shot had been fired, nor any theft or excess committed by the populace. At midnight the patroles returned to the barracks, leaving the rioters at full liberty to so what they thought proper. The Duke de Vittoria, aware of the responsibility which would fall on him if he made no alert in favour of order, left his hotel a little after midnight and drove to the palace, whither he was followed by the crowd, rending the air with shouts of " The General for ever !" " The Constitution for ever !" " Down with the Ministry !" In his second conference with the Queen tho Generalin-Chief, evidently initiated into the secret of the people, formally declared to the Queen that it was still time to prevent further evil, and added that he would not be able to answer much longer for the preservation of tranquillity ; that the people were exasperated; and that blood might soon flew. The Queen, alarmed by these sinister predictions, and yielding to the wish expressed by the General-in-Chief, the organ of the army and people, consented to the dismissal of the Ministry. M. Perez de Castro and his two colleagues had tendered their resignations, which were accepted. It was half-past one in the morning when Espartero left the palace, and he proceeded on foot to the members of the ayuntarniento, with whom he had a long conference. On his leaving the hotel he found ebb people waiting for him, and he was by them accompanied home. He ad.. dressed them from his balcony and begged them to go home. This was about half-past three at four the crowd was dispersed, and the greatest tranquillity prevailed. M. Perez de Castro, late President of the Ministry, not finding himself in safety in the palace, thought fit, this morning, to seek an asylum at the French Consul's. This gentleman, by name M. Gilutier d'Arc, wile) has on many occasions, and especially at Valencia, given proofs of great firmness, immediately placed an apartment in his hotel at his disposal.