SPAIN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 489, 11 July 1857, Page 4

SPAIN.

A letter from Madrid of the 2nd has the following:—"lt is said that the Russian Government is employing all its influence to bring about a reconciliation between the members of the Royal family of Spain, and to cause the most influential Carlists to acknowledge the Queen's Government, so as to enable them to return to Spain and to obtain high places; but the Narvaez cabinet has nothing to do with these projects. Reforms in the tariffs are spoken of, but it appears that the Government will not undertake any without the co-operation of the Cortes."

A letter from Madrid says :—" Very active communications are taking place be-

tween our Government and those of France and England on' the subject of the differj ence between Spain and Mexico. Our cabinet hopes to obtain the moral support of those two Powers ; and in the event of the question going beyond a war between Spain and Mexico, their material support also." Madrid, April 6.—The ' Gazette ' publishes a royal decree relative to a loan of six millions of reals for the roads. Corn continues to fall in the market. A royal decree appears in the Madrid * Gazette,' granting an amnesty to all wi o during the last two years have been taken in the Carlist insurrections and conspiracies. The Madrid journals state General Prim had left for Alicante, to undergo the six months' arrest to which he had been condemned. General Roncali (Count d'Aclo.y) had been attacked with apoplexy in the street, and died before he could be conveyed to his own house. Accounts from Mellila to the loth ultimo, stated that the Moors were quiet. A number of men at Barcelona having refused to accept work in the manufactories, the Governor of the city had interdicted their associations. A letter states that Count de Montemolino has notified to his partizans that he disapproves strongly of any new attempt to light, the flames of civil war, and that he considered there was not at present any chance of success. This step, adds the letter, seems to indicate that the attempts of Russia to effect a reconciliation between his family and that of Queen Isabella will prove successful. The 'Times' conespondent, writing from Madrid on the Bth, says—■" Marshal . O'Donnel has retired to a country house he possesses at a short distance from Madrid, and is preparing for the meeting of the Cortes, with the assistance of a few political friends who gather round him there. I believe there is no truth in the report that he proposes publishing a manifesto, but it is certain that he yesterday began to sketch the speech he proposes to make in the Senate. There can be scarcely a doubt that his speech will include severe strictures on his rival Xarvnez. Indeed, it is well known that the latter dreads the Cortes, anticipating, and with £ood reason, a series of most damaging attacks. The general conviction of the difficulty of his situation leads to continual reports of changes in ministry. The latest rumour that has reached me is to the effect that most of the present ministers are to go out; that Bermudez de Cbstro is to have the Foreign Affairs ; Pidel, the Interior ; Mon, the Finance ; and Armero, the Marine. It is stated positively that a courier started for Rome the night before last to induce Mon to accept this arrangement, which, it is thought, may be difficult, as he aspires to be Premier, and cannot forget that he was once kicked or beaten by the Duke of Valencia, then his colleague. It is among possibilities that there may be an understanding that Narvaez shall shortly give up to him the piesidency of the Council, and take the Pans Embassy, winch it is generally believed he desires, but wishes, before exchanging for it his present post, to arrange a ministry that .will maintain him in his new one, and have some chance of durability. The Progresistas are dissatisfied with themselves for having meddled and put forward candidates at the elections. From the first, a portion of them were for remaining entirely aloof, and in many districts this was dove, but between thirty and forty progresistas stood to be elected, only five of whom were returned. The illegitimate manoeuvres of the government are notorious and have been repeatedly reproved and exposed, but it is also certain that the progresista electors were very lukewarm, and that a very great many of them would not go to the poll, while some actually grave gave their, votes for Government candidates. A decree and royal order in to-day's 'Gazette' confirms the statement that the contract for the conveyance of the mails between Spain and the Antilles has been taken by a Paris house. Guthrie, Brothers, are the house ; the terms are 32,000 dollars for each voyage from Spain to Cuba and back."