13 OCTOBER 1832, Page 3

It is supposed that some change of policy may now

take place in Spain. M. CALOMARDE has been dismissed from King FER- DINAND'S councils. He had, it is said, contrived to obtain the signature of the King, when in agony, to a document which abro- gated the decree by which the Salic law was dispensed with. This document, which, disinheriting FERDINAND'S daughter, would have given the crown to Don Cannes, was signed by the apparently dying King as a mere formal paper. On his recovery, the trick was disco. vered. It is said, that FERDINAND has been greatly moved by the comments that passed on him on his supposed death, and that he means to turn over a new leaf. "The Devil was sick"—the pro- verb is musty.